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[ chapter eight ]

Andi had never been to Berlin, but she always imagined that the first visit would be to explore the place, instead of to accompany Tony who had been called in to deal with Steve and Sam going rogue.

They'd arrived at a rather fancy looking building, and Andi silently followed Tony as he walked in and took the elevator up. Upon stepping off, Andi entered a room that had a lot of monitors, and two conference rooms of sorts, covered only by glass. She sat down on one of those chairs for nearly half an hour before some progress was made and Tony informed her that Steve and Sam had been brought in, along with Bucky, and the new Wakandan king, T'Challa.

Now Andi paced one of those conference rooms, while Tony spoke to secretary Ross on the phone. He wanted an update, apparently, and Andi's feelings toward him were slowly veering into negative territory.

"No," Tony was saying into the phone. Romania was not Accords sanctioned. Colonel Rhodes is supervising cleanup." As he spoke, Andi stopped pacing because she noticed familiar faces walking into the room. Natasha led the charge, with a dark skinned man beside her. Andi assumed that this was T'Challa, since the only other people present with her were Sam and Steve, who brought up the back.

"Consequences?" Tony's voice filtered in through her thoughts once more as he too noticed Sam and Steve coming in. "You bet there'll be consequences. Obviously you can quote me on that, because I just said it. Anything else? Thank you sir." Tony hung up his phone and walked up to Steve and Sam, while Andi slowly approached from behind as well.

"Consequences?" Steve echoed, looking at Tony.

"Secretary Ross wants you both prosecuted," Tony explained to the two men standing before him. "Had to give him something."

This wasn't exactly what Andi pictured when Tony said he was going to talk to them, but she was going to see where it went.

"I'm not getting that shield back, am I?" Steve asked.

Andi almost forgot about that. She looked to Tony who was walking further into the room and past the conference room with Natasha. "Technically," the redhead said. "It's the government's property. Wings too," she added, looking to Sam.

"That's cold," Sam said, with a bit of a smile.

"Warmer than a jail cell," Tony called out before disappearing. Andi, unsure of what to do, stepped forward a little, but remained at the edge of the conference room, so she wasn't totally outside it. Steve noticed her once Tony and Nat were gone, and he and Sam both walked into the conference room.

"What are you doing here?" He asked her curiously. "Didn't you have school today?"

Andi nodded. "I did, but I didn't go. There was... an incident, the day before yesterday," Andi explained to him. When Steve just stared, Andi elaborated. "I went out in the evening to meet up with a friend and three men tried to rob the deli I was in," she told him, moving to sit down on one of the chairs while Steve took the one that faced her, and Sam sat at the head of the table, between them. "I didn't really think things through properly. I wanted to try and help, but before I could see my decisions implode on me, the whole situation was sort of solved by someone else."