Everly || Steve Rogers

19. Asgardian A**holes

A set of double doors swung open to reveal a large open room. Everly's mouth fell open as her eyes wandered the room. The far wall was merely a wide glass window that looked out into the bright blue sky. People rushed about going about their day, none even bothering to spare a glance at the newcomers. Agent Romanoff peeked back at the three to ensure that they were still behind her. She grinned upon seeing the shock on their faces. Everly, folded her arms over her chest as to keep from breaking anything. Everything seemed far too expensive for her to touch. Steve looked at the room around them and smiled.

Her eyes caught the back of Fury's head just as he spun around to face the group. "Gentlemen." He glanced at Eve with his single eye. "Lady." As he walked over to the trio, Steve reached into his pocket, retrieving a stack of cash. He handed Fury a $10 bill and continued staring around him in awe. He stepped farther into the room, leaving Fury standing before Everly.

"I still don't understand why I'm here." She said shyly. He took a single step toward her and his face grew serious, causing her stomach to leap up amongst her lungs.

"You're here to buy your freedom. You help with this, I might just trust you enough to let you loose." His response sent a chill down her spine and she nodded softly. He brushed past her to shake Banner's hand.

"Doctor, thank you for coming."

"Thanks for asking nicely." He remarked, his tone dripping with sarcasm. "So um, how long am I staying?" 

"Once we get our hands on the tesseract, you're in the wind."

"Where are you with that?" Banner added. Fury pointed to Coulson who was on a lower level.

"We're sweeping every wirelessly accessible camera on the planet. Cell phones, laptops. If it's connected to a satellite, it's eyes and ears for us." Steve walked up behind Phil, hands shoved in his pockets.

"That's still not gonna find them in time." Agent Romanoff added as she stepped before one of the computer screens displaying a man's face. Her eyes lingered on his photo, igniting a spark of curiosity in Everly.

"You have to narrow the field. How many spectrometers do you have access to?" 

Everly's attention flicked from person to person as they each added bits into the conversation. It goes without saying that she felt entirely out of place. Not a word of what they were saying made any sort of sense to her. It simply entered one ear, and slipped out the other. 

Fury crossed his arms over his chest. "How many are there?"

"Call every lab you know, tell them to put the spectrometers on the roof and calibrate them for gamma rays." Dr. Banner shrugged off his jacket and adjusted the sleeves of his purple shirt. "I'll rough out a tracking algorithm based on cluster recognition. At least we could rule out a few places. Do you have somewhere for me to work?"

Fury nodded. "Agent Romanoff, would you show Dr. Banner to his laboratory please?"

"You're gonna love it Doc. We got all the toys." She said as she swiftly led him away. Steve stood beside Agent Coulson, arms crossed over his chest. Phil shifted in place nervously.

"I mean, if it's not too much trouble."

"No, no. It's fine." Steve answered, continuing to look around.

"It's a vintage set. It took me a couple of years to collect them all." Everly bit the inside of her cheek to keep from laughing as she walked up behind them, assuming that they were discussing his Captain America trading cards. "Near mint, slight foxing around the edges, but-"

"We got a hit." A bald man said from behind a computer as he pushed the glasses farther up onto his face. "Sixty seven percent match. Wait, cross match, seventy nine percent."