Natasha's Secret

Chapter 4

Thor could barely keep his voice stable, he was nearly shaking with excitement when they pulled up to Sea World.

He was going to meet Percy Jackson ! Finding out that he was still alive was incredible news, he almost couldn't believe it.

"How much longer ?" Thor asked and Tony sighed.

"I told you, there's a little traffic, just wait and we can get trough this in no time, five minutes at most."

"You midgardians have such slow time, it would be twice as fast in Asgard."

"I highly doubt that." Bruce cut in, he was just as excited as Thor, "But meeting Percy Jackson is an amazing opportunity that we cannot pass for anything, you'll just have to wait."

Bruce sat back into his seat in the huge car Tony had.

"What should we know about Jackson before we meet him ?" Tony asked he was barely containing his giddiness.

"First." Natasha started, "He hates beeing called Perseus, call him that and he is instantly put off." Bruce was taking notes.

"Second, he has a child, a kid named Luke, he's very protective of him so he probably has Luke with him." Bruce nodded and added that to his list.

"Third, and final, he is extremely overprotective of his family, his cousins to be precise, Nico, Jason and Thalia. Don't expect them to be there though, they have their one lives."

"How do you know all of this ?" Tony asked and Annabeth panicked slightly, but Natasha kept her cool, Clint gave her a wary raise of an eyebrow.

"I'm a Spy/Assassin I know more about you then you know about yourself.",she really hoped this worked.

They both seemed to buy it, and just in time , they were pulling up to Sea World.

Annabeth sucked in a deep breath before stepping out of the car followed by Bruce and Tony, they stayed behind Natasha, presumely because she already knew the marine biologist.

Before they could even enter the building, however, they caught sight of the man they were looking for.

"Is he... sitting in a shark tank ?" Bruce asked and Natasha nodded, rolling her eyes slightly, silly seaweed brain.

"He can hold his breath for extended periods of time, his record is eight minutes." Natasha made the lie up on the spot and was honestly quite proud of herself.

Master Assassin or not, anyone can appreciate good lying skills.

"He's coming up." Tony exclaimed, and indeed Percy was kicking to the top of the tank, looking as though he had done nothing impressive.

Once he got out of the tank a tiny black-haired boy run up to him, squealing and laughing, evidently his son.

Tony cleared his troat, making Percy turn to them with a smile.

He looked a little confused for a second at the sight of Natasha but eventually got over it. "Hello I'm Percy Jackson." He held out his hand for them to shake, Tony was the first to get there.

"Hello, I think you know who I am." He gave Percy his dashing smile which only got him a confused eyebrow.

"I don't, sorry, am I supposed to ?" Tony looked shocked, then embaressed, Percy was going to think that he was self-centred, which he was, but that's beside the point.

"I'm sorry, you've probably been too busy to notice anything happening on the news right now." Bruce quickly cut in to which Percy flashed him a smile.

"Nah, I'm just joking, I know who you are, Luke went as Captain America for Halloween so my wife gave me a presentation of you, she does all the planning in the family." He laughed and winked at Natasha who just rolled her eyes.

"Oh, thank god, I thought I was an egoistical ass." Tony laughed and Clint just rolled his eyes.

"We all think taht Tony, you just cemented it." Tony faked being offended and Percy laughed.

"Do you guys want the tour ?" Percy asked and Bruce nodded vigorously.

"This guy hasn't stopped talking about you for the whole car ride." Clint pointed at a blushing Bruce while Percy laughed good-naturedly.

"No worries, it's great to meet a fellow scientist, do you have any topics worth of a discussion ?"

"Yes !" Bruce hurried to get out a second notebook and began taking notes and talking rapidly with Percy about diffrent ways to lower ocean temperatures in the arctic.

While chatting with Bruce, Percy somehow managed to get the whole group inside of Sea World and spouted interesting facts about the marine life as they went.

"So Percy." Tony interrupted Bruce who was making excited gestures with his hands. "I heard you say something about a wife, who's the lucky one ?" Tony wiggled his eyebrows and Percy justgave him his charming smile.

"Well, she has a pretty higgh stakes job so she doesn't like people knowing who she is, I'm not allowed to give away anything about her identity unless I have her explicit permission." Tony and Thor - who had been listening - both looked a little disappointed while Natasha just smirked.

Cliint eyed her and rolled his eyes. He had met Percy a few times and they got along well, mainly talking about what it's like being married to/working with a badass woman like Annabeth.

"Leave the guy alone, Stark." Clint spoke up and Tony huffed, "I've worked with his wife before and she does have a pretty high stakes job, director Fury himself barely knows anything about her. "Tony's eyes bugged out a bit, not believing the last part.

Percy checked his watch and his eyes widened, "Sorry guys, lost track of time, Luke has a doctor's appointment and we need to get there on time. "He quickly showed them out, gave Annabeth a discreet hug and ran to fetch Luke (who was probably talking with the dolphins.

As soon as Percy was out of earshot, Thor squealed like a fangirl, "I just met Percy Jackson ! He knows who I am !"Everyone smiled a little and rolled their eyes, Tony and Bruce talking over suggestions Percy had given them for conversing marine life.

'Than the gods, no one noticed,' Annabeth breathed out a sigh of relief and walked to the car.

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