As Strong As We Are United

Chapter 19

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Chapter Nineteen

"Let me get this straight." Annabeth said, staring at Harry, "You want us to be captured by a group of people who are working for SHIELD- the Avengers - and then trust that one of them will help us escape and fake our deaths at the same time? And then what, we pretend to be different people?"

"Pretty much." Harry said for the ninth time since Natasha had left, "As I said before, I trust her."

"The redhead?" Percy inserted.

"Natali-er, Natasha. And yes."

Annabeth bit her lip.

"Well..." She said, "I don't know..."

"Annabeth." Percy said, taking his girlfriend's hands into his own and gazing into her eyes with a steely resolve, "We trust Harry, so we trust who he trusts, too. And it sounds pretty legit to me. The redhead - whatever her name is - even gave us a list of who will be on the Avengers."

"Steve Rogers, aka Captain America, Clint Barton, aka Hawkeye, Natasha Romanoff, aka the Black Widow, Bruce Banner aka the Hulk, and Tony Stark, aka Ironman." Harry rattled off.

Annabeth's eyes widened.

"Mr. Stark?" She asked.

Percy had a similar reaction.

"Wait... Steve Rogers? Like, tall guy, blond hair, super muscular?"

"Uh... yes and yes." Harry replied.

"Um, I ran into him earlier." Percy said sheepishly, "The guy who I brought to your place?"

Harry blinked. Right. With everything going on... well, this made it a lot more complicated. How was SHIELD supposed to convince two people who already knew Annabeth and/or Percy and Harry to capture them?

Harry shrugged it off. He'd leave that up to Natasha.

Annabeth glared at Percy.

"You what?" She asked, "I thought we had agreed-"

Percy put his hands up, scooting away.

"I, er, think that this might be irrelevant right now -"

Annabeth suddenly slumped, as if all of the fight had been taken out of her.

"This would mean I couldn't be Mr. Stark's assistant anymore..." She whispered.

She looked downright depressed.

"You could under a different name!" Percy exclaimed, trying to calm Annabeth down.

"You'd have to be very careful." Harry said, "But we have to take this one step at a time, and it's not like you would be able to go back with SHIELD on our case, anyways."

Annabeth, who's eyes had closed, opened them slowly and nodded.

"I already rerouted the message so that it wouldn't get to Stark until later." Annabeth said, "I wasn't able to take it back after I sent it, but hopefully it will give us enough time.