The team was walking away from school, talking avidly. They were trying to figure out what to do about chore week. None of them wanted to have to participate in chore week. Well, except Sam, who really didn't care. He was busy looking around for something to hold his interest. His thoughts were wondering with his eyes, from Sarah, to pranks he could pull, the elephant show, all the way to the other side of the street. His eyes drifted along to sidewalk across the bustling street, and he froze. The others didn't really notice. It wasn't until they reached the crosswalk and stopped to wait for the light to change when they noticed he wasn't with them.

"Bucket- head! Hurry up!" Ava yelled back at him. Sam broke from his retrieve, and hurried to catch up with reached them as the light changed, crossing with them. Danny was looking at him strangely.

"What?" Sam asked, but Danny just shook his head and looked away. Shrugging, Sam began to skip alongside his friends until Ava hit him upside the head.

"Ow..." Sam rubbed the back of head.

"I asked you what you thought we should do about chore week." Ava glared at him, annoyed that he had ignored her.

"I don't really care. Doing the chores, or not doing them, all the same to me." Ava rolled her eyes. They stopped under the shadow of the Helicarrier, and Sam stretched, ducking behind a building and changing into his Nova costume. He flew toward the Helicarrier, picking White Tiger up as he went by. Iron Fist was scaling the buildings by jumping between them, pushing off of either wall. Power man had opted for the stairs. Nova dropped White Tiger by the hatch and flew off, deciding a few laps around the Helicarrier would do him some good. Iron Fist landed beside White Tiger and Power man jumped up after him. They went inside, continuing their conversation from earlier. They were sitting in the living room when Nova came in, pulling his helmet off.

He flopped down beside them, munching on a corn dog.

"Where did you get that?" Ava asked him.

"The vender on the other side of town." Sam replied, filling his mouth with corn dog again.

"I really hope you paid for that."

"I did! I only steal corn dogs when I'm depressed." Ava rolled her eyes. How Sam could ever be depressed was a mystery to her. Colson walked in.

"Oh, I was just looking for you. Fury wants to see you guys in the debriefing room." The team sighed. They knew what this meeting would be about.

"I'm glad to see you all here." Fury stood at the head of the table, looking at the four teens that made up most of one of the best teams to have been trained by SHEILD. "I just wanted to alert you of some changes to chore week." The team all groaned inwardly.

"You can not trade chores. After the toilet situation, that is no longer an option." Everyone looked pointedly at Sam.

"Ok, one time I forget that the toilet off the training hall backs up if you don't pour the bleach in before flushing, and you just won't let it go!"

"That whole wing was flooded for a month! We couldn't get any training in!" Ava said. Sam slumped back in his seat, pouting. His mind drifted back to the other side of the street earlier that day as Fury continued. The reason he had frozen so suddenly was because of a glimpse he had seen of a person walking down the other side of the street. He figured now that it had just been a trick of the light. It couldn't have actually been Her, now that he thought about it. It had just been someone that had looked like her, and he had been mistaken. That was it. Sam told himself this again and again, until he believed it full heartedly, but there was still that paranoid part of him in the back of his mind saying,

'Well, you could have been right the first time.'

Sam shoved this to the back of his mind, determined not to let it wriggle in and break his assuredness. Or whatever word went there. He crinkled his brow, trying to remember if that was the right word, or if there was a better word that went there. Sam shrugged, dismissing his worry. It didn't really matter.