Anna grabbed her bags out of the boot of the car. She walked slowly up to the entrance and pushed open the clear glass doors into the reception.
"Welcome to Stark industries, my name is Jarvis, may I enquire as to why you are here today" a loud voice came through hidden speakers.
" I'm Anna Wright, I was sent here overseas about some problems in my bank account, they said you might help, account number 6324007." Anna said calmly, she had been expecting this. There was a pause, and then the voice returned.
"Your identity has been confirmed, please take the lift to floor 42, there will be people waiting for you there."
Anna stepped into the now open lift and pushed the button 42. The lift moved quickly and when it stopped Anna quickly walked out, she disliked lifts, however useful they may be.
Standing and talking quietly around a desk were a group of six people, Anna knew 5 of them as members of the avengers, but didn't recognize the 6th. Damn MI6 she thought, never gave her any details.
The quiet chatter quickly stopped, and they turned to face her, their expressions showing various degrees of shock. Fury was the first to recover.
"Now unless MI6 are playing some kind of sick joke, you must be the agent that is here for protection detail. They did say you weren't old, but aren't you a little young?"
"I'm old enough." Anna scowled. She was used to it of course, but it always annoyed her that the first thing people noticed about her was her age.
Tony, looked around, "hey, she's like a mini you Nat!"
All eyes snapped towards him and he seemed to sense that he had said something wrong, "Right, sorry, obviously wrong thing to say, just trying to lighten the atmosphere and you guys know what I mean."
Clint smiled slightly, "Tony, you're rambling, cut it out."
"Right, yeah, sorry"
The atmosphere remained tense and there was a long silence, everyone a little unsure of what to do in the current situation. Eventually, Anna spoke up, "Not to be rude, but I am pretty sure I didn't just change continents just to be met by silence. To confirm your point sir," here she inclined her head towards Fury, "I am here for protection and to offer my information on the terrorist agency Scorpia, as to my age, MI6 seemed to think that it was not important so I hope that it won't be an issue."
"You seem to know as much as we do, Miss Wright, so I will leave you to it, I will be in contact soon" said Fury and walked into the lift.
The avengers stood there before Tony spoke again, "Well, I take it you've heard of us but I think you should still have an introduction, I, the most awesome of the avengers obviously, am Tony Stark, you might know me as Iron man, I've heard I'm quite well known as both." He chuckled at his own humor and motioned to others to follow suit.
"I'm Clint Barton or Hawkeye, either works fine" said Clint quickly, " Natasha Romanoff", "Steve Rogers, Captain America" and finally "Bruce Banner, I'm also that scientist that loses control sometimes and turns into a giant green monster."
Bruce said, looking down as soon as he mentioned his other persona, clearly wasn't fond of his problem thought Anna, although she wouldn't be either if she was in his situation.
"Oh yeah and then there is the resident God, currently off on other business" said Tony, "One of us can show you your room and then we'll be having some food."
"Thanks" said Anna gratefully, she was still out of it due to the whole time difference but she knew that she would be hungry if she didn't have any supper this evening.
There was an awkward moment were no one moved and then Tony stepped forward, "I guess I'll show you where your room is, you can unpack and do whatever, we'll be making supper" He said, leading her into the lift and pressing the button for level 50. The lift was quick and so they avoided the awkward silence in the confined space. Once on the correct floor, Tony showed her down the corridor and pointed out a modern kitchen and then to her room. It was spacy, and was very modern and minimalist. "It lacks personalization, but I'm sure you can do something about that if you want" said Stark, "I'll be leaving you then," he awkwardly finished and walked out, shutting the door behind him.
Anna sat down on the bed, put her bags down on the floor and surveyed the room. It had large bed with a crisp white duvet cover, and a large built in wardrobe. On the other side of the room was a floor length window showing a spectacular view of the city.
She quickly took a shower in the en-suite bathroom and changed into some clean clothes. She was about to walk out of the door when she caught sight of herself in the mirror. She thought about Tony's words earlier, he had said that she was like a mini Natasha. She supposed that she did kind of, in her oversized green roll neck jumper, black skinny jeans and doc martens. But she also expected that most of them had no idea how accurate that description was not just in terms of her dress sense.
