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Chapter 2
"Ouch!" Grace cursed as she fell onto the hard floor, head first. She sat up, looking round whilst rubbing her head, wincing. She idly took in her surroundings, curiously before she recognised where she was.
"Oh. My. God." She gasped, as footsteps approached her spot behind the sofa.
"Erm, excuse me but, who are you and how did you get up here?" A pretty woman with light ginger hair and blue eyes, asked the young brunette, crouching down in front of her as Grace's mouth dropped open in shock.
"Pepper Potts?!" She asked, practically screeching it. Pepper winced, putting her hand to her ear, grimacing and she nodded.
"Oh. My. God…" Grace whimpered and Pepper raised an eyebrow.
"Again, who are you?" Pepper asked curiously and Grace held out her hand for the other woman to shake.
"Grace Lewis, pleasure to meet you, ohmygod!" Grace introduced herself, going a bit 'fan-girl' at the end, before getting calmly to her feet, then realising, that she was in a onesie – she put her arms around her stomach rather self-consciously.
"And, how did you get here?" Pepper questioned and Grace frowned.
"I'm, not sure. I think that the combination of the DVD that I was watching, combined with the TV somehow opened a portal and brought me here." Grace explained, her mind quickly doing the science of it and Pepper nodded, barely understanding what the girl said, but going along with it anyway.
"So, how did you know who I was?" She asked, moving away from the sofa and towards a massive table, that had some weird technical stuff on it.
"Basically where I come from, everything and everyone here is fictional." Grace explained and Pepper raised her eyebrows sceptically.
"It's true; Scout's honour." Grace promised and Pepper rolled her eyes, sighing.
"Tony's back." Pepper announced and Grace frowned – weren't Tony and Pepper supposed to be talking? She grimaced as Pepper walked away – maybe her presence was obstructing the timeline of the movie. And that could definitely not be good.
"Levels are holding steady… I think." Pepper commented, looking at the virtual board for the arc reactor that was now powering Stark Tower, as Tony Stark strolled happily across the room; Grace froze, officially going into 'fan-girl' mode: hyperventilation, inability to speak, etc.
"Of course they are, I was directly involved, which brings me to my next question: who the hell is she?" Tony asked, pointing at the brunette; Grace was still standing by the sofa, dumbfounded and amazed by the man standing just a few feet away from her.
"This is Grace and apparently she's from a different universe where we are all fictional." Pepper quickly explained and Tony raised his eyebrows.
"So, in your universe… I'm not real?" Tony asked and Grace swallowed, as he approached her.
"Yup." She nodded, finally getting over her fan-girl attack and turning back into her cool, laid-back exterior.
"Can't be much of a great world." Tony commented, shrugging and Grace laughed.
"Not really. But I live in England, so it doesn't make much difference to me anyway." Grace explained as JARVIS' electronical voice echoed across the room. Tony picked up his phone, trying to stall Coulson; Grace, who already knew what was about to happen, ducked down behind the sofa, a few seconds before the elevator 'dinged' open.
Grace listened silently to the conversation between Tony, Pepper and Coulson, (which she already knew, practically off by heart) smiling and giggling as quietly as she could. The conversation was about to end when it took a turn for the worse.
"Miss Lewis, if you could come with Pepper and myself too please." Coulson called and the brunette froze, cursing under her breath, as she stood up.
"Is it really necessary for me to come? I mean, surely I can just stay here; I'll probably just get in the way, most likely, and don't you need to find the Tesseract?" Grace asked, but too late, she realised that the Cube hadn't yet been mentioned. Coulson raised his eyebrows and Grace sighed.
"Okay, okay, I'm coming." She muttered, rolling her eyes and walking into the elevator, standing next to Pepper. "See you later, Stark!" Grace called as the doors began to close and she saw him wave idly before the elevator began to move downstairs.
Amy and Harriett sat behind the wrestling ring in the gym, as Steve pummelled the punching bag, images of his past running through his mind. The two girls chatted easily, discussing the circumstances of how they got into the Avengers movie and where their other best friend could be.
The bag suddenly flew off the hook, slamming into the wall and the two girls spun round as the loud voice of Nick Fury filled the room; the two girls ducked down so that they were out of sight. They listened in silence to the conversation, until Steve said "hydra's secret weapon."
"What's hydra?" Amy asked, painstakingly loud and Harriett clamped her hand down on Amy's mouth, sighing as Fury paused, before carrying on. She slowly moved her hand from Amy's mouth and she grimaced, mouthing "sorry" at the other brunette but it was too late; the damage had already been done.
They nervously waited until the end of the conversation, where the two men left and Harriett bit her lip.
"The two girls, hiding behind the wrestling cage; if you'd like to come with me, please." Fury commanded and they stood up nervously, as he turned around, walking away. They followed and Amy's hand found Harriett's, the only sign that she was scared. Harriett smiled reassuringly at the younger girl, squeezing the girl's hand, before they left the gym, neither of them knowing what was facing them.
