"Mr. Roberts, I see you have noticed us already." The woman smiled at him cockily.
The only thought in Jamie's mind: Fuck.
Just like that, Jamie let his bag fall from his side, and began running in the contrary from where the women was standing.
She just rolled her eyes and took a radio out of her pocket "Mr. Roberts on the run, guys please be gentle" and started to walk calmly in the direction Jamie ran.
The boy kept running in no direction in particular, until he got in between two buildings, the space was very short and there was no exit, just a big wall of bricks and a bunch of metal trash cans and boxes. Jamie looked everywhere desperately and he could hear the click from the guns behind him. He turned and saw the red headed woman with a group of 4 men dressed in black, you couldn't see their faces due to their masks.
"What…What do you want from me?" he asked nervously walking back and without removing his eyes from the woman.
"We've come for you, Mr. Roberts, we won't hurt you but if you do something out of the limits or reckless…You'll be dead" That's what Jamie had seen in his precognition, he gulped and his eyes went wide open as the woman pointed at him with her gun.
In the middle of all this tension, Jamie's phone had rung. Everybody looked at him with blaming eyes.
"Heh…uh, sorry" He took out his cell phone and saw another message from Liv.
"You never mentioned you'll invite some friends lol"
One of the agents took his cell phone and read the message and looked at Jamie confused, just like the woman did.
Suddenly one of the agents got hit against one of the walls and another was thrown to the pile of trashcans and boxes. Jamie smiled, knowing who was doing all of this and looked at the woman, whose expression showed a lot of confusion. Jamie could only shrug at her innocently.
"Stop what you're doing…I told you not to do something reckless!" she shouted at the boy as a shadow appeared behind her.
"Unfortunately, he's not doing anything" a girls voice mentioned as the shadow attacked the red headed woman, but she was very quick and skilled, she could easily avoid all of her attacks. "Damn you're fast to be an old lady" the girl giggled and attacked once more making the other woman to jump back a few meters and showing anger in her face already.
Suddenly the shadow turned into a normal girl again, a black haired one, the tips of her hair were dyed a light purple and she got a piercing in her lower lip.
"Liv!" Jamie smiled at his friend and ran to her, she smiled at him too but asked him to wait with her hand.
"Why do you need him?" Liv asked as she walked towards her, without a sight of fear in her eyes or movements. Seriously, how did she do that? Jamie would ask this to himself most of the times, even though he wasn't nervous either in this kind of situations anymore, this was getting kind of usual due to his treatment he wasn't 100% healed after all.
"This is classified information kid, nothing that concerns you" Natasha stood straight and looked at her like meaning it.
"pfft, seriously? Who's this lady Jamie, she's creeping me out" Liv laughed and looked at Jamie who just shrugged.
"Okay, Mr. Roberts, we'll meet later…" the red headed looked at Liv with hate and then her eyes went to Jamie who was standing still a little confused. Natasha climbed up the truck and left with the rest of the injured crew.
"What was that all about?" Liv was still smiling in an awkward way, they almost got killed and she was smiling!. Yes, that was Liv, the girl who could somekind of cynical thinking.
"I have no idea, it took me for surprise" Jamie laugh a little seeing the way Liv used to behave on situations like this.
"Ok, weird. Better get you home now, got your bag right here" she motioned to a small roof from a building near by.
Jamie just smiled at her again a they both hugged for several seconds, naturally as they hadn't see each other much in some time.
"I've missed you" Liv said in rough voice.
"And I missed you too" Jamie said on the edge of tears.
"Ok, no, there's not gonna be any tears today, now let's get your stuff and get the hell out of here, I actually don't like alley's".
Stark Tower.
Natasha Romanoff entered the living calmly with a frustration face.
"So you've got your sweet ass kicked by a teenage girl, huh?" Clint Barton the famous or unfamous super skilled archer and somehow Natasha's best friend asked her in an amused way.
"Just shut it, Barton" she rolled her eyes, and sat next to him on the sofa.
"It's actually kinda hilarious" he laughed, and turned the TV on.
"Do you actually think it's a good idea to let young people enter the Avengers?" they both looked at the way the voice came from, to discover Steve Rogers watching them leaning against the door frame.
"It doesn't matter what we think, Steve" Clint told him unimpressed "If that's what S.H.I.E.L.D wants",
"So have you seen the other ones?" Steve asked him.
Clint shake his head in meaning no, but Natasha was quite thoughtful.
"Clint, Rogers…, Romanoff" Nick Fury entered the room, while still looking at some file he had in his hands "Really, Romanoff..a?" he was about to laugh.
"Not even a word, now for what do you need us for?" Since you can quite catch them in a good way, we're gonna do it the "rational" way", the good eye of Fury saw them seriously now.
"What's that?" Clint asked.
"Simple. We're gonna talk with their parents, and you three are coming, oh and we got a new one…" Fury let the folder fell down in the coffe table wide open, showing a snap picture of the exact same girl, Natasha just saw that afternoon.
"You've gotta be freaking kiddin' me" the Russian said almost immediately.
"Liv Coulson, Good thing she basically lives by herlself"
"Wait like in Coulson…Coulson, Coulson?" Steve asked surprised.
Fury raised his eye browns in an obvious way.
"Hey…" Tony Stark came into the room absorbed in the newspaper, unbuttoned his suit and sat calmly in the couch next to the others, until he noticed everyones face.
"Um…Did I miss something?, did loki scaped Asgard again?" his laughter broke the silence and everyone's astonished eyes looked at him, and his face suddenly became serious if Nat was worried or surprised at least…that meant something " Oh god, did somebody we know died?...did Steve's new dog died?".
Central Park
Jamie and Liv were walking through the busy park.
"So how you've been in general the whole psycho thing and..all?" she said while eating an ice-cream sandwich, the ones that she loves, or so rememberd Jamie.
"It's been okay, I'm better now , hehe?" they could both feel the awkward silence building up, they didn't have very much to talk about.
"Liv, Hey!" a blond and cute girl wearing a kinda preppy blue cardigan came closer to Liv holding some books under her arm.
"Gwen, hi!, how you've been? I thought you said you were going on vacation with your family this spring break" Liv asked with an strange and kind smile, and for that type of unusual smile she had, Jamie knew Gwen was a friend of Liv, one of the fewest.
" Oh, yeah.. well, my mother decided to postpone it and so I'm here for the rest of Spring Break, and you are?" she point out to Jamie.
"Oh, this it's Jamie, basically my best friend for life, hehe" they shook hands.
"Nice to meet you. Why haven't I met you before if you're her bff?" the curiosity on Gwen face became obvious.
"Well…, I haven't..really been around the city much, I moved back today" it would be so much awkward if Jamie had actually tell her the truth like "Oh I was away in a mental institution for the last 3 years, wonderful day, isn't?".
"Oh, I see, anyways have you seen Peter today?" the blond girl asked Liv in a desperate voice while getting out her phone and looking for something in there.
"Nope, not really, why? Another of his mysterious disappearances? " it was so common for Peter to do that.
"Sure? He told me he was meeting with you at the café…well damn, now I have to run to Oscorp, sorry, see you later and welcome back, Jamie!" she ran off quickly.
"Well…and who's Peter "with his mysterious personality"?" Jamie laughed.
" Oh, that's Gwen's boyfriend, you'll like him trust me, he's very…awkward just like us" Liv toke a glimpse of his watch "and we need to get you home, or your parents are gonna get worried".
"They left me in a mental institution for three years and never came to visit me, I think I can manage to be alone with friends in the city for some time, thank you very much" the boy rolled his eyes.
The rest of the walk in their way to Jamie's town house in the Upper West Side was silent, until what they saw in the entrance of the house, they were so impressed that started at the frame for several seconds, across the hall, there they were Jamie's parents talking to the same red headed woman and a big man with only one eye and the other covered with a patch, the four of them sitting in the drawing room.
Both of them stop at the entrance doorframe.
"What it's going on?" Jamie spoke in a loud voice for everyone to hear.