Meanwhile, at SHIELD...

"Agent Hill", boomed Fury, striding through the SHIELD compound in a way that expressed to anyone nearby that he was A Man with Shit to Get Done.

Arriving at Maria Hill's desk, he slammed down a file with force that would have caused anyone else to jump. She, however, merely raised her eyebrows and turned languidly from her monitor. "Yes, Sir?"

"Agent Hill, please enlighten me: why does crap like this keep ending up on my desk? I have a job to do, and it sure as hell is not this." Agent Hill pursed her lips before looking up to Fury with narrowed eyes. "I feel the same way when I find them on my desk, Sir, but if you read the entire text you will find that it requires your authorization. It's an important document- a crucial part of the Avengers programme was, and still is, damage control."

Not so easily abated, Fury scowled at her. "When did I become the damn press secretary of this place? Don't we have someone who takes care of this stuff?"

Agent Hill smiled slightly and turned back to her computer screen. "Yes, we do. They wrote the document. You just have to sign it."

"Well, since you seem so clued up about the whole thing, please tell me, what exactly am I signing up for?"

Agent Hill sighed before standing up to face him, a file clasped to her chest. "It's a protection scheme. It insists that any press interest in the Avengers Initiative is monitored and shut down, especially in the case of those amongst them who retained a degree of anonymity. And it recommends that the Avengers are housed in New York, at least for now, and preferably close together, so we have easy access to them- and to those who would try to gain access. Also, a ban regarding Tony Stark and press conferences." she finished with a smirk.

Fury nodded. "Sounds like a pretty mammoth task to me."

She shrugged. "Nothing Shield hasn't done before. The hardest part is monitoring journalists, but they're on it." There was a slight pause before she continued: "Now, if you're all caught up, I need to go."

"Right" Fury murmured, examining the file. "Thank you, Agent Hill." She nodded and swept past him into the hall.

Fury stood in her office for a moment. "Damn," he sighed, "they are not going to like this."