Hi. This is Jack. You remember me, right?

"Ivy?" I repeated. "What are you doing here?"

We'd been heading to visit some relatives for Christmas, and stopped just outside of the town to get some gas. That was when I'd spotted Ivy, dressed in jeans and a T-shirt, standing shivering next to a phone box.

"What are you doing here?" she shot back. Her face was paper white and she held her arm closely against herself.

"I asked you first."

"Who's this?" asked Mom, getting out from the other side.

"This is Ivy. From my karate classes. Ivy, what in the world are you doing?"

"I'm standing here. It's a free country, right?"

"Haha. What are you doing in Tennessee?"

She was dirty, bruised and bloody – looking like she'd just gone through a war, or, at the very least, had escaped a collapsing house.

"You don't look so good," I said.

"Do your parents know you're here?" asked Mom.

"Um… sort of. No, I didn't run away from home or anything like that. I'm… visiting someone. It's complicated."

"She's with me," said a man, stepping out of a nearby snow covered phone box. He looked a remarkable amount like Robert Downey Jr.

Strike that. His chest was glowing. He looked exactly like Tony Stark. "I'm Tony Stark. You might have heard of me."

Ivy grabbed my arm, allowing her other arm to dangle at her side. It definitely looked broken. "I need to talk to you."

"Ivy? What's wrong with your arm?" Mom reached across and grabbed the limp arm.

Ivy turned whiter and released a hiss of pain.

"What happened?" asked Mom, releasing the arm. She's a doctor. "That's definitely broken."

"I fell."

"We were heading into the town to find a doctor," added… Tony Stark?

"Um… I need to talk to you," said Ivy, grabbing my arm and dragging me away as Mom and Mr. Stark talked.

"Um…" Ivy stared down at her gloves. "I need to ask that you don't call anyone and tell them where I am, okay? Long story."

"He's kidding about being Tony Stark, right. It's just a coincidence they look alike, right? Because Tony Stark was fictional last I checked. And hey, isn't the place they set part of the movie in?" Weird, I'd never thought of that before.

Ivy's face went white. "Oh, no. No no no no no." She took several deep breaths.

"Are you okay?"

"Yes, yes, I'm fine." She took another deep breath. "Do you remember when I vanished last year?"

"Yes. Well, I remember hearing about it."

"Right. Um… that was when the Battle of New York happened. Like from The Avengers."

"What?"