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The Search

Agent Maria Hill stiffly walked into the conference room. This meeting was the last thing anyone had wanted to do and since she had draw the short straw she got it. She got behind the desk at the front of the room and plugged in the USB that contained all of the relevant files. Since their servers had been invaded yesterday and the source of the invasion had been traced back to the files in question they had unceremoniously been removed from contact with other classified information.

Despite the fact that the agents in the Computer Security department couldn't find anything untoward about the files. As far as the extensive search could tell, there was no way that those files could have opened a pathway into their database, but since they had Director Fury had ordered them to be moved to a single USB that never touched the main network.

Maria had thought he was over reacting at first. After all, they hadn't found a single computer in the raid that they performed on the address that the hack was traced back to. Then, Loki was stolen by the exact man whose files had been the ones to open the breach in the firewall. It was too much of a coincidence to be ignored.

She turned back to the room. Banner was already there with Rogers, the two most responsible of the bunch of hooligans that could loosely be called a team. The Asgardian, Thor, was also standing around looking imposing, one of his talents.

She looked to the clock on the wall. It beeped, showing the time of 15:00. Barely a second had passed before Agent Romanoff and Agent Barton walked into the room. On time, exactly as their training predicted. Now the only one they were waiting for was Tony Stark. According to his personality profile he would be the type of person that would show up late just to piss everyone else off.

"Hello, everyone. Let's get this party going." Tony Stark sauntered into the room like he owned it. Right on time for the meeting and an hour after the time that Maria had given him.

"Thank you Mr. Stark, if you would please take a seat." She pointed at the empty chair at the front of the room. Stark looked a little put out that no one was mad at him.

"What's this about Agent Hill?" Captain Rogers was unsurprisingly earnest. It was a character trait that was well known in the man, but Agent Hill filed the information away anyway.

"What I am about to tell you is beyond classified and most of it should never leave this room." Maria clicked the mouse to bring up the first piece of information. Details of a firewall security breach. "At 22:00 last night, our database was infiltrated and classified information was removed. The breach was quick and dirty leaving our analysts shocked and in no position to stop it. However, we did trace back the hack to a small home in Bermuda." She clicked the mouse again, this time bringing up the pictures of a raided house on the beach. "As you can see from the pictures no computer was found and neither were any people."

"I'm sorry, but what has this got to do with me?" Stark asked snidely. Maria glared down at him and continued.

"The Director was almost ready to write it off as some sort of fluke, before S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters was infiltrated at 23:00 that same night." The video that was brought on the screen next showed images of a man in black sneaking down a hallway and entering a vent. "We did not discover this until it was too late to do anything." She clicked again and pictures of the destroyed cell door were pulled up. "At 23:14, Loki was released from his cell."

That got a visceral reaction in the room.

"My brother escaped?" Thor's attacking tone filled the room.

"How could you let this happen. I thought you had the most secure cells in the world. Isn't that what you told us?" Banner looked more irritated than mad, but Maria tensed anyway.

"We don't think he escaped." That brought silence quickly. "We think he was kidnapped, by this man."

Maria was wrong, the image that came onto the screen got the most visceral reaction. Even Agent Barton and Agent Romanoff sat back in shock, and Maria was aware that they had been on missions with the man. What she wasn't prepared for with the outpouring of protests from the other occupants in the room.

"HARRY?" Banner and Stark exclaimed at the same time and looked at each other in shock. Both started to say something before they were interrupted by Rogers.

"The bartender?" That caught most of the attention in the room, but before she could ask what he meant, Thor spoke up.

"What does Harry, friend of Hermione, have to do with the man who took my brother?" Maria thought she might just get whiplash from the amount of head turning that she was doing. Her only consolation was that everyone else in the room was doing just as much if not more.

"Wait, how does the big guy know Harry?" Stark asked pointing at Thor. "For that matter, how do the rest of you?"

"We met on vacation." Banner said with a small smile, like he knew something no one else did. Maria stared in shock at him. As far as she was aware Banner hadn't been on vacation once in his life, though he did a lot of running through areas that could attract tourists.

"Phil was right about that?" Barton looked surprised at Banner's statement, but it was his question that had the room swinging it's heads again.

"Right about what?" Romanoff asked Barton confused.

"Never mind that, what did Captain Crunch mean by bartender?" Stark asked Rogers sharply.

"Harry owns a pub in Brooklyn. I go there regularly." Rogers answered. "How do you know him?"

"He is one of the top investors in Stark Industries. He also owns a charity for orphans of war." Maria couldn't keep the shock off of her face this time. Lord Potter-Black was very wealthy and had invested in many companies after inheriting control of the family fortune. She hadn't been aware that he had invested in Stark though. "He told me he invested in my clean energy technology." Stark looked smug, but that was pretty much how he always looked. "So how do you know Harry big guy?"

"I met Harry after I fell from the flying command boat." Maria groaned a little at the name. She remembered Coulson trying to explain to Thor exactly what the Helicarrier was to little effect. "It was his parcel of land that Mjölnir and I crashed upon. The lady Hermione informed me that she knew of Jane Foster. We had a discussion before the battle in the City of New York."

Maria shook her head in disbelief.

"As informative as this has been, I should continue." Maria pointed to the picture. "This is the man that kidnapped Loki."

"I say we let him keep him. Loki deserves everything he get and I can think of no one better to give him exactly what he deserves." Barton said gruffly. Maria knew well that Barton had taken the death of Agent Coulson badly and still hadn't recovered from his time under the control of Loki.

"I will not let my brother be kept by mortal hands. He deserves Asgardian justice." Something that Maria had heard all too much over the past couple of days.

"No one is arguing with you, but there is no reason he can't be softened a little before he gets there." Barton was ruthless. Maria had known this before she had ever met the man, just from mission debriefs alone. It seemed to grate on the nerves of Thor though.

"I will not have Loki beaten in such a way." Thor growled at Barton. Barton would have sprang from his seat and attacked if Romanoff's hand hadn't been placed on his shoulder. Maria interrupted before it could go any further.

"As I was saying, Lord Harry Potter-Black is the target in question. He is a billionaire with his hands in pots all over the world. He was knighted at the age of 18 for killing a terrorist that had been attacking the United Kingdom on and off for three decades." Maria pulled up the picture of him getting knighted by the Queen. Several people looked shocked by this including Banner and Rogers, but Thor just looked mostly confused.

"Harry is a knight?" Rogers looked taken aback. Which made sense if he had only thought the man was a bartender before this meeting.

"He also has world class training in espionage and close quarter combat."

"Who trained him?" Rogers asked quickly.

Barton answered, "I did." At the exact same time that Maria informed them, "S.H.I.E.L.D. did." The heads in the room swung back to Barton. Maria continued before they could ask anything.

"S.H.I.E.L.D. was one of the many organizations that were called upon to help train the teenager. However, it is the most important one right now. When in S.H.I.E.L.D. training the young agent met Agent Coulson and developed a mentor like relationship with the man that continued long after Potter-Black's time with S.H.I.E.L.D. came to an end."

The people that littered the room now all had a look of understanding on their face. Even Thor who appeared to look quite distressed at the news.

"So everyone here has met this man, except for the spider, and we this is the first we are hearing of it?" Stark tried to lessen the tension in the room.

"I have also met with Lord Potter-Black. We had quite the night together a couple of months after I joined S.H.I.E.L.D." Everyone except Barton looked shocked at the news, but they told each other everything so that didn't really count.

"Woo, Agent I-can-kill-you-with-my-pinky getting it on with the target." Stark teased.

"I killed 23 men that night." Romanoff said with a mockery of a smile. The rest of the room went silent. "Is there any more information on subject that we need to know?" Agent Romanoff asked professionally.

"Lord Potter-Black appeared to be emotionally unstable when he met with the Director yesterday. Director Fury warned that he might have exacerbated the situation."

"Who hasn't he exacerbated? That man should could with a warning, 'Hostile to everyone. Please don't touch.'" Stark leaned back in his chair, and appeared to be thinking hard about something. Maria wondered what sort of tortures were crossing his mind.

"What is the mission?" Agent Romanoff asked.

"Find and return Loki to S.H.I.E.L.D. holding cells or whatever is left of him to Thor." The Asgardian looked even more distressed. "Also, return with Lord Potter-Black for interrogation."

"Where do we start looking?" Banner asked looking contemplative.

"The pub right?" Rogers answered the man, still looking a little lost.

"Captain Rogers, you seem to be forgetting something. Lord Potter-Black is a billionaire with dozens of properties, not including those held by his hundreds of companies. He could be in any of them. The property that we back traced the hack to was owned by a shell corporation that was owned by a company that was owned by a subsidiary of one of his major companies. This is not a simple and easy task." Maria told him steadily. The whole group looked a little taken aback by the information.

"We have already raided several of his primary dwellings including his manor in Northern England." Maria pulled up the pictures of the property. She smiled at the several widened eyes and smalls gasps of surprise. "This man is no common street thug. He broke into one of the most highly protected buildings in the world without any help as far as we could tell. He didn't kill a single agent and removed one man without any injuries to his person. This is no laughing matter. The only way we will find this man is if he has made a mistake somewhere, or he wants to be found." She paused, letting it sink in. "If he wants to be found, then chances are it is already too late.

She closed the files and unplugged the USB. The room was silent and there were many contemplative faces. It was Stark that broke the silence this time.

"We still have the program that could find the Tesseract, right?" Stark asked to the surprise of many.

"Yes, we could get it up and running fairly quickly." Banner answered following Stark's train of thought that no one else could. "We have to expand the amount that we are searching for, but with enough tinkering we could get it to find what we want."

"Could you explain in English for the rest of us?" Rogers asked after a few minutes of tennis match conversation that Stark and Banner were having.

"We should be able to find some of the trace elements of the Tesseract on Loki because he is the only one on Earth that traveled here that way. It will take a few hours, but we should be able to track Loki that way." Banner answered quickly. "We will need the use of a lab though."

Maria nodded and waved for them to follow. This was exactly the sort of thing that the Director had been looking for when he contacted the group. Maria left the room with Banner and Stark, leaving the rest to finish their conversation. Banner was already rolling up his sleeves when they arrived at the room.

"Thank you, Ms. Stiff-upper-lip we'll call you in a few hours." Stark moved to a computer, the insult was half hearted.

"Good luck, Mr. Stark, Dr. Banner." Maria left the room to stand guard outside the door. Her top priority was to find Loki and the two buffoons in there were her best shot.

Harry groaned and lent back in his chair holding his cup of tea. Pulling down the wards on the property was hard work. He rubbed his aching shoulder. It shouldn't be too long now before S.H.I.E.L.D. came crashing through his door or it might be. The speed at which S.H.I.E.L.D. arrived depended entirely on how much of a head start they had given to Tony and Bruce.

He sipped some more of his tea absentmindedly. His thoughts were mostly on the lost god that was occupying his cell room. The room had been designed by Hermione some time during the war. It was the most foolproof they had ever found and one had been installed in almost every Order outpost they had. Though, Harry doubted that the man he currently had in there was plotting much of an escape.

He had done the best he could to make the trickster see the error in his ways, but he had no idea how much of that was going to stick. There was a lot that Loki hadn't told him about, but Harry mostly ignored that.

It wasn't really his business what was going to happen after this. He had done more than his part a long time ago. He had been settled down for awhile now and getting caught up in interplanetary politics wasn't really on his bucket list. Loki was a lost soul, he could relate to that, but saving the world again didn't interest him in the slightest.

Fury hadn't understood that he didn't want to fight anymore or maybe he had and just ignored it. Harry wasn't going to let himself get caught in someone else's schemes again. He hadn't done anything besides steal Loki and that had been under emotional duress, he could already hear the lawyers arguing in his head. Chances are if he pushed hard enough he might get off with a slap on the wrist and some more people spying on him. He tried to get comfortable in his chair.

He hoped the Calvary showed up soon because he was getting a headache from all of his thinking in advance.

Just in time, Harry thought to himself as the remaining ward sent a single to his mind saying that others had arrived on the property. Harry got up and placed the tea cup on the table. He walked to the door calmly.

He opened the door to the surprised and angry faces of what the S.H.I.E.L.D. files had called the Avengers. He could barely do much more than that before he was crashing into a wall with Thor large hand pressing on his chest.

"Where is he?" Thor yelled aggressively to Harry. Harry smiled.

"Back there." Harry pointed to the door down the hallway a little. He dropped a few inches to the floor as Thor sped off to the room. Harry shook his head lightly. "Would you like some tea? I think I made enough for everyone." Harry walked to the kitchen stove, smiling again at the somewhat shocked people. He reached for the tea bags and saw the woman he had know as Natalie's eyes following him. "Not that kind I'm afraid." Natalie scowled a little.

Harry turned his head when he heard crashing coming from the back room. The rest of the group heard as well.

"The plan was for Thor to take Loki back to base as soon as he saw him, but I didn't expect it to be this easy." Clint told him, the question was implied, but Harry ignored it. Harry had to resist the urge to hug the man. It had been awhile since they had last seen each other and Harry missed the coarse older man.

"That will teach me to steal war criminals." Harry said with a smile, filling up several tea cups with water and placing the bags in them. "Please, sit. I'm sure you are tired." Tony was the first to take the cup and the chair offered.

"So, you own a bar and you didn't invite me to the opening?" Tony asked taking a sip of the drink and almost spitting it back out afterwards. Harry smiled at him. "This tastes like cardboard."

"It isn't exactly your kind of bar Tony. No supermodels to be found. Just a bunch of old codgers looking to get pissed. Though the drinks are pretty good, if I do say so myself." Harry answered, looking at Steve as he said so. Steve was standing in the back of the group almost hiding from Harry. Harry didn't know if it was because he felt betrayed or something else entirely.

"Why didn't you tell me?" The question was blurted from the mouth of the Captain and Harry held in a sigh.

"Sometimes, you just want to be yourself without all the fuss that people make. There is a certain anonymity that I hunger for. Who looks at a bartender and sees a billionaire? No one. It is a feeling I'm sure you can understand." Harry told him. Steve nodded after a second. He looked good in that uniform, but the sight of it caused a lump to form in Harry's throat. Phil had designed the uniform.

"What did you do to Loki?" Clint looked almost hungry for the answer. It was worse than Harry had hoped, if Clint wanted revenge that badly.

"I taught him a lesson and I reminded him of something he had tried to forget." Harry answered vaguely. He could tell Clint was slightly disappointed at the answer, but it was what Phil would have wanted. "No one can torture you as much as you can torture yourself." Harry told Clint with a knowing look. He would need to have a long talk with the man sometime. He was not looking forward to it, but Phil wouldn't have wanted Clint to be torturing himself.

"We a going to take you in for interrogation." Natalie told him quickly. Harry grinned at her.

"Natalie, my little thief. It is so nice to see you again. I believe you owe me something." Harry held out his hand.

"My name is Natasha Romanoff and I do not know of what incident you are speaking of." The newly renamed Natasha told him. Harry grinned and took back his hand.

"If that is how you want to play it, then fine." Harry watched as all of the rest of the men in the room stared at Natasha in obvious confusion. Harry didn't explain though. There were some conversations that stayed between two people. "Does that mean you want to take me in now? I'd best finish my tea then." Harry swallowed the rest of his cup in one gulp. He held out his hands to the group. "I am yours to arrest my fair lady."

Natasha glared a little and before Harry knew what was going on his chest and face were against the counter and his hands were pulled roughly behind him and tied.

The walk outside lead them to what Harry would have called a jet on steroids. He was roughly pushed into a seat by Natasha and the rest of the group filed in. Bruce slid next to him softly. The rest of the group went to the front of the jet. Tony and Steve buckled up behind Natasha and Clint took the pilots chair.

"Mr. Evans." Bruce said softly. Harry smiled.

"Mr. Green, how lovely it is to see you again. I do wish it were under better circumstances though." Harry brandished his cuffs at the man.

"How was the rest of your trip?" Bruce asked as if making small talk about the weather.

"It was a good vacation. I learned a lot and most of it was very relaxing." Harry told the man. "What about you? Did you learn anything on your trip?" Bruce's responding grin told Harry everything he needed to know. They remained in silence for a few more minutes until Bruce spoke up again.

"The building wasn't there." Bruce told him carefully, almost whispering. Harry looked at him confused. "The program that we used got an exact location on Loki, but the place it pointed us to didn't have a building on it. It was just an empty field in Missouri, why Missouri anyway?" Bruce continued before Harry could answer. "Never mind. The field was empty for exactly 10 minutes before the building showed up. Stark didn't notice, he thought the program just had a bug. I didn't though. The location was exactly the same, but in 10 minutes it went from not having a building to having one."

Harry smiled at the man.

"Must have been a bug in the program." Harry answered the man with an innocent grin.

The landed on the S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters in a couple of hours. Harry allowed Natasha to lead him from the plane and deposit him in the custody of a woman Agent.

"It's so nice to meet you." Harry greeted the woman with a smile. There wasn't much else he could do at this point, best face it with a smile. "I would shake your hand, but unfortunately..." Harry motioned to his cuffs again. The agent's face didn't crack.

"Thank you Black Widow, I will take it from here." The agent grabbed his arm and started leading him away. Harry turned back a little to give a small wave to the rest of the Avengers. His smile fell from his face as he entered the building. He stiffened slightly and put on his professional face and the grace that accompanied it. "My name is Agent Hill."

"It is nice to meet you Agent Hill. Do you know about me?" Harry asked as professionally as he could. The only way that the woman would answer him.

"Enough to know that if you didn't want to be here, you wouldn't be. Will this be a problem?" Hill asked him, moving through the identical corridors. Harry gave the woman a small smile.

"Not at all, Agent Hill. After all, there is very little that Fury could do that would change anything and I will probably be out of here tomorrow anyway, with a clean record. It is more advantageous for me to be here, than to be anywhere else. You won't have any problems from me Agent Hill." Harry told the woman. Hill nodded and opened a door. The interrogation room was pretty standard fair.

"It has been a pleasure to meet your acquaintance. Agent Coulson spoke highly of you." Harry stumbled a little and caught himself.

"The pleasure has been all mine." Harry was smiling and sitting down in his chair as the door closed.

AN: Another chapter done. I hope you enjoyed the reveal that all of the Avengers had met Harry at some point. I thought it was fun. I have been super busy with a geology class and have had almost no time to write in between studying and LoL games. I hope this chapter is good enough for you to review. The next one will probably be the last, but I might have a bonus chapter. You can tell me if there are any conversations you really wanted to see him have with people. I will try to fit it in to make you happy, but no promises.

I hope it is good enough to review for. If you notice any grammatical or spelling errors PLEASE tell me. I really do go back and fix them if someone points them out.

Thanks for reading,

~Rain