Tony POV

I put my hand over my face and rubbed at my temples. My head of staff waited, patient. He and I both knew it wouldn't be a good idea to interrupt the first moment I gave myself to breathe since supernatural fight club broke out in the hall.

Everything had been quiet for about half a day after, but this was still the first time I'd let myself take a break monitoring from the rooms. I think Bruce might have gone through on his crowbar threat if hadn't.

He, I, my head of staff Arnie, and Captain FreezerBurn sat at a table in the employee lounge. Nat and Clint were still patrolling the halls. They said something about making sure things were done right before glaring at me until I left. I hadn't wanted to, but they had insisted I at least get out of the monitoring room. So we compromised and voila, we're all in the care and containment ward's lounge.

It wasn't a bad spot either. While we might not be housing dinosaurs at the moment, I had spared no expense on this place.

"Okay," first let's to make sure everything's in order, "let's be sure we have the quick things out of the way. What's the tetanus shot situation?"

"Everyone bitten has received one." Arnie said.

"Good. Is anyone bleeding out?"

"No."

"Also good."

"Is the doctor's hand okay?" Steve cut in before I could ask my next question.

"I checked on that one. It's as okay as it can be after the kid chomped it." Bruce said.

"I thought I was asking the questions here, but fine. Is anyone messing with their bandages?" I asked. The bird had yet to wake, but the kid had done a number chewing on his the few minutes he had been half-awake. We hadn't expected him to wake so soon. The doctor hadn't finished wrapping the kids shoulder, and you can imagine where things went from there.

"None of the staff has reported any kind of tampering." I smirked. Score twelve hundred eighty seven for cameras.

"Good."

"Point-Break give everyone the demon run-down?"

"Yes."

Thor claimed he didn't know much on the subject of demons, but it was more than any of us knew. According to him demons were devious tricksters, true chaotic neutral. Not to mention fiercely possessive. Once they claimed something as their own, nothing but destruction would keep them from it. They usually did what they wanted when wanted and answered to no one but the demon king Surtr. They could take many forms, but he had never heard of demons like the ones that threw down in my hallway. Not to mention he said something about them feeling like no demons he had ever encountered, so that's just wonderful.

A voice cracked over the intercom.

"Code eleven-sixty eight solution nine on room two."

Also wonderful. Wait, what was code eleven-sixty eight solution nine again? C'mon Tony, think. You should know this.

"Hey," I whispered to Steve, "what was code eleven-sixty eight solution nine again?"

"That's freak out and injury of non-human due to means yet to be determined, solved by a non-human, non-robotic entity. You wrote the codes, how do you not know this?"

I shrugged.

"Memory is not my strong suit. I make up for it with everything else."

"Regardless of Tony's memory issues," Bruce cut in, "We have bigger issues at the moment."

"Yeah, like why do interesting things only happen when you aren't watching?" I got up and made for the door, "I'm checking this thing out for myself."

Steve let off a long-suffering sigh and muttered something about "we just got him out of there" as he got up to follow me.

Bruce glanced between me, Captain Rhinovirus, and Arnie. He sighed, put his head in his hand, took a deep breath, and rose to follow us.

A certain g-d of thunder was already waiting by the door when we got there. He was chatting with one of the two human guards standing watch. The robotic ones stood vigilant as always*.

"Ah, friends. It is good to see you here. I was merely getting the full story from your guards. It is an… interesting tale, to say the least."

I raised an eyebrow.

"Is that so?"

"Aye."

"Care to elaborate?"

The g-d of thunder crossed his arms, "Not particularly."

Why that little-

The captain cut off my train of thought, "What happened?"

"It seems the suti** woke up disoriented. It appears his attempts to orient were interrupted by pain…"

Point-Break went on to explain how "the suti" freaked out, clawed up a few things, screamed for his demon-cat, and had to be restrained when he started injuring himself. He wouldn't calm down until he was reunited with his cat which showed up because apparently Thor decided literally releasing a demon would be a good idea***. Then again, after hearing about the whole thing with Surtr the last bit shouldn't really surprise me.

One thing really stuck out to me in his whole spiel though.

The kid's up. Or, well, not exactly up, but at least awake-ish.

An excited grin crept across my face, "So, the kid's awake? And calm you say? Let's see him then." I clasped my hands together and rubbed them with giddy eagerness. This guy had a few things to explain.

Thor shook his head, "I would not recommend it."

"At least get the kid some water first." Steve added his two cents.

I thought for a moment. Water would probably be a good idea. A peace offering of sorts.

"Okay, fine. Hey," I turned to a passing employee, "could you grab us a thing of water? Thanks."

The guy hurried off and I turned back to my companions. It was an awkward few minutes as we waited for the water. Thor attempted to alleviate it by staring up a conversation, asking what sort of cellular phone he should buy. He was looking for something durable, so I recommended a nokia. That left another awkward minute I tried to fill by going over questions to ask. Everyone perked up when the employee finally returned with a pitcher and a few cups.

"Thank you!" I chirped, taking the containers. "Let's go then."

A hand on my shoulder stopped me before I could open the door.

"Do not startle him, do not accuse him of anything, and whatever you do, do not threaten to separate them." Thor warned.

I almost rolled my eyes at the over-serious tone, but agreed nonetheless.

The captain opened the door.

*You gotta have backups in case one set gets hacked

**Suti is the Aesir word for a baby demon. Pronounced like "sooty".

***I mean, this time it worked out, sure. But that's the kind of thing you run past the group before doing.

What Tony didn't know of course, was that Thor could understand both parties. This means he heard Kuro screaming for Rin along with watching him claw up his own room in desperation to get to him. Despite the rooms being soundproof, those two know when the other needs them.

And for anyone wondering why Rin was chewing at his bandages, it's pretty simple: he was half awake and they were itchy.