What the heck is wrong with FanFiction. I put this doc in. I went to put in the little divider line thingy and it turned to lines of codes.
Chapter 15: Contact
True to his word, Fury had them send my stuff back to me. By the time they were done patching me up Buster was waiting for me impatiently. By the time I had checked Buster over and made sure they hadn't hurt him, Fury had stolen my phone from me and plugged it into some kind of station.
"Go ahead." He said. I hadn't planned on doing it right away, but he was right, it was 5:00 am and I had to go ahead and call them. I walked over to the station.
"Who do you plan on calling?" Agent Hill asked.
I thought for a second, I hadn't really put much thought into it. If I called Robert, Uncle Trent might intercept him. If I called Dina, she might not know what I'm asking her to do. Robert and I knew there was a chance of government agents coming to get us, because of who our family was, and we kind of came up with a code. Dina knew some of the codes, but she didn't know enough.
"My cousin." I said. I went ahead and called Robert's Cell. After 3 rings the phone picked up, which was saying something for him.
"Hello." A tired voice yawned.
"Robert." I said.
"Alex!" He said, shocking himself awake, "Where have you been?"
"Internship." I said. He knew what that meant. The others just thought I was good at lying.
"How long's the internship?" He asked. That was his way of asking, 'How long are you stuck there and is there anything I can do'.
"Probably a few more weeks. But here's the thing. I've got the landlady watching my apartment; do you think you could pick up the cats?" I asked. He knew I didn't just mean the cats.
"Cats?" mouthed Phil.
"Shut it." I mouthed back.
"Yeah, why?" He asked.
"Well, it's taking a little longer than I planned and I didn't prepare her to watch anything for the long haul." I said.
"Ok." He said, "I'll get right on that. Is there anything else I need to do?"
"Just make sure everything's turned off and nothing's broken." I said. He knew exactly what I meant: Grab my stuff and hide it.
"Ok, I'll go." He said, then he hung up. More likely than not, Uncle Trent would know that I called and ask why. Robert would tell him that I got an internship and that I asked him to go give the cats to Dina. He'd give everything I didn't want them to find to Dina, and she'd hid it in the safe her Father built into her closet.
"Is there anyone else you need to call?" Agent Hill asked.
"Yes, my landlady and my cousin's girlfriend." I said. She raised an eyebrow.
"I'm having him give her the cats. His Dad's not going to let him keep them there. My landlady doesn't know who she is, but she'll let Robert in."
I dialed another number, the front desk of my apartment building. I had to leave a message.
"Hello, it's Alexandra. I'm going to be interning longer than I thought. So Robert's stopping by to get the cats. Don't worry about watching them." I said, then I hung up. Then I dialed Dina's number. It picked up after a ring and thankfully she read the caller ID.
"WHAT DO YOU WANT ALEX?! IT'S 5:06!" Dina yelled.
"Robert's dropping off the cats." I said.
"Wait what?" She asked.
"My internship's taking longer than I thought. He's dropping the cats off at your place." I said.
"Oh." Dina said. It had finally hit her what was going on.
"You know how to take care of them. It shouldn't be that hard." I said.
"Wrap it up." Phil mouthed.
"Got to go deliver coffee, bye." I said, hanging up the phone.
"Seriously?" Phil asked.
"Well that was basically what I was doing." I snapped, "Now what do we do?"
"We go tell Fury that we're done and hope that the council is done yelling at him." Phil said.
"Good choice." Agent Hill muttered as we left the room. But no, as soon as we got there they were still talking.
"This is out of line, Director. You're dealing with forces you can't control." One of the men on the screen said.
"You ever been in a war, Councilman? In a firefight? Did you feel an overabundance of control?" Fury asked. Phil and I watched from the doorway. He turned around to notice us, and motioned for me to walk closer. He pushed me forward a bit, so I wasn't trying to hide behind him.
"Is this your consultant?" The woman asked.
"Yes." Fury said.
"Do you really think your consultant could withstand the perils of an intergalactic threat?" The man asked, almost yelling. I was confused. What had Fury been telling them about me?
"Yes. Miss Harbor has proved to be a valuable asset and a talented mind in the field of science. She is an essential part of this." He said.
"I'm essential?" I asked quietly, shock evident on my voice.
"Alexandra Harbor." The man said flatly. He was addressing me.
"Yes sir." I said, trying to be formal.
"Daughter of Mackenzie Harbor?" He asked.
"Yes sir." I said again. Then he looked at Fury.
"How do you know she won't steal intel or technology?" He demanded. If it wasn't for my family's track record, I would have been more offended than I already was.
"She has proven to be trustworthy and has no benefit from her family's business." Fury said.
"How do you know that?" The woman asked.
"Within the past 3 months, I have been threatened, shot at, blackmailed, and pushed out of a 3rd story window by my Uncle." I said flatly, "I've had over $40,000 stolen from my college fund, had him threaten to murder everybody I had talked to within the last year, and stab me repeatedly in the shoulder. All because I didn't want to tell him that his son had a girlfriend. Just imagine what he did to his own kid."
"You're saying that you wouldn't trade information?" The man asked.
"Why on earth would I help the people that play a big part in the reason why the New York underground is so dangerous?" I asked rhetorically. Nobody said anything.
"Alexandra." Fury warned, knowing that I was starting to piss them off.
"I worked on Project Pegasus for 2 weeks. I can tell you the exact time that we ran a test on the Tesseract. I can tell you exactly what each test was. I can tell you the results to every test." I said.
"Then explain." The man said.
"We ran exactly 29 tests on the Tesseract." I said, "I noticed that Dr. Selvig made a few mathematical errors and a few inconsistencies on one of his reports. Dr. Selvig and I rewrote the test so that it was perfectly sound and used it to test the Tesseract, which worked without fail. Dr. Selvig and I noted that the Tesseract's test results were consistent for the first 28 days of testing. On the 29th day, the test results started changing. With how small the change was, we thought it was a mistake on the scanner, so we worked on fixing the scanner. It turned out to be Loki."
"You're saying that this Asgard has declared war on our planet?" The man asked.
"Not Asgard. Loki." Fury said insistently. He must have been telling them that for a while.
"He can't be working alone. What about the other one? His brother." The woman asked.
"Our intelligence says, Thor is not a hostile. But he's worlds away, we can't depend on him to help either. It's up to us." Fury said.
"Which is why you should be focusing on phase 2, it was designed for exactly..." Fury cut the man off.
"Phase 2 isn't ready, our enemy is. We need a response team." Fury insisted.
"The Avengers Initiative was shut down." The man said.
"This isn't about The Avengers." Fury said. It was, it really was. That's what he had told me while we were waiting for rescue.
"We're running the world's greatest covert security network and you're gonna leave the fate of human race to a handful of freaks." The man said. He looked at me when he said freaks. I guessed that he knew that I'd play a part in it.
"I'm not leaving anything to anyone. We need a response team." Fury insisted. After he regained his composure he spoke again, "These people may be isolated, unbalanced even, but I believe with the right push they can be exactly what we need."
"You believe?" The woman asked.
"War isn't won by sentiment, Director." The man said, sounding disgusted at the very thought.
"No, it's won by soldiers."
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