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"Alright, is this everybody?" Maddie plopped her hands on her hips and scanned the room – and then she smiled.

The others looked slightly worried at the sudden smile, certain she was thinking about her next crazy plan, but Theo understood – this was something different.

Maddie had demanded everyone meet at Alexander Enterprises main office, and she'd ushered everyone into a private lobby off of the first floor. The room was expensive looking and housed several large couches, a few arm chairs, and some end tables artfully arranged in a pleasant seating layout.

As everyone had arrived, they'd taken their seats and Maddie had waited to speak until everyone was assembled and Maddie didn't smile because of her next evil plot – she smiled because of the way everyone had sat.

Theo would've expected everyone to slip back into their tightly knit groups: The Avengers in one corner, The Winchesters and Cas in another, The BAU and Sherlock keeping space between each other but sharing the third corner nonetheless.

That didn't happen.

At the very least, Theo wouldn't have been surprised if everyone had stuck to the groups Steve had assigned: Those working on Crowley on one couch, Those working with the police on another, Steve's group clustered around his arm chair, and that hadn't happened either.

Instead, Romanoff had taken a seat with her boyfriend and one of his coworkers, the rest of the BAU speaking with Sam, Cas conversing with Pietro and Wanda, Sherlock arguing with Tony and John listening in to what Sam Winchester was explaining. Bucky was talking to Mycroft Holmes and Scott Land and Sam Wilson were interrogating Dean about something.

It was odd the way the groups mingled.

But it was cool to see – and that's why Maddie smiled.

"You see anybody missing?" Bucky answered Maddie's question with his usual level of snark, and she rolled her eyes.

"No I don't, but the amount of people on our team seems to multiply every time I look up, so I was just checking," she snarked back, and Bucky grinned and raised his hands in retreat.

"Well maybe if you didn't run off every two seconds," Pietro teased, and she waved away the pointed words.

"I do what I want," she said glibly. "But now's the time to share information. I have news."

"Let me guess." Steve crossed his arms. "You spoke with Ultron."

"I spoke with Ultron," Maddie agreed mockingly. "And you know what Rogers?"

Steve quirked an eyebrow.

"He's not a threat anymore. I talked him down."

"You – talked him down?" Hotchner repeated, surprised, and Maddie nodded firmly.

"She'd make a great agent," Theo spoke up for her. "She got Ultron to admit he just wanted a second chance,"

"And she found a nonlethal, nonthreatening way to grant him one," Cas added.

"The robot has a Pinocchio complex," Natasha spoke up. "He wants to be a real boy – and the only way to do that,"

"Is to steal a body." Clint finished Tasha's though. He shrugged. "Something I frown against. Mads here, gave him exactly what he wanted without harming anyone in the process."

"I can speak for myself, thanks," Maddie burst out, and Clint, Theo, and Cas, shot her a look.

"But can you explain what happened without being purposely combative and pushing everyone's buttons?" Bucky asked and she scrunched up her nose.

"I see your point." She admitted. "Proceed."

Bucky rolled his eyes. "Anyway – Maddie heard tell of a guy in a coma at the local hospital: guy is totally brain dead but the body is perfectly healthy."

"She offered it to Ultron in place of Brian Alexander?" Agent Morgan narrowed his eyes. "She had no right: That guy has a family who has a right to choose what happens to him,"

"Families dead," Clint interrupted smugly. "The last living relative of the guy passed away a couple of days ago. The doctors were set to turn off the guys breathing support and the body was going to die."

"Maddie led Ultron to a body that was going to die anyway and Ultron took her up on the offer. He's now downloaded into a brain that was previously unoccupied, and more importantly, Ultron is off the internet and no longer able to interfere."

The room went silent at that.

"Downloading himself took him completely off the internet then?" Pietro said suddenly, directing the question at Maddie. "So he's simply human now? No longer a threat?"

Maddie's eyebrows furrowed, and she opened her mouth, just barely noticing Theo nodding his head meaningfully behind the rest of the room.

Her mouth snapped shut. Then she nodded firmly.

"Let's go with that," She said. Steve and Bucky shared a look, but the others took her words at face value.

"It's not exactly a black and white situation, I realize," Maddie admitted, exasperated. "But this takes care of several issues, and the conclusion is that we don't have to worry about Ultron anymore."

"But he did take Orie?" Dean asks, trying to clarify, and Maddie grimaced.

"Initially, yes," she hedged. But then she sighed. "As soon as we finished our conversation, he sent me a text with the address and the name of the guy watching Orie. Ultron isn't a problem anymore." She crossed her arms, and finally looked Dean in the eye. "But apparently there's a new guy on the scene? Goes by the name of Crowley?" She prompted.

Dean flushed and looked away, and Sam stepped forward apologetically. "A former colleague of ours. He made a ransom call,"

Maddie's eyebrows rose. "I knew that home phone would come in handy," she said glibly, and Sam snorted.

"We believe this Crowley guy has Orie," Sam continued. "He's asked for money, but Dean and I are convinced this is some sort of revenge story."

"Which matches up with what Cas was telling me." Maddie nodded. "Alright, this is what we're going to do. Steve," She fished the paper with the address on it out of her pocket. "Take a team and check out this address. A guy named Kevin Tran,"

Sam and Dean jerked, and Maddie noticed, but ignored it, "should be there, hopefully with Orie."

"And if he's not there?" Steve asked, even as he grabbed his jacket and jerked his head at Hotch and John.

"Sam is gonna take a group back to the police department and give them everything he knows about Crowley and his current whereabouts. I may not like the police, but they've got eyes everywhere and right now, we need that."

"Isn't this Crowley character not exactly human?" Mycroft drawled. "I don't think a wanted poster and an APB are going to help us find him."

"I don't expect it to," Maddie shrugged, and Tasha nodded.

"It's just to put pressure on him – so he feels he has to choice but to take the deal we offer." She figured out, and Maddie nodded.

"So what's the deal?" Wanda asked, and Maddie smiled.

This time she WAS thinking about the next crazy plan.

And Dean realized before everyone else what that plan was.

"No." He said suddenly. "No, I don't want you within 50 feet of Crowley, let alone within speaking distance," He demanded, and Maddie's eyes narrowed.

"It worked with Ultron," She began, but Dean interrupted her with a loud scoff.

"Ultron was trying to impress you – he has weird childlike feelings about you and would've done anything you asked because he wanted you to like him! Crowley has no reason to like you and no reason to play fair – You're not talking to him."

"You don't get to tell me what to do," Maddie snapped back. "So shut your pie hole!"

"NO, Mads. You've been running off and doing your own thing this whole time, and you're not a one woman show. You have a room full of people who are trying to help you because they care about you and I refuse to believe that the best plan is for you to take Crowley on all by yourself!"

"Who says I'm taking him on alone?" Maddie retorted, and Dean went quiet, confused.

Maddie smiled. "I'm not an idiot, Dean, but thanks for treating me like one." She said bitterly. Dean opened his mouth, expression confused, but Maddie turned away from him.

"Crowley has been watching: He knows I prefer to do things solo – He'll be expecting this move. He'll think he has the advantage. But I won't be alone."

"We'll be listening in." Bucky completed her thought – and that smile appeared – the one that said "I have a plan, and it's nuts, but you're gonna help me".

"Some of you will be listening in," Maddie agreed. "Some of you will be making a very public fuss about the missing kid,"

"So Crowley thinks it's just you and him," Cas nodded approvingly.

"But you will have some sort of physical back up?" Sam pressed worriedly, and Maddie just smiled AGAIN.

"Yes." She answered simply.

"It can't be any of us," Theo shook his head. "Crowley would be expecting that – you'll have to call in other backup."

"Do you have other backup?" Pietro asked doubtfully, looking at the crowded room.

The smile on Maddie's face grew. "Not only do I have backup, but I have backup that will scare Crowley so badly I'll never have to worry about him again."

"Who do you have on call that's scary enough to terrify a demon?" Bucky asked honestly.

And to everyone's consternation, Maddie chose not to answer – and simply smiled.

It took one phone call to set up the meeting, and Crowley had agreed immediately. It took about an hour to get everyone situated: Steve checked the address and found an unconscious and injured Kevin Tran, who was transported to Maddie's home and put under the care of John and Agent Jareau.

Steve then took a group to the Police Department and made sure to make a big fuss about the missing child. Others made a spectacle of searching the streets, and one team was currently tearing apart Alexander Enterprises, the "lead suspect". Everyone was sent to a public setting and told to stay visible. Bucky, Cas, Clint and Theo made a show of entering a police station: and then they locked themselves in the Captain's office and turned on the laptop to the cameras that had been set up earlier.

And Maddie settled herself in the location she'd chosen and waited for Crowley to arrive.

And while she waited…she smiled.

Heh. Two more chapters next monday!

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