Chapter Thirteen: Katrina Peyton AKA: Siren

"Maybe you don't know Katherine at all. Did it ever occur to you that you have no idea who I really am?"

-Katherine Pierce

Steve closed the door of Stark tower lost in his own thought. He hardly noticed that Clint, Bruce, and Tony were all around the coffee table eating pizza. Clint looked up. "Back so soon?"

"How did it go, buddy?" Bruce asked as he took a slice of pizza.

"It was . . . interesting." Steve sad.

The three of them exchanged glances until Stark blurted out. "Were you that bad?"

"Stark!"

"What? We were all thinking it." Tony said handing him a beer. "Come on Rogers, spill."

"She freaked out on me, it was like she had a panic attack in the middle of our date." He flushed. "She ran out and after she calmed down I took her home. She had the number 850 written in the inside of her wrist."

Tony groaned as he looked up towards Jarvis. "J, look up anything you can about a Katrina Peyton who lives in New York."

"What are you doing?" Steve asked sourly.

Tony shrugged. "Just going over criminal records, warrants that sort of thing." Steve scowled. "What I'm keeping you safe, I don't want to find your body in a ditch."

Clint snorted. "Believe me I think Steve the super soldier can handle himself against a 5'7 girl."

"Sir," Jarvis said. "There are no record of a Katrina Peyton an English teacher living in New York at all. No warrants, no parking tickets, no birth certificates . . . it was like she has never really existed."

"Maybe you can match it with a picture." Tony said connecting his cell phone.

Bruce frowned. "Where did you get a picture?"

"I asked Parker to take one for me."

"One match, sir. But I'm afraid you're not going to like it." Jarvis said showing the picture that Peter took with the one of Siren.

Steve shook his head. "No, Katrina can't be Siren."

"I'm afraid she is, ."

"Rogers been sleeping with the enemy!" Tony shouted.

"I haven't been sleeping with anyone, I've hardly touched her. You don't even know if that's her."

"Zoom in, Jarvis."

Jarvis did as he was told and Steve could now see the resemblance, the dark hair and the numbers that were barely visible on her wrist.

"Were those the numbers you were talking about Steve?" Clint asked.

Steve gulped. "Yes, those were the ones."

Early the next morning, the Avengers plus Peter and Gwen were up in the helicarrier for a special meeting, they could tell that both Maria and Fury were stressed by the way that they kept walking back and forth, surprisingly not bumping into each other.

"How did we not figure this out sooner?" Fury demanded.

"We'll we didn't have a clear picture until Tony zoomed it in, not to mention that the numbers tattooed in Siren's wrist were a giveaway concerning her statues." Clint pointed out.

"Which means?" Fury asked.

Natasha and Clint exchanged glances. "We think that she's a spy, an assassin working for an organization, that's the reason she has the numbers as a symbol. Katrina might not even be her real name, just another faulty name to get us off our guard. We think she was posing as a teacher to get Parker and Rogers."

Fury turned to Steve. "Did she try anything, Rogers?"

Steve shook his head numbly. "She has been acting . . . normal except her strength. She has strength maybe like mine, but it wasn't human. When we went on our date she started acting crazy, like she was getting these hallucinations or something."

Bruce stopped tapping his pencil. "So do you think she was brainwashed?"

"It's a possibility." Maria said. "For all we know she could be doing someone's dirty work without realizing that she's doing something wrong."

"So what?" Tony snapped sarcastically. "We should wait, until we find out for sure if she's not trying to kill us?"

"Of course not." Fury snapped. "But we can't exactly kidnapped her and torture her for information, most likely if she is brainwashed she would die before she gives the information. No, we need to be careful, retraced out steps get her vulnerable, figure out as much information as we can from her, figure out what organization is she working for."

"And how are we going to do that?" Tony said. "I doubt she's going to have that information lying around, Fury she's the spy, her secrets have secrets."

"Maybe she has a computer." Gwen said suddenly, and flushed when the entire table turn to stare at her. "Think about it she has to trace back whatever information she's gotten back to who's controlling her, phone lines are too risky, and if she was in Russia even delivering a message by people will take too long. Sending messages from a computer will be a safe, easier way." She finished awkwardly. "I'm good with computers."

Fury sighed, obviously running out of options. "Parker, do you think you can distract Siren long enough for Miss Stacy to retrieve the information?"

Peter nodded. "Uh, sure if she doesn't try to strangle me first."

"We'll keep Barton near the school for support." Fury said. "Now let's catch Siren."

"Hi, honey." Pepper Potts said as she came into the tower later that evening, put her briefcase on the floor and gave him a small kiss on the cheek. "Rough day?"

"Somewhat." Tony rattled the ice cubes in his cup. "Drink?"

Pepper put a hand on the glass. "Now what is this about?"

"What?"

"Don't lie to me I can tell you're upset so what is it?"

"Damn you're smart." He gave her a wry smile. "You remember the news I told you about the other night? The woman that was killing all of those scientists mostly in Russia, but we didn't have a name only a code name, Siren?"

Pepper nodded. "Yes, I remember."

"Well, we found her." Tony said. "It turns out she was right under our very noses.

"What do you mean?"

"What I mean is that Katrina Peyton, Peter and Gwen's high school English teacher and the one that Steve took on a date is none other than Siren. She has been using the teacher cover up to spy on us for weeks."

Pepper paled. "Oh my god, Tony. Has she hurt anyone yet? Is that even her real name?"

"No, she hasn't hurt anyone that we know of yet, and I doubt that's her real name she's probably using a fake, she doesn't know that we know, but even then I want you to be extra careful all right?" He said as he kissed her.

Pepper nodded. "You're worried about Steve aren't you?"

Tony sighed. "I think we're all a little worried about Steve not only what the first person he started dating was his future killer, but as it turns out he was right perhaps HYDRA is still in the works. "

-End of Chapter Thirteen-