Chapter Fourteen: Foul Play

"I've spent so much time running and lying just to survive that I don't-I'm starting to believe my own lies."

-Katherine Pierce

"Miss Peyton, can I talk to you?" Katherine looked up from her bag where she had been putting away the heavy English textbooks.

"Yes, Peter?"

"Can you help me, I uh need help with my Macbeth paper." Peter stumbled. Smooth, Parker.

Katherine looked at the clock. "All right, but I'm afraid only for half an hour."

Peter nodded as he gave Gwen a small sideways glance. Gwen nodded and blew him a small kiss.

Thanks to Steve's direction and a shortcut that she knew Gwen managed to get towards Katherine's apartment in less than fifteen minutes. She stopped short in front of a small door, what if someone was in there? What if Siren had booby traps all over the place?

Taking a deep breath she used a hairpin to jab the lock door open and pushed it away. She took a small step forward. The apartment was halfway destroyed as if someone had thrown furniture all over the place, but no computer in sight. She went into Katherine's bedroom and started looking for a computer.

Gwen removed the rug and found a small trapped door, she opened it and pulled out a silver computer. "Bingo." She turned on the computer and connected the flash drive into the computer. A bright red sign that said password greeted her.

Gwen's quick agile fingers moved around the keyboard as she tried an old trick she often used when she forgot her own passwords, she didn't know if it would work on this computer, but it would be worth a try. The Welcome screen greeted her.

"Yes!" Gwen looked at the clock. She only had fifteen minutes. She pressed the small download all button and waiting for the little green bar to fill up, trying not to get nervous. Twelve minutes . . . ten minutes . . . five. "Done." She took the flash drive out of the computer and put it in her pocket.

Gwen jabbed the computer inside the small hiding spot and put the carpet over it. Without a look back, she closed the door feeling victorious.

"So I was think what if I add lasers to the Iron Man suit?" Tony asked Bruce. They were both downstairs making time until Gwen got the information. "Or would that be a little too Buzz Lightyear?"

He noticed that Bruce wasn't listening.

"Bruce? Bruce? Banner!"

"Sorry." Bruce said as he grabbed a bottle of water from the mini fridge. "I have a lot on my mind, not in the mood to talk about lasers."

Tony fluttered his eyelashes. "Are you thinking about Betty?"

"No, Siren." Tony rolled his eyes. "Come on, Tony she managed to sneak passed us, how many others can do the same? We need to keep our guard open." he sniffed the water. "Ugh!"

"What's up?"

"I don't know, the water smells funny."

"It's water, it doesn't smell, besides I just got them this morning, but since we're being all paranoid, Jarvis?"

Jarvis clear voice came in. "I'm afraid Dr. Banner is right, inside the water is a colorless almost odorless poison."

Bruce dropped the water in the trashcan. "She is inside the tower now?"

"I don't think so, Dr. Banner my guess is she poisoned the water this morning before she send it to the tower."

Tony whistled. "The little bitch is clever."

"Here it is." Gwen said as she handed the flash drive to Fury. Fury looked pleased as he nodded his thanks and put the flash drive into the computer.

"Now we'll see what Siren is hiding." The screen in front of them turned on showing them several reports that Katherine had sent to HYDRA, the information that she got about Peter, and pages and pages about HYDRA information.

"Rogers, I guess I owe you an apology." Fury mumbled.

"Don't worry about it Director," he mumbled as he suddenly shouted. "Stop. That's Bucky."

"Are you sure?" Tony frowned. "The guy looks like a homeless person and what's with the arm?"

"Of course I'm sure." Steve said irritably. "I told you HYDRA has him, they got him once during the war, and it's only natural that they would do it again."

"And there's Siren, 850, she's working for HYDRA as well."

Bruce cleared his throat. "So what do we do now?"

No one had a response.

-End of Chapter Fourteen-