For Doctorwhofanatic19971: She licked her lips, grinning at the delectable delight in her grasp. It was still warm from the oven and its scent practically reached out and stroked her nostrils. Heavenly. That was the only word for it. If angels were to bake a cookie, using only the finest, holiest ingredients, this would be the result. This cookie. Slowly, she raised the cookie to her lips, and all of time slowed down. Right now, the only thing that mattered was this cookie. This little slice of heaven. With one quick movement, she had sunk her teeth into the baked dough, savouring the taste as it collided with her tongue. Oh yes, she thought, this was worth the wait. And HFTS smiled, knowing she could give someone something that gave them so much joy.
HFTS: So another chapter. I don't know why, but this one's is just coming so very easily. And don't worry, Sherlock'll be here soon. Also, the way this is gonna go might change a bit from the summary in the first chapter, but if it does, I'll be sure to tell you. Enjoy.
Note: This was written last night at a rather late hour. I have no beta. All mistakes are mine, and mine alone.
Disclaimer: I do not own Sherlock, the Avengers, Doctor Who or Supernatural. I just have an over-active imagination.
Chapter Two:
John rapped lightly on the door to Tony's room, but only as a formality. He knew the door would be open. It always was.
"Hurry up and get your ass inside, Watson." Tony called.
John grinned and pushed open the door. "Hey, Bruce, Rory." He said, nodding to each of the boys reclining on Tony's unfairly massive bed.
"Hi, John." Bruce replied, looking up from his physics book.
"Hey." Rory said absently.
"Great, now that you're all here, we can get started." Tony said, emerging from his bathroom with the flair of a magician performing his final trick. "And, gentlemen, I must admit, I have sold you all a little white lie."
John rolled his eyes. Of course.
"Now, before you make a fuss, allow me to say that I had a very good reason for lying." Tony told them, raising his hands in a placating manner. "Bruce, close my curtains, would you? What we're about to do is a complete secret and I can't risk anyone finding out."
Rory frowned as Bruce shuffled towards the windows. "This isn't going to be like the time you tried to get us to break into the Doctor's office so you could get a closer look at his box-thing?"
"No, of course not. Well, maybe. But we won't be doing anything that's against the rules."
"Really?" John said sceptically, crossing his arms over his chest. "And what exactly do you want us to do?"
Tony grinned. "We're going to find the secret path that leads from the basement to Fury's office."
His friends stared at him, thinking in unison. You're an idiot.
"What? It's a brilliant idea. We'll be the first to find an actual secret passageway, and break into Fury's office."
"This is because he confiscated your Dum-E robot, isn't it?" Bruce guessed.
"No!" Tony snapped. "Maybe… Yes. So what if it is? Don't you get what it'll mean if we actually find the passageway and get into Fury's office?"
"He'll probably catch us, we'll get detention, lose privileges and be confined to our rooms for about a month or three, all because you're pissed off at him for taking your robot." Rory replied.
"Dum-E is not just a robot!" Tony near-shouted. "And I'm doing this for the sake of discovery like all scientists!"
"You never do anything without some sort of incentive." John smirked. "We had to bribe you with coffee just to get you to go to the library."
"Because the library is boring and I was tired. Geez. You guys are such killjoys. Does it bring the three of you pleasure to deny me my latest source of joy? To kill my dreams?"
"It's kind of our job to keep you from doing anything potentially dangerous. We take absolutely no pleasure in it." Bruce informed him, all the while exchanging grins with John and Rory.
Tony rolled his eyes. "Oh, sure. You guys practically leap at the chance to crush my every dream."
"Tony, don't act like you're five years old." John said.
"At least I'm taller than a five year old." Tony retorted, quickly ducking as John sent a blow his way.
John, however, was undeterred, choosing to leap on top of Tony and drag him downwards. After a moment of scuffling, during which John put Tony in a headlock and Rory jumped into the fray for no other reason than for the fun of it, the boys sans Bruce lay on the floor, panting.
Bruce peered down at them from where he lay on Tony's bed, eyebrow raised. "Was that really worth the effort?"
"Sorry we haven't all reached enlightenment and inner peace, Buddha." John gasped, sitting up.
"I don't know about inner peace and enlightenment, but I didn't think self-control was that hard a task."
"Oh shut up." Tony replied, climbing to his feet only to collapse onto the bed on top of Bruce. "Jesus, John, did you really have to hit me that hard?"
Bruce made a noise, rolling out from under his friend. "I thought it was Rory who did that."
"No, it was me." John admitted shamelessly. "And that's what you get for calling me shorter than a five year old."
Rory sighed. "Tony, you know he's sensitive about that. Did you really have to tease him?"
"Oh so I'm the bad guy. Why do you guys always gang up on me?" Tony whined.
"Because you're an idiot."
Tony snorted. "Now you know that isn't true. Right, Jarvis?" He added, addressing the ceiling.
"Yes, sir." Jarvis responded.
John rolled his eyes. "Just because you're a genius, doesn't mean you're not an idiot."
Tony pulled himself up, sending Bruce the puppy dog pout he had spent the past sixteen years of his life perfecting. "I need a hug from my best science bro."
"First of all, I'm your only science bro, and second, no."
"Why not?"
"You don't deserve one."
"You guys are so mean to me." Tony complained, jumping off the bed. "No matter what I do, it's never good enough. I try my hardest and you shut me down."
"Tony, please don't go into the 'you-guys-are-just-as-bad-as-my-father-I-hate-you-all' rant. If it really means that much to you, I'll give you a damn hug." Bruce sighed.
Tony let out a shout of triumph, racing into Bruce's arms. Bruce made a face over his shoulder, patting his back awkwardly. As Tony pulled away, he beamed at the three of them. "Now, let's go to the basement!"
"Tony!" The three cried in unison, but it was too late. Tony was already sprinting out the door and out of sight. They traded looks of exasperation, knowing there was nothing they could do except follow the teenage billionaire and maybe overpower him.
"Tony, what the hell are you doing?" John said, marching towards the boy currently crouched next to a wall in Basement Level Two.
"Looking for the secret entrance." Tony replied casually, running his hand along the wall akin to the way one would sensually stroke their lover.
"Why are you rubbing the wall, then?" Rory asked.
"Because every secret passage has a trigger, duh."
"Tony, seriously, can't you give it up? You're not going to find a secret passageway by rubbing every random wall." John asked, exasperated. "Besides, we might get in trouble."
"No, we won't. Look, we're not out of bounds, and it's not even close to curfew. We're not doing anything wrong."
"Other than purposefully setting out to find a way to break into Fury's office." Bruce said.
Tony sighed. "Look, if you don't want to help me, fine. I can deal with that. But at least let me do this on my own."
John crossed his arms over his chest. "Now you know that isn't going to happen, Tony." Throwing the other two a look of resignation, John knelt down beside Tony and ran his hands blindly over the wall, mimicking the now grinning boy. "So, what am I looking for?"
"Well, the book said that this particular passageway opens when you press the stone with the sunshine captured within."
"Run that by us one more time, just slower and without sounding crazy." Rory said, kneeling down on Tony's other side.
"What book, exactly?" Bruce asked.
"SJS's diary."
"SJS? You mean that student who kept a record of every single weird thing to ever happen in this school?"
"Yeah."
"But SJS's diary never mentions the actual locations of the passageways just that you should stay away from them." John frowned.
"Well… the one that everyone knows about doesn't say anything." Tony said, grinning slyly.
"What did you steal and who did you steal it from?" Rory queried quickly.
"I didn't steal it, I borrowed it." Tony quipped.
"Where, when, who, what?" Bruce reiterated.
"The Doctor's office, a week ago, the Doctor, and the missing parts of SJS's diary."
"What?" The three exclaimed.
"Yeah. Remember when the Doctor was having a talk with me about how I should put more effort into learning history and whatever? Well, partway through his little lecture, he said something about needing to find a mop and a cat and ran out. So, while he was gone, I thought I'd have a little poke around his office. I tried getting into that box thing, but it wouldn't open, so I went and had a look in his desk. And there they were, in the desk drawer, the missing pages of SJS's diary. I think one of the other Doctor's might have confiscated them and they've just stayed in the history office ever since. Neat, huh?" Tony smiled.
"How do you know they were the missing pages?" John asked.
"They were wrapped in a sheet of paper that had 'Missing pages of SJS's diary' written on it."
"Doesn't that sound a bit suspicious? And what if he notices that you've taken them?"
"He won't notice because I haven't taken them. I just photographed them and put them back. Easy peasy pumpkin pie."
"This is ludicrous." Bruce mumbled. "It's like looking for a needle in a needle-stack. We're never going to find it." And to emphasise his point, he smacked the wall with a little more force than necessary.
And, of course, that was when the wall started to shake and the stone beneath Bruce's hand shone with an ethereal light.
"Way to go Bruce! Science bros for the win!" Tony shouted gleefully, jumping up and down on the spot while the others backed away cautiously.
"Bruce, I think you broke the wall." John muttered to the bespectacled boy, who gulped and looked about apologetically.
"This isn't going to end well." Rory gulped, eyes widening as a crack in the wall started to form.
HFTS: Points if you can tell me who SJS is.