A/N and here we get to the most plotty bit of the plot. Third update today and its only 12.

You know, there are just some things you don't expect at school. Clint Barton dropping out of a tree while you're eating lunch is one of them. Luckily I'm waiting for Hayley and Max, so no one sees that there's a crazy man in Kevlar wielding a medieval weapon. "Jesus fucking hell Clint. Can't you just call me like a normal person?"

"Yana. Don't panic. Give me your phone." I hand it over, suddenly worried. What's happened? Is it Dad? Natasha?

"Why Clint? What's wrong? What happened?"

"Yana. Listen to me. Don't worry. Fake being ill. I'll come pick you up. I've got to go. But don't panic." He disappears back in to the tree as I see Hayley and Max making their way over.

I'm slightly freaked while I pick at my lunch. The sandwich looks like some bird has come and picked all the crumbs off the top, leaving some holes. I'm not hungry, not when I'm sick with worry. Why won't Clint tell me what's happened? Am I going to freak?

Hayley and Max have some chatter going on about something I can't concentrate on. They haven't noticed my lack of participation, or how my hands and leg are shaking. I force myself to calm down. If it was that bad, Clint would have told me straight away. There's too much noise, even though it's quiet. Breathe in, breathe out. Count to three while breathing in, six when breathing out. It's really hot, and I'm covered in sweat. But it's cold sweat. I need to calm down. Now.

"Yana? You okay?" Max puts his hand on my arm and I don't know what comes over me. I've seen it before, back in the other place. Someone would put their hand on someone else's arm and that person would flip out, like they were being attacked. But they were the people Natasha called robots, the brain dead killing machines. Now I've done that. And Max is on the floor, arm twisted behind his back. I see the look of betrayal on Hayley's face and run in to the tree line, where we're not supposed to go. I begin to climb a tree, stopping when I'm a metre or two off the ground. I need to calm down.

A couple of minutes later I hear Hayley and Max calling for me. I don't reply, my eyes not leaving the sky. I slip down a couple of minutes later, when my breathing and heartbeat are normal. I'm about to say sorry when I'm caught with the overwhelming urge to throw up. So it comes out more like, "I'm so sor-bleurgh."

"Right, you're going to the nurse, now." Max tells me. Good that that there's no hard feelings right? They take me to the nurse, which is exactly what Clint planned. Only he doesn't come to pick me up. Natasha does. So she's okay. Why isn't dad here?

Hayley and Max have to go to lessons, but I'm only alone for five minutes before Natasha comes. She signs me out and takes me to her car before I'm allowed to speak. And even then she gets in there first. "They said you threw up?"

"It doesn't matter. What happened?" I brush it off, hoping I'll get a straight answer out of Natasha.

"Clint was supposed to tell you." Lesson to self, don't trust Clint to tell anyone any thing. Shouldn't Natasha know that by now?

"He didn't. Tell me now."

"Tony's missing. Security footage shows him being drugged and taken by a man." Well shit. It's because of me, I bet. It's because I ran away.

"So how are we going to find him?" We get out of the car and stand in the hallway, neither of us wanting to go in and see the team.

"We don't know. There's no way of finding him, so we can only check cameras, all cameras, everywhere." They're not trying hard enough! They're supposed to want him back too! They should be thinking of why he was taken, not just sitting waiting for one of the machines to beep.

"That's not good enough."

"What do you suggest?" The HYDRA people going to know to avoid cameras, know where they are, is this much not obvious, they have to-

"Look for HYDRA."

"Why?" Sometimes I wonder about the intellect of these Avengers.

"They'll be out to get either me or you, because I escaped and you took down the organization they were getting all their super soldiers from." I don't know of a HYDRA base that they would have taken him to.

"That's not actually a bad idea." I'd forgotten Natasha was there. I stare at the floor, ideas forming in my head about where he could be, none of them quite working. Natasha goes in to see the others, hopefully to look for some HYDRA bases.