Still Ivy here.
Have you ever tried to tell someone the truth while leaving something out?
Yeah, real easy. And try doing it when the person you're talking to is trained to tell if you're lying or hiding something. I was always terrible at hiding things.
I stood in the middle of the room, answering her questions.
"So what you're telling me," said Black Widow, "is that you were on a walk with your friend when your attacker appeared and asked if you'd seen a glowing blue cube?"
"Yes. He said it fell out of an airplane. I asked if it was the Tesseract," I said. "We – Miranda and me – saw something about it in something we watched about World War Two."
That was true. Captain America: The First Avenger is about World War Two. Just a different version of it that what our world had.
"What was it you saw?" she asked. Her tone was friendly, but something told me her suspicions were aroused.
"Uh… a movie."
"What was it called?"
"Miss Rushman, what does this have to do with what happened to Miranda? The longer she's missing, the less chance we'll have of finding her."
There was a knock on the door. She glanced toward the little window in the door. "Hold on a minute," she said, and left.
I sank down against the wall. That was a dumb idea, getting mad like that. Now she suspected something. It shouldn't have been this easy for me to guess that something was irregular about this. I considered going to the door and eavesdropping, but I decided against it – they'd probably know, somehow.
The door opened again. Both Black Widow and Agent Coulson walked inside.
"Miss Williams?"
"Yes?" I asked, wishing I had Miranda's ability to hide her emotions. It's actually kind of creepy, how she manages to that so well.
"How do you know about the Tesseract?"
I pasted an expression of innocence and puzzlement on my face. "I already told Miss Rushman. I saw something about it in a movie."
"What movie?"
"Captain America," I replied, hoping maybe they'd come to the conclusion that it was just a rumor or something that had been mentioned in a recent movie – there must have been at least rumors about something like that. Then I remembered that Agent Coulson probably would have seen the movie if it was about Captain America. My quick thinking and on the spot plans could really use a little work. But there must have been at least one movie that at least mentioned the Tesseract. Right?
"Which one? There's about five movies with that title released since World War Two. When did it come out?" he asked.
"Just recently, not exactly sure when," I replied. I actually couldn't remember when Captain America: The First Avenger was released. I saw all those movies after I saw The Avengers, and honestly didn't remember when that one was released.
"There haven't been any released for the past ten years. And the existence of the Tesseract was hidden from the public."
Whoops.