Still Ivy here.
This was going to be hard to explain my way out of.
My mind started racing. I had been suppressing everything – my shock, my fear – all day, just trying to keep myself from really thinking about exactly what was going on. Now, it was starting to come through. I ordered myself to think, to figure out a plan. There were two exits from the room. The window behind me and the door. What was I thinking? They wouldn't let me get away.
"If you want us to find your friend, then you should tell us everything, Miss Williams," said Agent Coulson.
"I did tell you everything."
"How do you know about the Tesseract?"
"I told you. In a movie."
"You expect us to believe that?"
"No, not anymore," I admitted. "It's the truth, though. Really, we just saw something about it in a movie about World War Two."
The two S.H.I.E.L.D. agents exchanged glances.
Should I run? They'd catch me. Should I lie? I don't tell lies and besides, they wouldn't believe any story I came up with, they would be able to tell it was a lie. Should I tell them? They'd still think I was lying - or completely crazy.
I bolted for the door.
Yes. I know what you're thinking. You're thinking it was it was a bad idea. It was a really dumb decision, admittedly, which should have been way thought through better. But thinking, as you may have noticed, isn't my style. I'm working on it, okay?
I'm not slow, but speed isn't one of my strong points physically, either. I wasn't even halfway across the room before a hand closed on my wrist. I twisted free and kept running. Two arms grabbed me from behind, pulling me backward. I yelped instinctively, then realized it wouldn't do any good and started trying to break free. Which I also knew wouldn't do any good.
"You're not getting out of here." Black Widow's voice was next to my ear. "We don't want to hurt you, but you need to tell us the truth. You want us to find your friend, but we need to know everything to do that."
I prayed that they would believe me, then started to talk.