AN: Well so sorry this has taken a while, becasue i kinda set it on the back burner and college is killing me. I had to get this out befoer i went to work and i hope it's alright. I wanted to show some of Amy's internal conflict with herself. I am sorry again. But her secret is revealed, her real secret.

Everyone in the café was looking at me and was trying to figure out who this Amy-J character was that I was yelling to. I saw her face turn red and I couldn't tell if it was from embarrassment or anger. Probably both. She stormed over towards me her heels clicking in a forceful rhythm. Before she could open her mouth to yell she stumbled and fell forward. I dropped my cup and caught her.

"Woah are you alright?" I asked. She mumbled a something and her co-workers began to get worried. The scurried over to me and I pulled the chair out for her to sit in and I moved her towards it. A black haired girl walked up to her and looked at Amelia's face then her watch.

"She tested again." The dark hair girl said walking away and pressing buttons on her watch. I stood to look as the girl walked away and Amelia slumped forward. I lunged back to catch Amelia and catch her before she fell and hit the floor.

"Tested what?!" I yelled at the back of that girl. Before she could answer two people dressed in white and Haley came running into the café. The two men in white picked Amelia up and began to drag her away. I hadn't noticed Clint slip back in the cafe. He was holding my arm as I tried to follow the men with Amelia. Haley was vigoursly scribbling in a book and looked up at me.

"What happened?"

"She came in here and was all moody and then-" She kept writing as I spoke.

"What do you mean by moody?"

"Mad and embarrassed, look what is going on here?"

"It's normal, trust me. Now, when exactly did she-"

"This is unbelievable! Someone has to check on her! Let go of me Legolas!" I said ripping my arm away from Clint. Haley marched after me and grabbed my hand. She looked into my eyes the same way she did before I convinced her to join me in the broom closet the other day. Defiant and mean.

"She's alright. She tested one of her prototypes on herself and is experiencing some side effects. It's vital that I record what happened so we can learn from it. Now Mr. Stark, when exactly did she pass out?" I just set my jaw looking over her shoulder as the men disappeared from sight.

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When I woke up a man with facial hair was standing over me. He wasn't anyone I remembered. Yet, he had a sense of familiarity about him.

"Well hello there Sleeping Beauty, a few more minutes and I would have kissed you" He said. Stark. I glared remembering him now. He chuckled at my glare and I got up from the bed but stopped when my arm was being tugged at by the IV.

"Son of a Bitch!" I yelled at the pain. Getting my skin ripped off by medical tape wasn't my cup of tea.

"Hey now, firstly you don't even know my mom well enough to make that call, and secondly watch your mouth." I looked away from my arm and to the man standing at the edge of my bed.

"Who the hell let you in here?" I schreeched. "MIA!" I yelled not bothering with the fact I was going off like a loon right now. Tony just chuckled and walked over to me. I backed up and hit the bed stumbling a bit. Tony rushed to me and wrapped an arm around me.

"Woah you alright girlie?"

"Do not call me that! I am a woman damnit!" He smirked and looked me up and down.

"Oh you are? Well then, let's put that to the test." He said wriggling his eyebrows. I scoffed at this disgusting man and shoved him away. I turned around to crawl back into my bed and he walked up behind me placing his hands on my arms and breathing lightly on my neck. "Don't pretend you haven't thought about being naked with me. Ask Haley, I'm fantastic." Before he mentioned my best friend I was falling for his charm, but when he mentioned her, my swooning turned into hatred. He seduced her! I turned around and slapped him with my free arm and his head turned to the side and stayed there. He popped his jaw and shook his head before looking at me again. "Way to repay the guy who helped bring you in here and make sure your research got done."

"you what?" He walked over to the tray that had my food and picked up the bowl containing my grapes and started eating them.

"Well," He began popping in another grape. "After you passed out, Haley and I had a heart to heart." He paused for another grape. "and I divulged what happened to you, but more importantly, learned what caused it." He picked up one grape and was about to eat it when he noticed how soft it was. He threw it at the window and picked another. "You know how dumb it is to test out new brain technology on your own brain?"

"Excuse me, asshat, but did you not test the Iron Man module on yourself?"

"Yeah but that didn't have direct effects on my brain!" He set the grapes down but not before taking a few in his hand. "This NeuroSpan has too many mistakes in the programs to even be testing it in this stage!"

"Since when did you know about that? And how would you know about any of the miscalculations in my design?"

"Well, Haley is very concerned about your safety, she also said you had some scars. You try to hide them she always sees them. And you've been in and out for two days. This is your first time being actually aware of the things around you. I read up on your design, Mia helped me find it."

"Mia did what?" I asked sitting down on the bed in disbelief.

"Yeah it turns out there are some people generally concerned for you, but most of your employees just sit back like it's protocol for their boss to pass out."

"Well-"

"Don't make any excuses! You can't keep hurting yourself like this!"

"Back off Stark! I am not your concern! Do you think I would test this out on some random volunteer? If they died because of what I tried to create it would be on my shoulders for the rest of my life. I'd rather kill myself in the process to be free from guilt and failure, than have someone else die for my mistake and lose my credibility!" I brought my knees to my chest and tried to block out everything. This guy was pissing my off pretending to know what was best for me just like my mom. Because moving thousands of miles away from my dad so that I could grow up normal and live vicariously through me is the way to go.

"Well, I can see where you're coming from. But might I suggest looking closer at the section next to the frontal lobe. The right hemisphere is being affected quite horribly." He said throwing a grape at my face and walking out. I tilted my head to the side and began to think. How did he know about the flaw in my plan? I pushed the nurse button attached to my bed and some man came walking in with an array of medical supplies ready to be used on me.

"Ms. Helsweth."

"Can you bring me my glasses?" He nodded his head and walked back out to get them and I shifted in my bed.

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"I don't get her at all." Clint said. Haley looked sideways at him and I just shook my head.

"Clint she's a complex individual and we need her technology at SHIELD. Besides she needs our help in other ways."

"She's my best friend and I don't think she's keeping any secrets from me." I laughed at her and motioned for the bartender to bring another round to our table.

"how exactly did you two become best friends?"

"Well through Oxford. We were roommates in an apartment near campus."

"But she didn't live on campus?"

"Well no, she though it was cheaper to live in the apartment-"

"And because she didn't belong to the campus." I said bluntly before finishing off my drink. Haley looked at me strangely. Clint seemed barely interested.

"What do you mean?" She said.

"Well, she would attended classes yes, but she lacked the money to go. Her mother cut her off when she came here and her father wasn't going to pay for her either, per order of her mom. So she just showed up to whatever classes she could and continued her preforming career on the side so she could make enough money to create a fake diploma and hire someone to hack into their system and give her the credits."

"WHAT?!"

"Yeah, I believe her suicidal testing stems from something more than not wanting to kill someone else."

"You can't just get-"

"Have you been to college? How often do they take attendance?"

"Well, they don't but-"

"but nothing, she faked her cerifications and that's the secret she has. Now, about helping us help her so that she can help us." I said sliding forward and leaning towards Haley more.

"You're doing this just so you can get technology from her?"

"Well, yes." I said bluntly.

"What Stark means is, we would really like to help her and if she happens to return the kindness it would be great."

"What is it you want so badly?"

"All of it. We would like for her to be a consultant as well." Clint said.

"She's not going to give in easily." Haley said simply.

"That's alright, I like a challenge." I said as the new round of drink came to our table along with a very pissed looking Ameilia.

"How did you find us?" Clint asked. She walked right up to me and set the blue prints down in front of me.

"How the hell did you find that flaw?" She said gritting her teeth and crossing her arms. I just smirked at her. I believe I just one-uped her. Again.

AN; sorry again that this is so delayed. College blows. But uh review if you want