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[ chapter eight ]

Andi had never been to Berlin, but she always imagined that the first visit would be to explore the place, instead of to accompany Tony who had been called in to deal with Steve and Sam going rogue.

They'd arrived at a rather fancy looking building, and Andi silently followed Tony as he walked in and took the elevator up. Upon stepping off, Andi entered a room that had a lot of monitors, and two conference rooms of sorts, covered only by glass. She sat down on one of those chairs for nearly half an hour before some progress was made and Tony informed her that Steve and Sam had been brought in, along with Bucky, and the new Wakandan king, T'Challa.

Now Andi paced one of those conference rooms, while Tony spoke to secretary Ross on the phone. He wanted an update, apparently, and Andi's feelings toward him were slowly veering into negative territory.

"No," Tony was saying into the phone. Romania was not Accords sanctioned. Colonel Rhodes is supervising cleanup." As he spoke, Andi stopped pacing because she noticed familiar faces walking into the room. Natasha led the charge, with a dark skinned man beside her. Andi assumed that this was T'Challa, since the only other people present with her were Sam and Steve, who brought up the back.

"Consequences?" Tony's voice filtered in through her thoughts once more as he too noticed Sam and Steve coming in. "You bet there'll be consequences. Obviously you can quote me on that, because I just said it. Anything else? Thank you sir." Tony hung up his phone and walked up to Steve and Sam, while Andi slowly approached from behind as well.

"Consequences?" Steve echoed, looking at Tony.

"Secretary Ross wants you both prosecuted," Tony explained to the two men standing before him. "Had to give him something."

This wasn't exactly what Andi pictured when Tony said he was going to talk to them, but she was going to see where it went.

"I'm not getting that shield back, am I?" Steve asked.

Andi almost forgot about that. She looked to Tony who was walking further into the room and past the conference room with Natasha. "Technically," the redhead said. "It's the government's property. Wings too," she added, looking to Sam.

"That's cold," Sam said, with a bit of a smile.

"Warmer than a jail cell," Tony called out before disappearing. Andi, unsure of what to do, stepped forward a little, but remained at the edge of the conference room, so she wasn't totally outside it. Steve noticed her once Tony and Nat were gone, and he and Sam both walked into the conference room.

"What are you doing here?" He asked her curiously. "Didn't you have school today?"

Andi nodded. "I did, but I didn't go. There was... an incident, the day before yesterday," Andi explained to him. When Steve just stared, Andi elaborated. "I went out in the evening to meet up with a friend and three men tried to rob the deli I was in," she told him, moving to sit down on one of the chairs while Steve took the one that faced her, and Sam sat at the head of the table, between them. "I didn't really think things through properly. I wanted to try and help, but before I could see my decisions implode on me, the whole situation was sort of solved by someone else."

"Someone else?" Sam arched an eyebrow.

"Yeah, Spider-Man," she told him. "You might have seen him on YouTube or something?"

"Oh, right," Sam nodded. "I think I remember seeing something about him. First ants and now spiders."

Andi furrowed her eyebrows. "Huh?"

Sam shook his head and chuckled softly. "Nothing."

"So," Steve spoke up, "you think you messed up there?"

Andi shrugged. "I realised after it happened that my decision hadn't been the best one. I was just... caught up on trying to keep anyone from being harmed. Truth is, I had no idea what I was doing, so it was kind of cool that someone else came and put a stop to things."

"Sounds like someone's got a crush," Sam smirked.

"Shut up." Andi's tone wasn't serious, of course, which was why Sam continued to grin at her.

"Nah, she's got her eye on someone else," Steve said. "That kid you keep texting. What's his name again? Peter?"

Andi pursed her lips, refusing to accept or deny, which only made Steve smile a little wider. "My point is," Andi continued, trying to move past the whole 'crush' thing. "I could have made things a whole lot worse. Just like I made things worse in Lagos. I still can't control this," Andi held her hands up briefly, "and I don't know when I'll be able to. We can't just jump into battle whenever we feel like it. So far, I've seen that those instances usually cause the most destruction."

Steve bit down on his lower lip and nodded slightly. Before he could say anything though, Steve entered the room. "Hey kid, mind giving us a minute?"

"Not a kid," Andi reminded him as she rose to her feet. She offered Steve and Sam both a small smile before she left the conference room and walked around it to go stand off to the side, where Natasha was. From there, she could see what was going on inside the conference room, and she was nervous because she wasn't sure what to expect.

"Did you talk to him?" Nat asked her when she reached her.

Andi nodded. "I did. I told him what I felt," she explained, because she didn't want to be used as some kind of conversion tactic. Part of her still felt like the other option wasn't totally bad either, but there was nothing she could do about that now.

"Well," Nat said as she watched Sam leave the room too, heading into the other conference room while Tony approached Steve with a small box in his hands, "now we just wait and see what happens."

And that's exactly what they did. Andi watched as Tony and Steve eventually sat down before engaging in conversation for what felt like hours, when in reality only a couple of minutes had passed by. Steve eventually picked up a pen, and it looked like there was some sort of agreement. But then something happened, and Steve stood up, looking all riled up.

"That can't be good," Nat murmured, having been watching the whole thing herself. The two of them watched as Steve set the pen back down on the table before leaving the conference room and going to the next one, where Sam was.

After a moment, Andi moved forward, going into the room where Tony was still seated. She hung around the entrance, just looking at him for a moment. "I take it things didn't go too well."

Tony lifted his head from his hands and looked at Andi. "You did good though," he told her. "I think he was half convinced just because of what you said, so."

Andi thought about what she could say to him, but before she got the chance, something else caught her attention.

Through the glass of the conference room, she could see all the screens, and one of them was zoomed in on a face she recognised from the news. One glance into the neighbouring conference room told her that her suspicions were right, because of the way Steve was staring at the screen intently. That was Bucky.

"What are they doing to him?" Andi asked Tony as she walked further into the room, all the way to the end, so she could see the screen properly.

"Psychological Evaluation," Tony explained, swivelling around in his chair and facing the screens as well. "Which is something I think we should get done for you too, since you never really got one after getting out of Sokovia."

Instead of arguing about that, Andi just asked Tony a simple question. "Can we hear what they're saying?"

Andi turned and faced Tony briefly, and she watched as he pressed a button on the table, rather than answering her. As soon as he pressed it, voices filled the conference room, and when she turned back, the TV in the conference room was suddenly on.

"I've been sent by the United Nations to evaluate you," said a male's voice. Andi couldn't see who it belonged to since the screen only showed Bucky, but she knew that it was whoever was questioning him. Andi looked to the collection of screens behind the glass and one of them showed a slightly zoomed out shot of the room, and she noticed a man sitting down at a table kept in front of Bucky's cell, but Andi couldn't see his face.

"Your first name is James?" The man asked, while getting something out of his briefcase. "Do you know where you are, James?"

There was no response, which prompted the man to continue speaking. "I can't help you if you don't talk to me, James."

Finally, he spoke. "My name is Bucky." He remembered that. That had to be a good thing, right? Andi assumed that it was a childhood nickname, and if that was the case... then he had to remember Steve too. Maybe. Andi was still a little unclear about the whole situation between the two former friends. Natasha could only fill her in on so much before other things interrupted them.

"Tell me, Bucky," the man continued, using his preferred name. "You've seen a great deal, haven't you?"

"I don't want to talk about it."

"You fear that if you open your mouth, the horrors might never stop," the man deduced. "Don't worry. We only have to talk about one."

Andi furrowed her eyebrows. "What is he talking about?" She asked Tony without looking at him. She got no response though, which told her that he didn't know either.

Just moments later, the power went out. Andi looked around and noticed a few dim lights, which were probably precautions for such a situation. Near the exit was a blinking red light.

Tony got to his feet and Andi could vaguely hear a man outside asking if anyone had eyes on Bucky.

Tony tapped the side of his glasses before speaking. "Friday, get me a source on that outage."

Andi looked into the next conference room in time to see both Sam and Steve sprinting from inside and heading toward the exit. Andi was willing to bet that they were off to find Bucky, and she had a bad feeling about this whole thing, especially since it seemed like the power outage was no accident.

Andi followed Tony out of the conference room and toward where Natasha was. She was in conversation with a man Andi didn't recognise but she heard someone calling him Ross. Clearly not the Secretary of State Ross, but definitely still someone important, apparently, since he was barking orders into a walkie-talkie. Andi guessed he was with the FBI or something.

There were alarms blaring from somewhere in the building, despite there being no power, which meant the situation was slowly getting worse. Agent Ross took off, ordering an evacuation and taking other precautions while Nat and Tony looked at each other.

"Tell me you brought a suit," Nat said as she started walking with Tony — a little faster than normal — toward the exit. Andi quickly followed behind them, though silently.

"Sure did," Tony said. "It's a lovely Tom Ford, three-piece, two button." Andi still had not gotten used to Tony's levels of sarcasm since it never seemed to end. "I'm an active-duty non-combatant."

From their right, a blonde woman came up beside them. Andi vaguely recognised her. She'd been in the conference room with Steve and Sam before the power went out. She had a feeling that they knew each other prior to all of this.

"Follow me," she told Natasha and Tony before hurrying down a corridor. Nat followed quickly, but before Tony could, he stopped and turned, causing Andi to stop as well.

"Not you," he told her before turning back around and following Natasha and the blonde. He was soon out of view, but Andi didn't stay still long. She may not always make the best decisions, but she wasn't going to sit back and watch while her team dealt with a threat.

"Like hell," she muttered to herself before going in the same direction, and picking up the pace. 

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