Annabeth was...excited? She didn't know how to correctly word these feelings inside her. The last few weeks of their vacation had gone by pretty quickly, with Percy only being delayed past the portal a few times, and tomorrow was the night she was to be turned. 

Whether he realized it or not Percy was starting to look at her more hungrily as time went on, and Annabeth was slightly wary, and yet rather ecstatic that she was going to be able to be with him for an eternity. Nothing was going to change her mind about this: not her mother, not her father, not even Percy himself. She was doing this even if she had to make him. 

It took a little while for her to realize this. Her feelings had been all over the place during the extend of their time together, but it never once quelled that strange buzzing feeling in her chest. Especially when she thought about what it would be like...Would it be slow? Would it be Fast? Romantic? It was surely going to be painful; curses just seemed to like causing pain, but she wasn't about to back down just because of a little pain. 

Annabeth looked over at Percy. He was staring ahead at the large expanse of fluffy clouds hovering over the edge of the eastern horizon. They were back in New York and so far nothing too bad had happened, Percy looked over at Annabeth noticing that he was being watched and flashed her a quick grin. Annabeth looked away out of reflex as her entire body trembled but quickly looked back and punched his shoulder playfully. 

"Stop doing that," She scowled and he only grinned wider, that predatory look in his eyes again, "And stop looking at me like that. We haven't gotten that far yet." 

"But it is tomorrow," Percy said turning to her and holding her by the waist, "And I don't think that I will be the one to push the final stage...unless you want me to." His playful teasing tone worried and made Annabeth's stomach flutter. 

"J-just stop" she said and Percy relented, going back to look at the clouds in the distance once again. A smile still wide and bright on his face. 

"So what are we doing today?" Percy asked after a moment and looked at her. Annabeth reached into her pocket and took out the small notebook and pen to look at what she had planned for their last vacation day in New York. 

"I was thinking about going to check out the Avengers' Tower, and maybe get a meeting with it's designer, Tony Stark." She said and Percy looked back at the Horizon for a moment before looking back at Annabeth curiously. 

"Who's that?" He asked and Annabeth groaned. 

"A very successful part-time mortal hero that has a really successful tech company. Wow saying mortal like that feels really weird." Annabeth said and Percy chuckled a little. 

"What kind of hero? What has he done?" He asked and Annabeth looked at him confused before sighing.

"Right you've been trapped in Tartarus for the entire time, and I've only just been able to catch up." She said before pointing at a very tall building in the distance, "That's the Avengers Tower. It has been through quite a number of things according to past news and online articles. Tony Stark is among a number of Avengers agents that have either powers or tech to help them keep the city, or some parts of the world, safe and while a lot of them are flawed in many ways it seems to work out pretty well."

"Anyways from what I know of the place they have Wanda Maximoff, Vision, Steve Rogers, Tony Stark, Bruce Banner, Pepper Potts, who is the wife of Tony and has no powers. And Clint Barton, Natasha Romanov, Thor and Loki come around from time to time along with a few of the other hero with the Avengers. Tony is Iron Man, he basically has a metal suit of armor that can fly and shoot high intensity beams of light and energy. Bruce is The Hulk, basically a large mutant monster that isn't actually a monster. Vision is a highly advanced Robot, I can't really explain how his creation was possible." Pepper is Tony's wife, and Steve is a Super-soldier from the second world war that got frozen in ice for a long time."

"The other four are usually only there when there's a mission or something, but Clint and Natasha are modern mortal assassins, and Thor and Loki are gods of thunder and mischief respectively, but also apparently non-related brothers. They both have had equal problems with each other as they've had with Earth, so I don't know when we'll see either."

Annabeth looked at Percy showing that she was done with her rant and glared at his smirk and raised eyebrow. 

"Okay so I'm guessing that you want to go there today?" He said and was about to open a portal but Annabeth stopped him. 

"I-I kind of want to just walk there this time. It's just across the city a bit and I was hoping to look around at the shops and stuff" She said fidgeting and Percy hummed with amusement but dropped his arm to take her hand. Percy found it cute but didn't say anything as that would ruin the moment. 

"Okay shall we?" He instead motioned over to the elevator and they moved on with their bonding time. 

During their travels Annabeth had stopped by quite a few places on the way to either just look at the clothes that they had there, look at instruments  or trinkets that interested her, or get some food and drink for the both of them. Eventually they got to the tower and Annabeth looked at Percy worried. 

"I know that the mist should be able to hide what you look like now, but what happens if someone recognizes you, or worse sees what you look like and does something bad?" Annabeth asked and Percy shrugged. 

"I don't know," He said honestly, "We'll just have to see what happens when it gets to that point." Percy moved on through the doors leaving Annabeth with no choice but to pray to her mother that everything went well. 

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"Mr. Stark there seems to be some high interest individuals entering the building at the moment" FRIDAY said through Tony's personal intercom in the research area and Bruce, Tony, and Steve all perked up from what they were doing. 

"Who is it and what are they doing?" Tony asked as the three moved over to the projection table and it brought up a visual feed of the lobby as two teenagers, a male and female, and they were just looking around the lobby. The female was a blond haired, grey eyed woman of roughly 18 years and the male was more like a mutant or experiment gone wrong: silver hair, and teeth, his eyes were monstrous and clearly not human, but no other person in the lobby seemed able to see this. And it didn't seem like Steve nor Bruce were able to either seeing that they were just watching calmly, although confused as to why they were watching some teens. 

"Why are we watching two kids like this?" Steve finally asked and Bruce looked at Tony for an answer as well, but it was FRIDAY that came to the rescue there. 

"Person's in Interest: Annabeth Chase, age 48, missing periodically since 12, and Percy Jackson, age 48, missing presumed dead since 20XX... 

(no, don't give me crap about not having an exact year...if you want to look up the dates of the giant war with Gaea and then skip ahead thirty years please go ahead, but otherwise leavemealone) 

"... both have been designated as person's of interest by SHIELD for questioning and other purposes." FRIDAY said through the intercom and all three of them flinched. 

"How is it they look so young still?" Banner asked and they all looked at the teens with more interest than before now. "They're all the same age as us and yet they still look like teens...well except for you Steve. You're much older than us." This got a slight frown out of Steve but he said nothing in response. 

"How do either of the two look to you?" Tony asked taking a screenshot of the feed and looking at it a moment later to see if the camera can capture what he's seeing or if it's an individual thing. 

"You mean other than kids that look like teens but are actually as old as us?" Banner asked, "Or do you mean the fact that they are just looking around the building as if they've never seen it before?"

Tony shook his head to both and pointed to Percy, "You don't see how he looks, at all?" 

The other two looked at Tony as if he needed mental help, and shook their heads. Steve looked at the screen again before looking at Tony once again. 

"I don't seen anything wrong with him." He said and Banner looked at the screen confused as well.

"You don't see that his teeth are silver and gold, his hair is multiple colors, and that he has claws and chains on his hands?!" Tony went over and grabbed the picture printing from the side of the holo-table. "Not even in this picture?"

"No. I don't think we're seeing anything you are Tony. Are you sure you're okay? Maybe you've been working on this project of ours for too long and it's getting to your head" Steve pointed out and Tony rubbed his face, putting the picture down where it fell off the table and into a trash can. 

"I don't know. Maybe." He said looking at the screen again as the two came up to the front counter and the girl, Annabeth, asked the desk prisoner something. "What are they--"

"Mr. Stark two teenagers are asking to see you." A voice came through the intercom of the room, directed by FRIDAY of course, "The woman says that her father might've worked with you once, Fredrick Chase?" 

"Who is that?" Banner asked and FRIDAY continued.

"Fredrick Chase is an American and Military History Professor at West Point College, currently his thirty-fifth year teaching there, wife deceased, two children, twins Bobby and Matthew Chase, both have taken degrees in Biology and History respectively." FRIDAY said and Tony raised an eyebrow. "Has Mr. Chase ever entered this building in the past?"

"Yes once, in the year 20XX, he was here for three minutes and twenty-six seconds before leaving and has not come in again since" FRIDAY said and Tony hummed for a moment before moving over to the platform. 

"Let them in and bring them to the 'Testing Room' will you?" Tony said as his suit fully covered his form, "Also let Fury and the rest of the team know that we have person's in interest and that they may or may not be dangerous." 

"Already done," FRIDAY said and Tony nodded, looking at Steve and Banner from under his mask. Steve had a very prominent frown on his face and Banner looked conflicted.

"Tony don't do something stupid and--" Steve began but Tony fired up the thrusters in his suit and shot off into the sky. Curving around to move to a secret tunnel in the fountain that let him through via a force-field barrier that was designed to keep the water out and still be able to let in certain people and vehicles. 

Steve and Banner looked over the edge as Tony disappeared into the water and after a second Bruce looked at Steve. "We should probably get down there as soon as possible." He said and Steve agreed, moving over and grabbing his shield before they both got into the elevator and pressed the button to the lower floor labeled the 'Testing Room.'

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