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I managed to find a room alone to mull over the information in my brain. Aphrodite had an Olympic Hair and Nails membership on the line, apparently Athena was angry at her for apparently setting free Annabeth, Hades was busy, Nico was on the go, both Roman, Greek and Asgardian. Wanda and Thor knew some version of everything. Nico was going to be here soon and Wanda would delve a little more into what she knows. Nico would give me some guidance on finding Annabeth's spirit. And flip Annabeth was alive.

The shock registered through my system and I began shaking, I leaned against the conference table and clenched my fingers and eyes shut. Years it'd been, I wanted to find her in the Underworld, but never had the guts to do so. I'd been weak.

I dragged in a breath. Why wasn't I looking for her now? Why was I sitting here, playing friends with the Avengers while she could be fading from existence?

Nico is coming. I reminded myself. He'll tell me what I need to know and as soon as he's done that, I'll go and find her.

"Hey kid?" Tony asked, standing in the doorway, I looked at the ground, a glassy look in my eyes. "You seemed pretty stressed, maybe you should go and release that down in the gym?"

"Um yeah, that'd be great." I swallowed and opted for a smile.

"Well yeah, that's what Cap does." Tony talked as we walked down the couple of floors. "And the most of everyone else. Sometimes I do that but I'm more brains and beauty." Tony batted his eyelashes and I snorted.

"I can see."

"Exactly. But Cap is almost always down there, unless if we're fighting or making team speeches."

"Makes sense." I shrugged, "he seems like the kind of guy that needs to get a lot off of his shoulders."

"Yeah, we're all like that." Tony mused as we exited the elevator, down a greyish hallway to a door, he opened it and I peered inside. "Well, here we are. Have fun getting sweaty and stuff."

"I sure will." I rolled my eyes and entered. It was a large open space with greyish walls, there were a whole bunch of training equipment items on one side and a few larger ones scattered throughout. Truthfully, I'd just rather the swimming pool but, one needs to be awesome in all things to be purely awesome.

I found Captain on the treadmill, I wasn't exactly sure why because a treadmill to me, seemed pretty basic. I mean, if you wanted to run, you could do it around New York, getting chased by fangirls, I'm sure that's easy enough for a good lookin' guy like Steve.

"Hey." I spoke shortly, Steve gave a curt nod and stepped off of his treadmill.

"Hi. What are you down here for?" His voice was curious and low, he grabbed a towel and wiped his face.

"Uh," I looked around at all the gym equipment around me in a very obvious matter.

"Right." Steve muttered. "Well... Uh, we're having a dinner slash meeting in a couple of hours, it'd be great if you could come."

"Uh yeah. I should, I mean, I'll try." I stumbled trying to gather my thoughts.

"Well... Yeah. See you then." He grinned and exited.

I'd rather you guys had a short chapter than none. But since I had a few amazing commenters I have an idea of where this is going. But, what do you guys want? Any references? Weird sentences? Fetishes to come out? You guys are the readers and technically what make this story, so.... Yeah.