Way Walker Chronicles: Avengers
Out of Time
Eve
After Tony had been settled in somewhere else, presumably with some booze, if my guess had been correct and he was indeed at the alcoholic stage, the living legend re-entered the room. I knew I’d have to face him sooner or later, but it wasn’t something I looked forward to. Steve’s always been a personal hero, and I don’t like the idea of lying to him, even when the answers he’s sure to ask are potential dynamite.
“Miss, you certainly have some explaining to do.” Steve pulled an armchair up so he could sit, placing his eyes much closer to level with my own. A move calculated to put me at ease, it did anything but. I forced myself to look him in the eye, though I knew I’d be regretting that choice soon.
Sure enough his incredibly sincere tone and those baby-blues started to work on me right away. “Can you tell me your name, for starters? A name can’t be too dangerous, can it?”
“Depends on whose name it is. But I suppose I need to give you something to call me.” Sighing, I wished he weren’t so goddamn cute. “You can call me Eve.”
“Thank you, Eve. Now would you mind telling me how you got in here? Security is something we take fairly seriously round here.”
“Well, I could give you an honest answer, or one that makes sense, but not both. The truth’s going to sound like a lie, to be frank, and I’d rather you not think I’m a liar, Steve.”
“Promise to tell me the truth, and no matter how strange it sounds, I’ll at least give it a chance. Deal?”
“Deal. Well, what happened was, I was watching a Marvel movie marathon when I sneezed really hard, the kind that throws your equilibrium off, yah know? So it put me out of balance, and I lost my grip on my home reality and fell into the reality I’d been immersed in all day. Your reality.”
Steve paused for a long moment. “I’m not sure I quite got all that. Run it by me again?”
“Not gonna help much, I’m afraid. I don’t teach remedial classes in fifth dimensional physics. I wouldn’t know how to bring it to a manageable level.” Oh boy. Damn, now I’d have to involve Tony again after having done such a smashing job antagonizing him. Wait, smashing…. “Get Bruce over here, I can have him translate.”