Sorry again for this taking so long... But better late than never, right? Please review!

So, it's Final's week this week. Sorry for the short chapter...

~EmiStone

!AVENGERS/HARRY POTTER GOODNESS!

"Hello there, little sister. You're looking well." A scruffy, somewhat dangerous man said stepping out from the shadows.

"I can't say the same for you." Hermione hissed, shooting another spell at him, with the same results.

"Tisk tisk. You should know better. What was that rubbish you were always going on about... the scientific method? I'd thought you could have made observations by now." He chided patronizingly, making her even more incensed.

"Well they said you have to try three." She said before screwing up her face and shooting off a purple curse. This time it didn't fizzle but exploded into fireworks. Richard looked surprised.

"They said that would only happen with curses you should not know... Dark ones, they said, used to kill. Were you trying to kill me, sister dear?" He asked in a sing-song voice, showing everyone how unhinged he was. Natasha shot off three bullets in quick succession, which he dodged with ease. Hermione conjured twenty daggers and set them on Richard, who dodged them.

"Hold still and you'll get to see the answer to that." She snarled, sending flames at him. He started to laugh, before cutting off abruptly.

"Enough games. You're coming with me." He ordered.

"In your demented dreams." Hermione hissed back, before conjuring something none of the wizards had ever seen before, though the Avengers were intimately familiar with it. A gigantic machine gun. She gave that to Steve, who didn't have his shield and grabbed Minerva and Kingsley, turning on the spot. Harry got the memo and grabbed Loki. They disappeared with a pop. Once they were gone Richard stopped dodging, looking forlorn.

"Oh, well. I'll be seeing you soon!" He said before jumping out of the window. The Avengers hurried to the edge to see him running across the rooftop of the building next to them and disappearing, followed by S.H.I.E.L.D. teams, who were closing in.

They appeared in a small room with a pop. Harry looked around, confused.

"I aimed for the Hellicarrier... Where are we?" He asked Hermione who was looking into a small picture of a man on a bicycle. She pressed the wallpaper on the wall in a certain formation, which she looked to be having a hard time remembering.

"We're in a containment unit in the middle of a S.H.I.E.L.D. run farm in Iowa. I set it up when I was living at S.H.E.I.L.D. I hope they didn't change the password." Minerva looked out the window.

"That would explain the wheat blocking the window." Kingsley sat down on the small folding chair near the door.

"Merlin!" Hermione shouted, frustrated. Harry sat down in the other chair.

"I'm guessing they changed the password?" Hermione nodded. "Well, we're going to be here a while, S.H.E.I.L.D.'s security is insane." Hermione started to smirk.

"I wouldn't count on that." Suddenly, a different picture inhabited the screen.

"Granger? Is that you?" Director Fury's head filled the screen as he peered into the room.

"Yes sir. The password changed though, so if you could just release the-"

"Wait. You are in a S.H.E.I.L.D. protected field several thousand miles away from the guy trying to kill you and you really want me to just let you go to the first place he'll look for you?" Minerva, Kingsley, Harry, and Fury all stared at her accusingly until she sighed.

"Fine."

"Damn right it's fine. Now, I'll send in some S.H.E.I.L.D. agents and get you guys into protective custody."

"I have to work." Hermione said forcefully. Kingsley rolled his eyes."Oh you shut up, you know how important this bill is." He started.

"Actually, she really needs to work on this bill." Minerva jabbed him in the stomach.

"You are not going back."

"Mum, I need to work on this bill."

"At least we know why your brother broke out this week." Harry commented, out of the blue, leaning back in his chair. Everyone started and stared at him, even Fury.

"Oh my God." Fury said slowly in the silence that followed. "He has us completely backed into a corner. He knew everything. He had to have, if he knew about your adoption. And Agent Romanov said that he wasn't surprised to see anyone in that room."

"That begs the question of why then?" Hermione asked, they could practically see her mind whirling. "Why attack me in the most protected place he could have. He could have broken out and gotten me when I came to the party earlier. Why then?"

"Oh, great!" Harry said, facepalming. "We've got another psycho on our hands people. One wasn't enough!"

"What?" Hermione asked, looking confused. Harry smiled at her reassuringly before starting.

"He doesn't just want to hurt you. He wants to hurt everything about you. He wants to do a Riddle."

"A Riddle?" Loki asked tiredly from the corner.

"Voldemort's name was Tom Riddle. He hunted down anyone Harry cared about and tried to make his life a living hell... Oh, Merlin's saggy-"

"Hermione! Language!" Harry started to snicker, before Minerva turned her glare on him.

"So basically he's one step ahead on everything." Kingsley stated miserably.

"Well, not everything..." Loki interjected shyly. Everyone stared at him until he elaborated. "He didn't know I'd be there. He was surprised. He doesn't know what I can do. I could protect Hermione while she goes about her bill passing and so forth and then she would live in where ever S.H.E.I.L.D. thinks she'd be safer." Everyone looked surprised.

"I forgot how good at coming up with these plans you were, James." Minerva said in shock. Loki just smirked.

"I suppose that would work..." Fury said, clearly already making plans in his head.

"One problem or more of a change really. I'm protecting Hermione." Harry said firmly.

"Harry, you're a target here-" Fury started.

"Then Hermione will protect me. That's how we work."

"I can't deny you're the best field team the Wizarding World has, but-" Kingsley started.

"No. Harry comes with or I quit and move to Australia." Hermione threatened.

"From a safety perspective that actually-"

"Nope. Harry goes with, that's fine. Beam us out of here, Scotty." Kingsely said quickly.

"OK. That seems like it could work... Granger, I think you're going to like who's here. But you're unlocked." Fury said typing something into his keyboard and changing the picture back to the old-fashioned bike. Hermione grabbed everyone's arms and twisted to the Hellicarrier.