Tony eventually got back to his desk. On one hand, he wanted to chuck Barton out a window, on the other, he really wanted to read the rest of these files.

He chose the second option, at least that won't make a headline in the news saying 'World famous Avenger Hawkeye has reportedly been thrown out a window on the top floor in the avengers tower by Tony Stark'...actually, on second thoughts, that seemed fun.

He lifted another paper up from the desk and scanned over it before declaring it a waste of time. Another paper. Another waste. Repeat and repeat. Most of it was only stuff about enhanced this enhanced that, mutant toast this mutant toast that. What even was a mutant toast?

Another paper another waste of- oh. Thats what was meant by previous organisation. Here, on the paper, was an organisation they had never even heard of.

C.R.E.I.M

Catastrophic Ring (of) Enhanced Indivisuals And Mutants

And that was the last string on Tony's calm guitar. He slammed the papers on the desk and went up the elevator until he reached the family floor.

"Natasha Romanova and Clinton Barton! Being your asses here right now," Tony yelled.

Nat rolled her eyes and got off the couch as Clint whined, "I'm playing uno-"

"I don't care."

Clint whined more but eventually got up and over to the dining room table.

"Tell me why, and don't lie, you both didn't bother to tell the team about this organisation."

"Like I said. Fury didn't want anyone interfering," Nat shrugged.

"I've been looking through all the files we got on hydra, checking out abandoned bases and for what? Wasted time, that's what."

Clint held his hands in a surrender position, "to be fair, I was too busy laughing at the name...heh cream. I mean, who makes their organisation something that sounds like cream, doesn't even sound intimidating."

Natasha sighed, "look, Tony, we were going to tell you. All of you. But you know Nick and his rules, threats, etc. And even though you may have wasted you time, Fury has been looking into it all, and it seems some files are missing. The ones I gave you are copies so it couldn't be them. We're missing pieces of information we need to discover what the hell this whole Creim thing is," she admitted, "Fury doesn't know I gave you those papers because I didn't tell him. I gave you that information because Nick was getting no where. I gave up on him and trust you to do everything with those whole...secret organisation thing."

Tony could see she was genuinely telling he truth and trusted him. She was very, very unreadable but she was making it obvious that she needed his help. His anger died and she put on a sarcastic hurt face and held a hand over his heart, "aww I'm flattered you want my help. I'll see what I can do."

"None of that sarcasm Stark, or ill burn those papers and you can be benched again," Nat warned.

"Wow, okay mom," he joked.

"You're grounded. Go to your room and think about what you've done."

"Aww."

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Okay but I really want to mention and say a real apology for not being active.

I am really sorry for not posting very often and sorry this chapter is a disappointment. I wanted the organisation reveal to be a big one, but that didn't happen. I'm losing inspiration fast and I have been motivated to write my other story I can't wait for. The Christmas one shot series is also taking up my time a lot. Everyday I spend atleast an 1-2 hours on it because it's something new for me. Fluff isn't my forte, and I'm not good at it. Nor is humour. I like reading fluff and humour but in shit at writing it. So I have spent  my time to make it as good as I can.

Another reason is a game I'm making. I'm developing a game at the moment and I'm really hype about it. All the hype about it has made my inspiration for this book drop.

I don't have any other reasons and I'm not one to make excuses. I really do apologise and I promise I plan to spend more time on this book. I'm so sorry for this shit chapter and a lot of u were probably all expecting a huge one, which what I sorta promised. I can't explain over text how sorry I am so take my word for it, please.

Hopefully I'll come back next chapter with a brighter note to things, a longer chapter and an announcement *wink*

Once again, sorry for the shit chapter and see u next time :)

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