I used to believe in science

When Antoinette dragged Rhett to the airport, they were almost unable to catch the plane. She and Rhett both overslept this morning. In fact, they can’t blame them, because they just came back from the east coast at two o’clock last night.

But tonight is the opening ceremony of the Stark Industries technology exhibition, and if she doesn't make it back, Tony will be sad, although he won't say anything.And Garcia will use another month of low pressure.

This is what Garcia has been talking about for three consecutive years since Antoinette joined BAU.

She has always wanted to participate in a Stark Technology Exhibition, but they stumbled over a case the year before last, and last year they caught up with Antoinette's suspension for recuperation.

They caught up with the last moment of ticket checking and rushed into the waiting room. Antoinette saw Morgan, Emily and Garcia standing together at a glance.She invited the whole group, but Rosie, Hodge, and JJ all have families of their own, so it's perfectly understandable that they have other plans for their day off.

"Oh, honey, I thought you were too late." Garcia breathed a sigh of relief and hugged Antoinette the first time he saw them.

"I don't know why you should be worried, I told Pep that you can go in even if I don't go, and I told you that even if we missed perfectly... she will send a plane to pick us up." Antoinette reciprocated, speaking to her as he let go.

Garcia rolled his eyes and muttered, "Damn rich." And patted her on the wrist.

Antoinette touched her wrist subconsciously, which had become her subconscious action.

The chain is now safe in her hands thanks to Garcia who helped her rewire it.

It has been a year since that conversation with Natalie. This year, she listened to the other person's conversation, took a good rest, and went on with her own life. Indeed, nothing happened. Everything was calm, and no strange supernatural events came to her. .

It didn't take long to fly from Washington to New York. Antoinette had notified Hubby before, so when they got off the plane, a car would pick them up and go directly to the Stark Industries building in Coney Island.

It's still early, and Antoinette can take her friends for a walk first.

"How is Tony?" Antoinette asked Hubby in the car. Hubby has known Tony for many years. Just like Pep and Roddy, he is not only a driver, but also Tony's friend. Don't say anything else on the phone, the news of the Avengers is not helpful to understand his situation." To understand his real situation from Tony himself is not as clear as the operation of Stark Enterprises.

"..." Hubby rolled his eyes because of this, and waved his hand briefly, as if trying to get rid of something bad, "That's it, you know, nothing special, busy, there are a couple of things A broken bone once, a crisis three or four times, perpetual danger."

"I'm relieved, it's still normal." Antoinette said sarcastically, "Is he in the building now?"

"He said there was an interview in the afternoon." Hubby answered him, thought for a while, and said a little uneasy, "I checked, a director who made a documentary."

Antoinette understood Happy's hint, she nodded, "Tony told me about it, the director is called Piringer, right?"

"Director Piringer?" Reid, who was sitting in the back row, suddenly called out. He jumped up, caught Antoinette's attention, and said in her inquiring gaze, "I've seen some of his documentaries, some of his films in the Middle East. Documentaries documenting the lives of local people are pertinent."

"Glad to hear that." Antoinette smiled, glad to hear Tony didn't get himself into trouble. "But I'll go see him anyway."

That last reassurance finally stopped Happy from rolling his eyes.

Stark Industries also has an office building in the center of New York, but its actual operating factory building is in Coney Island, which brings a strong sense of technology to the island that was originally a leisure and entertainment island.The stage of this year's science and technology exhibition is set on the beach here.

It was already four o'clock in the afternoon when Antoinette arrived here, and the sun began to set, leaving a slanting shadow on the beach.

When they walked to the building, they passed the main stage, where the final construction work and debugging were being done, and some booths had already placed the basic equipment of some works from afar.But Antoinette didn't stop to tell his friends that there wasn't much to see here now.

When she walked to the lobby of the building, she stopped for a moment. In the center of the lobby on the first floor of the building, there was a prototype reactor.None of her friends had seen it.Even an anti-technologist like Rhett stared blankly, and Garcia was about to pounce on the protective glass.

"Miss Stark!" A crisp voice stopped her at this time, she turned her head and saw the little boy holding a big cardboard box, he was wearing a hat with the company logo on it, showing an immature s face.

Antoinette had an impression of this child because of the incident after the school—Peter Parker, this child did mention that he had applied for their intern position.

"It seems that you got what you wanted, Peter." Antoinette turned around, waited for him to run in front of him, smiled at him, and glanced at the badge on his chest, "Biotechnology?"

"Yes, yes." Peter nodded, and looked at the people behind Antoinette. The last time he and Antoinette met at school was a year ago, and this was the first time they met, remembering that time What happened made him subconsciously alert to Miss Stark's friends.

Antoinette noticed his gaze, stepped aside slightly and explained to him, "This is my friend and colleague, Morgan, Emily, Garcia and Rhett."

"Oh oh oh." Antoinite's colleague was telling him that these people are all FBI, and the official identity is always reassuring. Peter showed a sincere smile and turned back to a polite boy in a second, "You guys Well, I know you guys, in some news, it's really great, I really want to shake hands with you...but..." He held the heavy-looking cardboard box with both hands and gestured with his eyes.

"There will be opportunities in the future, son, we'd better not bother you now." Morgan smiled at him and patted him on the shoulder, then turned to look at Antoinette.Now here she is the master.

"Of course." Anthony nodded and took them to the elevator.

This building is the same as all other office buildings of Stark Enterprises. Tony's office and laboratory are on the top floor, which is completely opposite to the construction plan at home. The original intention of this design is for fire safety, because Tony's own research is always most dangerous.

Authorization and passwords are required to reach the floors above the boardroom, and Antoinette is naturally not included. She leads people straight through the reception and security in the lobby, takes the elevator and reaches the top floor without hindrance.

Tony's office door was closed as usual, and Antoinette hadn't expected a visitor inside until he pushed the door open.

She's standing in the doorway and everyone else is looking at her, which makes her a little embarrassed, "Am I bothering you?"

"No, our interview is over." Tony beckoned to her.And Antoinette took a look at the camera that had started to be put away as he said, before flashing through the door.

"Miss Stark?" The person standing opposite Tony showed an expression of surprise and interest, turned to her, and stretched out his hand.

"You must be Director Piringer." Antoinette shook his hand back and gave him a polite smile, and the camera crew reopened and turned to her, which made her a little displeased but still perfect "I mean to you Highly rated."

"It's an honor." Even though he said that, Piringer's face was not very proud, but he kept the surprise of picking up the treasure. "Miss Stark, are you an FBI?"

"Yes?"

"What exactly do you do? Peacekeeping?"

"Usually the FBI is in charge of domestic affairs, and the CIA is in charge of foreign affairs." Antoinette explained, "I'm in the Behavioral Analysis Department, and we're usually in charge of cases involving criminals who behave abnormally."

"A psychologist." Piringer raised his eyebrows, but his tone was not surprised. Antoinette guessed that he must have known about Tony's affairs before he came to interview, and she was part of "Tony's affairs". "Correct me if I'm wrong, your general job is to catch serial murderers or terrorists, right?"

"That's part of our job." Antoinette nodded, but she still didn't understand why the other party was obsessed with her career.

"So why is that? You must have a talent for engineering too, but you choose to be a psychologist? Who do you work for, every case, when you're doing this job? Is it some kind of compensation ?Is it for your family and your brother? Is it your job to mend a world ravaged by the weapons your family made?"

Antoinette didn't know what her expression was like, she hoped that she was still smiling, because she could see Tony standing behind the desk had given up his manners, and he squeezed his lips tightly. Finally, it doesn't look like he's happy with the problem and intends to intervene.

Antoinette replied quickly before he could do anything, "It was for myself, director, and I thought I could help the world, so I did it. There is no other reason, and it is not for compensation. Of course, Also for those victims." She hopes that these words she said will either not appear in the film at all, or appear in full, but because of Reid's evaluation of the director, she is willing to believe that the other party will not take the editing out of context" My family has always wanted to help the world."

"Help the world...you mean the bombs in Hiroshima, the duds scattered in Afghanistan, Iron Man?"

This question is a bit unreasonable, but Antoinette can understand that she is not a princess in the tower. Even though Tony wants her to stay away from these things, she still knows some evaluations of her brother from the outside world, 'Death Merchant', 'Murderer ’ Those words weren’t the worst, and to this day, even though the Avengers have saved New York many times, Tony still gets those accusations.

Other Avengers might as well, people always question Hulk's stability, usually Thor's question is his alien god status, whether Pym particles can be abused, etc...

She paused, she didn't know how long she had been thinking, but the other party was still waiting for her patiently, suddenly she felt a little tired, she understood Tony's noncommittal to those comments, it might be futile to correct those views, so she wanted to end This conversation "At least I think the Avengers saved your life and your family's life."

The answer didn't satisfy her, but she didn't want to say anything more.She looked over to Tony, apologizing to him for finally screwing up his interview.The latter shook his head at her.

"Thank you." Fortunately, this is a person with eyesight. He quickly understood the meaning of the end of Antoinette's words, nodded, waved to the cameraman, and prepared to leave.

When he walked out the door and passed the people behind Antoinette, someone suddenly spoke.

Reid stood outside the door, but he heard the conversation just like everyone else, and he stopped Pillinger. , have you noticed the changes he made to the world? Did they make the world better?"

Piringer stopped in his tracks. He turned to look at the tall, thin young man, who looked straight into his eyes unflinchingly until he shook his head. "I don't know."

"We know." Reid straightened his waist, looked at him, and said sincerely, "Behind every case that is solved and the conspiracy that is smashed, we all know that some people were saved because of this, and some people can sleep peacefully at night. Every time, the world is a little better."