Chapter 1

The Avengers Compound has burned to the ground and even though Sam says it's no one's fault, the team knows exactly who to blame.

In a pinch, they are forced to move into temporary housing to a place which under any other circumstance, would not necessarily be their first choice. Ideally, it should not even be their last. The house, in addition to its age-old secrets, shelters things beyond the conception of man and his mind.

In a breakneck race of teetering on the brink, who loses themselves for eternity and who walks out alive?

(AU in terms of team dynamic and the general alive-ness of people)