Love is a Dagger

Chapter 3 - Mischievous plan

Weeks pass quickly in the Stark Tower.

You train regularly with the Team and you have improved your fighting skills a lot since the time you arrived.

Your powers are now in full shape, your strength back again as good as ever. This has required the frightening participation of a guy called Doctor Strange, introduced to you one random afternoon by Tony: he tested you in multiple, freaky ways and put his magical powers to set yours back in the right "direction".
You are still not completely comfortable with him and you think that all his magic "gestures" are quite weird, but you are of course glad and thankful for his help in recovering your conditions.

You memory is a different speech: you still miss some pieces of it and no one, neither the Doc, has been able to understand why nor to help you figure out how to restore them.
Nevertheless, the memories you still have seems enough for you and for the time being: your parents' faces are there, your entire childhood and adolescence seems quite complete, and on the other side you would thankfully give away some of the battles' and consequent grief pieces. All in all, it seems to you a good compromise to live with.

The other positive aspect is that all the Team made you feel definitely at home, and you are really enjoying all the time you spend in what you can finally feel your house.

You and Cap are actively working at the rebuilding of the city, helping people who lost their houses and belongings and participating in Stark's charity dinners. You both are pretty popular and regularly appear on newspapers.

You, Nat and Wanda are inseparable - you favorite activity is to make sure to gather all together on the sofa and steal the remote control from your male fellows on time for the start of the episodes of your favorite tv series each Monday and Wednesday evenings, not without protests from who may have preferred a football match or an action movie.

Thor is the closest friend you have now (apart for Tony of course) and you two are now appointed as the Ubeatable Duo at the beerpong game and at beach volleyball. He always makes you laugh brightly and he became accustomed to lift you high in his harms and make you spin around each time you win each sort of match.

You spend some time with Loki too, in more dignifying activities of course, like reading and watching films...you have been also able to engage his pride in video-games: it is not uncommon to find the two of yours sitting on the living room floor, cross-legged and surrounded by snacks and sodas, remotes in your hands, yelling at each other for disloyal actions; he his of course not that good in this sort of things, so he typical looses and shouts out loud for re-match.
The rest of the team is almost accustomed to hear you two bickering around the house, especially when he calls you with despicable, childish name-calling.

Well, the truth is that the SHIELD is still closely monitoring him and the Avengers Team want him not to be alone in the house or outside, so they all make turns to "babysit" him - you were simply included in this sitting-duty at a certain point in time.
By the way, you cannot say you don't enjoy this sort of new friendship with Loki, as he is indeed smart, sharp, stylish and even funny and more easy going than you were expecting. He is still quite sarcastic too, and he does never spare to provoke you in each sort of way. Anyway, you are internally happy to see he is now very relaxed with you, and you noticed how he is smiling much more sincerely since a while - this of course has some consequences on your heartbeat...
His favorite activity is still pranking the others at every useful occasion and sneaking in their rooms to spy any possible secret they may want to hide - and you of course you became his favorite partner in crime.

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"MISSION! NOW!"
Cap is storming out from the elevator in his blue and red suit, helmet on his head, shield thigh in his right harm. 
You all suddenly turn the head in his direction.
"The Jet is ready outside, I'll give you details on board. Now MOVE!"
Rushing in every direction, your fellows head to gather their armor and weapons.

"Y/n, Fury wants you stay here and watch Loki. Hope you don't mind. Just please... don't mess to much and don't set the tower on fire... you two are quite dangerous together"
He is watching you softly, despite the pressure and the adrenaline for the upcoming action.

"No mind. We'll behave. Off you go!"
You try to smile back at him, already worrying and hoping for their safety.

The moment the elevator's door closes, you fell a flush of air behind your back and Loki appears out of thin air, sitting upright on the sofa.

"So, is seems it will be just the two of us tonight"
"Always eavesdropping, don't you"
"I can't help myself. And by the way, it's difficult to ignore that massive storm which is my brother passing the corridor, you know what I mean"

You fight back a laugh, as you're to worried for what may happen to your friends
"They will be all right, it's just a couple of aliens messing up in downtown. Nothing to worry about. So... fancy to join my plan for this chance of having the house empty tonight?"
He is grinning delighted
"I know that smile, you cheeky liar. What are you up to?"
"Pretty simple, my midget: sneaking in Stark Lab to see his last updates on that project..."
"You're not talking about... the Tesseract project, do you?"
"You're smart. I used to though you were a little more dumb.... So, are you in or shall I go on my own?"
"Well, I guess it would be safer for anyone and for the entire house if I come with you"

You know that nothing good is coming, but you can prevent to feel some sort of excitement in joining the mischievous plan of him.