Loki Laufeyson - Saviour {2}

Chapter Twenty Two - You're Not Weak, You've Just Changed

"Miss Emily." JARVIS' voice interrupted my mindless staring out the window of my room. "Miss Emily, Mr. Stark is requesting your presence in the kitchen and lounge area."

"Yeah, hang on." I pushed away from the window, groaning a little as I left the small bubble of heat that I had created by sitting still for about twenty minutes.

I stretched and reached over to my dressing table, grabbing a warm cloak to bundle myself up in, not really wanting to leave the heating of my room. The temperature had definitely been dropping recently, but I didn't mind it. Not only was it a nice change from the constant warmth that was running through my veins, but I was actually looking forward to seeing this snow that everyone had been talking about.

Snatching a quick glimpse of myself in the reflection, I hurried took my hair out of the ponytail, turning away from the mirror so I didn't have to stare at myself while I braided my hair to keep it away from my face. Not wanting to keep Tony waiting, I stepped out of my room, finishing my braid as I began to walk down the stairs to the lounge room. However, I quickly stopped halfway down when I caught sight of what had become the lounge room. All of the furniture had been roughly pushed to the side to make way for -

"Should I ask why there is a massive tree by the doorway?" I stared up at the massive pine that had dropped pine needles alln throughout both the kitchen and lounge room.

"It's a Christmas tree." Wanda replied from where she was holding it upright with her power. "Don't you remember me telling you about it?"

"Yeah, I do." I nodded, still walking slowly as I tried to take in the whole sight. "But does it really have to be this big?"

"Why would you have a small one?" Tony called out from where he was up in the air in his Iron Man suit, tying ropes around the Christmas tree, which was connected to the balcony to just hold it up. "You've got to go all out for Christmas."

"Anthony Edward Stark!" Pepper's voice suddenly rang out from one of the higher levels. "What is all of that mess down there?!"

"Nothing dear." Tony put on a sickly sweet, yet somehow sarcastic voice voice, causing a couple of the Avengers to snort.

"Don't make me come down there!" Pepper called out and I couldn't help but laugh as well.

"You won't have to." Tony called back before quickly turning to all of us, his helmet flipping upwards to reveal his face, whispering harshly. "Guys, you have to help me, she's gonna kill me."

There was a round of laughs but everyone began to try and sweep the pine needles into a pile while Steve grabbed the vacuum out of the cupboard and began to try and clear up all of the piles.

Wanda handed me a big box of decorations while Steve cleaned, telling me to decorate as many of the lower branches as I could without having to use a ladder or anything, both of us laughing about the last time that I had gone on a ladder.

I wasn't completely sure if there were any rules around decorating Christmas trees, but I tried to follow what Bruce was doing next to me. It was kind of a joint effort with the tinsel since the base of the tree was wider than if all of us joined hands and stood around it. Wanda and Tony were decorating the higher branches that all of us couldn't reach. I managed to convince Loki to help them as well, but he kind of only gave it a half-hearted attempt.

"Now, there is one thing missing." Tony came down and landed between us all as we put up the final decorations. "Pep, do you want to come down here? It's time."

"I'll be down in a moment!" Her voice came up from one of the higher levels.

Tony moved over to the last box there as I stepped back to admire the tree, which was honestly breathtaking. However, I still thought it was quite a weird thing to do, to dress up a massive tree in coloured plastic.