The Twin Goddesses

Chapter Seven

After Steve left, I hugged Cooper as he ran off with Indra and Kate. Lila, Clint and I headed to my room. I looked at Lila before I gave her some crayons and paper. She looked at me, tilting her head.

"I need your father to help me paint the base color on the wall. Unless you want to help as well."

She nods excitedly, responding, "Yes please!"

I nod as Clint gives her a brush and sends her off to paint the lower parts of the wall. Then we started with painting the upper parts of the wall.

"Glad we could spend time together, Elskan."

He smiles, kissing my forehead, as he replies, "I am glad too sweetheart."

Cooper ran into the room and we looked up. "What's up bud? Indra sent you here?" I ask

"They went to get paint supplies. Do you have drawing supplies?" He asks.

"Yeah. Here you go." Giving him a few pencils and a sketchbook.

"Thanks Vaktmester." He says as he settles down on my bed to draw.

"Can I also have a sketchbook Vaktmester?" Lily asks.

"Thought you wanted to paint?" Clint asks with a small smirk.

She settles next to her brother on the bed, watching him draw. She looks back up at Clint with a small shake of her head.

"Alright, here you go." I supplied a second sketchbook and more pencils. "Have fun."

Clint and I resume painting as the kids draw. An accidental flick of paint from Clint's brush flicks onto my face. I look at him with mock betrayal on my face as I flick a bit of paint onto him. That starts an all out war with paint flying everywhere. Lila and Cooper flee the room, into the common room to escape us flinging the paint. I run around the room until he tackles me and we tumble to the ground in a fit of laughter.

Cooper ran in just then, waving the paper around. "I finished. Can you send it to Aunt Kate?" He asks.

The first design was of Aqua in a great big ocean. She was in mid air—as if she was leaping out of the water—with the biggest smile on her face. Cooper even made it spread to her eye's. They were glowing with excitement. The sun was setting and a mixture of orange and pink colors were fading into the background. And off to the side, was his family with ours. Clint was holding me in the sand watching Cooper and Lila splash around in the salty sea. Okuh nestled in the sand next to them. While Kate, Thor and Indra were burying Loki in the sand. The cutest annoyed look was plastered on his face and I could only laugh at the sight.

The second image was of Kate and Dra in the lake Tony had kindly made Aqua's new home. The water was glistening in the sunlight and droplets were floating as Aqua splashed Kate and Dra. They both covered their faces as the water came hurtling towards them.

"Wow! That's some good detail bud." I say as Clint takes pictures and sends them to Kate.

Cooper runs off as Clint and I resume painting. We finish the wall and we lay a tarp on the couch to sit down. Lila comes over to us to show her what she did.

The butterflies we amazingly detailed. You could see when one butterfly was fluttering and another was floating through the air. Another she had on a yellow sunflower. The details these children could draw was astounding.

Clint's phone dinged She wants number three. And he immediately sends a thumbs up in return.

The paint dried, on us and the wall, in no time. Lila ran in to start painting the butterflies on the wall. I cuddled up to Clint as Cooper drew some other designs, maybe we could put them in the common room.

Kate, Indra, and Bucky walked in. Indra chuckles when she sees us. "Had fun sis?"

"Ha, ha. Clint flicked me with paint so I did the same."

"Nope. That was an accident. And you know it." He wrestles me to the ground, kissing me gently. I wrap my arms around him and kiss him in return. Melting into the kiss.

"Ewwww Vaktmester, Dad." Cooper complains, scrunching his nose in disgust.

We pull away from each other and both look up. Cooper's look of disgust has Clint start laughing. I soon join him but a sharp look from Indra has me sober up immediately. When either one of us is out of hand we give each other a look and we know that we messed up.

"Let's go get a shower, Clint." I say, getting up. "We need to clean up. Cause this paint is going to cause some damage to my hair if it stays in there."

"Let's go down to my suite then. Cooper, Lila" He says.

"Yes dad?" They respond in unison.

"Mind Aunt Kate, Aunt Indra and Uncle Bucky, okay?"

"Yes dad." Is the reply from both of them.

I head into my closet and grab a gray sweatpants and a matching crop top. Clint grabs my hand and we head to the elevator. We go down to his suite.

"You can go first, Em." He says.

"We are adults. We can shower together." I say as I divest myself of my clothes.

He strips out of his clothes and we hop into the shower. We make out in the shower, lathering our bodies with soap as we each got the paint off the other.

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Coming back upstairs thirty minutes later, my hair in a towel as I walked in. Walking in to check on the progress of the room, I froze in my tracks when I see the wall.

"It's good, isn't it? Cooper did a good job."

"It is! Good job Coop." I give him a thumbs up and a smile.

"Thanks Vaktmester." He replies as his arm remains steady.

"Come on Elskan. Let's go see how my room is."

"Of course sweetheart."

We walk towards my room. Lila looks up from one of her butterflies, the big one directly above my bed and smiles at us. We looked around the room, the walls filled with butterflies, and one of Okuh, directly above my dresser. My loud gasp has Indra running into the room, looking at me as if I was insane.

"Okuh!" I say pointing at the beautiful painting of Okuh that Lila had done.

"Wow Lila. That looks amazing!" Indra looks between Lila and Cooper. "The two of you are amazing artists."

Knowing nothing bad happened. Indra leaves to head back to her room. Kate and Cooper follow her once again. Lila kept drawing the butterfly, until it was done.

Since there was nothing further to do I clapped my hands. "Lunch time is soon. Clint, why don't we go to the kitchen and make some food." I say with a smile before heading out to the kitchen.