Irya Aillie Stark - D. M. (Harry Potter x Marvel)

SWEET SIXTEEN

Having the team officially living in the tower was chaotic, but in the best way possible.

It took a while to get used to it, for everyone I'm sure, but once we did it was so much fun.

We all had our different routines, like Steve, Bucky and I, who woke up really early in the morning (thanks to Steve who pushed us with his strict training routine), trained and did everything before the rest woke up. Or like Nat, Clint and Tony who woke up a little later and trained together. Bruce joined them every now and then.

Steve had had the opportunity, and then the given responsibility, to cook for us on most meals as he liked cooking. Though sometimes one of us would feel bad and step in to help, or we would order take out.

Nat was really fun to hang out with, and we'd gone out shopping with Pepper a couple of times.

Clint felt like both a child sometimes and the father of the group other times, while my actual dad was his usual childish but fun self, and would spend most of his time in the lab with Bruce.

We had taken over some aspects of SHIELD, with the help of trusted agents like Maria Hill, and had been doing missions as a team. Mostly it'd be smaller teams and not all of us, but anyway it was something. And when we had free time we'd do things like game nights or movie nights.

Bruce had been helping me help Bucky too, and we'd managed to get back most of his memories. As for his trust, that's a whole other subject. He'd been slowly opening up to the team, but was still very shy and quiet when everyone was around. Still I could tell he liked the group activities we did, he never missed a movie night even though he could simply stay back in his room.

With me though he had made a huge progress. I'm guessing mostly since we'd been spending a lot of time together during his 'theraphy sessions', and the fact that we trained together every day. We just spent a lot of time together.

He was nice company to have around, and would always listen whenever I had something to say. He has a cute smile. There, I said it.

The months were passing by quickly, and now it was July. Summer in New York is definitely a vibe.

I'd been spending most of my free time either in the indoor pool we have in the first floor, or out in a small ice rink nearby. I'd discovered I enjoy ice skating, and turns out I'm quite good too. At least for a beginner that is, when I started practicing a woman came up to me and congratulated me on my progress, said I had advanced a lot and that now I was in the same  level as her daughter. I was over the moon until I found out her daughter's eight.

Anyway, things were good, really good. In the mornings I'd wake up really early to train with the super soldiers, then I'd have breakfast, before going to training by myself, Tony had designed a room for me with hologram projections in which I could practice my magic. Then in the afternoon, after lunch, I'd have either 'therapy' with Bucky or I'd go to my room to read for a while on whatever scientific book I was interested in at the moment.

Tony was currently trying to get me to go to college, saying that way I could satiate my hunger for knowledge, but I'm honestly just happy with the way my life is right now to want to change any of it.

After that I'd go either to the pool or the ice rink, before having dinner and partaking in whatever activity we had planned. That's when we didn't have missions though, and though we were getting a reasonable amount of them trying to take out the remainings of HYDRA, Tony always tried his best to make me stay at the tower. I'm nearly twenty yet he still treats me like a child.

Today though, was one of the rare occasions in which I had ditched my routine and daily schedule, as Nat, Pepper and I were out of the tower shopping for party dresses since Tony has been planning a party for my twentieth birthday.