Giftless

Chapter 22

Things were fairly quiet until Fury came to talk to all of the supers (and you) one morning in March. "Listen up! This is a reminder that the producers from the Avengers movies will be on campus shooting their next film, starting today. This place will be crawling with actors, cameras, and all sorts of crap we usually don't have to deal with." Fury and the team let them film pieces of the movies at the tower, provided they didn't interfere with their operations and only filmed anyone from the tower with permission and only when that person was in costume. They let you be extras and side characters occasionally, and sometimes the supers even used their powers on film to cut down on the CGI budget. You were sure Fury got something out of this, but he never said what it was. "They won't be in the building except during scheduled times, which you'll have plenty of notice about. Any time you go outside, you must be in costume. I don't want anyone's secret identities compromised. Ironman, Loki, Kat, you're excused from that of course." Tony's secret identity had already been compromised, everyone knew who you were thanks to Tony, and Loki didn't have a secret identity, nor did he care to.

Loki took you out that day to a matinee ballet. He wore his perfect all-black suit again and convinced you to wear the green dress he had gotten you. It was still just cool enough to wear it. The ballet was amazing, you couldn't believe how effortless they made dancing on their toes look.

You were walking back to the compound from the parking lot when you were stopped by the film crew. That wasn't atypical, they would reroute people who were in jeopardy of getting in the way of their shots. "Tom! Good! You're already in costume, come on, your scene is up!" one of the producers got ahold of Loki and led him towards the cameras and the set that had been set up on your property.

Apparently, they had gotten Loki confused with his actor. Loki looked over at you apologetically, but let them lead him away, unwilling to harm the mortals. You followed as far as you could. You had a feeling this was going to be fun.

/How long before they figure out you're not Tom?/ you thought at him. He turned to you with a glint in his eye and a smirk. He was going to keep the game up as long as possible.

They actually ran a few takes of the scene (how Loki knew the lines you didn't know) before the real Tom showed up between takes. He walked straight over to Loki, thinking he was a stunt double. They were both wearing the infamous black suit of sexy. No wonder the film crew had gotten confused. They looked at each other and both started laughing after a moment when they figured out what was going on. One of them went back to doing takes of the scene, the other came over to stand with you and watch. He put his arm around you gently.

You looked up and laughed. "You're not Loki," you told him softly. It was Tom, the actor, not your boyfriend. You knew the difference immediately. Tom was warm where Loki ran cold due to his heritage.

Tom laughed and held his hands up in surrender. "I apologize for touching you without permission. Loki said you would find it amusing," he explained immediately. He was a perfect gentleman after all. His accent wasn't quite as honey sounding as Loki's most of the time, but it was really close. They also looked nearly identical.

"It's alright. Loki was right. It was amusing," you replied with a warm smile. It was a fun joke. "I'm sorry about him. They thought he was you and dragged him over to do the scene. Since then..." you shrugged as if that were enough explanation. "I think he's trying to see how long it will take them to figure out that he's not you,"

"You're the only one who's noticed so far. I'm disappointed in Chris. We've done how many movies together? He should know better." Tom sighed in exasperation at his coworker. Chris was the actor who played Thor. It took a few more scenes before Chris finally did figure out that Loki wasn't Tom.