Loki's Country Girl (On Hold)

The Press Conference

      "Get up." Came Nat's voice the next morning as you where sleeping in your bed. You pried your eyes open, looking over at your clock on your bedside table.

6:00 am

6:00 am! Did Natasha really think you were going to get up this early. You groaned and turned over in your bed covering yourself back up with your blankets. It was way to early to be awake.

     "Get up." Natasha told you firmly as she ripped your nice warm cozy blankets off of your body. You groaned again and pulled your knees up to your chest reaching your hand down and feeling for the blankets she, so rudely, ripped away from you. You couldn't find the blankets after about five seconds of feeling for them, they were to far out of your reach, so you just cuddled more into your bed forgetting the blankets.

      "It's to early." You whined at Natasha. "Why do I have to get up so early?"

     "We have the press conference today. Now get your lazy butt moving or I will send in your boyfriend to get you up." Natasha informed you.

     You looked up at her with a confused expression written on your face, "I have a boyfriend?" You asked.

     "Just get up." Natasha ordered exasperated, "I put some clothes out on your chair for you. Put them on them come down to the living room." She left. You grudgingly got out of bed to go find the clothes she wanted you to put on.

      You found them like she said, all laid out on your chair. You had to admit the outfit was pretty cute. It had a blue jean button up shirt, white ripped jeans, brown boots, a brown belt, and some jewelry. You threw on the clothes and they fit your body perfectly. When you started working out and training with the Avengers your body got toned. You liked your body before, you just looked like a cute little equestrian, but now you had some muscle, all at the same time still looking like a cute little equestrian but with muscle. It was great.

      You went down stairs to find everyone in the living room. "Hey." You greeted them all. They all turned to you and greeted you back.

      (Y/n) come here." Clint told you patting one of the barstools at the kitchen counter. You walked over and sat down where Clint told you to sit. You noticed all the makeup materials on the counter, Clint picked up some foundation and started applying it to your face.

      "I didn't know you did makeup." You told Clint as he was doing your makeup.

      "I was in the curious for a while before I became an agent for shield." Clint explained casually, like everyone just ran away and joined the circus at a young age. "So I got pretty good with makeup. Now don't talk I need to get this perfect." You hummed in agreement and Clint got back to work.

       After a little while longer you felt some one comb their fingers threw your hair. It surprised you at first but you quickly warmed up to it. They brushed out your hair with a brush and started braiding your hair. You don't complain, it felt good.

      "How are you so good at that?" Nat asked impressed by whoever was doing your hair, now you were confused. You assumed Nat was doing your hair because she was the only other girl in the room, and you didn't think anyone else here would even try to learn how to braid hair. But now you knew she wasn't the one braiding it.

      "My mother taught me how." Came the velvety smooth unmistakable voice of Loki from behind you. You could tell by his voice he was extremely pleased with Natasha's amazement. That didn't surprise you, he loved to show off.

"Well she's a good teacher." Nat complicated, "I don't think I've ever seen a braid so beautiful and complicated."

      Loki preened under the praises of Natasha. You silently chuckled rolling your eyes. Silly trickster loved to be praised.

*

When you got done you thanked the boys, they really did do a excellent job on both your hair and makeup. You noticed every one else looked extremely professional, all the boys had perfectly tailored suits, Nat had on a very nice dress, while you were in pants and a shirt. You would think since they were the ones that picked out your outfit they would put in a little more effort to have you match what they were wearing.

You all went out to the SUV waiting for you and piled in. Loki being the perfect gentleman he was helped you into the car. He then fallowed in after you taking his seat right next to you.

You smiled up at him and kissed him on the cheek. "Thank you again." You told him softly.

     Loki smiled warmly down at you with love in his eyes, "for what love?"

"For always being there when I need you." You told him, you really appreciated all he did for you, from making sure you had someone to talk to, to making sure you didn't over work yourself, you really loved having him around.

      "Of corse love." Loki replied warmly giving you a small smile kissing the the top of your head.

       The rest of the way there Cap told everyone what they were going to say while Tony told you and Loki what to expect. You didn't know what it was like to be in the public eye. You were just a regular teenage girl who happened to be able to ride horses extremely well. The closest you've ever been to anything like was in high school for the school's theater plays. Any tips Tony could give you were beyond welcome.

       Loki on the other hand grew up in the eyes of the public, he was a prince after all. But he was from another planet so he to got the blowdown from Tony as well.

*

       You got out of the car when it stoped in front of the building you were supposed to be at and was immediately blinded by all the cameras.

       Like when your grandmother wants to take a picture of you and your cousins but the camera is on flash then after the picture every one is like 'I'm blinded I can't see.'

      It was like that but a thousand times worse. You stood there trying to see everything but couldn't because of the spots dancing in front of your vision from all of the flashing lights going off by all the cameras. The paparazzi must have gotten some pretty great pictures of you looking ever so confused.

      Everyone else in the car piled out smiling and waving to the cameras as they walked in. They were much better at this whole 'center of attention thing,' than you were. To be quite honest all you wanted to do at this moment in time was get back into the car, go home, and forget all about this conference. But you couldn't.

     "It's ok love." You heard Loki say calmly, "I'm right here." You looked up at him with fear written in your eyes but relaxed when you saw Loki's warm caring smile. He held out an arm for you to take and escorted you into the building with all the grace of a prince.

*

     The two of you were the last to walk out on stage and your grip immediately tightened on Loki's arm when you saw just how many people that were there. It made sense that there were so many people there, everyone loved the Avengers, but that didn't mean you liked, or expected, all the attention. They all started taking pictures of the two of you, and once again black spots danced in-front of your eyes. Loki lead you to your seat and the two of you sat down.

      Throughout the conference Loki noticed how nervous you were. You kept picking at the palm of your hand and whenever anyone said your name you looked like you were about ready to jump out of your skin. This really wasn't your environment. Loki wanted to help you, he wanted to take you away from this place and see your carefree smile on your face once again. But this was part of being an Avenger, being able to be in the public eye and be confident, you just had to get used to it. That didn't mean Loki couldn't help ease your nerves.

      So Loki held out a hand for you to take and you gratefully excepted it. You then spent all your attention on Loki's hand drawing imaginary lines on it with your finger, Loki didn't seam to mind and just having him care enough to offer his hand to you calmed your nerves down a little.

       You and Loki answered a few questions at the end but mostly Cap or Tony answered the questions.

After the conference you all went home, you needed to get some of your things ready for tomorrow's reining competition and get a good night sleep so you could have enough energy for tomorrow.