Sweetheart

Chapter 5

Tony yanks the door open and looks over at your bed.

"OH HECK NO!" you bolt awake at the sound of your dad's voice. You scream and fall out of bed pulling Loki with you.

"Stop it," Loki mutters burrowing further into the blankets.

"Sorry," you say it softly, then look at your door to see a bunch of angry avengers.

"Um..." you look at them.

"Explain," your dad pulls you up.

"Can we talk in the kitchen? Cuz I'm hungry," you look at them.

"Why not," Nat shrugs.

"Cool," you look at Loki and see him still under the blankets, but his eyes are open and he's listening intently. You help him up and everyone heads to the kitchen.

You grab two plates and put pancakes on them, you hand the one with more to Loki.

"Kid why'd you do it?" your dad looks at you.

"Cuz no one deserves that," you grab the syrup.

"You can't do that," Steve snarls.

You shrug, "I'm not sorry," you take a bite of your food.

"Well sorry, but he's going back," Steve glares at you.

"Why do you hate him," Steve freezes.

"I don't,"

"Don't lie, you all do to some extent... except for Peter and Thor," you glare at all of them.

"He tried to kill us," Steve looks at you condescendingly.

Without hesitation you grab a steak knife and chuck it at his head, "I tried to kill you, do you hate me now?" Loki raises an eyebrow at you.

"Look, he tried to take over the world, and he still could," Steve rubs his ear, he'd dodged the knife but it nicked him.

"I could take over the world right now," you snarl losing patience. 

Steve rolls his eyes, "I'm sure. What would your plan be?" he snickers.

"Quite easy actually," you grin at him, "I'd take away everyone's emotions and make them all idolize, love, and adore me. Then, when I took over, no one would even put up a fight," you grin as everyone's stares at you speechless.

Steve eyes you suspiciously, "How many times have you thought about this?" He's not being subtle about his suspicions, especially to you.

"That took me 45 seconds," you smile.

"47 seconds," Wanda corrects you and you roll your eyes playfully. 

Everyone stares at you, "I shouldn't be surprised. I mean you graduated college at 16," your dad grins at you.

"Why is no one talking about the fact that Kait almost killed Steve?" Bruce's eyes are still wide.

You shrug and turn to your dad, "Please don't put Loki in there again... please," you look at Tony begging him.

"Kid, we can't exactly have him hanging around doing whatever he wants," he sighs.

"I can watch him!" your dad gives you a look, "I'm almost always at home, and I can subdue him without hurting him... please?" 

"Fine, but if he tries to escape or hurt anyone, he's going back in the basement, got it?" Tony looks at Loki threateningly.

"Ok dad," you smile.

"Brother! You no longer will be confined in a cage!" Thor booms.

"No leaving the tower without permission either," your dad adds.

"I know-"

"And I'm adding another bed to your room, no more sleeping in the same bed," he adds.

"Ok, geez," you giggle at your dad's over protectiveness, "Come on Loki," you grab his hand and lead him upstairs.

"What's in that room?" Loki points to the door of your art studio.

"I'll show you!" you grin and open the door.

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The Avengers pov

"We're not leaving her alone with him, right?" Sam looks at Tony.

Tony scoffs, "Of course not, but we can't get caught," Tony looks at Sam, "Can I borrow your drone?" Sam nods, and Tony smiles.

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Sam maneuvers red wing into the hallway and places a finger on his lips so they can hear.

"What's in that room?" Loki's pointing at a door.

"Anyone know?" Bucky murmurs.

"Her art studio," Tony whispers back, "She won't let him in, she's only ever let Peter and Wanda see," Tony sighs.

"I'll show you!" you say.

"WHAT!" Tony shouts, and Clint puts his hand over his mouth. Tony grumbles something incoherently, but begrudgingly sits back down.

You open the door and Loki walks in, "These are amazing... did you paint all of them?" 

"Yeah," you reply.

"Why is the inside of the room static?" Sam asks softly trying to see inside the room.

"She did something to the room that makes tech go blank when inside, and tech can't trace or see the room either," Tony sighs, "It's the one room Jarvis can't see, but we have a camera in the hallway that can pick up any sound,"

"Cool," Bucky whispers.

After a bit they walk out again and your eyes pass over the drone.

"Wait, she looked at us... but didn't see us?" Peter frowns.

"It's cloaked," Sam mutters and Peter nods as the drone follows you and Loki into your room.

"Shirt," you say to Loki and Tony's eyes widen. He tries to get up and stop you, but Nat pushes him back down. He glares at her, but she's unfazed. 

Loki rolls his eyes and begrudgingly does so. You sigh and peel off the bandages.

"It would've been easier if you'd let me tell Bruce," you say with a frown.

"I do not wish for any of them to know, especially Thor," Loki says wincing when you apply pressure to the gashes. 

"Well it's your choice I guess," you finish replacing the bandages and Loki turns to face you as you hand him a sweatshirt, "wanna talk about what happened for you to get those?" you gesture to his back and Loki shakes his head.

You sigh, "What about all the scars," his eyes widen.

"Y-you're not supposed to be able to see them," he whispers, "how can you?"

"Oh, I can't see them, I can sense them," you look at Loki, "if you ever wanna talk let me know, kay?" Loki nods and Sam maneuvers the drone back to them.

"What just happened?" Tony looks confused.

"Why would my brother have scars?" Thor boomed. 

Natasha and Wanda shared a look, "Well you can't ask them, or they'll know we were watching, got it?" Nat looks at the guys threateningly and they all nod and mutter their agreement.

"Good," Wanda says, "Now, who wants to go swimming?"