#2
Another random little snippet of Avengers' Tower life based on Saving Grace that came to me.
"Come on; won't someone try them?" Grace asked as she placed a tray of brownies on the bar counter in the living room.
While she had been mixing the batter, Clint decided to pop down out of a vent in the kitchen at the very moment that she was measuring out the mint extract for dark chocolate chunk mint brownies and caused her to spill at least twice the called for amount of mint into the batter. So far, no one was willing to try the extremely minty smelling treat.
Half an hour later, grace came back from the kitchen with a new, "correct" batch of brownies, only to find the old tray had disappeared. In its place, she found a note, written with elegant penmanship in green ink:
Miss Rogers will have Prince Loki's eternal gratitude if she would continue to supply such divine confections as these for His Majesty's pleasure, as they are the only Midgardian delicacy he finds worthy of a god.
"Whatcha got there, Miss Wonderland?" Tony asked as he slipped past her to get behind the bar.
"Oh, nothing," she answered airly, tucking the note away in her apron pocket.
Two days later, Grace took some of her spare time and baked another pan of the extra minty brownies, and left them by Loki's door. Less than five minutes later, she walked by and found the fresh pan gone and the original one, containing only a few crumbs, in its place.
And if Loki was a little less...frosty...with her from then on, she just pretended to not notice.