When Tony walked in the room at almost ten in the mourning he was a little surprised, he hadn't expected to see the group so early in the mourning.
He just brushed it off and said, "So, how did everyone sleep?"
Bruce was the first to answer, he said, "Last night you said you had rooms made yet it looked more like a whole floor."
Tony smiled and replied, "That is, not an answer to the question I asked, but very true. Is anyone going to actually tell me how they slept?"
Natasha said, "I slept fine. You did good on my floor."
Clint then said, "Mine too, It has a balcony and the ceiling has hand grips in it. The air vent cover was bolted to the wall though."
Tony raised an eyebrow, "Was?"
Clint smiled sheepishly and held up a four inch bolt. Tony rolled his eyes.
Thor said, "My room much resembled Asgard,"
Then Loki came in the room. He looked like he hadn't slept sense the nightmares.
Thor looked at him oddly for a second then asked, "You look in need of some more rest, what is the reasoning."
Loki yawned and said, "No reason, I'll be fine."
Clint chuckled and Bruce commented, "He defiantly acts like Tony's kid."
Tony looked at him a little insulted and asked, "Whats that supposed to mean?"
Natasha answered, "It means you get less sleep then you should and try to push it off."
Tony didn't respond.
The room was silent for a few seconds until Jarvis said, "Sir, Director Fury is here."
Tony nodded and said, "Let him up."
Tony sat down and turned on the T.v. Before the elevator dinged open.
Tony looked at fury and said, "Aye matey."
Fury glared at him as Loki snickered.
Fury replied, "We have real work to do Stark, and you can ether help or I can gather the team and we can just go back to base without you."
Tony nodded "K, the teams already gathered."
He pointed over to the group of them just watching from the sidelines. If he didn't know better he would have said that fury looked surprised.
"Your not going to help, At all, Tony?" Bruce asked.
He just gave him a smug smile said that he knew something the rest didn't.
He said, "Nope. You guys are smart you can handle it."
Fury looked at him for a second then turned to the rest of the group and said, "Lets get back to headquarters."
None of them said anything or moved they just looked at each other awkwardly. Tony rolled his eyes and looked at Loki, they made eye contact for a second and it almost seemed like a conversation. In the end Loki smiled deviously and walked towards Fury.
The director didn't notice him, He just stood there with his arms across his chest and scowled at the group.
He was a little confused when they all started to smile, looking like they were trying not to laugh. Then he noticed the small figure standing next to him. He looked down at Loki who Looked back up at him.
Loki had his arms crossed stiffly across his chest and his face was scrunched up like he was trying to scowl and smile at the same time. Some of the avengers couldn't take it anymore and started laughing. Loki smiled widely and Fury couldn't stop it when he felt the corner of his mouth twitch up.
"Take a Picture J." Jarvis voice replied, "I already did sir."
Fury Frowned again, "Why are you having your house take pictures of me stark?"
Jarvis replied, "If I may clarify Director, Sir told me to take a picture if you ever smiled."
He glared at Tony and Loki laughed.
Fury looked at the rest of the group and said, "Get in the elevator now."
He turned at started walking towards the elevator, but stopped when there was extra weight on his leg. He looked down at Loki who was sitting on his foot.
"Get up." He demanded.
Loki giggled and said, "Your funny. You should stay."
Fury's raised an eyebrow and asked, "And why should I do that?"
The smiled on Loki's face changed to something of pure mischief, "Cause. You want my daddy's help whether you like it or not. You don't have the equipment that would be needed. You should know that as soon as your gone I'm gonna do something with all the bugs you've put in the building so far. And even I know things you don't about this case."
Fury looked at Tony who was looking at the T.v but everyone could tell that he was smiling.
"Fine Stark,"
He looked back at the rest of the group and saw most of them were smirking.
He growled and said, "Get to work, and Barton do something about the unnatural color of your hair."
Clint made a disapproving sound, glared at Loki, and Left the room grumbling, "How is it that I'm the only one that got messed with?"
Tony smiled widely and announced, "To the labs, and Fury you might as well invite up Bruce's entourage."
The rest of the team look surprised and Natasha asked, "You knew that we weren't going anywhere didn't you?"
He shrugged and replied, "I had a hunch."
Tony looked at Loki and said, "Go play."
Loki bounded down the hall and as they went to the elevator bruce asked, "What do you think he's going to do while were working?"
Tony answered, "He'll probably be crawling around in the vents sense Clint gave him a way in. Or he'll go to tinkering will fury's bugs. Possibly both."
When they got down to the lab The people who had been following Bruce around the day before were standing there awkwardly.
After a moment of just looking at them one of the women said, "I should probably apologize for what I said."
Tony smiled and replied, "If thats the case I should apologize for a lot of things." There was a pause, "That doesn't mean I'm going to."
Jane rolled her eyes while Darcy laughed and Erik looked around the lab like a kid in a candy shop, thankfully he had pants on today. They got straight to work.
Jane later asked, "Mr. Stark yesterday you were telling us what you know about the energy readings."
Tony replied, "Well, we kind of already know that it's Schmidt causing them but I might as well finish what I was going to say. I believe I had been listing the locations the energy readings had been, I was going to have you guess how they were related. But now I'll just tell you. Each reading, excluding the one at my tower, was located in the general area of where each of the avengers were born."
Jane nodded a bit interested.
Steve cut in saying, "What does that mean?"
Bruce replied, sounding shocked, "That means that Schmidt Is targeting the avengers. He's targeting us."
"ding ding ding we have a winner." Tony joked.
At that moment Clint decided to walk in. He was wearing a hat and had red marks sticking out from under it showing that he had been rubbing his head, hardly, in an attempt to remove the green from his hair though clearly it had failed.
They all couldn't help but laughed, except Jane, Darcy, and Erik who were looking confused and fury who just looked frustrated.
He asked, "So whats going on?"
Natasha replied, "Were being targeted and Schmidt knows where all of us were born. And Loki's eavesdropping thanks to the fact you left your vent open."
"WHAT?!" Clint yelled.
Notes:
this isn't my favorite chapter, It's mostly fluff, but sometimes it just comes out like that. So What do you guys want to happen? I'm thinking haveing Loki have some more magic in the next chapter. ANd i'm sorry it took me a while to update, I have no excuse.