***warning: bad LaNGuAgE***

***warning: bullying and trans/homophobia***

***disclaimer: I'm not trans/homophobic, I love them I promise. I had trouble to write the part anyway :/***

Tony's POV:

I hurriedly left my yelling household into the car which drove off to school.

I took a deep breath and sighed. I left a little early just in case. I will be guiding Peggy around the school. I wonder how this new kid would turn out.

At first, I was fine. I knew Peggy. But then I remembered Bucky. Steve knew him, and that still turned to chaos. I realized my heart was beating fast. It was worse than the first day of school when I was anxious to find out who Wanda was.

I tried to calm down, so I began to organize my bag. The pencils in the right spot, my books in biggest to smallest. that's when I saw it.

A small black leather A5 notebook. I frowned. This wasn't mine. I took it out and looked on the front and back. I then remembered. I took it from the Math table yesterday when I rushed to Fury's office.

I curiously opened the book. The paper was thick sketch paper. The first page had some random cartoonish doodles in a black marker.

On the bottom it was signed; 'By Loki'

I froze. This was Loki's. I must've accidentally taken it and didn't notice in the hurry. I turned the page and slowed down.

These were sketches of Stephen. Thoughts raced in my mind. Was his crush that we were trying to find out Stephen?

I turned the page again. This time they were sketches of me, in Maths class. He sat at the back, where he had a clear view of us. I frowned. Was it me or Stephen?

I turned the page again. These were good drawings, maybe better than Steve's. The next drawing was a nice picture of Wanda sitting on her spot in the circle.

Maybe it wasn't either of us? I got confused as I flipped through the pages. There were sketches of him and Thor, as kids and as they are now. There was a family drawing, but the father had his face scribbled out in a pen.

I pursed my lips as I got to the point where there was half a sketch, and the next page was blank. The half-drawn one had me and Stephen walking and talking. I was drawn rather short compared to Stephen. I scowled.

I frowned as my eye caught something. It had been rubbed out, but the remains were still there, faded, but still there. It was a love heart. I rubbed it a bit. It was still a love heart. In between Stephen and my head.

What did that mean? Before I could use my brain, the car stopped. I stepped out and stared at the school. How would I return it? Later, I waved away the thoughts as I put it back in my back and jogged to Fury's office.

...SceneChange...

Peggy was waiting outside as I approached.

"Hey!" I called, running up t her. My breaths were quick from running up all the stairs. "Good thing I came early,"

She smiled at him. Great, she's taller than me. "Tony! It's been ages,"

"Yeah, I was surprised when I found out you were coming," I adjusted my bag straps.

"Well, do you want to show me around this big school? I swear Sharon got lost twice on the way here," Peggy chuckled.

"Did she bring you here?"

"Yeah, I'm staying with them, my mom's still in England," she explained, as she followed me down the hall.

"Huh. Why did you transfer?" I asked.

"Becuase Shield saw my improvements and wanted to have me attend as a Skilled,"

I raised an eyebrow. "Fun, Natasha will like you," I smiled.

"You girlfriend?" She smirked.

"No way, she's dating someone else, dunno who to be honest at this point. What about you? Any long distance?" I asked her.

"I had one, Daniel, but we broke up after he had to move schools," she shrugged.

"Ha, that reminds me, do you know someone called Steve Rogers?" I asked.

"And Bucky? Yeah?" Peggy was interested.

"They attend here, I'm...friends with them," I stuttered on the 'friends' part. "They were just as surprised when they heard you were coming,"

"Really? They attend here? Maybe Bucky, but Steve, he's tiny, and all those medical things-"

"Well, he's upgraded," I realized she must've known him before the serum. "All the girls want him, honestly, that serum did nothing for his ass," D;

Peggy raised her eyebrow. "Okay...well I'm sure you'll introduce them to me again,"

I chuckled. "Yeah. Well, this is the science level, down there is the mechanics..." I led her through the big school. The sick feeling was still present.

...SceneChange...

Third Person View:

Loki rummaged through her bag in panic. "Thor!" she yelled. No answer. She growled and stood up, storming into her brother's room. "Thor!"

"What?" Thor replied, trying to find his bag on the messy floor.

"Do you know where my black book is?" Loki asked.

"No idea what you're talking about. What's in the book? Spells? Mother wouldn't approve-"

"They're not spells," she frowned, leaving Thor and his disgusting room. I must've left it in my locker, she thought, zipping her bag and headed to the front door. "Bye Mother!" she said goodbye and stepped out onto the street.

She pulled the sleeves of her dark green sweater past her wrists as she made her way to school. The walk to school used to be short but after some of the bullies who skipped the first period began hanging out on one of the main corners, Loki had to change his route, which took 13 minutes longer.

She took off her hair tie and began plaiting part of her hair to wrap around the messy bun she'd made in the morning.

"Hey look it's the emo from the 'Special Kids' school," sneered a voice from behind.

'Shoot' thought Loki, as she sped up her pace. They must've changed their hang-out spot. She didn't know who they were, they went to a different school.

"Hey, listen to us bitch," yelled another kid, two of them coming on either side of her. Loki ignored them.

"Hey weren't you a guy yesterday?" laughed the one to her right. He poked her on the side-boob.

Loki automatically punched him in the jaw. "Hey!" her voice was a bit higher than usual.

"Aww, you gonna cry girl?" smirked the third. Loki frowned. Two guys and one girl.

"Chose one gender bitch, or are you trying to steal all the options slut," The girl crossed her arms, leaning forward.

Loki's hands trembled. She couldn't fight back, she might accidentally use her powers. She just continued to ignore them and turned to keep walking. They followed. Loki uncomfortably crossed her arms and took out her phone.

Her fingers shook as she began texting Thor.

Loki: -Bullies on White St.-

She tried to block the insults from her mind but they kept coming closer. "Just stop it alright!" she yelled at them when she gave up.

"No need to be snappy, you low-life hoe," the girl hissed at her.

"Your words are so foolishly and ignorantly composed that I cannot believe you understand them," Loki muttered, turned back, almost jogging away.

"Hey! What'd you say?" she screamed.

Loki's phone buzzed. She took out her phone.

Thor: -so?-

Loki was about to text back, but the girl slapped the phone out of her hands. "No calling 911, you weak-ass witch!" Loki phone fell onto the pavement. She sighed and squatted down to pick it up, very aware that the other two were behind her.

"I 'said', What. Did. You. Say?!" The girl said threateningly, getting close to her.

"Listen to her, or are you deaf?" one of the boys repeated.

Loki shook her head. "No, I'm not," she finally said and sprinted off.

"Hey!" but they couldn't be bothered to follow.

After two blocks, Loki stopped running. She was close to the school, just down the street. She glanced down at her phone.

Loki: -nevermind-

She let out a deep breath and entered the calm garden of the school. At least, it was calm for a few seconds.

"Look, it's greasy king. Oh sorry, I meant queen,"

Loki made a face and sighed. "Alright, stop it, foolish persons," she turned around to face Malekieth and some of his buddies.

"Ladies don't speak like that, naughty girl, do you want a spanking?" he chuckled and was followed by a series of stupid comments made by his friends.

Loki's face didn't change a shade. "No thank you, I'm sure you give Don enough of those,"

One of the guys in his group flushed a darker shade. "How dare he," he stepped forward.

Loki took a step back. He unsheathed a knife. Loki's eyes widened. "Woah, hey there now," she held her hands out as if to calm him down.

"I won't be mistaken for one of those gay-ass oafs," he growled. He lifted the knife as was about to strike down.

Loki tried rolled out of it, but he managed to put her into a lock and held the knife at her neck. "I'm sure we can come to an agreement," Loki stuttered.

"Nah, this is more fun," he smirked, lifting the knife again. As he stuck down, Loki shut her eyes, bracing herself for the pain. Nothing, instead there was a clanging sound.

Loki opened her eyes. A familiar golden orange shield with ancient markings on it hovered over her. The knife lay meters away from her. She kneed him in the shin and got up. Loki scrambled away as he howled in pain.

Loki stood up and glanced at Malekeith, who walked off. She stepped back and looked around for Stephen. She found him, with Tony and another girl running over.

"Holy shit, are you alright?" Tony gasped.

"I'm fine," Loki's breathing was quick.

"You've got a cut," Stephen pointed to a point on her cheek and jaw. "It's not severe though,"

"I'll head to the nurse," she glanced up at him. "Thanks, about before,"

"No problem. I just hope I don't get in trouble," Stephen smiled.

"Fury's an idiot if he punishes you for breaking that rule," Tony said, getting mad.

"It's alright, I'm sure Director Fury will understand," the girl assured.

"I'm Loki," she introduced, "This probably isn't a very good first impression," she chuckled.

"Margeret Carter, but you can call me Peggy," the brunette replied.

Loki nodded. "I'll head to the nurse," she waved goodbye and entered the building.

"Who was that?" Peggy asked when she left.

"Thor's brother-sister," Tony corrected himself.

"She's always here earlier than Thor," Stephen explained, seeing Peggy's confused face, although he explained the wrong thing.

"Right...anyway, is this it?" Peggy asked. "The whole school?"

"No, there's one more building, but I don't need to show you that since it's the Combats hall," Tony responded.

"Oh," Peggy looked at Stephen. "You're an Enhanced?"

Stephen nodded. "Yeah. It's not too special, Tony's an Enhanced too,"

Tony frowned playfully. "Technically, I am, because of this," he patted his chest, the faint blue glow slightly visible through his black shirt

Peggy smiled, already knowing about his arc-reactor. "Is anyone else in your group an Enhanced?"

Tony nodded. "Yeah, we have Steve, Bucky, Loki, Thor, Wanda...Stephen," he nodded to him. "I think that's it..."

Peggy smiled. "You and Stephen seem like good friends,"

Both Stephen and Tony snorted and said "We're not," at the same time.

Peggy smiled. "Sure," she turned to face the front and paused. "Is that...?"

Tony looked where she was looking. "Yeah," Steve and Bucky were talking to each other as they unknowingly approached them. "Shh," he smirked, pushing both of them behind the big staircase.

"What-"

"Three...two...one!" Tony jumped out and scared Steve and Bucky.

"What the-" Steve stopped himself from punching him. "Tony what on earth are you-" he paused when Peggy and Stephen stood up. "Peggy. Hi," He brushed himself down. "I'm Steve if you didn't recognize me,"

"Yeah, I do..." Peggy stared at him in the eye. "I like the glow up,"

"Thanks," Steve answered, but Peggy had her attention now on Bucky.

"What's this, Bucky hiding behind Steve? Wasn't it the other way around?" she smiled, placing a hand on his shoulder.

"Hey," he smiled at her. "It's nice to see you again," he shifted his eyes when he felt her feel the lump of metal of his prosthetic connecting to his real shoulder.

"I guess I have a lot of catching up to do," she patted him on the shoulder.

"Yeah," Tony crossed his arms, raising his eyebrow.

...SceneChange...

The hallways were busy and Tony had finally gotten some alone time after leaving Peggy with her cousin. He weaved himself through the crowd and found Loki.

"Hey, Lokes," he called, getting her attention before walked and disappeared into the busy corridor.

"Yeah?"

"I think I accidentally grabbed this yesterday," he passed her the sketchbook.

Loki grabbed it quickly. "Did you look in it?"

Tony hesitated. "Yes,"

Loki sighed. "Don't tell anyone," she put it in her bag. "Thank you,"

"No problem," Tony pursed his lips. Finding out who she liked would take a bit longer. He quickly realized he had class and ran towards the Combats hall.

Tony's POV:

Peggy was amazing, as always. Now I would be able to see her in action, as we both had Specialized Combats now. We were focussing on hand to hand as if we didn't have enough of it in our Junior years. So instead of our cool black leather and metal protection armor, we had normal gym or fitness clothes.

I had just some red gym shorts and a black shirt one. I was late to class, so I was still putting chalk and wrapping my hand up in wraps as the teacher was explaining the exercise.

I looked around the circle we had made around Mrs. Adams and the mat. Sharon was in this class. I hadn't noticed before, and I wouldn't've if she wasn't standing next to Peggy.

"Okay, class, as I showed you that last presentation, I'm sure Tony would be able to demonstrate," Mrs. Adams said my name. I glanced up, unaware of what I was supposed to do.

"Sure," I mindlessly said, not knowing what else to do.

"And, who else would like to try and see if they can use the technic to take Mr. Stark down,"

No. Not- Steve put up his arm.

"Sure, Rogers,"

Steve stepped forward, adjusting his wraps. "Sorry, Tony."

Jeez alright. What was the technique?

Avoid the punch.

Duck under his torso.

Punch his side.

No, don't- too late. He already picked me up and put me back down on my back and pinned me down. There were some claps and I smiled sheepishly.

"Who else?" Mrs. Adams asked.

Bucky put his arm up. Okay, both serum buddies want to take me on, alright.

I looked around as Bucky walked on. I noticed Steve glancing at Peggy. I looked back at Bucky. I saw him glanced at Steve, who was glancing at Peggy.

Oh dear. Was this a love triangle? What happened in primary school? Did both Bucky and Steve like her?

Punch in the stomach.

Distracted. Focus.

Avoid arm. Duck under.

Kick the back of the knee. He fell down onto his knees. Before he could do something, I put my arms around his neck.

He fell onto his back, squashing me. He tried to peel my arms off his neck. I managed to wedge my leg around his metal arm and held it down.

He wriggled, but I held on. Tap Tap. He tapped out. I let go.

"Well done Mr. Stark, but not the technique," Mrs. Adams said. I shrugged and went back to the circle. I looked at Bucky. He was rubbing his neck and staring at Steve and Peggy, who were whispering.

Steve whispering during class? Something was up.

Bucky's POV:

Steve volunteered. That's fine. He always volunteers. But this time it was for a different purpose. He kept glancing at Peggy. It was to impress her. Even though he didn't do the technique properly, he still got Steve out. He barely gloated to him about it like he always does.

Instead, he went to stand next to her instead of next to me.

When Mrs. Adams asked for another volunteer, I put my hand up. I normally never volunteer.

I tried to do the technique but I got distracted. I overheard Steve whisper something to do with 'plums', but as I tried to get more of the conversation, Tony got me into a lock and I had to tap out.

As I walked back to the circle, Steve barely paid any attention to my defeat. He was still whispering to Peggy. He never does that.

'It's okay,' I reminded myself, 'he can like her,'

But what if he forgets about me?

Tony's POV:

Was I this annoying when I whisper to someone else in classes?

Bucky's POV:

Will this be the norm now? He and her partner up? Who will I partner with? Probably Sam.

Tony's POV:

Jeez, I was so distracted I forgot to pick my partner. The only person left was Stephen. We really are hanging out more, it's gross.

Bucky's POV:

I was paired with Sam, but I could barely do the technique, Steve was getting close to Peggy as she teaches him how to do it properly.

Tony's POV:

Stephen is useless at this.

Bucky's POV:

I felt my anxiety playing up. What if too many things change?

Tony's POV;

Too many thoughts went through my head at once. Things were changing. Steve wasn't paired with Bucky. If there was a love triangle, that's never good news. Leave it to Steve to make things complicated.

Bucky's POV:

Sam's fine, but Steve's my best friend, the best I'll get seeing that he's straight. But now, I guess I would always be the second best anyway.

Tony's POV:

I collapsed on the matt. Bad things happen when there's a new kid. Too many shifts in the normalness of our happy group.

Bucky's POV:

I collapsed on the matt. I hate anxiety. I felt my skin sweat as Sam's voice echoed in my head.

Tony's POV:

Fuck.