Hi, me here, in the middle of the night (at least here). I am happy about this chapter, and I liked writing like short stories for all the characters. I hope you liked them all, and I know that they all are different in length and what the character did. But I hope that you think they are okay. I am starting to get a bit more comfortable with writing as the different avengers. Still think I have a long way to go, but yeah.

Anyway, enjoy the reading. And once more I want to thank the people who follows and comment on the story, thank you so much :)

The following week, waiting for Thor was different for all of them. They all was forced to deal with Loki, one way or another, something that was hard for them. They all understood a bit more what Cara was going through and they almost wanted to give her a medal for it.

The week started with Bruce who learned that a smile isn't always the most helpful thing, in fact it can make things worse.

Day 1

"Here" Cara looked up when Bruce put down a tea cup in front of her.
"Thank you" she said and took a sip of the tea.
"You look kind of tired" he said, and she understood that it was his way of asking if she was okay.
"Yeah. It took me a few hours to calm down Loki after the alarm rang in the middle of the night" she explained.
"Sorry about that" Bruce told her and she just shook her head.
"You guys have duties and I am surprised that any alarm hadn't sounded earlier. But I hope everything went well?" she asked.
"As well as it could. Magneto is locked up again, at least for the moment. He seems to have a way of always getting out. The town didn't get to destroyed and Tony didn't destroy the tower even if he was mad because he needed to stay back so Magneto couldn't hurt him." Bruce explained.
"Yeah I could tell he was upset after I manage to calm down Loki and make him sleep I took care of Tony too. He was making things explode down in his lab. And he wasn't happy." She said with a tired smile.
"Sorry about that. But last time Magneto caught him really bad, almost killed him, we couldn't take that risk again" Bruce informed her and she nodded.
"I understood why you guys did, so nothing to feel sorry about. Tony become happy after he got to run his tests on me" she said.
"How did it go?"
"Besides that he poked me with all sort of things to see what would cause a magical reaction, and took blood, injected me with things and all the other crazy things he did, it went well" she said. "Just made me really tired. My body always tries to heal itself as fast as it can. And to protect me against everything it feels is a danger. So Tony didn't make it easy, I needed to concentrate so that I didn't kill him by accident"
"Could you?" Bruce asked and gave her an look that demanded answers.
"I don't know, I may never know how my body reacts when something new happens, that's why I was careful. Therefore, I am more tired than I would be otherwise" Cara took another sip of the tea. "Anyway he is still down in the lab, trying to figure out the scientific way of magic. I can tell you that there isn't any"
"How would you know?" Bruce asked.
"He isn't the first one to run tests on me, tho he is the first one to ask nicely" Cara admitted and Bruce nodded.
"You should try to get some sleep" Bruce said as the first sunbeams hit the kitchen.

Bruce was reading the newspaper when he heard steps behind him and he expected it to be Steve getting up for breakfast, or maybe Tony that wanted to show him something down in the lab, but when he turned around he saw Loki standing in the hallway. He looked really lost and unsure. Bruce didn't know how to handle this.
"Um" he started which seemed to startle Loki who backed away from him. "Oh sorry didn't mean to scare you. Are you looking for Cara?"
Loki didn't seem to know what to do, Bruce thought Loki would run away from him when he started to back away even more. Bruce understood that he scared him, or rather the thought of the other guy, which wasn't that surprising considering what he did the last time. But suddenly Loki stopped and nodded at his question.
"She is in her room, sleeping is my guess" Bruce told him and Loki seemed to think about what he just said. "Do you want me to take you to her room?"
Slowly Loki nodded and Bruce tried a friendly smile but that seemed to do it worst.
"Guess I am no good at this" he said to himself before he walked towards Loki who backed away even more, until the wall stopped him. "Oh yeah right, it's this way"
Bruce walked past Loki who stood there for a moment before he followed him far behind, Bruce guessing keeping his distance if he would Hulk out.

The walk towards Cara's room wasn't long, but it felt like the longest in his life, so when he saw the door he felt reviled. He knocked but she didn't answer.
"Jarvis is Cara still sleeping?" Bruce asked.
"Yes" Jarvis informed him, which made Bruce really unsure what to do. He looked at Loki, then at the door and then back at Loki.
"Um, do you want me to wake her up?" he asked really unsure, he didn't know what Loki wanted, had something happened? But when Loki shook his head to let him know that he didn't want to wake her up, Bruce smiled, that was really nice of him. Of course the smile only made Loki to back away even further. Damn he wasn't good at this at all.
"Do you need something?" Bruce asked but Loki didn't answer, he only lowered his head and Bruce understood that he was ashamed. "Is it food?"
Slowly Loki nodded and Bruce smiled, at least he figured that out.
"Do you want me to get cook something?" Bruce asked and Loki didn't seem to know what to answer. "Or I can warm something that Cara have cooked"
Loki slowly nodded again.
"Okay, then let's go to the kitchen"

Loki had walked after him very slowly, monitoring every move he took and it made Bruce very nervous, which Loki seemed to notice and he got even more nervous. Bruce didn't know how to handle this, he thought again. He was not meant to take care of people in situations like this, or maybe it was Loki he couldn't take care of. The god stood in the kitchen, almost trying to disappear into the wall.
"So let's see what we have" Bruce said as he looked in the fridge. "AHA"
He turned around very happy when he found some of Cara's pancakes since yesterday, but when he looked at Loki he saw that the god had taken cover in the corner, covering his head with his hands and arms.
Bruce cursed himself for not thinking that his sudden happy sound and turn could have scared Loki.
"It was only me. Sorry" he said and kneeled down to try to get Loki to look at him, the god turned his head towards him and Bruce smiled but then Loki turned away again. Bruce cursed himself again, for not thinking that his smile could scare Loki, not that he understood how.
"Loki?" Cara suddenly said in a very calm and friendly voice. "It's only me"
Bruce took a deep breath, felt like he had been saved. Loki had dropped his hands and was looking at Cara who only smiled, and her smile didn't seem to scare him.
"I will fix you something to eat" she told Loki, but the god didn't move, and Cara didn't say anything about it when she turned towards him. "Thank you for trying Bruce"
"Not sure you should thank me, seems like I only did it worst" Bruce admitted and handed over the food he was holding.
"It's never easy to know what you shall do the first time, but you did your best. And there for I thank you" she said and started to set the table for them all and fixing Loki's breakfast as Bruce more or less ran from the kitchen to not make it worst.
Bruce decided that he shouldn't be alone with Loki in a long time, seeing that his smile scared him that much.

Steve was next, trying to find Cara to ask her to come along for a run. But instead he finds Loki, and he learns that just trying to be helpful can make things worse.

Day 2

Steve was just coming back from a run, feeling refreshed and like the day had just started. When he got back to the tower he felt the smell from freshly made bread and he understood that Cara was already up. Having her around, making breakfast for them was something he really appreciated. None of them was any good with making food, and the ones that could pass on at least making something, wasn't near as good as hers.

"Good morning" he said as he walked into the kitchen.
"Good morning Captain. Just back from your run?" she asked as she took a piece from a melon and flipped a pancake.
"Yes. You should join me sometime" he said, not really sure why he actually said that. God he hopped that he didn't sound like he meant something else, or was coming on to her.
"If I ever get the time, that would be lovely" she answered and he nodded, thank god, it didn't seem like she thought he meant something else, which he didn't.
"Just name a time" he said and god, it sounded like he did it again. But she just laughed and gave him a plate and he sat downed. He didn't dare to look at her, afraid he would say something stupid again. He didn't mean to be disrespectful and try to scare her. But this silence was killing him, he needed to say something.
"Um, how is Loki doing?" he asked, that was a safe bet, couldn't say something stupid there.
"He is doing fine. Bruce scared him a bit yesterday, but it's not Bruce fault, he did his best. But I think it was enough that he was a man" she explained.
"I can imagine. Bruce isn't that scary, it's rather the other guy who is" Steve told her.
"So I heard. Let's hope that I don't need to meet him, and especially that Loki doesn't need to meet him" she said and took another piece of the melon.
"That may be for the best." Steve agreed before they went silent again.

They had a moment of peace and quiet before Tony come in demanding food.
"You can have food if you are nice. But if you are demanding it, I will make sure you don't get any!" Cara said holding a wooden spoon that she was pointing at him.
"My house my rules!" Tony said.
"My food my rules!" Cara only answered and Tony tried to ignore her when she smiled and snapped with her fingers, and Tony didn't understand what happened but when he leaned forward to take some food he hit an invisible wall.
"Hey!" he shouted and she gave him a look.
"Be nice and you will get some food too!" she told him and Tony gave her an irritated look before he yield.
"Can I please have some food?" he asked and she snapped with her fingers again and the wall disappeared and Tony happily took some food.
"You are welcome to stay here forever" Steve said with a big smile.
"Already asking her to move in with you?" Tony teased and Steve become really red and Cara gave Tony an angry look.
"Tony" she warned him.
"Yes mom" Tony said sarcastically.
"Be glad I am not your mom, because then I would have you grounded by now!" Cara told him and started to put away all the dishes before she took the tray and walked towards Loki's room.

Steve looked after her before he turned to Tony.
"Don't say such inappropriate things" he said and Tony just laughed.
"Then don't give me such openings" he said as he took some more pancakes as the others joined them at the table.
"What things?" Clint asked.
"Steve wants Cara to move in with him" Tony said and Clint started cough.
"I did not. I said that she was welcome to stay here forever, after she schooled Tony, that's not the same thing! Is it?" he asked really unsure.
"It is not, and I am sure that Cara didn't think it was either" Natasha told him and he felt a bit at ease.
"But if it was, don't let Loki hear it" Tony said and ran as Natasha gave him a deadly glance.

Later that afternoon he founded himself having some time over and he thought he would go for another run, and thought that he could ask Cara if she had time over.
"Jarvis where is Cara?" he asked.
"She was in her room the last time I saw her Mr. Rogers" Jarvis answered him and Steve walked towards her room, knocked and then walked in.
"Cara I was thinking going for another run…" he said when he saw that Cara wasn't there only Loki. Steve looked at the god who looked at him with fear.
"Oh Hi Loki, it's just me. Have you seen Cara?" he asked the god and took another step to see if Cara was in the room. He didn't watch Loki that carefully, and he didn't see when he backed away from him. Steve turned his head towards Loki when he heard him fall down, over what seemed to be a chair.
"Oh sorry let me help you" Steve said and took another step towards him to help him but that made it worst it seemed since Loki started to shiver. Steve stopped and looked at Loki, he could see that he had backed into the wall. "It's only me"
Steve tried to walk closer but stopped when Loki started to have a panic attack. Steve didn't know how to handle this.
"Um, take it easy Loki. It's okay. No one is going to hurt you" Steve said trying to make Loki breath calmly by doing it himself, but that didn't seem to get to Loki at all, and Steve trying to get his attention by speaking louder seemed to make it worst.

Steve could suddenly hear a song being sang and he saw Cara coming back into the room. She didn't look at Loki as she kept singing the song. She walked around the room, she lifted the chair again. Dropped some books on the bed and put some flowers in a vase. Steve followed her, was she not going to take care of Loki. But when Steve looked back at Loki he seemed to have calmed down.
"Thank god that you got here. I didn't know what I did…I am so sorry Cara" Steve said and she just smiled at him.
"It's okay. I know you didn't mean it" she told him and turned towards Loki. "It's okay Loki. It's just Steve, he is not going to hurt you"
Loki looked at her and only nodded.
"Was it something you wanted Steve?" she asked and he had almost forgot why he was there.
"It wasn't something important. We can take it another time" he said and left the room just as Cara sat down on the floor and started to read as she kept singing the song.
Steve learned that he better ask Jarvis where Loki is next time, so he don't need to frighten the other man that much. Seeing him back away from him like that, actually made him really sad. Steve went to get ready for a run, he needed to clear his thoughts.

Clint learned on the third day that trying to avoid Loki could make things worse.

Day 3

"Both Bruce and Steve told me that being alone with Loki was the worst. They didn't know how to handle it" Clint said to Natasha as they sparred.
"And you think you would?" Natasha asked and Clint almost laughed.
"I am very sure that I would make things so much worse than they did" he admitted.
"Good, so try to avoid him, because you would most likely just say something stupid" Natasha said with a smile.
"Hey!" Clint tried to give her a schooling look but didn't manage.

When they was done with the sparring they went to the upper floors to take something to eat.
"I would love to see Tony alone with Loki tho" Clint said with a laugh.
"One of them would die" Natasha informed him.
"Or they would be best friends. I mean normally they are both very narcissistic, sarcastic, and smart. On the other hand, when I think of it, let they never be friend, it would be the worst" Clint said in horror as he took a cup of coffee.
"What would you like to have for dinner?" Cara said when she walked into the kitchen making Clint look around to see where Loki was, making sure he shouldn't have the chance to be left alone with him. Cara gave him a strange look.
"He don't want to be alone with Loki" Natasha explained and Cara nodded.
"I see" she said and then went over to the fridge. "But don't worry, Loki is in his room"
At that Clint seemed to relax.
"Then I can tell you that I would very much prefer something Indian for dinner" Clint said and Cara seemed to think about it.
"Not what I do best, but I think I can manage to do something" she said and Clint happily walked out from the kitchen, ignoring Natasha whispering something to Cara and hearing the other woman laugh.
Clint walked towards the TV, knowing that Loki was nowhere near, when he suddenly saw the god walking down the corridor towards the kitchen. Clint looked around and then jumped and hide behind a plant that stood there. It was the worst hiding spot he could have picked, but Loki didn't seem to see him and he released a breath, continued walking towards the TV.

That day Clint got to experience how hard to was avoid Loki, and he almost felt like the god stalked him, which he knew wasn't the case. But he couldn't understand how Loki was like everywhere when he didn't even walk to that many places.
After the incident with the hiding behind the plant he almost ran into him in the kitchen when he went to return the mug. He met him on his way to the elevator on his way to look for Steve, then he almost walked into him when Natasha called him back to the kitchen to set the plates. That of course made Loki jump back almost jumping into Cara and making her drop the saucepan. Loki looked at her with horror but she assured him that she wasn't hurt and that it was okay.
Clint fled the kitchen before Natasha could school him for it. Clint sat the plates, hiding behind the chairs when Loki walked back to his room, making Clint feel at ease again, until Natasha schooled him for what happened in the kitchen.
But after that he thought he was safe since Cara went to give Loki his food, and he normally didn't need to see Loki until the morning, and Clint had decided that he would do some training the whole day. So when he walked towards the bathroom and just as he was about to touch the knob the door open and Loki stands there Clint can't take it anymore.
"Come on! What is this! Here I am trying to avoid you and I see you everywhere, are you following me!" he said in an angry voice, how was this even happening. Clint looked up at Jarvis.
"Is he following me?" he asked and Jarvis just snorted, not even bothering to give him an answer.
"What is going on?" Natasha asked as she walked towards him.
"He is everywhere!" Clint said and pointed at Loki, now seeing how he had lowered his head, and how he closed his fist, but Clint saw how blood slipped between them, guessing Loki's nails was the reason for that. He could see how scared Loki was and that he was trying to say something but he couldn't.
"Well done Clint" Natasha said and hit him just as Cara got out from her room.
"There you are Loki, I have been looking for you" she said in a calm voice, not even looking at Clint. "I had some maps I wanted to show you"
Loki didn't look at her but she didn't say anything.
"If that's okay with you. Felt like I needed some help figure out which way was the best for a ride" she said and Loki looked at her and she smiled. Seeing that he ones more was surprised that she was asking for his help.
"Since you are an excellent rider, and I am not too bad myself, we should be able to figure something out together" she said with a light laugh and Loki nodded and took a step towards her and they went to Loki's room.
"You are an idiot Clint!" Natasha said and Clint know that she was right and that he wouldn't hear the end of it so he fled into the bathroom hoping that she would leave him alone, which didn't happen. She schooled him as much anyway.

On the fourth day Tony learned that Loki read a book about mechanics and felt really excited, but he soon got to learn that you could get too excited and that could make things much much worse.

Day 4

When Tony finally got back up from the lab, locking himself away since Natasha's death glare a few days earlier, he was tired. He had been working almost for 48 hours and now he needed coffee. Had Bruce been there he would most likely told him to drink tea if anything, but he didn't care. Coffee was his drug, or one of them, but who could ever say no to coffee.

As Tony entered the kitchen he looked at the watch on the oven, the red numbers told him that the clock was 2 am. Not as late as he thought, but he knew that the other would be asleep by now. Boring people, sleeping. Why sleep when you could be awake? Tony knew that they slept because they could. He was still too much awake not to have the nightmares since his time in the desert. But he had learned to live with it, and worked around it. He just needed to stay awake long enough for him to more or less just become unconscious and sleep through it.
Tony took his mug and started walking back to his lab.

When he walked towards the elevators he saw that the light was lit in the library, something he found very strange, it was rare that someone used it. He walked towards it wondering who was in there. When he opened the door he saw that Loki was in there with Cara. Not so surprised anymore, he actually got a bit disappointed. He had almost hopped that someone had tried to break in, so he would have something to do. But Cara had told them that Loki liked to read, and that was one of the way they dealt with this, they read together.
"Here Loki, I found a book you may like" Cara said and walked towards the god that looked at her. "It's about mechanics, building stuff, in this one I think they are building a robot"
"It's a very specific robot, it's build to be used when you build cars" Tony said and entered the room. Loki jumped at the sudden voice but when Cara smiled at him, he didn't do anything more.
"Hi Tony" she said and Tony walked over to a shelf.
"I think I have some better books here" he said and started to look. "So you like engineering?"
"He likes all knowledge Tony, but I figured out that he took a liking to your machines here, since they don't have anything like that in Asgard" Cara explained.
"Really? That is fantastic" Tony said very happily. "Here let me show you the good stuff"
Tony started to walk around in the room collecting books.
"This one, and this one. Maybe this one too" he said and walked towards Loki and dropped books on a desk near him.
"Have you read this one? Nah I don't think you have, and even if you have you should read it again" Tony said and started caring more books.
"Here Loki catch" Tony said and threw a book soon followed by another on in Loki's direction. Not prepared, they hit Loki in the stomach and head and he feel down on his knees and Cara looked worried at him as he looked towards Tony with fear.
"This one too, and this one too, but not this one" Tony declared.
"Loki" Cara said to show him that she was there since Loki looked very unsure towards the situation, and Cara understood why. Sometimes people pretended to be interested in what you liked to get closer to you, before they attacked you.
"Tony" Cara said but he didn't seem to hear her. "Tony!" she then said with a louder voice.
"What?" he asked, looking up from behind a shelf with five books in his hands.
"It's enough" she told him and Tony looked at Loki, wondering what happened.
"What's wrong with him?" he asked.
"You threw books at him" Cara said .
"Did not. Or did I? I warned him at least" Tony said and Cara gave him a cold look. "Oh yeah, my bad. Sorry Loki"
Loki didn't even look at him.
"I think we have enough books for a while. Let's go back Loki" Cara said and Loki stood up as Cara picked up a few books and they left the library.
"I just wanted him to read the good ones" Tony said to himself. "I guess I have to show him them another time"
Then Tony left the library and walked down to his lab.

On the fifth day Natasha asks if they want to watch a movie with them. Learning from the guys mistake, knowing what she shouldn't do, and it went very well.

Day 5

When Natasha walked into the kitchen the fifth day she thought Cara looked really tired.
"Long week?" Natasha asked.
"Well between Tony throwing books at Loki, and Clint screaming at him it did become a long week. Bruce and Steve wasn't as stupid but they didn't help either" she admitted and Natasha nodded understandingly.
"They are not always aware of their actions" she informed her and Cara laughed.
"I say so" she said and took a cup of coffee. "They even made me drink coffee, that's how tired they made me."
"If it's any consolation Loki seems to be doing better. He does at least walk out to the kitchen and goes and looks for you if he needs anything" Natasha said and Cara nodded.
"I hadn't thought of that. Sometimes it's easy to get so caught up in it that you don't notice things like that" Cara said with a big smile and started making breakfast.

When they guys joined her at the table Cara had already left for Loki and she thought it was a perfect moment to talk to them.
"Okay we need to talk" she said.
"We are in trouble" Tony said. "What have you done Clint?"
"Me? What have you done?" Clint answered.
"It's all of you!" Natasha told them before the other two manage to start a fight.
"All of us?" Steve asked.
"Yes all of you." Natasha answered. "It's about Loki. I am sure you guys don't do the stuff you do attentional, but you really need to be more careful around him. Not only for his sake, it's for Cara's too. She was really tired this morning"
"She seemed to be doing alright yesterday" Bruce said.
"It's because she don't want to worry Loki. Seriously guys, step up your game!" she said.
"We shall try to be better" Clint said.
"Maybe we should read some books about this" Steve said.
"Not homework" Tony complained but then smiled.
"Jarvis, give me a map about rape victim, PTSD and other stuff I may need to know, and send it to everyone in the tower" Tony said.
"As you wish sir" Jarvis answered.
"See, problem solved" Tony announced very proudly.
"Remember to read it too!" Natasha said.

The day had gone by very fast. Between training, making the other, especially Tony read the material Jarvis put together and doing some other errands it was soon evening and they was in the kitchen.
"I think we should go for pizza and bad movies" Tony said.
"But Cara's food" Clint protested.
"She needs a break from cooking. She is a guest not our maid" Steve told him and when Clint was on his way to say something Natasha silenced him with a look.
"I think it's a good idea. Tony order the pizza. Bruce you pick the movies and I am going to ask Cara and Loki if they want to watch with us" Natasha said and left they guys.

When she got to Loki's room, which was the one Jarvis had said they both were in the knocked and waited for one of them too open. When Cara opened Natasha gave her a smiled.
"Hi" she started "We are going to eat some pizza and watch a movie, want to join us?"
Cara turned towards Loki who sat calmly in a chair reading.
"Loki?" she asked and he looked up at her. "The others are going to eat pizza, a sort of food found here on earth, and watch a movie, it's like watching pictures, but they are moving"
Loki looked at Natasha and then back to Cara and even Natasha could see that Loki was thinking of what could happen if he went into a room with all of them.
"Don't worry Loki, I am there too. And we can leave whenever you feel like it" Cara said and Loki slowly stood up and Natasha actually smiled.
"I am letting the others know"

"You manage to get them to join us? And without scaring Loki" Clint said impressed.
"It wasn't that hard. I don't even know how you guys managed to scare him that much" Natasha said as she sat down on the floor in front of the TV, leaning against Clint's legs as he sat in the chair.
"What movie did you pick?" Steve asked Bruce.
"I went for Ice Age 4" he said and they all looked at him. "What I tried to find a movie Loki could watch without, you know"
"Then you did a good job, I don't think that will get him scared" Tony admitted as he entered with the pizzas and he started to get glasses and other stuff from the kitchen.
"Hi" Cara said when they entered the room. They could all tell that Loki was really unsure about this, so they moved away a bit from the couch to give him some more space. Loki carefully sat down, far on the edge so he could run away if he felt like it. Cara sat next to him, but giving him space too.
"So let's watch a movie" Clint said excited and took a slice of pizza just as Bruce started the film.
"Here" Cara said to Loki who looked down at the pizza. "I know it looks strange but it taste really good, and I promise no corn"
Loki gave her a small smile before he carefully took the pizza and Cara smiled and then turned her attention towards the movie, not wanting to make him uncomfortable by looking at him.

Natasha smiled when it had seemed like Loki liked pizza, he ate at least a few pieces and he had then watched the movie with very curious eyes. During the movie she actually thought that she saw him smile ones, but as soon as she thought it, it was gone.
Sometime during the movie she saw that Loki had fallen asleep leaning against Cara who smiled at him. She saw how relaxed it made her, so when she also felt asleep, leaning against Loki, Natasha signed to the other to be quiet when they left. The guys looked at the couple on the couch and smiled as they started to sneak away. Steve carefully put a blanket over them as they left the room.
Natasha turned off the light and they all stepped into the elevator.
"It was worth watching a bad movie to see them so relaxed" Clint said.
"It wasn't a bad movie, but I got the point" Tony said and soon they started to arguing if it was a good movie or not and the other three just signed as they went to their own bedrooms, feeling happy over the evening, not hearing Thor landing on the roof, after being away almost a week.