Hello all, just got back to college, ready to finish this god forsaken semester!
Well, here's a little more fluffy stuff before shit goes down.
Actually, I have no idea what's happening next chapter, we finished this last year and broke the chapters up then. So I'm just like you, except I know everything already.
Okay, I'm rambling and embarrassing myself.
Enjoy the chapter!
Raina woke up relatively early that morning; she had a mission to accomplish. After she managed to snake her way out of Loki's sleeping grasp, Raina snuck her way next door into Gwen's room. "Psssttt! Gwen, hey, hey, Gwen!" Raina whispered as she poked the shoulder of a sleeping Gwen.
"Rain what do you want?" Gwen groaned, still mostly asleep.
"You need to go grocery shopping." Raina stated.
"Why are you in here telling me this now?" Gwen sighed as she sat up in bed, rubbing sleep out from her eyes.
"And take Bruce with you." Raina added, ignoring Gwen's inquiry. Raina back up from the bed as Gwen threw back the covers and stood up. "Bruce?! Wha- why?" Gwen stuttered, her face turning a shade of red. Raina gave her an evil grin.
"Yeah, Bruce. 'Cus he went shopping with Rae first last time he was here. So I think it's only right that he goes again," Raina half-lied. Gwen did not believe her, but went with it anyway.
"Okay, fine. Now get out of my room you creeper," Gwen told Raina as the younger woman disappeared out the window. "You're the reason why I lock my door!" Gwen yelled after her.
Half an hour later, Gwen came down the stairs ready to leave. "Hey Bruce?" Gwen called from the living room.
"Yeah Gwen?" He asked walking out of the kitchen.
"Rain's announced that you will be coming with me to do grocery shopping today. Did she not tell you?" Gwen asked him as she was putting on her shoes.
"No, but then again, that is something that Rain would do. Just give me a minute and I'll be ready."
"Sure thing." Bruce left the room, returning with a hat, the one Rachel bought him the first time he was here. He quickly slipped on his shoes and the two then headed out the door.
"So Gwen, how did you meet with Rachel and Rain?" Bruce finally spoke up after they had walked for some time in silence.
"Well, when I am working, I'm a yoga instructor and a few years ago, Jessica wanted to take some yoga classes and that's how Rae and I met. She just happened to be up here when Jess first started to go and Michael couldn't take her. I met Rain a couple of weeks after that, she had decided to come with Rae to pick up Jess. I wasn't really sure about Rain back then, but then again, I'm still not sure about her now." Gwen laughed.
Bruce smiled and nodded, "Yeah, she's a little harder to understand than Rachel."
"Truer words have never been spoken."
"So you're a yoga instructor. What's that like?"
"Boring," Gwen laughed, "But it's good for my lifestyle, so I do it, and I do it well when I have to."
"What type of lifestyle do you have?"
"A transient one. I'm pretty much always on the move."
"I know a little of what that's like," Bruce said, smiling to her.
"Oh yeah, I forgot. So you guys are exactly like the ones we've watched?"
"So I've been told," Bruce smiled, glancing over to Gwen, then, partially to get the attention of himself, he said, "You know why I'm used to it, why are you living that type of life?"
"I'm kind of terrible at managing my own life. I can keep a job, I just forget to pay the bills and whatnot, so I'm used to getting kicked out of places. Now I only travel with whatever fits in my car."
Bruce smiled, "It's a more relaxing reason than mine."
"I'm not complaining about it," Gwen said quickly, "I accepted that I was going to live this was a long time ago and I actually do like it."
"I wasn't saying you were," Bruce laughed, "It's just interesting for me to see someone who does it because they want to, not because they have to."
Gwen looked up at Bruce, "Thanks."
"No problem. But what does your family think about it?"
"My parents have always been more uninvolved in my life and I was an only child, so they don't really have an input in my life."
Bruce nodded, but then realised that, logically, Gwen's next question would be about his family, which caused him to quickly ask, "So is that why you're so independent?"
Gwen looked at him for a second, "I'm not sure. I don't really consider myself all that independent because I'm terrible with money."
"Tons of people are terrible with their money."
"Not Rachel."
"Yes but you are not Rachel."
"I used to want to be more like her."
"Not now?"
"Not like I used to."
"Why not?" Bruce asked.
"You know how when you first meet someone, you think they're perfect, but then you get to know them and you start to see their flaws and you realise that they are actually a person?"
"Yes," Bruce said, thinking that he knew where Gwen was going.
"Well, I kind of idolized Rae. I mean, she was this kid, taking care of her younger siblings and not complaining once about it. It's probably a law that you should idolize someone like that. Plus, she had basically taken Raina on as a third sibling to take care of. She had basically created her own family and was managing well for her age, for anyone's age really. I thought she was perfect. Even after we had gotten to know each other. I mean, it probably didn't help that every time I came into town, she would insist on meeting me and she basically incorporated me into her family as well and then there were a couple of times that she made me come over to make sure she knew I had a place to sleep," Gwen paused taking a breath and realising that she was getting off topic.
"But?"
"I hadn't ever realised, or been exposed to the fact that she really likes to shove her emotions down where no one can get to them."
Bruce smiled, "No one's perfect."
"Yeah, but she goes through the trouble of making up and remembering half-truths for everyone so they feel like they know her. I mean, when I came here this last time, she kept telling me that Raina had lost someone. That's it. I know that she couldn't tell me the whole truth at the time, but she never once mentioned that she had lost someone too."
"She doesn't like to show her pain, and you know that. I think you think that you're still feeling left out."
"They've got an exclusive little club and there's nothing I can do to get in."
"You do know that it's been decided that you're coming with us, right?"
"How did you-"
"Rae had the same concerns. You two are alike in that regard."
Gwen smiled, "So tell me something about yourself then, you already seem to know so much about me."
"Oh, didn't you watch my movies?" Bruce joked.
"Think of it this way Mr. Scientist, we can see how accurate the movies are compared to your recollections."
Bruce smiled appreciatively, "Good point."
"Oh I know. My secret super power is that I'm great at making things sound logical."
They continued talking all the way to the store, getting to know one another a little more, making Gwen start to feel better about the fact that she was sharing a house with comic book characters because she was starting to realise that they were real people too, not just characters. They quickly got everything on the list that Gwen had found, assuming that Rain had written it, and got a cab back.
"Where have you been?" Rachel asked as soon as Gwen walked through the door.
"Uh, grocery shopping like Rain told me to do."
"I just went grocery shopping, why would you need to do it like two days later?"
"I'm going to kill her," Gwen said as she threw her bags on the kitchen table, "Where is she?"
"Hey Gwen."
"Why the hell did you send me out on a shopping trip when it wasn't needed?"
"But it was," Rain insisted, "You got all the stuff that Rachel didn't the other day."
"That's logical Gwen," Rachel said as she put up the things that Bruce was handing to her.
Gwen eyed Rain for a moment, "Okay, fine. I over reacted a little bit."
"Did you get the wine?"
"No," Gwen said, "All you had was the word wine, you didn't write down exactly what you wanted."
"Damn it," Raina said.
"Let me guess," Rachel started, putting her hands on her hips, "You secretly sent Gwen out for booze."
"You got me," Rain said, immediately turning and running from Gwen.
"They're children," Rachel said disbelievingly as she watched Gwen chase Raina out of the back door.
"Should someone go after them?" Clint asked uncertainly.
"Did Gwen have a knife?"
"No."
"Then we should be okay for a minute," Rachel said, stepping forward so she could watch them out of the back door.
"Where is Rain?" Loki asked, coming down the stairs.
"It's not supposed to rain today Loki," Rachel smirked at him.
Loki rolled his eyes, "Will you ever tire of that joke?"
"Nope. In fact, I plan on using my dying breath to say that joke to you, just to annoy you."
"There are better things that you could do with your- Is Rain being chased?"
"Yeah, why?"
"Why are you not stopping Gwen?"
"She doesn't have a knife."
"What has that got to do with anything?"
"She won't kill Rain unless she's got a knife."
"Your logic is horrendous," Loki said, glaring at her.
Rachel watched as Gwen tackled Raina to the ground, landing painfully on top of her.
"You should probably go separate them now," Rachel said to Loki, who glanced at her before running out to get Rain.
"This is fun, I can get him to do anything if I say it's for Raina," Rachel said, causing Bruce to laugh.
"He's not a dog," Bruce chuckled.
"Yeah but he's still a little bit of a jerk."
"That's true," Clint agreed from the couch.
"Damn it, now he's going to try and kill Gwen," Rachel said before running out of the door, closely followed by Bruce. Though they had made no plans before they ran out, Bruce ran to pull Gwen away from Loki while Rachel ran in front of Loki to prevent him from attacking Gwen.
"Loki, back off," Rachel said while Bruce attempted to get Gwen further away from Loki.
"Ugh, you're such a child Rain."
"So are you," Rain smiled to Gwen.
Gwen pursed her lips and looked at Rain with angry eyes, then promptly started giggling, "You suck."
Rain smiled as Rachel helped her up, "But you did get the milk right?"
Gwen rolled her eyes, "Of course."
"Cereal for dinner?"
Rachel and Gwen laughed, "Sure kid," Rachel responded.
Later in the day, after everyone had eaten dinner, Loki left the living room and went upstairs to his and Raina's shared room; everyone else sat downstairs watching television. He was about to grab one of Raina's Norse mythology books when Loki spotted a disc laying on top of the stack of books. As he picked it up, he noticed the title on the front of the case.
"Belly Dancing Finals?" Loki read aloud to himself as he raised an eyebrow.
"Loki where'd you go?" Raina's voice floated from the hallway. The bedroom door opened up as she walked in.
"I believe I may have found something interesting of yours." Loki smirked as he proudly held up the DVD.
"Where'd you find that?!" Raina lunged towards him in an attempt to grab it.
"I was just looking around. Now, I think I shall go watch it in the living room with the others."
"You wouldn't dare."
"Would I?" Raina made another lunge, but failed as Loki shoved her aside and made a run to the living room.
"You ass!" She yelled after him. Raina quickly stood back up and chased Loki through the hallway and down the stairs.
"What are you two up to now?" Rachel questioned Loki as he reached the bottom of the stairs. Loki opened his mouth to answer but was stopped by Raina.
"I say thee nay!" Raina shouted as she jumped from the top of the stairs down to Loki, knocking them both to the ground, the DVD falling out of Loki's hand and sliding down the stairs.
"What's this?" Tony asked as he bent down to pick up the DVD from the floor, he had been the one told to investigate the noise.
"No!" Raina yelled in defeat. Tony walked back into the living room, completely ignoring Raina, and put the disc into the DVD player. Raina, who had quickly followed him, went to take it out but was stopped by Loki pulling her down onto his lap from his spot on the floor. Loki's arms wrapped all the way around Raina's torso to hold her against him.
"Sorry kid but this sounds too good to let go." Tony shrugged. On the screen was Raina, standing in the front of the room, wearing a bikini top and a long skirt that were adorned by small coin-like objects. "Beautiful Liar" by Shakira and Beyonce began to play, with Raina dancing to it. The Avenger's mouths dropped as they continued to watch the television.
"You have not gotten rid of that outfit by any chance have you?" Loki whispered softly into her ear as he rested his head onto her shoulder. Raina shuddered upon feeling his breath on her ear. As the song progressed Raina's movements got faster, her eyes closed as she continued to move her body to the song. By the time the song came to an end Raina was sitting on the floor, her skirt sprawled out around her as her chest moved up and down, trying to catch her breath.
"Belly dancing huh?" Tony asked with a raised eyebrow. Raina crossed her arms and looked away.
"And then she went and got a tattoo." Rachel concluded.
"And it is a very lovely tattoo thank you very much." Raina spoke as she held up her head, walking by the group.
"Do we ever get to see it?" Tony asked, raising an eyebrow. Loki sharply turned his head to glare at Tony.
"If you can ever get past her guard dog." Clint laughed. Raina placed the DVD back into it's case, purposely swaying her hips. Loki stood from his spot on the floor as he rolled his eyes at her childishness.
"Next party we have, I say we have a dancing contest." Tony was met with a few mutters of 'no' and some 'ughs' as well as 'fuck that' from Raina. "Well it would only be the girls dancing." Tony shrugged, only to be smack by first Natasha, then Gwen, and finally Rachel, on the back of the head.
"I believe the group agrees otherwise." Bruce chuckled as Tony rubbed his now sore head.
"You should know better by now Tony." Clint shook his head, laughing slightly as well.
"Yes Stark, the ladies have made it very clear of what all they do not wish to do." Loki smirked as he wrapped an arm around Raina's waist.
"Ugh, why are you all making fun of me at my expense?" Tony accused the group. Raina shrugged.
"Better you than me."
"Is this still payback for you thinking I put the spider in your room last time?"
"Perhaps, perhaps not. Either way, I love causing others strife." Raina jeered at the billionaire. "Now if you will all excuse us, I'm very tired of all this running about and need my twelve hours of sleep." She waved them all off, pulling Loki along with her.
"Keep it down with the sex tonight Rain!" Tony yelled after the two. Rachel snorted, knowing Tony was joking, while Steve turned red; the others busted out laughing.
"No promises!" Raina yelled back down the stairs.
Fun stuff.
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