"Okay, what happened?" Branden asked first thing in the morning, his arms crossed and his lips turned down in a frown.

"What makes you ask that?" Clint replied, buttering some toast, Branden sighed.

"Tali crawled into bed with me at some point in the night, she only does that when she's upset," he said, looking at Clint closely, "You didn't-" then he shook his head. Clint sighed.

"Tony stole that player of hers…um…we sort of saw the video of their…um…wedding," he muttered.

Branden looked down, "Tony and Loki saw their wedding?" he pursed his lips at the nod he got in return, "What is their relation now?"

"Um…" Clint glanced at Bruce, the other man shrugged.

"They spend time together in the lab, Tony is intent on finding out how magic works," Bruce replied, Branden nodded slowly.

"And…where are they now?" he asked and Jarvis replied this time.

"It would appear Mr. Laufeyson is spying on Mr. Stark as we speak," the AI said.

"Spying?" the three other men in the room shared looks.

"He does not seem inclined to reveal his presence to Mr. Stark, he simply watches," the AI didn't seem to be very worried about it, most likely because he had already told Tony who'd just played dumb for the sake of finding out why Loki was doing what he was.

"If past experience plays into this, I believe my brother is trying to figure out the riddle that is the Man of Iron," Thor said quietly from the breakfast nook, Branden jumped, he hadn't seen him there.

"What do you mean?" Branden asked.

"When Loki was younger, he would sneak around things he did not understand, the habit never truly died. If the Man of Iron and Loki truly do get married in the future then I figure my brother is figuring out why, and what he could possibly like in a mortal," Thor said, at the end he was smiling, the news was pleasing to him. He wanted his brother to be happy.

Branden nodded slowly and then he seemed to get it, Leifr did the same thing. "Alright…so…nothing bad will come of this?"

"My brother did not respond to the news violently, he may later, but that he did not is a sign he may be willing to actually allow things to run their course," he said.

Branden nodded, "That…good, I think Tali will be happy to know that," he said, "She'll probably be waking up soon," he went over and stole Clint's toast.

"Oh look just how she likes it," he smiled, Clint frowned but really couldn't say no to that.

Tali's hand was clutched tightly around the player, she would wake the instant someone tried to remove it, even her mom.

She woke when Branden sat down on the bed, "Hey," he said, knowing she was up.

"Hey," she murmured, letting out a breath and not looking at him, "I think I may have ruined everything."

"How so?"

"They saw the future, Uncle Loki…he's still bad right now, Uncle Tony makes him good, remember? They're not…and they saw…"

"So…?"

"So what if I ruined them? What if-? Branden what if he's never born and it's my fault?! I should have been faster! I could have gotten it back faster I could-" she was cut off by a piece of toast shoved in her mouth, she coughed and squeaked as she pulled it out, glaring at her best friend.

"As much fun as it is to watch you fret, it seems like everything is going to okay," he said smiling.

"Why?"

"Loki is taking a good interesting Tony, I think everything will be okay. You know how Leif used to just stare at things until he figured them out? He gets that from Loki, he's doing that to Tony…" he shrugged and then flicked her forehead, "Either way it's not your fault."

"Yeah…but other things are," she muttered and he flicked her forehead harder, "Ow!"

"What did I say about that?"

"To not…" she pouted.

"Right, now stop, come on, we're going to make things better, stop thinking about the past because we're going to change it."

"Right," she agreed with a small smile. She really did love her best friend.