It was late at night when Raina awoke, restless, and decided to go watch some television in the living room. Silently, she managed to untangle herself from Loki's grasp and threw on a couple of clothes.
"Keep the lights off for me Jarvis, I don't wanna wake up anyone." Raina whispered as she slipped through the hallway. Jarvis did not answer, but lit up several small lights along the floor to help Raina find her way to the living room. "Thanks."
As Raina stepped foot into the living room, she paused. Sitting on the couch was Rachel, laptop on her lap, with the television in the background on a low volume. She could tell that Rachel was still in a bad mood from the argument that had ensued when the Avengers had gotten back from the Helicarrier; Steve, Tony and Bruce didn't want Rachel, Rain and Gwen to go to be interviewed while Thor, Clint and Natasha thought that it would've been better to already have gotten it over with. Wordlessly, the younger woman took a seat on the couch next to her friend. The two sat in silence for a few moments with Raina watching the television. Rachel had turned it onto The Weather Channel out of habit.
"This feels familiar." Raina spoke up finally. Rachel's typing stopped as she turned to look at her younger friend.
"It does, doesn't it?" Rachel agreed after she thought on it a few seconds. "Do you ever miss it?"
"Sometimes. I mean, there are so many comics and books and stuff that I left back there. And the food dude, it's all goin' to be so spoiled." Raina turned and gave Rachel a heartfelt look.
Rachel turned to face her as well, returning the look. Seconds later, the two burst into laughter.
"That was beautiful kid." Rachel said once the two managed to calm down.
"I try, but seriously, do you miss that house as much as I do?"
"Truthfully, I do, but, I do see this place as my new home. Though, I'd hate to see the state it's in now." Rachel replied sarcastically. The two grew silent, Rachel going back to her typing and Raina putting her full attention back to the television.
"So, whatcha writtin'?" Raina finally asked, leaning over to the other woman.
"A thing." Rachel answered as she continued to type. Raina leaned over even more, the top half of her body over Rachel's arm and an arm lying in Rachel's lap.
"What kinda thing?"
"Get off kid!" Rachel grunted, picking up her laptop with both of her arms as she leaned over to the other side, holding the computer up in the air to avoid the younger woman.
"I just wanna know!"
"Go watch TV or have sex with Loki, just leave me alone!"
"Loki's asleep and I've already forecasted the next week better than The Weather Channel people." Raina groaned.
"Then go wake up Loki and tell him you want to have sex!"
"Fine!" Raina let out a yawn, stretching her arms wide. "Well, I hope you have fun with yourself and be alone then."
"Keep it down for once, 'kay kid?" Rachel smirked to Raina as the younger woman stood.
"Oh har har, but I make no promises." Raina rolled her eyes as she began to walk out the room.
"Get some sleep tonight will ya' Rae?"
"I make no promises." Rachel returned. Raina let out a snort as she walked out of the room and headed back to her and Loki's room. She found Loki to still be sleeping, his arm that had been around her waist, which she placed at his side when she got up, was now thrown across her side of the bed while he lay on his stomach. Raina stripped back down to what she had been wearing prior and crawled onto the bed. Straddling him from behind, Raina sat herself on top of him, laying against his back.
"Loki." Raina whispered into his ear once she had lain her head against his shoulder. "Loki." She tried again when he did not answer. "Loki!" Raina attempted again, this time drawing out the 'o' in his names for several seconds.
"What is it Rain?" Loki groaned finally, in a mumbled voice since his face was half pressed into his pillow.
"I have this idea and I need your magic for it."
"Is it not too late for your antics Rain?"
"No pranks, it's a present for Rachel." Loki made a move to turn over, so Raina leaned over to the other side of the bed and tumbled off of him, bouncing as she hit the bed and sat up. Loki moved to lie on his side to face the young woman, while leaning he leaned his head up against an arm. "Good, you are listening."
"What is this about a present then?" Loki asked, more awake now as he looked over at the hyper woman.
"The old house. How hard would it to be to move it from the other realm to over here?"
"Being at my full capacity for magic at the current moment, it is doable."
"Good. Now good night." Raina flopped down onto the bed, her head gently hitting the pillow. Loki stared at her unmoving form for a few moments, slightly upset that she had woken him up and that she was now sleeping. He let out a sigh before laying back down as well, throwing an arm around her waist to pull her close as he tried to get back to sleep.
Rachel's eyes fluttered open slowly as her body felt that it was morning time. She glanced over to Steve and found him awake as well. "Morning." She muttered, stretching slightly before settling back into the comfort of the bed and Steve.
"Good morning Rae."
"Think we can get away with no responsibility today?" Steve sarcastically asked. Rachel opened her mouth to answer, but was cut off as a quick knocking came from their bedroom door.
"Dammnit." Rachel groaned before getting up.
"Rae!" Raina's voice came through the door. "You and Steve and dressed, we're goin' on an adventure!"
"What, why?" Rachel called, but got no answer as Raina was heard running and giggling down the hallway. About half an hour later, Rachel and Steve both stepped out of their room to find Raina and Loki standing outside their bedroom.
"Took you two long enough." Raina smiled.
"Yeah well, we weren't planning on being needed at the exact moment that we had woken up." Rachel returned. "So what do you have planned for us today kid?" Raina did not answer, but merely glanced to Loki. Before Rachel could ask, the scene quickly changed and both Rachel and Steve found themselves out of the city and in a familiar empty field, except this time, there stood a very familiar two story house.
"Rain…" Rachel gasped, a hand flying to cover her mouth as her eyes watered slightly. "How did- when?"
"I got the idea last night when we were watching The Weather Channel." Raina shrugged.
"She awoke me with the idea." Loki stated, deciding to put in his two cents. Raina gently nudged Loki's arm with her elbow before she was engulfed into a tight embrace by Rachel.
"Thanks kid." After nearly a minute the two separated. "Well, let's go check everything out shall we?" Rachel and Raina linked arms before walking over and up the porch stairs to stand in front of the front door, with both Loki and Steve trailing just behind them. "Wait, you have the keys right?"
"Of course I do." Raina replied, taking out a set of keys from her pocket and dangling them in front of her face, smiling.
"Damn, it's dusty." Rachel coughed as she waved her hand in front of her face to keep any dust from flying into her face. Raina pulled her shirt collar up and over her nose to avoid the dust.
"Well, it has been a while." Steve stated, pulling his arm up to cover the bottom of his face. They walked in further to stand in the hallway between the living room and the kitchen.
"I have to say, you've out done yourself kid." Rachel smiled.
"I try."
"It's so damn dusty though, maybe you should get Loki to magic it all newer or something." Rachel sarcastically said as she made her way to the dining room, heading for their laptops that they had left on the dining room table.
"Actually-" Raina stopped mid-sentence as she ran off to where Loki and Steve had, out of habit, gone to the living room. "Loki!" She yelled as she ran into the living room.
"Wait, what, Rain!" Rachel attempted to yell after her friend, but as she turned around to where the younger woman was standing, she found Raina had quickly ran off and out of the room. Rachel shook her head, laughing to herself, as she sat down at the table in front of her computer.
In the living room, Loki and Steve had been looking around the room, nostalgia hitting both of them in their own ways. The two were both startled out of their thoughts by Raina running into the room and all but tackling Loki. With an arm wrapped around Raina's waist and a hand bracing himself on the couch behind him, the demi-god managed to keep himself standing upright.
"Yes, Rain?" Loki questioned the woman once they were both standing up stable.
"I need you to do magic to make the house go back to how it was when we left."
"Can you even do that?" Steve asked upon hearing Raina's request.
"Of course I can." Loki rolled his eyes smugly. Raina lightly nudged the demi-god's side. "A moment if you will." Loki closed his eyes before waving his free hand in the air. There was a flash as everything changed within an instant, with Loki reopening his eyes afterwards. Everything around them seemed to look newer, all the dust was gone and any fabric that had been munched on by bugs or moths, was fixed and looked exactly as they had left it.
"Loki, Rain!" Rachel shouted from the dining room. Raina had stepped away from Loki and was about to go to the other room where Rachel was, but stopped in mid-step as she found Rachel walking into the room. "I was being sarcastic you know." Rachel told the younger woman. "But thanks, Loki."
"What is this? Are you thanking me?" Loki gasped sarcastically as he held a hand to his chest.
"Yeah, don't let it go to your head; it's already pretty swollen from your godly ego."
"Okay, I think we have an understanding you two." Steve intersected before they could start arguing. Raina smiled as she watched the scene before her, it reminded her of their life back in their original reality, where she set up some sort of simple, stupid prank and everyone would go after her for it, or the other times where Rachel and Loki would be constantly arguing like two five year old siblings.
"You know what we haven't done in a while that we should totally do?" Raina spoke.
"What's that kid?" Raina merely smiled at the other woman's question.
"Just like old times, aye?" Raina said as she looked down the dining table at everyone. Rachel smiled, shaking her head slightly, as she laughed in agreement with her younger friend. The whole group, including Jane and Pepper, had gathered at their old house for a feast of sorts, in celebration of old times. Thor had brought along Jane after Raina had suggested it, saying "She celebrated Christmas with us so why not bring her along?"
Everyone had pitched in with making the vast quantities of food, and how they had managed to fit all the food, everyone's plates, and have all twelve people sitting comfortably at the table was still a mystery. They had various foods prepared, anything from their favourite breakfast items to random dinner foods. Tony had brought a few bottles of wine and, after arguing with Raina that all alcohol brought into the house did not mean it automatically belonged to her, they had managed to pour glasses for whoever wanted to drink wine; Raina was subjected to drinking soda only.
As they ate, the group conversed about all the memories they had made in the other reality. From all of the random pranks Raina, and sometimes Loki, would set up, to all the fights and fun they all had. Everyone was smiling and laughing as they ate, enjoying each others company.
"Exactly like old times." Rachel muttered to herself, agreeing with Raina's statement made earlier that evening. The woman took a sip of wine as they looked around at everyone, how happy their odd family was.
There, that's it, the threequel is over!
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Okay I might of lied, there's an epilogue.
So yeah, you should keep reading.
