Okay, so there are two more OCs, but they're not as frequent as Charmain and Lumina, so no worries. Hope you enjoy
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Everyone sat down and made themselves comfortable while they wait for the two to make their descent down the stairs. School notebooks, pens, paper and erasers covered the white mat, seeming abandoned without finishing whatever they were used for.
"I'm guessing this isn't their house then?" Clint asked and picked up the Sudoku book lying next to his feet. He studied it for a few seconds and then placed it onto the table. "It makes sense…" he shrugged and lay back in his seat, "…this place looks way too expensive."
Bruce sat on the one the couch opposite Clint and, being who he is, leaned over to sort the pens and pencils back into their casing and placing in on the table. He nods and moves on to the sorting the books on one neat stack, "Lumina did say they had money problems, but what is your theory on how they live here then?"
"Maybe they killed the lord and workers of the house and took it as their own." Tony said sarcastically and Steve glared at him.
"The Lady Charmain and Lady Lumina would do no such thing!" Thor retorts.
"Would you guys behave?" Natasha yells in a whisper, "This is not the tower! Can't you five act like grown men for more than minute or maybe, JUST MAYBE, more than two?"
Everyone was pulled out of their bickering by a loud exited squeals coming from the second story and echo of clattering small feet moving down the stairs at a dangerously high speed. They all looked to the doorway and found a young girl catching her breath in it. Once she recovered, she began bouncing up and down on the balls of her feet in excitement. Her dark brown curls hopped up and down with her movement, as did her frilly black dress.
"You guys are the Avengers, aren't you?" she beamed, "I'm right, right? Aren't you? Aren't you?"
"Calm down, Natalie." Lumina's laughed and walked in. She picked the girl up and held her in front of her, "You're gonna give yourself an aneurism."
"But Aunt Lumina!" Natalie whined and tried pulling out of Lumina's grip, "They're standing right there! Let go!"
"Aunt Lumina?" Natasha furrows her brows confused. The little girl stops squirming and grins back at Natasha. She nods and opens her mouth to say something, but Lumina cut her off.
"We knew her and her sister's family, that's all." Lumina smirks and Natalie glares at her, "They come and visit us up here sometimes."
"Sissy." Everyone heard another girl call and soon saw her enter the room.
She looks EXACTLY like Natalie, the same bright green eyes, but had red straight hair and she seemed more mature than her sister.
"Nic." Lumina sighed in relief and puts Natalie down next to her, "Can you take your sister up to go finish packing? You two can play hero with the Avengers next time."
Nic grins and grabs Natalie's hand. She quickly pulls her back up the stairs.
"Twins." Lumina sighs, "I don't know how people do it."
"So this really is your house?" Bruce looks around in awe.
"One of our dad's vacation houses." Lumina says nonchalantly, "Well, I'm gonna go make us some snacks and you guys wait 'ere till sis is done scrubbin down her black layer of skin."
"Make food?" Bruce asks, voice filled with concern.
"Yes, make food." Lumina says somewhat irritated, "The kitchen is my Eden of delicious smells. Give me a break and stop worryin."
She swiftly turns around and walks out the door, pass the stairs and into the opposite room. Everyone sat in a comfortable silence for a few minutes until Bruce became too frustrated.
"I swear." Bruce growls.
"Don't worry yourself so much." Tony stretches and leans his head back, "You'll give yourself wrinkles, and then Tilly will really feel too young. I'd be more worried that she poisons us."
Steve rolls his eyes at Tony and begins studying his surroundings again, "This is a very extravagant home, though. Their father must've been very well off."
"Agreed." Thor nods and looks around as well, "It mildly of reminds me of Asgard."
"What really caught my eye though..." Clint points above Steve's head, "...was that."
Steve turns around in his couch and also looks up at the painting. It had two lionesses, one the normal lion brown and the other pure white, drinking from some random pond in the middle of the safari. The brown lion's green orbs and the white lion's grey ones studied the spectator intently.
"Sis painted that." Charmain's voice drew everyone out of their thoughts and they all looked at her. "She painted it a few days before the explosion, but unfortunately different paints don't have different smells, so her painting career is over."
Nat pointed to the one that hung next to it, "And that one?"
It was another centered around two lions, one white and the other brown. They both seemed young and lay behind a grown male lion. But the style of the painting seemed completely different.
"I made that one. Both paintings are figuratively me and sis, but that one has Father in the background." Charmain's voice became heavy, "I painted it for Sis' birthday present; she turned completely in love with lions ever since we made a trip to Africa with Father once. I made that the same time she made the other one, but unfortunately her birthday came after the explosions, so now it's just for decoration."
Clint narrows his eyes, "You didn't give it to her?"
Charmain sighs and shakes her head, "She was blind, Genius. I'm worried how easily you seem to forget that fact."
"Cookies, cakes and everythin nice." Lumina sang cheerfully and entered the room with a platter of goods. Nobody had to say a thing, or rather, that maybe would've helped; Lumina could feel a shiver go down her spine from the tension in the air. "What I do?" she laughed nervously, "It's not poisonous."
"I'm surprised." Clint said, but she looked more confused than before. Clint, being Clint, didn't notice Charmain making silent gestures for him to keep his big mouth shut or the part where she'd kill him if he didn't. So he continued, "I can't picture you two making these."
"Oh boy." Lumina sighed and basically dropped the platter onto the table in anger, "I'm blind! I need more information if I'm gonna know what the hell you're talkin about."
"Guess Charmain had a point." Tony murmured amused.
"The paintings, Lady Lumina!" Thor grinned, "They're quite exquisite!"
Charmain groaned angrily and face palmed. Mostly because Thor was the one to spill the beans and not Clint, so now she doesn't have the grounds to kill him.
"Just great." Lumina retorts angrily, "Guess Sis told you the whole 'sob story' then?"
Nobody answered her so she only sighed calmly and sat down next to Bruce, "You guys came her for a reason?"
"That's gonne come back to bite me later." Charmain mumbled and sat down next to Tony.
"We came here to fetch you guys and get you settled in the Avengers Tower." Tony said simply and took a plate of chocolate cake, as did all the other guests.
"Excuse me?" Charmain asked dumbfounded.
"We assume it's a bit hard for you two to move around in public lately?" Natasha asks and Charmain glares daggers at her.
"And who's fault do you think that is, Nat!?" Charmain yells.
"But I didn't do anything!" they heard one of the girls from earlier whine and turned to find both twins in the doorway.
"We didn't mean you, Natalie." Lumina laughs and motions for them both to come closer. Nic stood next to Lumina's legs and Nat at Charmain's.
"That is Natasha." Charmain points to the assassin, who smiled and nodded in greeting, "She's the friend we told you about and, like you, her nickname is also Nat."
Both girls mouthed 'O' and everyone took that as their queue to continue with their conversation.
"Like I was saying." Natasha begins, "You guys can't really go anywhere recently and at the tower, you'll be in the clear."
Lumina and Charmain both still looked puzzled. "Wait." Lumina breathed and took Bruce's hand in her own without moving her attention away from Natasha, "You guys aren't kidding?"
"You thought we were?" Steve asks angrily and crosses his arms over his chest.
Charmain scoffs, "Not like we're really welcomed in a lot of places with how we are, ya know?"
Tony smirked and chuckles, "You should know you're always welcomed to my tower, Darlin."
"Why do I get the feelin that had a double meanin to it?" Charmain sighs and then sneers at him, "And when exactly did ya get the idea I'll let ya call me Darlin, Cowboy?"
Tony's smirk only grew, "It's been a long time coming… DARLIN."
"We'd love to go." Lumina interrupts quickly and tried hiding her scarlet cheeks. "I don't see why not." She shrugs and tightens her grip on Bruce's hand.
Charmain snickers wickedly, "She didn't mean to push ya away on the beach, Brucie. She really enjoyed h-"
"Sis!" Lumina exclaims in horror, but unfortunately revealed her red face and Charmain burst to laughter.
"Then why did you?" Bruce asked, letting go of Lumina's hand, and turned to her. Luckily for him and her, the others were more focused on Charmain's uncontrollable laughter and didn't pay mind to their conversation.
"T-that is…" Lumina scratch the back of her neck nervously. Moments like these are where she thanks her blindness as an excuse to not having to look the other in the eye. "I told myself I shouldn't get involved with you." Lumina sighs, "But I can't tell you why, sorry."
Bruce furrows his brows angrily, but was calmed by the worried look directed at him from the girl still standing by Lumina's legs. He smiled reassuringly, patted her shoulder and looked back at Lumina, "Is it because of... Is it because of H-Hulk?"
Lumina eyes widen, "Did he just say what I heard him say?" she asked herself repeatedly. She grins and looks up at him, "No, not at all, but…. thank you, for that. I can't tell you why I didn't want our relationship to come here, but it's nothing like that, nothing like that at all. Who knows, maybe one day I can tell you the reason, you never know were life takes you."
"Yes…" Bruce looks at the group around them, who was busy with their own conversation, consisting of mostly arguing with Tony and Charmain, "…life surely is unpredictable."
"Nat, Nic, did you finish packing?" Charmain called and both girls moved in front of her.
"Yes Aunt Charmain." They said in unison.
"Good." Lumina stood and looked at Tony, "Then we'll drop them off before we head to New York?"
"Yup, the limo is right outside." Tony beamed and hopped out of the couch. Everyone put their empty plates down and stood as well.
"You're moving away?" both twins whine up at their Aunts.
"Moving to the Avengers Tower." Lumina correct them and smirks knowingly, "Where you'll visit us sometimes, won't you?"
Both twins' faces lit up with joy, but before they got to the point where they vibrated in excitement, Charmain stopped them.
"Don't blow a gasket, but…" she turns to go upstairs, "…you'll be dropped off at the orphanage by a private limo too."
"YAY! YAY! YAY!" the two cheered, ran past Charmain and up the stairs to go fetch their bags.
"The orphanage?" Steve asked and he could feel his heart drop for the kids.
Lumina nods and makes her way upstairs too, "We did say we KNEW their parents, didn't we?"
"We'll go and get packed. See you in a few." Charmain left the room as well, so the Avengers were left alone in the great room for the third time in a row.
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