When they landed this time, Jane was much better at keep upright and was smiling happily, "That was much better."

"Apparating does get easier, I just gave you the really crash course on it," once the woman was stable, the pair walked together out of the alley they'd arrived at, and down the street towards the large tower.

The destruction was still very much there, the National Guard had been deployed to help clean the 10 block radius around Stark Tower, where the devastation was, while many companies were getting large bonuses if they were able to get Manhattan repaired before the week was out. Hermione smiled at the occasional person as they walked, they were SHIELD agents collecting the remaining chitauri evidence, they couldn't let it get in the wrong hands and even the witch agreed with that.

Steve, hands full with coffee and bags of pastries from the coffee shop 3 blocks from the tower, caught up with them, "Hello stranger."

"Hey," pecking his cheek, the hybrid took some of his burden, "Did those meanies make you go on a coffee run for them?"

"Well it was either me or Loki and considering that his face has been on the front page of the paper and on every news station as being the cause of the attack, we all came to the understanding it would be me," looking over at the shorter woman, the captain smiled, "You must be Dr Foster, a pleasure."

Shaking the hand, Jane nodded, "That would be me. You are Captain Rogers correct?"

"Yes but to you, it's just Steve," carefully nudging his girl, the man had a knowing look, "Thor is going to kill you, you know that right Mia?"

"Oh but it will be so worth it. He's too damned scared of things he shouldn't be, this is just a push in the right direction."

Laughing as they walked, the trio soon found themselves in the private elevator for the tower, Jarvis greeting the witch, "Hello Hermione, thank you for protecting my mainframe, it would have been demolished during that blast."

"Aww, it is quite alright Jarvis, I'd hate for you to be hurt," Hermione smiled at one of the cameras in the lift, "Has there been a fight yet?"

"Just between Miss Romanoff and Sir, I believe it was about a pair of underwear that was found in the rubble," the humour was evident in the computerised voice.

The brunette sniggered as the doors opened, "That's perfect Jarvis."

As they exited on the top level, the wind mostly kept out by makeshift barriers, Steve and Hermione went first, Jane hidden from view by their much taller bodies, "So I see a lot has been done."

"Hey, we put up the tarps," Tony tried to argue, only to fail, "Things are going slowly."

"Right, so you all decided coffee and snacks were in order?"

"Well yeah"

"That means my present is going to be that much better," Hermione smiled to the blonde demigod, "Thor, the gift is for you."

He stood, confused, "What would that be Mia?"

The pair stepped aside, revealing a very happy Jane, "Thor."

"Jane," Thor ran forward, crashing through a lounge, and lift the woman up into his arms.

Loki walked to stand on the other side of Hermione, placing his arm around her shoulder as Steve's was around her waist, "That was a really nice thing to do."

"He was going to take too long to go to her, they are perfect for each other, their bond is what we have but harder to notice. If I hadn't done this, they could have easily lost each other, but now there's no chance of that happening," she rest her head against Steve's shoulder, "Let's just hope he doesn't get too pissed about me doing it."

"Yeah, it's most likely going to be we'll be jumping out of the way so he doesn't hit us as he comes to hug you," Steve said in all honesty.

Their greeting over, with the pair sharing what was their first kiss, Thor gently placed the woman on the ground and faced Hermione. Sighing softly as her mates hastily took their retreat from her, the witch braced for the hug, and it was needed as Thor took her into his arms and tried to hug the stuffing out of her.

As everyone had a laugh at her situation, the demigod gently said, "Thank you Mia, you are certainly a better person than I am. I was very much hesitant about seeing Jane again, I knew it would mean uncertainty towards both of our futures."

"Why do you think I did it? You are my brother and you deserve all of the happiness in the world," looking over his shoulder at the grinning woman, Hermione decided to tell him, "You and Jane, you are bound, like Loki, Steve and I. All you need to decide for the moment as a couple is if you will return to Asgard or stay here on earth. Other than that, life will have all the answers you seek about the future, though I'm sure Frigga will have a number of her own questions for the poor girl."

Thor laughed, "Oh yes, Mother will also have some for you."

Placing a kiss on his cheek, Hermione smiled as she was placed on the ground, "I have no worries, Frigga is a woman able to see true love when it is so very obvious. Your father though, that could come to words."

"I do not envy my father with that conversation," the demigod laughed as he walked back over to Jane, holding her to him as everyone took a seat around the still demolished room.

About 10 minutes after arriving, Pepper appeared from her office, which the hybrid could see was one of the only rooms to have been cleaned completely, and she instantly went straight to her friend, "Mia, you have to help, I don't think we'll ever get this place clean otherwise. All of the companies around are currently contracted to the city to help outside, we're stuck with only us and, as you can see, that's not getting us anywhere quickly."

"Nice to see you too Pepper," Hermione laughed, "How was DC?"

"It was fine and it's wonderful to see you too Mia but we are in desperate times. I'm certain that everyone here can deal with the construction afterwards, getting everything set to the plans, but the gutting and skeleton work, plus the cleaning, it will take far too long," the woman was actually pouting, causing her friend to laugh.

"Fine, fine, I'll do it. The 4 floors I demolished?"

Tony sighed, "No, we've decided that the top 10 floors are going to be gutted and remodelled. What are we calling it dear?"

Shooting a warning glance at her boyfriend for his tone, Pepper faced the entire group as she spoke, "This tower, a tower with some of the greatest advances in technology and only outdone by a certain someone's residence, will be now called and considered Avengers Tower."

"That's brilliant Pepper," Hermione was the first to embrace the woman before gently hitting her brother's arm, "Cheer up Tony, you behave and I may be around much more."

Quirking an eyebrow, the man spoke softly to his little sister as they sat together, the others all congratulating and thanking the blonde woman, "What about your building?"

"I think that I should make a new start. I'll move everything here, if you aren't opposed to it of course, and renovate the building back into apartments"

"I don't mind in the least. You know that no one wants to rent here, and after what happened yesterday I don't see that changing at all, and we've got 93 stories. You can take as many as you want," poking her ribs to tickle her, "Between us, we could make this place the perfect home for all of us, our own paradise, a place where the only thing that matters is family."

"Not to mention that if I had an indoor hangar, Pepper couldn't complain anymore about your cars," Hermione laughed as she rest her head against her brother's, "Tony, I think that it is a perfect idea. But maybe we could make it that much better for the others."

The siblings put their heads together and began plotting. Jane spotted them and asked her love, "What are they doing?"

The large man looked over and just laughed, "We really don't want to know, it's much safer that way."

Everyone else agreed and started going over the basic blueprints with Pepper in her office, her holographic displays were working once more.