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Kate never did get to sleep. After Bucky had prevented her from putting a knife through Loki's eye, he had been put on her floor under orders to watch her. Steve didn't trust her not to attempt it again, which she probably would have if Bucky hadn't been there.

Once she was no longer seeing red, she actually found herself surprised that Bucky had not only raised his voice at her, commanding her to stand down, but had physically moved her away from the scene. The only ones who had ever really been willing to do that had been Clint and Natasha, everyone else treated her with kid gloves. Well, Tony didn't but that was more a verbal match than a physical one, he wasn't afraid to be bossy with anyone.

While Kate lay in bed contemplating this, her phone buzzed. Looking at the clock, she saw it was 8:35am. Picking up the phone, she read the text.

Hey, you doing okay? – P

Kate smiled at the concerned message, but it quickly faded as she realized what Peter probably thought of her now after seeing how she had reacted.

Yeah. It's all good. Sorry about last night. – K

Don't worry about it. Just wanted to make sure you were okay. Mr. Stark said to leave you alone until this morning. So, I'm texting now. Oh…was this too early? I know you probably had a long night… – P

Kate laughed quietly as the texts came in one right after another. His quirkiness never failed to make her smile.

It's all good. I was awake anyways. – K

If you want to talk, I'm here. – P

Kate paused as she read this. Peter had seen her, rather violently, attempt to kill someone. A megalomaniacal Demi-God who attempted to enslave the human race sure, but attempted murder all the same. He wasn't scared by that?

Thank you. – K

She really didn't know what else to text back. Pushing her blankets aside, she dressed for the day in dark jeans, boots, and she layered a black tank top over a green on. She pulled her hair into a ponytail before walking out into the living area of the space Tony had set up for her, Clint, and Natasha.

Bucky was still there; he was sitting on the sofa with Lucky rubbed up against his leg getting his ears scratched. Hearing the door open, Bucky looked up at her.

Kate felt a bit of a shame thinking about how she had yelled at Bucky last night. "Sorry." She said.

Bucky just shrugged, not upset. "You hungry?" He asked as he stood up.

"Sure." She replied. Lucky pawed at Kate's leg. "Come on buddy. Let's go outside first."

After making sure Lucky was taken care of for the morning, Kate and Bucky went up to the main area to get breakfast. She walked out of the elevator and came face to face (kind of) with the large rock alien and his grub like friend.

"Oh hey, you're the girl with the arrows." The rock said in a higher than expected voice, sounding a little Polynesian. "I'm Korg, this is Miek." The grub waved at her.

"Hi." Kate said a little startled. "I'm Kate…"

It took all of 30 seconds for Kate to be absolutely enthralled by the pair. They were hilarious and sweet, and alien of course. While they were getting set up for breakfast, Kate pulled out her phone and recorded the attempt to explain coffee and why it was so essential to the adults in the room. She texted the short clip to Peter who geeked out over it.

When Thor and Loki joined them along with the woman, Valkyrie, the tension in the room rose, but there were no outbursts. A lot of people glanced at Kate, including Loki, but she just kept her gaze on her phone while she ate her cereal.

Despite her volatile reaction last night, she would go along with the plan and observe, she didn't have to talk to him though.

Tony cleared his throat. "Kate, you excited for school tomorrow?" He asked.

That actually caused her to look up from her phone. She had completely forgotten about it.

Before she could answer, FRIDAY was alerting them to a call from Nick Fury. They were trying to get the ball rolling with finding a suitable location for the Asgardians. Thor already had an idea, a location in Norway that would be perfectly suited as a new home.

Once she finished eating, Tony asked her to come to the lab. Walking in, she paused seeing Bruce was there as well. She skirted the workshop keeping plenty of space between her and Bruce as she moved over to Tony who was watching her curiously. He definitely took note of the space she put between them.

Around noon, Pepper called Kate away from the lab so she could get some lunch since they had been working for a while without a break.

"How are you holding up?" Pepper asked gently.

"Fine." Kate replied carefully as she spread peanut butter on one side of her sandwich.

Pepper was making a sandwich for Tony and for Bruce so Kate could bring it back with her. She figured Kate could coax the science bros, or at least Tony to eat. "I'm sure this isn't easy for you." Pepper tried gently. "I know how upset Nat was, I can only imagine how you were feeling."

Kate shrugged, moving on to getting strawberry jam out of the jar. "I think it was easier for me because I could at least keep an eye on him." She froze realizing her slip.

Pepper caught it. "What do you mean you could keep an eye on him?" She asked.

Kate looked up and smiled. "I just meant I could track them, you know, online and whatnot." She said even as the image of Clint aiming an arrow at her head played in her mind. "Thanks for lunch Pep."

Quickly loading the plates on a tray, Kate went to the elevator to avoid any other questions. Walking out into the lab, she plopped the tray down in front of Tony who jumped, having been very absorbed in his work.

"Lunch time." She announced with a smile. Clint and Natasha had both told her how the two could get absorbed so she didn't give them a choice but to eat.

Kate finished her sandwich quickly and brushed her hands on her jeans. "I've gotta take Lucky for a walk and I need to get a backpack." She said loading up the plates to put on the tray. "I forgot one yesterday. I'll be back in a few hours."

Tony paused. "I'm pretty sure your brother won't be happy if we let you go out on your own." He said eyeing her critically, looking for…something.

"I'm a big girl." Kate said. "I'll be fine. Besides, you're a little too high profile for me to take out with me and you don't like dogs."

"At least take Sam or Steve with you." Tony said. "Hell, even Barnes."

Kate sighed. "Okay. I'll ask." She replied.

Tony narrowed his eyes at her.

"Okay!" Kate laughed. "I really will ask, I promise."

Satisfied, Tony nodded and went back to his work as she took the empty plates back upstairs.

True to her word, she did ask. However, she asked in such a way that each thought a different one was going with her, so she was able to slip out of the building with Lucky and without being noticed.

As she walked, Lucky's leash looped around her wrist, she pulled out her phone.

Hey, you on patrol? – K

She waited only a few seconds before she got a reply.

Not yet. Having lunch with my Aunt. – P

I'm gonna be in Central Park for a couple hours if you wanna swing in :P – K

Lol! I see what you did there :) – P

Kate smiled as she put her phone back in her pocket as Lucky trotted along happily beside her. Getting to Central Park, she pulled out a tennis ball from her jacket pocket to which Lucky eagerly began jumping up and down for.

After about half an hour of tossing the ball for Lucky to chase, she received a text from Tony, subsequently followed by about fifteen other texts from Sam, Steve, and Bucky, all of them in varying stages of panic.

With a sigh, she texted back. Be back soon.

Shoving her phone back into her pocket, she felt another text come in but ignored it. She went back to tossing the ball for Lucky.

Finally, after another half hour, Kate called Lucky back and they walked to a vendor to get two bottles of water before sitting in the shade of a large tree, Kate pouring water from one bottle so Lucky could have a drink.

Fishing her phone out of her pocket, Kate pulled up her missed texts and froze.

She had missed one from Clint.

It read very simply: Where are you?

It was sent 25 minutes ago.

"You know…" Kate jumped and spun around to see Clint leaning against the tree, arms crossed. "When I got back to the Tower, hearing "Loki is here" and "we can't find your sister" in the same sentence is not the sentence I was expecting to hear."

Kate swallowed nervously. "Uh-oh."

Clint smiled mirthlessly and agreed. "Uh-oh."