Later in the day was pretty much still on the sofa in the living room area, who knew that even in the fucking Avengers Tower with THE AVENGERS I could still sit on my ass all day and not do anything. The wonders of laziness. I think Tony and Bruce had gone off to the lab but honestly who knows, they might be halfway across the world right now for all I know. I hadn't seen them in a couple hours. Steve was downstairs with Bucky, which reminded me that I should probably visit him later today, and I don't know where Nat or Sam are. Just as I thought that Nat came into the room.

"Hey Ali put on some shoes, we're going shopping!"

"Umm I don't have any money, I kinda came here with nothing. Sorry."

"Kid. Have you forgotten whose house we're in right now, he's a billionaire, you're fine"

"Oh, ok then" I quickly put in my shoes and got into the elevator with Nat.

"Level 1 garage, thanks Jarvis" Nat said as we entered the elevator.

"Of course" replied the AI.

"So, where are we going?" I asked Nat.

"I actually hadn't gotten there yet, I have no clue. I don't know if you've noticed but

wear pretty much the same clothes everyday and they're mostly black. I don't go shopping much."

"Yeah me neither, I usually just let my best friend pick out clothes for me and I wear

whatever so this might be an adventure of a trip," I said. The last time that I went clothes shopping without Erin was so long ago, and when I was that young my mom pretty much just picked out the clothes. This is going to be interesting.

When we got to the garage Nat led me over to a very expensive looking black car.

"Tony always gets the best cars, it's pretty sweet," she said as she got into the driver's seat. "I'm assuming you're too young to drive,"

"Well technically I could get my learner's permit but I haven't gotten around to it yet, so no"

"You'll be fine, I wasn't going to let you drive this even if you did have a permit" Nat said as we sped out of the garage.

"So, like do you know where we're going" I asked Not because she seemed to be driving off in some direction.

"Actually no I was just going to drive in circles until we stumbled across a mall, yeah I know where we're going now. It's just this small store up near the park. I think I went here last summer when I stayed up here with Tony. I figured if we only go to one store it will make decisions easier."

"Sounds good to me" I loved hanging out with Nat but the shopping part I wanted to get done with as fast as possible.

The store turned out to be a cute little boutique type place that thankfully catered to my lack of ability to pick out clothes as there were many mannequins around the shop, showing lots of possible outfits. Also I was glad to see that there was a more androganous feel to the style of the clothing.

"So do you want to look around or can I just grab things for you to look at?" Nat poked me in the side.

"Yeah sure, sounds good" I answered.

"Ok whatever, don't answer the question," Nat went off to look at some shirts. I went in the opposite direction to where I had spotted some flannels a minute earlier. Yes, I know its a stereotype but hey lesbian is as lesbian does.

"Hey kid, I found something great come over here" Nat called to me a couple racks away.

I walked over to see her holding up a t- shirt that was just about the worst thing I could imagine, like you know those long sleeve shirts we wore as kids that had the weird trim on the sleeves and collar, I think it's called lettuce trim or something. But imagine that but it's everywhere, like in stripes all over the fucking shirt. "No way," I said backing up.

"Don't worry I'm not that mean, however I did see an avengers shirt a second ago… that would be funny."

"I'm not opposed to wearing you guy's merch, but was however looking at some flannels, so I'm going to pick a couple then we'll get some pants and leave."

"I'm just mad that there are no Black Widow shirts, but go on, look at whatever," Nat said absentmindedly.

Soon we were checking out, I had gotten some pants, nothing special and an assortment of semi bad t shirts that were Nat's choice.

"I see an ice cream place across the street, you down?" Nat pointed at a building to my left.

"Hell yeah"

The ice cream was great and it really gave me a chance to actually talk with Natasha, I also had some questions about the dynamic of the avengers.

"So, how often do you guys like to all meet up, if there isn't some big threat. Like are you all friends or," I asked.

"Well recently I've been down in DC with Steve because we were helping out S.H.I.E.L.D but now, I think I'll be up here a lot more. Clint's usually away, also Thor, but that's understandable. He does show up every now and then, great guy to drink with. Bruce pretty much lives in the tower, it's good for him, he gets along with Tony better than a lot of us. We are friends though, it's pretty hard to avoid when you fight alongside someone, battle does that to people."

"I can only imagine, I mean what you do is insane," I trailed off thinking about all the things that they would do in the future, "there's so much to go" I whispered.

"What?" Nat asked.

"Nothing" I replied but she still looked suspicious.

We finished up our ice cream and headed back to the tower. When we entered the living room Bruce and Tony were sitting on the sofa looking way too happy.

"Guys, this is crazy" Tony spoke in a stage whisper.

"What's crazy, why do you two look so happy?" Nat said as she sat down.

"Well, while you two were out doing less amazing things Banner and I were in my lab making an incredibly cool device" Bruce then proceeded to try and explain whatever it is that they had built but then stopped when he realized that neither me or Nat were following along.

"Great, but what did you make?" Nat asked.

"The thing that Allison told us about, it projects your thoughts and memories"

OH MY GOD, they actually did that. That's amazing, now all we need is the rest of everyone, like ideally T'Challa, Thor, Clint, and Rhodey should be here. "That's amazing, like actually amazing, I didn't think you guys were actually going to make it, wow. Ok so that means that now all we need is the other people and I can get to explaining all of the shit that's gonna go down"

"Yeah we also have news about that situation. Fury called when you were out and apparently the prince of Wakanda T'Challa is going to arrive tomorrow and so will Clint Barton, and Fury said that Thor can come in tonight, I don't know how he contacted Thor but I'll figure it out. I also got a text from Rhodey saying he's going to get here tomorrow morning."

This is great. Honestly it's a little concerning that things are working out so smoothly but that's whatever. Also I'm going to meet THOR. Like all of the avengers are amazing and Thors not my favorite but he's a literal GOD. Like G O D, that's insane. Also T'Challa's coming and also probably really confused along with everyone else here that doesn't know about Wakanda's tech and stuff. Shit this is going to be even more explaining.

"Hey kid, you good"

"Wha-yeah I was just thinking. Sorry" I looked up to see Nat staring at me.

"Ok, want to watch a movie or something before dinner, I need an excuse to get Bruce and Tony to stop talking about the possibility of their device putting you in a coma."

"Thewhatnow…" I don't want to be put in a coma, not fun.

"Exactly, so what are we watching? I'm going to again recommend The Matrix but if you have any ideas," Nat said.

"Nah, Matrix sounds good."

The movie was good but considering that my brain has literally been so overwhelmed since I arrived here, processing The Matrix didn't really work and I zoned out for a lot of the movie to Nat's annoyance. Like I'm sorry, I just got news that an actual god was visiting this evening, like I'm sorry but this isn't normal everyday things for me. Secretly I want to try and pick up Mjölnir while nobody is looking, I know I'm just going to be dissapointed but hey, what if I can lift it. That would be sick.