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Alex
FRIDAY woke Alexandra up at ten, according to the AI, Thor was already awake and eating Pop-Tarts in the kitchen, Alexandra grumbled something as she made her way to the bathroom, she bushed her teeth quickly and went to the kitchen, Thor was shirtless and barefooted standing in front of the toaster waiting for his Pop-Tarts to pop up. Alexandra dragged herself to the coffee machine, where FRIDAY had already a pot waiting for her, after dumping half the contents of the sugar container Alexandra took a sip and hummed.
"Morning Alexandra" said Thor as he placed his pop-tarts on a plate; she looked up at him from her mug.
"We need coffee in Asgard," she said and he smiled at her.
"Then we shall teach our farmers to harvest it," he said, she grumbled and continued drinking.
After she had downed most of her cup and ate one of Thor's Pop-Tarts she seemed to be in a better mood.
"Our first stop needs to be Macy's, don't think I haven't noticed that you don't wear underwear" she told him; Thor smiled amused.
"So you've been watching?" he asked, she rolled her eyes at him.
"Piss off" she mumbled, his smile widened.
"You shouldn't be ashamed, my Queen," he said, she glared at him.
"Keep talking" she warned him, he chuckled but decided to remain silent.
Alexandra finished her cup of coffee and stood from the table, with one last look at Thor she walked back to the room and into the bathroom. She took a warm shower and changed into fresh clothes, appropriate for going out. Thor walked into the bathroom after she got out, she grabbed her S-Pad and directed FRIDAY to start clearing the warehouses and moving the medical equipment as that would take time. Thor walked out of the bathroom wearing jeans, boots, a black t-shirt and a black hoodie.
While they were on the elevator Alexandra texted Happy to see where he was, thankfully for her he was in the Tower, Alexandra told him to get one of the cars, one big enough to fit Thor comfortably and when they made it to the garage Happy was holding the door to a Porsche Cayenne. Alexandra greeted Happy with a hug and got into the vehicle followed by Thor. Happy dropped them at the Macy's in Fifth Avenue and promised to be near.
"Is there anything in particular that you'd like to get" she asked, Thor shrugged, Alexandra grabbed a bag and handed Thor another one and dragged him around the store.
She handed him four bags of black boxers and bought him several pair of dark jeans that she made him try on as she was having fun with everyone watching the blond giant parade the pants for her, not that Thor wasn't noticing what she was doing but he figured that she could have her fun, besides it wasn't as if he was ashamed of his body. He also ended up with a few t-shirts in greys, black, reds and blues and dress shirts and several sweaters and he ended up the owner of a dark red leather jacket that Alexandra swore had been made for him.
"Now you only need to learn how to drive a Harley, we'll be set in no time" she told him with a smile.
Thor then watched as Alexandra shopped for herself, he found it amusing how she knew exactly what to buy for herself, several dresses, that in Thor's opinion were too short, but when he tried to tell her she just raised a defying eyebrow daring him to say something, several shirts and blouses, several flowery skirts, several other dresses that she called summer dresses that were on sale, and she briefly explained that they would probably spend Christmas in Malibu as Tony hated cold weather, Alexandra added tights and jeans to her purchases, along with several sweaters and jackets for the cold.
She then dragged Thor to the perfume aisle where she showed him her favorite, which he really liked, and prompted him to pick another one for her and then one for his own use. As they walked out of the store, Thor refused to allow her to carry the bags so he ended up carrying all of their bags, which were a lot, until Happy picked them up. Once the bags were secured in the back, Happy drove them to Central Park and Alexandra told him that she and Thor could make their way back to the tower, he nodded and promised to have their bags delivered to their apartment before he left.
Alexandra then dragged Thor around Central Park often pointing out to squirrels and other animals, they settled in one of the restaurants to have lunch and Alexandra introduced Thor to the magical Bacon Cheese Burger with Bacon Cheese Fries. Thor could definitely appreciate her enthusiasm for the American delicacy, after lunch they sat on the grass enjoying the sun on the cold November afternoon.
"Are you enjoying the park?" Alexandra asked as they lounged on the grass, Thor smiled at her.
"Aye, this is a nice place" he said, she smiled back and sighed in content.
Once they decided to move the afternoon was already falling, Alexandra decided that their day couldn't be over without a ride in one of the carriages. She dragged Thor around until they found one fitted for them. Thor helped Alexandra up and sat next to her as the driver toured them around the park. They ended up in front of the Zoo but since it was too late they decided to visit the zoo another day. They walked back to the tower between jokes, stopping at a small shop to buy ice cream.
While they walked Alexandra figured that maybe she had judged her situation a little too hardly as Thor was fun to be around, their friendship was easy and maybe in time they could even have a shot at a relationship, she smiled as he continued telling her a story about his 'youthful' days in which he and Loki almost destroyed the diplomatic relationship between Asgard and Alfheim.
The next few days happened between small outings and Alexandra's meetings for her Division, she usually was early in her office reviewing her progress and in the afternoons she went out with Thor, showing him her favorite places around. When Thanksgiving rolled around most of her warehouses were ready and she had all the families of the agents under surveillance. They celebrated Thanksgiving in the tower, Tony having ordered a feast that almost rivaled Asgard's own.
Alexandra wore a dark mahogany dress that reached a little above her knees with black tights and pumps, dark red lipstick and her hair half pinned up, while Thor wore a dark red blazer and a dark grey dress shirt underneath paired with dress pants and a black pair of oxfords. Tony was in one of his finest suits while Pepper went for a white dress. Rhodey arrived with his mom wearing his formal uniform, while Bruce was wearing a dark suit with a purple tie. The small family celebrated thanksgiving between jokes and funny stories.
"Okay, time to say the things we are thankful for" said Pepper after they had moved to the living room, Alexandra was limp on the couch a goofy smile on her face, Thor next to her a glass of Ale in his hand, Tony had a glass of wine in one hand and the other around Pepper while Rhodey, Mamma Rhodes and Bruce were sharing another couch.
"I'm thankful of the chance of being here with you tonight and the friendships I've formed" said Bruce, a smile on her face.
"I'm thankful of the fact that at least one of my sons gave me a granddaughter" Mamma Rhodes said smiling at Tony, Rhodey ducked his head and hugged his mother.
"Thanks Mamma Rhodes" said Tony, he looked at Pepper and then to Alexandra "I'm thankful of the women I have in my life and my honey bear and brucie-bear, and even Point Break for expanding my family" Tony said, Pepper kissed him on the cheek.
"I'm thankful that we are all together yet another year" Rhodey said.
"I'm thankful of second chances and the fact that despite everything that happened this year I think it was all for the better" said Alexandra, a smile on her face, she then looked at Thor.
"Aye, I'm thankful that you have accepted me as part of your family even though our beginning was not ideal" he said, Alexandra nodded at him.
"I'm thankful of the chance that I got to meet all of you and that I get to call you family today" said Pepper, they all shared a toast and remained in the living room until very late.
Their life continued and their routines kept changing, now in the mornings Alexandra and Tony sparred with Thor, as he was very knowledgeable when it came to battle. Alexandra of course spent most of her time on her back on the mats at the Gym, while Tony generally boxed with Happy or used his suits when practicing with Thor. Tony had ended up making two more lightsabers and gifted one to Thor as long as the Asgardian taught him how to swordfight, and while Tony had fenced before; a lightsaber involved a different skillset that Thor apparently managed.
By Christmas, Alexandra could say that she was a decent fighter with her lightsaber. As Alexandra told Thor they celebrated Christmas in Malibu enjoying the hot weather and the beach. Alexandra had enjoyed taking Thor to Malibu beach with her as any opportunity to see Thor shirtless was a plus and the fact that he was with her, even if their relationship, if such could be called relationship, was merely platonic, the face on other women when Alexandra walked next to Thor was worth it, Alexandra was totally not above pettiness.
When Christmas day dawned Alexandra woke up dressed in Mickey Mouse Pj's and walked to the kitchen of the mansion where Pepper already had the hot chocolate ready, she was handed a mug and she went to sit next to Tony on the couch wishing him a merry Christmas, Tony hugged her close to him and they sat there contemplating their lives.
"You've done good kid" Tony said, Alexandra smiled at him.
"I'm your daughter, what else did you expect?" she asked him, a cheeky smile on place; Tony grinned.
"Of course" he said, she giggled, "I've been overseeing your job, the places and the surveillance you've set across the world is unparalleled" he said, she snuggled closer to him.
"You've could have done better dad" she said softly, Tony smiled at her.
"I'm glad it was you who did" he said, "I'm glad you're my kid, I'm really proud of you" he said, she pressed a kiss to his cheek.
"I'm glad you're my dad too, I'm really proud of you too," she said.
They stayed on the couch for a long while; Pepper snuck on them and took pictures while she put Thor to help her with breakfast. The rest of the day happened in the same happy, domestic bliss. At some point of the afternoon Alexandra napped by the pool while Tony and Pepper shared some quality time in their room and Thor swam. Bruce had decided to stay back in New York and get in contact with his cousin Jennifer while Rhodey took his mother to Hawaii for the holidays.
New Year happened in the same fashion, as Alexandra couldn't legally drink in America, which she found, sucked. So they had a small party to welcome the year 2014 in Malibu and they were joined by Bruce and Jennifer and Tony's cousin Sharon Carter and her brother, Michael, call me Mike, who worked for the CIA and had a blast telling Alexandra all the things that she could do if she applied once she was twenty-one until she politely told him that she was already head of a Stark Industries Division, her own version of the CIA and she, on top of that, was Queen of Asgard.
Sharon and Mike had eyed Thor distrustfully until they saw that he and Alexandra got along well enough and he seemed to respect their little cousin turned niece, so they accepted Thor's story of how he and Alexandra got married and Jennifer tried to say that it was illegal in America to do so, until Alexandra told her that marriages in Asgard were almost a sacred thing and that she was learning to live with it. By the end of the night Jennifer Walter was the new lawyer employed by the Stark Industries Legal Division and would be handling Alexandra's marriage to Thor as while it was true that they had been married in Asgard no one in America had records that backed said marriage.
Alexandra and Jennifer designed a credible story for said marriage as saying that Odin forced Alexandra and Thor to marry wouldn't do any good for them and that kind of thing didn't really need to reach the media, so instead the story was that while Alexandra visited Asgard in a diplomatic mission she and Thor established an easy friendship and thus Odin proposed a marriage with a midgardian as reparation of the damages that Loki had caused in New York, something that after much consideration Alexandra and Thor had accepted, as far as the family knew that was the official story.
Alexandra and Thor returned to New York on the Sixth of January, Pepper and Tony deciding to stay behind in Malibu. Alexandra had started to discreetly move people around hacking into S.H.I.E.L.D. With the help of FRIDAY and JARVIS, the more agents she managed to move to a safer locations and closer to her warehouses the betters, their families had also been moved to centers where they would be arriving as family reunions were part of her plan. She also sent several messages to Coulson and he had texted back that Ward was currently being sedated and Garret had been apprehended and they were keeping it as quiet as they could. He had thanked her for her tip on the Clairvoyant and she made him promise that he was going to keep his people safe.
Their return to New York also marked the last few touches of Protocol Firebird, Alexandra's name for the massive sweep team that was to be dispatched post S.H.I.E.L.D.'s fall. FRIDAY had acquired sole control of the Iron Legion for the moment and was overseeing S.H.I.E.L.D.'s latest missions. When Alexandra got the notice that Steven Grant Rogers and Natalia Alianova Romanova had been assigned to the Lemurian Star along with the STRIKE-Team Delta, she sent an alert to her current agents so they would start moving to the now called Support & Management Centers.
When Nicholas J. Fury was declared dead, all of the Centers were up and running and waiting for the agents, she had three doctors per center and dozens of certified nurses and paramedics in each, plus all of her SI agents were trained in First Aid. This was their first big mission and they had been briefed accordingly. When Alexandra started receiving pictures of the centers she couldn't help but to smile proudly, all of her agents were dressed in white suits accented with several blue lines that seemed to glow creating a beautiful contrast, the logo of Stark Industries over their left breast standing proudly and an S on their right shoulder. They looked fashionable yet menacing, Tony had been the one to design the suits and she had loved them.
During those days Alexandra managed to send a coded message to Victoria Hand in which she identified herself as a friendly help and pointed Victoria towards Coulson, informing the Agent that she could trust Coulson and his team, she also had warned Victoria that Garret had been the Clairvoyant all along and that he was under Coulson's custody. She also remembered to post a few Legionnaires around the S.H.I.E.L.D. academy for safekeeping, as she knew that HYDRA would attack the young agents. She had roped JARVIS into helping as she felt that, while FRIDAY could so a marvelous job, they needed the big guns as there was so much going on.
Alexandra had more or less moved into her office, her glass windows had been turned into monitors so she could watch the situation in Washington as in her centers. Thor generally sat in one of her office chairs watching her work and reminding her to eat. JARVIS had been the one to alert her of the robbery at the Smithsonian and she knew that it was matter of time before Steve broke into the Triskelion and Natasha dumped all of S.H.I.E.L.D. files on the web, she had JARVIS flag all the names of the Agents that they were to be protecting so he could keep them out of the files, either blurring or slightly changing them, she trusted that JARVIS could deal with the fall, while she and FRIDAY busied themselves with the Legionnaires and the saving.
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