"So that's Tony's flavor of the week..." Natasha said curiously as she watched the man gently push the dark haired young woman far, far away from them and their little group when Thor turned to them and growled,
"Lady Cassie is more than friend Stark's flavor of the week. So I would watch myself and how I speak of her if I were you."
"Now, now," Bruce said as he held up his hands as if to ward the god of thunder off as he tacked on. "We promised Tony, that there would be no fighting. Besides if they want to start something in regards to Cassie, then I say let Tony have them. I'm pretty sure that he can kick each of their asses this time."
"Bruce!" Steve admonished causing the usually very jumpy man to turn his head and outright glare at the blond before snapping back,
"Watch. You're. Fucking. Tone. Rogers. I've been dying, for the past four years, to lay into you three idiots for your Civil War stunt. So don't push me. My promise to Tony only restrains me so much." He shifted his attention away from them for a second to say, "You should go on ahead big guy, I'll finish up the tour for the first timer and the others. You're late for a meeting with Loki."
Thor glanced down at the watch on his wrist and swore softly before patting Bruce on the back and saying, "Aye, you are right. I must go now. Loki will be most cross with me for wasting so much time."
"Just tell him that Cass wanted you to say 'hi' to him and he'll leave you alone."
Thor laughed softly at that and shook his head, "I never thought that I would live to see the day when my brother became besotted with a human female. If mother were still around, she would find this most humorous indeed."
"Just remember to tell him that Cassie say's 'hi' and that she fully expects for him to be present for dinner and a movie in two days time. I guarantee that he'll practically be tripping all over his cape just to get here to keep from disappointing her like last time." Bruce chuckled as he waved Thor off.
The man grinned at him and vanished in a blinding flash of blue lightening as Bruce turned back to the others- some of whom had their mouths hanging open in slack jawed disbelief as Clint sputtered before finally shouting.
"L-L-Loki? As in Thor's psychotic asshole of a brother, Loki?! What the ever loving hell are the lot of you doing hanging out with him? Why are each of you hanging out with that bitch that's associated with him?"
"First off Clint, it's been more than four years since any of you were last here and a lot has changed. Second of all- I won't warn you again about speaking ill of Cassie." Bruce said in a deceptively calm tone as he shot them all a look.
"He shouldn't be here! Why isn't he rotting in a prison somewhere?"
"Because Asgard is gone!" Bruce suddenly shouted at the lot of them. "Thor and Loki and what's left of their hundreds of people no longer have a fucking home. Thor is now king, and he has no goddamned home to rule over! Loki has changed- he helped to defend the last of Asgard's people, myself and Thor while the planet was burning to ash under our feet!"
"Tony was kind enough to find an unclaimed lot of land for them to rebuild their homes. Cassie helps to keep both Thor and Loki from running themselves into the ground when they're too exhausted to look after themselves because their people need so damn much! They both adore her. Hell Tony and I do too. So I'll say it again and this time you're going to fucking listen. Keep your stupid comments about Cass to yourselves. Now if you're done being assholes, kindly follow me. I don't have all damn day to waste on you when I'm already late for an appointment." Bruce said in an aggravated tone as he started walking, not caring in the least if anyone bothered to follow him or not.
After finally finishing up the tour and showing everyone where their new rooms were, Bruce practically did an impression of the Roadrunner and vanished. Leaving the others alone to explore their new home while he made his way down to the infirmary where he knew Tony would have Cassie practically hogtied and waiting for him to show up to check her and the baby out.
Walking into the room to find Cassie being held down, carefully by both Loki and Thor- he blinked at the two men before his dark eyes settled on Tony who was doubled over wheezing a few feet away.
"Uh...guys-"
"Tony called for re enforcements upon being hit in his...unmentionables." Thor offered helpfully.
"Hit nothing! I think she tried to rip my nuts off!"
"With the way you guys are ganging up on her- I doubt that I could really blame her any if she did remove them." Bruce said as he fished a cold pack from the small fridge that he kept in his office and handed it to Tony so that he could ice himself before then moving to pull on some gloves.
"Really feeling the love Brucie Bear." Tony wheezed as he placed the ice pack on his junk and watched as Bruce had Loki distract Cassie with something- that looked strangely like a DVD box set to an anime series- as the man made weird little cooing noises while both Thor and Bruce exchanged an amused look while Bruce slowly got to work on their girl.
Drawing blood, checking her blood pressure, her heart rate, her lungs ect...
And finally once Bruce was done, Cassie was allowed to sit up and all of them watched in bemusement as she grabbed the anime box set from Loki's hand, slipped an arm around the taller man's neck and with a boldly declared, "Nobody move- or Loki get's it!" Promptly dragged the god from the room as she left.
"Do you think that Loki has them all under a spell or something?" Natasha asked as she, Bucky, and Clint walked down the hall with Steve. The blond was pissed.
Understandably so given the sort of homecoming that he had been hoping for versus the one that he and the other's had actually had.
A stranger was in his home and Loki was with her.
He already disliked strongly Loki due to the events that had led up to the battle of New York several years prior. He didn't know enough about the woman to form an opinion one way or the other. After all, there was always the chance that Loki was using her to get close to the others and she was unaware of it.
But there was also an equal chance that she was in on everything.
He opened his mouth to finally articulate his thoughts on the matter of Loki and the woman when he saw said female from before walk by them- dragging- the god of mischief by his neck while the two argued about something among themselves.
He only heard a little bit of the argument, but that didn't matter much given how lost he already was.
"I'm telling you- we should do something for Halloween!"
"Like what?" Loki asked, obviously unconcerned about being dragged around by the short, dark haired young woman by his neck.
"Apples! We'll get some apples, sit on the roof and when kids ten and above come to trick or treat- we'll throw apples at them!"
"Isn't that against Midgardian law?"
The woman made a scoffing sound before saying, "Only if you get caught."
"You'll be a wonderful mother Lady Cassie." Loki said dryly as the woman merely turned her head and said,
"My kid isn't going to be a wuss, that's for damned sure."
To which Loki merely muttered a soft, "God help them." As they disappeared around the corner, having never seen much less bothered to look at the others who were all standing there with varying expressions of disbelief and shock whereas Bucky's expression was merely one of amusement.