A/N: Hello again! Sorry for the long wait, but I was taking care of my mom and had to put all my stories on hold. Here's a bit of fluff for you all :) Also, I seem to run out of plot... suggestions?

The next few days were difficult. Allie flatly refused to be in a room without one or both of her parents, and she jumped or shapeshifted anytime anything startled her. She spent half an hour as a trembling, shivering canary when Thor spoke too loudly. He felt horrible about it, and removed himself to the gym for the rest of the day.

At night, the only way she would get to sleep was if one parent curled up with her in their room, and the other parent promised to stay awake all night to keep watch. Steve also promised that he would stand watch in the hallway, and when Allie woke up crying from a nightmare, Steve poked his head in the door, shield in hand. "Everything okay?" he asked softly.

"Nightmare," Clint said tiredly, rubbing his eyes.

"Anything I can do to help?"

"You know any other songs that aren't from the kid songs CD's 1-10?" Clint asked wryly.

"No, sorry." Steve watched Natasha soothe Allie, rocking her from side to side. "I wish I could help..."

"Thanks, Cap. You don't have to keep watch, you know."

Steve shrugged. "I'm okay." And he returned to his post in the hall.

Clint went back to his two girls and scooped up a crying Allie. "Shh, come on baby girl, everything's okay."

Allie finally drifted off, exhausted from crying. Her parents followed soon after, both of them exhausted.

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The next day, Allie woke up, tired, cranky, and hungry. She didn't wake Clint or Natasha, but instead turned into a kitten and padded silently down the halls to the common room. Only Thor was there, eating Pop-Tarts fresh from the toaster without letting them cool. He smiled when he saw the kitten in the doorway. "Good morning, little one," he said softly. "Hungry?"

Allie bounded from the doorway to the nearest chair, and transformed into a girl. "G'morning, yes, pwease," she mumbled, laying her head onto the table.

He smiled and placed a Pop-tart on a plate to cool. "Would you like some juice?"

"Mmgh."

He poured some juice in a cup printed with swinging monkeys, and placed it on the table next to the Pop-tart. After some deliberation, he grabbed a banana and placed it in front of her as well. "A balanced meal," he said.

She ate it, her eyes drooping with exhaustion, and fell asleep halfway through her banana.

Thor picked her up and laid her on the couch to finish sleeping.

She only woke up because Tony and Bruce came into the common room yelling at each other about batteries. She turned into a snake and slithered under the couch to sit on the heater vent. She stayed there, content to soak up the warmth, until the Science Bros stopped their argument and focused on eating. Then she slithered out again, and, giggling inwardly, slithered silently up the table and coiled around Tony's cup of coffee.

He noticed the snake, and shrieked like a flighty teenage girl before his pre-caffeinated brain realized what was going on. "Allie!" he gasped, clutching at his heart dramatically. "You scared me half to death!"

Bruce, snickering wildly, reached over to lift Allie off the table. "That was hilarious," he chuckled, wiping at his eyes. "That was great. JARVIS, send that to Pepper."

"No way!" Tony said indignantly.

Allie turned from snake to girl, and giggled into Bruce's shoulder. "Was that a good trick?" she asked, pleased with herself.

"A very good trick," Bruce said, still grinning.

"I scawe you too much?" Allie asked Tony, looking concerned when he didn't immediately comment.

"No, sweetheart, that was pretty funny," Tony admitted, giving her a grin. "Aw why not, J, send it to Pepper."

JARVIS acknowledged serenely. "Of course sir."

Allie picked the blueberries out of Bruce's oatmeal when the scientist wasn't looking, and when they left, she built herself a fort in the corner of the common room, and played knights and dragons. She was, of course, both the knight and the dragon, switching between forms fluidly and entertaining JARVIS and Thor immensely.

Allie was napping in her fort a couple hours later, when Coulson walked in the room. He hung up on a very spirited phone conversation, and sighed. "I hate my job sometimes," he grumbled, and flopped onto the nearest couch with a groan.

Thor looked up from his thick Asgardian novel. "What ails you, son of Coul?" he asked kindly. "Do I need to smite someone?"

Coulson laughed. "I'll let you know." He sighed again. "Mr. McCallen is being very insistent about his supposed parental rights. He refuses to tell SHIELD anything."

Thor's eyes darkened. "Have you allowed Clint or Natasha to interrogate him?"

"No." Coulson frowned. "That's not a good idea. That's a very bad idea. I allowed it the first few minutes because Allie was there, but this time around..." he shook his head. "No. They don't need that on their consciences."

Allie crawled out of her blanket fort. "Why's he being bad?" she asked solemnly.

The two men stared at her, startled. They'd forgotten she was in the room. "What are you playing?" Coulson asked, hoping they could distract her.

She ignored him. "Why's my old daddy bad?" she asked.

Coulson sighed. "We don't know," he said. He held out a hand, and let her crawl into his lap. "Sometimes, baby, when people have powers, they think that the rules no longer apply to them, that because they're strong, or smart, or shapeshifters, that they don't have to behave. But when they think that way, bad things happen."

"Yeah." She sighed. "Why'd he leave me and old-mommy, Cou-son?"

"I don't know, sweetheart."

She looked up at him. "I ask him?" she asked. "Talk to him for SHIELD?"

Coulson hugged her close. "No, baby girl, that's not a good idea." He kissed her hair. "You don't need to talk to him if you don't want to." He gave her an odd look. "Do you want to?"

She shook her head. "No. He sounds mean."

"All right. You don't have to worry about him ever again if you don't want to."

She nodded. "Kay." She jumped onto the floor and went over to Thor. "Hug?" she asked.

He hugged her obligingly, and she sank into his embrace.

Coulson grinned slightly. "What makes his hugs better than my hugs?" he asked, not offended, just curious.

Allie shrugged. "Tor-hugs are just better. I no know why." She leaned into Thor's chest. "Watch movie?"

"Sure. What movie?"

"Mawy Poppin."

When Clint and Natasha finally joined the land of the living, Allie was back in her blanket fort, playing the dragon. Thor was the princess, and Coulson was the knight. Clint emailed the video to Fury immediately.

Fury's response was automatically censored by the SHIELD servers, but essentially, it was "Stop corrupting my agents!"

After a few days, Allie completely forgot her biological parent, and returned to her cheerful self. McCallen was convicted for several felonies by the use of his powers, and sent to the Sandbox.

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