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Boastfulness doesn't fit in the team's dynamic

There were only two in the theater, Tony, who was working around with his inventions, and Loki, sitting cross legged on the floor right in the middle of the stage. Loki had his arms crossed over his chest and was expressionless, yet he was always trying to take a peek of what Tony was doing.

Loki had reached quite a phase. For the last week, he'd walk around the theater, wearing a blanket cape, claiming to be King. At first, the others thought it was adorable and did not mind, but soon Loki' actions grew into superfluous boastfulness, tantrums and misbehaving. They were starting to get upset by his actions and his lack of respect towards the others. Loki didn't feel fitted in among the others and was starting to behave like he did months after being adopted by the Odinson's. So, as a protest for being ignored and poked fun for being young and small, he promised to sit right in the middle of the theater and not move until people would treat him well. If he only realized that he was not treating the others the way he wanted to be treated…

"I tip my hat to you, kid," Tony acknowledged. "no," He then fixed his saying because Loki was starting to smirk. "not because of acknowledging you as a King. It's just, you did say you would stay sitting there and it has been 20 minutes and you still haven't moved. If it was me, I think I wouldn't even last 5 minutes. I think I have ADHD or something."

"You have what?" Loki asked, bewilder by such acronym.

"Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, ADHD." Tony explained. "I can't be still for too long."

Loki shrugged and asked him. "Where are the others?"

"Uhm, I've got no clue where is your brother. Neither about Natasha and Clint. I just know that Steve took Bruce to the Public Library to help him with the reading issues. By the way, you should have taken that trip too; it's time for you to start reading more than packaging labels."

"I don't need that, I do what I want!"

"Yeah, yeah," Tony said on a breath. "we've heard plenty of that this past week."

"What are you doing?"

"Oh, so now you're interested…"

Tony didn't say anything else, believing that Loki would stay faithful to his promise and not move around. But that was when he heard a loud muffled noise, and Loki's scream of pain. When he looked back he found him, lying on the floor, holding tightly to his right leg, having tripped on Tony's tools scattered all over the stage.

Tony promptly knelt and tried to help the little boy. "Can you move your leg?"

Loki whimpered, stretching his leg. His eyes were full of tears, wanting to rush down his face. "I guess I can."

Tony then squeezed his knee, to which he was hold on to. "Does it hu-"

"Ouch!" Loki yelled, slapping Tony's hand.

"Alright, good news is, it's not broken, but it will probably swell up. I'm gonna get you some ice, stay where you are."

Tony left running and came back a while later with two ice cubes on a plastic bag. "Ok, here you have, rub it on your knee." Just when Loki placed the ice on his knee, Tony realized something. "Wait, we need to wrap the bag around something or else it will give you'll get a burn."

"No!" Loki yelled and crawled back when Tony tried to undo the blanket tied on knot on his neck.

"Really, kid, this is starting to upset me, and I'm not the kind of guy who gets upset easily. This is for your own good."

"But not my cape!"

"It's a blanket, for Christ's sake! Not to mention it is my blanket!" Tony sighed and grabbed a cloth that was on the floor, wrapped the ice on it and then put it over Loki's knee. "When your brother gets here, he'll have a talk with you. This is getting off limits, imp."

"Then stop calling me those things!"

Tony gathered his tools and the two radio control cars he was working on. "Dare you to move your ass from there." He threatened. "And if you do, you better fall down, so that you learn to behave properly."

Thor arrived a while later. Loki was beyond bored, sitting on that floor, feeling his knee aching, noticing its swelling.

"Thor!" He greeted him happy.

The older boy immediately sensed something was wrong. "What's going on? You're not usually this enthusiastic." As he walked closer, he had a look of his brother's leg. "What happened to you?"

"I tripped over Tony's stupid tools." He mumbled, victimizing himself.

"Did you really?" Thor asked suspicious.

"Yes!" Loki yelled at top of his lungs, near tears. "I did stumble because of Stark's stupid stuff. You're doubting me?"

"Calm down, brother, I was just asking you." Thor sat down next to him and pulled him to his lap. "Tell me what's going on. You haven't been at your best behavior lately."

"They all bash me because I'm young and little and I don't like it. I don't like them and they don't like me. No-one likes me."

"And that's why you've been throwing all these tantrums?" Loki looked down and didn't say anything. "Hey, look at me. You can tell me anything, I'm your brother."

"Where did you go?"

"I went home." Loki immediately raised his eyes and stared his brother. "I went to ask dad if we could go back home… He said he'd only take me and I'd have to leave you behind."

"See? No-one likes me!"

"Hey, I'm here, are not I? I care about you, and from now on, we only have each other and if you don't trust me, then it'll be harder to look after you. But I won't give up, Loki. If I didn't care about you, you'd be back at the orphanage again. I didn't want to stay here at first. It was supposed to be just a temporary thing, I had hopes dad would takes us back, but now I guess we're staying for good. So you better understand that you need to treat people the way you want them to treat you. And you're apologizing to all of them once they come back."

"No, I won't! They'll keep on calling me things that I don't like."

"Then it's exactly that you'll tell them. Tell them that you're sorry but that they have to stop with those jokes because you don't like it. You have to be a big boy, Loki. I've got some money hidden and we'll buy them something warm and decent to eat as a way for your apologies. It has been over a week since we eat something proper."

Thor picked up his brother in arms and rummaged through his stuff, picking up the money he had hidden. The two left to buy a warm meal for all of them. When they walked back to the theater, the others were there already. Loki climbed up the steps to the stage and stopped, looking at his brother.

"Loki has something to tell you guys, please listen to him."

Thor nodded his head, giving reassurance to his brother. Loki breathed thoroughly and spoke. "I'm… sorry, for my behavior lately, but," He made sure to reinforce it with a stronger tone of voice. "I'm only apologizing if you guys promise to stop with those jokes. I don't like them."

"We're sorry, Loki." Steve said. "We were not poking fun at you, we were just being playful. We do it to Bruce all the time."

"Yeah, but I don't like it."

"Alright, we got it, monkey." Tony spoke and immediately got fired multiple reproving glares.

"You gotta apologize Tony," Steve excused his friend. "he's a human-shaped asshole. It's the way he is."

"It's gonna take me some time, alright?" Tony walked to Loki. "But I will try to stop calling you these kinds of things, alright?" He offered his hand, requesting a high-five, which Loki conceded him. "I just don't understand why you get so upset about me calling you little and-"

"It's because of the orphanage." Steve sensibly spoke. "The kids used to make fun of him in there, that's why he doesn't like it."

"How did you know?" Loki asked, on an unembarrassed confession that no-one knew about, not even Thor.

"I've been on an orphanage myself. I know how it's like."

Loki untied the blanket that was still tied on his neck and dropped it on the floor, claiming. "I don't wanna be king anymore. It's too tiring."

"Well, uhm," Thor cleared his throat as he stepped closer. "I have something to apologize for too. This of living here, I thought it'd be temporary, but today, when I went to talk with my dad, he made it clear that we're not welcome. So, as I didn't had plans to stay for much long, I had been keeping money from you guys, which I know you all share among each other… I'm sorry. Loki and I bought some warm food-"

"Forget the rest," Clint's voice broke in the air. "let's just eat! I'm starving!"

In the midst of their dining, Tony got up quickly and walked to the backstage, bringing with him the two radio control cars.

"Wow," Bruce spoke, amazed. "do they work?"

"Oh yeah, I fix them this afternoon. It's like this, I let you and Loki borrow them. But you guys have to share it with me."

"Why?"

"'Cause I fixed them and they're mine!" Tony said like a little kid, that he somehow still is.

"Don't you think you're bit too old for those?" Loki asked him.

"Alright, we'll do it like this. You two challenge each other. The one who wins, races against me and then we'll see who's too old to play with these!"

"Yes, because you're sounding very mature, Stark." Natasha teased.

"Hush your mouth, pumpkin head!"

"What do we win if we defeat you?" Bruce asked, interested on Tony's proposition.

"Oh, you guys want to bet something? Okay, okay… Oh, if I win, I let you borrow the cars when you want. If you win, I give them to you."

Needless to say that Loki and Bruce united to defeat Tony and get the radio control cars for themselves.