I was sprawled across the couch flipping through the channels lazily when Jarvis let me know that Steve wanted to know if he could come up "might as let him in Jar" I sighed turning off the T.V and sat up, Steve walked out of the elevator carrying a gift bag I looked back at him raising a questioning eyebrow "think of it as a house warming present" he smiled handing me the bag "can I sit?" "Uh. . Yeah" he caught me off guard; I fumbled with the tissue paper in the bag pulling out a sketchpad, different graphite pencils, color pencils, pens of different thickness and markers. I felt a blush working it's way to my cheeks "how did you-" "Clint told me; in an old letter that he was told you aspired to be an artist and liked to draw" Steve smiled. I bit my lower lip placing everything back into the bag "is there something wrong?" Steve asked "no" I said quietly "thank you. This. It means a lot" "we only want to make you feel comfortable Sparrow; your family to Clint and Clint is family to us. Like it or not that makes you part of the family" "I've never really been one for family" I said quietly twisting a lock of hair around my finger "I don't believe it's always been like that" "no, I guess it hasn't" "well any way I thought I should warn you that Tony decided to give you a house warming present as well; only it has more Tony to it" Steve said "oh dear lord what he going to do?" I grumbled rubbing my hands across my face "he's decided to take you clothes shopping seeing as you came here with nothing but what your wearing" "I don't suppose there's a way to get out of this" "not really. When Tony puts his mind to something, it pretty much happens" I slumped my shoulders "okay then" I sighed making Steve laugh "that's the spirit, I'll see you at breakfast" he got up and left me to think.

I entered the dinning area seeing that everyone had already started eating Clint sat next to a red head I only presumed to be Natasha they were talking quietly, Tony and Steve were talking about the shopping trip they were dragging me out on, Bruce was reading the morning paper while absently stirring his tea, and Thor was munching on a piece of bacon smiling at me when I took the seat next to him "I hope I did not offend you yesterday Little Sparrow" he said "uh.. no. It was nothing," I mumbled pouring myself some milk "you seemed distraught. Are you sure it was nothing I said?" "I've just never really felt comfortable around people" I mumbled "five years alone could do that to a person" he let it be and continued eating, I was thankful.

After breakfast Tony and Steve dragged me out of the Tower thankfully Natasha came along. All three of them pulled me through the clothing store recommending things like frilly dresses of bright colors, short sleeved shirts and skirts "guys this stuff just isn't me. I don't like showing skin I'll wear skirts but only with stretch pants" I sighed as Tony showed me a light blue dress "so you like the tom boy look?" Natasha perked "no skin" I reminded, "okay. I gotcha" she said walking toward another section "what's your favorite color Sparrow?" Steve asked looking through a rack of long sleeved shirts "neon green, dark blue or black" "how about this?" Steve held up a bright green shirt with white long sleeves "that's what I'm talking about" I smiled joining him in looking through the racks. Natasha returned shortly after her arms full of jeans, stretch pants and skirts, Tony located a pair of neon green and dark blue converse shoes telling me that it was ridiculous to run around wearing heavy boots all the time.

We were heading back to Tony's car when something exploded behind us we all turned at once I noticed a man walking from the mall that was now missing a huge chunk of wall "shit!" Tony exclaimed "it's Loki" "what's a Loki?" I asked raising an eyebrow; now most people would probably be running away screaming their lungs out but well with my past I wasn't one for running or screaming "Nat stay with Sparrow, Tony get your suit" Steve ordered; Tony quickly popped the trunk to his car and grabbed a red and gold suitcase Steve pulled out a red, white and blue shield running toward Loki, who ever that was. Tony now in full Iron man gear rushed after Steve; Natasha pulled guns from the glove box of the car "this happen to you guys often?" I just had to ask Natasha knelt behind the car pulling me down with her "doesn't hurt to be prepared" she said pulling a cell phone from her back pocket quickly dialing and holding it to her ear rising to look at the battle taking place "Clint! Loki's attacking the mall get me Hulk and Thor pronto!" she ordered before hanging up, Steve went flying past us crashing into a lamp post he stumbled to his feet and rushed forward I turned to peak at the battle. Iron man was in the air firing blast at Loki only to be deflected and Steve; he really wasn't Captain America with out the uniform, was doing hand-to-hand combat only to be knocked back again. "You stay here!" Natasha ordered before running to supply back up for the two heroes. I stayed crouched down behind the car wondering exactly what kind of cover it was; really if Steve could break a lamppost and still get up what would happen if Loki threw him at the car? The sky was filled with storm clouds and a clash of lightning struck right behind Loki Thor now stood behind him swinging his hammer knocking Loki back.

Loki slide across the parking lot stopping not five feet from me I blinked "what the fuck is with that ridiculous helmet?" I found myself saying out loud Loki was now standing glared at me, pure mischief and chaos burning in his bright green eyes I gulped backing up slowly, I didn't like that look it reminded me of him. Thor's hammer rushed forward going right through Loki he disappeared "wha-" my hair was pulled roughly pulling me up to my feet I felt like I was being pulled through a vacuum Steve rushed toward me but the darkness overtook every bit of my vision that last thing I heard was my name being yelled by different people.