So, I'm back. I took forever to get this out (and to figure out what to "get" each character), sorry.
Did you guys like raging Torra? Because I liked writing her. Okay, on with...whatever this is

The collaborated effort of the three women, and a few inputs from Tony in attempt to keep them from coating his apartment in glitter, had the whole event planned out in an hour. All of the Avengers and quite a few agents from SHIELD were invited, there was going to be a photographer (Pepper insisted), and cookies were to be made that night (Okay, Torra and Lily thought that up to mess with the boys later, but it would be fun). Pepper had calls to make to set up catering and things of the like, Torra had shopping to do, and Lily (sadly) had to go back to work, she was on duty after all. But all three of them decided to meet at the mall later that evening to go over everything one last time. Before she set off, dragging Loki with her 'its a part of the experience!', Tony handed Torra a credit card,"Here, get Pepper something good for me. You too
"You want me to pick out my own Christmas present?" she laughed
"Yeah, you probably wouldn't like anything I'd pick out for you. Use that for the decorations and stuff too. Just don't make 'em to cheesy" Tony said, patting her shoulder and sipping his drink
"Thanks Tony." she smiled at him and left for the mall

It was plain to Torra that Loki didn't exactly like the mall, she tried making everything as painless as possible; moving quickly throughout stores, not having him smell everything she did (she loved candles), avoiding large crowds(that was rather tough), and trying to be more decisive than she normally was. She did, however, force him to get a caramel frappuchino, which he enjoyed despite his protests beforehand. While they shopped, Torra explained to him some of the things people do at Christmas: exchanging presents, lights, the yule log, the whole Santa Claus dealio. She avoided the religious aspects of the holiday, seeing as this wasn't that kind of party, and because it would take way too long to even try to explain Christianity to him. They just wanted it to be the simplest kind of Christmas, a bunch of friends getting together to enjoy each others company and drink eggnog or in Tony's case, something that was once eggnog and became mostly rum. Not that Torra objected to that kind of eggnog either. It would probably be funny to see Thor drunk.
They had most of the presents bought for everyone,a lot of them were silly gifts- like the American flag boxers for Steve, the large box full of stress balls for Bruce and the marshmallow crossbow for Clint- but they got a spa gift certificate for Natasha that girl needs some relaxing and a waterproof case for Pepper's tablet, she had almost gotten coffee on it three times since they'd arrived. Tony's gift to Pepper would be a bit harder, and probably would be jewelry. Pepper seemed like a sapphire kind of girl to Torra, so she went directly to the section of sapphire jewelry in each of the jewelry stores they encountered. She had finally gotten it down to two things when she asked Loki
"Okay, I can't do this anymore. Necklace or bracelet?" he looked up from a case of emerald necklaces
"Hm?"
"Pepper's gift from Tony, this necklace," she said, gesturing to the one sitting before her on the counter,"or this bracelet?" Loki came over to study the two pieces of silver jewelry. The necklace was a teardrop sapphire outlined in small diamonds and the bracelet was alternating square cut sapphires and diamonds. He looked at each for a moment, trying to think of which the woman would like better, he didn't know her very well. Then an idea popped into his head, what would Tony think when faced with the question?
"The necklace." he said then walked back to the case he was previously admiring.
"Well... I guess we'll get her that then." Torra smiled to the clerk who wrapped up the purchase. They picked out another funny gift for Tony, it was an Iron Man plush. Loki found the fact that it existed mildly disturbing
"I wonder how long it would take me to sew a Pepper Potts plush..." Torra thought aloud as they walked down the middle of the mall attempting to avoid the kiosk skulkers. Most of which were men that very much wanted Torra's attention, but, to Loki's happiness, she ignored them completely.
"I could probably do it in a night if I worked straight through... but I don't have time for that, dang. I think tony would've liked that." her brow creased in concentration as she tried to think of another way
"I could attempt to make one with magic." Loki suggested as they passed a store reeking of cologne, Loki only got a glance into the darkened store and all he saw were walls adorned with very large portraits of half naked men, Torra made a quiet noise of disgust as they passed.
"Really? You'd do that?" she asked,"You do realize this gift would be going to Tony right?"
"Yes," he smiled a little,"Count it as my thanks for him letting us into his home. We can work on it back at the tower."
"There's Pepper and Lily, come on!" Torra smiled and picked up her pace as they neared the women who greeted Torra with hugs and Loki with smiles. They all sat down at a table in the food court, cinnamon buns in hand.
"Come on, try it!" Torra laughed as she pushed a forkful of the gooey bread into Loki's face
"No, I believe you've forced enough sugar into me for today." he nodded at his now-empty Starbucks cup. She got a familiar "wont-take-no-for-an-answer" look in her eyes and Loki sighed in defeat, knowing the extent she would go to if he didn't. He took the fork from her and picked the warm, sticky confection off with his fingers and plopped it in his mouth. It was delicious."Happy?" he asked as he handed the fork back to her
"Slightly," she turned to Pepper," so, what else do we need to do?"
"Well, I have the decorations ordered, they should be at the apartment later, Happy went out and bought our cookie making stuff, the caterer and photographer have been sorted out, everyone- other than Steve because he's technologically inept- has been sent the invitation e-mail and most have responded already. We just have to decorate and bake and finish shopping."
"Awesome, speaking of which, Pepper could you do me a favor and watch Loki for a bit? I have to get his present" Torra asked
"Watch me? I'm hardly a child, I have no need to be-"
"Yeah, sure. See you in a bit." Pepper cut him off, he looked slightly shocked
"Come on, Lily" Torra laughed at Loki's expression and pulled her friend's arm,"We'll be back in a bit."

They weren't far when Torra started asking a million questions about what had been going on and her job at SHIELD and Thor and just about anything that could have happened in the six months that she'd been gone
"Torra! Slow down, breathe." Lily said in attempt to keep her friend from exploding
Torra let out a deep breath,"Okay... I'm good. Now spill, how did you and Thor get to... whatever it is you are?" Lily laughed
"Well, I... I don't know. I was working at SHIELD and he bumped into me. Literally. Knocked me straight to the ground, I had bruises on my arse for a week. And he was helping me up and he offered to buy me coffee to repay me and when I was leaving he did the super cute kiss my hand thing and well... it just kind of escalated from there." she said with a bit of a dreamy look on her face
"And,uh, how far have things...escalated?" Torra asked, wiggling her eyebrows suggestively
"Oh my god. Leave it up to you to ruin my cute story." Lily shoved her,"and not as far as your suggesting, creep. And what about you and Loki?" She asked
"What?! What do you mean?" Torra's expression was priceless
"Really? He just seems... never mind." Lily laughed as they walked into a book store
"What?!What?!Whaaaaaaaaat?!" Torra begged her friend as she tugged on her arm. It was funny, they were standing in the middle of the children's section and she was acting like she belonged there.
"Come on, what are you getting him?" asked Lily, trying to change the subject. Torra groaned in defeat,"I thought I'd be silly and get him a book on himself."
"That's cute. Lets go." they headed over to the section of mythology books, which was bigger than Torra expected. There were books about Asgard, and Odin, and Thor, of the creatures that lived in the nine realms, and collective histories of all of it, but only a few about just Loki. Lily was holding one titled The Prince of Mischief and had a drawing on the front that looked nothing like Loki
"This has a ton about him, Tor, his childhood, the battles he's fought in, his... CHILDREN?" Lily look absolutely horrified,"He has children?!"
"Yeah, a few. I've only met Sleipnir though. He's nice." Torra laughed. Lily read for a moment then looked up at her grinning friend, near shouting," You met a talking eight legged horse that he MOTHERED?! SERIOUSLY?!"
"Lil, calm down. I know. Its ridiculous, sometimes I think its insane too. Stop freaking out," she put her hands on her friend's shoulders,"I'll take that book, now lets head back."
There was a lot of "I...what? I cant even..." on Lily's part while they walked back to the food court. Torra had told her that even if she tried to explain it would probably just horrify her further. Her stream of unintelligible words finally ended when they were walking past a dress shop and Lily spotted one on a mannequin,"Torra, that would look amazing on you." she said and pulled her friend inside.

When they returned to Loki and Pepper sitting at the table, Lily wouldn't look him in the eye.
"Ready?" Pepper asked,"We have cookies to make and lights to hang." The four of them made to leave and Loki noticed Lily quickly shuffle past him to walk with Pepper, all the while avoiding looking at him.
"Did I do something to offend her?" he asked Torra, who shook her head and laughed
"No, she just, uh... well we were in the book store and she picked up a book about Norse legend and just happened to open it to a page about Sleipnir's origin." she was trying to suppress her laughs, and failing miserably,"Its.. it's not you I'm laughing at. I swear, j-just her reaction was s-so awesome. Okay, okay, I'm done." she took deep breaths and the giggling calmed down.
"You're different here." Loki said suddenly, his tone very serious.
"What do you mean?"
"You talk differently, you act differently, why is that?" he asked.
"Well... I feel different here. Its like... well, how do I put this? Say if French were your first language then you learned Spanish. The two languages are similar, but you would speak French in a different way than you would Spanish, right?" Torra asked
"I do not see what languages have to do with this-" Loki began. She cut him off,
"I'm making a metaphor, now answer the question, please."
"Then, I suppose yes, I would because the French would be natural, what I'd known from the beginning."
"Exactly," Torra nodded," I act differently is Asgard because being there is not natural for me, not that I don't love being there, but here... it's like speaking French." he laughed a little at her comparison, but understood what she meant,"Now then, who's ready to make some cookies?" Torra laughed as they re-entered Stark's apartment

Okie, Lovelies, chapter three! Sorry it took so long. I've been distracted with my shiny new copy of Avengers on blu-ray :) I hope you guys are liking it so far! Reviews are Oreos for my writers block. Did that even make sense? Didn't think so. Bye!