She turned to face the voice still speaking to JARVIS. "Well it could be. It depends on how much he decides to freak out. Are you going to freak out a lot, a little or somewhere in between?" The last was said the black haired man standing in front of her. "Because if it's a lot, then you might want to hold off until we get more important things taken care of."
"Like these kids?" The woman standing a few feet behind the man was decidedly short, less than five feet, with frizzy blond hair.
"Yes."
The man sighed and ran his hands through his hair. "So mind telling us what happened?"
JJ gave a brief recap then asked her own question. "What are you two doing here anyway?"
With his attention focused on examining one of the Avengers he said, "The news said that the Avengers and Loki had been spotted in the park. When we found out that you had left and hadn't come back yet we got worried. Then your phone just kept going straight to voice mail."
"JJ, why is this guy naked?"
"I don't know Amelia, JARVIS, why would one of the Avengers be naked?"
"That would be classified. Once again, I must stress the need to get them to safety."
JJ nodded. "Safety right." She faced her friends. "Ok guys, there's a chance that someone bad might find out that this happened and come after the kids, so we need to get them, and their weapons to the Avengers Tower, and we need to do it quick."
"Nick, give me your jacket so I can wrap this little guy up." Amelia ordered reaching for the jacket he had already started to remove.
Nick then turned to JJ. "I'm going to get the car. Don't have any safety seats but if we put the middle seats down then we can set up that pad thing that's still in the car and we can put them in the middle and place their weapons in the back. Someone's going to have to set back there with them though."
"I can do that," JJ stated moving to gather arrows and knives.
"Good. I'll be back soon." Nick began to walk away, "I just hope no one tries to arrest me for driving the van in to the middle of Central Park."
JJ and Amelia exchanged slightly amused, slightly worried looks as Amelia placed a now bundled up Avenger on the ground and began to help her. "Hear that JARVIS?" JJ questioned.
"I did indeed Miss."
"Great. Anything else I need to know before I hang up?"
"Master Thor's hammer can only be lifted by him."
JJ stopped and looked at the rather large hammer lying innocently next to a blond haired boy. "JARVIS…that's a really big hammer."
"Indeed it is."
"How are we going to get him to lift it if we can't wake him up?"
"I am unsure Miss, though I do suggest that some team work might be advantageous."
"JARVIS, that has got to be one of the most useless suggestions I have ever heard."
"Thank you Miss."
JJ glared slightly at the phone. "Sarcasm does not become you."
"I believe you are mistaken Miss. I am an IA and there for incapable of emotion."
"Yah and my BS meter just blew up. Do you want me to call you when we get closer to the tower?" She asked getting back to business.
"That will be unnecessary. I will call you when your phone has reached a closer proximity, to give you farther instructions."
"Sounds good. Be there soon." JJ hung up and looked around before muttering under her breath, "That is as long as nothing else happens."
Fortunately, nothing else happened.
In the end it didn't take all the much to get Thor's hammer into the car. The problem came when they couldn't get Thor, who had somehow managed to rap himself around it, to let go. After several long, agonizing minutes, the decided it would be better to simply get them to a safe location, then worry about the hammer.
JARVIS, as promised, called them when they got closer to the tower and directed them to a privet entrance that wound up and lead to a small fortune worth of cars and a privet elevator.
Nick whistled as he eyed the cars.
Amelia glared at him. "What are you whistling about? You don't know a good car from a bad one."
He raised his hands. "What? They're nice looking cars. I can appreciate a nice looking car."
"Technically, Amelia, you don't know all that much about cars either. You're into bikes."
Amelia grinned at JJ and brushed her hair back before she gently took the first Avenger from the car. "True. But I do know more than the both of you."
Nick snorted. "Yah, like that's so terribly hard to do. I barely know anything, and what JJ here, knows about cars, could fill a small glass of water."
"Hey," JJ scowled as she handed another little Avenger over to Nick. "That's a very, very small glass of water."
"Right," Nick answered sarcasm dripping from his voice as he headed toward the elevator JARVIS was kindly holding open for them as Amelia, having set down her Avenger, went back for another, "my apologies. I'll remember next time."
"See that you do!" She responded in her best prissy voice as she passed with the third child.
A few moments later they had gotten everyone on the elevator and where wondering what exactly, where they supposed to do next.
The elevator opened to revile a rather open and comfortable looking living area. A TV that might as well have been a small theater screen filled one wall, shelves of game consuls and games lined up underneath it. Across from it was several couches and chairs, all made for comfort and all slightly turned so that no matter which one they were sitting the elevator could seen.
There was a bar, several arcade games, a pool table and a glass door that lead out onto a huge balcony, and that was just the beginning.
For several moments all three stood unable to move.
"The last three apartments I've rented could fit into this place, with room to spare." Amelia's ahhed words broke the other two from their amazement.
"Couch?" JJ asked them.
The other two looked at each other then nodded. "Couch."
With that the unloading process began. Thor, still refusing to release his hammer, had somehow managed to lock his body into a weird angle since he had been placed on to the elevator and it took all three of them to move him.
"Time to get them settled in." JJ announced. The other two simply stared at her. "What? We can't just leave them like this. Shoes and hats, at the least, need to come off. Then we need to find blankets and pillows for them. Clothes would be good to, at least for our naked friend, but I don't think that's going to be an option."
"There are blankets and pillows in the movie room Miss JJ." JARVIS informed her. "If you would please fallow the light on the floor, I shall direct you there."
"Well? You heard him!" She made shooing motions with her hands. "Go get some for all of us, unless you want to sleep without blankets and pillows."
Nick and Amelia looked at each other then shook their heads, but proceeded to do just that.
A small smile came to rest gently on her face as she looked at the sleeping children. At that moment it didn't cross her mind that they where The Avengers, or Loki, the man who had tried to take over the world, it didn't matter that they had super powers, or even could kill people with just their little finger, all she saw was a group of very tired children.
A soft, wordless, tune slowly flowed from her mouth as she carefully began to settle each child in as comfortably as possible. Shoes where carefully removed and set aside, helmets placed on top of the shoes. Last of all she dealt with Thor and his hammer.
Remembering what her mother had done for a foster child who had come through with a similar problem she gently coxed the hammer from him and replaced it with one of the large couch pillows, setting the weapon just inches from him at the end of the couch.
By that time Nick and Amelia had returned with the pillows and blankets.
Still humming she ushered both over to their own chairs and settled them in before softly placing heads on pillows and tucking blankets firmly around small bodies. Ones the last child had been tended to she stopped and looked at the sleep lot. A wave of gratefulness flooded through her.
What would she have done without friends who cared, friends who had come looking for her, and most importantly, friends who hadn't hesitated, just helped.
"I have taken the liberty of ordering children's clothing within their various, approximant, sizes." JARVIS quietly informed her as she ran her fingers through her hair wishing for a brush when they caught and tangled. "Given that we do not know when they shall be returning to their normal sizes, I believed it to be a wise decision. I have also contacted both Miss Potts and the organization that the Avengers have steamed from. Miss Potts will be arriving sometime tomorrow afternoon and the organization shall be sending someone over sometime tomorrow morning."
"That's good. Thanks JARVIS."
"No trouble at all Miss."
She winced slightly. "Any chance I can get you to drop the Miss?"
"It is not within my programming to do so."
She sighed and gave a small nod. "Thought as much." With another sigh she stood and left the bathroom. "Wish you would pick something else though. Miss, just reminds me that it's not Mrs., which reminds me that I have no social life and that the chance of it becoming Mrs. any time soon is highly unlikely, which reminds me that it doesn't really matter, cause the chances of them ever finding a medication that works properly, and still allows me to have kids is….w-well it's not good and, even if I could have kids what kind of mother would I be, and…. I have no idea why I'm telling you all this. Good grief. I must be more tired than I thought." She gave a large yawn and grabbed her own pillow and blanket before settling down on the floor, smack dap in the middle of all the couches. "Wake me if something happens will you?"
"Of course Miss, and may I say, for what little it means, I do believe you would be a great mother."
"Means a lot JARVIS," she mumbled sleep slowly taking her. "But, I just don't think…"
JARVIS waited several moments for her to finish before he scanned her to discover she was sound asleep. Without a word he turned the lights off, set the security for extra high, and carefully began to monitor each of his charges, the strange new woman and her friends included.
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