Chapter 16: Girl Power

Natasha and Lex met in the lounge, and met a very annoyed Clint and Bruce attempting to check out his head.

"Clint what happened? Did you fall out the vents again?" Nat chided him. Sometimes it was like he was her kid, not her best friend.

"No, it fell on me!" Clint shot a dirty look at Lex. "Her friends were being so noisy upstairs that they OW THAT HURT." Bruce had just poked him in the head.

"Sorry but it was necessary."

Nat shook her head, grabbed her bag and headed to the door, chatting to Lex about what was more effective, a roundhouse kick or an axe kick.

They wandered through New York, stopping at shops that they liked the look off. They found out stuff about each other, like that Lex hates collar bones and that Nat has a birthmark like a spider on her right shoulder-blade. They also got a look at each others scars when they where trying on clothes. When Nat suggested that Lex tried on a crop top she began to panic.

"I can't do that. I can't."

"Why, what's wrong Alex?"

"I have scars all over my stomach. I don't show them off."

Nat thought back to the day she saw the scars on Lex's arms.

"I understand. So what clothes do you like?"

They kept on shopping for hours. Finally as they were heading back towards the tower, Lex saw a small shop that looked exactly her thing. She dragged Natasha into it, and her jaw dropped. IT was heaven. Band t-shirts, combat clothes and dresses. Normally she hated dresses but these but old fashioned, ladies dresses.

"Hey Nat, try that one on." Lex pointed to a black corseted dress with red stitching. It would go perfectly with Natasha's hair and porcelain skin.

"Okay, are you going to choose a dress?"

"Yep, I've got my eyes on one. You go first though."

While she waited for Nat to be laced up, she browsed through the t-shirts. She found about 5 she liked and payed for them. She also found an awesome skull cup, a new set of boots and a locket. Locket's intrigued her, so small but the perfect place to something. She payed for everything, then Nat walked out. She looked amazing.

"Wow Nat you look amazing. I'll buy it for you."

"Thanks Alex. I can't breathe properly though. Your turn."

Nat came out about 5 minutes later. She wandered round the shop, and bought a pair of combat boots and cameo jeans as well as the dress. As she was paying, Lex tapped on her back. Nat turned around and was amazed. Lex was wearing a beautiful green dress, a corset top and full skirts.

"You look beautiful. Loki won't be able to control himself."

"That wouldn't be the best idea with dad around. I'm also going to buy it in black."

Lex changed back then they walked out the store arm in arm. They decided they were going to wear their new dresses to the charity ball they had that night. As they were walking down the street, people began screaming. They ran to the source and discover a giant mouse, the size of a house. Nat grabbed her gun, which she had hidden under her leather jacket and Lex grabbed her knife, which she'd brought with her juts in case. She also got her magic ready.

"Lex get behind it and she if you can stop it.I'll distract it."

Nat shot at the mouse, which got it's attention. Lex ran behind it, and vaulted from the top of a car onto it's back. The mouse squealed, and began to rear. She ran up to in-between its ears, and began to murmur a spell. The mouse began to shrink and shrink until it was normal mouse size. Lex picked up the mouse, an looked around. A little girl ran over to Lex and said to her, "I want to be like you when I'm older."

Alexis smiled at her, and said to the little girl, "Do you want this mouse?". The little girl nodded, and Alexis places the mouse in the little girls hands. When the mother came over to retrieve her daughter, Alexis assured her that the mouse wouldn't resize. Alexis walked over to Nat. who was watching from the side.

"You handled that well. What did that little girl say?"

"She said she wanted to be like me."

"That's happened to me. It feels great, doesn't it?"

"Yere, it does."

At that moment Steve and Loki appeared.

"Are you two okay, we just got the alert." Steve panickly asked. He couldn't let Nat get hurt.

"Steve we're fine. It was just an oversized mouse. We handled it, well Alex handled it." Nat told him. He worried too much sometimes.

"Come on guys, some of us want a shower before tonight." Lex grinned at Loki and took his hand. They began to walk towards the tower, listening to Natasha and Steve bicker about who should hold the shopping bags.