At first, Bruce wasn't particularly concerned about the twenty something ducks in the tower. Looking back, he knew he probably should have reacted sooner. Of course, at first he was still wrapping his head around the fact that those ducks were a couch ten minutes prior.

When he finally did wrap his head around that, he realized something.

There had been around twenty a few minutes ago.

He was only looking at three.

He noticed two of them getting awfully close. His first reaction: at least they're in groups.

His second observation…

"Tony's going to kill me."

Dodge, dodge, dodge. Shoot.

"And another idiot's miserable attempt at recreating my suit fails," Tony said. Honestly-some of these attempts were just pathetic. Most, actually.

Checking the time, he made quick work of the situation and made to head back to the tower. He couldn't wait to see how Bruce and Harry were doing.

Natasha and Clint were shopping for baby supplies. They knew what they were doing.

Sort of.

Truth be told, they were overwhelmed, looking at all these things, these essentials. Everything claimed to be essential, but surely they didn't need everything?

In the end, they just threw one of everything in the cart. They saw a mother shopping and she came near them. Natasha subtly observed her- maybe she knew what she was doing. Clint frowned as he compared two different diaper brands.

"This one's scented," he announced. He looked up at Natasha.

She looked at the box of diapers dubiously. "I doubt it would make much of a difference. It might make the smell worse."

"And it might irritate your baby's skin," the woman said. She smiled broadly at them. "I'm Beth. I'm guessing this is your first one?"

"What?" Clint said.

"Your first baby," Beth clarified.

"Yes," Natasha said.

"Well, congratulations," Beth said. "Mark-my husband- and I had our first about five years ago. Just ten months after our wedding, too." She looked pointedly at Natasha and Clint. For a moment they didn't quite get what she was getting at.

"What-no, no," Clint said. "Natasha and I, we are not-"

"We aren't together," Natasha said simply. "And Harry isn't exactly ours. We're raising him, along with our housemates. And we're sort of new at this."

Beth nodded, understanding. "Need a hand?"

"Please?" Clint said, still holding onto the scented diapers.

Thor walked through the halls of Asgard. He considered the change in his life. He considered Midgard and her peoples; Midgard, the place that had become a second home. He considered Jane, her beauty, intelligence, and her kindness. He considered the Avengers, his brothers in arms. He considered his brother Loki…

He had to try and put that behind him-he didn't want to draw his friends' concern.

He considered little Harry, the magical Midgardian.

He would protect his friends' new charge.

Several hours later, Natasha and Clint had a full cart. It was filled with things that actually would be needed, such as a baby bottle (Beth had cringed as Clint recounted Natasha's attempt to feed Harry with a cup). Walking through the baby clothes section, the two of them were heading to the check-out line.

"Hang on-is that an Iron Man shirt?"

Steve was more than ready to get off of the helicarrier. He had done his part in the minor assignment, and he wanted to get back to the tower. He trusted Bruce, but he was sure Bruce would appreciate some help.

"Captain Rogers," came Agent Maria Hill's voice. Steve turned around.

"Agent Hill?"

She stopped. "I just noticed that you seem a little on edge. Is there a problem?"

"No," Steve said. Except the magical baby he and his teammates were secretly keeping.

Maria didn't look convinced. "You were twitching all throughout the meeting." Steve didn't say anything. "You kept looking at the clock."

"Just eager to go home, ma'am."

She raised an eyebrow. "You refused to look at Director Fury."

Steve opened his mouth and shut it. He couldn't tell Director Fury- not unless he wanted the World Security Council to know, and he most certainly did not. But he didn't want to lie. He took a breath. "It's embarrassing, Agent."

"I won't judge you."

"It may be embarrassing for you, too."

She stopped for a moment. "I'm…sure I've heard worse."

"Alright. Well, it's because of this dream I had…and in that dream…Fury lost his eye. Uh, his other eye, and ah, I'm the one that did it."

Maria looked at him. "You dreamt you poked Director Fury's eye out?"

Steve nodded. "Yes, ma'am…With a…paintbrush. And uh…I signed the paintbrush with a sharpie and gave it to Coulson for his birthday. His ghost, I mean… And Tony Stark carried Fury like a bride and ran across the ocean to you and uh, you kissed his eye better-"

"Okay, that's enough," Maria said. She was looking at Steve as though he'd lost his mind. "If you ever have another dream like that…just say so, and please spare me the details." With that, she turned around and walked off quickly. Steve let out his breath. He'd never realized he was so creative.

Two hours after they were heading to the check-out line, Natasha and Clint were in the tower's elevator. Clint had immediately begun looking for a Hawkeye shirt after seeing the Iron Man one. He had been disappointed to find that there wasn't one to be found.

"They have an Iron Man shirt, they have a Captain America shirt, they have a Thor shirt and they have Hulk shirt, but not a Hawkeye shirt?" He seemed genuinely insulted.

The two SHIELD agents had ended up spending and extra hour in the store, getting an increasing amount of odd stares.

The elevator reached the floor they'd set- the 'living room' floor, so to speak. It opened.

There was a duck.

There was a duck in the tower.

There was a duck in the living room.

Natasha glared at the duck-she didn't know what was going on, but she really didn't need ducks inside the tower after the last several hours.

Clint was gapping. "Natasha, that's a duck."

"I know it's a duck."

"But it's a duck! In the living room! How'd it even get in?"

Just then Bruce ran in from a hall, carrying Harry in one arm. The duck quacked and flew away. Natasha and Clint stared at Bruce.

"Oh, finally someone's back! You guys, you have to help me find the other ducks!"

"What?" Clint said, jaw dropping. He gapped at Bruce.

Natasha's eyes narrowed. "The other ducks? Just how many ducks are in the tower?"

"Uh…somewhere around twenty," Bruce responded.

"Bruce! How'd they even get in?"

"Harry did it," Bruce said. "See, these ducks…they used to be a couch…"

They were silent for a moment.

"Well," Clint said. "I for one was wondering when we'd see a bit of magic."

"Do you know where they all went?" Natasha asked.

"All over," Bruce said. "And it's…a little worse actually." He winced. "See, ah, that one that was just here, that one was male…uh, some are female."

"Are you telling me these ducks are going mate in our tower?"

"Uh…Yeah. I already caught a few. But there's still a lot all over the tower…Please help me find them! Tony will kill me if ducks take over his tower."

"I'll kill you if ducks take over the tower," Clint said. "Here, give Harry to me. I bought this cool baby-carrying backpack." He took Harry, and was now carrying him on his back. "Now," he said, getting his bow. "Let's hunt some duck."

"Clint," Natasha said. "You are NOT going to kill anything in front of Harry."

"Oh, come on, he won't remember-"

"No."

"I won't kill them then."

"No means no-you aren't shooting things in front of him."

Clint practically pouted. "Fine. I'll take my floor, you take your floors. We'll meet up afterwards, and hopefully Steve and Thor will come help us before Tony get home."

Hello, everyone! I'm not dead! Sorry it's been a long time since I've updated, but I should be putting out more chapters now. This was originally going to be longer, but then it'd would have been like twice the size of all my other chapters, and I figured you guys would like to see this chapter. Sorry there wasn't much baby Harry in this chapter.

Please tell me what I did well and what I didn't-I love reading your reactions.

Also...it would be appreciated if anybody would read some of my other fics- I posted another chapter in Avengers Tower around a week ago, and nobody's reviewed it...

I hope I'm not pushing or forcing reviews. I also hope that every one enjoyed this.

Update: I've edited the chapter a bit- including lines to differentiate between the scenes. I planned to put them in to begin with, but I kinda forgot since I was in a bit of a hurry to post the chapter. It had been like a month since I'd updated, so yeah. Course it ended up being a day late anyways, cause there were some sort of issues with the site.