Thank you to all who have favourited, followed and reviewed. It means a lot to hear you say you enjoy this story. Especially as it is very much an experiment and I am really rather sceptical about it myself.

This story takes place in three different storylines, set in the past, the present, and the future.

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Present

Loki went down into the livingroom of Stark Tower in the morning, ignoring the Avengers trying to get up or shouting (in Steve and Tony's case, to get away from her) and kept walking right over to Pepper, touching her shoulder to wake her up. Despite him already knowing she merely pitied him in their earlier aquaintance; and expecting this rejection now, it still hurt when she shied away from him.

"Wake up, dear" he mumbled instead of making this known, smiling charmingly to hide how painful he found her fear. "You have work to go to - life must go on, after all".