Loki's POV:

The cure was taking an awful long time to be created. Though I knew it wasn't the easiest task to undo something created by the Tony Stark, that didn't tone down the annoyance brewing in me. On top of that, apparently HYDRA was here to get the avengers, or Wanda. The thought of that frightened me more than I'd like to admit, and I had no clue why.

Sighing heavily, I pushed the lift button to take me to the floor of the avengers. I had finally learnt to use the damn lift after many confusing button presses and then finally a little ding to alert me I was on the correct floor.

My heart warmed at the sight of the babies all squeezing together on the couch, their little arms wrapping around each other. Had I really gone this soft? Shaking my head, I approached them as I gently began to lull them back awake.

"Hey, come on, you have to wake up now," I whispered, successfully waking up Sam and Natasha as I continued the process for the rest of them. As soon as I had woken up all of them and switched the TV on to the weird sponge show, I heard the lift click as Wanda walked out. "Morning," she smiled gently before asking what they wanted for breakfast.

"DOUGHNUTS," was the first thing called out, followed by other sweet foods which were not suitable for the morning. I smirked as I listened to their childish responses and looked up at her playful groan. "Toast it is," she laughed, using her magic to pull the bread towards her.

Lightly shaking Steve's shoulders, I stood up and began walking to the kitchen where she was cooking. The silence was loud. So loud even the kids were quiet.

Somewhere in my steps I had hesitated. Maybe she didn't want to talk about it? What if she just wanted the night before striked from the record so we could both move on.

"May I help you?" Well, too late now.

"I was- uh, wondering if you were okay after last night," I told her, silently cursing myself at the mess up. Noticing the way her face became serious all of a sudden, my previous thought came back.

"I guess so." And there was that sweet, sweet silence again. "Thank you, though, what you said really helped," she stated softly and I couldn't help but return the smile. "Of course, darling," I shot back and felt myself relaxing at her playful eye roll as she turned back around.

"Oooohhh, Loki likes Wanaa, Loki likes Wanaaaa," Tony sung out in a childish manner. "Oh don't be ridiculous," I laughed, walking over to the couch and poking at his stomach, "I heard you liked Natasha!" I could swear the baby version of Steve gave me a glare at that one, some things never change.

"Eww, no like Tasha," he practically yelled as Natasha nodded her head in agreement. Suddenly, I heard a chuckle from across the room. "Alright you kids, foods ready," she called out, pointing at me while saying kids.

After everyone had eaten, Wanda had set them up with crayons and pieces of paper to draw on and set Friday to watch them so we could read through the files from the previous day.

"Hey, Wanda, maybe I should read this.." I suggested slowly, afraid that the information in there could potentially hurt her and the thought of that haunted me for some reason. "Its about my brother, of course I'm going to read it!" She snapped before mumbling an angered apology.

"What if it brings up unsavoury memories? Or something bad about your brother." I replied, my voice slightly raised.

"Oh because thats your concern, is it?" She questioned in a sarcastic tone. "God, Wanda I'm doing this for you!"

"Well maybe I don't want you to do it for me then!" She yelled.

"Fine, enjoy trying to un-brainwash your HYDRA brother on your own then, Miss Maximoff," I snapped, walking out of the room.

Wanda's POV:

The morning after the whole HYDRA scandal, I had been exhausted physically and mentally. I considered staying in bed but figured that wouldn't be best for the team. So I dragged myself out and made breakfast and left the kids with their arts supplies to be able to look through the files with Loki.

Well, not with him anymore.

The argument was heated, but calling my brother a fucking 'HYDRA brother' had crossed a line too far. I was close to snarking back a worse comment but he had already left and I was glad he had.

Why did he care anyways? Its not like the words in a file could hurt me. Of course not. I'd dealt with much, much worse. Words are pathetic.

Still incredibly irritated, I pulled open the folder to the first page and skipped over some of Pietro's personal info such as his full name and his powers and my eyes were drawn to the bottom of the page.

'Brainwash success. Use to capture Wanda Maximoff, effective immediately.'

Oh, maybe words do hurt.

A/N:

HEY MY BEAUTIFUL PEOPLEEE. I honestly forgot how long I hadn't updated for but like IM HERE NOW. Lets all thank ahsoka_skywalker12 for making a deal with me to update this so he would update their story 'Whispers' (WHICH YOU SHOULD ALL GO READ BTW) and successfully got me to write. Sorry its short, again. Anywayss, as always, hope you enjoyed this and I love you all! MWAHHH
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- S xx