"I thought you were not worried about this exam and did not need to study, especially while walking," Loki grumbled as he hauled you away from walking into traffic. Again.

"I just need to look up this command," you protested. Again. Loki wasn't listening and you needed to study.

"You make my job of guarding you difficult when you keep walking into traffic," he muttered, holding your arm so you had to walk at his pace and not into traffic while you flipped through the pages of the textbook you were searching.

"At least I shouldn't be so brain dead after today's exam," you reminded him.

"That will be a relief. I disliked seeing you in that state," he said. "This one is not much better," he grumbled as he had to haul you away from running into a pole. He wrapped his arm around your shoulders instead, holding you close to his side to make sure you wouldn't die by trying to read and walk at the same time. "Can you please stop trying to read and walk at the same time?" he grumbled.

"I can't find this command!" you whined. Loki grabbed the book and yanked it from your hands. "Loki!" you exclaimed with frustrated tears in your eyes. You were so stressed about exams that your emotions were out of hands. You weren't usually like this.

"Take the phone out of your pocket and ask Karen," he told you gently, kindly. You just looked up at him, feeling stupid for not thinking of that. You pulled your phone from your pocket and did just as he suggested, having your answer in a moment. He pulled you into a hug. "Now will you please relax? You will do fine on the exam. You built Karen from scratch, remember?" he asked. You nodded.

"I'm sorry, I'll be better after this exam is over. It's the last one for the year," you reminded him.

He kissed your forehead. "I know, darling, I know." He kept your textbook and walked you the rest of the way to school with his arm around you. "Go slay that exam," he bid you before he kissed you.

"Don't forget I get out of school right after the exam," you reminded him.

"What time will that be?"

"Around 11,"

"I will see you then," he replied with a smile. He at least handed your book back before you ran up the stairs so you wouldn't be late for your exam.

*

You actually felt good about the exam as you bounced down the steps of the school after it was over. You had gotten out a little earlier than anticipated so Loki wasn't here yet. You sat on a brick wall next to the school to wait for him to get there. You pulled a tiny screwdriver out of your bag to make an adjustment to the watch on your wrist. The watch wasn't really a watch at all. Granted, it had watch capabilities, but it was a piece of tech you'd made yourself fully integrated with Karen. It had a one-shot repulsor in it as well. Your pet project right now was to increase the number of shots for the repulsor. It was difficult until you could figure out how to miniaturize an arc reactor, or some other power supply. Right now, though, it had a screw loose inside that was messing up the whole thing. You'd noticed that morning when you'd tried to ask Karen a question through it and the whole thing had rattled instead of her answering you. So you sat on the wall and took it apart so you could fix the screw.

"Darling, don't you have a lab to play with the things that explode in?" Loki asked when you shrieked and dropped the watch when it caught fire in your hands. He chuckled as he walked the last couple of steps to where you were sitting on the wall.

"I do," you said as you beat the fire out. You picked up the watch and sighed. It was going to take a lot more work to fix now that it had caught fire. Once it was extinguished completely, you shoved it in your school bag. You'd fix it later. Or make a better one.

"How did you get up there?" he asked curiously, looking up at you. Sitting on the wall put your head a good foot above his or more.

"I climbed," you replied with a grin. "Mind helping me down?" you asked, tossing your bag down first. He reached up for you, holding you by the waist. You placed your hands on his shoulders and let him lift you down from the wall. You laughed when he kissed you as he did.

"How was the exam?" he asked when you were safely on your feet again. You reached for your bag, but it had vanished. He gave you a smirk when you looked over at him.

"It was cake," you replied with a grin as you took his hand.

"I knew you would do well," he answered.

"Have you eaten?" you asked, not quite ready to go home yet. He shook his head. "C'mon, there's a new authentic Japanese restaurant that opened nearby." You held his hand more tightly and dragged him with you to the restaurant. He laughed as he let himself be dragged like a favorite stuffed toy. He looked impressed when you ordered in Japanese for both of you. You shrugged. "I've learned a little bit of a bunch of different languages," you explained while you ate, trying not to laugh at his attempts to use chop sticks. "Tony travels all over the world for business. At least he used to, now he does for the Avengers, so I don't get to travel with him as much anymore. Next I'll have to learn Asgardian," you teased.

"I would be willing to teach you if you truly want to learn," he replied pleasantly.

"Really?" you asked excitedly. "It'd be nice to be able to read your books without having to make you illusion them for me,"

"Maybe I shouldn't teach you after all," he teased. You stuck your tongue out at him in reply.

"You're just bad at sharing," you replied. "You have a brother. You should've learned how to share," you teased. He laughed.

"Thor and I are terrible at sharing. We have fought our entire lives."

"I also heard you turned into a snake and stabbed him,"

"Which time?" he laughed.

After lunch, you dragged him to the bookstore and watched his child-like glee at all of the books it held. Books and desserts were his weaknesses. As per usual, he wanted to take the entire store home with you. He finally picked out an armful that you both could agree on. By then, it was getting late enough that you had to get back to the tower before Peter showed up.

*

Peter arrived while you were in your lab working. Jarvis announced his arrival. "J, can you send him to my lab?" you asked, not wanting to leave your work. You really didn't want it blowing up again.

"Yes, Miss Stark," Jarvis replied.

"Karen, try not to set my watch on fire this time," you told her. Loki was looking over your designs on the computer nearby.

"You will need much smaller arc reactors for these designs," Loki commented. You nodded absently.

"Or some other way to get the power from a full-sized arc reactor to the bracelets. I haven't come up with a good solution to the power problem, yet," you grumbled.

"Hey, Y/N," Peter said from the door to the lab. You waved him in, soldering iron still in your hand.

"Hey, Pete. Give me just a sec. I don't want this to catch fire again today," you asked Jarvis to make a couple more parts for you and turned to Peter.

"Didn't see you at lunch today," he commented as he dug his Spiderman mask out of his bag.

"I had an AP exam this morning, so I got the afternoon off," you reminded him. He nodded.

"Don't know how you do it," he replied, handing you the mask. You flipped it inside out and plugged it in to your computer.

"Karen, run diagnostic," you ordered.

"Yes, Miss," she replied and began running the diagnostics tests.

"I'm not being a superhero on the side," you reminded Peter.

"Oh right, that," he laughed.

"Diagnostics are done. Peter attempted to turn off kindergarten mode. Again." Karen announced. You glared at Peter, who just looked sheepish.

"Sorry," he mumbled. You sighed and got to work fixing the damage.

"I'm sorry, Karen. He's so mean to you," you told her while you worked to put your baby back together. "Aww, he ripped a hole in your code. No wonder you were so upset with him. Pete, you made a big mess of her this time. Stop messing with my code or I'll install baby mode on here," you grumbled at him, typing furiously to fix what he'd done.

"How is your code so much more sophisticated than anything I've worked on?" he grumbled.

"I built it myself, doofus. I hacked Jarvis when I was 8. I build my own tech as pet projects. Hell, Dad trusted me to build the tech for your suit. That should say something about my abilities,"

"I expected it to be less able than Jarvis," he pouted. You sighed and turned to one of the many tablet like devices in the room. You flipped a holographic version if Jarvis into the air.

"That's Jarvis," you told Peter. You then flicked up a holographic image of Karen beside Jarvis. "And that's Karen," the two programs looked similar, but Karen was more sophisticated. You'd been working on her for years. She'd been based off Jarvis originally.

"Wow," Peter just stared. Loki looked on proudly. "Aren't you bored down here?" Peter asked Loki when you dismissed the holograms and got back to work fixing Peter's suit. "This doesn't seem like something you'd enjoy,"

Loki shrugged, unused to people trying to be nice to him. Peter was just nice to everyone. "It's not so bad, the company is pleasant, and it is interesting to learn about Earthen technologies," he explained.

"Hey, Jarvis, do you know when the rest of the team's coming home?" you asked while you worked.

"In time for dinner. Mr. Stark is having dinner delivered. He left money in the cash jar and asks that one of you three children pay the deliveryman when he arrives." You rolled your eyes.

"Thanks, J. Can you tell him that we got the message, my exam went great, and I love him?"

"I will do so, Miss Stark," he replied. You finished Peter's mask and handed it back.

"Wanna try it out?" you asked.

"Nah, I trust your work," he replied and shoved the mask back in his bag. You almost turned back to your pet project, but Loki grabbed your chair and wheeled it away from the table.

"Loki!" you huffed at him.

"Darling, we have a visitor. We have to pay attention to him," he reminded you gently. You pouted. "Your project will still be here on Sunday." He hauled you to your feet before you could protest and kissed you before you could whine at him.

"You were serious about the boyfriend, thing?" Peter demanded. You flushed, having forgotten he was here.

"Yeah," you answered. Loki wrapped an arm around you and the three of you headed upstairs to the livingroom.

*

You and Peter were kicking Loki's ass at video games when dinner arrived. Loki grumbled and pouted, but he was having fun with you anyway. As per usual, he insisted on answering the door for the deliveryman, even if it meant paying. Tonight's delivery was everything the pizza place made. Looked like the entire team would be here tonight.

You grinned when they all piled off of the elevator at the same time, especially since Peter and Loki were both sitting on the floor to better kill each other at whatever fighting game they were playing. You were sitting on your favorite couch when you announced "The floor is lava!"

You pulled your feet up to sit cross legged and watch (and video) the chaos. Peter jumped up on the ceiling and stuck there upside-down to watch the chaos too. Loki teleported to the couch next to you. You laughed while the rest of the team attempted to get to safety.

They all ran for various pieces of furniture. Nat climbed up onto Clint's shoulders while he yelled at her to get off of him. She leapt from his shoulders onto the coffee table, then helped him climb onto it with her. Thor swung Mjolnir a couple times until he could fly over to one of the couches.

The illusion of lava appeared on the floor a moment later, courtesy of a certain trickster. You laughed when Tony tried to jump on the table with Nat and Clint and knocked all three of them into the 'lava'.

The team wasn't usually so silly, but even they could relax occasionally.

You were all laughing when Cap walked into the room from the next elevator, looked at the chaos and the lava-floor. He just shook his head and started walking toward the pizza, accepting his loss with dignity.

It was an evening of silly party games and story telling. It wasn't a true party, no alcohol was served while the minors were around, but it was fun nonetheless.

"Y/N, are you going to the Meg's end of the year party next Friday?" Peter asked. You shrugged.

"Haven't decided yet. Parties aren't really my thing,"

"Well, I'll be there, so you'll at least have a friendly face there if you decide to come," he replied.

It wasn't long before he had to head home before Aunt May got worried. Tony had Happy drive him so he wouldn't be late. Tony kept adopting strays. You were the first of them.

The team apparently forgot you were a minor and got the alcohol out after Peter left. They'd had a long week of hard missions, so you didn't blame them for wanting to relax. Thor told the best stories after his tongue had been loosened, so you always tried to stay quiet and see what stories he'd tell.

You curled up with Loki on the couch, laying your head on him to listen to everyone's stories. "Darling, you should go to bed soon," Loki told you softly late into that night. You blinked up at him stupidly. "You promised to play with me all day Saturday if I let you study this week," he reminded you. "It has been officially Saturday for a few hours now,"

"You don't really want us to start our day at 3am, do you?" you could go without sleep for days on end, another trait you shared with Tony, but you weren't always pleasant about it, and generally only did so when you were working on something in the lab.

"No, I will let you sleep for a little while. And then we will have our fun," he purred softly. You smiled up at him and moved to get back to your feet. You said your goodnights to the team, kissed Tony on the cheek and let Loki walk you to your room, and let him check the room for monsters.

You pulled your phone out of your pocket and snapped a selfie of the two of you kissing, which was instantly posted to all of your social media. You grinned at your bit of fun. "Why are you grinning?" he asked, admiring the picture on your phone.

"Because that's going to get a lot of comments from everyone who follows me on every social media platform. And all of the news. It's a fun little bit of mischief. It'll be more fun watching them debate whether you're the real Loki or just someone who looks like him,"

He thought that over, then summoned his golden horned helmet on his head. "Would this help?" he asked when it was in place. You kissed him again and he helped you get the picture.

"That will be the next one I post after they argue over the first one for awhile," you told him with a grin. With a smirk of mischief and fun, you grabbed the helmet off of his head.

"Hey!" he protested, reaching to take it back from you. You laughed and plopped it on your own head instead, taking a couple of steps back to stay out of his reach. He took a picture of you while you were laughing at the expression on his face. "You are adorable, darling, but may I have that back now?"

"You have to kiss me first," you told him. He sighed over dramatically and looked so put upon.

"Very well," he mock-groaned. He gave you the most excellent kiss so deep and perfect that it made your knees weak. When it ended a long while later, you removed his helmet from your head and handed it back to him. He vanished it. "Sleep well, darling," he bid you softly.

"Goodnight, Loki,"

You fell asleep that night still dreaming of that kiss.