"Do I have to do this?" I groaned as I jumped over the back of the couch. All the other Offspring were on the semi-circle of couches in varying states of sitting. The Twins were rigid sitting, Nile was slightly more relaxed. Cleo had were ankles crossed up the back of the couch. James had his feet on the coffee table and I rested my head on Gale's lap. Our previous awkwardness and silence forgotten.

       "Yes Lana," Angel rolled her eyes and dragged out the words. She seemed more comfortable with us now. The stony SHIELD act almost completely gone.

       "Whatever mum," I dragged out the words in the same tone.

       "Let's watch the Avengers!" James suggested, a diplomatic approach.

       "We can't watch the Avengers," Cleo said in a duh tone, "they're not here,"

       I rolled my eyes, "Uncultured swine, am I the only one here who is thoroughly educated on what a great Loki Tom Hiddleson is?" I was greeted by an awkward silence, "we are so watching the Avengers adaptation. FRIDAY, play the Avengers movie,"

       "We don't have time for this," Aaron groaned. I mocked gasped and chucked a pillow at his face.

       The intro began to play and I cooked some popcorn, distributing it evenly. Angel began to protest and I chucked a handful of kernels at her, she swatted them away like flies. Instead of watching the movie, I watched Gale's face. It changed from small quirks at the mouth when Loki appeared to a certain wistfulness when the helicarrier was displayed. The most reaction from him was when Loki dropped Thor from the helicarrier, Gale stuck his tongue out at Cleo who did the same. The Twins got excited during the fight between their parents and once Natasha took down Clint they did a little handshake-fist bump, funny, I didn't know that they were capable of that kind of stuff. James looked sheepish when his father hulk-out on board the helicarrier. During the sass fight between Loki and Tony, I poked Gale in the side, making him squirm.

       We watched our adapted parents fight, hit things, discover and just generally save the world as they slowly became what we wished to achieve; a team.

...

       "That was pretty good," Angel admitted after the movie ended. The others nodded in agreement.

       "But back to the reason why we gathered," Nile shot a look at me and I raised my hands defensively but I could see he was toying, "Lana, how's the locating system going?"

       "Should be ready," I threw a popcorn piece into the air and caught it in my mouth, "in a few days at most. Haven't gotten too many dreams from wacky Thanos lately,"

       "So Thanos is his name?" Aaron asked and I nodded.

       "I can get in touch with Heidmall, see if he knows anything," Cleo supplied. "But try and get any info out of him. Anything."

       "I can't exactly pick and choose when my next audience will be with him," I retorted, the welt of resentment at her ability to take lead, stirring once again. After an awkward silence I asked, "what was meeting your parents like?"

       "Caring." Angel and Aaron said at the same time. "but cold,"

       "They were the SHIELD agents that raised us," Angel answered, "we became SHIELD agents at the age of seven, completing missions that normal adults wouldn't be able to achieve."

       "Clint and Natasha were like our mentors, the only parents and guidance we ever really had. And we thought of them as our parents, it wasn't much to get over when we were told they were. I think Angel was even a little happy, Clint was her idol," Angel rolled her eyes and smacked his arm.

       "You Nile?" I asked after it was clear that the Twins had finished.

       "Terrifying," Nile answered, "to live up to such a name and legend is utterly terrifying. Before I was retrieved, I was in the state for running and all kinds of athletics stuff. I always got to Nationals, but the SHIELD agents refused to let me go any higher. They were nice, my fake parents, but distant. Finding out that Captain America was my father was a shocking discovery and I was scared crapless,"

       "Language!" I cried, Nile raised his hands in defence.

       "But yeah, that's all to it really, Steve is kind, but careful around me, sometimes we used to train together,"

       "James?" I asked curiously.

       "Scary, knowing that I'd inherited the other guy was scary. Bruce helped me through that, we didn't do much together. I get the feeling that he's afraid that he'll mess up or something,"

       Cleo went next, "It was pretty awesome meeting my dad, he's very righteous but know how to let loose and have fun, I got my Asgardian gear when we went to Asgard, it was amazing, so pretty. Thor said once I turn eighteen, that I'll be crowned a goddess of something because of my royalty. Oh yeah, I'm also a princess, how sick is that? But yeah, we get along, pretty well,"

       "Gale?" I asked, my head was laying on his lap and he was braiding my hair.

       "I'll take a pass, still haven't done that yet," He grinned, "you?"

       "Interesting, he's very smart and cocky and sarcastic, but he's also very sweet. He does have a heart, even if Loki couldn't find it," Gale chuckled. "And that's all there is about him,"

       We all settled into silence and it occurred to me, that in the shorter time I'd interacted with my dad, I knew mine the best.