9 Packing

Alivia's POV

All of the avengers were helping me pack. Never thought that'd this day would ever happen.

... Well, all of them except for Tony. He's currently playing, excuse me, investigating my laptop.

"Pst! Clint." I nudged Clint.

"Hm?"

I nodded my towards Tony's direction. I'm sure I had on a mischievous smile since Clint looked at me, then to Tony and back to me. Returning it with his own adventurous smile. If it wasn't for the fact that'd I'd have to keep quiet for this to work, I probably would have squealed with how mischievously adorable he looked.

Quickly Clint goes into action.

He'd have only one shot at this.

Tony, is currently fully engrossed with my computer.

He won't notice till it's too late.

I'm currently trying to hold in my excitement.

*Click*

"Heeeeeeey!!"

I burst out laughing and run to Clint high-fiveing him. He had hit the WiFi button causing my laptop to 'ghost' through Tony's legs on to the couch.

"Nice!" I turn back to look at Tony, seeing him pout.

His adorableness caused me to chuckle again, "Come on DiNozzo, we can play later." I state.

He glances at me, obviously annoyed.

Again I chuckle. "The sooner we finish packing, the sooner we can get to your lab to 'experiment'." I quote. Besides I had work tomorrow, so this would be a win-win for both of us.

Tony gets off the couch grumbling a little bit, and I can't help but smile as I pick up my laptop and close it. It's still on, it's just sleeping so Tony won't be able to access it.

It's not like I had a lot to pack, mostly just my necessities and a few personal stuff. Speaking of personal stuff, Natasha was out of my room holding a small blanket.

Causing me to blush a little.

Natasha POV

Surprisingly most of Aliva's stuff was still in boxes. Almost as if the boxes were their set locations. Could this really be called a 'home'?

"Looks like she had a system." Bruce commented, looking at the boxes.

"What do you mean?" Steve asked as we walked over towards Bruce.

"The way she organizes her boxes." Bruce continued. "Her cooking equipment is in a box by her door, for easy access. Most everything she uses is at the top of the box. The only real mess is her ...," he gestures the floor "clothes."

I cringe at the sight. She even has her unmentionables lying on her floor. 'She should really put those away or else...' it was too late Steve had caught sight of them. The poor guy was heavily blushing. I gently patted him on his shoulder.

Steve coughed a few times turning away.

I shook my head. Not at Steve. She shouldn't have left those out, even if she wasn't expecting company. I'm starting to question if she is a girl, or not.

"Hey!" I was snapped out of my thoughts.

"Would you look at this." Steve says smiling while gesturing to her bed.

Looking at all her ...lovelies on the floor, I'm very skeptical right now. Even with Steve smiling, but he is smiling so... I reluctantly look at her bed. What I see may, ever so slightly, prove me wrong. Even Bruce couldn't help but smile and chuckle at the sight.

Her bed was surprisingly very well made, unlike her room. The many layers of blankets didn't have any wrinkles. Among the chaos, only this spot, the bed, was 'clean'.

On this clean spot were three cute stuffed animals. They were lying their heads on her pillow as if sleeping and covered with a small, semi thick, light lime green blanket that had a small tear in it as if it was used a lot.

It was really cute to see a little gray wolf, a brown teddy bear and a gray cougar all snuggled together under the little blanket.

I couldn't help but think, 'I guess, she really is a girl'.

"I wonder why this is the only spot she decorated?" Steve asked as he picked up the bear.

Now that he mentioned it... her home really is bare. 'Maybe...'

"Maybe she doesn't consider this place her home. She did rent the apartment, just for a year." Bruce commented, finishing my thoughts.

I nodded my head in agreement as I picked up the blanket. Holding the blanket, I saw how small it really was. It's a small square, the length is ever so slightly larger than my torso. One side was light lime green, but now that I was holding it up, I could see the other side had small white squares containing images sheep on them. The white side had many more tears. That's probably why she had it faced down.

I was just about to say something to Steve, who was still holding the bear, when Alivia tried to whisper.

"Pst! Clint." I heard, through her open bedroom door.

It sounded like something fun was about to go down. Why miss a good show? So, I walked out to watch the fun unfold.

By the time I got outside, I saw Alivia and Clint smirking at each other.

Alivia watched as Clint started sneaking up on Tony. He should really learn to pay attention, since they weren't exactly quiet earlier. I smiled leaning against the wall. Watching as Clint slowly creeps up behind Tony.

It's interesting to see Alivia so intent on watching, that she fails to notice someone else was added to the room. Clint had noticed me and after a quick glance and double eyebrow raise, practically saying 'watch the fun' he went back to his task.

*Click*

"Heeeeeeey!!" Tony whined as Alivia's laptop once again went through Tony's legs.

I smirked, Clint grinned proudly while Alivia burst into laughter. She ran up to Clint and they high-fived each other.

The noise seemed to have drawn Steve's and Bruce's attention since they decided to join me. Steve came out still holding her teddy, silly. Though I can't really say anything since I'm still holding her blanket.

"Nice!" Clint cheered when they high-fived. Tony was childlessly pouting.

Alivia chuckled saying, "Come on DiNozzo, we can play later."

He obviously wasn't helping pack. Though I found it funny how she wanted him to pack. With her roomed filled with unmentionables, it's probably a good thing he wasn't packing her room.

"They're not gonna start hitting each other again are they?" Steve asks me.

I just shrugged. Tony didn't seem to fond of the nick name she gave him, even if it was pretty accurate.

She chuckled again,"The sooner we finish packing, the sooner we can get to your lab to 'experiment'."

Well that was true, we had been here long enough.

Tony got off the couch while grumbling, not that we had much left to pack. Just the clothes on Alivia's floor and the few things on her bed were left.

Alivia had closed her laptop and turned. Finally she saw me. Her eyes went wide when saw saw me and what I was holding.

She started to blush and I smirked at her.

Alivia's POV

I saw Natasha holding my little blanket. I had completely forgot it was on my bed along with the others... and even worse.

I paled, realizing I left my clothes scattered all around my floor. Talk about embarrassing, and right now... I am VERY grateful Tony had yet to enter my room. That calmed me down a little.

Only ... I started blushing again once I saw wear Steve and Bruce had come from, my room. Maybe that'll teach me to keep my room clean... just in case.

Luckily, I calmed down once I saw Steve was holding Bell. I smiled at him and Natasha, "I see you've met my friends." As I gestured to my little blanket and bear.

"Didn't know if and where you wanted to pack them."

I smiled at Natasha, thankful she was being considerate of me.

"I'll pack the rest of my room." I said as I walked over to Natasha grabbing my blanket then to Steve to grab Bell.

I saw he very slightly blushed, which caused me to blush too since he had obviously seen my mess. As I grabbed my bear I whispered to Steve, "I'm so sorry you had to see that." He only nodded, I'm assuming to accept my apology.

Then I heard Tony and Clint laughing. Which worried me, I hope they haven't seen my room yet, I'd never hear the end of it, especially from Tony.

"Someone's a child." Tony joked. I let out a breath of relief, and smiled.

"And what of it?" I smirked at them, then headed towards my room. "Do you guys mind loading the boxes? I'll be done in a minute to help."

Once I got to my room I quickly shut the door, not wanting Tony or Clint to get any more chances. I put my blanket flat on my bed and put my teddy, Wolf and Cougar on it. I didn't want them to suffocate in a box, just wrapping them in my blanket would be enough to carry them, even if I would be childish.

For my clothes that were spread all over the floor, I just put them in my last box. I was going to wash them anyway. I grabbed my boxes and placed them next to my bedroom door. For my blanket and friends, I had hoped they would be able to join me in the car,  it I didn't have any promises so I'd leave them for last when packing.

"I'm here to help." Tony walked in smirking. He must have had to wait for the others to leave the apartment before entering.

'Glad I got my clothes taken care of' I mentally face palmed. 'Saved by a hair.'

Tony looked to my bed and his smirk grew. "I see you have more than one."

"Of course." I replied. "I said, 'friends' didn't I?" I smirked as I grabbed a few boxes and I started to walk out my door.

Tony stopped me. "I seem to recall someone saying something about being cuffed to a bed, naked."

"Damn." 'He heard me.... him of all people, heard me'

"Isn't that a little PG13 for you?" He smirks wiggling his eyebrows.

This caused me to burst into laughter. 'He's worrying about me being an innocent child?' I'm practically on the floor from his comment.

"Really Tony?" I'm still laughing. "That's not what I meant! Dear, bloody, lord! Tony. That was just a reference!"

Luckily, Tony had stopped wiggling his eyebrows. I could finally breath again.

I really wonder how he'd react to that movie. "I'm really gonna have to show you some time." I said smirking.

Tony smirked. "Show me what?"

Apparently I missed his smirk "How about some of your other movies, Iron Man." This time I wiggled my eyebrows.

"It just so happens to be one of my favorites." I said starting to walk out my door again.

He grabbed a few boxes too, walking next to me he said in a very proud manor, "Must be because I'm in it." He winked at me while holding the apartments door open for me.

"Thank you." I replied.

"Maybe, ...maybe not." I teased.

Tony frowned, but I just grinned at him. " Yes Tony. I really liked Robert's twist on such a difficult character."

Tony frowned more, but quickly smiled as we got closer to his car. "And you're not going to tell me who this character is?"

"Of course not. We wouldn't want The Tony Stark to be bored now, would we?" I asked, raising an eyebrow. "Some mysteries are more fun to solve on your own." I hinted.

Turns out we had reached the car, so the others had over heard us talking.

"What about Tony being bored?" Clint asked, his eyebrow raised as if waiting for a good show.

Tony smirked, 'Oh no!' "About being cu—" I covered his mouth with my hands quickly dropping the boxes I carried.

I'm sure my face was red as as I glared at Tony, 'Don't you dare!'

I waited for Tony to fully close his mouth before I released him. When I finally did, Tony was looking at me with a playful smirk. Not wanting to die with embarrassment I looked to the Avengers, who just curiously stared. Clint was mischievously interested, Steve and Bruce were just curious and Natasha smirked.

I decided right then and there, "I- I, I'm gonna go, ...get ...the rest of my stuff, yeah!" to escape.

I ran back into the apartment, at full speed, to grab my friends on my bed.

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WP:

1/10/19

2143 words

Sorry for the wait. I kept getting stuck. I'm actually glad I waited though, it turned out much better than I thought it would. And WOW this day is REALLY long, only..a few chapters... long... and still going.

But to be fair, this is important, first impressions for everyone, maybe some hints at the future. Also a lot of rereading to see where I'm going with this and where and what things are set in stone at this point. Still thanks for reading!

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1/10/19