"Yes, I can see that," Kae said once she'd gotten the smoothie out of her lungs. "It's not as bad as it could have been, though." She grinned briefly at Bruce and only looked at Tony when he sidled out of the room with a grin and a jaunty excuse about working on a project in the lab. She shook her head.

"I still don't see why he felt the need to create such a thing..." Bruce shook his head. "You'd think one mistake like that is more than enough."

Kae shrugged. "Maybe it's his way of trying to say that there's more than just a giant green rage monster there," she said quietly, watching as the fish shrank back to normal size. "Or maybe he's just mucking with your head."

"I'd bet on the latter," Bruce muttered, watching the fish. Although, when she said that there was more than just the green rage monster, he couldn't help but feel just the least bit better.

"With Tony, one can never be sure." Kae shrugged and then turned to smile at him. "Come on, come help me with dinner. I agreed to cook tonight, and I need to actually make something a little nicer than what a six-year-old would eat."

Bruce couldn't help but smile a little at that.

"I doubt Tony would notice," he pointed out. "And Steve is taking Elaine out tonight, something about dinner and dancing, judging from his nervous mutterings."

Kae grinned. "Well, it's about time," she said approvingly. "But that still leaves us, Clint, Natasha, and Thor. Oh wait, no, Thor's off visiting Jane." She shrugged. "Doesn't matter, you're still being volunteered to help me make dinner."

Bruce rolled his eyes a bit, but didn't argue. He didn't mind cooking, really, and having Kae for company wasn't bad at all.

Kae grinned when she noticed his lack of complaining and absently tucked her arm through his as she headed for the kitchen.

Life wasn't so quiet for much longer. In fact, it wasn't quiet for much more than a day. Dinner and dancing hadn't gone as Elaine had hoped, so she was more than willing to volunteer to babysit Loki outside the tower for a little while. The penthouse suddenly felt crowded, and she wanted to get away.

Kae was just as happy to get out for a while. Bruce was still being stubborn, and she was rather aggravated with Tony just then.

"Are you out of your mind?" Tony hissed. "No, there's no way in HELL I'm letting you two out of the Tower ALONE with him. Have you forgotten exactly what he's done?!"

"Y'know, Tony, I don't know if you remember yet, but we just spent weeks looking after all six of you by ourselves. Keeping an eye on him for a few hours is nothing in comparison." Kae glared right back at him. "Besides, I wasn't asking permission. I was telling you. We'll be back in a few hours." Turning, she snagged one arm through Loki's and walked with him out of the room and over to the elevators, where Elaine was already waiting. Loki looked oddly smug.

"I get that they're a bit overprotective, really I do," Elaine commented as the elevator took the three downstairs. "But we're not going far and Tony has a ragefish to poke at, anyways."

Kae rolled her eyes. "He's in a snit because he's working on a new 'bot and it's not quite turning out right," she said with a shrug.

Loki looked between the two. It was almost insulting that they were so relaxed around him, but he found that he didn't really mind that much.

"What does he want this one to do?" Elaine asked. "I mean, hell, he already has machines that can fly, what else is there left to do?"

Kae snickered. "Cleaning. He said that here should be a bot in the kitchen all the time to keep up with the messes we make." She grinned. "But honestly, I have no idea."

Elaine couldn't help but snicker at that.

"I guess a cleaning bot isn't a bad idea," she said. "Mundane, for him, but not bad." She grinned. "Unlike the school of ragefish he has planned."

"Oh yeah, he's definitely making a school. He had like eight more goldfish in his lab last I checked." Kae rolled her eyes at him.

Elaine shook her head and glanced at Loki.

"The ragefish are your fault, by the way," she said to him. "You kept poking the sleeping Hulk while Tony was six and impressionable."

Loki just shrugged and smirked. "Am I supposed to feel sorry about this?" he asked smoothly. "I don't. Not in the least."

Kae snickered. "I didn't expect you to."

"I don't expect you to be sorry in the slightest," Elaine replied with a grin. "Just letting you know that it's still your fault."

Loki just grinned and kept walking.

"Do we have a destination in mind?" he asked after a few minutes, glancing between the girls. Not that he minded, he was more than happy to get out for a while.

"I don't know, do we?" Elaine asked in reply, glancing at him. She was fine just walking, but she didn't know if there was anywhere he wanted to go.

Loki shrugged eloquently. There was nowhere in this city he wished to see that he had not already seen, and he was fine with just walking. Sometimes it was nice to not have a destination, an endpoint, in mind.

Elaine didn't mind not having a destination. They would likely loop back around in an hour or so and head back towards the tower, anyways.

They didn't quite make it that far. About half-way through their walk, when they were farthest away from the Tower, half a dozen minions jumped down and surrounded them. Kae had a moment to think that this was very familiar before they were hit with knock-out gas. Even Loki couldn't do anything about that, not with his magic on lockdown.