Kerry was on duty at the tower for the next day or two, just keeping an eye on everything and steadily working on her paperwork. She figured eventually they'd get used to her and Avery. Eventually.

It was Bruce who started to relax around them first. He had taken to heating extra water when he made tea, and left a pair of cups out for them both. It was subtle, but a clear sign that everyone was starting to relax.

Which made Kerry pleased in a kind of ridiculous way, but it helped. She drank tea with Bruce sometimes, and the others were relaxing around her slowly.

"Watch the tea," she said absently to Bruce as she flipped through a new stack of paperwork. "So Clint doesn't knock it over." She still hadn't gotten into the habit of telling them about her little flashes, but she was distracted enough to let it slip.

Bruce paused at that but picked up the tea--just before Clint's flailing elbow went through the space where the tea had been. Everyone at the table except Avery just looked at Kerry.

"What...?" Clint said.

Kerry shrugged, looking rather sheepish, and tried to hide behind her mug. Natasha pinned her with a look until Kerry looked down into her tea and mumbled something unintelligible.

Avery realized they were all staring at Kerry and blinked.

"What, none of you noticed before?" she asked.

"I haven't exactly been telling them," Kerry admitted.

"What?" Tony finally demanded.

"I get little flashes like that. Took people a while to figure out I wasn't just shitting them." She shrugged, uncomfortable.

"Fascinating," Bruce murmured. "Precognizance..."

"And you didn't think to, I don't know, mention it?" Clint asked. "Where were you last time Stark put food coloring in my shampoo?"

Kerry snorted. "Who knows? Not everything translates." She shrugged. "It's very... selective."

"When you say 'selective'," Clint started.

"What she means is 'potential dangers'," Avery interrupted. "Such as you knocking over a fragile vessel of hot liquid with your spazzing."

"Or you falling out of the ceiling vent," Kerry said absently, getting up to get more tea. "Or Tony burning himself on his coffee, although that's even more minor than knocking over tea and gives me a mild headache every morning I'm here." She shrugged.

Avery couldn't help a snicker at that.

"Yeah, that does happen pretty frequently, doesn't it?" she commented.

"Yes," Kerry said at the same Tony said, loudly, "No." Kerry just snorted.

"You want more details I can give you the file on the testing," she told Clint, glancing at the rest of them briefly to include them as well. "And no, Stark, you can't get this one yourself, it's a paper-only."

"I might take you up on that, if it's not too much trouble," Bruce said, looking at her.

Kerry nodded. "I'm heading back to my apartment this afternoon, I'll grab it then," she said. She didn't mind Bruce looking it over.

Tony was still pouting a bit and muttering things about paper being outdated, though the fact that there had been testing made him wonder if he'd missed anything on the two.

Avery had her own paper file that she kept, although she didn't speak up about it. She wouldn't deny it, if asked, but she wasn't going to volunteer it yet, either.

Tony went to go see what else he could find on the two and go through the files again. They weren't so bad, not after he'd talked to Coulson briefly about them, but still.

Avery let him go. She knew him well enough by now that she knew he'd ask if there was something he couldn't find via a computer.

Kerry stretched a bit and got up.

"I'm heading back to my apartment, I'll be back tomorrow. Need me to bring anything back?"

Avery hesitated for a moment.

"If you get the chance," she said, "stop at my place and pick up my paper file?" At least that way, she'd have it if the issue arose.

"Sure," Kerry agreed, going to grab her bag from a cupboard. "Anything else? Do we need more of our tea?"

"Not yet," Avery said. "Soon, but not yet." With a sigh, she settled in to keep an eye on everything. It was her turn to hang around and babysit.

Kerry came back the next afternoon with more tea anyway, as well as a few new kinds to try, and their two paper files.

"There's a sale at Teavana," she told Avery as she set her bag down.

"Please tell me you got some jasmine, then," Avery said, taking her file. She had been going over some of the finer details of the Avengers' files, now that she had access to Coulson's notes.

"I got a few pounds of tea," Kerry said, her voice dry. "I got the jasmine and a few new ones to try."