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Darcy is perfectly content with her little hoard of scientists - and Thor - and then Nick Fucking Fury has to go and start the Avengers Initiative.
Bruce joins her ranks of wacky scientists without so much as a conversation. She sees him, coos, ignores Tony’s snickers, and forces tea and food on him with a fond sort of aggression that seems to baffle him.
She walks into the Avengers common area looking for Thor and finds Clint asleep on the kitchen island. She rolls her eyes and helps him sleep walk/stumble over to the couch. He blinks up blearily as she tugs a blanket over him. “Darcy, right?”
She brushes his hair off his forehead and nods. “And you’re Clint.” She smiles. “I haven’t met a Gargoyle since the Renaissance. You guys never can stay awake during the day.”
Clint stiffens.
She brushes her hand through his hair again. “Relax. I’ll keep watch. Rest.”
Just like her kind doesn’t mix well with one another, they don’t always mix well with others who are other, so Darcy is wary when she smells Siren moments before Natasha walks into the room. The other woman freezes when she does come into the lab, and Darcy meets her eyes steadily.
Natasha tilts her head curiously. “Well, I didn’t expect this.”
Darcy smirks and very unsubtly eyes the redhead. “I kinda did.”
Natasha smiles back, and with that smile, sidles into Darcy’s hoard next to Thor and Clint.
Darcy is partially shifted, idly filing her claws, as her brother rambles on about his latest tech cache - she’s never met a Dragon who adapted better to modern times than her brother. She starts paying more attention when his rambling switches to rhapsodizing about the Shifter in his unit. She raises an eyebrow. “Does baby brother have a crush?”
Jake blushes beat red. “What? No!”
“Methinks he doth protest too much,” she singsongs.
Jake flips her off. “What’s new with you big sister?”
Darcy frowns. “Have you ever heard of anyone collecting people?”
Jake raises an eyebrow. “Did you turn your merry bunch of misfits into your hoard?”
Darcy heaves a sigh. “Pretty much, yeah.”