"You guys are coming to graduation, right?" you asked over the comms one mission when you were supposed to be sniffing out a man you were on mission to be tracking. But that was boring and you were bored. You were in a coffee shop with Loki, doing legitimate studying for finals while you waited for the man to appear. Loki was sipping on a cup of tea with a book across the table from you.

He reached over and took your hand. "Yes, we're coming to graduation," he told you warmly. He knew you were bored and grumpy from finals.

"In costume?" you persisted. It had taken a long time to convince them to come in costume. You wanted graduation to be spectacular. Stark was throwing a huge party afterwards. It was going to be perfect.

"Yes, valchonak, we already promised, now pay attention. The target is coming into the coffee shop." This plan was boring, but you'd listen to Nat. It was one of your usual missions, tracking spy targets, since your nose could pick out the scents of individuals and you wouldn't lose him, usually even in human form, but you'd shift if you had to.

You glanced up when the door to the coffee shop opened. You recognized the man from the picture Cap had shown you. You closed your eyes and sniffed the air, sorting through the scents in the room to get the particular scent of that man. He smelled of cologne, and under that you caught his actual scent. "Got it," you told the team, looking at your textbook while you made the announcement.

Loki smiled at you warmly. "That's excellent news indeed, love," he told you and leaned across the table to steal a kiss. "Shall we head out then?" you nodded and he vanished your textbook and his reading book. He stood gracefully and offered you a hand.

"Don't lose him," Cap warned in your ear. You nodded to indicate you'd heart him.

"Race ya home!" you teased Loki when you stepped out of the coffee shop. Loki huffed and rolled his eyes.

"Bored puppy," he teased. He leaned down to your ear. "I caught his scent too, little wolf. You don't have to play this game alone." Loki had caught some werewolf qualities from being infected. You still hadn't figured out everything he had gained.

"I need to stretch my legs," you whined at him. You wanted to get away from here now that you had the man's scent and track him again a little later once he thought you were gone. You and Loki were too recognizable.

"Annoying puppy. Fine, put your fur on, I'll protect us from the annoying police... and keep you out of the pound," he teased. If you were out with him while you were in wolf form, you still got people trying to tell him that his dog had to be on a leash.

"High and mighty god," you grumbled at him for teasing. He turned you and kissed you. You smiled and shifted the second the kiss was broken. You circled around his legs, almost cat-like and licked his hand. He chuckled and ran his hand through your fur.

"Come on, little wolf," he told you warmly and started walking towards home. You trotted a couple of steps to catch up, then walked beside him.

"You two are going to lose him," Cap told you over the comms, his voice disapproving. "You're drawing too much attention to yourselves."

"We have a plan, Captain," Loki replied calmly and petted the top of your head so you'd stop growling. You huffed that Cap doubted your nose. Loki didn't doubt your nose. You wandered around the block and made it back to the coffee shop after the man was leaving. He was a couple blocks down the street. "Stay close for a moment, love," Loki told you softly. You nodded and moved closer to him, sneezing as the air shimmered with magic around you, making you less noticeable to the mortals around you. Loki chuckled and scratched behind your ears. "That does tickle," he admitted, rubbing his own more sensitive nose. "Do you still have the trail? I've lost him," the man was out of sight, but that didn't stop you. You nodded and licked his hand. He gestured for you to lead on. "Well, go fetch, silly puppy," he teased. You licked his hand again with a puppy-grin and charged forward. "That was dumb, Loki," you heard the silly god tell himself as you ran after the man.

You slowed when you caught back up to the man. "Don't forget we need his friends too," Tony told you over the comms. You huffed again. You knew how to do your job. You followed the man to the outside of a nearby warehouse.

"Y/N, wait for me to catch up," Loki hissed over the comms.

"Don't let him get away, Y/N. We can't risk him escaping with those weapons," Cap said directly after. You growled softly and ignored Loki, slipping into the warehouse after the man. It was a good thing you did. He was getting into an unmarked van and men were loading boxes onto it. Shit. You were going to lose him. Or do something stupid.

You chose stupid.

As per usual.

You shifted back to human and through luck, a little skill, and Loki's cloaking spell still around you, managed to hide in the back of the van among the boxes. The van started and began to drive off. You braced the boxes around you so they wouldn't squish you. "You're in that van, aren't you?" Loki's voice was icy and disapproving as it hissed in your ear through the comm. You moved slowly so you wouldn't draw attention with noise and kissed the Claddagh ring he'd given you in reply. "I'll take that as a yes," Loki replied dryly. You smirked, of course he could feel his magical gifts to you, and that you kissed the ring to reassure him. You couldn't risk speaking and getting caught. "Captain, this is your fault," Loki growled, angry at Cap now, and still not pleased with you.

"Omega, are you safe?" Cap's voice. "Loki, do you have eyes on her?" He was concerned now too.

"She sent me a message, so she's safe enough, but considering she's in the back of a van being driven by the villains..." Loki growled again.

"Loki, you can track her by the jewelry you gave her, right?" Nat asked

"How do you know so much about magic?" Clint grumbled.

"I can," Loki replied, getting them back on track.

"Then we'll catch up with you when the van stops. Stop fretting, she's not that breakable. She's also intelligent enough to come up with this plan, and not get caught. We'll catch up to her when they stop and we need to stop these weapons. She'll be fine." Nat told him firmly. "Don't make me a liar, valchonak," Nat addressed you firmly.

You pressed your lips to the ring again. "She heard you," Loki said dryly. "Be safe, little wolf. We'll be there when the van stops and I shall be quite cross with you if you are injured." You smirked and pressed your lips again against the ring and settled in for a long car ride in the back of an uncomfortable van surrounded by boxes. You realized that when you shifted back you hadn't evaluated the outfit Loki's magic had conjured for you. You looked and sighed at the lingerie.

"Why are you always like this?" you sighed so softly there was no chance you'd be overheard over the sound of the van's engine. You tried to think of a plan for what would happen when the van stopped. There was a snowball's chance in hell they wouldn't see you when they went to unload the boxes.

"I'll be there the second the van stop. Shift back to wolf then," Loki told you over the comms. Reassured there was a plan, you settled yourself as comfortably as possible for the trip. The van finally stopped for longer than a red light and you shifted back to wolf when it did.

"Loki's there," Cap said over the comm. "He said all of the villains have assembled. Keep them there. We'll be there soon,"

The doors to the van opened and you lunged out before they could see you. "Shit! The Avengers found us!" Well, they weren't wrong. Loki materialized in the room. All over the room in fact, as there were clones of him everywhere, attacking the men in an instant. He fought with years of combat training, and even unarmed could take down weak pathetic mortals. You did just fine too, none of the men knew how to deal with a hundred pound wolf attacking them, even if you did have to be careful not to draw blood. You kept track of the real Loki, your nose told you which one was real. And the moron didn't see the guy with the gun shooting at his back. You did. You charged Loki and tackled him out of the way. Unfortunately, taking the bullets yourself. At least they weren't silver.

Loki roared in anger when he heard your yelp of pain as you tried to get back to your feet. The rest of the team burst in then. You were bleeding from multiple bullet wounds, stupid morons had guns that shot multiple bullets at once. Loki growled and you saw his control on his temper evaporate. His eyes turned wolf-amber and because you were looking for it, you saw his canines extend to fangs, his nails turn to claws. Shitshitshit. He turned from you, vicious rage in his eyes as he turned to the man who had hurt you. You got to your feet and shifted back to human, wincing as the bullets healed their way out of you when you shifted.

"Loki, we need him alive!" Cap shouted, seeing the scene of you bleeding and Loki's rage. Loki growled, but nodded once. He rushed forward while the guy with the gun cursed, repeated, and tried to run when the bullets just evaporated before they touched Loki. Loki quickly and efficiently beat the living shit out of the man. You didn't even want to know all of what he did. You stepped forward and touched Loki's arm.

"He's down, Lo, you can leave him be now," you told him. He growled and wrapped his arms around you too tightly.

"He hurt what's mine," he snarled, wolf temper rising on top of his own. The scent of your blood leaving your body only made it worse. You needed to get him calm before things got worse. Before he somehow turned for real.

So you reached for your own power and hugged him, thinking of his kisses and cuddles in his arms. "I'm here and safe, Loki. Safe in your arms," you told him softly, spreading your peace and happiness to him. He was pack enough for this. He held you for a long minute, breathing in your scent, your peace. No one dared interrupt. He finally relaxed when he realized that you were safe in his arms. "Cap, are you done with us?" you turned to look at Cap. You wanted Loki out of here as soon as possible.

Cap nodded. "We can handle the rest,"

"Loki, can we go home?" you asked softly, letting a little of the pain you were feeling into your voice. He growled. "Please, Loki? Let's go home. It hurts," you whimpered, the wolf making an injured puppy noise out of your otherwise human throat; you were playing him a little, but you knew you could redirect his rage to protecting and helping you.

Also being shot fucking hurt.

A lot.

Even if you did heal quickly.

"Brother, take your lady home. She is injured and we will finish things here," Thor told Loki kindly. You saw the look in his eyes though, that you would have to figure out soon exactly how much wolf Loki had acquired from the infection. Today would have been a bloodbath had you not been here to calm his Alpha qualities with your Omega ones.

Loki nodded once, somehow tightened his arms around you and teleported the two of you back to his room in the tower. He sat you on the bed and the first-aid kit appeared next to you. "Loki, I'll be alright," you reminded him. He growled in reply when he saw the wounds still leaking blood as he sat on the bed next to you. His eyes were still amber. That wasn't good. You grabbed the collar of his shirt and pulled him to you to kiss him. You kissed him well and kissed him deeply until he finally calmed properly. You held his hand and kissed him, kissing down his neck until his nails turned back to nails. "Better now?" you asked and looked up into his green eyes.

"That was...odd," he told you softly.

"That was an Alpha werewolf," you told him and dug into the first aid kit. You pulled out the bandages and went to start bandaging the still-bleeding wounds yourself. All the bullets were out from your shift and the wounds would heal in a day or so. You just needed to bandage them. Loki growled at you and took the bandages from you to begin the job himself. You huffed and sighed and let him get to it.

"I thought we established that I didn't make the change," Loki told you as he worked. He was practiced at this and gentle as he worked. It was way better than the years of doing it yourself. Bad puppies needed discipline. You shoved those bad memories away. You didn't have to deal with those assholes anymore.

"We knew there was some affect of the infection," you reminded him. "We just didn't know how much, and more than I thought if your anger can spark that much of a change,"

He pulled you into his arms and kissed the top of your head. "I was scared for you, darling. I hate seeing you hurt and that man..." he growled softly.

"Loki, we work as superheroes. Getting injured comes with the territory. I'm a werewolf and lead bullets aren't going to kill me,"

"I am a god," he growled in reply. "I would not have been killed either,"

"I don't want to see you injured either," you told him and curled yourself in his lap, now that he had finished bandaging your wounds. "Are you ever going to fix the clothes spell, by the way? I mean I know you appreciate me in nothing but lingerie, but the rest of the public surely doesn't," you asked with teasing and laughter in your voice, using humor to lighten his mood, to reassure him that you were really ok. He chuckled and kissed you lightly.

"I do care for the spell the way it is. Also you're beautiful and I'm sure even the pathetic mortals are not dumb enough to deny that. Or confirm it where I can hear," he mused, a hint of a threat in his voice of anyone who threatened you while you were less than dressed... "However, I should get to fixing it soon. I found a spell that should help with it," he told you warmly as he cuddled you more safely in his arms, leaning back against the headboard, now that you were safe and happy.

"I love you too much to let you get hurt," you told him softly, tired by shifting multiple times and healing bullet wounds. Loki summoned a blanket to wrap around you.

"And I love you, little wolf," he told you warmly and kissed the top of your head.