"probobly but he'll forgive you." Steve assured Tony. at least, Loki better or Steve was going to turn the god into a pretzel. he chuckled again, watching Clint and Natasha, Clint stealing some of Natasha's food and nibbling on it. "it's not important, Tony's too busy to deal with stupid shit like this." he admitted. problem was, Clint was nearly 70% deaf in both ears. even with the hearing aid, he couldn't hear certain tones or frequencies because they where the cheapest Shield could manufacture. they wouldn't normally have hired him at all because of his 'Handicap', not for field work anyway, if not for his super skills and his years as a child on the street as a thief. "There, see? i'm perfectly capable of fixing it myse...." he blinked when the hearing aid finally died and Clint sighed and removed the one from his other ear. "i don't understand why they expect these to work as well as they do for the office folks, when i get hit in the head almost every single mission." he grumbled, poking at the now dead hearing aid. he'd kept it running for almost another two months, which was actually fairly impressive. "...i'll just have to tell Fury." Clint sighed. he had, until now, kept Fury out of it, because he knew the man was going to be pissed when he found out they where handicapping one of his best agents that way. "I'll take care of it." Bruce said reaching out and snatching up the hearing aids. "how bad off are you?" Clint blinked at him and Bruce sighed and signed it instead. "i'm pretty bad off. it's fine if you talk slower and enunciate a bit more. you hardly move your lips you know." "I know. i'm sorry. i'll work on this for you."Bruce promised, signing one handed, which was actually an advanced trick that Clint knew but most people didn't. it was like the sign language equivalent of short hand. Bruce was then gone, fussing over the 'crap' that Clint had been wearing in his ears and Clint looked at Natasha. "...my hearing aids where kidnapped."
"Never! Hiding!" Dean yelled back, though it wasn't hard to find him. he was in another kitchen, mking coffee. "whats up?" Dean asked before blanching when Loki walked in. "The Being asked for me to come here?" Loki asked. Jarvis, surprisingly, made Loki nervous and he seamed to think that if he didn't say Jarvis's name, then Jarvis wouldn't know he was being talked about.