Loki Odinson was in his bed, awake; that night he had not been able to close his eyes, perhaps because he still had to get used to the new bed, perhaps because of the emotion of beginning this new phase of his life, or perhaps because of the anxiety to find himself once again having to live in the shadow of his half-brother. He had to start the first year, while Thor was already in his second year and had gained a certain popularity, just like when they were in high school, and Loki feared to find himself, just like then, to be pointed out as the ugly and loser brother of the beautiful swimming champion of the school. He got out of bed unwillingly, finding Pietro Maximoff, his hyperactive roommate, already intent on running from one side of the room to the other with the desperate air of those who seek something and do not find it.
Helena Frost was also in her first year, and even she had not been able to close her eyes all night; tired of waiting for the alarm clock to sound, she got up from the bed, went to the bathroom and looked at herself in the mirror: her long raven hair was rather untidy, her oval and angular face looked paler than usual, her emerald green eyes circled by dark circles of dark circles. It was a disaster. He took a quick shower, combed his hair and made up the corpse face he found himself in.
When she left the bathroom she found her roommate, Wanda Maximoff, already awake, who greeted her with a "good morning" accompanied by a shy smile that Helena returned. They had known each other for less than twenty-four hours, but they were both relieved at the idea of sharing the room with someone who wasn't a naughty father's daughter, both were in fact at SHIELD thanks to a scholarship, and for both, it was enough to get along.
As usual Natasha, Clint, Bruce, Tony, Steve, and Thor met at the bar to have breakfast together half an hour before the beginning of the courses. They called themselves the Avengers, and they were the richest, most popular and capable group of students in the university, and they were also friends since high school and therefore inseparable.
All of them were children of rich and important people - a Russian tycoon, a sports celebrity, a doctor who with his discoveries had revolutionized the field of medicine, an important war industrialist, an army officer, a senator - so they felt fully entitled to consider themselves superior to most people, especially if it was the poor people who were their thanks to a scholarship, people totally anonymous compared to them who had everything you could want: notoriety, beauty, wealth, intellectual and physical capabilities far above average. They were undoubtedly the highest grade on the social and human scale, all of them at SHIELD was excellence, and they had managed to be excellence in excellence.
Classes were about to begin, and Principal Nick Fury watched the crowd of students waiting in front of the main entrance from his office window. As usual, that year too they had selected only the best students, those who had obtained a sufficiently high score in the entrance tests, until then the best students in S.H.I.E.L.D. had been those who called themselves the Avengers, and they doubted that that year there had been anyone who had emerged more than them, or one of the teachers would come and tell them.
At that very moment the office door opened, and Professor Phil Coulson entered the office holding several folders of the ones they used to keep all their students' biographies.
That's right.
<< Dean, you have to see something! >> said the professor by placing four folders on the desk and opening the first two << These are Wanda and Poetry Maximoff, they are brothers, twins to be precise, they applied for the scholarship and have obtained a high score both in the test for the latter and in the entrance, like our best students >> and there was no need to specify who they were. Then he opened the third folder << Loki Odinson, got the highest score in the entry test, not even a mistake, it had never happened! >>
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