Hi everyone :) I've decided to make these into a collection of stories for Abbie to cheer her up when she's down :) This one amused me haha. Enjoy xx


''LOKIIIII!''

Loki heard the shout and the door slam and was glad for the interruption from his work. He had been waiting for his niece to come and see him all day so he would have an excuse to look after her and forget about all the work he had to do. He put down his book and waited for Alayah to come running into his study that was just off his room. Sure enough, seconds later she came charging in and dive bombed onto his lap. Loki made a face as she hit him in that one place that hurt.

''Hi Al, where have you been all day?'' He asked picking her up and placing her on his lap so she wouldn't hurt anything else. He felt her lean into him and he immediately started to stroke her hair, something he had almost subconsciously been doing whenever she hugged him. He put his other arm around her so she wouldn't fall backwards.

''I went out with mummy and daddy. I've got sweets, look.'' She took a paper bag full of sweets out of her coat pocket; as it was rather cold out there and handed it to him. ''You can have one if you want.'' She said smiling at him cheerfully. Her first tooth had fallen out not long ago and so to Loki her smile was even cuter.

He took the bag and looked in it to see that they were his favourite sweets and smiled. ''So did you get these for me then?'' He asked reaching into the bag, pretending to take a handful.

''No Loki their mine. I said you could have one not all of them.'' She said taking the bag off of him and putting it back in her coat pocket, whilst taking out one sweet and giving it to him. ''It's not very nice to take what isn't yours'' She said crossing her arms, a grumpy expression on her face. She would be very good at acting, Loki thought and couldn't help but grin at her.

Nodding he tried to hide his smile and become serious as she glared at him more. ''Right you are Ali, I apologise.'' He said popping the sweet in his mouth, sucking on it to savour the taste. He had a feeling she had brought them on purpose, knowing they were his favourites and then to be mean, not to give any to him. But no, she'd never do that would she? Loki honestly had no clue. He knew it was something he would do and he knew how much his niece was becoming like him. God help him if Amora ever knew about this; she'd have his head for sure.

''Good, don't do it again.'' Alayah said, sounding a lot older than five.

''Al,'' Loki said in the best stern voice he could manage. ''Don't talk to me like that okay?'' He knew he could never be really cross with his niece but he had to show that he could at least be responsible. He didn't want Amora knowing that he was letting her daughter get away with more things then she would approve of. Maybe even more things than Thor approved of and his brother was pretty lenient when it came to Alayah.

''But mummy does!'' Came her retort.

Loki sighed. It had been the same for a while now. If mummy did or said it then Alayah had to do the same as her. But (a sudden thought had come into his mind) if he played it out properly, he could get back at her for all the times she had been mean to him. Grinning to himself he came back out of his thoughts and into reality where he had a rather impatient five year old waiting for an answer.

''Al I don't care what mummy does or says, you shouldn't be copying her okay? It's not nice to talk to people like that. Now I don't want you to talk to anyone like that again alright, promise me?'' He said. He felt her lean back into him and knew he had won.

''Okay, I promise. Sorry Loki.'' She said sighing.

Loki couldn't help but smiles a little. He kissed her on the top of her head. ''It's okay Ali; I just don't want you to get into trouble that's all. Now don't be all sad little Ladybird, tell me all the gossip.'' He said tickling her.

Alayah giggled and tried to squirm away from him but with no avail. ''Loki stop!'' She said squealing as he tickled her more.

''Not until you say please.'' He said, tickling her more, laughing.

''Please Loki, please stop.'' She said trying to push your hand away.

Loki stopped and grinned at her. ''Can I have another sweet please Ali?'' He asked kindly, putting on puppy dog eyes. He saw her giggle and nod and he reached into her coat pocket, pulling out another sweet. Popping it into his mouth, he sat her up on his knee properly and waited for the gossip she had to tell him.

Alayah thought for a moment, wondering if there was anything interesting to tell her uncle. Suddenly she remembered something she had to ask him.

''Loki, I have a question for you.'' She said excitedly. When she saw him nod for her to carry on, she asked very seriously (or as serious as a five year old could get) ''Where do babies come from?''

Loki, clearly not expecting that question nearly choked on his sweet. When he was sure that he wouldn't die he looked at his niece surprised. If it had been any other question, the seriousness in her voice would have amused him, but not now. He tried to not act surprised as he spoke.

''Well...Ali...I errm...'' He was finding it hard to even make a coherent sentence. ''Darling wouldn't be better to ask your mummy about this? I'm not exactly...the right person to ask.'' He said gently, hoping she wouldn't be upset that he couldn't tell her.

''But Loki you know everything! You must do, you read all those big books.'' She said, confused why her uncle couldn't tell her this. It wasn't that confusing what it?

Sighing, Loki tried to think of a way to explain it to her, but no matter how hard he tried he had no way of doing it. ''Ali I think it's best if you asked your mummy. She'll be able to explain it better to you.'' He said kindly, hoping he had got out of how awkward this was.

''But she was the one who told me to ask you in the first place!'' Alayah said, slightly frustrated.

This changed the whole thing. Loki raised an eyebrow, mentally kicking himself for not seeing this. Of course Amora would make Al come to him, she had been waiting for a way to get him back for a while; ever since he had charmed all her weapons for cuddly toys.

''Oh she did, did she?'' he said, slightly annoyed by this. ''Well lets go pay your mummy a visit then and ask her to explain it.'' He got up, Al in his arms and carried her to Thor and Amora's quarters not bothering in knocking on the door. When he got into the living room he put Alayah down and saw her run off, get a chair, move it over to the coat pegs, stand up on it, take her coat off, take the sweets out of the pocket and just managing to hang her coat up on the peg, totally ignoring the lower down one that was meant for her. He chuckled at this and went to sit on the sofa still in slight shock from earlier.

''Mummy, Loki's here.'' He heard his niece shout before she ran into her room, disappearing from view.

He didn't have to wait long until he saw Amora come out of the kitchen, a smirk on her face. She came to sit down next to him and he glared at her in which she only laughed at.

''So, what did you tell her?'' She asked.

''Nothing. How did you expect me to tell her anything? You know that wasn't very funny 'Mora.'' He said folding his arms in annoyance.

Amora laughed at him and shook her head. ''Oh come on Loki, it was only a bit of fun. A bit of harmless fun. I just love how serious she was when she asked me.''

''That was the same with me. I nearly choked on my sweet.'' He said chuckling. He watched as Alayah came back into the main room with a brand new dress on (a creamy yellow) and a pair of fairy wings on. She climbed up onto the sofa and onto his lap waving her toy magic wand around. Loki could she was thinking very hard as she had her face all scrunched up in concentration. Very slowly a yellow rose appeared on the sofa in front of her.

''Look Loki, look!'' She said excitedly. ''Mummy look what I did!'' She clapped her hands happily.

Both Loki and Amora were too impressed to say anything. Even Amora didn't have the heart to tell Loki off for teaching her magic.

''Wow darling that's...that's really impressive. '' She said in shock. She picked up the rose and turned it over in her fingers. ''Loki...for your punishment of teaching her magic...you have to tell her where babies come from.'' She said smirking knowing she'd get him to do it somehow.

Loki glared at Amora thinking of ways for getting her back for this. ''Fine, but you owe me big time 'Mora, got it?'' He turned to Alayah who was looking at him expectedly and he sighed. ''Okay Ali well when a mummy and daddy love each other very much and they want a baby they...well you see a baby grows inside a mummies tummy and then when their old enough and they've all grown up they get – '' He stopped when he noticed both Amora and Alayah laughing. ''What? I know it's a bad explanation but it's not funny!'' he said.

''Oh Loki, you're so funny. Mummy already told me'' Alayah said giggling away. ''I agree with mummy that was very funny.''

Loki looked shocked again. ''You tricked me? You both tricked me? But...how? Ali when have you got good at keeping quiet like that? Oh gods I'm doomed!'' He said resting his head on the back of the sofa. He felt his niece hug him and he couldn't resist hugging her back. ''You're going to be a handful when your older missy, did you know that?'' He said holding her tightly, one of her fairy wings sticking into his chest.

Amora was still laughing. ''I don't even have the heart to tell you off for teaching her magic.'' She said wiping away tears of laughter. ''Well done little one, you've made your mummy proud.'' She said leaning over and kissing Alayah on the forehead.

All Ali cared about though was her magic. ''I did magic, I did magic.'' She sang softly to herself, being extremely happy with herself for the rest of the day.