Tin Roof: Rusted
Lying back against her overabundance of pillows, Darcy gazed up at the gilded ceiling above her. It had been a week since Loki had taken her to Earth for a visit, and a week since she confirmed her suspicions, and she had yet to tell him.
It wasn't that she thought he would be angry, hell she was pretty sure he would be delighted. Beyond delighted actually, she could just see him going to the top most tower on Asgard and yelling at the top of his lungs. She had seen him around the children of the Court as well as his own children. Which that had been a shock when he had informed her of them, even more of one she had met them.
Darcy placed a hand on her stomach and made a bit of a prayer that the little one growing in there was completely normal and human shaped. Not that she wouldn't love her child if he or she came out as a giant bird or something, but when she had thought about becoming a mother before it was always with the image of a pink faced little human baby. Plus she didn't even want to know what giving birth to a giant bird would do to her pikachu.
Smiling Darcy thought back to the way she had seen Loki act around children. His face would light up while he watched them play and smile widely when they would gasp in wonder at his illusions. She had once gone out to the courtyard to find her husband on the ground as several small children tackled and tickled him. That had been the moment when she knew she wanted his children.
"Why are you still abed?" Loki walked over to the bed and looked down at his wife. The sooner she became an Aesir the better. He always feared of what could happen to her fragile human body.
"Just thinking." Darcy smiled and watched as Loki crawled onto the bed. Once beside her he turned her and curled himself around her body, one of his arms reaching over her to rest against her chest. She reached up and threaded her fingers with his.
"Nothing bad I hope." Loki placed a soft kiss against his wife's neck. Darcy had been acting strangely since their trip to Midgard a week before, and he would admit he was a little worried.
"No, good, very good actually." Slipping their joined hands down, Darcy pressed down lightly against her lower stomach. She felt him stiffen when she didn't continue further and she figured he had understood her meaning.
"Darcy?" Loki leaned up on one elbow and looked down at his smiling and crying wife.
"What do you think Daddy, ready to add one more?" Darcy yelped when Loki suddenly flipped her so he could tower over her, his eyes flicking back and forth between her face and her stomach.
"A child?" Loki could hardly recognize his voice as he choked out a strangled whisper. A child, his child, and child of his and Darcy's! A smile overtook his face as he leaned down to press a deep kiss to his wife's lips.
Darcy laughed as Loki pulled back and kissed away every joyful tear on her cheeks. His eyes going wide before he jumped from the bed and ran for the door.
"Where are you going?!"
"To get the healer. You need to be checked over, things prepared, and…" Loki looked to the doors of his chambers and back to his wife. This wasn't the first time he had been an expectant father, but he had been much younger when his other children had been born. He had also been a whole lot more arrogant, believing he had known everything there was to know in the universe. But above all, he had never loved the mother of his child like he did Darcy.
"Hey, hey, clam down there Daddy. Everything can wait a while longer, nothing is going to happen in the next hour. Now get your butt over here and cuddle me!" Darcy crossed her arms over her chest and tried to hold in her laughter.
Loki stopped and looked at Darcy, blinking a moment before practically running to the bed and gathering her up in his arms. He placed a kiss on her head and anywhere and everywhere he could reach. Darcy just giggled and laid back as Loki stopped his assault and placed his head on her stomach. She threaded her fingers through his hair and just looked down at him.
She was scared, but she knew with Loki by her side that everything would be alright, everything would be perfect.
A.N: Ok, so fluff week has just given me an excuse to write Daddy!Loki, which I have been wanting to do for awhile now. So, hopefully the next one up tomorrow.
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