A/N: Here's another chapter, although I'm not sure if everyone will get the last one. I know for me at least, has been acting kind of wonky, and a few stories and chapter have been reading as not existing. So here's to hoping. Also, I like Liv.
I don't own The Avengers, Loki, Iron Man, or anything of the like. Just the thoughts inside my head. And my amazing collaborator KairacahraFlower Goddess owns his ideas that he's letting me use. :D
Loki ducked at a punch thrown his way. He threw a spell at it's feet and the Loki copy was thrown backwards. He walked over and crouched down, grabbing the copy neck and holding him down, turning him slightly with his hand to study the creature.
"What are you? Obviously a shapeshifter," Loki muttered. He hadn't expected the copy to answer, he'd yet to hear any kind of sound from it. "One designed for that purpose, not of the same skill as myself." He snarled when the copy grabbed his wrist, it's touch starting to burn his skin. Loki's hand and wrist started to turn blue and the shifter's own hand started to turn black again. Glaring, Loki sent a spell of ice through the shifter and it lost it's density, turning back into a shadow on the ground. Loki growled and froze the shadow, watching it melt with the ice, creating a sticky substance on the ground.
Loki stood up frowning and walked back over to stay in front of the shop, hearing the women inside twitter about the Avengers. He was going to have to talk to Tony about being called an Avenger again.
He looked up several minutes later when he saw Tony coming down towards them, the repulsors in his feet sputtering on and off. He missed the last few feet and dropped to the ground, almost falling over. "Well, you look like you survived," Tony took his helmet off that looked slightly crushed.
"Better than your suit apparently." Loki looked it up and down. "Did you notice anything strange about this enemy?"
"The fact that they can shape shift," Tony hissed out. "Yeah, noticed that. At least they didn't cause too much damage to the city, just a few dented cars and broken windows." Loki hummed a little in thought. "Although, I did get a weird sense of deja vu," Tony voice and Loki looked at him.
"I thought it was just me," Loki commented as the people in the store started to come out. "I'll take Kat and Liv back to the mansion," he said moving away quickly so most of the people could give their attentions to Tony.
"Don't like getting the praise?" Liv raised an eyebrow as he left the crowd.
"I will once again bring fire and destruction to this planet," Loki commented placing a hand on each of their arms. "When that time comes, I want you to remember how you mocked me so." Kat smirked as they disappeared.
Loki, Tony and Liv sat in the penthouse, a screen in front of them, as Loki worked on his clothing contract. Unfortunately Liv had let it 'slip' while Tony was listening that Loki was going to conjure up some clothes that were needed for the wedding. Loki had promised punishment to Tony later when "respectable company" wasn't around.
"And she does this every time the Avengers are called out?" Liv glanced over at the two men.
"If she's around," Tony nodded, pouring a couple drinks, two water and one scotch. "Sometimes she's at a clinic or taken the kids away if the fighting gets too close."
They were watching one of the security feeds on the roof. Tony was always the first to return since he didn't need to wait for the jet to come and pick him up, or walk back to the mansion or Tower. Katherine was sitting on the roof, her legs crossed, elbows on her knees, and head in her hands. Her head perked up a little when they all felt the familiar ground shaking of the Hulk running.
"I had to uninstall most ground sensors around the mansion," Tony muttered. "And re-calibrate building sensors, and install metal bars so he'd stop punching holes into the sides of my mansion."
"And you did it all with a smile on your face," Loki commented, filling up a third page to the contract. Tony walked back over and slid the water over to Loki, watching as it almost tipped over on the papers. Loki put out a hand without looking and the glass righted itself. Tony handed the other water to Liv and took a drink of his scotch. "Ah, here's the best part."
They looked to the screen, (even Loki lifted his eyes up) and saw that Katherine had pushed herself up as a big green hand came over the side of the building. She let out a squeal as she leaped up and the other hand caught her waist, lifting her up until she was half sitting in his hand, wrapping her arms as far as s he could around his neck. Liv blinked a little as she watched.
"Let me tell you, she has done wonders to, and for, Bruce," Tony commented on the scene. "The man probably had the most inner turmoil out of the whole group, but then your sweet little ray of sunshine came along, and called him," Tony pointed to the Hulk, "a person."
"Well, she always was taking leaps of faith, as I called them," Liv said with a smile on her face. She got two curious looks. "If she had an idea, and she wanted to do it, by gum, she was going to do it. I started calling these ideas Leaps of Faith, because she didn't know if it would work out, but there was an adventure in trying, and she wanted it."
Kat had pulled herself up a little and was looking at a couple scratches and cut on his back. Bruce had started to calm down and she let go of Him, grabbing at the pants before they fell off. They made that mistake once before and Tony and Clint were laughing for a month. Bruce placed a kiss on her nose and she wrinkled it up a little, smiling.
The screen disappeared and Tony took another sip of his drink, trying to peer over Loki's shoulder. "They'll be here in a minute. He'll just get changed in the elevator and- You don't have a problem with me telling you that your daughter is going to be in an elevator with a naked man who sometimes turn green, do you?" Tony asked because he thought it was polite, he didn't actually care. He thought it might be funny if she wasn't.
"That's like asking if I'm under the delusion that they've never had sex in the eight years they've been dating. Loki snorted, smiling. "I'm a single, unmarried, mother, Tony."
"One I wish I had," Tony leaned back in his chair. "You probably could have given me some Very interesting tips when I lost my virginity."
"You wouldn't have been a playboy," she countered as the elevator opened, Bruce shrugging on a jacket.
"Here's the happy couple!" Tony held out his unladen arm. "So very cute, barf worthy cuteness in fact."
"Don't make me take the cameras out again, Tony," Bruce commented calmly. He walked over and kissed Liv's cheek in greeting. "How are you Liv?"
"Oh, I'm just fine," she smiled at him. "Being entertained by these two Gods." Tony grinned and Loki dropped his head in a groan.
"I thought we had discussed this," Loki sighed out. "He is not to be referred to as a god."
"But I am!" Tony pointed at his lover.
"You are a Demi-God, there is a difference."
"Still a God though." Tony put his feet up on the table, next to Loki's papers. The raven-haired god pushed his feet and Tony tipped back, crashing to the floor. "Saved the scotch!" He held up the glass, even as he groaned in pain.
"I can tell that you've at least had a good time here," Bruce smiled softly at his future mother-in-law. "You didn't get caught in the slight chaos-"
"That was not chaos," Loki interrupted.
"-that happened outside today?" Bruce ignored him.
"Oh no," Liv shook her head. "The ever so gracious Loki protected us." She grinned wickedly as Loki's head shot up.
"Mocking," Loki pointed dangerously with his feather quill. "I will not forget these sleights when I bring about Ragnarok."
"I trust that I'll be long gone by the time Tony pisses you off enough," Liv leaned back a little and Kat started to laugh in Bruce's shoulder.
"You fit in around here like a designer glove," Tony told the woman as he managed to get up without spilling his drink. "One that I would pay a good sum of money to have."
"I'm afraid that you're already a claimed man, Mr Stark." Kat stopped laughing and looked at her mother.
"What are you working on, Loki?" Bruce quickly changed the topic, but wished he hadn't when he saw the glare Loki shot him.
"Meet your wedding designer!" Tony claimed, stepping away from Loki's reach.
"You are also getting added to the exceptions page," Loki muttered. Bruce just raised an eyebrow and looked at Katherine.
"It may or may not have come up when we were trying to find outfits for the wedding," Kat said, shrugging a little.
"Loki went clothing shopping with you?" Bruce raised an eyebrow. "I thought he had just showed up to help at the shop."
"Oh no, he went with us," Kat smiled a little. "He has a great eye for clothes." They could see Loki pressing his lips together, lips thin and turning white.
"I am drawing up a contract that will prevent this from ever being talked about to everyone else," Loki said slowly. "You will also be signing it, Dr Banner."
"What did I do?" Bruce's eyebrows rose in shock.
"I do not leave any loose ties," Loki grumbled, turning over another page to start a new one.
"I have been forbidden from leaving until I have signed it," Liv told the couple.
"I don't know why you don't just take my offer up on having your own room here, or at the Tower," Tony told her, sitting down next to her, on the opposite side of Loki. "You could have you're own floor, you're own wing."
"I'd like to keep a few things in my life normal, Tony," she tutted her tongue a little. "Like it used to be before you showed up six years ago." Tony pouted a little. "Anthony Stark, don't you pout, you're only thirteen years younger than I am."
Tony's eyes widened dramatically. "It is a sin in this household to speak of my age." Everyone in the room rolled their eyes.
Later that night Tony had pulled himself closer to Loki in bed, tucking his head under Loki's chin. Loki's eyes opened. "Do you design the kids clothes too?" There was a satisfying thud as Tony hit the floor.