A/N: Well here's another chapter. I haven't had a lot of feedback, but I would really appreciate it if yall did! It helps me write faster, and update quicker. If you guys have ideas, please do not hesitate to say! It took me a while to figure out a decent growth rate for Eriss, and I spent several hours trying to figure one out. lol
"Why haven't they covered your tongue yet?" Thor inquired, realizing that a muzzle was the best way to stop his brother from his melancholy magic.
Loki chuckled dryly. "What use will it do me? Stop me from concocting another scheme? No." He sighed.
Thor hesitated before taking a seat from nearby and setting it close to the glass panel.
"Why?"
It seemed that Loki purposely ignored his question; he knew the answer to it. I settled a deal with the Chitauri leader, I had to do it. There was no point for Loki to be honest now. It never done any good to him to tell the truth, which was why he would always warp words to make them sound the way he wanted them to be.
"Why did you do it, Loki?" Thor raised his voice. He didn't even know where this conversation was going or if it had a purpose. "What had happened once you fell from the Bifrost?"
Loki quickly became irritated. He sat up from his bed and finally eyed his brother. The one person he admired, the only person he looked up to, the only one who noticed his presence in the kingdom, the feeling d. There was anger and sadness in Thor's eyes, and he saw Loki's menacing emerald eyes piercing through him, trying to hide his true feelings.
Thor also grew irritated that Loki was not responding to his questions verbally, but rather physically. Loki didn't want to talk to him at all and the stiffness in his broad shoulders proved it. Thor realized his brother's eyes were in fact their normal shade of green. He soon looked back into the conversation he had earlier with Nick Fury and his theory on Loki's possession. He wasn't sure if Loki knew the power of his sceptre, or if he was fooled, lied to, when given it. All he knew is Loki changed, and not the way Thor wanted him to change.
"Your eyes are green." Thor said.
"Stating the obvious are we?" Loki spat coldly. "What of them?"
"None at all." Thor responded. "Do you have any recollection of yourself since?"
Thor took a long shot asking Loki such a question, and he was expecting silence. Neither of them were good terms with each other since Thor finally faced Loki after his banishment.
Loki hissed. "What care do you have for me? What use is there to ask such a befuddling question?"
"My sincerest apologies brother-"
"I am NOT your brother." Loki hissed furiously.
Both men glared at each other, Thor with full resentment and Loki with unbelievable rage. There was not a question that Loki definitely was not in such a pleasant or bearable mood. A little bit offended and saddened by his brother's sudden exclamation, Thor sighed profoundly.
"I have not yet quite understand when the moment was we both realized we are different, but know this Loki: the many years we have been together as what we were raised, brothers, do not think for one second I do not think so ever different of you. Whether us it by blood or bond, it does not change the fact that you are who you are to me. My brother." Thor explained dishearteningly. He bowed his head down in disappointment, not letting Loki respond. He took one last look at his brother which he only returned the gaze for a moment, before leaving the cell room and off to the conference room.
Tony finally found Thor after nearly half an hour in searching for him. He caught him through the glass panels that looked inside the conference room. He was thinking heavily, Tony noticed.
"Point Break, there you are." Tony beaming inside, as Thor looked up to find Tony sitting next to him.
"Anthony Stark." Thor called. "I hope your newfound daughter is well."
Tony smiled slightly, greatly appreciating Thor for entering the topic with ease. "That's exactly why I came looking for you in which by the way, where did you go? Anyways, I need you to tell me what you know of this."
Tony took out the velvet bag out of his pocket and took out Eriss's locket out to the muscular man. Thor grabbed it carefully and intensively observed everything the locket had. His eyebrows turned fixed, letting Tony know he was critically looking at it. The god soon figured out how to open it and stared at the word that reflected back at him.
"Someone took the time to create this locket, I presume. It is welded by small tools that enabled the welder to create the designs very intricately, however it seems that the welder has artisan history. They only made this for your daughter." Thor explained; handing the locket back to Tony.
"Thanks, Sherlock, nice eye." Tony mused. "Although I have heard of a brilliant man in London who makes fantastic deductions..."
Thor raised an eyebrow.
"Never mind that. Do you think this holds magical properties?" Tony seriously asked.
"There is a high possibility for that, Anthony. It was given to her for a reason before leaving young Eriss in your tower." Thor suggested. "Possibly an enchanted piece of protection, however I am no expert in magic. Allas maybe my mother or brother."
Tony shivered at the thought of going to the mass murderer for help. No definitely not, Tony thought.
"Of course, I will seek my mother's insight when my brother and I return to Asgard." Thor promised with a hearty smile.
"Which should be soon, Banner is in the midst of completing the holder for that damn cube." Tony assumed, since his friend and colleague had similar working styles as the billionaire.
The next couple of days were insanely hectic. The helicarrier soon returned to New York City, much to Tony's dismay, but he knew it was a must. All the Avengers used the untouched floors of the Stark Towers as their temporary home and unofficial headquarters. Bruce used Tony's separate and special laboratories in the underground levels of the Towers to finish the last minute installations to the holder before Thor and Loki's departure the following day.
Pepper on the other hand had taken up the role of mother not only for her daughter, but for the other Avengers as well. Most of the superheros didn't want to separate just yet and she didn't hesitate to make lunch and dinner with the help of Steve when she had the chance, (she refused to make them breakfast). It was an unusual site for Pepper; she had to buy the safest and close-knotch baby formula much to her own worry since she was not physically able to give Eriss what babies need most. Steve offered to help with Eriss for the day. Once Tony and Bruce came back upstairs for a long break, all the adults were surrounded by a sleeping Eriss on her rolling (yet brakes were in place) crib in the living area.
"Did they ever figure out her growth rate?" Clint asked.
Pepper nodded. "She's growing at a rate of 25 percent. She looks to be a 'month' old from what the doctors said in New Mexico."
No one caught on and Tony just chuckled.
"A month is usually four weeks, the occasional five. She's not really a month old. She's actually a week old, which breaks the theory of whoever left her here gave birth a week ago. The mother didn't wait a month to give her up. We've had her for three or four days now, which again breaks the theory of the mother giving birth a week ago, but actually a few days before Eriss was dropped off. With her 25 percent accelerated growth rate, she'll turn one in three and a half months' time." Pepper explained as thoroughly as she could.
"Is she developing as any other human child?" Dr. Banner asked with his soft-spoken voice.
"Yes. Everything is fine, except the fact that she's growing faster." Pepper replied. "We'll have a four year old toddler by this time next year."
"Guess we have to learn how to be parents a lot quicker than everyone else." Tony smirked.
"Are you guys going to keep her here?" Clint asked.
"Absolutely not. New York is no place to live, let alone raise a baby." Tony replied, shaking his head. "We'll be heading to the estate in California."
"The Malibu house?" Bruce asked.
Tony shook his head. "Nope. Not that one. I purchased a more family-oriented place not too long ago."
"Yesterday?" Pepper smirked.
"Ah-well not really- yeah." Tony said in defeat by Pepper's glares.
"Such a strange young babe she is." Thor commented to himself, but his normal voice was loud enough for everyone to hear. "In all my years living, I have never heard or studied about a babe who grows so quickly."
"Babe?" Tony mouthed to Pepper, which she scoffed.
"I wonder what abilities she'll develop as she gets older." Steve wondered out loud. "What if she gets more than just invisibility?"
Tony closed his eyes scared of that thought. "I'd rather just live in the moment and not worry about the possibilities, thank you very much."
Suddenly, Eriss moved and began to cry. Her cries weren't loud, but big enough to startle everyone. Steve looked at Pepper, then the baby, and Pepper nodded. Steve, despite all his broad, and big body, he was beyond gentle as he scooped Eriss up in his arms and began to rock her softly. A few minutes later, she calmed down, and her grand green eyes looked directly at Steve's, and perked a little smile.
"Well Steve, I didn't know you could calm young ladies," Tony joked.
Steve laughed. "I took up babysitting before the war started, and I was the go-to nanny in the thirties."
"At least you know who to contact when mom and dad are not available." Natasha chuckled as she took a sip of water from her cup
"Is the Tesseract holder almost done?" Clint turned to Bruce.
Bruce nodded. "Yeah. It should be ready for when Thor leaves tomorrow afternoon."
"Leaving so soon?" Steve asked, slowly rocking Eriss in his arms.
"Indeed, Steve Rogers. I received what I have been sent for, and the All-Father does not take it lightly if I stay in different realms longer than needed." Thor explained, taking a sip of his favorite Midgardian drink, coffee. "With the Bifrost gone, I cannot go from place to place without the consequence of traveling. The way I came here only suits the purpose of limited time."
"So you knew Loki would be captured soon?" Tony asked.
"No, I did not. I did not know the trouble he has been causing in your realm. There has been news that my brother was indeed not dead, but living, causing havoc here in Midgard. No one expected everything that unfolded during the Chitauri attack. However, there is always a way to catch Loki in his schemes." Thor explained thoroughly.
"Risked a chance?" Tony summed it up.
"More or less." Thor replied.
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