"SHIT! I'm so fucking late!" You said as you rushed to get a piece of toast, you were running late for something important. Loki walked in to see your frantic movements, you bumped into him, and you both fell to the floor. "Sorry!" You cried as you both scrambled to get to your feet.

"It's fine. What's the rush?"

You rubbed your eyes, "I'm late picking up my nephew, and to make it worse, I can't find my car keys."

Loki waved his hand in the air, and a pair of keys appeared in his hand. He handed them to you and you took them with a nod. "Can I come with you?"

You smiled, "Yes, but you're going to have to change out of your Asgardian wares. And I must warn you, Luke asks a lot questions, as all kids tend to do."

"That's fine, I will meet you in the car."

"Alright, thanks for summoning my keys, Loki."

"No problem."

You were in your grey Pontiac G6 waiting on Loki. You looked at the doors of the Tower, you smiled when he came walking down the steps. The sun shone of of his raven hair, he had changed into a dark green shirt, blue jeans, and he had black tennis shoes on. He opened the door and got in the front, he looked at you smiling at him,

"What?" He asked.

You looked away and started the car, "Nothing."

"Liar."

As you pulled away from the curb, you said "It's just that you look nice in our Midgardian clothes. But I must admit your Asgardian clothes look much nicer."

"Well thank you, how old is your nephew?"

"He will be turning six on the 4th of July. Another one of our Midgard holidays."

"Ah, yes Thor had told me about it a few months ago."

You pulled out your phone as you turned onto the highway, "I need to call my sister and tell her why I am late." You looked up her number and pressed the 'call' button. The line rung three times before someone answered it.

(Third person POV)

Loki watched as his friend's smile grew wider, "Hey, baby. Can you put your mother on the phone? Yes, I'm still coming to pick you up, just, make sure you have everything. I will be there in an hour, now go give the phone to my sister. Heh, alright good boy." Loki guessed that it was her nephew, Alexx's smile left her face when her sister started to yell at her.

"Well hello to you too, baby sister." Loki heard muffled yelling on the other end. "I know I'm late, Alice. I slept in late and I had lost my keys, you can't blame me for it." Again, he heard more muffled arguing. "And your point is." This time it was muffled speaking, "Alice, I was in the Hospital for two months. You can't blame me for missing Phil's funeral!" Her sister raised her voice on the other end. "I couldn't be there to protect him, okay! I was helping Director Fury with-" She was cut off by her sister, Loki saw her lose all color in her face and her eyes water. "You can't do that to me, sis! You only let me keep him for a few days, three times out of a year!" More muffled yelling, "HE'S MY SON! I HAVE A RIGHT TO SEE HIM WHEN I WANT TO!"

Loki's furred his brow, did she just say son? "The only reason why I gave him to you is because A) You couldn't have kids, and B) I wasn't ready for a child, you were and your only two years younger than me. I'm coming to see him, and that's that." She hung up the phone and threw it into the floor board. She glanced at Loki, "What, are you going to yell at me too?"

"No, but did you say son?"

She sighed, "Yes, five to six years ago I got very, very drunk one night. I was fired from my job and wanted to have fun. I woke up the next morning in bed with a man I didn't even know, so, I left before he even woke. And one month later I found out I was pregnant with Luke, I wasn't ready to take care of a child, so when Alice and Phil agreed to adopt him, I let them."

"Does he know?"

"Of course not, Alice is too selfish to tell him."

They traveled in silence for an hour until she pulled up to a small house; she honked the horn a few times and leaned back into the seat. Loki saw a little boy run out of the small house, he had the same blond hair and freckles across his nose like Alexx, but his eyes were a dark blue color. The little boy opened the door and jumped into the backseat his face had a big grin on it, Luke put his seat belt on and coughed. "Hi auntie Alexx."

"Hi Luke. Luke this is Loki, Loki this is Luke."

Luke shifted his dark blue eyes to the raven haired man sitting next to his aunt, he waved to the man. The man responded with a slight nod before turning back around in his seat. "Seat belt on, Luke?"

"Yes, ma'am."

"Change of clothes?"

"Yes ma'am."

"Toothbrush?"

"Yes ma'am.

"Homework?"

He patted his backpack, "Yes ma'am."

"Good boy, now, let's go have fun shall we?"

"Yay!"

(First person POV, time jump)

The day had been full of fun, Luke and Loki had played a prank on me at my apartment, we walked through Central Park, and visited the Central Park Zoo. About halfway out of the zoo Luke's legs felt tired, Loki had picked him up, and now Luke was asleep on Loki's shoulder. I smiled at the two, Loki looked over at me, he had a fatherly look to him with my s-nephew in his arms.

"What?" He whispered, careful not to wake the boy in his arms.

"You're going to be a great dad one day, Loki. And you're going to make a woman very happy."

"You think so?" He asked.

I chuckled slightly. "I'm the daughter of the Norse Goddess of Love, or did you forget? I know so, Loki." His pale cheeks flushed as we reach the car. I opened the backseat door for him and he laid Luke down on the seat. I put my hand on his shoulder when he stood, I shut the door.

"Thank you, Loki, for coming with me. Normally I'm the one that has to do this, Nat comes with me once in a while, but other than that I'm alone."

"It was my pleasure, A.J. Any time you need me to come, I will."

"Alright, let's get to my apartment. I'm tired, and if I know Luke, he will be waking soon." Loki grabbed my arm lightly, he moved closer to me.

"Would you like me to drive?"

I cocked an eye brow, "Do you know how to?"

"Pepper taught me and Thor while you were in the Hospital."

"Okay, if you say so. Again, thank you." I stood on my tip-toes and kissed him on the cheek. I then opened the side door and climbed into the car, Loki climbed into the driver's seat and started the car. I put the seat back slightly and closed my eyes, the hum of the car was like a lullaby, and soon I was asleep.