3 weeks later…
Loki started Gabriel's magical training, he thought long and hard about what he was going to teach him first as he watched him with Remus. The wolf was teaching him about some of his own magic and Gabriel has picked up on that pretty quickly, but with the child, being like him now he had to teach him some of his magic. He decided he will start with shapeshifting, it would help if any of those men ever found him, he could change his form and hide in plain sight.
He walked over to Gabriel, who was sitting with Remus who was telling him his stories from his days at Hogwarts. "We had this special map of Hogwarts and we would use it to sneak out of school, one of the tunnels came out under a sweet shop." He then waved his wand to show Gabriel four animals "These were my friends, we had code names, I was Moony…" the large wolf image howled at a fake moon "…then there was Padfoot…" He was quiet for a moment and Gabriel looked up at him "…He was a big black dog…" He smiled weakly "… then we have Prongs, he was a very brave man and finely, Wormtail the rat." The animals Remus created with his wand started to play with each other, making Gabriel smile.
"Why are you so sad then?" The little boy asked, making Remus look down at him and run his fingers through his hair, smiling sadly.
"Because I miss them pup." He whispered Gabriel giggled at him because he just been called pup.
Loki stood there well smiling at Remus "Can I go to Hogwarts?" Gabriel asked, trying to change the subject, something Remus didn't mind at all. The ash blonde looked back at the dark-haired god who had a raised eyebrow.
"Well, that really depends on your mummy." He said, the green-eyed boy turned to look at his mother and smiled at him.
"Mummy, can I go?" He begged, his green orbs sparkling with hope and Loki hates to dash that.
"We will see my little wolf at the moment you are too young to go." He smiled as he kissed the top of his head, Gabriel pouted at him and Loki shook his head and he picked up the little boy. "Don't give me the bottom lip, if your uncle can't get away with the bottom lip, then neither can you little wolf."
The dark-haired god put the boy down on his two feet and smiled at him as he reached out and stroked his face. "Gabriel, I'm going to start teaching you some of the magic you inherited from me." Remus frowned and went to open his mouth "We will talk later Remus." He gave him a look that meant 'don't talk about it at the moment'. "We are going to start with Shapeshifting." He smiled, making Gabriel look up at him with wide eyes "We are just going to start off small like changing hair and eye colour and once you master that, we will move on to body parts." Gabriel was excited and Remus looked intrigued as he leaned down and watches as Loki shows himself, changing his hair to make it shorter and red. "See, now you try my Raven."
The boy stood there frowning, not sure what to do "Okay-Okay, just close your eyes, Raven, that's it, good boy, now you need to think about your hair, think about how you want it to look. Longer, shorter or do you want it to be blonde or green, do you understand?"
"Yes, Mummy." The wolf chuckled as he watched the young boy closed his eyes and screwed up his face. Bruce and Natasha walked in just as Gabriel changed on his first go.
"Oh?" Remus said, as he sat back his eyes looking up at Loki who stood there with a fix look in his face, it was shocked as well.
"I did not see that coming." Loki said as he blinked down at where a little boy once stood, but now stood a girl.
"What happened?" Bruce asked as he rushed over to look at Gabriel. She stood there with long curly jet black hair and soft features.
"Did I do it?" She said well grinning, not realising that she had changed her whole body "Mummy did I do it?" Gabriel asked again.
"Yeah, you did brilliantly."
Happy to hear that, Gabriel ran off to find a mirror well Loki looked at Bruce and the others, who all shared the same look on their faces. "Do I need to start taking her shopping?" Natasha asked, then there was a scream and they all turned to head towards Gabriel's screams only to find her running towards them.
"Mommy, what did I do!" She sobbed, the dark-haired god got on his knees and placed a hand on her shoulder and one on her face.
"It's fine Gabe, this happens when I first tried this power, I turned myself into a girl that looked like your uncle Thor… that was the most horrifying day of my life." He said trying to make it light hatred but the dark haired girl whimpered.
"I don't like it, mommy." Her sniffed
"But you're such a pretty girl," Loki said to her with smile as he strokes her face.
"I'm pretty?" She asked, her eyes light up as Loki nodded and kissed the top of his head.
"Now I'm going to change you back okay? It will feel even stranger because it's my magic, but it won't hurt a bit." Gabriel nodded as Loki touched his forehead, making Gabriel shiver as he changed back into a boy.
Smiling, Loki looked down at him and kissed the top of his head as green orbs looked up at him "See all better." He whispered to him, but no sooner as he stepped away Gabriel's body changed back to a girl "Oh…"
"What happened?" Bruce asked as they all walked over to look at Gabe, who started to whimper again, his bottom lip trembling.
"I think it's his magic, Gabriel must learn to change back on his own." Loki said as he scratched his head as he bent down and picked up Gabe who was crying again.
"How does that work?" Natasha asked,
"These powers are new to him, his body is still trying to get used to it so is his core. The mixing of two different magical signatures, it might be confusing to his body and he might need time for them to settle before we started to teach him." Remus was quiet as he looked at Gabriel who was whimpering and hiding his face into Loki's shoulder.
"Maybe she needs to relax." The wolf said, "That is what I need to do between the changes."
"I know." Bruce started to say, as he walked over to Loki and Gabriel, "We need to get my beautiful girl some ice cream aaaaand to have her watched cartoons all day." The dark-haired girl looked up at him sniffing.
"Rocky road ice cream?"
"Of course."
