"Well what is it?" asked Tony.
"I thought you said you didn't want to hear anything lovey-dovey," Bruce shot back.
"Well what I'm wondering is what else could there by," replied Tony. "Unless you already somehow have the wedding planned out, which is highly improbable, the only thing that I can think of that you would tell us is if you were having a kid or something."
"Actually you just got it spot on," admitted Loki.
"So you're adopting? Ow!" cried Tony as Loki hit him with his cane on top of his head. "What was that for?"
"That was for being the dumbest smart person ever!" replied Loki as he paused and glanced over at Coulson. "I can see that Coulson has put two and two together."
"Yes," said Coulson slowly as he cocked his head to the side and thought about this. "That's very interesting. I'm very happy for you two though."
Pepper had also realized what they had meant and, after getting over the initial shock, said, "What the child's name going to be?"
"Virreena Helena Banner," replied Loki with a smile.
"That's a cool and pretty name. I like it," said Pepper. "How did you come up with the first name?"
"Loki just came up with it off the top of his head," replied Bruce.
"I'm sorry but I still don't— What was that for? Is this national abuse Tony day or Christmas?" cried Tony as he turned to Jarvis who had just punched him. "And be careful how hard you throw a fist that hurt!"
"For being a genius you are extremely slow at realizing the obvious," replied Jarvis with a slow shake of his head. "You were the one who said it in the first place anyway."
"Said what . . . oh. Oh man! You're not . . . you are serious. But that's . . . I mean how . . ." Tony trailed off as his mind worked at high speed to try to figure this out.
Loki burst out laughing as he said, "Is the great mind of Tony Stark baffled?"
"Very much so," replied Tony slowly as he still tried to figure this out.
"Tony," said Steve suddenly, "just say you're happy for them and stop trying to figure out the mysteries of the universe."
"Okay, I'm happy for you" Tony said rather simply as everyone else continued to laugh again.
"So," said Steve as he turned back to Loki, his eyes sparkling "Is she already growing?"
"You're just like Bruce," whined Loki. "I swear you two should be the ones getting pregnant. You are both clearly the girls in the relationship."
"Shut up," replied Steve and Bruce at once.
Laughter sounded throughout the room. Of course, there were questions that were asked but eventually they got onto other topics until finally Bruce asked if they wanted to watch a movie.
"How about A Christmas Story?" suggested Tony.
Loki cocked his head to the side as he asked "What's that about?"
"Don't tell me you never watched it," Tony told Loki.
"We didn't watch TV very much on Asgard," replied Loki sarcastically.
However, they did eventually watch the movie. Everyone except Loki and Pepper had ever seen it but they loved it just as much. After that, they watched Scrooged which everyone enjoyed as well and later they watched the original Miracle on 34th Street. Tony and Steve ended up going to sleep in the middle of it and went to one of the guest bedrooms, Pepper eventually went to the other. Loki and Bruce finally went to sleep when the movie ended. However, Jarvis and Coulson had already gotten into a conversation about some historic thing about the Civil War and stayed up late talking.
Loki hadn't ever thought that Jarvis could fall asleep and maybe he really couldn't. However, he found him leaning against Coulson, eyes closed and breathing deeply. It seemed like the two had fallen asleep in the middle of the night.
That morning, they enjoyed breakfast together but they didn't sit and chat like they had with dinner the other night for a fresh layer of snow covered the ground. Despite being adults, they all seemed extremely over excited about a snowball fight. They all quickly finished their food, put on coats and scarves, and were out the door as fast as possible.
Tony and Pepper began helping Jarvis learn how to make a snowball and then soon after they got into teams, Tony and Jarvis against Pepper, Bruce, and Steve. It wasn't very even in numbers of strength but it was extremely fun nonetheless.
Loki, however, got a chair from inside, deciding it was probably best to sit this one out. However, he was extremely surprised when Coulson also set a chair beside him and sat down. They were silent for quite some time until Loki finally said, "I know this probably doesn't mean anything to you but I just wanted to say I'm sorry for—"
"I forgive you," interrupted Coulson. Upon seeing Loki's surprised expression he said, "I forgave you a long time ago. Besides, I find that holding grudges is just to time consuming. Don't you?"
Loki smiled at the hidden meaning and said, "Yeah I suppose you're right."
Neither one talked after that. They just sat, watched, and enjoyed the silence. By eleven o'clock everybody had left and once again the house was empty except for Loki and Bruce.
"Well I think that went rather well," Loki said with a smile.
"Agreed," replied Bruce. "What do you want to do now?"
"Oh, being lazy sounds like fun," said Loki.
"Really?"
As if in answer to the question Loki pulled Bruce down onto the couch and snuggled up against him.
"Look who's being sentimental now," said Bruce.
With a smile, Loki stretched and replied, "You're still the girl."
AN: Sadly, this is where the story ends. I hope you enjoyed it though as much as I enjoyed writing it and once again thanks for all the reviews. The sequel that will go with it, the Coulson/Jarvis one, will be called 'The Agent and the AI Babysit.'
