Woo I am on a muse roll! And yes, I just collapsed her entire pregnancy into 3 chapters, but I didn't really know what to do with them in that middle time. But now I get to have fun times with baby \o/

xXx

Loki flinched heavily as he came back to reality, causing Siobhan to jump. She was in her seventh month of pregnancy, and had long since given up on fighting her cravings. She was currently snacking on a pint of coffee ice cream and pepperoni, a combination she couldn't even explain and didn't taste too good together, but it was what she wanted. She had hated the move to New Mexico at first with how stupidly hot it was in the summer, especially moving into the city that Thor had destroyed a few years before, but now as the seasons shifted into the fall she had grown to love it. She had picked up a part time job at a local diner, where an old man always came in near the end of her shift and would tell her stories of the time he ripped out the back of his truck trying to pull a hammer out of the ground, and the massive black flame thrower that destroyed the very diner she was standing in, if it hadn't been for the weirdest group of people you had ever seen talk sense into a flame thrower.

"They talked to it! Like it was a person! It was the weirdest thing. Then BAM! It slapped the big guy down the road like a sack of corn. Then the guy got up like nothing happened, and that hammer came flying over to him and he smacked that old machine around like nothing!" The old man laughed at the bar, sipping his coffee as Siobhan glanced over to Loki who was sitting two stools away, looking wearily at the cheeseburger she had served him a minute ago

"Stan, you always tell the same stories, tell something we don't all remember!" Her manager had yelled from the back as she laughed

"I like his stories" She had edged, Loki sending her a glare as the old man grinned ear to ear. He had left her a $10 tip that night

"Does it hurt?" She asked softly, watching him as he rubbed his temples

"Sometimes. What do you know about the tesseract?" He stood and grabbed some papers, writing some notes quickly in a language she couldn't read

"I think my granddaddy's talked about it before. I want to say it was a power source they got from Hitler after World War II. I think he did some side research on it along with research on the after affects of nuclear bombs"

"What did he tell you about it?" Loki pressed, slowing in his scribbles to look up at her. There was an intensity in his eyes that made her nervous, causing the baby to squirm. Siobhan pressed her hand against her stomach and winced, dropping his gaze as Loki sighed heavily

"I am sorry. I did not mean to scare you"

"It's ok. Just the baby's big now and is moving around more. I don't really remember. He said it was a power source, and that they looked into it while they were researching nuclear bombs for power as well. He didn't do much research on it though, he said it was even higher clearance than what he had, and he had really freaking high clearance. He did always tell the stories along with the search for Captain America, some super soldier his father met a few times. He said his father said that he was kind of a priss" Loki looked at her confused as she laughed "A pre Madonna. Full of himself. Sort of like you" She teased, sticking her tongue out at him as he growled and went back to his notes.

"Actually, Howard Stark was the one who did the project with Captain America. His son, Tony Stark, is worse than you. Freaking Iron Man, he can't do anything subtlety. He's awesome" Siobhan said sarcastically, waving her spoon around as she turned back to her snack. "His family got crazy rich from creating weapons, then he got caught up in war and now he's all peace and love and crap. Total hypocrite. He's been doing research on renewable energy too"

"Do you know of anything else in connection to the tesseract?"

"Not directly, but there is this guy who tried to copy Captain America. Bruce Banner, he was kind of a major case study in my genetics class. He tried to copy Captain America with radiation, and instead he mutated himself into turning into a massive green angry monster. He destroyed a big chunk of New York City having a tantrum. At least Thor was in BFE"

"BFE?" Loki asked confused

"Middle of nowhere" He nodded slowly as he continued to write

"Sounds like a bilgesnipe" Loki mumbled under his breath, finishing his notes and laying down his pencil

"A what-a-wha?"

"A massive green angry monster" He said simply with a smile as Siobhan threw a pepperoni at him. He caught it and ate it, sitting beside her and taking a handful of her snack. "Why is it that you never question my actions? I know that you are not daft, I am after all the 'bad guy' of your world"

Siobhan shrugged, looking down at her nearly empty ice cream container. "I still have nightmares. Some people just want to see the world burn. It's screwed up past the point of no return, may as well start from scratch. It'll be fun" Loki gently kissed her forehead, resting his hand on her stomach

"A new world for the two of you" She looked up at him and smiled, not rightly caring in that moment how twisted she had become in his lies

xXx

"Oh, good, you haven't had the baby yet!" Stan cheered, coming into the diner carrying a small paper bag. Loki was sitting in his normal seat at the bar, now more than anything to keep an eye on Siobhan should she go into labor

"Eight and a half months. Any day now would be great little one" Siobhan laughed, poking at her stomach. "Where've you been Stan? I was worried about you. And I had some requests for stories" She quickly poured him a cup of coffee as he nodded over to Loki

"Tom. Went to see some grandkids graduate college, made a trip out of it. But first, I have a little gift. I'm pretty sure that baby of yours has heard my stories so many time's it'll come out telling them, so when I saw this I had to get it!" The old man chuckled, pulling out a small stuffed figurine. Loki burst into hysterical laughter as Siobhan stood in amused shock

"Is that a Destroyer doll?" Siobhan forced out, confused as to why it even existed

"Yes! I found it and I thought it was so funny, I had to buy it"

"That is amazing" Loki grinned, taking the doll and turning it over in his hand "I may keep this for myself"

"So, what stories are you interested in?" Stan asked as Siobhan waddled around the counter, sitting in a chair that Loki pulled out for her with his foot as he examined the toy with amusement

"You're around the same age as my granddaddy, and we," Siobhan gestured between herself and Loki, "were having a discussion a few days ago about how my granddaddy used to tell stories about his father serving in the World War and talking about Captain America"

"Ah, him. Weird man. He was a show off lab experiment for the longest time with Howard Stark, but it turns out the guy was actually a pretty good fighter. I knew a guy who knew a guy who was saved by him. Told the weirdest stories about when they were trying to escape"

"All of your stories are weird, old man" Loki teased as Stan waved him off

"No, this is truly weird. They told stories of these guns that would shoot a light ray at a man, and the man would just disappear. Cease to exist. Disintegrate. It was rumored by some of my pal's daddies who served over there that there was some crazy power source that they used. Called a Tesla act. No, that's not right" The old man mumbled to himself trying to remember the name

"The tesseract?" Loki prodded, glancing over to Siobhan who nodded with a smirk. They had debated the night before if the old man would know anything, and she had just won a box of his pudding cups

"Yeah, that's it. It was said that Captain America went down in a plane with it, but Stark immediately went diving after it and brought it back up. Government's been keeping it ever sense. Who knows what they've been doing with it since" Loki and Stan looked over to Siobhan, who was stretching awkwardly in her chair

"Ok, that was weird" She winced, wrapping her arms around her stomach

"Did I come home just in time for you to have your baby?" Stan laughed as Loki slid off his chair and the manager came running over

"No, no, I don't think so. Ow! Ok, yeah. Ow, fuck, that one hurt" She laughed weakly as Loki took Siobhan's hand and helped her up

"Nope, we are not having a baby in here. Go get in the jeep. Come on, Tom" The manager ordered as he tossed the shop keys to one of the other waitresses, telling her to lock up immediately. The old man sat back and grinned, sipping at his coffee as he watched the group leave

xxx

Siobhan rested heavily in the hospital bed, watching in an anesthetic induced haze as the doctors worked to clean and care for her newborn daughter. Loki had been forcefully removed from the room since he had continuously gotten in the way, the last straw being when he demanded to see the child first before the doctors. She could see him pacing outside of the room, his rage only barely contained as to not be taken out of the hospital completely. The doctor finally bundled the child and handed her over to Siobhan with a worried look

"Her body temperature is abnormally low, but everything else is holding steady. We'll be keeping an eye on her for a day, but she looks strong"

"Give her to Tom. I feel weak" She whispered as Loki pushed past one of the nurses to reach her side. The doctor begrudgingly handed the baby over to him as they left the room to give them some privacy. She watched Loki carefully hold their bundled daughter to his chest, trailing his finger lightly down her cheek

"They say she is cold" Siobhan mumbled as his grip tightened around the child

"She is my daughter" Loki growled, turning towards her as a blue hue with an ancient design crossed from his skin onto the baby

"Loki, please" She begged, reaching out to rest her hand gently on his arm. The blue began to recede from her touch as they both returned back to normal. Loki settled beside Siobhan and gently handed the child back over to nurse. "What should we name her?"

"Nenna," He whispered, watching the child with a slight smile "It means darling. Nenna Lokadottir"

Siobhan rested her head back against the pillows, closing her eyes from the light before laughing weakly "Giving birth sucks. You have no idea" She mumbled, almost immediately falling asleep. She had to fight to focus on what was around her, and even harder to form coherent sentences.

"Actually, I do"

"You're a guy" She sighed, opening one eye to look at him annoyed

"Sleipnir?" Loki challenged, watching a smile cross Siobhan's face before she started to giggle. The giggle grew into a laugh, and before long she was crying from laughing so hard

"I love you" Siobhan grinned, lifting their newborn to her shoulder to burp her. "I mean it. I love you"

He smiled without a word, stroking Siobhan's hair before taking the child to let the new mother rest. Siobhan could just hear Loki singing a soft lullaby to their daughter in an ancient tongue and she allowed the melody to rock her to sleep with dreams of a young girl running beside an eight legged foal