Kiersten found herself running to the bathroom to throw up the contents of her breakfast. She'd barely eaten anything, but soon enough she was over the toilet, puking.
"Fucking-hate-morning-sickness," Kiersten muttered to herself in between retching. She felt a slight tug on her hair, and looked up slightly to see Loki holding it back. He had a slight expression of distaste clouding his features.
"Why are you-"
"It would be troublesome for you to wash your hair after this, would it not?"
Kiersten would have responded, but another wave of nausea overtook her. Loki sighed. He couldn't believe he was doing this. If someone had told him before his banishment on Midgard that he would be holding back the hair of a pregnant Midgardian girl whom he would consider a friend, Loki would have scoffed. But lo and behold, he was doing just that. Kiersten seemed to have stopped throwing up for the moment. "Are you quite done yet?"
Kiersten nodded. "Thanks." Loki simply released her hair in response as Kiersten went to brush her teeth again.
"Ugh. You know, I'd like to be able to eat something before I go out..." Kiersten grumbled to herself. Loki cocked an eyebrow.
"And where would you be going?"
"Oh, I have to go to the doctor's, get a sonogram done," Kiersten replied. Loki gave her a look of utter confusion.
"What is this sonogram of which you speak?" Loki asked.
"Well, it's this sort of machine which helps you to visualize subcutaneous structures-like a baby, in my case. It can be used to do checks on how healthy the baby is, if there are multiple fetuses, heartbeats, the sex of the baby-" Kiersten elaborated.
"Boy."
Kiersten cocked an eyebrow at him. "What?"
"You said this sonogram could determine the child's gender. I personally think that it is a boy," Loki stated, rather confident in his assumption.
Kiersten scoffed. "I think it'll be a girl, personally. My mom-senses are tingling."
Loki rolled his eyes (a technique which he had learned from living with Kiersten) and simply shook his head.
"Fine then. Why don't you come with me? We'll bet on it, but I don't want to find out just yet. I can wait to revel in my victory," Kiersten chirped.
"I believe you mean my victory," Loki replied.
Loki found waiting rooms to be rather unimpressive. There were strange, colorful books which Kiersten informed him to be 'tabloid magazines' filled with nothing but stupidity. Kiersten didn't even look at them, just stared around, quite bored. A few people stared at them, some looks inquisitive, some friendly. Loki found himself quite unnerved by this. He didn't enjoy their gazes, glaring them down.
"Loki," hissed Kiersten. Loki stared at her.
"What?"
"Quit glaring at people, okay? They're trying to be friendly," she elaborated.
Loki scoffed. "They were-"
"Kiersten McHale?" the doctor called. Kiersten all but sprung up, grabbing Loki by the wrist. After a rather routine checkup which caught neither Loki nor Kiersten's interest, the doctor asked if they wanted to know the baby's gender.
"No," Kiersten said quickly, giving Loki a sideways glance, which he returned. The doctor gave them an odd look and shrugged. "Well, suit yourselves."
"I do not understand why you have decided to wait," Loki told Kiersten. "It would be much simpler if you settled this now."
"You can't just go through life taking the simple way out," Kiersten said, expecting a response from Loki. The former god, though, was silent.
A.N: Oh-kay. Welp. Not sure what I think about this chapter, but some ideas have been hopping into my head about possibly bringing Thor into this soon and playing with the sort-of love/hate relationship between Thor and Loki. Any suggestions or ideas for me? I'd love to hear them!