…June..
…Monday 22nd…
"Uncle Loki,Uncle Loki, UNCLE LOOOOKkiii!" Rebecca chants.
Loki had been sprawled on the small bed—which felt comfortable last night.—turning over to his grabbed a pillow putting it against his ear. Rebecca's light footsteps faded over in the RV becoming a distant sound as he fell back into a dark comforting heard something wooden bump against a window once, then twice, and another time. It sounded like Morse Code determining what were the contents of the tapping were:
"Wake up." Went the first message.
"I am wide awake." Went the second message.
"Castle's crumbling, I can't hold on." Went the third message.
"Stay wake; don't close your eyes, for a whole new world." Went the fifth message.
"Baby, you're a firework." Went the sixth message
"You're so original." Went the seventh message.
"Wake the Muspelheim up!" Went the eighth rattling message.
Loki fell over out of the bed landing on the floor.
"Ah ha." Tian said, tapping the stick on his palm."That is how a master of awakening works."
Loki gets up on his two feet.
"Are we going now?" Rebecca whines.
Three days camping and Rebecca wanted to go.
"But, you love camping." Loki said, raising a brow.
"Yes, I do." Rebecca said, pointing over to Tian. "Just not with my nephew."
Tian smirks.
It was then that Loki noticed Rebecca's face, hair, and entire torso is covered in pink looks over to Tian feeling wave after wave of shock come through. Where did he get his hands on a paint bucket?, Loki thought to himself. Loki lowered his eyebrow making a note to himself to check around the RV for paint buckets. Loki had an odd hunch Tian had made a bucket of paint appear by using magic no less.
"Tian." Loki said. "You're grounded for the next week."
"From what?" Tian carelessly asks. "Being bored? That would be awesome."
Loki scoots Tian into the backroom, then, shut the door and used some magic to lock it.
"You're grounded from the TV." Loki said.
"Hey!" Tian complains. "I can't stay in here for a week."
Loki turns towards Rebecca.
"I feel ugly in this paint." Rebecca said.
At first Loki wanted to use magic on Rebecca to clean her up, but then; to be on the safe side, which was a good idea, he had to make sure if she knew his real identity.
"One question; has your father ever talked about Loki Laufeyson?" Loki asks.
Rebecca tilts her head.
"Laafeesun who?" Rebecca repeats, straightening her head right then. "I need specifics."
"Dark hair." Loki said.
Rebecca stares blankly towards Loki.
"I know a lot of people with dark hair." Rebecca said.
"Pale." Loki said.
"Depends if he sparkles." Rebecca said.
"Green." Loki said. "Green eyes."
"Something even more specific." Rebecca said, rubbing her two fingers together.
"A scepter capable of mind control." Loki said.
"Even more." Rebecca pleads.
Has everyone in this realm forgotten?, Loki thought curiously, this generation must be slowly ignoring the most important history of their realm. Loki rubbed his chin furrowing his eyebrows giving it some thought. What a shame.Rebecca has an eager look covered in pink paint; one that Loki hadn't seen from a child. It was the kind Siff had once made when she wanted to know some important information as a child.
"The one who tried to take over New York and failed." Loki said.
"More." Rebecca pleads, closing her eyes to prevent any paint dripping into them.
"That day was a pretty catastrophic day in Midgardian history." Loki noted.
"Fancy word, fancy pants." Rebecca said, sticking her tongue eyes are still closed. "I know no laafeesun guy."
Rebecca's reply amused Loki, no less, in a way that wasn't insulting.
"What if I told you it wasn't spelled Laafeesun." Loki said, earning a raised eyebrow from Rebecca. "instead it was; Lau, as in laugh without 'gh',fey, as in fay, son as in 'son of'."
Tian is knocking on the door.
"Lafaysunof." Rebecca repeats.
"Laufeyson." Loki repeats.
Tian's knocking became louder.
"Laufeeysun." Rebecca said.
"Get into the shower." Loki said.
"Laufeyson." Rebecca said, correctly saying it right.
"Good girl." Loki said, lightly—but barely—patting on her wet head. He then opens bathroom door for Rebecca handing her a pair of magically created little girl clothes then hands a rag on the stack. "There's a rag on top for you to wipe off the paint from your face."
"Thank you." Rebecca said, as Loki redirects her into the bathroom.
"Forwards." Loki said.
Rebecca walks straight into the bathroom, and then, Loki shuts the bathroom door. Loki walks out of the RV then checks the wheels. Only to finally realize; there is no wheels still attached to the vehicle. Loki scratches his head, puzzled, while noticing the kids had packed everything up before going to him. It is plainly obvious when everything is packed into the open compartment coming out of the RV's side. He saw a crowbar sticking out of the empty space that once had a wheel.
Loki takes out the crowbar,and then he smells; smoke.
That's the scent he smells from the crowbar.
Smoke; the kind made by a cigarette.
Loki could hear the soft pats of cold water fly out of a wide circular item followed by a shriek from Rebecca.
"Why would someone do such a thing?" Loki said, tapping on the side of the RV.
Loki used magic to make the shower be capable of washing off paint. The water heats up to the point that Loki could hear a relieved little sigh belonging to Rebecca. What a story this will be,Loki thought looking down towards the crowbar. 'Who exactly would do this?' is what should be asked in this give time not 'why'. Loki can see smaller boot prints—not belonging to him or the kids—that belonged to someone else a bit shorter than he is.
"Might as well." Loki said, making four new tires appear in the empty spaces.
Loki shut the open door belonging to the camping compartment of the RV.
A unexpected ringing vibrates from Loki's hand coat pocket. He takes out the phone then presses on the green button and puts the phone to his ear.
"Tony,I've been trying to call you for two weeks." Loki said. "Give me your number!"
"Sorry, you've been calling yourself." Tony said, being a smart-ass.
"Give me your other phone number." Loki said, in a sharp demand.
"Okay, okay, okay." Tony said. "I will message you it."
"With a bird." Loki said. "I love that form of messaging." Tony, on the other end, looks in both directions confused if he really heard Loki right. "Yes,you heard me right." How the hell does he know what I am thinking? "I love sending birds with messages. They're quite reliable."
"No, instant messaging." Tony said.
"Telepathic?" Loki guesses.
"No." Tony said.
"…Dream messaging?" Loki asks.
"Maybe I should have given you Steve's burner phone." Tony said. "Hold on." Tony lowered the phone on his end and did some quick typing. Loki could hear endless tapping that reminded him of Rebecca pretending to be a woodpecker while chasing after a porcupine just so she could be thorned at. "Done."
Loki hears a beep from the phone.
"Anyway." Tony said. "How's the vacation been going?
"Depends on what words you want." Loki said.
"The good ones." Tony said.
"Crazy, insane, and hysterical." Loki said.
Tony has a small laugh.
"Two Kids plus Loki does equal Madness." Tony said. "For a second there I thought this would be the most boring summer Rebecca ever had." Loki goes into the RV holding the Crowbar. "I have gotten a few calls around the states being the makes me a little curious what else you're doing."
"Oh Stark." Loki said. "It is fine." Loki shuts the door behind him then heads to the driver's seat. "We had a bumpy two weeks chasing after a rampaging goat but it is all right. We just officially started the road trip by having a camping trip in the forest in…" Loki had to pause thinking about the road signs he had seen along the grassy ditches looking better than the terrible pavement. "Somewhere in South Dakota. It is very quiet down here." Loki starts the RV using the keys. "Did you know Rebecca, when in Natasha's house, is cooped up in the living room with snacks and allowed to stay awake all night watching cartoons?"
"Yes." Tony said.
"…No wonder your daughters sleeping clock was terrible on the first day." Loki said, with a groan as he leaned back into the driver's seat. "You've been letting Rebecca stay at Natasha's more than she is with you."
"Uh no." Tony said. "Before the divorce started; Rebecca spent time at Natasha's house while Natasha was doing some missions with Bruce and Steve."
Loki backs out of the area he had parked in.
"Uh huh." Loki said. Divorce?, Loki thought, Pepper doesn't seem the kind Tony can decapitate using a sword. But then again this is a new era on Midgard. Divorce might be different on how it is handled. Loki taps his fingers on the wheel then pulls down RV window shield shade being a tint of gray and black that still allowed visual of the road."Mostly because Stark Tower was under attack in those instances like it is right now."
"No, it is not." Tony denied, quickly.
The triangle button is 'the wheels clean' option near the radio. It has a square in the middle of this triangle on a wiggly blue colored in pool that is glowing. There are so many buttons that an average person would skim down endless paragraphs of descriptiveness to what buttons Loki presses in.
"Yes, it is." Loki said. "You wouldn't be calling if you were not being attacked and had to check on your daughter first before entering a nearly—probably a terrible kind of opponent—situation that seems pretty doubtful on whether you come out of it or 're not even sure if you'll see Rebecca again in person because of this disaster related problem you're tending to." Loki presses a small square button near the 'wheels clean' button. A television is heard beeping to life in the back for Rebecca. "Also, as it turns out, your daughter hates watching Buffy The Vampire reruns."
That button is the TV short-cut button. So, simply to put; Loki pressed the TV button.
Tony makes a comment and then makes another comment about his current situation.
"It is just a guy with Dinosaur qualities trying to tear down a historical site." Tony said. "He just found his way to the tower on his own!"
Loki had to laugh; he pitied Tony.
"Get a pipe, some balloons, and a large volume of water, and including a couple ostriches, a lion, and a cheetah." Loki said. "You should try adding some bird feeder to the dinosaur man; too."
"What the hell am I suppose to do with all the other stuff?" Tony asks.
"You're the genius." Loki said. "Think."
"LET ME OUT OF HERE!" Tian yells from the locked room.
"Are we talking about a pool, pouring ostrich bird feeder on a dinosaur man, using the ostriches as bait to lure a cheetah and a lion to work together and corner the lunatic in a tight space?" Tony asks.
"Actually, my idea was different; but, go ahead and use that." Loki said. "I have driving to do; bye." Loki presses the red phone button ending the call, then he quickly registered Tony Stark's phone number into the phone,next puts it back into his pocket. Loki turns the RV around back towards the tunnel sized hole that serves both for entering and exiting the site. "Now to start the real ride."
Loki drives through the dark tunnel showing bits of sunlight.