A/N: Got one out before early morning shift. Cliffy!

The Avengers, Loki, Iron Man, or anything of the like. Just the thoughts inside my head. And taking some personal freedoms with mythology and lore.

Loki woke up slowly to something trying to nudge underneath his arm. He was sleeping on his back, Tony curled around his side sleeping on his other arm. Loki turned his head slowly and opened his eyes, blinking a little when he saw the dark hair of Emma. "Em?" He asked in a tired voice. "You haven't crawled into our bed in quite a long time."

"I know," she looked up from under his arm. "Is he asleep or will he wake up soon?"

Loki turned to look over at Tony. He let out a snore, his face peaceful, body relaxed around Loki. "He's out. Little known fact, when he snores he's deeply asleep and there isn't much that can wake him."

Emma nodded a little. "You two aren't angry with me, are you?" Loki blinked and looked back at her.

"Angry? Why would we be angry with you?" He wrapped his arm around her shoulders, rubbed her arm.

"Because I didn't tell you about Dani."

Loki kissed her forehead. "No, we're not upset about that. You are old enough to make your own decisions, especially when it comes to your love life." Emma snuggled into his side, like she used to when she was a child. "If you're in love, then it makes me happy, truly. Also, I am in no position to say anything about hiding a relationship. Your father and I kept a lot hidden from everyone at first. Thor was the first, and only one for a while to know that I was carrying Kaia at first."

"I know that it doesn't really seem like we've been together for long, but, well," she wiggled a little and Loki could feel a smile on her face as she pressed against his side. "I just feel it, I love her, a lot." Loki smiled and ran his hand up and down her arm. "Does that make me crazy? I mean, we haven't even been dating for two years."

"I became pregnant with Kaia after four months with your father," Loki told her and she sat up a little to look at him. "I was exiled to here only two months before that. Of course, we didn't exactly meet under the best of circumstances."

"I insulted you, you threw me out a window," Tony muttered as he stretched his legs and yawned. "what was it, Reindeer Games?"

"Hmmm, yes, and then you made me watch that movie," Loki nodded a little. "If I remember right, you continued to insult me, so the fall from your window was deserved."

"You threw Dad out of a window?" Emma was sitting up fully now. "What happened?"

"He was trying to take over or destroy the world. Kind of." Tony yawned again and turned into the pillow. "I may have told him he was stupid, gonna lose, insulted his manhood." They could both hear the smirk in Tony's voice.

"It was actually the window just upstairs." Emma's eyes widened a little and Loki raised an eyebrow. "What? He was cocky, and his suit saved him. He was fine."

"Is it weird that I'm okay with that answer?" Emma looked at them. Loki just smirked a little and she rolled her eyes. "I do have one more question," she asked a little hesitantly. "Um, well, do you use your Jotun form, often?"

Tony's hand slid up automatically to rest on Loki's stomach. "No, I don't. I don't actually like it, truthfully." Loki reached up to tuck some hair behind Emma's ear. "I was not raised in the same manner as you, and was not raised to accept that part of myself."

"It makes my teeth chatter," Tony muttered into the pillow, trying to give Loki an out to the conversation. Loki rubbed her hand a little.

"I am happy that you are at peace with that, and that you have a partner that is so accepting of it, as well." There was a knock at the door and they looked over to see it open, Kaia standing there with a tray of food.

"I only brought enough for the Dad's," Kaia said to Emma. "Because you were supposed to come and help me."

"I didn't know you were going to wake up at the ass crack of dawn," Emma shot back.

"Did you come in here to steal emotional time?" Kaia accused as she walked in. "Because we were supposed to share that time."

"Can we have more boys," Tony asked Loki, tilting his head a little to look at him. "Boys don't insist on sharing feelings."

"You would be sad without a daughter to dote upon," Loki rubbed his cheek a little. "Plus, our son is waiting outside the room with Nathan and Danica." Tony scrunched up his face. "This was your idea to have them spend some time here." Loki leaned over and kissed him. "I appreciate the thought though, even if you did try to hide the reason from them."

"I'm a sentimental fool who's in love," Tony smirked and shrugged a little.

"Yes, you certainly are." Loki sat up and stretched his arms a little. "You can tell the three out in the hall that they can come in."

"You're in a surprisingly acceptable mood," Kaia said and raised an eyebrow. She leaned out and motioned for the others to come in.

"I am slowly starting to realize that there are certain things that I will not be able to escape," he said as he sat up in the bed. "Especially when your father has set his mind to it." Tony grinned and Loki kicked his side, rolling him off of the bed but keeping the blankets. "Don't make me through you out of a window again. I'm rather sure that your suit won't be there to save you this time."

"You know, the first time you did it, you were gripping my chin, do you remember?" Tony's head popped up and he grinned. "Let me tell you what I was thinking-"

"NO!" Everyone but Danica yelled at him.

"We failed in imparting precious sexual nature upon our children, love," Tony grinned and Loki rolled his eyes. He helped Tony back on the bed. "Well, first off, I'd like to give a big round of applause to my first son, Eindride, for not keeping his mouth shut." Tony clapped and Kaia and Emma smiled at their brother and joined in.

"Um, you've never been on the receiving end of both Kaia and Emma," Eindride informed him. "They're scary on their own, but together ruthless. No way is any bribe good enough to counteract that." Tony rolled his eyes. "I didn't tell them everything, since I knew they were coming here."

"All that we know is that Hela came back and took Anya, and then wrecked all sorts of damage," Kaia said. Nathan had moved a little closer to Kaia, and Tony was sitting with his hand holding onto Loki's, their knees touching.

"Well, let's do a general gloss over first," Tony offered. "Like, how she kidnapped Anya, then got a hold of both of us and Steve and Gabby. Anya found Heimdall's son, and now they're engaged, but that was after they became the new rulers of Helheim, putting Hela out of power. Oh, and there's some sort of organization out there that had taken Anya and Steve that we have no idea who they are. Clint and his, get this, Girlfriend, are working on that."

"Whoa, Clint has a girlfriend?" Nathan asked and Kaia and Emma shot a look at him.

"I know right!" Eindride leaned over to look at him. "That's what we said!"

"Anders!" His sisters yelled at him and he leaned back. Kaia looked a little closer at Loki, and how Tony was so close to him, how they were acting. She frowned a little at what she saw.

"I remember a time, when I was a little younger, and I was up in Asgard with Gabby," Kaia started and they others look at her. "It was a tense time because we were waiting for a lot of people to come back to us. And when Dad came back, there was a small baby, and he wasn't talking, nor would he leave anyone's side." Loki watched as she talked. "I'm not gonna lie, you were shaken, and although you hid it from everyone else, I could see it. I didn't ask what had happened, but I eventually found out. I can't imagine that there's much else out there that could be worse."

"Fortunately for you, darling, you have not encountered the horrors of the Universe," Loki said quietly. "I would rather endure that time a dozen times over than what occurred this time." Tony leaned up, resting his head by his ear, whispering to him so the kids couldn't hear. Loki shook his head once and Tony closed his eyes, hand resting on his cheek.

The girls watched them, knowing it must have been bad if they were acting like that. Eindride had looked down, and was shuffling his foot on the ground. "You know the details of what happened?" Emma looked at their brother and he looked up at her.

"Eindride has some, interesting powers," Tony said. "He's accidentally seen way too much than he needs to have seen." Eindride looked up at him and Tony nodded a little to him. Sometimes, Eindride could still see the scars on Tony's lips from when they were sewn shut. "There's something about Hela that made her a formidable enemy. Being ruler of Hel meant she was able to bring back every horrible memory that included every person that you knew that had died. Nathan knows this, he's countered before, as have I."

"Unfortunately, being raised as her brother had given her exclusive knowledge to my past," Loki said quietly. "She was able to turn that against me, over and over and over again." Tony kissed his neck lightly. "While I was able to combat most of them, there were three that were troubling. And one that I wasn't equipped to handle mentally. I was broken down like a cheap puzzle, until I was found."

"She got her hands on Steve and Gabby and froze them," Tony threw in to keep the story moving. He had noticed the first week or so after they all got back the bags under Steve's eyes. He wasn't sleeping and it wasn't just because Anya was gone. He sometimes still had nightmares about being frozen again.

"And you?" Kaia asked him.

Tony sighed a little. "Nothing that requires a great amount of detail."

"Oh come now Pet, you don't want to tell them about our time?" Tony and Loki visible stiffened at the voice. They were both moving in a second, everyone looking around but saw no one. "You don't want to tell them about all the fond memories I let you relive? While your own lover watched, unable to do anything?" Loki growled loudly and Lanhr's voice.

"Come out you coward," Tony said as he started to move towards the kids, Eindride and Nathan the closest. "JARVIS? Where is he?" There was no answer from the AI. "Dammit."

Dani let out a gasp and put a hand to her back, eyes scrunching in pain. "Dani!" Emma ran over and grabbed her arms as she slid to her knees. Her skin was starting to change and she grit her teeth. Nathan grabbed Kaia's hands to bring her closer to him.

"Undines, I don't know why they were even created," Lanhr hissed into the air. "And the fact that they can look like they're normal? Hiding your nature, it's an ugly thing, isn't it?" The air felt thick suddenly and Tony blinked and looked around when the others started changing to their Jotun forms. Dani grit her teeth in pain and Emma had to move a little when a long scaled tail stretched out.

"Stop hiding!" Tony yelled. "Come on out so we can talk, preferably my fist to your face."

"He really does have an ego, doesn't he Loki?" Lanhr laughed. "Thinking that I'm here for him." he appeared in the room by the door, but suddenly stumbled back with a shout of pain, holding onto his nose.

Dani had flipped her tail up to smack him in the face, hard. "At least we were born naturally this way, and not twisted creatures like you," she hissed at him.

"You think so lowly of the Fae?" He growled at her, then smirked a little. "Did you know your precious woman and her family were Fae? Twisted creatures like myself."

"No, they're not," she said confidently. "They can still retain their original form, they know who they are." She smirked right back at him as she saw Loki approach him from the side. "And I actually like them."

Loki lashed out to grab Lanhr by the neck and Emma put up a barrier around her and Dani as Tony had pulled Nathan, Eindride and Kaia further away. Lanhr grabbed Loki's wrist and they stared at each other.

Tony watched them, idly wishing that he had a long sleeve shirt as the room got colder, and wondered if he could get off a call to Steve and Gabby's, try and get Anya and Kasir here. Someone grabbed his arm from behind, pulling him back, and he shouted when there was a stinging pain and more cold. He looked to see a large blue hand, Laufey behind him.

Lanhr smirked and glanced over, wheezing a little as Loki's tightened his grip around his neck. "What are you going to do?" He looked at Loki again. "You can't kill me, save your family, and kill Laufey before he utterly destroys your toy."

Tony's arm started to go numb the longer Laufey held onto it, the skin turning black from the magical frostbite. He saw Eindride and Kaia move, hands glowing with power, then they stopped when Laufey held his other hand up to Tony's face, crystals of ice forming.

"You can heal the skin," Laufey smirked, talking more to Loki but looking at the other two. "But you can't heal the mind when it's been affected by the ice." Tony swallowed, then gasped when the hand that was on his arm gripped his side. Eindride took a step back, standing next to her sister, eyes narrowed at the frost giant.

Kaia locked eyes with Tony then and he nodded minutely. He knew that she could teleport, and she could go and get Anya and Kasir. It would be a risky move, not knowing how Laufey would react. He glanced over at Loki and could see the rage in his eyes. They were quickly starting to undo all the work he had done to put him back together.

Kaia took a step backwards and Tony slammed the elbow of his good arm into Laufey to distract him as Kaia disappeared. Laufey growled and one foot stumbled back a little. Tony tried to kick at his leg but Laufey moved first, bringing a knee into Tony's back. He gasped in pain then heard Lanhr choke out a laugh. Tony stopped moving and yelled out when Laufey's hand gripped the side of his face, the cold seeping into him. Pain and cold shot through his body and his vision started to dim. He thought he saw Loki's magic flare up, and Kaia come back before he blacked out.