A/N: Now we're getting somewhere
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.
Tony watched the screen on the tablet, watched Loki sitting with Tomas and Sander in the guest room. She was reading a story to them, hoping to get them down for a nap. Tony swallowed and switched screens when he heard someone walk into the room. "I've got sensors out for half mile around the building," he said, not caring who it was that had walked in. "JARVIS is taking scans of everyone who walks or drives by."
"Do you think that they'll try and attack here?" Dani asked. Tony turned in his chair and looked at her. "Do you really think that Loki is alive? Like they do?"
"I don't know," he said softly and looked away. Dani frowned a little and walked over to him.
"Tony, what happened out there?" She pulled over a chair and sat across from him. "I mean, shit after this long and they show up again, saying they're looking for Loki, that's not just something you can gloss right over."
"No, it's not, but right now I can't focus on that he's alive, because I have to try and stop them." He put the tablet down and rubbed his face. He slowly pulled when his hands down when Dani didn't talk and her mouth was open a little. "What?"
"Oh my god, he is alive," she said quietly, standing up. "He is and you know where he is." Tony frowned and stood up too. "The way you said that, you said you can't focus on that he Is alive. You sounded so sure of yourself."
He grabbed her arm before she could leave the room. "Listen, you can't tell Anyone," he told her sternly. "I'm serious, if everyone knows then the advantage that we have over Lanhr and Gauton is Gone. They don't know who it is, and right now they don't know that I know. If everyone knew-"
"Then they'd rush to protect him, just giving his identity away," she finished, nodding. "I get it. But you're gonna tell everyone later right? Emma has to know that her Dad is still alive."
"I'll tell them all, I promise, I just can't right now." She took his hand and he looked at her.
"Is it who I think it is?" Tony nodded once. "And the boys?"
"Mine," he said quietly. "I didn't know, he hadn't told me before it all happened, but they're mine." Dani suddenly hugged him tightly. He relaxed a little in her arms as he hugged her back. He winced and pulled back suddenly, rubbing at his eye under his glasses.
"What's wrong?" Dani frowned.
"I don't know, it just hurts all of a sudden," he grunted a little. He rubbed until something small dropped into his palm. Blinking he looked at it then his eyes widened. A tiny magenta shard. He ran for the window but was suddenly blown back into the wall. He looked up and saw Lanhr standing there, stretching his arms a little.
"I know that would pay off." He smirked and Tony pushed himself up quickly. Lanhr moved and grabbed onto the chain around his neck, pulling him to a stop. "Not so fast." He looked past Tony at Dani and glared. "Either one of you moves and I'll kill everyone in this tower." He pulled on the chain again and tony grunted. "Now, if I'm right, this is supposed to be really hard to break, right? Obviously symbolic of why you carry around the ring on this."
Tony glared at Lanhr but didn't say anything. "Let him go, Lanhr." Tony tried not to react when he heard Loki's female voice behind him. "He's not the one you're looking for." The Fae smirked at Tony and looked behind him.
"Did you know that you had become careless? Let us find you here on this horrid realm?" He jerked Tony around, throwing him against the wall without letting go of the chain. "No, I don't think I'll let him go. We've been looking for you for a very long time, and I'm taking him as a spoil of war." Loki threw a spell at him and Lanhr threw one of his own right before it hit. A shockwave pushed through the room, breaking all the glass around.
Tony gasped, eyes wide. His glasses were broken, and the vision was suddenly gone from his left eye, something warm dripping down his face. He started to pant as shock wore off and pain flooded his body. A piece of his lens was stuck in the corner of his eye. Lanhr yanked on the chain around his neck and he shouted as it pulled against his neck, pulling on the nerves and his spine before breaking off.
Loki watched Tony crumple to the ground as she tried to gain her balance again from the shockwave. She pushed herself up and saw Lanhr take the chain, seemingly to mold it in his hands, the ring dangling from the end of it like a trinket. He smirked and threw it like a spear at Loki.
Dani had gotten up when she heard Tony's shouts of pain. She looked back at Loki then at Lanhr as he threw chain turned weapon. She really think about it when she took a step to the side, gasping when the spear slid through her chest instead of Loki's.
A golden dagger appeared in Loki's hand and she threw it without thinking at Lanhr. He disappeared in a cloud of smoke and she ran over to Dani, catching her from behind. She helped her sit against the wall until Dani waved her off. "Get to Tony," she said as she took deep breathes. "I'll be fine for now." Loki looked at her then ran over to Tony.
"Tony, look at me, I'm here." She put her hands on his chest as she looked at his face. It was covered in blood and she tried to wipe it away from his eyes.
"Fuck, it hurts, you need to get it the fuck out of my eye," Tony growled out as he tried to keep his breathing even. "I can't get it, my body is tingling and won't move and i don't like that, but I can feel the glass. Get. It. Out!"
"Calm down, it's okay," she said as she ran her hand along the back of his neck. She closed her eyes and took a calming breath before her hand started to glow, slowly repairing the damage to his spine. The chain had been to hard, it had severed nerves and muscle, almost fracturing the spine itself when it was pulled off. Tony suddenly grabbed her arm and she opened her eyes.
"I'm pissed," he said as he body shook with the pain.
"I know," she nodded. "Now hold still, this is going to hurt." She grasped the piece of lens and pulled it out quickly, tossing it to the side and placing a glowing finger over the spot to stop the blood. Tony sucked in a breath when Loki pulled him up quickly.
"What are- fuck." He saw Dani against the wall. Loki helped him make his way over and he took her hand. "Hey, hey now, this isn't supposed to be here." She let out a little laugh then winced in pain. Loki left the room quickly, but they didn't notice.
"No, I imagine it isn't supposed to be," she squeezed his hand a little. "But I couldn't let it be in Loki instead. I don't think he, she, whoever, would be coming back from that again."
"You fit right in in the family, you know that right," she let out a little chuckle and nodded. "You know I didn't mean anything five years ago, right? You were dating my baby girl, but you were what she needed. I saw that, and you became part of the family that day."
"You really are a sweet talker, Tony Stark," she coughed a little. "Too bad I'm not into guys."
"I wanted you to marry her," he told her and she looked at him. "I wanted you to get immortality, I would have figured out a way for you to have her child."
"I know you would have," she smiled at him.
"Dani?" Tony looked up and saw Emma run in. "Dani, oh god baby." He moved away as Emma fell to her knees in front of her. Tony looked up at Loki and she shook her head a little. There was no saving Dani, not from the position the spear was in.
"Hey," Dani smiled as she took Emma's hand. "There's that beautiful face. Listen, I just want to tell you that it'll be okay, and you're going to get through this, all of it."
"I will, because you're going to be there with me," Emma said as she put her hand on Dani's cheek. She leaned into her hand.
"Not this time, babe. Make it cold for me, please? You know I love it." Emma's hands started to turn blue and Dani smiled, closing her eyes. "Now it feels like home, like I'm with you. Thank you," she kissed Emma's hand softly.
"Baby?" Emma moved closer, tears streaming down her cheeks. "Dani, baby please, I need you with me, please." She let out a sob when Dani's head fell into her hand, her chest stopped moving. Tony closed his eyes, crossing his arms over his chest. How had everything gone so wrong, so fast?