Loki sat in the window seat in his room with a slight smile. In front of him was a miniature toy stag, floating in the air as if an invisible child were playing with it. He couldn't interact with the stag or the child since neither were there. Still, it warmed his heart that he could see that his son was playing with the stag toy that Dorea, his Midgardian mother, had bought when she first found out that Lily and he were pregnant. He conjured a replica of the stag; it was only missing the scent of his child; he hugged it close to him. It was time to try to find the hidden doors to Midgard that he had heard whispers about; he was not going to allow his father to ground him from seeing his son.
~TLA~
"Heimdall, where is Loki?" Odin snarled as he entered the Bi-Frost chamber, Thor and the Warriors Three following him.
"I will take a look, My Lord; I assume he is here on Asgard since he has not passed me to use the Rainbow Bridge," Heimdall replied patiently, his Lord's increasingly hostile mood giving him another headache, "He is in his garden, My Lord...no, it is an illusion in his garden," Heimdall said as he then searched the cosmos for the God of Mischief. "HE IS ON MIDGARD!" Finally, Heimdall cried out, surprised that Loki snuck past him.
"Take us there now! And find out how Loki got to Midgard!" Odin stated as Thor, The Warriors Three, and himself entered the Rainbow Bridge.
Loki was sitting on haunches dressed in head-to-foot black satin, an exquisite suit, a typical Midgardian style that would not look out of place at the cemetery...or a catwalk. He had just sat some white Lily's down on his wife's grave when he heard the Rainbow Bridge activate on the street behind him. With a lazy wave of his hand, he set up silencing charms so no Midgardian could hear the noisy five. Loki also set up a Muggle-Repellant charm to distract any Muggles that wandered close; he finally obliviated any Muggles who witnessed the arrival of the Asgardians. "This is a cemetery, do lower your voices to a respectable level," Loki snarked to those behind him.
"Brother!" Thor boomed, and Loki sighed in frustration and disgust. Odin steamed quietly, looking around. The Warriors Three took a protective stance around the area, calmly looking around, "brother, why are you standing in a field of rocks?" Thor asked loudly.
"This is a cemetery!" Loki snarled and grabbed Thor's face, so it was facing his wife's tombstone, "this is where my wife's body was buried! So do be quiet and act respectfully for the dead!"
"Oh..." Thor whispered loudly, "I apologize, Brother," Thor stated, his voice returning to his normal booming.
"With how loudly you speak, I sometimes wonder if you are going deaf, Brother." Loki quietly muttered; Thor either didn't hear him or ignored him. The Warriors Three sniggered quietly, proving they had heard him at least.
"I sometimes think that myself," Odin said as he respectfully stepped up to his sons and looked at the tombstone of his son's wife and the stone that held his son's golem. "If you wanted to see your wife, you could have asked to be sent to Valhalla," Odin said as he looked around the cemetery, "when did the Midgardians start burying their dead, wasting land, instead of cremating them?"
"I know not, Father," Loki sighed before he kissed his hand and placed it on Lily's gravestone.
"Loki, I will allow this one visit without punishing you because you are paying respect to the dead and not off looking for vengeance or your child, but we are going home now!" Odin said, grabbing Loki's upper arm and turning to find Thor and the Warriors Three gone. "Blast it! Where did your brother go?"
Loki laughed, "I know not, Father."
"Heimdall, take us home!" Odin yelled out as he canceled the spells that Loki had put up.
~TLA~
In the meantime, knowing Loki better than Odin did, Thor and the Warriors Three were arriving at number 4 Privet Drive. "Loki, Father, will be beyond mad if he finds you here," Thor said as he put his hand on his brother's shoulder.
"But today is his second birthday," Loki whined, "I have to be here."
"Then let us go wish your son a happy birthday, then depart before Father realizes that he's captured an illusion," Thor said, clapping Loki roughly on the back, making Loki pitch forward before righting himself.
Loki, Thor, and the Warriors Three entered the house and heard giggles from above them. They moved to the stairs. They entered a hallway and looked into a small dirty room. All of them have concerned looks on their faces before getting determined looks. If this Asgardian child is being abused, they will not leave him here, no matter what the All-Father demands. As they enter the room, all noise stops as Loki, Thor, and the Warriors Three notice they are no longer in a small dirty room, but a replica of Loki's suites and Queen Frigga, Hel, and Fenrir is visiting Harry for his birthday.
"James!" a cry was heard before a hard body hit Loki and wrapped him in a hug.
Loki looked at the person hugging him and noticed it was Remus, and hugged him back, not paying any attention to the Asgardian warriors in the room looking at Loki like he had lost his mind since Asgardian did not tend to hug. Homophobic assholes, Loki thought. "James, you look so different," Remus said as he held Loki at arm's length.
"Hello, Remus. Or should I say hello, great-grandson," Loki teased.
"PAPA!" a baby screamed and ran towards Loki.
Loki bent down so Harry could run into his arms, "Oh my baby! My baby boy. Papa has missed you so much," Loki was crying again as he held a crying Harry, "happy birthday!" Loki said as he stood up, picking up Harry simultaneously, "Hel, Fenrir, thank you for taking care of your brother."
"Of course, father, he is family after all. Hello, Uncle Thor." Hel stated as she looked at the four warriors in the room who were looking uncomfortable.
"Goddess of Death," Thor said politely as he nodded his head towards the child. He had always been uncomfortable around Loki's half-Jötunn children, "God of Wolves and the Hunt," Thor said, nodding towards Fenrir, who was lounging on a couch right next to his mother. His eyes narrowed at that. Frigga huffed, seeing the protective look in Thor's eyes, and came around and pulled Thor towards the couch and sat down next to him; her hand waved at the empty seats the Warriors Three also sat down. Loki, with baby Harry, sat down on Thor's other side, and the Midgardian man Loki had called his great-grandson sat down between Hel and Fenrir. "Midgardian," Thor boomed, making the baby in Loki's arms jump and look at Thor in fear. Loki's eyes narrowed. "Do you carry the wolf-like Fenrir?'
"Ah...yes. I was born with the ability to become a wolf." Remus said nervously. "James, you look different," Remus said, trying to pick out the differences. "Black hair instead of dark brown. Wavy instead of crazy. Your taller and more...refined?"
Loki laughed, "yes, I was bored, and Hel asked me for help; Charlus was one of her descendants... So I allowed my body to be reborn in Midgardian-Earthling-form. The body I had looked like me but had a bit of Charlus and Dorea, so I would look like their son. Harry, surprisingly looks like me as Loki, not James."
"Loki..." Remus said before laughing. "So, every holiday when we prayed to the Gods, prayed to Loki, you were praying to yourself?"
Loki looked abashed for a moment before a mischievous look appeared. "Yes, yes, I did. Even with my Asgardian mind locked up, I still knew who the best God was." Thor and the Warrior Three made noises that they did not agree with Loki. Frigga and Hel just rolled their eyes, and Fenrir roared with laughter and patted Remus hard on the back.
Harry decided he liked the big blonde laughing man and held his arms out to him. "Loki, what is the babe doing?" Thor boomed.
Looking at Harry and then at Thor, Loki said, "Harry wants you to hold him."
"What?!" Thor boomed in fear, making Frigga giggle. "No, no, he's too tiny. I'll drop and hurt him," Thor said, waving his hands in a dismissing motion. Loki just placed Harry in Thor's hands and let go. Harry sat in Thor's lap and giggled.
"Harry, this is your uncle Thor," Frigga said as she watched her boys.
Harry wiggled until he stood in Thor's lap and went in for a hug. Thor held on, afraid he was going to hurt the baby. Then, looking back at Loki, Harry held his arms up and said, "Papa!"
"Loki, dear, it's time to go," Frigga said as she kissed the sleeping baby in Loki's arms and then took him and handed him to Remus.
"But mum..." Loki whined. "You either go now and sneak back into Asgard, or your Father comes looking for you here and finds Harry and Remus," Frigga said sternly. "Your father feels the babe is a worse monster than all your children since he looks so sweet. I'm afraid of what your father will do if he finds you have visited him."
"Father has gone mad!" Loki snapped.
"You four boys head back to where you landed with the Rainbow Bridge, then call Heimdall. If your Father asked, you found a pub to drink at. Loki and I will make our own way back."
"Yes, Mother, yes, my Queen," Thor and the Warriors Three said concurrently.
