"This is awesome Tony," Rachel says smiling at her adopted brother, and looking around at the giant tower that he and Pepper had made.
"Thanks, Princess." He said giving her a glass of champagne and kissing her temple, before going over to Pepper and handing her one.
"Sir, Agent Coulson is on the Line," Jarvis said monotonously.
"Tell him to leave a message," Tony said flippantly.
"He says it's urgent," Jarvis replies.
"Then tell him to leave it urgently."
"He refuses, he wants to talk to you."
"Tell him I'm not in."
"He is not listening." Tony sighs and picks up a small, rectangular device.
"The life-size model of Tony Stark please leave a messageā¦" Tony cut off as the elevator doors open. "Security breach that's on you!" Tony points at Rachel.
"You tried to get rid of me." Agent Coulson smiled at Tony.
"Phil! How are you, please come in we were just celebrating." Pepper said happily.
"I would love to stay but I can't, I just came to drop this off for Tony."
"Does this have something to do with The Avengers initiative, not that I know anything about it." Pepper asks curiously, Phil smiles at her, and shakes his head and in a jokingly manner.
"I don't like To be handed something," Tony says trying to refuse the manila folder Phil was trying to hand him.
"Oh that's fine I like to be handed stuff give it to me," Rachel says her British accent clipped and polite. Phil hands over the folder as Rachel hands him her champagne.
"And I will just trade with you, Tony." Rachel smiles at her brother as she trades over the folder for his champagne.
"It is just as much for him as it is for you Rachel." Phil set smiling at the younger Stark sibling.
"Oh? And what exactly is it?" Rachel asks her curiosity starting to bubble.
Technically since there are civilian and the room I cannot say anything, but I would have to say that she took a very nice guess of what this all is." Phil set a smile on his face as he heads towards the elevator Tony turned already placing it on his hologram displayers.
"Well, it looks like I should leave you two, seems you have homework. I'll walk you out Phil." Pepper says happily.
"Phil? His first name is Agent." Tony says jokingly. "What is this about the Tesseract?"
"It seems you will have to come in to get that answer," Phil said as the doors close, a Cheshire cat smirk is the last that you see of the blonde Agent and Pepper.
"Hay, look it's us." Tony turned back to the images, and videos, one of him and Rachel, then at the video of the bunker that had the Tesseract.
"Tonie look at this." Rachel turned and looked at the video and gasps.
"Loki!" Her emerald eyes so wide it looked as though they'd pop out of her head. "Jarvis! Is Loki at home?!" Rachel quickly calls to the AI, her accent thicker in her panic.
"No Miss, he disappeared a few hours ago," Jarvis replied as Rachel's eyes began to water.
"Tonie? Princess, what's going on?" Tony asked taking the girl back her shoulders.
"Tony, Loki. Well, Loki is my biological brother. But, that's not him! He's kind and calm, and, and, and that can't be him, Tony!" Rachel turns her watering eyes to her brother, trying to collect her thoughts, Tony collects her in a hug.
"Come on Tonie, let's go suit up, and see what is going on, when were you going to tell me about him, though?" Tony asked as Jarvis instantly starts collecting the suits for the two.
"I-I just wanted him to myself for a while, to get to know him, get to know what I really am."
"What you really are? You're Rachel Marie Antoinette Stark, that's who you really are, a human girl adopted by Howard and Maria Stark, younger sibling to Anthony Edward Stark, a genius girl who is the female counterpart of the Iron Siblings." Tony said not breaking stride stepping into his suit as Rachel did the same with her's, smiling at her adopted- no her big brother's explanation.
"It's not just that Tony, Loki told me he isn't an Asgardian like Thor. He was adopted like me. Loki and I are Jotuns, Frost Giants like in Norse Mythology. He was going to teach me magic." She said as her helmet closes over her face and her voice becomes a bit robotic over the speakers in Tony's helmet.
"Ah~ Well, I guess that makes since. Um, so you aren't human?"
"Not DNA wise, how I was raised and look, yes, just like Loki is technically Asgardian, like Thor. But he is adopted. Loki hates his adopted Father because he thinks that Odin hates him since he's a Frost Giant, something that is used as an evil in children stories for the kids, most children are raised to dislike all Jotuns, to never trust them. Think of it this way, Asgardians are Gryffindors, were Jotuns are Slytherin." Tony nodding to Rachel's words.
"It makes sense in a way. You have to agree at a time there was a point where you hated father and me and mother, I think that happens anytime someone figures out that they're adopted, but their family isn't who they thought they were. My question is this why didn't I Odin reassure Loki ?"
" Loki says because when he found out Odin fell into an Odin-sleep."
"Odin-sleep?"
"Yes, an Odin-sleep is when Odin, who is also known as the All-Father, has exhausted his powers and needs to sleep for however long to, refuel, I guess would be a good word. When Loki found out, Loki said his Mother, Freya, had told him that Odin has been putting off his slumber for so long she wasn't sure when he was going to come out of it. At the time Thor, who is the elder brother, would have taken the throne, but was banished by Odin, after attacking the Jotuns for a group of them slipping into the weapons room which held an item that Odin took from the Jotuns in the first war, so Loki ascended the throne. Freya had told Loki that Odin could see and hear everything that was going on, but was defenseless to stop it, so Loki went to Jotunheim to convince his biological father, mine as well, Laufey, to sneak into Asgard and kill Odin-"
"What?! And you think he is sweet!" Tony cuts Rachel off, they had been in the air for 15 minutes, and his flying dips in his surprise.
"If you'd let me finish! Loki was not going to let Laufey kill Odin, believe it or not, Loki still loves Odin, and only wishes to rise from Thor's shadow and make Odin proud. Loki also wanted revenge on Laufey for abandoning him and I. Now let me finish properly!" Tony huffs but stays silent.
"Thank you, now Laufey fell for Loki's trap, and brought a small battalion into Asgard and got to Odin's sleeping chambers. There Laufey had Freya subdued and was over Odin before Loki burst into the room and quickly killed Laufey and his men. After that Loki went to the rainbow bridge planning on riding the Nine Realms of Jotunheim, but Thor got back after fighting off a magical machine Loki sent at him and smashed the rainbow bridge stopping Loki from doing the same thing Thor wanted to do, but breaking the bridge created a wormhole that both Thor and Loki almost fell into, but Odin got there in time to save Thor and Loki. Loki tried to explain himself to Odin, but-" Rachel quickly silents herself and Tony flies closer grabbing her hand.
"But what Tonie?"
"Well, Loki got rather vague at this point, from what he told me, Odin wasn't happy, he was rather disappointed in Loki. And, well don't ask me his thought process, but I am thinking he believed Odin, after just awaking, wouldn't be able to lift Thor AND Loki to safety, so Loki lets go of Thor's boot, and fell. After that, Loki said he fell to Earth, or Midgard as he continues to call it. Remember that night where people were saying that a fallen star had hit near Miami Beach?"
"Yeah."
"That was Loki. Loki said after he had regained consciousness he realized he was on Earth and figured it'd be the best idea, then, to start searching for me. How he found me I don't know. But all of a sudden after the fight we had, about you building the tower on your own, he found me on my ledge, as I was gazing at the stars. I started talking to him and he told me who he was, and I was able to connect it with my Mythology teachings. And then I remembered Loki was adopted, and I just thought wouldn't it be cool, so I came back home with him on my back, and ran a few tests, including DNA, using Jarvis' face comparing. And then Loki let me see his Jotun form, but it triggered my own, and, well, yeah." Rachel said, her voice trailing off, as she waited for Tony to say something.
"Well I-I-" Tony starts but cuts off before sighing and squeezing her hand, "I can't say I'm happy, but I can't be upset. You were helping him, weren't you? Helping him get over his hatred for his adopted family."
"Yes."
"And did it help you get over your hate for your own?" Tony asked, his eyes forward, though seeing the video that was streaming from Rachel's camera to his screen, from the corner of his eyes as Rachel's eyes grew wide.
"Tony, I don't-"
"Don't even finish that Ms. I took so many college courses I'm Wikipedia. We both know you aced your Psychology classes." Rachel swallowed as her eyes started watering again, and silent tears streamed down her face.
"I can't hate you, Tony, you're my big brother, for now, and always. But-but I-I just." Tony slowed the two of them to a stop, the suits making them hover in mid-air, both helmets slip away from the Stark sibling faces.
"It's Howard isn't it?" She nods. "You were always his favorite Princess, he loved having a little girl. I may have been his greatest creation, but he quite literally found you. And I have to agree with him, you are the most precious discovery in our lives. I don't think I'd be who I am today if I didn't have my baby sister to keep my at least a little level headed." Tony smiles as Rachel laughs a small watery laugh, tears constantly streaming from her eyes.
"Don't hate them Tonie, they loved you, far more that any adopted parent could love a child who isn't theirs. To them you weren't adopted, you were meant to live more than the child that Mom never told me about." At Rachel's curious look Tony smiles, "When you weren't looking at the box I took out a box with the year just before they came home with you, Mom was pregnant just before she and Dad found you. For whatever reason, Mom lost the baby but found you. Without you, I think Mom would have left us a lot sooner, and that would have quite literally killed Dad, and I'm not sure what would have happened to me. You saved our lives, you realize this? You saved them." Rachel looks at her brother in surprise as tears continue to pour from her ducts.
"B-but, how could I-I couldn't have-" Rachel shook her head, and Tony chuckled.
"Thank you, Princess, you are the best present that Mom and Dad ever brought home to me." Rachel laughs again and produces a hankie from somewhere and wipes her face, and laughs again at Tony's bewildered face.
"I am nothing if not a proper English Lady, and we do not leave home without a hankie somewhere on our person." Tony chuckles again and kissed Rachel's forehead before his helmet closes again.
"You ready now Princess?" He asks as Rachel's does the same, she smiles at the camera, seeing her brother's face and nods.
"It looks like now I have two brother's whose arses I have to save. Oh did I mention Loki has an accent like my own?" Rachel flashes another smile at Tony and takes off, leaving him in her dust, as he groans and chases after.
"I want to meet him!" Tony exclaims smiling as Rachel's laughter, something he's rarely heard since the big reveal.
