"Loki?!" Valkyrie called out as she searched the ship for her pregnant husband. She had already searched Hela's temporary bedroom to see if he were in the midst of comforting her but all she found was Hela sobbing, face-down on her bed. She could not have cared less about Hela's feelings as she was only concerned for her new, beloved husband, whom she knew she had unintentionally hurt dearly at the moment.

"Loki?!" She called out again, her voice echoing throughout the ship's metallic corridors. A sigh of relief escaped her breath when she had finally located her distraught husband. Loki was currently sitting at the counter of the ship's main kitchen, sulking as he mindlessly shoveled spoonfuls of chocolate, ice cream into his mouth, straight from the tub.

"Loki? Hey..." She softly addressed him with an apologetic look as she took a seat next to him. Loki remained silent as he merely shot a dirty look in her general direction before shoveling another spoonful of ice cream into his mouth.

"I didn't mean to hurt you; I was just trying to help Hela remember who she was..." Valkyrie admitted but Loki still remained silent as he continued the gorge on ice cream to satisfy his cravings.

"I figured if she remembered who she was, she might try to attack me and I could kill her before she could hurt anyone I cared about...I was only trying to protect you...because I love you..." Valkyrie reluctantly explained as Loki had finally finished off the tub of ice cream completely.

"All my life, I felt like I was never truly a part of my own family...I was always treated like an outcast...When I found out I was adopted, that just...caused me to spiral out of control and now look what happened...According to Hela, Father treated her no differently than he treated me...I just hoped that if I could just give Hela the experience of a loving family that she never had then maybe she would change for the better and maybe I...wouldn't be a total disappointment..." Loki finally spoke up with a somber sigh.

"Loki, you're not a disappointment...You healed a part of me that had been broken long ago and now you're going to give me a child...You're amazing..." Valkyrie reassured as she placed a comforting hand on Loki's shoulder. This gesture momentarily provoked Loki to give Valkyrie the gentle smile she had fallen in love with, causing her to smile in return but then his smile fell back into a concerned frown.

"Why won't you just give Hela a chance, Valkyrie? She really does think highly of you..." Loki prodded.

"Because you saw what she did, Loki...You've seen my memories...If anything happened to you, I don't think I could handle it..." Valkyrie sighed in defeat.

"But don't you trust me?" Loki manipulated.

"Of course I do! It's her I don't trust..." Valkyrie corrected.

"Just give her a chance...Please? For me?" Loki begged. Valkyrie glared back over at him, prepared to tell him: 'no' but then her glare softened at the sight of his large, sad, bright-green, shiny, beckoning eyes.

"Okay, fine..." Valkyrie agreed, causing Loki to grin excitedly. His puppy-dog eyes had always worked on Thor as well as any, prison guards that had attempted to hold him captive.

"But just be careful, okay?" Valkyrie then begged herself with a look of concern.

"Darling, I'm not easy to kill..." Loki reassured with a playful wink, causing Valkyrie to smile softly as she now felt comforted by this.

"And now since I'm so happy..." Loki began before waving his index finger in front of him and creating a tiny rainbow.

"I didn't know you could do that!" Valkyrie grinned in awe at the sight.

"Only when I'm happy..." Loki smiled softly in return as Valkyrie ran through the rainbow.

"Ugh..." Valkyrie then winced in disgust at the all-too familiar smell.

"Yeah, I wouldn't recommend doing that; it's made out of urine..." Loki then admitted with a tiny chuckle.

"Still worth it..." Valkyrie grinned perversely.

"Oh, you're nasty...Nasty..." Loki groaned in disgust at his wife's usual, perverse mannerisms as Valkyrie began to giggle.

"You agreed to babysit her while Loki was away?" Bruce gasped in bewilderment as he, Thor and Valkyrie all watched as Hela played with her new, toy horse the next morning.

"I'm just as shocked as you are, I wanted to kill her but Loki just kept looking at me with those big, sad eyes..." Valkyrie sighed in both frustration and defeat at the memory.

"Oh, well in that case, you had no choice..." Thor responded as he remembered how often Loki had used that trick on him to get his way and it had worked.

"He looked at me like this..." Valkyrie then attempted to recreate Loki's sad, puppy-esc expression but merely ended up making a horrifying face with an overly, dramatic, childish pout, her eyes bulging out of her head as she tilted it much, too far.

"It's so cute when she tries..." Thor sarcastically remarked with a smirk, causing Bruce to snicker lightly.

"Stop it, okay?! Besides, Loki's right; everyone deserves at least a second chance..." Valkyrie admitted. As much as she hated it, she knew that Loki was right about this.

"Daddy! Daddy!" Hela cheerfully called out as she ran over to Valkyrie.

"I'm not your father! What?!" Valkyrie spat coldly.

"Can we go for a walk? Please?" Hela begged innocently. Valkyrie briefly glanced over at Bruce and Thor with a glare of disapproval since she knew she would be made fun of for not being able to say no to her out of fear of upsetting her husband. Bruce teasingly flashed Valkyrie his own version of the puppy-dog eyes while Thor teasingly repeated how Valkyrie had attempted to do them.

"Okay, stop it!" Valkyrie scolded before taking Hela by the hand and leading her outside.