2-Hot Chocolate

The steaming hot cup was only a couple of feet in front of her, her fingers itched to take it, to take a sip of the hot chocolaty goodness. It was really unfair how that cup wasn't meant for her, her husband had decided it was time for Lucas to try his first sip of hot chocolate and he had just gotten the one cup because he said it would be unfair to tempt her.

Loki was denying her a cup of hot chocolate made by Captain America himself, she wanted to cry a little.

"Do you require more ice?" Loki sat in front of the cup, which was still steaming even after twenty minutes, giving her a pitying look. He knew how much she liked her hot chocolate, how it was a Christmas tradition for her to sit in front of the TV and drink hot cocoa.

In response to his question she shoved a cube into her mouth before biting it as hard as she could.

Loki flinched and grabbed the cup farther away from her, like she was going to jump at him from across the table to rip the hot chocolate out of his hands.

"Darcy love, you know you cannot... your body cannot handle it. It would be imprudent." He looked down towards her stomach and Darcy mumbled about idiots around the ice still in her mouth.

She knew Loki was just waiting for Lucas to wake up from his nap to give him the hot chocolate, her poor baby didn't know the awesomeness waiting for him and she wouldn't even get to enjoy seeing him drink his first cup of hot chocolate.

She put another ice cube in her mouth.

"Darcy you know that if I could help, I more than gladly would." Loki looked a little unsettled now, he didn't show it but she could see his fingers flexing a little around the cup.

Darcy had tasted Steve's hot chocolate before, it was heaven in a cup and Darcy had ask him to make Lucas his first cup. Steve had been super cool about it too, all red in the face and promising he would.

"You know your pregnancy is a delicate matter. The babe would not react well to something hot." He looked down to her stomach again, where her body temperature was a little lower than the rest of her body though she couldn't really feel that.

Her first memories of Christmas was sitting down next to her dad, How the Grinch Stole Christmas playing in the background while her dad gave her a cup of hot chocolate. Her mom would scold them for having too many sweets things and then she would sit down and join them.

She put another ice cube in her mouth.

"I know you would like to share this would Lucas, however we should keep in mind he will not remember. We can do this again next year and you will be able to join him." Loki extended his hand to grab hers across the table, his skin was hot from the cup and she relaxed slightly against his touch.

"Are you not glad you were there for my first taste of hot chocolate?" Darcy raised an eyebrow, she had been there for his first cup of hot chocolate but then she had not been the girl who had given Loki the hot chocolate.

No, that had been a tiny pretty brunette from another department in S.H.I.E.L.D.

Another ice cube goes in her mouth.

Loki, it seems, realizes his mistake a second too late but by then she's already thinking about the fact that the tiny pretty brunette is probably drinking hot chocolate somewhere, which is completely not fair.

She got to take Loki's hot chocolate virginity and she can drink hot chocolate whenever she wants, Darcy doesn't think she's ever been more jealous of someone in her entire life.

"It meant nothing, you know I do not enjoy hot chocolate." Which she always thought was a character flaw, she would let it go if it was because it was hot but now it wasn't the temperature but the sweetness.

Loki didn't enjoy the sweetness, sometimes she wondered why she married him.

She bit hard into another piece of ice.

"Which is not to say that hot chocolate is not an excellent beverage." He always said that but she didn't think he meant it, she knew he liked his tea and coffee without sugar and she knew it was a character flaw because Thor was all up for sweets.

"Your beauty transcends time." Loki told her awkwardly after a few minutes of silence, Darcy raised her eyes from the cup of hot chocolate and gave him a look that clearly told him to shut up.

Loki sigh of relieve was audible when Lucas started screaming for daddy and mommy, Loki was the first one to get up, taking the cup with him.

"I shall be in Lucas' room if wish to join us."

She waited until he left to bite into her last piece of ice, taking into note the sounds coming from the nursery. Lucas sounded happy to see his daddy and she could hear Loki telling Lucas to try the drink, there was a moment of silence and then a cry of 'eww' before Lucas started wailing in despair from drinking something he didn't like.

Darcy sigh and added another trait passed down from father to son to her mental list.

She got up to look for more ice, ignoring Loki's cries of help.