3- Snow

Loki was holding her, Lucas had finally decided to take his nap and Darcy had taken the chance to take a little nap herself. Loki joining her was a bonus.

She buried her nose on Loki's nose and took a deep breath of Loki, which was an odd mixture of leather and soap. She was content like this, her second pregnancy was taking a bigger toll on her than what she was expecting and she was beyond tired, Lucas hadn't been this much trouble and she wondered what that meant.

Loki's arms tightened around her and he murmured something under his breath before going right back to sleep, Darcy smiled because a sleeping Loki was adorable and he rarely took them thanks to his mightier than the mortals body.

She was contemplating getting up and making herself a sandwich, when Jarvis spoke.

"Mrs. Lewis I wish to inform you that young master Lucas has created snow in the nursery."

"Jarvis run that through me again."

"Young master Lucas has created what appears to be snow in his bedroom." There was a funny little tone to Jarvis voice, like was making sure her sleepy brain was getting the information she needed.

Darcy disentangle herself from Loki's arms, who was still deeply asleep, and walked from her bedroom to Lucas' nursery. It got chillier the closer she got to the room and she rubbed her arms for warmth as her daughter kicked her stomach, she winced and patted her stomach telling her daughter to calm down.

There was wisp of white flakes coming from underneath the door and she hesitatingly open the door.

For a second she wondered if she was sleeping walking and had somehow ended up outside, except it wasn't snowing outside and she was more than sure her son wasn't outside jumping around in his crib while he was blue.

"Lucas, are you blue?" Stupid question to ask but the last time Lucas had been blue was during his birth. Lucas smiled at her, red eyes dashing from one snowflake falling from the ceiling to another.

There wasn't a lot of snow in the room, she figured Jarvis called her as soon as it happened but the fact Lucas had created snow inside his room was impressive, however she knew Loki would be upset about the blue thing.

Darcy took a moment to herself to knock her head against the wall a couple of times to reassure herself that yes, this was her life now.

She could feel the room getting colder by the minute and her daughter kicked her stomach again, harder this time and Darcy could only assume she should start thinking about moving to Alaska or something.

"Lucas stop it." Her voice was gentle but firm and Lucas gave her a look telling her he knew he was in trouble, his red eyes got shinier and she tried to ignore the fact that they looked like pretty rubies.

The snow started coming down harder.

"Sweetie it's OK, I'm not mad." She moved away from the doorway and crossed the room to grab Lucas from his crib.

"Jarvis call Loki." Jarvis didn't give her any confirmation but she knew he had done what she asked.

Lucas' skin was still soft and tender underneath her touch, cool to the touch just like Loki when he had enough confidence to let her touch him in his jotun form. She cradle Lucas against her, snow still pouring down on them, she didn't want to move Lucas from the room because she didn't know if the snow would follow them.

Lucas was beginning to get fuzzy and she could only assume he was getting tired from using so much magic, Lucas knew how to control his magic on an instinctive level but making a room snow was probably draining for him.

She had seen Loki plenty of times after a big battle, drained and weak and knowing she couldn't do anything to help him. She held on to Lucas harder and murmured encouraging words to soothe him.

Darcy felt a pleasant weight on her back, Loki having entered the room without her noticing. He gave her a sad smile before taking Lucas from her arms.

She had a crystal clear picture of Lucas' birth in her head, she remembered Loki picking up Lucas and apologizing for not giving her a perfect baby but Lucas was perfect and then as if to prove it Lucas took one of Loki's finger between his own and made him blue too.

This time wasn't any different and as soon as Loki touched Lucas, he turned blue too.

She put her arms around her stomach as Loki talked softly to Lucas, highly aware she was in the middle of a private moment between father and son.

The snow stopped then, disappearing from the room completely has if it had never been there.

Well at least there would be no clean up.

Loki and Lucas were still blue.

"Daddy." Lucas murmured to the quiet room, something like awe in his voice.

Loki turned his scarlet eyes at her and smiled, a little less sad this time and then he held out a blue hand for her to take.

Together they held Lucas as he fell back into a dreamless sleep, still blue and happy.