Chapter 13 There is No Place Like Home

Loki pulled out his baby blanket and looked at Thor. "I'm sorry I took it from your bag but I needed my mother to see it."

"Why," Loki snapped.

"Because I made it," Frigg said stepping in-between them. She caught Loki's face in her hand and tilted his face up to look her in her eyes. "I'm your grandmother Loki. Odin is your grandfather."

"Then," Tony's eyes widened as he gasped, "Loki is your father!"

"Well that would explain why he looks so much like him," Clint said watching Loki wearily.

"That's impossible," Loki said. "If I was missing wouldn't you have been looking for me? Wouldn't Heimdell know before this? I thought he knew everything."

"My son has always been able to hide things from Heimdell's sight. I can only guess that he hid you at your birth, and we did look for you," Odin said. "Unfortunately we did not know what he had lost and never looked farther then the nine worlds for you. We thought he had lost a book of something."

"But how did he lose me? I was found in an abandoned space ship."

"I don't know how you got in a space ship but I do know when my son was younger he was working on being able to teleport out of Asgard. Once the spell went wrong and when I arrived he was tearing apart his rooms trying to find something. He refused to tell us what. I believe the object he had lost were you," Odin said.

"I wove this blanket for him," Frigg said running her fingers over the material. "I wove protections into the material to keep him safe and he must have used the blanket to keep you safe and to keep you from being detected."

"But why would Loki need to hide his children," Bruce asked fidgeting with his glasses.

Odin looked away then tuned back. "Because I did not let him keep his other children with him, due to my actions he did not trust me enough to tell me I had another grandchild."

"So if he is Loki's child, wouldn't he have magic," Clint asked.

"He does," Odin said.

"No I don't," Loki said. "I'd know if I could do magic. Wouldn't I?"

"Your magic is in your technology," Odin said. "You have a lot of magic but due to your upbringing your magic found a new way of expressing itself."

"No matter what happens you are a part of our family," Frigg said wrapping her arms around his shoulders in a tight hug. Loki tensed then relaxed into her arms.

"That makes you my nephew," Thor said giving Loki a pat on the back that made him stagger.

"Thank you," Loki said. "I'd like to stay but we all have got to go back to Earth."

"Heimdell will take you," Odin said. "And if you ever want to return all you have to do is call Heimdell and he will bring you here."

"I will," Loki promised.

"Everyone who is going to Midgard stand here," Heimdell said. All the Avengers except for Thor went forward.

"I'll return later, "Thor said when Loki and Steve turned to look for him. "I must tell him of my travels."

"Then we will see you on Earth," Banner said. Heimdell thrust his sword into the anvil and the Bifrost opened.

"Weyland are you coming with us," Loki asked.

The man shook his head and held up the recovered relics, "I'm going to return these to the museum. Heimdell said he will send me there after you and your friends are sent back. I'll come visit you on Earth some time alright?"

"Ok." Then the gold light washed over them and they disappeared.