Athan's POV
"Mom." I said cautiously, I was 7 by mortal standards but I was small for my age according to Asgardian standards.
"Athan?" my mom said shifting the woman laying in her lap.
"Yeah. It's me." I said taking a step forward.
"How did you find me?" mom said slowly, glancing up at the now uncovered sky.
"Heimdall helped me find you. Why are you wearing a tie?" I said slowly moving towards her, holding out my hand.
"Prove you're my son." my mother snapped standing, taking the woman by under her arms.
I jumped at the sudden movement. She was fast. Quicker than me, but I guess that's because she has more training than me. She looked at me like she was looking at me like I was some foreign kid claiming to be her son. I didn't know why. I had been practicing my magic and once I had mastered the looking glass spell I used it to see her, so I knew what she looked like.
I put out my hand and focused. I put all my energy into making the redheaded woman levitate. She slowly raised into the air.
"My god." my mother said breathlessly staring at the woman I was making float.
"I missed you." I answered setting the woman down softly on the ground.
Wailing of police car sirens could be heard now. I ran to my mom hugging her tightly around the waist burring my face in her shoulder.
"Can you shape-shift?" She asked pushing me back to look at me. I didn't realize how tall she was.
"Yeah." I said shifting into a small lizard.
She picked me up and I circled her neck. She picked up the woman. The police cars pulled up just as my mom spread her wings ripping her shirt in the back and took off. When did she get those?
"Coulson, I need a clean up crew at 93." mom said to the little black thing in her ear my head was laying next to.
"What about Romanova?" I heard a voice come from the plastic thing. I was startled.
"I'm taking her back to my place." my mom said flying a little higher.
"And I'm guessing you need someone to pick up your car?" the voice said.
"Preferably Pym." mom answered back.
"What is with Pym and your car?" the voice said sarcastically.
"He knows how to treat a car. And that Barton guy you suggested, I've been through his file. He's wrecked more cars than he's drove." my mom answered back ending the conversation.
"Your father doesn't know about you." My mom said suddenly.
"I should have told him. I can't even remember what he looks like or even his name." She said in a low voice, I barely caught the last part.
"I'm sorry I left you. I couldn't tell him. I missed you." She finished as we soared over what looked like a school then a few housing places.
"Crap." My mom said noticing the people in a pool in a backyard of a house. There was a 2 girls and 4 males around and in the pool. She quickly did an invisibility spell before flying over the backyard landing on the balcony while pulling her wings.
She flicked her wrist and walked right through the door, I closed my eyes. I nearly jumped out of my skin at the feeling of going through a solid object. I hadn't ever liked that spell come to think of it.
I felt the sudden jerk of her suddenly coming to a stop and nearly fell off of her shoulder but I caught myself. I opened my eyes to see why she stopped and saw him, or at least his back.
A man standing about six feet and four inches, I'm guessing, was looking through my mother's draws of herdresser. My mom inhaled sharply. The tall man with raven black hair froze. He turned to look us, but we were still invisible. His green eyes flickered with curiosity.
He turned fully and started slinking towards 'us'. He reached a pale hand out close to my mother's face but just out of reach. I felt her breath hitch as she held her breath. His hand turned over slowly and reached a little more forward as my mom leaned back keeping him from touching her. I hoped he was my dad and my mother would recognize him but I didn't even know what he looked like. All I knew was his name, Loki.
"Hmm." he hummed dropping his hand and turning towards the door walking through it.
"Was that..." "No one." I was cut off by my mom as she set her friend down on the bed.
"Was that dad?" I asked shifting to my normal form.
"No, it was someone I know. His name is Danny." My mom replied walking into the bathroom shutting the door behind her, leaving me with the other woman.
"Well then." I mumbled noticing the woman on the bed shift.
I walked a little closer to her to get a better look at her. She suddenly lunged at me before pinning me to the ground.
"Natasha!" I heard my mom from the other side of the bed.
"Who are you?" Natasha asked me roughly before flipping a knife out, holding to my neck.
"Athan. My son." My mom answered before I could even get my mouth open.
"What?" Natasha asked standing, looking back over her shoulder at my mother.
I sat up to see my mom in the bathroom door way with her arms crossed leaning against the door frame in sweatpants and a tank top.
Nobody's POV
Tony was shivering in his new swim-trunks sitting on a lounge chair by the pool. Steve was splashing around with Ryan and Zoey in the heated pool. Courtney was floating on her back with her eyes closed in the shallow end and Jake was trying to stay up in a handstand under water.
"Tony, the pool is heated. Get in." Steve said stopping his splashing to look at the rich man rubbing his arms with his knees pulled up to his chest.
"N-nooo." Tony said looking around for a towel to wrap around himself.
"It's 80 degrees in here." Ryan said looking at the thermometer, that conveniently floated by.
"Hey. You all are on Christmas break right?" Nick said walking out with a little boy in swim-trunks holding her hand.
"Yeah. Umm, who is he?" Ryan said looking at the dark headed kid.
"This is AJ. A friend of mine asked for me to watch him for the rest of the week. His mom is taking a shower in my bathroom before she heads off on her flight to Chicago." Nick said picking him up, resting him on her hip.
"Hey kid. How old are you?" Steve asked coming to the edge of the pool.
"Seven." AJ said gripping onto Nick shyly.
"He's pretty smart for his age. AJ, how much is twelve times nine?" Nick asked walking closer to the pool.
"108." AJ answered looking at the billionaire sitting on the pool lounge.
"Here." Steve said holding up his ams to take the kid from Nick.
AJ looked back, still looking at the superhero's arc reactor. Tony stuck out his tongue at the kid as Steve held on to him bringing him into the water.
"Tony. That's not nice." Steve said looking at Stark disapprovingly.
"He was staring at me." Stark complained back.
"Ryan, Zoey, can I talk to you inside for moment please." Nick said, it wasn't a question, it was a command.
"Okay." The two said in unison as they both pulled themselves out of the pool, grabbing their towels before walking into the house.
"What do you know about Danny? And why aren't you at home yet?" Nick asked looking accusingly at Ryan once they were inside with the door closed.
"We have a file on him but we never really remembered anything cuz we didn't see him as a major threat." Ryan said walking down the hall to the living room.
"Does he, umm, have any, uhh, powers?" Nick asked pausing to find the right words as she followed the two teens.
"Not that we know of." Zoey said sitting at one of the three bar stools at the island in the kitchen.
"He was in my room." Nick said sitting in the armchair.
"What?" Ryan said turning to look at her in surprise from the fridge.
"How the hell did he get there?" Ryan said stalking into the living room.
"When did you see him there?" Zoey asked calmly.
"Ten minutes ago. I came home and walked in with AJ and there he was going through my dresser. AJ's mom was still down stairs. I shut the door quietly and hid AJ. Danny didn't see us. When he was done he just shut the drawer and walked right through the door." Nick said throwing her legs over the arm of the chair looking down at her hands in her lap.
"Aunty Nick, I'm hungry and Tony is being mean." AJ said walking in rubbing his eye with his fist.
"Aw honey, what did he do to you?" Nick said getting up and scooping the child up resting him on her side.
"He kept sticking his tongue out at me so I pushed him into the pool." AJ said the last half proudly.
"Whatever the kid says is a lie." Tony said loudly pointing the at the kid as he walked in dripping wet.
"Then why are you wet?" Nick asked.
"I jumped into the pool." Stark said crossing his wet arms.
Steve snorted before quickly covering it up as a cough.
"Captain, are you catching a cold?" Tony said mockingly sympathetic, turning towards the captain, laying a hand over his arc reactor to further support his act.
"AJ, honey what do you want for lunch?" Nick asked catching the kid's attention mentioning lunch.
"What do you have?" AJ said wiggling to get out of Nick's grasp.
He hit the ground running, heading for the kitchen. Nick followed with a small shake of her head and a smile. AJ pulled open each door to the fridge individually using all of his weight. He then pulled open the bottom freezer and began digging for something that looked good.
"Hey, mister." Nick said snatching the kid up by his hips pulling him up to sit on the counter.
AJ pouted, crossing his arms, "That's not nice. I was looking for food." AJ finished looking at Nick with a scathing look.
"And food you shall get." Nick said unfolding his arms and using them to set him on the floor.
"Go play with the Captain while I make you a PBJ." Nick said giving him a pat on the butt making him take a step forward.
"Do you have any toys?" AJ asked turning back towards Nick.
"Yeah, up in my room in the closet there should be power rangers, LEGOS and I think I have a G.I. Joe. And if you ask Jake nicely he might let you play with his Hot Wheels." Nick said pulling out the jelly from the fridge and the peanut butter and bread out of the cabinet.
"Who's Jake?" AJ asked looking around at the people standing and sitting around the house.
"Out in the pool with Courtney, but go get the toys in my room first and wait until Jake comes inside, okay Hun?" Nick said grabbing a butter knife from the drawer.
"Kay. Thank you Aunty Nick." AJ said running up the steps to fetch the toys.
"He's so cute." Zoey said leaning over the counter grabbing two slices of bread and sliding the jelly towards herself.
"Ryan why aren't you at home yet?" Nick asked scraping out some peanut butter onto the slice of bread.
"Dad ain't coming home till next weekend." Ryan said pulling out a controller for his x-box.
"he looks a little small for his age." Tony said walking over drying his hair with a towel.
"Genetics." Nick replied simply.
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