So I am back! ...didn't go anywhere... Yeah I was just hiding in the corner like Coulson and waiting for a chance to go:
"Welcome to Chapter two."
Loki watched how she walked, graceful and sure. Like she was a Queen in her element.
"The glasses are...a very charming look, my love." Loki said slipping back into the language of the elves. Something he learned long ago. Sigyn turned to him and smiled.
"Elfish?" Loki froze. Did she understand him? Did she know Elfish? "I wish I knew what that said." She gave a sigh and stopped in front of a door. "This is your room." She opened it and pushed into it. Loki followed and stopped. It looked like a room in Asgard. Smaller and not as grand. Loki looked at her with wide eyes.
"I read about Castles and such. I am sorry if it's too small. I only have the two floors." She said as she twirled a piece of hair around one of her fingers. "I should go to bed. If you need anything I'm down stairs in the third door on your right." She backed out of the door, closing it as she went and shut it.
Loki looked around the room. He could get use to this room. He smiled and went to bed.
"Of all the things my son. You chose the one with the biggest heart." Loki froze. He knew that voice. He missed that voice.
"Mother." Loki turned and saw the woman who raised him. She looked the same as all ways. "Mother." He ran to her and took her in his arms. "How I have missed you!" He said burring his face in her hair.
"My son." She said hugging him back. Pulling away she looked him over. "The control is gone. She is good."
Loki gave her a weird look. "Mother?" She laughed at him.
"She's very pretty. Isn't she?" His mother walked to the shelf to her right. That's when he noticed they were in Sigyn's home. Her living room.
"I didn't notice." Loki said as he looked at a picture. A man in a red and black suit was standing next to her throwing up a peace sign. His arm was around her shoulders and her arm around his waist.
"Her brother." His mother said as she placed her hand on his shoulder. "Her real brother. She was opposed. She met him three years ago." Loki frowned.
"She said I killed her mother and father."
"You killed the ones who raised her and loved her." She said as she picked up another picture. This one held a little boy.
"Who is that?" Loki asked. The boy had her eyes and smile. Big and bright.
"You'll find out." Loki looked at his mother. She was gone, and he heard running footsteps. Turning he woke up.
"GAHAGA!" Loki sat up when he heard the small Childs yell. Getting up he walked to the door and opened it. A small boy hobbles by his room. Loki walked after him and found Bucky staring down at the child who was on the floor looking up at him
"Are you okay?" Bucky asked holding his hand out to the child. "Uh, kid?"
The boy hopped up and touched the metal arm. "Gahbah..."
"Steven, are you bugging Mr. Barnes?" Loki heard Sigyn ask from behind him.
"Hagaha." The child, Steven, said running, more like hobbling over to his mother. The child had to be no more than three. Loki turned and saw a vision in white. Beautiful. She wore a dress down to her knees with thin straps, it was white. Her hair was down and wild like last night and she didn't wear her glasses. She was barefoot. And he had never seen anything so beautiful.
"I see you two have met my son, Steven Wade." She looked at the baby with love, "Sweetie, these are my friends, Prince Loki. That's right! Like in the books I read to you!"
"I read about castles and such..."
"And this is Mr. Barnes. You remember Uncle Steve?" She asked him. He nodded his chubby head. "This is his best friend." He child looked at Loki and Bucky with wide eyes. The thing the boy said sounded like Superheroes. Sigyn laughed.
"Yes, baby boy. Just like Superheroes!" Loki thought the girl should laugh more. It sounded like music. "Only these two are just starting." She gave them a smile full of love. "Anyway! Are you guy's hungry? It's my turn to cook breakfast and the others should be here any minute now!" She asked walking to the stairs and disappearing down them. Bucky had a small smile on his lips. It was directed to Loki.
"What?" Loki asked frowning.
"Nothing." Bucky said as he walked down the steps after Sigyn. Loki frowned and followed. He had one thought that wouldn't go away. No matter how hard he beat it to a bloody pulp.
"Where is the boy's father?"
Sigyn made French toast. Not many people knew it but Loki had a sweet tooth. A big sweet tooth. The other Avengers were seated at the table and Thor was playing with Steven.
"Here you go!" Sigyn placed a plate piled high with the sweet bread. It had red berries covered with small yellow seeds, sweet brown syrup that was sticky, and fluffy cream swirled on top. Loki looked over to Bucky's and saw that his was just as big. The plate was piled high. Like Thor sized high. She placed a small plate in front of Steven. Tony looked at the plates.
"Why do they get to eat first?" He asked looking at her.
"Because I say they get to." She gave him a glare. She smiled at Clint.
"Clint, will you feed Steven while I make the rest?" Clint smiled and picked up a fork, cutting the toast into little pieces.
"Say, Hawkeye!" He said as he held the fork in front of the baby.
"Clint, Steven doesn't know how to say big words like that yet." Natasha said as she ate a berry. Steven giggled and waved his arms around happy like. Loki looked at him closely.
"Loki, it is just a baby." Thor said looking at his brother.
"Where is his father?" He asked looking at the baby next to him. Steven looked at him and gasped something in gibberish. Everyone looked at him like he had just said the worst thing sense New York.
"In prison." Sigyn said as she placed two more plates on the table. One for Thor and the other for Tony. Bucky looked up at her. His mouth full.
"Why?" The muffled question was loud. Sigyn smiled a sad smile and waded her babies face with a napkin.
"I was raped. Oh don't worry. I got help. I went to the police and everything." She said walking into the kitchen. "He was a client of mine. Like you two." Loki felt sick. That's why they didn't want them to live with her. She had gotten hurt by someone she wanted to help. Loki had a strong feeling to kill someone. "I didn't trust him. He had got out of the chains and got to me. Fury shot him and sent him away."
"But you kept the child." Loki said looking at the small boy who was blowing bubbles at him.
"I did. Why blame the child for the father's wrongs?" She said placing the rest of the food on the table. And sitting by Loki she began to eat. "He likes you." She said as Loki looked at the boy.
"He is what? Three?"
"Yep. His uncle loves him." She said taking a bite of her toast.
"The man in red?"
"Deadpool." She said cutting the toast. "Clint, feed him."
Loki picked up the fork before Clint could. "You're doing it wrong." He picked up a small bite and held it up to the baby. "It's good, come now. You have to be hungry!" he said in an almost coo like way. Sigyn watched as he tried to feed her baby. She looked around the table and everyone was watching with wide eyes. Tony had a phone taping it. Bucky and Steve were eating fast.
"There you go! See it isn't that bad is it?" He asked as the baby eats the first piece.
"Lo-key." Loki dropped the fork and looked at the baby.
"Wha-What did he say?" Sigyn jumped up and stood next to Steven.
"Say Loki! Came on sweet baby!" she said smiling. Steven giggled and waved his fist at Loki.
"Lo-key!" Steven giggled and leaned to Loki. "Lo-key! Lo-keeey!" he giggled and waved his fist around. Sigyn clapped and laughed.
"That's right baby! Look at you saying your first word!" She said picking him up and twirling around and hugging him to her. She looked at Loki. "Would you like to hold him?" She asked.
Loki stood up from the table and held his hands out. "I would." she smiled and handed him over. Loki held him close and looked in the bright green eyes. "He has your eyes."
"Why Loki! Had I known you liked my eyes I would have let you look at them more offend." She said watching the super villain hold her child. "He likes you!" Steven had began to nibble on his hair.
"Ok, I want him now!" Clint stood up and stole the baby from Loki.
"Take him to wash up!" Sigyn yelled after him.
"Yes mom!" They heard Clint call back. Sigyn laughed and sat back down.
"Loki sits. Eat." She took another bite of her toast. Loki sat next to her and ate the sweet food.
"Tony, what have I said about the phones?" Tony looked at Sigyn and quickly put the phone up.
"So Reindeer games," Everyone looked at Tony, Sigyn glared. "Who knew you liked babies?"
Loki glared. "It had its charms." Sigyn looked at him oddly. "Trust me. I hate children." She stood up abruptly and walked out of the room. Loki stared forward and clenched his jaw.
"What the fuck? Why is Sigyn leaving with Steven?" Clint came in to the room holding a rag and pointing over his shoulder. He saw that everyone was glaring at Loki. "Oh my gods...Did he say he didn't like Steven?"
"Yes, he did." Natasha said at the same time Loki said,
"No."
"And did anyone tell him how much she loves Steven?" Clint asks seating down. No one said anything.
"Loki, she loves that baby." Loki looked at him.
"Yes, I can see that. She is, after all, his mother."
Clint sighed. "Loki, when she was attacked three years ago. She was alone and scared and saw nothing good in the world. She had to speak against the man who attacked her and have his child grow in her. When that baby was born she was alone. She fell in love with that baby. "
"Why?"
"I don't know. She told me it was because Steven was so small, and needed love and who else would take care of him?" Loki felt his heart tighten. "I know that after that she never let anyone touch him. I wasn't aloud near him for almost three months! And I'm his godfather!" he said looking at Loki. "And to let you hold him after just meeting him. Well, I think you're special." Loki looked at him with a narrow eyed glare.
"She hates me."
"Please, she likes you. Remember when she said she'd run faster for you? I bet she could have been naked and if it was you having a cracra attack she would have ran anyway!" Bucky said taking a sip of O.J.
Clint's phone started to ring. Looking at the I.D., he answered,
"Sigyn!"
"Clint, I'm going to be gone for the day!" Sigyn said as she loaded Steven into his car seat. "Tell Loki and Bucky if they need to talk while I'm gone that they can reach me on my phone, or Darcy's, K?" She asked as she closed the door and walked to the other side. Getting in she cranked the car and locked the doors. She heard him sigh.
"Is this about Steven and Loki's comment?" Sigyn laughed.
"He loves Steven! Tell him the tough guy act is useless when it comes to me!" She said as she put her seat belt on. "Also that if their hungry there is fruit in the fridge and a few sandwiches on there too." She pulled out of the parking spot. "I have to go!" Hanging up she drove to her best friend's house.
30 minutes later she walked up the steps to her best friend's house, baby in arms and knocked. The bright smile of Darcy opened the door and Sigyn smiled back.
"Darcy!"
"Sigyn!" Sigyn said as she lifted Steven through the door.
"Darcy, my love, I need you to watch Steven. Please?" Sigyn said as she turned to Darcy. "I have to teach Loki and Bucky that the human world isn't as bad as they see it."
Darcy looked at him and looked back at Sigyn. "Really? You would trust me with your child?"
"I let you hold him first. The first one to hold him second to me." Sigyn said in a bright smile. "After all! You are his God mother!" She handed the bag to Darcy. "Do you think that Steven will grow on Loki?" Sigyn asked in a dream like way. Steven waved his hands around happily.
"Lo-key!" The baby's words caused Darcy to look at Sigyn with wide eyes.
"Yea, his first word is Loki." Sigyn laughed. "Loki was feeding him French toast and he said Lo-key!" she hugged Steven to her.
"And is that when Loki said something that pissed you off?" Darcy gave her a smug look. Sigyn frowned.
"Thor called, didn't he?" Leave it to Darcy's husband to pull a fast one on her.
"Text."
"Damn him and his quick learning skills." Sigyn teased as she handed the baby over to Darcy. "Any who~! I got over it. Chalked it up to his wanna be a bad guy thing." She shrugged her shoulders. "Might as well make his stay a living hell." Sigyn said with a bright smile. Way to happy for Darcy's liking.
"My gods...you just gave me a Deadpool smile..." Darcy shrugged away from her, holding Steven closer to her. Sigyn gave her a mock hurt look.
"Wade has nothing to do with this!" Sigyn defended herself. "By the way, Wade wants some more sugar cookies...And can you make them Deadpool cookies? You know with the mask on the front?" Darcy laughed.
"Only because you made the hammer shaped cookies. Which Thor loved?" Darcy said as she rubbed her swollen stomach. "And this little one." She said lovingly. Sigyn rolled her eyes jokingly.
"I'm just glad you and flash got some. I thought that Thor was going to eat the tub it was in as well." Sigyn smiled faintly. She remembered the look of happiness on Thors face when she showed up with the tub of treats. "Any who! I plan on taking Loki and Bucky out to get more clothes. On Tony's dime of course!"
"It's at times like this that Wade Wilson's DNA shines through you and I am truly scared." She said as she moved further away from her.
"Okay, that's it. I'm gone!" Sigyn said as she stood up and hugged her. "Be good for Aunt Darcy!" She said as she kissed Steven on the forehead. "Darcy, I'll call if I'm gonna be late picking him up. If that happens I am sorry." She was waved off by Darcy.
"If you call I'm keeping him." Darcy said as she laughed. "Thor will love to have a playmate." Sigyn laughed and kissed her baby one more time.
"I'm off to get the villains of our time!" Sigyn yelled as she headed to her car. Darcy laughed as she watched her friend drive off.
"Your mother is a bag full of crazy...and maybe a load of kittens..." Darcy said as she bounced the baby. Steven babbled incohinerntly. "Yep. Sprinkles and everything." She closed the door and headed to the living room. "How about I introduce you to the Power Rangers...Not the new ones! The old ones. Tommy's my favorite!" Darcy as she started Netflix.
Loki waited in silence as he and Bucky waited for Sigyn outside the Tower. In human clothes. The jeans were quite comfortable. The shirt was Starks. Ugh.
"Are you saying I am to go out in public?" Loki said as he gestured to the rag like clothes he was sporting. "Like this?" Sigyn had just pulled up and this was the first thing he said as she walked to them. That blasted smile was back.
"I think you look dashing." She said as she took his arm and Bucky's. "Know, sense Loki is taller and my car is not, Bucky, you have the back. As long as you wear your seatbelt I don't care how you sit. Loki, get in the front." She said as she walked to the other side of the car. Loki entered the metal death trap cautiously. "Belt."
"What is this belt thing you speak of?" He asked giving her a confused look. She rolled her eyes and leaned over. She was suddenly very close and he was suddenly feeling very uncomfortable. Hearing a click he felt her move away. He now had a cloth belt like strap across his lap and form his shoulder to his hip.
"A belt. You have to wear it when in a car." She said as she cranked the car. The radio turned on and he was pleasantly surprised that a pinion sound started to pour through the speakers. Loki raised an eyebrow at her. "What? Steven likes to listen to it when he's in the car."
"The child has great taste." Loki stated staring out the window.
"Don't be so quick to say that. He likes to listen to fall out Boy when he tries to sleep." Bucky laughed at her quick outing of her son. Sigyn gave him a look.
"What? Your son is awesome. Ohmygod." Bucky laughed as she pressed one of the buttons on radio and pop music started to play. "Really? Lady GaGa?" He asked as she smirked an evil smirk at him through the mirror.
"I happen to like Lady GaGa."
"Lady GaGa?" Loki asked as he looked at her.
"She's not really a Lady. Yes, she is a she but Lady GaGa is her stage name." Sigyn explained to him. "She is really a great entertainer." She said as she turned into the road.
Loki frowned and looked back out the window. She was highly annoying. Her blasted smile and damn bubbly persona. It really pissed him off.
Thirty minutes later he was looking at a newly bought outfit for Bucky. Sigyn smiled and handed Bucky a bag. One of many.
"Good God woman!" Bucky said as she handed him another bag. She smiled and laughed.
"Please! You'll look good." She said as she turned to Loki. "Now you!" She said as she looked him over. "I'm thinking...suit." Sigyn said as she smiled. "Yep. Suit." She said heading to a suit store. After he stood there and got measured. Sigyn smiled and paid for the suits. Armed with Tony's credit card and a woman's love of shopping they headed to the baby store.
"Why are we among these women and their awful offspring?" Loki asked cringing away from the toddler who seemed to want to be picked up by him.
"What's the matter? Can try to take ever the world but a child frightens you?" Sigyn asked as she picked up some toys. "Steven will like these...What do you think?" She asked him.
Loki looked at her with an odd expression. "Why would I care what you get him?"
"Well, I was only asking because you will be living with us for some time. It's likely that you'll get up one night and step on one of his toys by accident. And I just want you to remember that I gave you a choice and you chose to question my question." She said as she walked away from them.
Bucky spoke in a spooked out tone. "I must be going crazy..." Loki looked at him with a questioning gaze.
"I understood what she meant by all that..." Bucky said as he walked after her, leaving Loki alone. Loki frowned and glanced to the side. Only to spot a plush toy of a black cat with big green eyes. Loki's frown turned thoughtful and he grabbed it. Walking up to Sigyn, he handed her the toy. She looked at him with an expression of smugness masked as shock.
"If I am to step on anything that he owns I would want something that is soft." Loki explained as Bucky tried to hide his laugh and Sigyn didn't even try to hide her smile. It was blinding and full of joy.
"Well, let's not keep him waiting?" She asked as she handed Loki the bags with his suits and she hauled the bags of baby toys. "To Darcy's!" Loki rolled his eyes. Yay.
"Brother!" Thor bellowed and ran to Loki, picking him up and twirling him around much to the amusement of the others. "I am most glad that you could visit my home! My Darcy has made the mightiest of feast for you and your friends!" Thor said as he carried Loki in the house.
"Thor, I can walk!" Loki yelled as he was placed on his feet awkwardly, almost falling. He glared at Thor. Sigyn laughed as she walked in with her child, who was also laughing. Loki narrowed his eyes at the both of them.
"Thought that was funny, did you?" He asked as he walked up to them and leaned down to look at Steven. "Well, I hope the next time you fall no one's there to pick you up!" Loki said as he poked the fat roll of the Steven's belly, who laughed even more. "And you! I hope the next bath you give him is hell for you!" Loki said try to keep whatever dignity he had left.
He didn't know why, but whenever he was in the area of this woman he turned from a super villain into just a jerk. He hated it. What power did she possess to make him this week?
"Loki, Are you hungry?" Darcy asked. He finally turned to his sister-in-law.
"By the Gods you've swollen a planet!" Loki blurted out without thinking. Darcy and Sigyn both started to laugh.
"Brother that was rude." Thor said frowning at the words his brother had said to his wife. "You should be more grateful to Darcy!"
Darcy and Sigyn both were laughing so hard to hear them. Sigyn looked at Darcy.
"Oh my Gods, He...He just quoted Doctor Who!" She said as she tried to breathe through her laughing. They both laughed for a good ten minutes, leaving the two demi-gods to wonder what was happing in the heads of the women. Bucky had somehow gotten Steven and was sitting at the table playing peek-a-boo with him.
"Loki, Are you a secret Whovian and hadn't told us?" Darcy asked as she tried to stop laughing. "And no Loki, I'm pregnant!"
Sigyn still hadn't stopped laughing as she walked over to him and hugged him. Loki stiffened and looked down at her. "What is it you think you are doing?"
"We mortals call it hugging, embracing...many over things!" Sigyn said as she leaned back and smiled up at him.
"B...Bu...Bucbuc!" A small voice said from the table. "Bucbuc!" Sigyn twirled around and saw Bucky look up at her.
"What? I couldn't let god of leather take the kids first word like that!" Sigyn laughed and watched as Thor raced over to Steven. Picking him up Thor raise him to be eye level to him.
"Come young nephew! You must be able to say Thor!" Thor said as Steven laugh and grabbed the side of his face like babies do.
"Tor." Steve said as he looked into Thor's face.
"That is right young Steven! I am Thor!" Thor's face was light up brighter then stars. Loki couldn't help but notice that it lacked the shine that Sigyn's had.
"Well!" Sigyn clapped her hands, drawing all eyes to her. "Let's eat!" She said as she walked over though the table and they followed.
Holy Hell...that was awesome.