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The redhead ran upstairs as soon as she heard the gut-wrenching scream from the CEO. She was next to Tony in a legendary record.

"What is it, Tony?!" Pepper screamed two or three octaves higher than her normal tone and all out of air.

"Th- That!" Tony pointed at the harmless baby, who had just been awaked by the frightening and not manly at all screams, and of course was now crying his lungs out.

"What the hell?! Who is that?!"

"WHAT EXACTLY MAKES YOU THINK I KNOW!?" The baby kept crying louder and louder. "STEVE!"

Pepper walked towards the nude, little creature and shushed softly at it.

"JARVIS, WHAT THE HELL?!"

"I suggest you look at the videotape, sir."

Tony felt a cold sweat drop run down his temple. JARVIS had never advised his master to watch the tape instead of just telling what had just happened. The genius feared the worst although when he wasn't even sure what was the worst he could fear.

The TV screen turned on and the footage appeared. Pepper lifted the baby and tried to calm him down but it was a seemingly impossible task. Tony's stress levels were in the sky, he could feel the appalling tension in his shoulders as he stood rigidly, watching the recording.

"Shit…" Tony mouthed and looked down, trying, really trying his best to believe what he had just seen with his very eyes. He looked down and used one hand to press his temples toughly, digesting the huge pill of impossible odds in his brain.

"What. This is… No… He c- can't be…" The redhead's eyes widened as she stuttered with a very small amount of air left on her lungs after a horribly loud gasp.

Steve continued crying in Pepper's arms.

The genius stepped back and lent into a wall, his own weight was too much to take right now. He kept thinking, analyzing. Why, and more importantly: how the fuck.

And it suddenly hit him, on the face like a horrendous slap given with a robotic arm.

"Loki."

"What?!" Pepper looked back at him. She was paralyzed right where she was standing and just couldn't leave Steve on the bed or move at all. She had started to freak out greatly, but at a slow pace. By now her heart rate was higher than ever; her hands where sweaty against Steve's soft, bare skin and her face showed just how utterly panicked she was.

"Loki! That son of a bitch!"

The Avengers were at the SHIELD headquarters and he was taken there as a criminal a few weeks ago, in the hopes he could redeem himself after having his punishment in this weird dimension we all know little about, called Asgard.

His confusing words were brief, as he saw The Captain and The Man of Iron together. Somehow, Loki knew exactly what was going on there.

"Oh. You are capable of loving, after all." The god said mockingly at Tony. "Or is it just lust?"

Steve's jawline tensed as he contained himself from punching Loki in his godly face.

"So you come to give us your word on love, Loki? Oh, enlighten me." Tony replied determined, looking straight into his green eyes.

The God of Mischief chuckled lightly, for a split second. Then turned to Steve and with a quick movement he touched the blond's cheekbone; it was just a slight and harmless touch against Steve's skin before he took strong grip of Loki's hand and, twisting it almost too painfully, directed it away from himself.

It was certainly an interesting scene, one that you could not see just every day, or any other day. The rest of the Avengers were watching, including Maria Hill, Phil Coulson and Nick Fury, but just watching what the reactions of each man would be.

Loki didn't even flinch at the strain of his extremity. Instead he smiled once again, pleased with himself for some reason. Steve could feel Natasha's strong eyesight on him, but he kept making eye contact with the demi god, until Loki spoke up again, but it was to Tony this time.

"You take care of your Captain, Stark."

And that was it.

A/N: This was fun!

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