"Steve.. Are you sure that's a wise idea?" Natasha asked, looking stern, but soft at the same time. Steve nodded firmly.
"Yeah."
"Steve, you know what Tony thinks about you." Bruce added, stepping into the conversation looking slightly apprehensive.
"I do." Steve nodded. Bruce and Natasha exchanged looks.
"Well what about Lady Pepper?" Thor asked, looking confused.
"We'll have her." Clint said quickly, standing up and pulling over Natasha.
"Will we?" She asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Well yeah. If they really are destined to be together, it'll be sort of weird if they're brought up as brother and sister wouldn't it?" Natasha nodded in agreement. "And because you don't have to go through with child birth or anything, you can still be a kick-ass ninja who scares the crap out of me."
"Are you saying I wouldn't be able to be a spy if I had a baby?" Natasha asked seriously, raising her eyebrow for the thousandth time. Clint faltered.
"Of course not.." Natasha just let out an exasperated sigh and a smile. Steve also smiled, but deep down he wanted to throw up.
Not because of Natasha and Clint's current snogging scene, but because he had just volunteered to look after Tony. Tony who hated him. Tony Stark. Why would he say that? All Steve knew for certain was that he really regretted saying it. There was no way 'Captain America' could have a kid. It was ludicrous. Even more so when you looked at the fact that the particular kid was Tony.
He ducked as a wrought iron beam collapsed, bringing with it a blow of thick, black dust and mingled in effortlessly with the smoke. He could easily evade the fire altogether, stop himself from being killed within it, but that wouldn't work if he was going to carry out his plan effectively.
Several men ran past him, shouting and coughing as the fire slowly spread down the corridor. Yet he persevered, making sure he wasn't going to be affected by the flames, but double checking it was indeed effecting his breath as it sounded a little.
Loki reached the door and pushed it open, throwing in two synthetic, life-size children dolls in the room. They had hair, skin, and everything. Except the ability to move- because they were plastic. Quickly he shut the door again, and locked it. With any luck, should someone choose to investigate the fire, they'd see it as they couldn't open the door, and perished. That's what he hoped they'd think, anyway.
The reverted his footsteps and hurried from the building, avoiding several collapsing beams. He had no idea where Loftus was, but if he was dead, the whole thing would fail miserably.
"Loftus?!" He spluttered as he changed direction again as he lay eyes on the corridor alight with red, orange and yellow. The crackling over-whelming.
"L-Loki!" Loki breathed a sigh of relief as he heard Loftus's splutter, which was made difficult by the black smoke he was currently drinking in.
Pushing open a door, he caught sight of Loftus, coughing violently with black streaks lining his face, Loki quickly hurried over and grabbed him, before vanishing and reappearing on the outside of the complex.
He looked hurriedly around at the skies as he lay Loftus on the ground, and grinned inwardly as he saw no signs of the Quinjet.
"Where's-" Loftus began, but an almighty roar sounded and the whole building fell in itself and large flames began to take over, as if trying to touch the sky. Small pieces of ash were floating downwardly away from the flames a nestling neatly on the ground, some still with glowing embers.
Ambulances and Police began to show up, the sirens howling with the wind as the blue lights lit up the parts shadowed away from the orange light of the fire. Loki and Loftus quickly exchanged looks before disappearing once again.
"What're they like?"
"They're nice. Uncle Clint is really funny."
"That's good."
Tony and Pepper had gotten bored of the conversation and decided to explore Stark Tower instead. Although Tony could remember certain things like where his lab was (which he hadn't ventured down to yet), he still didn't know everything.
They were currently seating on two plump bean-bag chairs in a section of an enormous library they had discovered half and hour ago.
"What about you? Are you okay?" Pepper asked, looking up at Tony, who shrugged.
"Yeah."
"You don't seem it. What's wrong?" Tony sighed, he'd give anything for a McDonalds right now. It was the food of the Gods.
"I'm not telling you everything.."
"What do you mean?"
"I mean that I'm not who I say I am." Pepper looked slightly shocked, but then changed it into a face of interest.
"What do you mean?"
"I mean, I'm Tony Stark, and you're Pepper Potts, and Loki turned us into this age. He changed me first though, I don't know why." Tony shrugged, falling back on the bean-bag while Pepper frowned. "Think Pepper.. Try and remember. Okay." He said, holding out his hands. "Okay.. Think of this.. Imagine.. Imagine a guy, bald, with a beard, always wearing a suit." Pepper thought for a moment, then her eyes widened.
"Obadiah."
"Yes!" Tony said, clapping his hands together. "Okay, how about this one? You.. You.. Me, forgetting your birthday. And you bought a dress for yourself from me." Pepper thought again, then nodded as she remembered, her life before she'd been turned into a kid flooding back to her again.
"You deciding to have a go at driving in Monaco and almost getting yourself killed." Tony grinned.
"Exactly!" Pepper frowned.
"That's nothing to be proud of." Tony continued smiling as Pepper scowled, now he looked, he could see that same scowl she always wore when she disapproved of something he was doing, which was most of the time.
"Why do you think Loki gave us to them so easily?" Pepper asked, disrupting the silence that had fallen.
"I don't know..." Tony said, frowning "but I don't like it." Pepper shrugged.
"I hope whatever happens, we get changed back soon though. I'm dying for a coffee but I don't think I can reach the machine." Pepper said seriously, and Tony smirked.
whew. That one was longer. What d'you think? Should Loki meddle some more or leave them be? Tis up to you. By meddling more I mean like with Tony and Pepper, but I'm not gonna tell you exactly what :P ;)
hope you enjoyed that chapter :)