A/N: Iiiiiii struggled a little with this scene, hence why it is so short. Another chapter up later today, since it's a holiday for me, and it's hot and i want to stay in front of my air conditioner. :D Thank you all for the reviews, and and alerts, and faves! You're awesome!
I don't own The Avengers, Loki, Iron Man, or anything of the like. Just the thoughts inside my head, and Kaia, Gabby, and Nathan. And taking some personal freedoms with mythology and lore.
Tony thought he heard the bedroom door slide open, but he was too comfortable pressed into Loki's chest too care. JARVIS had thought it would be funny to lower the temperature in the house in honor of Christmas and Tony had started to freeze in the night. Loki had merely chuckled and Tony muttered something about stupid Jotun and the stupid cold as he snuggled into Loki and the blankets.
"Surprise attack!" Tony suddenly tensed when he heard Kaia's voice, waiting for her body to hit the bed like she did every Christmas morning. When nothing happened his eyes flew open and he saw that Loki had turned and had grabbed Kaia's waist, holding her up over the bed. She grinned at them.
"You are a little monster," Tony muttered as he sat up yawning. "I remember when I used to be woken up by JARVIS telling me what the weather was, and the time, and praying that it wasn't before noon."
"That was before I was here," Kaia pointed out. "Besides the point, it's Christmas morning and you two need to get up."
"And why would that be?" Loki dropped her at the end of the bed and she bounced into a sitting position.
"Surprise attack!" Natasha suddenly jumped through the door onto the bed, crashing into Tony and Loki like Kaia had intended to do.
"Because everyone came back to celebrate," Kaia leaned over them and grinned. Loki scowled and Tony pushed Natasha off and onto the floor.
"Kids and Assassins, I could do without them," Tony dropped his face into his pillow.
"Thor is talking about making food," Natasha called out as she left the room with Kaia. Tony and Loki's eyes widened.
Tony and Loki arrived downstairs, in robes and sweats, to see that Thor was in fact not cooking, but Steve and Gabby were. Natasha just grinned as she was settled in close to Clint. Bruce was sitting next to Thor, reading the paper, and Pepper and Phil were on the loveseat looking through some papers of their own. Leave it to Pepper to bring work with her on a holiday. Tony moved over to the couch that Kaia and Nathan were leaning against on the floor and sat behind the two teens.
"It's been a while since this dysfunctional family has been together," Tony smirked a little.
"Apparently we missed out on some fun though," Natasha commented and Clint rolled his eyes. "Tony, do you and Loki need a babysitter as much as Kaia and Nathan do?"
"I don't need a babysitter!" Nathan exclaimed.
"Not if you'll be taking over for Iron Man," Clint teased.
"I am still spry," Tony declared. "No one will be wearing my precious armour anytime soon."
"You just don't get quality arguing like this across the ocean," Bruce commented calmly, flipping the page of his newspaper.
"Can we open present now?" Kaia asked, not really paying attention to what anyone was saying.
"Not until the food is done!" Gabby called from the other room.
"Ah, yes, we heard about your date," Natasha called back.
"Go ahead and open presents!" Steve informed them, not wanting to talk about that night anymore. At least to anyone who wasn't Gabby.
Tony was almost asleep with his head on Loki's shoulder two hours later and Nathan and Kaia were plotting on decorating Tony with tinsel when he did. Loki had no qualms about this. The doorbell rang and Loki raised an eyebrow while Tony quickly jumped up, just a little startled.
"I didn't know that this place had a doorbell," Clint said as they all watched a movie.
"Only when JARVIS is keeping secrets," Pepper said as she got up to get the door. The rest of the room went back to watching the movie until Gabby suddenly shot up from her position against Steve and ran squealing to where Pepper has disappeared.
"Ahhh, you made it, and who is this!" Everyone ignored the movie and looked at Gabby who was now swinging a giggling baby around.
"A surprised that I swore Aunt Pepper to secrecy for," a deeper make voice chuckled and everyone leaned back to see who the man was.
"Jak!" Tony bounced up. "Jak, you have a kid! Why do you have a kid?"
"I have a bouncing baby girl," Jak corrected, as he stepped around his sister. Gabby grinned and held the girl to her chest and nuzzled their noses together. "And Keira and I adopted her." Jak was grinning.
"I fear for the child''s future," Loki commented, smiling none the less.
"It would be worse if Markus had a baby," Phil pointed out.
"I'm stealing your baby," Gabby sang as she almost skipped back Jak and sat back down next to Steve, her back against his arm as she grinned, playing with the six month old baby. "What's her name?" Steve raised an eyebrow at his girlfriend cooed and swooned over the baby.
"Gabby's biological clock," Nathan whispered to Kaia. She clamped a hand over her mouth to stop from laughing.
"Her name is Ashe," Jak chuckled and then wormed his way in between Loki and Tony.
"Yours is still brat," Tony pushed against him, chuckling a little.
"We can't help but wonder why you would bring her here," Natasha spoke up. "Why bring her to be corrupted at such a young age."
"I promised Aunt Pepper," Jak shrugged a little as he slung his arms around Loki and Tony.
"Pepper, how dare you keep news about a baby from us!" Tony glanced over at Pepper trying to take Ashe from Gabby. "I'm a Great Uncle now! In so many ways!"
"Lies and propaganda," Kaia claimed. Tony pushed her head with his foot.
Gabby whined a little when Pepper was able to obtain the giggling little Ashe. Steve just watched then wrapped an arm around her shoulder. "Watch out, Steve," he looked over at Clint, who was smirking. "She's gonna want a baby now." Steve started to turn a little red and Gabby threw some stray wrapping paper at his head.
"When are you two gonna have another kid? We're bored of Kaia now," Jak looked between his two Uncles. Loki raised an eyebrow at Jak.
"They tried to give it a go last night," Nathan said, smirking at Jak. Jak blinked, thought about hte sentence then quickly stood up and walked away.
"Oh gross, oh gross." Jak slipped off his jacket off and shook it out. "Not enough time has passed to be touching you after sex." Tony rolled his eyes as he closed the distance between Loki, dropped his head in the older mans lap.
"You should try having sex sometime, it's good," Tony grinned as Jak glared. "I am the best uncle ever." Loki snorted.