A/N:
The Avengers, Loki, Iron Man, or anything of the like. Just the thoughts inside my head. And taking some personal freedoms with mythology and lore.
Loki raised an eyebrow when Emma came running out to the kitchen. "Who dressed you this morning?" She stopped and looked down at her clothes She had on gold shiny leggings with a white sweater dress with green and brown polka dots on it, and little black leather boots. Her black hair was up in pigtails with fuzzy green hair ties.
"I did." She grinned looking back up at him. "Daddy said I could wear whatever I wanted on the first day of school." She started to hop with both of her feet together over to Loki and stopped before putting a hand on his stomach. "One day I'll help dress him."
Loki smiled and raised an eyebrow. "You think it's going to be a boy?" He and Tony knew the sex of the baby, but hadn't told anyone yet.
"I know it is, silly." Emma giggled then went over and started to pull herself up into her chair to eat her breakfast. "I also know that he's gong to be here soon.
"Yes, not soon enough though," Loki mumbled as he sat back down on the stool. Tony came out a second later and grabbed a glass of orange juice. "When this child is born, I shall be supervising the clothing of the children."
"I don't think she looks bad." Tony grinned.
"You don't put black shoes with brown clothes, it just looks tacky." Tony snorted and rolled his eyes. Before Loki could go on something suddenly slammed into Tony, pushing him up against the counter.
"DaddyDaddyDaddy!" Tony coughed, trying to get air back in his body as the thing attached to him started to talk fast and squeal. He held up the unspilled glass of juice before setting it down on the counter. Tony blinked and looked at Kaia. "Look!" She held up her hand.
"Did he ask?" Loki smiled a little as Emma was leaning up, trying to see what was happening with her older sister.
Tony grabbed her hand to inspect what exactly it was that she was showing him. On her left hand was a silver ring, set with a ruby, wrapped around delicate silver knitting with a gold band underneath. "You're engaged?"
"Did I forget to mention that Nathan asked our permission to marry her?" Loki calmly asked as he gestured for his oldest to come over and show him the ring. He hummed a little in approval. "A very fine selection, yes, I approve of his choice." He took both of her hands and kissed her cheek. "I can see that it makes you positively glow with excitement." He snorted when she just squealed.
"My little girl is getting married?" Tony blinked a little and Kaia sauntered back over to take his hands, swinging them back and forth.
"Yes, Daddy, I am, to Nathan." She was turning on her best charm. "Now aren't you glad that it's him and not someone else that you don't know about?"
"Considering that you two have your own floor and are living together?" He nodded then let out a little sigh, tinged with a smile, and pulled her into a hug. "You're growing up and having life events too fast. Stop that." Kaia grinned and wrapped her arms around his neck. "But you can't get married in February."
"I know, because that's when Gabby and Steve are getting married."
Both Tony and Loki stopped and looked at her. "No,... that's when We're getting married," Tony corrected. Kaia slowly sucked her lips in. "I have waited five years for this, they are not stealing my thunder."
"You know, I kind of left Nathan all alone making breakfast, I have to go. Love you both, have fun at school Emma, bye!" Kaia quickly ran out of the room
"I think that we should pay them a visit," Loki said calmly.
Gabby wrinkled her nose as she woke up to a constant knocking. She started to roll over, feeling Steve's arm on her back and smiled a little. "Shhh," she blinked when Steve whispered to her. "Pretend to be asleep."
"Why?" She whispered back, thinking that she didn't really need to pretend.
"Because it's Tony and Loki." Oh. That was a good enough reason. She jumped a little when the knocking from the front door was suddenly at the bedroom door. Oh, right, magical Uncle Loki.
"We know you're both in there," Tony's voice sounded first. "We need to have a talk."
"Didn't we move in together to get away from everyone?" Gabby mumbled into Steve's arm.
"It apparently doesn't stop them from coming here." He sighed and got up, grabbing his sweat pants before going over to open the door. Gabby pulled the blankets over her head.
"What is this about a February wedding?" Tony asked right away. Loki was just standing behind him, letting the two Avengers discuss the situation.
"That's when we've decided to have the wedding," Steve leaned against the door. "I was pretty sure we didn't need to check in with everyone to decide on a day."
"Well you do when it's going to coincide with ours," Tony threw back. Gabby lifted her head. "What day is it?"
"The 6th," Steve replied.
"You have to change that."
"Like hell we do."
"That's the day we picked!"
Gabby rubbed her face then pushed herself out of bed and stood next to Steve. her and Loki locked eyes and their silent battle started. She didn't have a great track record with winning these, starting when she was six and Loki got her to talk in front of everyone. But this was her wedding, she wasn't gong to go down easily.
Tony and Steve were no stranger to the weird battles that Gabby and Loki had, it was just something that happened, but they also knew not to talk to them while it happened. Loki suddenly lifted one corner of his lips and Gabby pursed hers.
"We'll take the 8th." Steve looked at Gabby, eyebrows lifted. "If anything is gong to disrupt a high profile wedding, it should be theirs and not ours, so we'll let them go first." Tony was failing at trying to tone down the smugness in his look.
"We could have resorted to arm wrestling, I could have taken Tony," Steve mumbled.
"Also, if we do that, we can get an extended honeymoon, while they have to wait two days to start theirs," Gabby told him, taking his hands. Tony blinked a little.
"Hmmm, I can approve of this change now," Steve nodded when he noticed Tony's change. "you were right Tony, we should have checked." He smirked as Tony sent him a glare.
Tony pointed at Steve. "Bruce is my best man, now. You're bumped down to number two!"
"Perhaps you and Nathan can both go to Asgard together then," Loki spoke up, catching the other three off guard. "He's proposed to Kaia. I think that both him and Steve could go for the Trials together."
Tony started to laugh. "Trials? What Trials?" Steve looked at Gabby who only shrugged.
"Did Balder fail to tell you, again?" Loki raised an eyebrow. "Mortals must go through the Trials of Courage to be considered worthy enough to marry someone of the Asgardian Royal line."
Gabby started to rub the spot between her eyes. "Yes, my father failed to mention this to either of us. He probably did it on purpose."
"I wouldn't put it past him," Loki agreed, smirking.
