A/N: Little bit of fluff for ya, and some fun.

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.


Tony lazily flicked through some pictures down in his lab. Dum-E was rolling around with a broom in its arm, cleaning up its own mess. "Should I be putting together a idea book, or something, for Loki to look through later?"

"I'm afraid that I don't know the proper protocol as a wedding planner, sir," JARVIS spoke up. "Would you like me to ask him?"

"No, don't wake him up," Tony shook his head. "Do people still use Pinterest? Should I go on there? Will you keep my secret?"

"I can neither confirm or deny the answers." Tony scowled a little at the response. "I merely suggested asking Mister Loki because he is no longer asleep." Tony sat up straight and closed the window before spinning around in his chair.

"It's been a while since you've been able to sneak up on me." tony crossed his arms over his chest as he looked at Loki standing by the door. "I must be getting rusty."

"Perhaps it's because you haven't slept in three nights, at least." Loki walked over and messed with Tony's hair, trying to smooth down a little a tiny cowlick. "How long ago was it that we were down here?"

"You mean the first we actually talked to each other about stuff? Stuff that wasn't yelling at you for making my furniture disappear?" Tony smiled a little. "About 20 years ago, last month actually."

"I think we need to possibly try that again." Tony made a face and Loki pinched his cheek a little. "I just put Eindride back to sleep so I'm not going back to bed for a while." Loki pushed aside some of the papers on Tony's desk and lifted himself up, turning to look at him. "Tell me what keeps you up at night."

Tony ran his hand through his hair a little. "What are the chances of me getting out of this?"

"Not very high."

"Any chance I could distract you with wedding stuff?" Loki just shook his head.

Loki reached over and gently carded his fingers through Tony's hair, rubbing at his temple a little to try and relax him. "Does it have to do with Lanhr?" He asked quietly. "The last time you were up this long from nightmares was-"

"After you attacked, yeah," Tony finished.

"And against my better judgement I let you talk me into going with Thor on some inter-realm mission, or some such nonsense." He started to mess with the shorter hairs at the side of Tony's hair. "I come back only to be informed that you had been kidnapped, the Malibu house almost destroyed, and had built 35 more suits, then destroyed them all. And the only reason that you survived that was because I spelled you to get some sleep before I left." He put both hands on Tony's cheeks. "Let me help you again, love.'

"I must look bad if you're using pet names." Tony leaned his cheek against one of Loki's hands. "I need to keep moving, keep thinking, keep doing, because if I don't then I'm back there. I'm back with him, and he's," Tony moved his hands around his chest, "doing whatever. And that's all I can feel. It was like he was able to get inside, and it hurt, fuck did it hurt. I was afraid that if he did too much, well, that you..."

"Wouldn't be able to find you," Loki finished quietly, resting one of his hands along the side of Tony's neck. "I would tear down the Universe to find you, you know that." Tony nodded a little, taking a breath. "I,... I know what it's like. I first dealt with the Fae when I was younger. I was not as fortunate to have someone looking for you like you did, but I also wasn't a key piece of a detailed plan." He kissed Tony's forehead. "I would have to come to find you sooner..."

Tony raised his hand to place it over Loki's on his cheek still. "I know i don't have to say it, but I'm going to. "You don't have to talk about it yet if you don't want. You still have another week before you can no longer use that excuse."

"Even thought I did not give that option?" Loki raised an eyebrow at him.

"There's a difference. You know what I went through, you were there, you found out." Tony rubbed his fingers.

"You know that I went with Balder to Jotunheim to find Nathan and Steve." Tony nodded watching him. "It was not long after that we were captured. Another of Jotho and Lanhr's plans. I do not think that they were prepared to see me as one of them, or else they probably would have killed us on sight. But they did not easily forget that I had been the one to kill their King." Loki snorted air through his nose a little. "They were surprisingly careful when Eindride was born, but they took him immediately after he was born. I could hear him crying everyday, I knew that he was alone. They kept my powers drugged, and I could do nothing to save him, nothing to help him. They were going to take him from us, eventually killing me when they tired of torturing me."

Tony had gotten up from his chair and stood in front of Loki, resting his forehead against Loki's. "He's with us now, he's safe. He's home and where he belongs. No one will take our son, not again." He put his hand on the back of Loki's neck, holding him close. "We have our children with us, we may not win Parents of the year, ever, but we're raising them the best we can. We're protecting them, neither one of us would hesitate a second to put our life on the line for them, to even kill for them. Hell, we Have done that before, and we have no regrets." Tony closed his eyes as he held onto Loki. "We're messed up, but we're doing the best that we can, and they seem happy to me." Loki nodded a little against his head.

Kaia has been sitting on the steps with Emma in her lap as they watched Tony and Loki talk. JARVIS had started to pipe the conversation through to them at some point. Emma looked up at her older sister and took her hand. They both got up and walked into the lab silently as Tony finished talking to Loki.

"We are happy." The two men jumped a little when Emma spoke up. "And Anders will happy as he gets older too."

Kaia kept her hands on Emma's shoulders as she looked at her parents. "He'll see just how lucky he is to have you two as parents. I, for one, could never imagine having any other parents. You don't win parents of the year, you win Parents of the universe." Emma ran over and pulled herself up in Tony's chair and Loki reached out to take her in his lap. Tony wrapped an arm around Kaia's shoulders as she walked over.

"There is a rule, if you are going to stay down here," Loki said as he rested his head on top of Emma's.

"When it's emotional sharing time, whatever happens in the workshop, stays in the workshop," Tony finished. "That usually means that Dad is going to shed some tears- OW!" Tony hopped a little when Loki kicked his knee. "Now I think I'm gonna shed some tears, ow, that really hurt."

"Good." Loki snorted a little and Emma giggled, tucking herself into Loki's arms, leaning against his chest. "What are you doing up so late, tiny one?"

"I couldn't sleep, and then your room was empty," Emma told them. "And then I saw Kaia in the kitchen, and then we came down here."

Tony glanced at Kaia. "I had a feeling," she shrugged a little. "She wanted to ask you something anyway, since we were all up."

"Hmm?" Tony pulled over another chair for Kaia. "What's that, Flower?"

"Welllllllll," Emma pulled the word out. "I was looking and Nathan helped me, and Steve said it would be a good idea-"

"Steve?" Tony questioned but Kaia shushed him.

"Can we get a dog? I want a puppy..." She turned her best large and innocent eyed stare at Tony and he instantly pointed to Loki. Emma looked up, pushing her bottom lip out a little. "Please, daddy? I promise to learn how to take care of it, so that when I'm older I can do it all by myself. And I even thought about how little Anders is, so I already know what kind of dog that I want."

"Nathan helped?" Tony looked at Kaia.

"Apparently he likes to watch the big dog show every year, he was surprisingly knowledgeable." Kaia shrugged a little.

"I found a breed that's loyal, and is like a guard dog, but if trained will be really nice," Emma continued. "And we found videos of dogs being really nice with babies, so it won't be too rough with our little brother."

"Wow, this is a lot off research for such a little girl," Tony said as he watched her go on.

"I even found a puppy for sale! And it's only a few miles away!" Emma nodded enthusiastically.

"It's about 30 miles, actually," Kaia chuckled as she corrected them. Emma was still learning the difference between big and small numbers, and how that translated into distance.

Loki licked his lips a little, looking down at the girl in his lap. "You know that a dog is a lot of work, right?" Emma nodded right away. "That it will need training, and you'll need to walk it and keep it fed, and clean up after it." She kept nodding and Loki looked at their oldest. "Is it a safe breed to have around a new born?"

Kaia nodded. "I did all the research with her, and it can be a fiercely loyal breed. It's a good family dog, and even good as a guard dog. I'm sure that will make both of you feel a little more at ease." She smiled at them. "Nathan and I will even take her out to get the puppy."

"My only rule is that it would need to be 100% trained in every way before it even looks at my workshop," Tony said as he shrugged, looking at Loki. "It might be good. A constant companion for the little ones, a little guard that we don't have to pay, and it'll help teach responsibility." Tony blinked for a second. "Maybe someone should have bought me a dog when I was younger." All three snorted at him.

"Well, tomorrow is Saturday, and if a certain little girl goes back to sleep now, then I will give my permission for a trip to obtain a new puppy." Emma squealed and leaned up,w rapping her arms around Loki's neck and kissing him all over the face.

"Thank you, thank you, thank you!" She turned and scrambled off of his lap then jumped in Tony's. He laughed as the forced pushed them back on the wheels a little. She kissed his face too before running back upstairs to her room.

"She's never going to get to sleep now, she's too excited," Kaia said as she watched her sister run off.

"She'll make herself go to sleep, don't worry." Tony chuckled. "You used to do that on Christmas Eve. We'd tell you that Santa would only come once you were asleep, and i swore up and down that you would never get to sleep, you were too excited to open presents." Loki smiled softly as Tony spoke. "But, half an hour later I would go into your room and you were fast asleep, goat in your arms, mouth open as you made tiny snoring sounds. Damn you were cute back then. What happened?" He laughed and held his arm when she mock punched him.

Kaia stretched her arms and yawned a little. "Well, I'm gonna go back to bed now, specially since I have to take a trip out to the country." She smiled as she got up. She walked over and kissed Loki's cheek, and did the same to Tony. Tony rubbed her cheek a little and smiled. "You both know that no matter what happens, you two will always be the best to us, right? When I think back to when I was younger, all the moments with you two stand out, not the times when all the crazy shit would happen. And I know that Emma adores you two. We may be, at times, a dysfunctional family, not normal, but it's the only life that we'd ever want." She smiled and headed for the door. "By the way, she wants to name the puppy Fenrir." Kaia pulled the door closed and disappeared up the stairs.

Loki had blinked, watching her head up the stairs. Tony walked over and ran his thumb under one of Loki's eyes, wiping away a tear. "How the fuck did we get so lucky, hm?"

"I'm still trying to figure that one out," Loki responded, taking a deep breath, and smiled at Tony. "I think I'll enjoy the ride as I continue to wait for the answer."