Another chapter done! in this one, Amber and Loki go for a visit to the doctor and get maternity clothes, the avengers find out about her big secret, and Loki starts imagining what it would be like after their child is born!

disclaimer: don't own anyone except oc

warning: cranky pregnant Amber, language

Maternity clothes and ultrasound visits

Tony POV:

6 more weeks without Amber being around, not knowing what happened with her was nerve-wracking, we tried video games, exercising, even going to nightclubs and it still wasn't doing anything to simmer our frantic stress over what we had found, I doubt alcohol would do me any good, she had been trying to get me off Alcohol for some time. Even Pepper was getting slightly worried as she was still processing the news we told her about Amber being trapped on Asgard. "Well, to top it all off, we think she may have been on earth twice because there had been an alarm going off at SHIELD, and at a department store, some people saw two women at the store, one looked like Amber and the other looked like a feminine version of Loki and the 'Loki lady' threw a man at the lingerie rack after groping her tits." I continued. Pepper was now flopping on the couch rubbing her eyes.

Later on, I had a meeting with some people about the arc reactor technology, but not without me having thoughts about her situation, being with 'Mr. full-tilt-diva' and all, and more than likely having to endure the stuff he would be throwing at her. 'Amber, hope you're okay, kid….' I thought to myself as Clint was picking out a movie to watch.

Amber POV:

13 weeks pregnant, the baby by now was the size of a peach or a lemon, and we needed to find out the gender of our baby. I knew by now that the ears were developing alongside the reproductive organs, but I needed an ultrasound to make sure that the pregnancy was going smoothly. But, it was all a matter of telling my husband about what needed to be done for the baby. "Hey, Loki, I think we need to consider getting an ultrasound for the baby." I said while he was reading a spell book. "What is an 'ultrasound?' darling?" he asked while still reading. "Well, a doctor basically puts this device on a pregnant woman's belly to find out how her baby is doing, what gender, and all that stuff." I explained getting dressed. He closed the book, and looked at me with an angry expression on his face. "You want to go back to Midgard, the very place that's right now dangerous for all of us, just to 'check on our baby!?' Amber, what if they should see us, and report us to anyone, especially Fury?!" he said frantic. "Loki, I'm very good friends with someone, she's an ob/gyn, trust me, she can keep all of this a secret, so try to relax, alright?" I said trying to reason with him. He was still rattled processing this, which was understandable, considering that he is a fugitive of both Asgard and earth. "Alright wife, but while we are on Midgard, you need some bigger clothing, as the ones you have won't do you any good during this pregnancy that we are going through." He said breathing deeply to calm his nerves down, but I massaged the bond spot, trying to soothe him. I got dressed, but in exchange, Loki had washed me up in the bathtub first before dressing up, he wanted to bind my limbs so I wouldn't move, but he wasn't that desperate, yet he was protective of our baby. That still annoyed me to death, but I needed to start getting used to it somehow. We were dressed and ready for the doctor's appointment that I would schedule.

We were back on earth, with Loki in a disguise, and I called my friend, Dr. Angela Harrington, and I knew I needed to somehow explain this to her without any issues going on. "Angie, is that you?" I asked. "Amber, how are you girl?" she asked happily. "I'm fine, but do you have any appointments at this time?" I asked. "No, I don't, why?" she asked suspicious. "I'll explain it when I get to your office with my…husband." I said looking at him, who was still antsy over this trip that I somehow made. "Husband!? Oh, you better get your ass to my office, stat!" she said before hanging up the phone. I put my phone away, which thankfully still had a full battery, and took Loki's hand before heading over to the doctor's office, but it wasn't without him getting crazy, I could tell that his instincts were going haywire and he was trying so hard to control it while we were on earth.

When we reached the doctor's office, I checked in, saying my friend's name and we sat on the chairs, taking in the sight of the other people in the waiting room. There were a few pregnant women like me in there, some reading an issue of OK magazine, others preferred people magazine, but I was reading a women's day magazine while I looked over at Loki and his eyes were turning between green and crimson from sitting here all day long, and his skin started turning between the regular pale skin to cobalt. I took his hand in mine, rubbing his knuckles with my thumb, trying to get him to calm down. "Loki, I know you really don't want to be here, but this is for the baby because we want to make sure he or she is healthy and that there are no issues with it, ok?" I said trying to soothe him from his antsy movements. "I'm trying, but something about this place makes me uneasy." He said shifting around in his seat.

"Amber Carter?" one of the assistants asked. Loki and I stood up and walked with her, heading for the doctor's office. We got to the office, where she told me to lie back on the patient's chair, waiting for her to get here. I was lying on there, waiting for my friend to get here, but Loki was still antsy due to his instincts. When she came in, she saw my stomach and Loki, shutting the door so that it was just the three of us. "Holy shit, Amber! You're pregnant!" she whisper-yelled. Loki growled, causing me to glare at him. "So, Mr. Cranky pants here is your husband, huh?" she asked quirking an eyebrow up. "It's a LOT more complicated than that, Angie, but can you keep this a secret?" I asked pleadingly. "Girl, you've been my friend since middle school, so I can and WILL keep your secret, if it kills me." she said doing the 'cross my heart and hope to die' gesture. She went to get the ultrasound machine all hooked up and ready to go and grabbed the jelly that was needed for my stomach. "Ok, just sit back and relax, and leave the rest to me, girl!" she said squirting the jelly on my tummy, making me jump a little. Loki in turn got tense. "Hey, caffeine boy, it's ok, that sort of reaction happens all the time for first-timers." Angie said spreading the cold jelly on my tummy. The ultrasound was on and the wand was on my tummy, looking around for our baby. "Ok, where are you, junior?" Angie said to herself. "Aha! There you are, little baby!" she said overjoyed that she found our baby, and it looked adorable. "You want to know what the gender is for your baby?" she asked us. She went looking for the baby's 'possessions', and we found something amazing. "You guys are having a beautiful baby…..BOY!" she said finding what looked like a little penis growing in between the legs, confirming for us it was not a girl. Loki looked like he was about to cry when he saw that we were having a boy. "Our son…..he's truly in there." He said wiping his eyes. "So, now that we have the gender, think you can tell me what's going on that's so crazy, that I can't tell anyone about it?" Angie asked wiping the jelly from my tummy.

I told her about what had been going on with me, and her eyes widened to the size of saucer plates as I even explained to her about what was going on, even to where Loki took the time to kiss my jelly free womb and whisper some things to our baby boy. When I finished, she looked like the words got flushed out of her, trying to think of something to say to both of us. "Wow, that's quite a story…..hope nothing happens with you guys, but I will keep this a secret, I promise you that!" Angie said when we were leaving the office. When we were out and about, Loki started dragging me along the sidewalk. "Loki, where are we going?" I asked trying to get him to slow down. "We are getting you new clothes, remember?" he asked as we went to another department store.

Loki POV:

A little boy, growing in her womb, such a blessing for us, naturally I wanted to get some 'maternity clothes' for Amber, simply because the clothes she had wouldn't do any good for her much longer as the months would go by. As we were browsing around the place, looking at maternity clothes for her, she got a little impatient, indicating to me that she hated shopping. "Dearest wife, please pick something or we will be here all day long…" I said picking out a shirt that had the word 'Baby' on it and an arrow that would pointed to my tummy if I wore it. "Fine, but I hate shopping, my parents kept dragging me to different stores, and although I was cooperative, I hated being in certain stores unless I needed new clothes or something of that level." She said finding a pair of elastic pants that looked like would fit her. I would've bought the whole store if I wanted, but she didn't want to attract attention. I picked out sweaters, dresses, shirts, some pajamas, and had her try them on in a dressing room that they had. "Are you serious?! These are too many, even for you!" she yelled as I put the bundles of clothes in a dressing room with her. "There's no such thing as too many for a prince like me, darling, now go on and let me see you in the clothes!" I said shutting the door and waiting for her to try them on. "I'll show you too many, you prick!" she grumbled as I heard some rustling in the dressing room.

A few minutes later, she came out with a red maternity shirt on with a bow towards her left shoulder, and a pair of the green maternity pants that I found on a rack. "I feel funny in this, although it's comfortable." She said after doing a 360 for me. "You look delightful in that attire, especially with my colors on the trousers." I said proudly. She rolled her eyes at me, groaning as she went back to the dressing room, took a few more minutes and came out in a dress that was a more floral pattern and I felt sensations in my groin. "Oh, my bride you look luscious, I rather like you in a floral pattern…." I said licking my lips seductively. "Will you knock it off, you know the baby can hear, right?!" she said pointing at her tummy, which contained our son. I just smirked at her as she was in the dressing room trying on more clothes that I picked out. After some more time of doing this, I bought all the maternity clothes for her, I didn't care what she said I would spoil her whether she liked it or not!

She was seething a little when we went to eat something. "Ugh, I hate shopping, and I hate being spoiled, I feel like somehow I need to pay you back somehow, and I don't want to be a gold digger!" she said eating the rest of her lunch, trying to avoid having tears in her eyes. "Amber, you are not a 'gold digger' as your kind would be saying, and besides, little Ragnvald would agree with me on this." I said to her in an assuring tone. "Look, I—'Ragnvald,' where did that come from!?" she asked baffled. "That's our child's name, it means 'Powerful judgment' in asgardian, dearest." I said munching on a french fry. "I think I should have a say as to what his name would be, don't you think?!" she asked exasperated. I laughed, and it even was louder when my son sent me his feelings of contentment at his name. "Ugh, so 'Ragnvald' it is then, apparently…" she said sipping on her juice, which I made her order as carbonated drinks, or 'soda' as she calls is bad for little Ragnvald in his development. I took her hand in mine, feeling some anger and frustration from my bride, trying to calm her mind down from all that's happened on earth thus far. "Amber, you are going to have a say in some things, but even you would find that 'Ragnvald' is a fantastic name for our child, but some I will let you have your say in, little bride." I said kissing her fingertips.

After we were finished, we were back home, where we belonged, at least for right now. She went to our bed, probably to take a nap due to the pregnancy, and also the events of what happened: finding out we were having a son, I got her new clothes in a different spot. She might not have been used to me spoiling her, but she needed to adapt to the idea of me providing things for her as her husband and companion.

Steve POV:

We were all in Africa fighting off a bunch of Robots, courtesy of Doctor Doom as a way to take our minds off of Amber's situation with Loki. God or not if he did do any harm to her, I would kill him myself, I was that way about women and nothing would change that, she could take care of herself fine, but even she would need to be protected at all costs from someone like him. Thor was battling the bots with his hammer, and throwing lightning at them, Clint fired his arrows at them, and we were all battling them, trying to stay focused on what we needed to do in order to win this battle. "Thor, behind you!" I yelled seeing a giant robot behind Thor and he turned around and threw his hammer at it, making a hole as it went through the bot. after it was all done with none of us seriously hurt, the people safe, and Doom in custody, we went to SHIELD for the debriefing of what was going on, which took too long. And we went back to Stark Tower to rest after another day of saving the world.

We were watching Tony play Wii sports resort with Pepper; of course Pepper was beating him at swordplay much to his dismay. Natasha and Clint were laughing at him, I spit my drink out from seeing the look on his face when she hit his character when the stage was gone and he fell in the water. "Let us feast in Pepper's victory against Man of Iron!" Thor said heading for the kitchen. We were all eating dinner, talking about the battle in Africa, Pepper beating Tony bad, inducing a blush from him, and eventually talking about Amber and how we were supposed to find her now after what happened with Asgard during Loki's sentencing. "Don't worry, I had gotten a tip from somebody that claimed to have seen Amber and rock of ages at a doctor's office sometime today, and after talking with the doctor, she made me promise not to tell anyone about what she would show me and…let me tell you, it could make Fury's head explode like a nuclear missile." He said pulling something from his pocket and getting up from his chair. We followed him towards the main room, where he did a majority of his work. "Ok JARVIS, light 'er up!" he said while typing a few things on that weird looking remote he had, and put something that looked like a flash drive in a hard drive (still learning modern tech!) and it showed what looked to be documents and what we saw made our jaws drop and eyes widen. "AMBER'S PREGNANT!?" we shouted in unison. "Yep, that's a picture of Amber and Loki's baby, so we can't tell anyone about this and this information never leaves the room or tower, agreed?" Tony said turning off the screen. "AGREED!" we all shouted knowing that we couldn't tell Fury about this or all kinds of hell would break free and leave no survivors.

Amber POV:

So, our baby's a boy and will be named 'Ragnvald', I will admit it was a good name for him, but I didn't want to name our baby something that would be 'bullied on the playground' crazy. I hated being spoiled not only because I wasn't and would never be, a gold digger, but it was because I wasn't used to being given stuff all the time just because they wanted to or wanted to provide me with something nice, I always had to buy something myself, whether it would be a CD or a shirt. I was just sitting on the bed, wearing the maternity clothes, and reading a book by Christine Feehan, it was called 'Shadow Game', I remember reading a book from a popular series of hers called 'Dark Secret', I felt really bad for the heroine as she tried to dodge her feelings for an arrogant Carpathian named Rafael De La Cruz, all while trying to protect her ranch from him and many other evil people. Let's say I never wanted to read that book ever again!

I heard the bathroom door opening and saw Loki with only his trousers on, going straight towards the bed, sitting behind me with one arm around my chest and the other one going around my stomach, splaying his hand all over it, rubbing it gently as if I was fragile, even though I wasn't at all fragile. "Hey, you ok?" I asked closing my book. I felt him nod, considering his cheek was on top of my head and his hand was still smoothing over my stomach, which contained our little boy. "Still happy that there is a cute little boy in my stomach?" I asked teasingly, hoping to cheer him up after what happened with me on earth. He squeezed me tight as he nipped my ear, inducing a squeal from me. "Imagine, a little boy with your eyes and my hair, playing in a garden while his daddy would chase him, while his gorgeous mother would follow suit." He said in a low, sexy tenor, inducing a blush from me and fits of giggles. "Or, you in a rocking chair, breastfeeding our child while smoothing your fingers on his head, earning a little smile from him while I would look on, smiling wistfully at the both of you." He continued, making me laugh even harder. "Maybe, he would play in the snow, while I would hold you tight, making you lean against me." he finished ending with me having relieve myself from laughing so hard because of him saying those things about what might happen after Ragnvald would be born. Despite him being somewhat egotistic and arrogant, he could be sweet and silly, and, I can't even believe I'm saying this, romantic even. I somehow loved him perfectly for those things, his arrogance, not so much. 1 trimester done, 2 more to go, I hope that Ragnvald would be alright in my womb.

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