Sixty
I woke up to crying. The bed was cold, the room was cold. Loki was not in bed with me.
"Loki? Are you alright?" I yelled to the room, hoping for an answer. There was no, so I followed the sound of crying. It led me to the bathroom.
"Loki?" I called again. When he didn't answer me, I opened the door. He was lying on the floor in his Jotun form in a pool of dark blue liquid. "Loki what happened?"
"I don't know." He said through tears. I knelt down next to him, examining where the wound was. It had healed.
"Is this blood? Where is it coming from?" I asked. He touched between his legs, his fingers coated in blood, I gasped.
"I don't know what's happening." He said sobbing softly again.
"Jarvis, wake Jane. Tell her Lana's sick again and that she needs to get her ass up here now!" I shouted at the AI. "Jarvis I also need a scan on Loki, tell me what's wrong."
I panicked. I knew I panicked. I didn't know what was happening or why. I cleaned up as much of the blue blood as I could.
"Sir, Miss Foster is here." Jarvis chirped.
"Override locks, let her in." I yelled. Loki still sat sobbing.
"Tony?" She asked.
"Bathroom!"
Jane pushed the door open to Loki, still in his Jotun form, myself holding towels coated in blood. I recognized the look in her eyes and reached for her as she passed out. I lowered her to the floor. I sat next to her, my face in my hands.
"Loki, I need you to be Lana right now. I'm getting Bruce. And I'm going to have to have Thor come get her."
"What if I can't."
"I'll risk exposing us to find out why you're bleeding all over." I got up to find my phone. I returned to Lana sitting on the bathroom floor. The blue blood now a thick red.
"Bruce, I need you. Lana woke up bleeding. Yeah, I called Jane first. She's passed out on the floor. Please hurry." I hung up and picked up Jane. I set her on the couch and returned to sit with Lana. I held her hand as we waited.
"It's going to be alright." I caressed her cheek.
"I trust you." She said leaning into my touch.
"Sir, Dr. Banner and Mr. Odinson have arrived." Jarvis chirped.
"I'll be right back, I'm grabbing those read outs too." I got up to let them in. Lana didn't look well, she'd lost what looked like a lot of blood. Bruce went in to her assess her, while I grabbed the readouts to give to him. Thor looked lost.
"Big guy, Jane's ok, there was just a lot of blood and she fainted. I caught her before she hit the floor. Take her back to your place, but let me know when she wakes." I explained.
"No, I'll stay until I know your lady is safe. Jane may sleep where she is." He said, clasping a hand to my shoulder. I groaned, some from the pain of his grip, some from the fact he was staying. I suddenly had a bad feeling.
I walked back to where I had left Bruce with Lana. I pushed past him to rearrange the towel she'd draped over herself. Bruce had written some things down when he was asking her questions. He was looking over the readouts I'd given him. Thor had retreated back to Jane. Bruce draped an arm over me to close in our speaking space.
"Tony, these readout say her uterus is distended, I want to run an ultrasound."
"And ultrasound, what for?" I chewed on the inside of my cheek worried for her.
"She is, or was pregnant. I want to make sure." He said digging in his bag. I could've fainted at this point. I held strong, knowing she looked ready to pass out. "I had a feeling about this, when you said she spent three weeks vomiting every morning."
I knelt next to Lana. He knelt on the other side. We started rearranging her towel, she protested.
"Lana, love bug, he needs to do this." I grabbed another towel to cover her breasts and rearranged the other to expose her belly and still cover her sex. Bruce laid down the blue gel to aid the ultrasound. He pressed the wand to her lower abdomen. He searched over her, looking at the little readout screen. She groaned in pain. We waited what felt like forever.
"I have bad news for you. Lana, you've had a miscarriage. The bleeding looks like it's ceased, but you still need rest." Bruce finally said as he started putting things away. I cleaned her up with a wet washcloth.
"Miscarriage?" She said weakly.
"Yes, you were pregnant. You've lost the child. Did you suffer a trauma to yourself recently?" Bruce said still packing things away.
"Lana?" I held her as she passed out. She immediately reverted to the Jotun state. Probably from blood loss. Bruce turned and stood in shock, not knowing what to say or do. Thor took this opportunity to see what was going on.
"Stark! What is going on? Where is your woman? Who is this Jotun?" I could see the anger rising in him.
"Thor, now is not the time. Let me get him in bed so he may rest. He's lost a lot of blood and he needs to heal." I tried to explain. I picked Loki up and carried him to our bedroom.
"Bruce, I need your help." I yelled.
"You better tell me what's going on." He said.
"Yeah, I'll explain it in a minute. Can you clear this bed? Thor, can you get new sheets out of the hall closet?" Both men went to work as I held Loki. "I'm sorry baby, I didn't mean for everyone to find out this way. I'll handle it." I cooed to him. Thor and Bruce made the bed quickly, and I was able to tuck him in.
"Rest well, Loki" I whispered and kissed his forehead. I ushered everyone out and closed the door, all but a crack.
"Loki?" Bruce asked.
"My brother?" Thor boomed. I shushed him.
"Yes, your brother. And he's just suffered a horrible loss. We both did. Would you mind not killing me right now."
"Why does he look like that and how did he even have a miscarriage anyway?" Leave it to Bruce to let his inner scientist out.
"Remember Thor said he was adopted? He's Jotun, without his magic he normally looks like that." I tried to explain.
"Miscarriage? What is this word?" Thor asked, still looking ready to kill me.
"It means, he's lost the baby." Jane approached having just awoken and joined the conversation. She saw the tension and tried to diffuse Thor.
"Baby? What baby?" His voice rising, despite all of our hushing.
"Our baby." I said. The shock of what I said sending tears into my eyes. "He took a bullet last night during the bank robbery. It must have affected the baby. I never even knew."
"My brother is male, there is no possibility."
"Maybe you should speak more to him, instead of showing him up." I felt my own anger rising.
"Boys!" Jane yelled. "Yelling isn't going to help anyone right now. Loki and Tony need time to mourn. Bruce, go read the papers if you're that curious. Thor, you will leave them alone this instant. Come back another day to figure out why they love each other."
"Thank you Jane, can you find Natasha for me. She'd want to know." I went in to be with Loki. He was still asleep. I sat next to him, petting his hair. I would deal with the pending crisis later.