A/N: Tässä se nyt on. Viimeinen kappale (ja samalla pisin) tähän pienokaiseen, jota aloin kirjoittamaan heinäkuussa. Ihan tulee tippa linssiin.
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“LOKI LAUFEYSON. GET YOUR ASS HERE RIGHT NOW!”
It wasn’t the best waking you could wait after a nice evening. Slowly Loki got up and managed to find his way to the living room. Thor was there with a furious look on his face and Tony stood next to him playing with some of his toys. Loki gulped; this wasn't going to end well, he realized.
“Brother! You must tell me quickly is that man with the blue box hurting you? I heard you were talking last night, and then I heard repressed screaming. Loki, please, tell me is everything alright?” Thor asked obviously worried. Tony, who had moved behind the god, raised a note so Loki could read it.
“I tried to explain him what was going on, but he’s stubborn as hell. He is really worried about you, you know.”
Loki chuckled but then shook his head. A worried Thor was uncontrollable and one of the scariest things someone could ever see. Loki had once vowed not to let his “big brother” to worry about him, but that promise had been broken many times since their childhood. Things had changed and nothing was an innocent play anymore.
“No, Thor, he’s not. I screamed because I had a nightmare. A nightmare and nothing more. You can relax now, there’s nothing to worry about. I am all right,” the god said calmly.
Thor turned towards Tony, who jammed the piece of paper into his mouth. His eyes were lunatic when he nodded firmly and answered to Thor’s unspoken question. He’s not lying.
“So… If you got nothing else to say, I’ll leave you and your… human friend alone,” Loki muffled and sent a little message to Tony’s mind.
“I’ve heard you, too.”
The engineer turned as red as his suit was. He covered his face with his hands and shook uncontrollably. Then, to Loki’s surprise, he bursted into laugh and all the gods could do was just stare him. Thor let a little smile spread across his face, even though he had no idea why the mortal was laughing. Loki kept his poker face and gritted.
“Oh, forgive me that,” Tony said after wiping tears of laugh away. “But, anyway, if this thing is done, I have a meeting with Pepper so… I should get dressed and so on. If you need me, call me. JARVIS knows how. And if you don’t need me, call me anyway.”
With that the engineer left and Loki, who wasn’t very fond for being alone with his brother, headed back to bedroom to find the Doctor resting on his bed smiling like an idiot, once again. As the god settled next him he placed a light kiss on the Doctor’s lips and cuddled closer. It felt strange how normal that everything felt; lying and cuddling together.
“I’ve been thinking this thing for the whole morning, and I’ve made up my mind,” the Doctor started and gave a serious look for Loki. He looked confused back.
“What do you mean? Tell me.”
“If you promise me you won’t get all angry and dramatic, I’ll tell it. Okay?”
Loki was silent for a moment, but then nodded. He was too curious to find out what the man was talking about.
“After the breakfast, you and I shall pay a visit for Odin. And you promised you won’t get angry, so please, don’t start to argue about this.”
The god was stunned. How did this… this… Time Lord suggest that when he had nothing to do with it?! A big ball of anger and rage and gratitude grew in him. The Doctor had no right to mess Loki’s things up, but yet the god was grateful somehow. At least there was even someone who cared about him.
“No,” Loki answered and turned around. The curiosity had killed the cat, hadn’t it? There were many things Loki could deal with, but visiting Asgard and having a little chit-chat with Odin wasn’t one of them.
Their silent moment was interrupted by a sudden scream from the room opposite theirs.
The Doctor glared Loki worried and ran out of the bedroom, making the god sigh. Always the first one helping everyone. Loki was about to follow the Time Lord, but something made him stay. He stared his hands and let his thoughts wonder. What was the Doctor to him? A lover, a boyfriend? Loki really didn’t know what had happened between them, but surely it had already formed a strong bond. But could a relationship between a Frost Giant and a Time Lord work, if one was able to travel through universes and worlds and the other one…
A sudden flashback appeared.
“Loki Laufeyson, you were once an honorable member of this family. You planned to take the throne and betray us. For your crimes I shall punish you, Frost Giant: you will be abandoned powerless to Midgard until you confess your failures. Mr. Laufeyson, this is your punishment”, Odin’s voice was cold and full of disappointment while he spoke.
The whole place was quiet when every Asgardian in the hall left. Even Frigga was gone. Loki Laufeyson stood as a dead marionette and stared towards with no thoughts in his mind. He was finally alone.
The Frost Giant shook the flashback away and made his way to room opposite theirs. There were only four people in the room: Natasha, who was sitting on the bed shaking; Coulson, whose face was unreadable; Clint, who had turned his back to others and stared silently out of the window; and the Doctor, who was lost in his thoughts.
Natasha glared Loki when he asked what had happened. She didn’t say a word, only studied the design of the carpet under her feet. Tony responded:
“She saw a gigantic spider on her bed," Coulson let Loki know shaking his head. "Don’t ask me how that tiny thing got here; I’m not used to see bugs in Stark's tower.”
“I know that, Phil. It was just some sort of bad joke of Clint’s, I think. I’m not overly fond of bugs or spiders or anything small that moves. Now could you all get your asses out of my room, I have a few words to say to Clint about this. Uhm, Loki, can stay for a minute?”
The expression on Loki’s face was both amused and worried. Things totally happened too fast here, it was like mortals were afraid of running out of time.
He stayed with Natasha and Clint. It took a while before Black Widow stopped shaking and looked into Loki’s eyes. Clint came to sit next to her, still looking away from the others.
As Natasha spoke her voice was colourless.
“Loki, we need to tell you something. I’m pregnant, the child is Clint’s. Before you say anything I beg you to not tell about this to the others. The time’s not right. Not yet.”
The Frost Giant was slightly stunned, not knowing what to say. That’s nice to hear? I’m glad to hear that? He really didn’t know, this whole situation was new to him. He made up his mind when he saw an opened pregnancy test on the bathroom’s table. Maybe this was their way to show him that he was somehow cared.
“I’m glad to notice you trust me this much to tell me. Don’t get me wrong, but how you’re supposed to raise a child when anything - whatdoyoucallit – supernatural can happen without any warnings?”
Loki Laufeyson was shocked to found himself caring about a mortal woman and her child without knowing them better. Something really must have happened, he realized, for this is not part of my normal nature.
“Yeah, we know.”
It was Clint who talked this time. Loki studied the man’s expressions and found him to be serious.
“But we have to. I don’t know do you care or not, but it’s our child and we’re not letting it to be alone. If something happens for both of us at least we know she or he won’t be alone. This world, this Midgard as you call it, is a cruel place to raise children. And yet it is done all the time. And guess what? The world is getting better a day by day because of those children who believe in peace and love instead of money and power like their parents. It’s like freaking sixties again.”
Loki Laufeyson had never heard someone talk so much and so properly at the same time. He was slightly amazed by Hawkeye’s talking skills, and he had to shake his head to get his thoughts clear.
“I’ve seen it by myself, but thanks for the information. I think I still have few other things to do, so if we’re done I’d go now. And don’t worry, I won’t tell to anyone. Not even to the Doctor.”
As he walked back to his and the Doctor’s bedroom he had a strange feeling in his stomach. It wasn’t a bad feeling, a good feeling instead, but he didn’t recognize it. He told about it to the Doctor, who smiled.
“That, Loki Laufeyson, is called happiness. It don’t matter what you say about these persons you now live with, they’ve all accepted you to be part of them. You have a new home with people who care about you. And somewhere deep there,” he poked Loki’s chest to the place where the heart is, “you’ve accepted yourself to be part of them.”
As he looked up on the Doctor’s face he smiled a little, and the Doctor smiled widely back. The Asgardian nodded, not sure about the reason why, but he still nodded.
“As you’ve new found this new skill of yours, caring I mean, I really think we have a visit to pay. So, shall we go to our first adventure together? Odin might even like me.”
They rose up laughing and went to the living room. The Avengers were there with Coulson.
“We’ll be back before sunset,” he told and glared quickly the expressions on their faces.
As the two aliens headed back to the basement to get the TARDIS and started her, Loki Laufeyson realized something he would never admit aloud; the Doctor was right. He really had learned how to care.
