- Imagine Loki and Tony -- married, having adopted Peter. Loki is pregnant.
- For nine thrilling months Tony freaks out, thinking that he’s going to kill the child if Loki ever has to leave, and Loki takes every day to soothe Tony and teach him something new about being a father.
- A dark night, Loki wakes up in pain. She wakes Tony up and Tony gets Natasha, who kicks Tony out so she can deliver the baby.
- After hours and hours, Natasha comes out, looking exhausted and red-eyed, holding a bundle of blankets. Tony stands frantically, asking over and over what’s wrong, is the baby okay, is Loki okay.
- Natasha hands him the baby, who is blissfully asleep and a shade of pale-blue with faint Jotun marks. “The baby’s healthy.”
- And Tony sees it in her eyes, knows before she says it. “Loki… didn't make it.” Tony whirls into the room, his hands shaking and eyes blurring with tears.
- His husband (for Loki is male now) is lying on the bed. Dead. Behind him, softly, Natasha asks, “What are you going to name her?”
- “Amelia Loki,” Tony says immediately, still in shock. Loki had liked the name Amelia.
- Peter takes it hard, but he takes to Amelia just like a big brother. Tony starts sleeping less and earing less, missing Loki and worried about how he’s going to be a single parent. Until one night, when he actually sleeps, and he has a dream with Loki in it, who hugs him and murmurs, “Don’t forget to take care of yourself for me, okay?” It’s less of a problem after that.
- Tony fills every hall of Stark tower with pictures of Loki so that Amelia grows up knowing her mother’s face. Peter goes to college a few years later but he’s nearby in case Tony needs help taking care of Amelia.
- When she’s five or six, Amelia asks, “Who is she?” and points to a picture of Tony and Loki kissing. Tony smiles sadly and puts Amelia on his lap and tells her, “That’s your mother. She died when you were born, but she loved you more than anything.” Amelia didn’t understand yet but she grew to know that face almost as well as her father’s or her brother’s.
- Amelia shows an immediate affinity for sorcery so Thor takes her on weekends for classes in Asgard. She learns how to make an illusion for herself and it doesn't take long for her to take on the dark hair and pale complexion of her mother.
- Every year on his and Loki’s anniversary, Tony has Thor take Amelia for an evening and he walks the city, attending shops and seeing sights. He speaks as if Loki is standing right next to him, the one night when he lets himself imagine Loki is still with him. “You’ll like this -- the view from the bridge is absolutely breathtaking. They’re not stars but the city lights sure sparkle like ‘em.”
- When Amelia is sixteen, she starts making bad decisions and Tony gets worried. They have an argument and Tony goes to his workshop, frustrated and concerned. Until he hears a voice in his ear, just a whisper saying “go and check on Amelia” but it sounds so much like Loki--
- So Tony goes to check on her and she’s lying on her bed crying, so Tony just goes and rubs her back until she calms down a little and mumbles through tears, “I wish I had known mom…” and Tony has FRIDAY pull up everything he has on Loki, and they spend a night and a day looking through old pictures and videos from FRIDAY’s security cameras.
- Amelia learns that Loki was a Jotun and an amazing sorcerer and could even change gender. Amelia learns that she is going to live much longer than a normal human. Tony gives her something, a little orb containing access to the pocket dimension Loki used to use. She inherits Loki’s things.
- Peter and her, despite being more than ten years apart, stay close as their lives wind on. Years later, Tony lying in a hospital bed with his children sitting beside him with tears in their eyes. It’s almost time.
- He murmurs, “Did I do well, love? Did they turn out okay?” as he exhales for the last time. Peter and Amelia cry for hours together.
- And Tony hears a melodic voice reply, "You did wonderful, love. You did wonderful."
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