#uncle!loki

“Red or white tonight?”

You swallowed thickly, realizing you were going to have toshare the news much sooner thanintended. “Ah… Neither…”

Loki’s brow furrowed, eyes narrowing as they looked at you. “…you’venever been one to turn down wine before.”

“…well, I’ve never been pregnant, before, so…” You let yourcareful sentence sink in, and it only took a moment for Loki to get it.

“Are you?” Loki’s happiness for you was evident, and as soonas you nodded happily, they embraced you warmly, albeit much more gently thanprobably necessary. “That’s wonderful to hear. I’m so happy for you. When?”

“Later this year. Around the holidays.”

Loki nodded, and drew back, taking your hands in yours. “Nomore missions. From here on out. Don’t even try to argue, it isn’t happening.And just so you know, yes I will acceptmy title of Godfather or whatever it is your humans call it, and I will begoing by Uncle Loki and nothing else.”

All you could do was laugh. Leave it to Loki to haveeverything all planned out before you’d even said another word. “I supposeUncle Loki does have a nice ring toit. And just so you know, you’d better not spoil my baby.”

Loki only smiled innocently. “Whyever would I do that?”

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Over the course of the next eight months, your friendshipwith Loki strengthened in a way that you never knew that it could. They hadalways been protective of you, but now that you were pregnant, they didn’t let anything happen to you. No wrong looks,no arguments from anyone, stranger or Avenger, and they always made sure youwere comfortable before they themself were.

If you were hungry, Loki was the first to jump to their feetto get you a snack. If you complained of sore muscles, Loki was the first to bringyou a cup of warm tea and some baby-safe pain relieving cream.

In short, Loki was spoiling you and the baby.

The closer you got to your due date, the less you camearound the Compound, but that didn’t stop Loki from coming to visit you, oreven setting everything up for your baby shower, so you wouldn’t have to worry about it. And then there were the nearnightly calls from them, just “checking to make sure the little one hasn’tdecided to make her grand entrance yet” or to “see if you needed dinnerdelivered, I know your favorites.”

And then your water broke, and in the whirlwind ofeverything you barely managed to textLoki that it was time, and no sooner did you arrive at the hospital did youfind Loki already standing in the waiting room.

“I told them you were coming. You should be all set with aroom. I’ll wait out here until she’s ready for visitors.”

You couldn’t do much more than nod in agreement, gratefulthat Loki had not only gotten everything as set up as possible, but was alsobeing gracious enough to take a step back and let you and your partner getthrough the birth as painlessly as possible.

A few hours later, and you had a very calm baby in yourarms, and a very anxious looking best friend standing at the door, hesitatingto come in.

“I’ve never known the God of Mischief to be shy,” youteased, gesturing for Loki to come in.

“…well, I’ve never been a Godfather slash Uncle before, so…”Loki stepped into the room, and you found that they had a vase with flowers inone arm, and a tiny little gift bag in the other. “For you, and for the littleone.”

You smiled tiredly, watching as Loki set both on the tableat the edge of the bed before stepping closer to look at the baby better.

“She’s the most perfect little thing,” they finally saidafter a long moment of just watching the baby stretch and squirm calmly. “Shecame quickly.”

“Well, she was excited to meet her Uncle Loki.”

Loki laughed, and you did as well, before looking up atthem. “Are you really going to make me ask if you want to hold her?”

“….can I?” Loki’s voice held a reverence you seldom heardfrom them.

“Of course you can. You’re her Godfather slash Uncle.”

Loki laughed, and carefully, as though she were made of themost fragile glass, picked up the baby, holding her so that they could get aproper look at her. “…she has your eyes.”

“We thought the same.”

“She’s quieter than you, though.”

You rolled your eyes. “Great, so then you’ll be watching herevery night when she’s fussy. Got it.”

“Y/N, you’re never getting this baby back from me as it is. Sorry, that’s just how it is now.”

You knew Loki more than well enough by now to know they wereteasing, even though you could clearlysee Loki didn’t want to give the baby back.

“Ten more minutes, that’s it,” you teased, smiling as youwatched Loki smile along as the baby cooed and stretched her arms. “Butremember, she’s gonna be here for forever.Plenty of time to hold her again.”

“Oh, I’m aware. She’s going to be so spoiled. I know you told me not to, but I mean, look at her. She deserves it.”

“Yeah, yeah, I know…”

“And she’s under my protection from here on out. Nobody’sever going to touch her. Not withouther permission.”

“…you’re an idiot, you know that?”

“Your idiot. Andhers now, too.”

You smiled, laughing softly whenyou heard the baby coo as if she were agreeing. “Aren’t we lucky.”

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True to their word, as your daughter went from newborn toinfant to toddler, Loki stayed a fixture in your life. They were your go-tobabysitter when you needed a break, and the first one you called for advice whenyou were overwhelmedly stressed.

And just as they promised, they protected her just asfiercely as you and your partner did. Any scraped knees or skinned palms weremet immediately with a band-aid and a silly story to distract her, oftentimesbefore you could even manage to get to her. Tantrums were met with coddling andwhatever silly children’s song they could recall hearing you play for her.

“Now is that anyway to treat your favorite uncle my little Star Sweeper?” I groaned at the nickname.  Ever since I was born, my uncle always referred to me as his “Little Star Sweeper”. At first it was cute when I was like 5 but I’m 17 now, I’m not a little girl anymore so why must he always call me that.

“Uncle Loki, you know how I feel about that name now, so could you please stop treating me like I’m 5 years old?”

“But you’ll always be my Star Sweeper, no matter how old you are” he then brought me into his chest smothering me.

“Geez, you’re worse than dad and Uncle Tony combined, now can we please get out of here before someone sees us”.

“Leave that to me”. Soon we were back in the tower and I immediately forced myself from my uncle’s embrace and took out my phone and began a group chat about our lake house getaway before we become seniors and maybe even plan another trip after graduation next year before we all head out into the world as adults.  “Umm (y/n), do you mind putting the phone for one second and at least give me a proper hello”. I looked up seeing Uncle Loki having his arms open for a hello hug.

“Hello and goodbye” I then used my magic to teleport from the living room to my bedroom and made sure to put a protective seal by my door, windows and vents to make sure Uncle Loki didn’t come in.

Now don’t get me wrong I still love him but he just hovers over me like an annoying bug sometimes, I swear if I didn’t know any better I’d say he was my father and not my father Thor, at least he gives me some independence.

As I continued to chat with my groupie throughout the rest of the week and pack for our lake house getaway, Uncle Loki had been constantly persistent in wanting to know what was going on but I made sure to attack back with sassy remarks or use my magic to just disappear.

“Okay so we’ll leave in three days and make sure to bring your swimwear, uhh hell yeah I’m bringing the (f/c) one. Makes me feel like a sext badass warrior. Okay (bffl/n) yeah I’ll see you then. I know I’m psyched too, okay dude, see yah bye~” I hung up the phone and set it down as I took out my (f/c) bathing suit.

I’ll have to give thanks to Aunt Nat, big sister Wanda and Aunt Sif for the training, without their help I would’ve never been able to fit into this sexy thing.  I playfully modeled in front of my mirror when my closet door came shooting outwards and my uncle jumped out saying.

“What the Hel is this!?”

“God damn it haven’t you ever heard of privacy!?”

“That’s not important the real question is what do you think you’re doing with that!?” He pointed at my bathing suit and I said.

“Would you calm down Uncle Loki it’s just a bathing suit, all of my friends are bringing ones just like these”.

“Over my dead body will my little Star be walking out of this tower dressed like that!”

“Did you really just say that? Oh my God you really just said that didn’t you!?” I walked out of my room with Uncle Loki tailing right behind me.

“Hold it right there young lady we are not done yet!”

“Well I’m done with you!” I cried out.

“You better change that tone of yours right now missy, as long as I’m here and your father isn’t, I am in charge and my responsibility”.

“Well I wish father was here instead of you”. I muttered.

“What was that you said?” He sneered.

“What you didn’t hear me? I said I wish father was here instead of you!”

“Alright, you leave me no choice, you are grounded and you’re not going on the trip of yours either”.

“WHAT!? This is so unfair!!”

“Unfair?”

“Yes! You walk around telling what to do, what not to do, treating me like you’re my father well—you’re not my father! I am the daughter of Thor Odinson and Jane Foster. You’re are nothing but a selfish, coldhearted, silver tongue, BEAST!” SLAP!!

I suddenly found myself on the ground and pain started forming on my right cheek.  Silence pierced the air as I slowly turned and looked up to see my uncle Loki with his hand raised and a venomous look in his eyes.

“Loki!” my father’s voice cried out.  Loki turned to see all the Avengers standing there in shock and anger at what they had just seen, when he looked to me his eyes suddenly turned into pure horror.

“Oh Gods, (y/n) I—I didn’t mean to I—” tears filled my eyes and I used my magic to disappear back into my room, locking all entry ways in and sobbed into my pillows.

Even with every fight we’ve had, every disagreement, not once, not once has Loki ever hit me. Even fights that were this big he never once raised his hand to hurt me.  I continued to cry until I cried myself to sleep.

I didn’t come out. I couldn’t, I just couldn’t look my family in the eye after what had happened yesterday nor could I face Uncle Loki again.  I had used my healing abilities to heal the bruise that had formed overnight but the emotional pain I couldn’t heal.

Pietro and Wanda came downstairs with solemn looks on their faces.

“Any luck?” asked Bruce.

“No she still von’t come out” said Wanda.

“Poor kid” stated Tony solemnly.

“I even offered my chocolate stash as a reward but even zhat didn’t do anything” said Pietro. The twins sat down by the bar beside Tony, Bruce and Nat.  Thor then came in and Steve asked him.

“Still not talking?”

“Afraid not, through everything my brother has done I’ve never seen him this far gone”.

“Well he should feel guilty after what he did to (n/n) he’s lucky that I didn’t have a gun in my hands when we came back from our mission” Bucky snapped.

“Easy Buck” stated Steve.

“No, no Cap he’s right, Loki should pay for what he did to (n/n), I get first crack at him though first”.

“My friends please, now I know you are still sore even now about my brother, but you must remember that ever since she was born, Loki has always loved (y/n) so much, even with all the fights and the bickering that happened after she became a young woman. Let me try to convince my brother to at least apologize to her, maybe that’ll soften the relationship between the two of them”.

“That is true. I have heard from young (y/n)’s mind that if an apology was made between her and Mr. Laufeyson then she could come out from her room” stated Vision.

“Vis, we talked about this” Wanda stated softly.

“The Vision is right, I will talk to Loki and if I have to I’ll force him out of his room and into (y/n)’s until they both work it out together”.  Thor then left his friends and went back to his brother’s room.

Thor entered inside only to see Loki in the same place as he always has been, in the corner of his room, furniture turned over and his physical appearance pale and sorrow-filled.

“Loki, if you do not fix your crime against my daughter I will have no choice but to use force on both of you until you both work out an apology together”.  Loki remained silent until he finally stated.

“Did you see the way she—looked at me?” Loki looked up at Thor with red eyes that were still gleaming with tears.  “I never wanted her hurt, but it won’t matter now. She was right. I am truly nothing, but a beast”.

“No brother, my daughter was just mad, she loves you and is equally heartbroken as you are right now. You cannot let what she said get to you, fix your mistake and put it right. If you let this continue on, you’ll regret it for the rest of your life”. With that being said, Loki knew what he had to do, he didn’t believe that it would work nor did he think he deserved forgiveness but he just had to at least tell his precious star sweeper how sorry he really was.

Loki then came to my bedroom door all alone and just stood there hesitant to knock on my door until finally he did.

‘Go away’ I said.

‘(Y/n), it’s me darling’. I heard Uncle Loki’s voice from the other side of my door.

“What do you want?” I snapped.

‘Darling, I—I know what I did was unforgivable, I should never have taken my anger out on you and hit you the way I did. I—I just want you to know that I am truly sorry. And I don’t mean to say this just to get it out of the way I really, truly mean it. What I did to you—it was beyond unspeakable and I understand if you’ll never want to even look at me again, and that if there was anything I could’ve done to stop myself from hitting you I would’ve done it. And for that I am sorry my dear, I’m so, so sorry’.  I remained silent for a while hearing his heartbreaking confession.

I walked up to my door and opened it after letting down the barrier spell and said.

“Can you say that again this time to my face?” I smiled softly at my hidden sassy remark as Uncle Loki turned around and smiled back at me.  I let him in my room and we both sat down on the bed together.

“I meant every word I said (y/n), I may be known as the God of Lies but all that I’ve just said was far from a lie”.

“I know, but I’m just as guilty. I shouldn’t have said any of those things, after all that you’ve told me about your past I only just made it worse by calling you all those cruel things”.

“No, no darling I honestly deserved it. Look,” he tilted my chin to face him eye to eye as he brought me close to him.  “Ever since you were born, at first I thought I’d be dealing with a shrewd child, but the second I looked down at you, you had lighten my cold, dark world and I wanted nothing more than to make sure you kept that light. As you grew older I still couldn’t help but see that tiny little baby I first looked down upon, but by doing just that, I blinded myself to the reality that was right before my eyes, my little star sweep—my niece was growing up all too fast. One moment I was holding her close that she was buried in my armor, then in just a blink of an eye, she’s all grown up almost ready to graduate from school, enter SHIELD as an agent and become a member of the Avengers. So grown up in fact that she doesn’t need her pestering uncle hovering over her anymore”.

“Oh Uncle Loki,” I wiped away a hidden tear that had fallen from his face before saying. “Just because I’m growing up, doesn’t mean that I’ll never need you. Sure you hover but I know that just means you care, though could you do it a little less?” At that statement the two of us laughed softly together.  “I’m sorry for saying all those cruel things to you”.

“And I’m sorry for hitting you, are we okay now?”

“Yeah, we’re cool”. We both smiled at each other then I said.

“Uncle Loki?”

“Yes (y/n)?”

“Will you—will you call me Star Sweeper again?” At that moment I had never seen my uncle smile so big in all my life as he embraced me tightly while saying.

“I’d never thought you’d never ask. I love you my little Star Sweeper”.