Milk

17.4K 353 50
                                    

Loki
After filling out the proper 'forms' I was legally Hollys guardian. Tony set up a room for her across the hall from mine and Thors. The only things she brought were her fathers backpack with some of her clothes in it. They left me alone with her and she hasn't said anything for ten minutes.
"Why are you just staring at me?"
"You have very pretty hair..." to my surprise she answered me.
"Well stop staring" she immediately started looking elsewhere. We sat in silence for another ten minutes with her looking about the room but not at me. "You're very obedient" she looked at me and nodded but after a few seconds quickly looked away. I roll my eyes at her actions. "You may look at me" as soon as I say it she locks eye contact with me. "What do you want?"
"... Can I touch your hair?" she was quiet and she looked... scared. Thats probably why I sat on the bed and let her touch my hair. "It's really smooth..." as her words fall from her mouth she retracts from me. That was the first time she spoke without me asking her something. I look at her and she looks terrified. I gave her a confused look and after a few seconds she calmed down but there was still mostly silence.
"What am I supposed to do with you?" She looked confused and scared again. "What did you and your father do?" She relaxed at the mention of her father. I'll have to remember that.
"We did stuff he liked to do like hiking and playing darts, and he would show me cool stuff" she almost smiled while she was talking about him. "What do you like to do?"
"I like to read, practice magic, and play pranks" a sinister smile finds its way to my face. "Let's go" I get up and walk out of the room with her trailing behind me like a duckling.

We head for the kitchen and I take out my brothers box of pop-tarts and two ghost peppers. She catches on surprisingly fast.
"Wait, won't they be mad?"
"Probably"
"We should do something else..." I looked back at her and she looked scared. She gets scared a lot.
"It'll be fine" I turn back to the food I've laid out. My oh so predictable brother will be here in a few minutes to eat some of his pop- tarts. So I use magic to swap the ghost pepper and the pop-tarts.

I walked Holly back to her room and waited for the inevitable reaction to my little prank.
"Loki!!" I grin knowing why my brother is calling for me. While I was smiling with a bit of anticipation, Holly was quite literally shaking. My brother came running into the room while chugging an entire gallon of milk. It was hilarious, I started laughing. After he was done drinking the milk he walked over to me menacingly.
"I'm sorry" both Thor and I look to Holly. She looks terrified. Tears are streaming down her face and she was hugging her knees and rocking slightly. "I'm sorry, please, I'm sorry" she kept repeating herself. Thor took a step closer to soothe her but it just made it worse. She tucked her head between her knees and started rocking more vigorously. "I'm sorry! Please! I'm sorry!" I didn't know what to do and neither did my brother. We just watched as her cries became mumbles and she fell asleep. Even after she was asleep she mumbled 'I'm sorry' repeatedly.

Loki's adopted daughterWhere stories live. Discover now