You finally snapped back from your daze over the news. You would have to think over what this all meant later. There was still the rest of your outing with Loki to get to. You weren't going to ruin your day with worrying over something you couldn't do anything about right now. You could come to terms with being half-Asgardian later.

There was only one way to lighten the mood again and get your day back on track. "Also 'little Loki'?" you teased him. You'd been standing close enough to hear the greetings at the front door. Teasing Loki was an easy way to change the mood and get the day back on schedule.

Loki mock-glared at you. He knew what you were doing and let you delay processing this information to not spoil your day. "Very funny, little one,"

You smirked. "Mom said it first," you reminded him. Ok, maybe you weren't quite ready to ignore the last hour until later yet.

"I do not know why she chose not to tell you of your origins. She must have had her reasons, kitten," Loki reassured you gently. He offered you a smile and added "Your mother has the right to call me that. She knew me when I was a child,"

You thought about something he'd said. "Poor mom, Bree's always reminded me of a tiny female Thor, which is also what Sif reminds me of too, come to think of it. That can't be easy to deal with..."

"I would think not. By brother and Sif are hard to deal with on their own,"

"If they could actually risk seeing me, I'd drag Bree to your brother and let him beat her up for awhile..." you commented softly. Bree would love it. And get her ass handed to her. It would be great. Mostly the part where you would get to see her get her ass handed to her.

But that was a pipe dream.

You couldn't let them see you or know you were alive.

"What is so terrible about them seeing you now? What could the other vampires do?" Loki asked you gently.

"Have them killed for me spilling the beans on the whole vampire thing," you reminded him slowly with the inflection that he was dumb for forgetting that point.

He sighed, but accepted your decision. For now.

He grabbed your hand to pull you toward the car so you could take you both to your next destination. "Well, what did you have planned next?" He asked, clearly ready to change the topic until you had processed it more.

You didn't understand that your mom being Asgardian meant that she wasn't a helpless human. A lady of Asgard was perfectly capable of protecting herself and her daughter from vampires. You hadn't quite made that leap of logic yet.

You walked with Loki to the car. "You'll see," you replied with a smirk. You drove the pair of you to a nearby amusement park. You hadn't been able to go to the park since you'd been turned. "Ta-da!" you announced with glee when you'd parked. "Midgardian summer entertainment!" Loki looked skeptical, but wouldn't deny you your fun.

You led him into the park and towards your favorite roller coaster at the very back. Poor Loki had no idea what was coming. Though you did do him the courtesy of standing up on one of the benches to tie his hair up for him. He raised an eyebrow at you questioningly, but let you play with his hair. "Where are you taking me, little one?" he finally asked.

"Oh, sorry, of course you wouldn't know," you said sheepishly as you took his hand to return to your stroll to the coaster at the back of the park. "This place is full of rides and games. It's kinda hard to explain. Some of the rides can move kinda fast, though, so you don't want your hair flying in your face," you explained that part alright at least. The coaster couldn't be seen from the line, and by some miracle of deus ex machina, there was next to no line for the coaster and you walked get right on. You climbed in first and buckled the seatbelt and pulled down the safety bar. You looked at Loki and sighed heavily, reaching over the stubborn god the buckle his seatbelt for him. You stole a kiss while you did. "They have to have the safety devices for the mortals. Just because we're not mortal doesn't mean we can skip them. The kid who works here is going to check the safety bar. Don't stab him," you told him firmly.

Loki sighed and grumbled, but relented to your demands and didn't stab the poor worker when he came to check the safety devices. The ride began slowly and poor Loki looked bored as the old wooden coaster meandered its way to the hill. You lit up in delight as the coaster climbed the hill. You noted that Loki still looked bored and a little confused why this would be fun. You grabbed the bar in front of you as you reached the top of the hill. There was a brief instant when the whole park could be seen and an equally brief, and terrifying instant where the drop into the abyss could be clearly seen before the coaster fell and the ride truly began. You shrieked and giggled in delight at the drop, leaning into the twists and turns of the ride from muscle memory, laughing in delight the entire time. Loki laughed beside you and enjoyed the silly Midgardian ride.

You thought he loved your smile more.

You were still grinning in delight when the ride ended and you climbed out of the car. You offered Loki a hand to help him unfold his tall frame from the coaster. The old ride wasn't designed for tall people. "Did you like it?" you asked, nervous he would have hated it and wouldn't have fun today.

"I did. That was an experience." You saw and heard the truth of his words and relaxed.

You grinned in reply. "Yay! I'd hoped you'd have fun here," you took his hand and led him to a few more of the roller coasters, since he seemed to like them.

You led him too innocently to a ride that was going to get you both completely soaked. You somehow got him onto the ride, though you could see him getting suspicious at the big round watercraft. And more suspicious as it made its way down the rapids. You shrieked in shocked giggly delight when the first dip of ice cold water hit you. Loki playfully glared at you for not telling him what you were getting him into. You just laughed in reply. And shrieked when more ice cold water hit you.

You were both completely drenched when you finally made it off the ride and you were laughing as you wrung water out of your hair.

Loki magicked himself dry. You pouted up at him while he grinned at the fact that he was dry and you were soaked still. "Cheater," you informed him before you copied his spell and magicked yourself dry as well. You'd learned the spell just by watching him do it once. Loki raised an eyebrow, but eventually just shook his head.

You looked up at him concerned. "Something wrong?" you asked, more concerned that you'd done it wrong than anything.

"No. I was simply surprised how quickly you picked up that spell. That took me weeks to master,"

"Oh..." you said sheepishly and decided to change the subject away from your big brain. "Did mom say anything else interesting?" you asked as you walked to another ride. You wanted to know how your family was doing.

Loki gave you a much too innocently look. "Well..." he paused, teasing you

"Loki~~" you whined at him for holding back information.

"Well, your sister mentioned that your birthday was yesterday," he told you innocently. Well, innocently except for his smirk.

You looked up at him shocked for a moment. You hadn't told anyone about your birthday. It wasn't important anymore. You were dead and didn't age. "Goddamn it, Bree," you growled in reply. The image fo any angry sibling.

"Why didn't you tell me, darling?" Loki asked you gently. You could hear the hurt in his voice too. He was hurt you hadn't told him.

You shrugged, trying to reassure him that it was no big deal. "I didn't want to make a big deal. Besides...it's not like I actually get any older anyway..." you reminded him softly. You were dead. You didn't age.

"Still. I would have loved to spoil you a bit, dearheart," he told you warmly, reassuring that your slight wasn't against him. He leaned down and kissed you softly.

You kissed him back, but broke it and sighed heavily. "Now that you know, I'm doomed for spoiling, aren't I?" you whined at him. He just smirked mischievously at you in reply. You rolled your eyes. "Now, if you'll excuse me, I have a little sister to go murder," you grumbled.

"Oh, darling, don't act like that," he pulled you into his arms and kissed you deeply to distract you from killing you sister.

"What? And like you're one to talk, you threaten Thor at least twice by the end of breakfast every morning. AND tried to poison his coffee just two days ago," you reminded him when the kiss was broken. "

Loki smirked as you reminded him of all the fun he had pranking his brother. "Would you like to celebrate?" he asked you gently.

You shrugged and hesitated. "I don't know, Lokes..." you sighed, the smiled fondly at an old memory. "Mom would never tell us how old she is. She always said that age is just a number and a birthday is just a day for your loved ones to celebrate how much they love you." You realized now that she'd said that since she was thousands of years old...

Loki smiled fondly at you. His smile was warm and loving and he pressed a kiss to your forehead. "That is the very reason I would like to spoil you. The team and I would love to show you just how much we adore you, dearheart,"

You sighed. "Finefine, spoil away," you relented with a smile. "Just try to keep Stark from going too far overboard, ok?" you asked.

He smirked far too mischievously. "No promises, darling,"

You groaned, but let it go for now. You assumed it would take him time to come up with something suitable to spoil you with. You took his hand to walk with him to the other side of the parks where there were rides you hadn't been on yet. You picked up food for you and Loki to eat as you walked. Asgardian males were bottomless pits and Loki was no exception.

It was just after noon and the sun was high in the sky. You should've been napping at that hour, but Loki had convinced you to feed on him so you could survive your outing today.

With absolutely no warning, the spell Loki had placed on your pendant shattered. It was overworked and shattered the pendant to pieces with it.

You were out under the bright sun, in the middle of one of the paths in the park with no shade in sight.

You shrieked when the sun hit you full-out with no protections. You eyes burned at you went blind. Your skin blistered under the bright sun.

Your wail of pain, your keening was heartbreaking as you clutched onto Loki, burying your face against his chest to at least try to protect your eyes from the sun.