It's Just Good Business | By : Talented_Mrs_Lupin Category: Harry Potter Crossovers > Het - Male/Female Views: 2631 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0 |
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Astoria Malfoy stood in the baby store. Her long blonde hair cascaded down her back gleaming in the sunlight. Her pale, long fingered hand was lying against her empty womb and she prayed, not for the first time, that she could have a baby of her own. The store was filled with young women, some even younger than she, in varying stages of pregnancy and yet she wasn’t. She lifted her beautiful eyes and found a pair of dark blue ones looking back at her. Those eyes were set in the face of the most beautiful man she’d ever laid eyes on, and that included the Malfoy men. He looked down at a little outfit that would be very precious on a baby girl.
“You should buy that for your daughter” Astoria said softly.
“I don’t have a daughter” He answered in a deep voice that made her insides quiver in a way she’d never experienced before “My wife…passed away in childbirth”
“I am so sorry” Astoria came around the display quickly while tears filled her eyes “I didn’t know…why are you in here?”
“Just looking at all the little baby fashions that I could have bought my child” He told her with a sad smile “Are you expecting?” He looked at her stomach.
“No” She said sadly “My husband…he works a lot, I mean we work a lot and he is always too tired to…” She blushed and, realizing that he was following her she led him out of the store that must have been overly painful for him to be in “Well, maybe now’s not the time”
“I think that the time to have a baby is whenever the woman is ready” He told her “By the way, my name is Thor, you?”
“Oh!” She looked embarrassed “Astoria Malfoy” She laughed nervously “I am so sorry, I’m not usually so rude” She laughed again “So…when did your wife…?” Her eyes went as wide as dinner plates “Oh my gods…I am so, so sorry again”
“It’s okay” Thor said with a laugh “I lost my wife many, many years ago. When I feel nostalgic I come to the baby store, it’s not often I assure you but today was one of those days and I am glad I came here”
“Why?” She asked.
“I got to meet you” Thor said, his voice going a little bit lower and she visibly shuddered “I don’t believe that your husband is too tired to try to have a baby with you”
“Why do you say that?” Her voice held a note that neared anger and it made him smile. She was definitely a spitfire and that made him a little happy, least she was interesting.
“Because if you were my wife” Thor told her, boldly leaning in close to her “When I got home from work, you wouldn’t leave the bed until morning and even then…you’d have great difficulty walking” Her face turned red, he could see her hardened nipples pressing against the thin fabric of her shirt.
“That sounds wonderful” She whispered “I need to…I need to go, Thor…I’ve got to go”
“Okay” He gave her a big, sexy smile that left her nearly gasping for air “I’ll see you around, huh?”
“Sure” She whispered as she backed away, tripped over something, giggled loudly and then practically ran away from him before she could embarrass herself further. Thor chuckled to himself, winked at a pretty brunette who was walking with a tall, red-haired man then brought his phone to his ear.
“Hello?” The voice on the other line sounded annoyed.
“Stark?” Thor spoke as he walked quickly towards the joke shop that he’d heard his brother was haunting “It’s Thor…yeah, I just met her. Cute, sweet and in a seriously depressing marriage, should be pretty easy to have her eating out of the palm of my hand soon” He listened to the man talk as he peeked through a window and watched his brother laughing with a red haired man, he was only half-listening to Stark by now as he was wondering how many red-heads there were in the magical community “Yeah, talk to you later”
~~~A Couple Days Earlier~~~
Loki looked at George who was wearing a rather hideous sweater with a large ‘G’ stitched on the front. He was sure that the other man had been joking when he made a comment about having dinner at his family home. He knew damn well that Loki didn’t do the whole family aspect of life, if he wanted to spend time with family he could always go home. George was grinning ear to ear at the horrified expression on Loki’s face, he waited for the darker man to say something but his mouth never moved.
“Oh come on, Loki” George said in a mock whiny tone “Mum will just adore you!” He pulled a face that made Loki, who was standing stone-faced with his arms crossed over his chest, feel weird as he slowly walked towards him and gripped his elbows firmly “My mum needs more happiness in her life after the war…”
“Fine” Loki sighed, he didn’t understand why but when George got all sad and talked about the war he felt strange, like he felt bad for him and wanted to make him feel better “I’ll go…but I am not wearing an ugly sweater like that”
George dragged him towards the door but Loki was almost certain that he heard him mutter “we’ll see” as they left. He had to trust George not to kill them when they did the side-long apparition to the Burrow. Then they were standing in front of a house that leaned to one side, there was instantly the sound of people that overtook Loki’s ears. He watched as an entire family of red haired people enveloped George in their arms. He looked around uncomfortably, when a short, chubby, older red-haired woman noticed him she walked closer very slowly.
“Mum” George extracted himself from the many arms “This is Loki, Loki this is my mother Molly”
“Nice to meet you Loki” Molly smiled up at him “Are you and George…”
“Friends, mum” George’s face turned pink and he looked at Loki who raised his brows at him with a half-smile.
“I have made enough food to feed an army” Molly said “Harry and Hermione will be joining us”
“Anyone else?” Loki asked sharply.
“Not that I know of” Molly said “Is there a problem?”
“Hermione happens to be friends with my brother who hates me and his friends…it would be a very awkward night if they were here” Loki explained.
“Well” Molly said, she came over and clutched his hand, leading him in to the house “If they show up here they will treat you with kindness and respect or they will be kicked out” As she quickly led him in to the house Loki reached out grabbing George’s hand and dragged him in the house as well.
There was a large polished table in the middle of the kitchen. Molly sent everyone except for the other red haired female, in to the living room where they all talked, except for Loki who stood there watching the interaction with a feeling of loss in his heart. If only all families were like this. About ten minutes before dinner two individuals came in to the living room. A man of medium height with messy black hair and bright emerald green eyes and pale skin, he had a big smile on his face and hugged everyone he knew happily. Then came in an attractive brunette, she had spiral curls that had lighter highlights in them, honey colored eyes and the type of body that made men want to fight wars over. This had to be Hermione, the woman that Tony had warned Loki to stay away from now that he was looking at her, Loki could see why he wouldn’t want her to be with another. She was lovely and if the rumors were true then she was smarter than nearly all the other witches around. Oddly enough, Loki didn’t feel any amazing attraction to her other than wanting to piss Stark off.
“Harry” She greeted “I haven’t seen you in ages, how is everything?”
“Good” He answered “Working hard, the usual”
“Same here” She said “I love my job…who is that?” She was nodding towards Loki, they weren’t being rude, if anything he was the rude one listening in but he couldn’t help it.
“Oh” Harry looked at Loki, who was carefully looking out the window and not at anyone in particular, and smiled “I think he’s George’s boyfriend”
“Really?!” Hermione looked at him for a moment “I didn’t know…well, good for him”
“Harry” George said, Loki frowned as he thought about what the Weasley family thought about his relationship with George, Loki had never picked a team to play for, sexually speaking as he liked to play the field. However, this was his first meeting with these people and he’d prefer knowing the status of his friendship/relationship before they made assumptions “Hermione. I haven’t seen either of you in my store lately”
“I’ve been busy” Hermione said and Harry nodded “Who is your friend…?”
“This is Loki” George introduced, Harry smiled and nodded his hello while a look of recognition colored her features but she said nothing more than a polite ‘hello’ to him.
They were then called in to the dinner table, as everyone took their usual seats, seats they’d been taking since they were born, it became apparent to Loki that his seat, the one right next to George’s hadn’t been sat in, in a long time. At either end of the table sat Mr. and Mrs. Weasley, to Arthurs right sat Percy and Penny, his left sat Bill and Fluer, next to them was Ron and Lavender, across from them was an empty chair, Ginny then another empty chair and then George. Across from him was Hermione then Harry and finally Molly Weasley. Loki took a deep breath and lowered his eyes to the dust covered seat that was near his friend, this was Fred Weasley’s chair. A chair that he’d sat in from childhood, the chair he likely sat in the morning before the war, before he died. His eyes looked at the others around the table and noted the way their eyes skimmed over the seat, as if they didn’t look at it then it didn’t exist and they were still a happy family, whole and unbroken. Slowly, Loki lowered himself in the dust covered chair and offered a small smile towards George.
“Thank you all” Molly said, her eyes were swimming with tears as she looked at each face. It was the first time that George had brought someone home, the first time someone sat in his brothers empty seat since the war and it was the first time in years that they were all together again, only having Charlie would make it better “I am beyond happiness to see all of you…it’s been so long since we have all been together”
In the dinner that followed the greeting Loki was able to relax for the first time in years. He listened to the family tell stories about things that happened while they were in school, the summers between the years at school and of course the time before school started. He didn’t offer anything about his past or much about his life, George told them how he was helping him in the store and helping make sense of his late brothers notes. Every time his twins name was spoken everyone would become very somber. They tried to be strong for one another but it was those small moments that he could see they were as broken as ever.
“Oh dear” Molly said as she walked over to where he and George were standing “Thank you for coming here” She looked at her son who was chatting away with Ron and Harry “I saw more of the boy I raised in George tonight than I have since we lost…Fred” She wiped away a tear from her cheek “That’s because of you” She put her palm against his cool cheek “When he lost his brother George was a shell of his former self, he stopped smiling, stopped pranking people…he just stopped living too” She drew in a shaky breath “I worried so much, I worried that I would receive an owl that told me he’d taken his own life”
“What did he look like?” Loki found himself asking “Fred, I never got to see what he looked like”
“You see him every day” Molly answered with a shuddering breath that shook her whole breath “They were identical twins” She let out a laugh that sounded like a sob “I could hardly tell them apart and they would always say…”
“Honestly woman” George spoke softly from the other side of Loki “And you call yourself our mother”
“You must come to dinner next week” Molly said around a sob “That’s an order” Loki smirked and looked at George and nodded.
~~~//~~~
Thor walked in to the joke shop and saw Loki turn his head, bright smile on his face, in his direction. Slowly the smile slid off of his face, Thor felt his heart fall a little, all he’d ever wanted in his life was to see Loki as happy as he had looked but then he’d entered the shop. Then all the happiness was wiped away. Loki looked down at his feet for a moment and then put his hand out on the redheads arm and said something to him. He started walking towards Thor, he looked like a kid that had been caught stealing candy. He knew that he’d gone against Thor’s rules but there hadn’t been any news of him doing anything bad, that had to stand for something.
“Brother” Loki’s voice was cool and unemotional as he greeted him “What a surprise”
“Loki” Thor said “What the hell, you were supposed to stay at the apartment…Tony is pissed”
“I imagine he is” Loki said “But I am out of your hair now, leave me be”
“Hermione told him about you having dinner with her friends family” Thor said “He wants you back in the apartment, not to leave again”
“I am an adult” Loki said “Older than he is actually. I am not doing anything dangerous or illegal, I have a job, something that I am actually really good at so no, tell him I am not his pet or his child and will not come running home because he demands it”
“Loki…” Thor started.
“Thor” Loki challenged “I am out of your hair, you know where I am, you can keep an eye on me…just let me be”
“Sorry” Thor stomped forward and grabbed Loki’s upper arm “We’re going back to the apartment”
“Let him go!” The voice spoke quietly with a surprising amount of coldness to it. Thor let his eyes wonder over his brothers shoulder to lock on the cold, light brown eyes of the red haired man Loki had spoken to before walking over. His arm was outstretched and the wand that Tony had explained helped the witches and wizards direct their magic was trained on him unwavering.
Years of battles taught Thor to know that the attacker he could easily see was not the main threat so he slid his eyes to the left and sure enough on the curving stairs stood another red haired male. He had a muscular build, long hair, a piercing in one ear and he too had his wand trained on Thor with his jaw clenched. His eyes drifted to the office door that stood open just behind the first red haired man, a tall, thin and willowy blonde haired woman came walking out with her own wand in her hand though it was pointed at the floor. She looked at the man on the stairs and delicately nodded her head to him before looking back at Thor. There was a noise off to his right and when he looked over there he found a beautiful, tiny little red haired girl about Hermione’s age with her wand trained on him. She was closer than the others and though none of the men looked particularly friendly it was her that looked the most likely to attack.
“The Aurors are on their way” George spoke “You’ve come in here and tried to forcibly drag on of my employees out of my store”
“He is my brother…” Thor started.
“I don’t care” George said as he finally made his way up to Loki “You don’t get to drag him out against his wishes”
“What seems to be the problem?” Harry stood in the doorway with Ron just behind him “Sir?”
“Harry” George said, lowering his wand slightly “This man came in to the store, spoke briefly to Loki and then attempted to bodily remove him”
“He is my brother” Thor snapped “And my responsibility and I am taking him back to where I am staying”
“He is his own person” Harry told the man “What is your name?”
“Thor Odinson” He answered “Come, Loki”
“I don’t think so” Loki answered with a smirk “I’ve not bothered anyone the whole time I’ve been here, Thor”
“You’re coming with me!” Thor thundered, he grabbed his brothers upper arm tightly and started dragging him to the door. There was a rush of voices before Thor was lifted in the air, his arms bound behind his back and then he was escorted to the holding cells in the ministry.
“Thank you” Loki muttered to the others in the store after his brother was taken out.
“No problem” George flashed him a smile then pulled him back to the project they’d been working on before the interruption.
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