Hey look, it's chapter 2! I'm glad to see you are still here. It should get less confusing from here on out or at least I think so. Probably doesn't help that I know what's going to happen, but anyway. I hope you like it.

Chapter 2

Coffee never smelled this bad. Normally Steve would start his day with a cup of the stuff, but with how it smelled he didn't think he could stomach it. He was sure it would make him puke. Not that he hadn't thrown up earlier that morning. And yesterday morning and the morning before that. If it weren't for the fact that he seemed to feel fine for the rest of the day except when he was puking he would think he had caught something. Actually he thought there was a good chance he was sick with something, but not with anything he recognized. For all he knew he could be over reacting and it was just something he ate.

Nonetheless, he decided to skip the coffee and go straight to looking for breakfast. Both the refrigerator and the pantry were stocked with a wide variety of foods to suit at least six different palettes. Steve had all of this to choose from and yet, for some reason, only Thor's poptarts seemed appetizing. He stripped one set of its shiny wrapper, shoved them in the toaster, and waited. As the toasted pastries popped out of the toaster Bruce walked into the kitchen, coffee cup in hand. He was still in yesterday's clothes and just came from the lab where he had spent the entire night working. As he watched Steve nibble at his poptarts he decided he wasn't the only one who looked like he could use some rest.

"Do you feel ok?" Bruce asked after filling his mug. The soldier didn't look alright; he looked pale and tired and out of it.

"No, not really." the blonde replied setting down his poptart, "For the past few days I've had trouble sleeping and I've been throwing up a lot. I thought it might be something I ate, but I'm not so sure."

"I could take a look if you'd like. I have equipment in my lab."

"Sure."

Bruce lead Steve up to his lab and motioned for him to sit on one of the medical beds he was glad he had installed. Small gadgets littered the tables and large machines sat near the beds. Above each bed, set in the wall, was a screen with a readout for the person in that bed. He swore some days his lab seemed more like Dr. McCoy's sickbay than an actual lab. The scientist ignored the fancy equipment for the moment and instead used more traditional equipment such as a thermometer and stethoscope. When this showed nothing to be wrong with his patient that was when he broke out the big stuff. You could never be too careful when you came in contact with aliens almost every week.

What the scans showed Bruce wasn't really sure what to make of. It wasn't anything he'd ever seen before, granted it was getting to the point where not much was, and he found himself scanning a second time to make sure they were correct. The second set of tests came out the same as the first and he was still finding it a little hard to believe. He had no idea how he was going to tell Steve without him freaking out so he decided to wing it.

"When was the last time you were exposed to alien technology?"

"A few months ago when we found that camouflage pendant."

"Then I have no idea why this is happening to you."

"What do you mean what 'is happening' to me? What is happening to me?"

"Well, I don't know how but you're pregnant."

Steve took the news surprisingly well. It wasn't as easy to freak out when weird things happened all around you all the time. Incidents weren't exactly uncommon. There had been that one time when they were shrunk to half their size or another time when they all grew animal ears and tails. It also helped that Thor had recounted tales of Loki's pregnancies as though it were completely normal.

"So I'm pregnant." He stated with only a little bit of disbelief after thinking for a moment.

"Yes"

"And it's most likely because of alien stuff?"

"Correct. I'm pretty sure humans don't have that technology yet. It could be magic but I believe that all magic is simply science we can't explain yet."

"Ok. At least it's Thor's right? I mean it isn't some weird alien baby or something?" Bruce gave him a patronizing look.

"If it is Thor's then it's at least half alien." Even his spouse forgot that Thor wasn't human it seemed, "However the scans did detect Asgardian DNA as well as human DNA."

"It is Thor's baby."

"It would seem so.

"I have this feeling that he has something to do with this besides the obvious."

"You might want to talk to him about that."

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"Jarvis, any updates on the search?"

I'm sorry Mr. Stark, there are none.

"Oh, alright. Keep me posted." He said before going over to join Bruce who was busy scanning an alien device.

JARVIS went back to flipping microscopic switches from one to zero or zero to one and back again as he ran algorithms and other calculations. Mr. Stark often wondered if he had done too good a job creating JARVIS and sometimes the AI wondered this himself. Most other AI's had only a crude and very basic personality, but other AI's weren't JARVIS. From the beginning he had been able to make witty comments and subtly snark back at Mr. Stark. He had learned to pick up on what people were feeling and he had gotten pretty good at it over the years. Because of this he had been able to sense the melancholy feeling that had settled over the tower.

It was obvious that Mr. Rogers and Mr. Odinson were mourning though the latter had been trying to hide it. After what had happened to them he would be surprised if they weren't. However, it was clear they weren't the only ones affected. Ms. Romanoff, who granted didn't reveal her emotions often, hadn't smiled since the incident and more unusually neither had Mr. Barton. While Mr. Stark and Dr. Banner normally spent long days and nights in the lab researching they had been spending even more time there than normal. Sometimes JARVIS was sure that they felt like this was all their fault and they would never forgive themselves until they fixed this. It was times like that, times like now, that that the AI tried his hardest to flip microscopic ones and zeros even faster.

vvv

Both Steve and Bruce agreed that the other Avengers and Fury didn't need to know about the captain's situation for now or at least not until after he had talked to Thor. The man hadn't been hard to find. He was up on the balcony, laying down so he could look up at the clouds. As soon as he noticed Steve he beckoned for him to join him which he did. Thor wrapped an arm around him, pulling him close and pointed up into the sky.

"Isn't the sky beautiful? It reminds me of the sky on Asgard when I would play outside in my youth."

"Yeah, it's nice" He agreed, shifting a little uncomfortably in his arms, "Thor, there's something we need to talk about."

"I'm listening"

"Well" He thought about it for a moment, trying not to sound like he was accusing him of anything, "As you know I haven't been feeling well for the past few days. Dr. Banner offered to take a look and, well, we don't know how but, I'm pregnant with your child."

A huge grin graced the Asgardian's face, "It worked!"

"What?" He hadn't been expecting that.

"This is why I went to Asgard, to get magic so you could have children."

"So you knew about this and you didn't tell me?" Steve stood up and Thor followed, facing him.

"It was supposed to be a surprise. Aren't you happy?"

"I don't know how I feel about this yet."

"You are not happy."

"Not particularly."

"You don't want this? I can go back to Asgard and get magic to fix this if you want."

"No!" He was shocked, "I m not getting rid of our child just because men don't usually get pregnant. I understand that you were trying to do something for the two of us, but I wish you would have talked to me first."

"I'm sorry" Steve hated it when the god made that face and looked at the ground like that; he looked like a kicked puppy. It just made him want to kiss him better.

"Don't be sorry" He put his hand under Thor's chin and brought his head up so their eyes met.

"But you are right. I should not have done this without consulting you first. I do not deserve your forgiveness."

Before he could say anything the captain hugged him, "You know I love you, right? It doesn't really matter what you did because I love you so much."

"You are not angry?"

"I couldn't be mad at you over this." He pulled away so he could look at Thor, "Honestly, when you brought up children the other day I thought you were going to suggest we adopt, but this is ok. I never expected it, but it's ok."

"You liked my surprise?"

"Actually yeah" Steve smiled, "We're going to be parents!"

"I know" Thor drew them into a hug again, "I love you"

"I love you too"

So that's what the magic does. I hope thing make a little more sense and that you enjoyed it. Next chapter this story will prove that it actually is a crossover, sort of. Needless to say, I'll be introducing a new character in the next chapter.
~Xailey

EDIT 1: There is supposed to be a divider between the sentence "It was times like that, times like now, that that the AI tried his hardest to flip microscopic ones and zeros even faster." and "Both Steve and Bruce agreed that the other Avengers and Fury didn't need to know about the captain's situation for now or at least not until after he had talked to Thor." I have tried to add one but it doesn't appear to be working.

EDIT 2: Apparently non of my *** dividers worked so I'm trying something else. Let's hope this works

EDIT 3: For some reason it is ok with letters but not symbols, so have some v's as dividers