Popping open the bottle of wine, Tony swirled it, taking in the sweet scent before dowsing the pasta sauce with it. Meat swirled around under the focus of the wooden spoon, the billionaire taking a sniff every so often. Adding a dash of herbs and more tomato sauce, dinner was ready.

~~~

"This is amazing, Mr Stark!" Peter smiles happily as you and Loki walk in a little late.

"Sorry, we were caught up trying to figure out how to- oh Nevermind," you mumble at the bored glances. Taking a whiff of the pasta, you and Loki meet eyes, wide with worry.

"What? Does it smell that bad?" Tony scowls.

"Stark... what ingredients were added?" Loki twirled it on his fork and glanced at the shine.

"The usual... but I did add some wine," Tony points to the bottle of win on the counter. On the label was three x's.

"Dammit, Stark! Don't you know not to use anything that has three x's on it?!"

"I thought it was the brand!" The avengers start to worry, looking at Tony with glares.

"What will it do?" Clint squeaks in fear.

"Youth restoration,"

"That's not so bad," Bruce smiles, more calm.

"Yes, but this batch wasn't perfected so instead of restoring youth by a few years..." the first hiccup caught your attention as Bucky started to grasp his mouth, a puff of purple smoke turning him into a baby. "It does it by a few decades-"

"Oh n-" one by one each hero hiccupped, purple soon engulfing them all.

"What do we do?" Loki stares wide eyed at the heroes who started to wobble around.

"First we get them off the chairs!" You dive and catch Bruce.

~~~

With babies sprawled on the fuzzy carpet of the living room, you and Loki looked to each other in concern.

"How long until the potion wears off?"

"I- I don't know..." you mumble.

"You don't know?!"

"Hey! I'm sorry! I only tested it on a plant but didn't know if it grew normally or because of the potion wearing off!"

"Well, there should have been some sort of sign?!"

"Evidently not!" You banter back and forth until Thor started to cry. "Oh, I'm sorry, Thor," you rush over and cradle the baby. "Gods, you're a big boy!" With him on your waist, you bounce him up and down.

Thor giggles and cradles himself against your shoulder.

"I suspect it will not wear off anytime soon," Loki sighs. "We will need to keep an eye on all of them,"

"We can use Tony's room, it has enough space to put all the cribs in,"

"Obviously Stark has the largest room,"

"It's his tower, don't be salty," With Loki's help all the baby heroes were moved into Stark's room. Thankfully, with his magic, Loki conjured cribs around, each adorned with the heroes colours.

~~~

"Here comes the airplane!" you make zooming noises, moving the spoon baby food to Nat who giggles and eats it.

"Thor, stop being so stubborn!" Loki growls, trying to feed his brother.

"Shouting at him won't make him want to eat, Lokes," you take the spoon from the god's hand and make silly faces. "Do you want to save the world?" Thor giggles with a nod. "You can if you eat!"

"How..." Loki marvels as Thor eats the spoonful of food.

"It's called being nice," you tease. "They need to hear what they want," using magic to continue to feed the rest, eventually they all floated behind you and Loki. You smiled softly as Loki let Thor pull at his hair.

"No, Stark, don't do that," Loki grabs Tony before he could anger Bruce anymore.

~~~

"Loki! A little help!"

Loki stumbled into the room with his daggers to see you drenched in water as Sam splashed more and more water at Bucky. "Sam, what did we say about splashing?" Loki handled Sam as you quickly dried yourself off.

"Lolo!" you snap your head to the two of them.

"Did... Did he just say his first words?"

"Well, now we know who the favourite is," Loki chuckles making you stick your tongue out at him.

"Ok, Bucky, say N/n," you coo to the soldier who blurts out noises. "Close enough," rubbing your nose against him, you walk with Loki, changing the two and placing them in the crib.

"Buby!" Steve giggles at the sight of his friend. You and Loki meet eyes at the sudden talking.

"We know his favorite," Loki mumbles with a smile. "Time for bed,"

"No!" the group shouts in unison.

"Ok, so apparently they all can speak now," the god chuckles before sitting down on Adult Tony's bed. "But it is time for bed,"

"Can you find a bottle of Valerian root in my room?" You look to Loki who nods and leaves.

~~~

The trickster walked back to the room with a sigh, unable to find the bottle. Before he was to enter the room, he heard a voice sing out through the slightly ajar door.

"There's something sweet and almost kind... But he was mean and he was coarse and unrefined, and now he's dear, and so unsure, I wonder why I didn't see it there before," giggles from children ring out.

Loki peaked around to see you cradling Clint in your arms. His cold green stare softened at the sight, listening sweetly to the tune that left your lips.

"New and a bit alarming... who'd have ever thought that this could be? True, that he's no Prince Charming, but there's something in him that I simply didn't see,"

~~~

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