"Come on Loki! Lets get Ice-cream!" Tony whines as he grabs onto Loki's arm-he-she is wearing a green dress today. Very pretty, Tony thought-definitely.
"No." Loki hisses as she bunches up her dress, hiding behind Tony. Loki can see him already. Her father, Odin. She'd rather not see him. He seems to have a problem with her being born a boy and being a girl from time to time. And now he is just there, across the grass, a few metres away from him, with her mother. She appears fine with her, but she can see her sadness- it makes Loki want to fade away.
"Why?" Tony turns and asks hi-her, only to see a very big, very angry old man walk over. Loki glares at his direction, but shrinks a bit.
"What are you doing, boy?!" Odin growls, the sun hitting his eye patch. A few people turn their heads, but none tries to stop him.
"Hey, old man!" Tony stands in front of Loki, holding his arms out-he sees that even if Loki tries to hide it, she still dislikes her old man. He feels it. "Loki's a girl. And you can't bully her, you big bully!"
Odin narrow his eye, and leans down at Tony. Loki tugs at the boy's shirt, trying to get him to run away. He stands there, adamantly refusing to leave.
"And what do you have anything to say for my son, young man?" Odin sneers. Loki is a boy- and if the other boy thinks that he has a say in his child, he is very,very wrong-
Tony gulps, but stands firmly as Loki's tugging becomes more desperate- they are two children up against a grown man- and everyone else in the park whispers, and snaps photos but not one person comes to their help-
"ODIN!" A woman's shrill scream sounds in the park, bouncing off the trees. "What do you think you are doing with my daughter!" She storms up to Odin, a look of fury in her eyes reserved for a mother lion protecting her cubs.
"Loki is a-" Odin protests, but Frigga cuts him off- "Loki is what she wants to be!" She screams at him, frustration welling up. The gathering crowd whispers, either in support or protest-
Seeing that Loki has relaxed, Tony takes her hand and they run off, leaving the adults to argue and ogle-
Why are adults so strange? Tony thought.