Braiding (Loki X Reader)

You sat on the floor of the living room of Stark Towers plaiting your hair into small braids.

It was getting dark and you’d just washed your hair, you were now braiding it so that it would go curly in the morning.

You didn’t know where anybody else was, well actually that wasn’t true, you were fairly certain that Bruce and Tony were working in the lab and the Steve was in the training room, but the tower was still unusually quiet.

“What are you doing?” You jumped slightly at the voice but then turned around to see Loki standing in the doorway,

“Braiding my hair,” You replied astutely. Loki nodded but he still looked confused.

You grinned, look on his face made his look so much like a child,

“You have no idea what that is do you?” Loki’s eyes narrowed,

“Yes I do,”

“What is it then?”

“Erm…What you’re doing…?” You rolled your eyes and continued to do your hair.

After a minute Loki walked over from his position at the doorframe and came to sit next to you,

“So what is it then?” Loki asked quietly.

You smiled and showed Loki the braid you’d been working on,

“This,” you said, Loki rolled his eyes,

“I know that but how do you do it,” he groaned.

You let go of your own hair and took hold of some of Loki’s.

“You split the bit of hair you want to braid into three, then you take the bit on the left and place in the middle, then the bit on the right and put that in the middle, then you take the one that is now on the left and put that one in the middle, then the right again and you keep doing that until you can’t do it anymore,” you explained.

You kept going until you’d finished the braid, Loki doing his best to watch you all the while.

Once you’d finished Loki took hold of another bit of hair and tried to make his own braid.

You watched him for a bit. His fingers clumsily trying to form his own plait but he kept getting the three sections muddled up and forgetting which side he’d just put in the middle,

“Give it here,” You said after a while.

You prized the hair from Loki’s fingers and undid what he’s done. You then proceeded to redo the braid so that matched the first one,

“There,” you said once, you were done. Loki let out a small sigh,

“Don’t stop,” He said. You grinned and started to create another braid.

Loki smiled to himself and laid his head down in your lap.



“Do you know where my brother is?” Thor asked as he burst into the lab causing Bruce and Tony to stop what they were doing.

Before either of them could say that they didn’t one of the vents opened and Clint popped out,

“He’s in the living room with (Y/n),” He sniggered, “You might want to go and have a look.” With that Clint disappeared again, no doubt to go and spy on Loki.

Tony got up and hurried out of the room, quickly followed by Thor and Bruce.

When they arrived none of them could have predicted the sight they saw in front of them; Loki was curled up in your lap while you idly braided your hair,

“Brother what are you doing?” Thor cried, causing you and Loki to look up.

Loki instantly jumped out of your lap, his cheeks burning red,

“I errr…we erm…were…” He tried to explain.

Tony smirked,

“Never thought I’d see you speechless,” He sneered, causing Loki’s blush to brighten even more,

“What are doing?” Thor asked again,

“(Y/n) was braiding Loki’s hair,” Clint explained, causing them all to jump at his sudden reappearance,

“Yes and if you would all be so kind as to leave us to it,” you snapped. Thor nodded and walked away, followed by the others.

Bruce went back to his lab, Thor went to find out what braiding was and Tony and Clint went to find a camera to take some picture of you and Loki.