A Guards Tale

Disclaimer: I do not own Loki or any other character from the Thor universe however I do own my O.C Torel and as such make no money from this story or any other that I write on this site.

Summary: Odin sent his guards after Loki after he runs away to give birth to the child he was expecting, knowing full well that if he has the child in Asgard that it will be taken away from him as all his other children were. Torel is one of the guards sent to bring the wayward prince home.

The guards of which I was one, that the Allfather had sent after his runaway pregnant son had been following Loki's trail for some time when we had finally caught up with him, on Midgard. It had been a long chase and at times we had thought we found him only to have lost him when, he had found yet another of the secret portals that Heimdall knew about, but was unable to see.

It was late at night when we managed to track him down to a small cave high in the mountains, it was a wild night with the rain coming down hard and the wind blowing quite a gale. Many of us would be glad when this hunt was over, I know I would be, being sent to another realm in the hope that it would be this realm that we would finally find the errant prince Loki. A small part of me felt some pity for the young man, it could not have been easy for him when he discovered that he was with child and it would be hard for him, I was sure when the child was born, for the orders from the Allfather was that the child was to be taken from the young prince.

The senior einjinhar leading our group signalled us forward and we stealthily made our way forward, the opening to the cave was small but could easily be broached by at least two men without too much of a squeeze. We needed to move as fast as we could so that the young prince could not once again flee, as he had done so on another realm we had found him in.

I saw the leader of our patrol crouch and raise his hand in signal, it was time time!

As the men around me made ready to move on our leaders command, a cry was heard coming from the cave. It was the cry of the young prince, clearly in pain, we were too late, the child was already on its way.

This did not bode well I knew, the Allfather would not be happy with either his son or us, if the babe was born before his highness was brought back to Asgard.

We would be blamed for not bringing his son back before the young one was born.

XxX

Loki had heard movement outside of the cave where he was currently hiding from both those searching for him and from the rain that had begun to fall heavily just a few hours before. His back had been hurting and he feared that his child was coming early, he did not want to have to deliver the child here, all alone but he feared that he might not have a choice.

He shifted a little to try and ease some of the pain in his back and as he did so, he felt fluid seep through his lower garments,looking down he realised that his waters were broken and that his child was coming now whether he wished it or not.

XxX

As we entered through the small opening of the cave, I saw Prince Loki laying on some furs near the back of the cave, his face dripping wet from sweat and his eyes wide, not just at the sight of us but from the pain he was experiencing, small whimpers coming from him as he tried to clamp down on the pain he was in.

"Damn!"

I heard General Tyr mutter, he knew probably better than anyone that this was not going to end well especially now that his highness was clearly in labour and the baby was coming now whether or not anyone wanted it to.

The Allfather was not going to be happy!

A/N: At the moment this is a one shot but if there is interest then I might add more chapters to it in 2017.