The gifts fate

Chapter 1

„Father? Is something wrong?" Loki asked as he saw, that all the other Jotuns seemed nervous.

"Loki, I thought you were at home..." Laufey said surprised. "Nevermind…I have to tell you something, my son…" He kneeled down so that he could look Loki in the eyes.

"I fear that the Asgardians will come soon. They are furious and they won't hesitate to kill anything that stands in their way." Laufey said with a serious expression.

"W-What?" It took Loki a while to understand the situation.

"W-Why didn't you tell me anything?!" Loki shouted.

"Loki…I didn't want you to worry…" Laufey tried to calm his son.

"No! You think that I can't fight anyway! It's because you think I'm weak!" Loki screamed at his father. With a hurt expression on his face, he ran away.

"Loki, wait!" Laufey yelled, but Loki kept running, not even turning back.

Just as Laufey wanted to go after Loki, he heard loud noises appearing behind him. He turned around to see the Asgardian troops coming closer.

"Not now…" Laufey mumbled. Not before his son was somewhere safe.

Loki turned around just as he heard screams behind him. His eyes widened as he saw the bloodbath right before his eyes.

He wanted to do something. To flee or to fight, just something.

But instead he couldn't move a single muscle. He was forced to watch that horror.

'This can't be real…' he thought to himself.

As he saw a man running towards him, his senses finally hit him. He turned around and started running as fast as he could. Not even turning back, he just kept running till he reached a small cave of an ice wall.

He didn't know how long he sat there. He just hoped that nobody would find him there.

The tears wouldn't stop flowing. Was it the shock? The horror he saw?

No…it was the fact, that his father was right.

He was weak…

As his men got killed, he could do nothing but watch. And now?

Now he was sitting in a hole, god knows for how long, crying his eyes out and trembling of the fear to be found. How pathetic he must have looked.

His heart stopped beating for a moment, as he heard footsteps come closer to his hide-out.

'Oh God, please don't…' he though. Just at the next moment, as he turned his face to look around, his face got pale.

"Hey! Look what I found here!" the man outside shouted and some other guys appeared.

They looked down at the trembling Jotun, who was on the edge of fainting.

"Is that even a frost giant? He is pretty small and he doesn't look very strong."

Loki couldn't even hear the words of the men anymore. Too buried in his fear, he cried silent tears and said goodbye to his life.

"Hm…I think this will be a nice gift for the prince." One of the man smirked. Loki didn't even have the time to realize what they meant, as they grabbed his arm and pulled him out of his hide-out.

Loki didn't react. All he did was trembling and looking to the ground with wide eyes. His whole life was rushing before his eyes…The worst scene was, as he was shouting at his father.

Now he didn't even know if his father was still alive…He wished that he could see his father just one more time.

The men dragged him towards the portal. Loki was so deep in his thoughts and shocked.

He came back to his senses as he was thrown into a big, dark bedroom.

He looked around, trembling and crying. He crawled over to the bed and curled up.

"F-Father…I'm sorry…" he sobbed.

"My prince, we brought you an exotic gift. See it as a thank you for helping us last time." One of the men said and bowed in front of Thor.

"A gift you say… You know it wasn't necessary, but…thank you, I appreciate it." Thor stood up and walked towards the warriors.

"We brought it to your room, my lord."

Without any other word Thor left the big hall and headed straight for his room.

Slowly he opened the door to his darkened room.

He walked in, but had to blink for a few moments, till he finally saw the creature, which was lying on his bed. He stepped closer and noticed that the creature was trembling.

He couldn't see its face, since it was lying with its back turned to the young prince.

"Hey you…" the prince couldn't think of anything to say, so he just stepped closer and touched the others shoulder lightly to get attention.

Loki's eyes widened as something touched his shoulder. It was like he finally awoke from his state of shock. He instantly turned around to see who was touching him.

He flinched and shifted backwards, his arms protectively slung around his body.

"D-Don't touch me!" he yelled at the blonde.

Thor immediately stepped back.

Loki breathed heavily, as he was close to crying again.

"Woah woah…I'm not gonna touch you…so calm down…" Thor was surprised and shocked of the young Jotuns behavior.

"Leave me alone!" the Jotun cried. Thor took a few more steps back.

The Jotun turned away and continued sobbing quietly.

Thor couldn't do anything but leave the room at the moment.

"What's wrong dear? You look unhappy, is something wrong? Frigga asked her son after they ate dinner. He didn't eat very much, because he couldn't stop thinking of the scared Jotun and of course Frigga noticed that.

"Oh it's…nevermind…" Thor sighed.

"Oh come on, dear." His mother said softly. "You know you can tell me anything."

"Well, you know I got this gift from my men…" Thor started.

"Yeah…is something wrong with him?" his mother asked.

"He hates me, I don't even know his name and he already hates me. I don't know what his problem is, but he won't even let me speak to him. He screams and cries.

I don't know what to do with him. It seems wrong to me, if I would just give it back." Thor said frustrated.

"Well you should give him time. You don't know what he might have been through…" Frigga tried to cheer her son.

"Maybe you should talk to him. I mean you're good at speaking with other people, much better than I am. Just give him the feeling, that no one will harm him here." Thor suggested.

"What? Me? What should I talk about, dear? If someone should talk to him it's you, not me." Frigga said surprised.

"But mum, he won't let me speak to him. Please speak to him, please! I don't want to give it back, where it came from. Who knows what would happen to him there." Thor begged.

"Why are you taking this so serious Thor? Do you like your gift so much already?" Frigga laughed, though she stopped soon as she saw Thor's frustrated look.

Frigga knew that his son had a kind heart and wouldn't let anyone, who is innocent, suffer.

"Okay fine, I'll talk to him, but I can't promise you that it will help." Frigga sighed smiling.

"Thank you, mum." Thor smiled.

"Sure, dear…" Frigga patted Thro on the shoulder. "I'll do what I can."