Disclaimer: I don't own Thor, Avengers, Once Upon a Time.
A/N: Takes place in the current season after Regina and the Evil Queen were split but before The Evil Queen and Rumple united.
Characters: Loki, The evil queen.
Genre: Drama.
"Greetings m'lady," The evil queen turned around wondering who dared enter her quarters uninvited. The answer appeared to be a dark-haired stranger dressed in green and black armor with stripes of gold.
"Who are you?" she smiled though she was showing too many teeth for it to be confused with a friendly one. Her eyes scanned, cataloged everything about him. The stranger was tall, over six feet, his skin was on the paler side of the spectrum. He smiled at her like they were old friends. But there was something simmering beneath the surface, something familiar.
"Why my queen, don't you recognize me?" he added with a shark grin that rivaled her own.
She looked at his face more carefully, while the look in his eyes and his general demeanor were unfamiliar, his features were.
It had been quite a long time since she had last seen him. He had been a lot younger back then, but so had she. It had been soon after she had become queen, before she had connected permanently with magic. A young man similar to Henry's current age had shown up out of nowhere from a foreign realm. The young man had been closer to Snow's age than her own but he had often been around her, especially after he had caught her using magic. He hadn't said a word though, unlike Snow, he had known had to keep a secret. Even though she had still been learning the young man had wanted to know everything she knew about their form of magic. The young man had his own which he had shared a few times, but mostly just said that it worked differently than her own.
Honestly, when he had left without one day she had missed her pale shadow. but had easily been distracted. Not much later she had finally committed to magic and getting her revenge. She hadn't thought of him in years.
"Loki, it's been a long time." He advanced on her but even though everything about him screamed predator, she wasn't afraid. Very rarely was she afraid.
"Longer for me," he said not losing his grin. Clearly, last time they had met she had been several years his senior and now he looked to be around her age. Strange. If he had been a different realm unaffected by her curse than he should be much older than her as she hadn't aged for 28 years and Loki would have aged all that time.
Loki stopped a few feet from her and his eyes glimmered with...darkness. It was darkness. Strange, when they had last met he had been intelligent, and at times mischievous, but she hadn't sensed it in him back then. Her ability to sense it though wasn't as refined it was now. Darkness knew darkness much better than anyone else.
Back then she hadn't allowed the darkness in and if she had to guess neither had the man in front of her. But fate or something else had brought them back together. What was even more interesting is that their paths seemed to have run parallel to each other. They both had been fascinating with magic but untouched by it and now...now she could see their similarities written in his grin.
She knew nothing about him. Where he had been all this time? What he had done? Or what had been done to him? But she knew whatever it was had brought her to this moment. He took her hand and brought it up to his mouth where he lightly kissed it, maintaining eye contact with her the whole time.
"I've heard of what's happened since we last met." Rage simmered in her veins and she felt her stomach roil at the thought that her weaker side had sided and grown close to Snow and her husband but she didn't show it.
"Funny, I haven't heard anything about you," she pointed out.
"That's because you haven't been outside Storybrooke much," he responded, letting go of her hand and started to walk around her.
"If I had, what would I see?" She asked trying to get more of a handle on the man who was both familiar to her and at the same time unfamiliar. He turned to face her and he looked at her with a wide grin.
"Patience patience, you don't want to ruin it all in one sitting. It's a very good story. I will, however, give you a small portion to start with but some of it may sound familiar. I was lied to and betrayed by those closest to me. Led to believe that I could be something other than what I am." She knew that he wanted her to ask and so she almost didn't but curiosity got the better of her and so after a few moments she asked.
"And what's that?"
"A monster." The malevolent grin on his face gave her pause for a second, before she remembered she was stronger than anyone except for Gold.
"And what are you doing here?" she asked starting to circle him this time. He didn't seem bothered by it.
"My own attempt at revenge didn't work as well as I had hoped but maybe I could help you with yours?" It was an unexpected offer but one she would be a fool not to consider. She had Gold as her sometime ally but this...She didn't trust him exactly. She didn't trust anyone really, but she wanted to see how this would play out because she could tell it was going to be interesting.