AN- I have another story I am going to be doing during this one. If you all like Shenny stories from BBT check it out. It's called In My Thoughts, Always. I got this idea from a dream I had after seeing Thor: The Dark World and learning that Frigga had visions of the future and decided to put my own spin on it.
Frigga was a sensible woman, and as such, understood her husband's thought process after he had explained about the baby he brought home. When he arrived back to the palace under the cloak of darkness, after fighting the Jotuns for years on end, which just equated to mere months in Midgardian time, and had acquired not just the Ice Casket he had gone for, but a child as well. It was all very sensible at the time. The Jotuns were just savages and barbarians really, and they lacked true leadership. If they could raise the baby Jotun to be diplomatic, intelligent and logical, they could send him back to Jotunheim after an appropriate amount of time and have him be a symbol of cooperation and unity between the Aesir and Jotuns.
Like all sensible plans though, things have a tendency to get complicated when emotions get involved. Frigga was naturally a maternal person. She loved her son Thor from the moment she saw him, and when Odin put that acquired baby into her arms, with its sapphire blue skin and ruby red eyes, she fell as in love as she had when she saw Thor. She whispered the name, Loki, and knew in her heart of hearts that this baby was her son just as if he been expelled from her own body. She knew that Odin saw this sentiment as a problem for his "sensible plan" and when he brought up his consideration for putting Loki with another family in Asgard, it was an idea that Frigga put to ground immediately.
Even with the enchantment Odin put on him to look Aesir, all Frigga saw when she looked at Loki was that beautiful blue baby with his shining red eyes. He was perfect the way he was and it shamed Frigga that Odin didn't see what she saw when she looked at her son. She knew that Odin disliked Loki, always had, and not just because of "what" he was, but because he was, to her, on the same level as their natural born son. He hated that she gave this "monster" the same consideration that she gave his heir, and this shamed her of him even more than anything else.
Odin saw a bargaining chip while she saw a son, and this caused the biggest rift of all between them. Not the affairs of his over the millennia, not the illegitimate children he would occasionally spawn from said indiscretions, but a child, a beautiful, intelligent, sweet child.
Odin would have almost nothing to do with Loki as a baby and then as a child unless Frigga made him, and then it was with irritation and spite. Not like sweet Thor. Once Thor was old enough to understand what a brother was, he wouldn't go anywhere without Loki. All but attached at the hip by the time they could walk, Odin couldn't do anything with the boy without Thor bringing Loki along. Darling innocent that he was couldn't comprehend a father not wanting to spend time with both of his sons and brought Loki along on all of their outings and lessons.
Eventually, sometime between the boys' 3 and 400th years respectively, Odin attained a level of tolerance for Loki, enough so that he would actively take a mild interest into the boy's activities.
Unfortunately it was too late by then.
The resentment of seeing Thor obviously favored by his beloved and adored father, of always being second best even when he surpassed Thor in a subject or ability such as knowledge and magic, had festered with in the young boy's heart.
Frigga's heart cried the day she saw Odin approach Loki alone, without Thor trailing after him, and offered the chance of an outing just between the two of them, and Loki shake his head to the negative and walk away. Head held high, shoulders back, a true prince, his pride in every step and Odin's nonchalance of the rebuffed offer. He turned around and took Thor to the battlefield, unknown to Odin and Loki was the watchful eyes Frigga, and unknown to both Frigga and Odin were the tears that slid down Loki's face as he spied the "care" that his father had at his negated offer of quality time.
As such with this behavior between Loki and Odin, the growing boy spent more time with Frigga, learning the ways of magic and how to attune himself to his natural born abilities great and fearsome as they had grown to be. "Control, young Loki, is the key to true magical potential. We must have control over ourselves and our emotions to truly approach the potential that we have" Frigga taught this mantra to Loki the day after he set a girl's dress on fire after being turned down and subsequently laughed at for said rejection at a dance at the previous evening's feast.
His emotions so out of control during puberty, and his physical beauty manifesting for all the young ladies to appreciate. He took advantage of the appreciation he got from the fairer sex and acquired his name "Silvertongue" not just for his diplomatic negotiating. As a young man in the prime of his 900th year he couldn't get enough of the young ladies, even more so than his brother and only she and Odin knew why he was so insatiable. It was because of his manifesting Jotun abilities and maturation. He spent an entire month under a sleeping spell thanks to Odin after he acquired a fever and was able to unknowingly throw off Odin's physical Aesir camouflage with his fluctuating magicks.
Thor about lost his mind with worry over the imposed sleep and solitary confinement of his beloved brother. Odin refused all entry into the room for everyone except for Frigga who he knew would come in no matter what he said of the matter. He claimed it was because of an acquired virus on a mission. Only two people knew the real reasons as to why the young man was quarantined.
One refused to allow his plan to fall by the wayside, the other unable to reveal said knowledge not just for the love and fear she held for the young man, but when she had brought up the idea of revealing said knowledge to Odin he had lost his composure after a long and seemingly endless argument going back and forth and all but struck Frigga. If it hadn't been for the timely arrival of some dignitaries from Alfheim, who knows what would have happened, the look Frigga and Odin share at this acknowledgment is the true beginning of the end, because afterward, Odin sees nothing but the physical harm he would have given Frigga in her eyes and she sees nothing but the trust she has lost in her husband and the hate in his heart for her son.
Frigga is a lot of things. Wife, warrior, seer, but most of all mother. She has lost her love for her husband but will never lose her love for her sons. It is a true constant in the years she has lived. No matter the mischief and trouble her boys get into she smiles and knows that she will always be there for them, to help them achieve all of the happiness they can get. No matter what that happiness is, women, men, food, drink. Her boys deserve all the happiness in the nine realms and if it is in her considerable power they will get it.
It is with these feelings in her heart when she has her first vision in almost 150 years, and it is of Loki, Thor, and an unknown woman of brown hair and copper eyes. She is small and surrounded by books and machines the likes of which Frigga has never seen. She sees this woman in two different futures both involving her sons. Since the future is ever changing, nothing is truly certain in her visions, but she can see what changes would need to be made to bring each future to pass. Normally she would report to Odin her visions especially when they involve Thor, but she hasn't seen hide nor hair of her "loving" husband since their altercation the previous month.
In these two visions she sees terrible things. In both she sees the same beginning. She sees Loki goading Thor into attacking Jotunheim in an effort to stop his coronation, she sees Thor being banished and his powers sealed away along with Mjilnor, and she sees the Odin sleep after Loki finds out who and what he is. She sees Thor's interaction with this copper eyed woman and his subsequent maturing and Loki's rule of Asgard.
In the first she sees Loki and Thor fighting each other, a broken Bifrost, a giant city with gleaming metal structures, a flying red and gold metal man and a giant green monster throwing her precious Loki around like a rag doll with death and destruction growing like a disease, Loki in a pool of his own blood and a crying Thor holding him and screaming in what appears to be the dark recesses of Svartalheim, though why they should be there is a mystery to Frigga, at the end is Thor holding the mystery woman's hand in front of a group of Aesir both in gleaming gold and red and a strangely somber looking Odin proceeding over what appears to be a handfasting. She sees the arguments, disagreements and unhappiness both Thor and the woman bring upon each other, Thor drinking and Sif there to catch him in his drunkenness. The woman crying over a book at Thor's continued absences in the middle of the night and her only companion her tomes and machines.
The next vision, is almost identical to the first, but altered by her own interference, she sees herself and Loki discussing what she can only assume is his heritage by his reaction to the conversation, him crying and screaming at her, the hurt, sadness and anger in his beautiful green eyes only to fall into her arms and sleep. She sees his confrontation of Odin after Thor's banishment to Midgard, similar to but unlike the first vision. She sees the same anger and hatred for Odin as in the first vision but there is pride and acceptance in his eyes for himself. The second vision fades soon after but before it does she observes Loki and the copper eyed woman staring at each other over clasped hands, passion and electricity flying like lightning.
It was obvious to Frigga which future she would allow to pass. She would have her family happy, with or without Odin's approval. Her boys deserved happiness, Loki especially, and it was her place to make sure it came about.
AN- Ok, I know this is an odd start but I really hope you all enjoyed it. This is only the beginning and if anyone has any suggestions or ideas of what they want to see in this let me know and I might indulge my loyal readers. ;)
I plan on this being a rather dark, funny, and creepy Lokane story so settle in folks.