My Guard, my Lover.
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A/N: I have seen the film Thor and of course the Avengers and my interpretation of the characters are loosely based on them. I have only read the Marvel comics a few times so this story is more movie verse than anything. I have read more fanfic about them than anything and basically fell in love with them this way; in fact I had read the fanfic before I had even seen the movies.
This is my first fanfic for this fandom so please does not destroy it with bolts of lightning or anything else that comes to hand. If you do like it then a review or two would appreciated.
This is SLASH, so if it is not your kind of thing then please stop reading now. The characters might seem a little OOC and if so I apologise in advance but this story popped into my head and just would not go away. I had noticed also that there are not many Loki and Hogun stories in this fandom and I think the character of Hogun is sorely under represented. There should be more stories about this quietest and unassuming of all of Asguards warriors
Loki had always thought that Hogun was handsome, in a way that he had never thought anyone else to be. Unlike the other warriors of Asguard he was not big and lumbering but more lithe but yet he was a striking man with his dark eyes that seemed to smoulder with suppressed emotion. His eyes were so dark that it seemed as though the irises were almost invisible within the pupil and his hair was as dark as Odin's two ravens. Hogun's mouth was always set in what most people took as a grim smile but Loki had always found it to be irresistible.
Loki smirked as he thought about Hogun, he had known the man ever since he was a small child watching from the side lines of the training grounds when his brother Thor was sparring an opponent and Thor in his idiotic way thought that Loki was there to watch him but he could not have been more wrong. At first Loki had gone to the training grounds specifically to watch his brother train but that had changed from the first moment he had seen Hogun and after that day he had been the one that Loki had gone to see.
Not that he would ever let Hogun or anyone else know his feelings, they would laugh at him he was sure of it and although he liked to think of Hogun as his love, the warrior had never been his lover.
The warrior in question was at that moment watching Loki as he moved about his chambers gathering up personal items that he wanted to take with him, he was leaving the next day to spend some time travelling to one of the distant realms, Hogun could not remember which one but knowing the second prince as he did he assumed that it would be one of the magical ones.
As Loki packed more of his precious books into one of his travelling bags he became aware of the intensity with which the motionless Hogun watched him and he thought he knew what lurked beneath Hogun's apparently calm exterior despite the fact that he had never made his feelings known to anyone.
The thought of leaving Hogun was almost unbearable but he knew he had to; his father Odin had need of him and he would do his duty even at the cost of leaving behind the one person that made life for him bearable.
"Be safe," Hogun said so softly that Loki almost did not hear him
Loki struggled to remain outwardly calm, as though he had never heard the words that Hogun had just muttered despite the feeling of heat that coursed through his body at hearing Hogun's softly spoken words.
Hogun did not move but colour had risen in his face and Loki could see that for once the normally grim warrior's eyes sparkled with emotion so furiously that it was not at all like him. His true emotions closer to the surface than he normally allowed him his control slipping it seemed for just one moment.
Loki waved his hand and closed the door to his chambers to give the warrior some privacy as he regained control of himself.
"I'll be perfectly safe Hogun; the allfather is sending to check things out. No fighting will occur while I am there, well none that I cannot defend myself against."
Hogun's dark eyes seemed to say otherwise and although normally Loki would have been insulted by any other person assuming he was weak and unable to defend himself with Hogun he did not find it insulting, it made him feel wanted and safe in a way that he had never felt with another.
He knew that despite the outward appearance and discretion that Hogun maintained around the court and the realm that there had been those who had given him their bodies and had in return used him for their own pleasures and the thought of him lying with another made Loki angry and something dark rose in his soul at the thought of Hogun with another.
Loki knew that should his feelings of desire for the brooding warrior who stood before him ever became public knowledge that it would shame and shock not only his family but it would probably also shock the man standing before him now.
He knew that while away he would suffer, knowing it to be an eternity before he could lay eyes on Hogun again but it was better that he never made his feelings known. To be forever together yet not together, forever apart because of what people might think.
Hogun stared silently at Thor's younger brother and although he wanted to say the words that lay in heart he knew that he could not. Honour would not allow it, the person before him was his best friend's younger brother and the youngest son of the Asguardian royal family, a family whose members he had sworn to protect with his life, falling in love with one of them was not something he could do, even though his heart said otherwise.
His heart began to thump as he bit off the words that threatened to tumble from his lips, he could just imagine the younger prince laughing at him if he dared to utter the words of love that he felt for the man. Loki could have anyone he wanted just like his older brother Thor; there was no way Hogun thought bitterly to himself that he would want someone like him.
So sunk in his thoughts he had not noticed the younger man watching him intently until he heard him speak.
"Tell me that you'll miss me and will think of me occasionally Hogun."
Hogun's dark eyes widened at Loki's words and for a moment he knew not what to say, he was silent, frozen as he tried to reason with the words that Loki had spoken. Looking for some hint of malice or teasing in the words that the young prince had just uttered, thinking that the god of mischief was playing with his emotions.
A curious mixture of despair and amusement surged through Loki as he waited impatiently for Hogun to speak.
A/N: I always do small taster chapters on any of my new stories to see if people like them and also to get them interested (hopefully)! If you would like me to continue with this story then please leave me a review.