A/N: Hey people! So I tried writing a Loki fanfic before, but it was extremely random with Blair Waldorf from Gossip Girl and it quietly died with not so much as a word from anyone. THIS TIME I'm doing a Loki/Sigyn pairing, but I'm doing it a little different. Hopefully you guys like it. Review so I know that you do (or don't) and so I know if I should keep on writing or not.
"If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger."
―Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
Prologue
Sigyn was much too small when she was born. Her skin was as pale as fresh cream except for the few thin places that allowed dark blue veins to jut out. No one thought she was going to survive the night, she had arrived to this universe way earlier than anyone had anticipated. Not even her mother expected her arrival and she usually knew down to the second when a child would greet the world. There were no wails of new life to assault the ears of every Asgardian in the room when she was born. All she did was sigh like she was relieved to finally be out of the womb. Before Frigga even got a chance to hold Sigyn in her arms she was rushed off to be cleaned and examined.
"She must not be well, my lady" the doctor sadly stated. "Despite the fact she is severely premature, she should have made more of a racket than this. When Thor was born there wasn't a soul in all the nine realms that wasn't aware of it."
"Nonsense" Frigga replied, "She must have been impatient to meet all of us."
"Never the less, my lady. We need to keep her in observation for a few days. The tiny princess is alive,yes, but we need to make sure she is healthy."
"She's fine. I would have felt if anything was wrong" Frigga countered. She was a little upset that they took her little girl away from her before she could even get a proper look.
"Let the doctors do their jobs, my queen" Odin's voice boomed from across the room. He hadn't been there when Frigga was delivering the baby. He was off dealing with a frost giant issue. As soon as he got back to Asgard his only priority was to be by Frigga's side. She huffed indignantly, but did nothing to convince them to bring her child back to her. The presence of Odin comforted her and she soon drifted off into a well deserved sleep. Sigyn got a clean bill of health (something Frigga had been assuring the doctors of every moment she could) after a week or so of being under observation.
The months that followed were filled with royals of the nine realms showering the new princess of Asgard with gifts and visits. Everyone was over joyed by the arrival of the beautiful baby girl, everyone except Loki. He hadn't gone to see her all this time and why should he? She stole his mother away from him. He needed her more than anyone else in the whole universe. She made him feel big when Thor or whoever picked on him. She made him feel like he belonged somewhere when everyone else turned their backs on him. Now she hardly had time for him just like the rest of them. When he wasn't forced into school with Thor, he spent all of his time in his room. When the teacher asked him why that was, Loki tried to explain to him the injustice of the new born baby. The teacher responded with, "You are six years old now, young prince. You should not rely on your mother for companionship." Loki only scoffed at him and stormed off, reading books on magic was the only thing that calmed him down. Mother promised she would teach him how to do great magicks when he was older. Wait. That was before the baby came and ruined everything. Loki wondered if she was going to stick to her promise now.
The sound of a baby crying off in the distance made him roll his eyes, that infant was so horrible. She always cried over the slightest problem. No she never makes a sound, Loki thought. That was one of the things that really annoyed him about her. It made hiding from mother that much more difficult because he never knew where they were. He had never heard a single sound leave that babies mouth in the few months she had been alive. Of course, the first time she would decide to do it would be in the middle of the night. How extremely selfish of her. Loki narrowed his eyes and slammed his book shut. There was no use getting any reading done now that the creature had decided to open her stupid mouth. He threw the book on the ground with a sigh and tried to get himself more comfortable in bed. She's been crying for far too long. Shouldn't mother have gone in there and dealt with it by now? With an even bigger sigh Loki jumped out of bed and threw open his bedroom door. Since no one else was going to deal with the problem he decided he was going to have to take matters in his own hands.
Loki found her room easy enough, the way she was crying was practically like an auditory map for him. He was going to dramatically fling her door open when he reached it to try to scare her into silence. But when he got close enough he noticed that the door was already open, no, the door was completely gone. He instinctively pressed himself against the wall and slid his body across until he was at the edge of the frame. He leaned forward and did his best to crane his head into the room without being seen by anything that might be in there. He saw that her door had been pulled away from the frame and flung against a wall in the complete opposite direction. Loki's eyes went wide, What creature could have caused that?, he fearfully thought. There seemed to be a trail of destruction leading away from the discarded door. Loki followed it with his eyes, his heart dropping as he saw that it lead right up to Sigyn's crib. He closed his eyes for a second, did he really want to look at Sigyn in her crib? What if whatever did that to her room had hurt her or disfigured her in some way? He had to be brave. Thor wouldn't falter in the self imposed mission if he were here. Loki opened his eyes again and completed the trail to Sigyn. What he saw made him gasp.
All of her toys were swirling around the crib like a mobile that someone had switched on to full power. Occasionally one would spin too fast and end up smacking against one of the walls. Loki looked around the room one more time, it was empty except for Sigyn. No way could she be doing that all on her own. She was just a baby, she couldn't have that much power without being taught how to conjure it. But there was no other explanation for it, it couldn't be her and yet it must be. Loki pushed himself off the wall and made his way into the room. Sigyn kept on wailing with her eyes squeezed shut, she must not have noticed that someone else had entered the room. He was almost to the crib when he stepped on a rattle, Sigyn opened her eyes and stared right at him. Her eyes were so big and so impossibly blue. He looked into them and it was like gazing into the middle of the ocean. Her wails turned to sobs, and then finally she quietly heaved her body. Neither child broke the eye contact, Loki got closer to the crib. The whirling toys slowly circled the two of them until they all gently hit the ground simultaneously. He reached his fingers out to her through the bars. She curled her fingers around his and let out a bubbly giggle. Loki smirked. It was the first time he felt the heart inside his chest grow warm.
