Yeah sleeping beauty, what can I say my cousins were watching it and I decided to amuse myself by writing this while they watched the film. I have to say turning Loki into the prince that woke sleeping beauty was probably the most challenging part of this fiction. Anyway, fluff, angst and man on man love warnings, if you don't like any of that I suggest you don't read this. I have dyslexia and this has been through a spell checker so go easy on the spelling and grammar. I don't own anything here; I borrowed it for a little fun and returned them after I was done.

Awake or asleep it is you I love.

Part one:

The spell started when Thor refused to marry the daughter of a very powerful enchantress, the thunder god had good enough reason to refuse this union, he was not in love with the daughter and she was not in love with him. However the Enchantress did not care to be thwarted in her plan to have her daughter married to the future king of Asgard and in her anger at his refusal to do as she wished the enchantress cursed the thunder god to sleep until true loves kiss broke the spell she had placed upon him.

As king of the gods Odin knew full well how strong the power of a fairy tales was and that not doing what one wished of you or trying to break it before the story was completed would cause more grief to the world then doing as was needed would. With these facts in mind the king of the gods had the sleeping Thor moved to the room at the top of the tallest tower of the castle. The blonde immortal was carefully laid out on the bed which had been especially placed into the room for him, in his enchanted repose the thunder god wore his most formal of uniforms sans his winged helmet which had been replaced with a simple plain silver circlet as the mark for his royal rank. His hands were on his chest, one of the two hands was however fisted tightly showing that Thor held something but no one not even Odin knew what it was that he refused to let go of even in his magically induced sleep.

As the news of Thor's condition spread, many people from all across the nine realms came to try and wake the sleeping prince, yet none succeeded in doing so. Loki watched them all come and go, at first he greeted the entire situation with complete indifference, but then very slowly a sense of worry started to build in the trickster as Thor spent more time asleep. The dark haired immortal was very confused as to why he should have started to become concerned over the fate of the sleeping Thor and he tried extremely hard to shake this feeling off but no matter what he did the concern he felt would not fully leave him.

Loki couldn't help but think that now with the blonde out of the way, it would be the perfect time to try to take over Asgard, however he quickly found that he didn't want to do this at all and this inability to do as he had always wanted confused him greatly. Eventually two months passed, still Thor had not stirred from the sleep spell and no one could seem to work out just who it was that the prince of Asgard was waiting for, the identity of his true love it seemed was for now to remain a mystery.

It was at this point in time that Loki had the oddest dream; he was walking through the castle which he quickly noticed was completely empty and although he found this to be odd the trickster was not unduly concerned. Loki soon noticed that his walk took him straight to the bottom of the tower which held the sleeping Thor, and slowly the dark haired god climbed the steps to the top room. He opened the door and as soon as he set eyes on the sleeping thunder god the heart of the trickster went into a faster rhythm. To him Thor's blond hair seemed to shimmer like gold and in the sunlight his entire body was bathed in the warm light making it seem to glow. The god of mischief stood in the door way just watching him sleep for some time, then slowly Loki crossed the room to the side of the bed, he looked down on the face of the sleeping blonde immortal and the trickster found himself thinking how handsome and peaceful he looked asleep.

Gently Loki put his hand on top of the other god's hands; tenderly the dark haired immortal raised the hand which was still tightly curled round the mysterious object. Carefully but firmly Loki opened the clasped hand in it was an emerald pendant shaped like a unicorn on a gold chain, the god instantly recognised it as the gift he had given Thor for a birthday when they had both been very young, a gift which the thunder god had adored immediately. In the dream Loki carefully took the pendant, and then he rested Thor's hands so they were once more on his chest just now they were on top of the other before laying the pendant back on top of his hands.

"Please..." The trickster whispered suddenly aware of the tears on his dreams self's face. "Please you need to wake up." Loki leant over the thunder god and kissed him, as he did so a change over came him, one that the god was only aware of because of his black hair suddenly falling forward as a curtain on each side of him. Then all at once Thor was kissing back, startled by this Loki hastily pulled back to watch with surprise and joy warring inside him as the sky blue eyes of the blonde opened and rested on him.

A brilliant smile curved up the lips of the newly woken prince, with the chain of the pendant tangled in his fingers, Thor reached up gently he cupped Loki's cheek running a thumb over it tenderly and then he spoke softly. "At last you came to wake me I was wondering if you ever would Loki. I am glad I finally get to see you as you were always destined to be, my true love. I knew this lay inside you I'd seen it in my dreams and now it stands before me and I am awed by you." Loki woke with those words ringing in his mind and his breathing coming hard the god of mischief sat woke, the raven haired immortal sat in bed for some time just staring unseeingly at the wall while he waited for his heart beat to slow and for his muddled feelings to settle back into some sense of normality.

The dark haired immortal spent a lot of time trying to dismiss the dream but four days later it repeated itself again, these repetitions grew closer together till Loki was having the dream nightly. Then one night two weeks after the dreams began Loki went to sleep and didn't dream of waking Thor from the spell that held him at all. For some reason this fact troubled the trickster more than he would admit, it was to be three days before the dream returned to him but when it did Loki instantly noticed that when he got to the top of the tower that instead of the room being full of light as it had been before everything was dark with candles granting the only light in the room. He also noted that strangely it was still bright day light outside the room, however save the darkness the rest of the dream remained the same.

This new version of the dream came to him for a week and two days then it changed again, the darkness remained, but now there was also a thick layer of dust covering all the surfaces of the room and cobwebs were hung in various places about the room. This new version of the dream played its self out to him every night for only six days before yet another modification occurred now when Loki reached the top of the tower the door had rotted away. It was the morning after this alteration in the dream that the dark haired god noticed that ivy had appeared wound tightly round the tower and it looked to him as if it were trying to choke the life out of the tower. All of these strange occurrences made Loki begin to wonder what was going on with this seemingly crazy spell.

These dreams were starting to stir feelings in him for Thor which Loki was sure he had extinguished long ago, but this was not the only thing that the dreams were effecting, they were beginning to get the attention of part of himself which the god of mischief had spent a long time trying to burry so deep it would never be stirred or found, now because of the dreams it was starting to try to come out into the open once again. Despite Loki's best efforts to keep these long hidden parts of himself repressed the more he dreamt of waking Thor the harder the repression of them was becoming for him to manage.

As the god of mischief settled down to sleep five nights after the ivy appeared he did so with trepidation he knew the dream would be back and he wondered what it was going to be like this time. Sure enough as soon as he had fallen asleep the dream returned the changes from the last three dreams were still present but now Thor had longer hair to his elbows and he woke slower this time then he had in the other versions of the dream. It was yet another week and three days before another difference appeared in the dream occurred, now Thor was completely covered by a red sheet which Loki had to draw back before he could even see the one he was to wake. The gap between this and the next change was markedly shorter it was only four days, this time the latest alteration was that there were now flowers placed in bunches and vases in various places all around the room Thor slept in.

The morning after this latest change the god of mischief raced toward the rooms at the base of the tower Thor slept in, the trickster ran as fast as he could the loud cries of horror and battle ahead of him drawing the immortal on. The whole way to the tower Loki could only wonder what was going on with the spell this time. As he rounded the corner the god of mischief froze before him was coiled a huge green serpent with massive fangs it sat hissing and striking out at the others in the room at the bottom of the tower. The dark haired immortal alongside several guards and other gods helped those trapped in the room escape the massive creature, as soon as the last person was out of the room Loki quickly pulled the door closed on it and breathing hard turned to look at Odin. "What is that thing doing here?"

"It looks like it is the guardian of the one sleeping, which means anyone wanting to get to Thor will now have to fight that."

Slowly Loki turned to look at the door and let out a deep sigh. "Well this spell is turning into quiet the problem." He said shaking his head at the complete strangeness of the spell the trickster turned away from the door again and walked away, little knowing that Sigyn was watching him go a slight frown of concern on her face.

Five days after the appearance of the serpent the dream came up with yet another difference to add to the others which had previously occurred, now instead of the pendant being in Thor's hands he was now wearing it and Loki couldn't help but wonder what these changes in the dreams were trying to tell him. It was six days this time before the next change, this difference actually scared Loki because instead of being in the bed Thor was now lying in a boat looking as if he was practically ready to be buried. When the trickster kissed him in this version of the dream the thunder god woke so very that slowly that for a moment Loki was convinced he was not going to wake from the sleep spell at all.

When Loki woke from the latest dream his heart was hammering, he was drenched in sweat and breathing hard, this most recent version of the dream had the god of mischief in a panic. He realised now the dreams had been slowly deteriorating, getting darker and darker, it was as if the sense of hope that had been in the dreams at the start was now fading from them which meant that now in the dreams Thor was all but dead his hope of rescue nearly completely extinguished. Even when he had quietened from the panic the dream had sent him into Loki found there was a pain inside him could not and would not identify.