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Frigga tiptoed quietly down the hall to look in on her two young princes. They had had an exciting day. Her husband had taken them ice fishing. An age old pastime for father's and sons to do around this time of year when the frost were first forming and the lakes were just starting to freeze over. She expected both boys to be tired out fast asleep in their beds, since they had left so early in the morning and had only arrived back an hour or two ago. But when she went to each of their chambers she found no child there. She then decided to check the boys playroom: she should have known that was where they would be were wide awake. Toys were scattered all over the floor but the two hardly seemed to be interested in the figurines and play sets that were thrown about It seemed as though a new game had started. Thor had received a fake arrow and target set and he had set it up and now the two were shooting rubber arrows at a target that had the face of a a dragon.

"Thor, it's my turn!" Loki insisted stomping his and shouting behind Thor's back.

"Loki, your turn is when I'm finished, Ok now you just have to wait." Thor explained dismissively as he lined up his shot.

"You can't just give yourself as many turns as you want," Loki protested.

"As soon as I get a bullseye it will be your turn,"

The dark haired prince folded his arms, "That's gonna take all night,"

"Thor," Frigga's soft, mellow voice came into the room, "Give Loki a turn," she stated sweetly as she came up behind her younger son and touched him on the shoulders.

"I will," Thor responded back, "As soon as I get this shot," Thor said closing his eyes before letting his toy arrow loose. It flew straight over the dragons's head.

"You missed!" Loki called out.

" I just need a better target," Thor reasoned. "That one is too small." He ran over to get the arrow from the corner it had flew to.

"You two should be getting ready for bed," she chided as she peered into the lavished room with decorated walls that reflected tales of fables and legends and was filled like a cavern of treasures with toys.

"We are ready for bed mama, we're just not in bed," the four year old stated as he pointed out that he and his brother had on their pajamas.

"Oh I see," said queen Frigga sweetly nodding as she ruffled Loki's hair which he really didn't like. Thor picked up the toy bow and arrow set and aim one of the arrows at his little brother's head.

"Hey!" Loki cried rubbing the sore spot on the back of his head.

"A much better target," Thor laughed as he walked back over to his mother and younger sibling. "Here you go Loki," he said still smiling when he passed his younger brother the arrow set. Loki turned around and glared daggers at the blonde haired prince who stood above him laughing. He angrily smacked from Thor's hands and lunged at Thor's knees and tackling him to the ground.

"Boy's don't fight, please," Frigga pleaded peeling the two apart. The older boy was still laughing at the act. The younger child looked as if on the verge of ready to strike again.

"You saw what he did!" Loki insisted turning to his golden haired mother.

"Yes," Queen Frigga nodded as she stroked the hit area of Loki's head, "But you're alright, aren't you? Your brother was just playing with you,"She said giving him a wink and Loki mumbled something under his breath.

Thor saw how angry Loki looked, "Sorry Loki," He apologized sweetly. Coming over and wrapping his arm around his brother's thin frame. Loki looked up at the nearly 7 year old Thor and smiled.

"That's nice," Frigga said touched by the bond the boys shared. Little arguments were fairly frequent, but the were always short lived. "Well I thought I was just going to tuck you boys in, but since you still both seem to have so much energy…"
"Can we play a game?" Thor asked eagerly as he jumped on top of a near by chair.

"I don't know… I think there's been a quite a lot of fun and game for tonight," Frigga stated as she observed the disorderly state of the recreation room. She then noticed that the chair her young boy who had the appearance of a 7 year old was standing on was starting to wobble. Instinctively she rushed over and grabbed him off of the chair before the furniture tipped over. "Yes definitely enough games," she stated as she placed him on the floor. Thor looked sheepishly back at her as she went to pick up the fallen chair. "What about a story?" she suggested as she took a seat on the couch by the fireplace in the room.

"Oooh story!" Loki replied giddily as he scampered away from the toys he had been playing with and rushed to his mother's side.

"A story?" Thor asked with s slightly disgusted curl of the lip. It wasn't that he didn't like stories, but he just didn't understand how a book could compare to the adventurous game he had been imagining. He looked over at his mother who nodded and patted for him to come and join her and Loki on the couch. Loki had already hopped up and was snuggling deep into Frigga's side. She was warm and soft and always smelt like lilacs and plums. "Fine," the crown prince conceded tossing his ball to the side. Once Thor had hopped on the couch he got comfortable and nestled into his mother's embrace as well. "Everyone cozy" she asked gently noting how her sons were just using her as a pillow. The boys snuggled deeper into the folds of her gowns and she took that as a yes. "What story would you like to here?" the queen asked her little ones.

"Oooh!" Loki said bringing his head off of Frigga's shoulder and hopping up and running over to the bookshelf. He grabbed a well worn book and ran back over with it. "Read this one, Mummy," He offered sweetly holding the book up over his face covering his gapped tooth smile.

"The snow queen?" Thor read the title off of the cover. "OH NO!" the blonde thundered. "Not again!" Thor dramatically slapped his right palm on his forehead. "Loki we read that one all the time!" Thor protested.

"Well I think it is very appropriate for tonight," Frigga said to Thor as she gently took the book from Loki, she ran he fingers through his ebony locks as he laughed and stuck out his tongue at his older brother before clambering onto his mother's lap. "You know it's clear quiet nights like these when she comes," she reminded the boys casting a gaze pout the window. The wind was howling outside and the snow was falling rapidly.

"She's still alive?" Loki asked as he looked out the window too.

:"Mmm hmm" The queen said as she began to read the tale. "Once there was a Juton queen," she said.

"Was she ugly, Mama, like all the other Frost Giants?" asked Thor already interrupting. Thor never could sit through a whole story quietly.

"No," the queen shook her head, "She was very beautiful," she explained and she pointed to the picture that she had placed on Loki's lap. The picture was of a lovely female who had skin like blue ice and ebony tresses cascading down her back. She had a lovely dress that looked as if it was made from snowflakes and frost. He had deep liquid eyes,

"She's not as pretty as you, mummy" Loki whispered and pulled his hand through her golden locks.

Frigga smiled and pressed a kiss on top of the child's forehead, "Thank you, my love."

"I thought that the Frost Giants were hideous monsters?" Thor scratched his head in confusion. They had heard the story several times since Loki enjoyed it so, but he was never quite able to understand how the Jotun queen ended up being pretty.

"There are always exceptions, Thor" The queen reminded him. "Anyway she was very beautiful, but she was very cruel. For fun she would raid villages and turn the inhabitants to ice. She ruled her icy world alone. Her husband had died and left her childless. She longed for a son to be the heir to Jotunheim. She looked amongst her people but she found no child lovely enough to be her heir. For she was very beautiful and wanted a comely child aswell. Finally she began riding into other worlds on her polar bear driven sleigh searching for a child to take. She found human children to be very pleasing to the eye and she took several handsome boys in exchange for sparing the village. "

"Why not an Asgardian boy?" Thor demanded crossing his arms.

"Thor you ask too many questions," Loki pointed out.

" It's Ok Loki," Frigga soothed the young boy, "Well eventually she did come to Asgard to look for a little boy because the Midgardian children didn't live very long and several had grown old and died in only a few short years.," The queen went on.

"There was a small Asgardian village high up in the mountains where the Snow Queen had spied a very handsome youth. He was strong and tall and brave. The boy's name was Kai, He was the son of a mighty warrior. She knew that this lad would be the perfect future king. The only problem was that the boy was too soft hearted. A king of an Icy realm must be coldhearted. She thought. So the queen devised a plan to turn Kai's heart to ice,"

"How did she know he was soft hearted?" asked Thor.

"She had watched him and she knew he had a friend who was born lame and feeble, Gert. Despite the fact that the other children teased Gert, Kai remained faithful and always protected and looked out for Gert." Frigga explained absentmindedly looking down at Loki who was starting to yawn.

"Well one particular night Kai and Gert had been playing out in the woods, but a terrible storm was coming and Gert who was the wiser of the two told Kai they needed to hurry home. You see he lived with his grandmother and she knew much about the snow queen and she knew that on stormy night it was unwise for little lads to be out of their houses, because the snow queen would ride and snatch them up. She passed this wisdom onto Gert who tried to tell Kai, but Kai wouldn't always listen. Gert was ready to go straight home, but Kai kept wanting to make little pit stops. To pick up sticks and gather pinecones. Soon the weather got worse outside and the wind started to blow fiercer. Eventually the two boys could hardly see for all the snow swirling about them. Blinded by the wind they got separated. Gert fell down in the snow, but as he looked up he saw a terrible sight. He saw a carriage made of ice rushing over the snow being pulled by 5 great polar bears. He knew that this sleigh belonged to the snow queen. She stepped out of her vehicle, she was very lovely and Kai was entranced by her beauty. "Kai that's the Snow Queen, stay away from her," Gert warned trying to grab hold of his friend's foot and keep him in place, but Kai was already under the Snow Queens spell. She blew Kai a kiss and from her kiss a shard of ice flew into Kai's eye. Kai screamed out in pain. 'My eye! My eye! Something's in my eye!' he wailed and clutched his face. After that the winds died down and the snow started falling softly. Gert seeing his friend distress went over to help him. He asked Kai what was wrong but Kai yelled at him called him a fool and pushed him down on the ground. Gert was surprised by Kai's reaction but figured that he was just scared so Gert took Kai by the hand and led him home.

The next day Gert came over to check on his friend, but Kai treated Gert terribly, he told Gert that they were never friends, that he hated him for his weakness and wanted to be left alone. Gert was terribly hurt, but he respected Kai's request and watched as Kai ran off to play with some other boys in the village. Gert followed behind them secretively. Gert was good at sneaking. He saw that Kai was not only being mean to him, but he was even being mean to the other boys. That was not like Kai at all. The other boys eventually turned away from Kai and Kai declared he didn't need them. As all the other youngsters headed home a sleigh appeared being pulled by polar bears. 'Who are you?' he demanded. A figure of a beautiful icy woman appeared.

'Aren't you cold child?' the icy woman asked as she stepped forward and touched his cheek. It sent a shiver down Kai's body. 'Come with me and I'll take you home where it is warm?' she said and extended her hand toward him. Kai hesitated for a moment.

'Don't Kai!' Gert cried finally appearing from behind a rock.

'Gert?' Kai asked hopefully. But it was too late the Snow Queen placed a kiss on Kai's cheek and he was forced to obey. He got into the Jotuns sleigh and she drove away. Gert tried to chase after them, but the polar bears were too fast for the lame boy to catch. Gert scurried back to the village and told them what happened, but they didn't believe him. Kai's parents waited for Kai to return, but that night there was a terrible blizzard and they assumed their son died. But Gert knew his friend wasn't dead and he intended to rescue him. So Gert set out traveling alone through the icy foreign fields. He thought if he could reach the Bifrost he could sure rescue his friend from Jotunhiem."

"But he didn't reach the Bifrost, did he Mummy?"

"He did, but he wasn't permitted to use it," the queen explained.

"Why couldn't he use the Bifrost?" asked Thor.

"He was only a very small child and the gatekeeper would not let him."

"Why wouldn't Heimdal let him rescue his friend?" Loki interjected sleepily as he rested his heavy head on Frigga's chest.

"It was a gatekeeper before Heimdal," Frigga explained watching Loki's eyes slowly close. "So Gert had to find a secret way to get to Jotunheim. His grandmother was a wise woman and she knew that he could learn magic from the animals. So she taught him how to talk to them. He learned from animals that the snow queen lived in frigid layer so when he went there he had to dress warmly and travelers he learned from travelers that the snow queen took other children before Kai and all died in her icy grip. He learned that their were secret passage ways one of which a unicorn showed him. The unicorn became Gerts companion, for the unicorn had been asked to pull the Snow Queen's sleigh once, but he escaped never went back. The Unicorn also told him that the snow queen performed a ceremony in which she took the memory of a child's past and replaced it with her icy words. If the child accepted this as truth by the time the full moon rose in a years time the child was lost. When the unicorn realized the Kai had been missing for nearly a year he agreed to take his young friend to Jotunheim the realm of the Snow Queen and took him as far as the Snow queens castle. It was a very grand palace, but the unicorn was scared to go in for all who entered the palace uninvited were turned to ice. Gert went on alone. But Gert was very sneaky and so he was able to get around the guards. He finally made it inside the queens chamber room and their he saw Kai standing stiff and cold. His skin was blue and he started to take on the appearance of the Jotuns. The queen kept stroking Kai and asking him to remember things about his past life that Kai couldn't remember. He couldn't remember his mother or father, or his village. When the moon rose into the sky the Snow Queen's spell would be permanent and Kai would remain with her for all time.

'Kai!' Gert called upon seeing his friend in the clutches of the icy queen.

'You,' the Snow Queen yelled in horror seeing the feeble child. "How is it that you are here?'

"I have come by unicorn to save my friend,' Gert replied.

"Foolish child he cannot be saved," the queen scoffed.

"if he remembers he can leave." Gert stated.

"Boy, how is it that you know these things?" The snow queen asked in disbelief. But Gert had learned much with his travels and he had learned her secrets as well.

"I know much," was the child's reply. There were mere moments until the full moon rose and the Snow Queen's spell would not be able to be undone.

"Ask your questions then child,' the snow queen allowed.

"What is your name?" Ger t asked the frozen image of Kai

'I am called her son,'

'Who is your mother?' asked Gert feeling more anxious as the hour drew to a close.

'The snow queen,' Kai answered

'What does your father do?'

'My father was a king slain,'

'Where are you from?' asked

'Jotunheim,'

In a moment of panic seeing that the moon was almost at peak Gert threw his arms around Kai, 'Kai I am your friend, we were best friends and had many adventures together, Do you remember? Kai please remember!' Gert begged and stared Kai in the eyes. He held him tighter 'Kai what's my name'

Kai blinked in confusion before finally replying slowly 'Gert!'. With that the Snow Queen's spell was broken and she was forced to release the boys. The Unicorn took them back to Asgard. The Snow queen still searches for a son to this day." Frigga said finally concluding the story. "The end," She finished with a smile.

"Well I guess the story wasn't that bad Loki," Thor teased as he stretched and yawned a little bit. He looked over at his brother, Loki, who had fallen asleep against their mother's chest. Thor shook his head. He couldn't believe after Loki had asked to hear that story he fell asleep on it. Frigga gathered her younger son in her arms and began carrying him down the hall to his bedroom while holding Thor's hands as they walked down the corridor.

"I can't believe Loki fell asleep," Thor expressed looking up at his mother who still hand Loki in her arms fast asleep as they turned the corner to Loki's bedroom.

"He tried to stay up as long as he could, darling" Frigga explained as she laid Loki down in his own bed and gave him a kiss on the cheek as he settled down into the quilts. Her and Thor took a few more steps before they got to his bedchamber

"Mama," Thor said as Frigga ushered him into bed, pulling down the covers and fluffing the pillows for her elder boy.

"Yes," she said sitting down on the edge of his bed and pulling the covers up tight over her beloved son. " I don't really get why Loki like's that story so much," he admitted now that Loki was tucked away in his own chambers. "I mean it doesn't have any good battles or weapons or even a really scary monster?" he explained.

"Well maybe Loki finds it relatable," Frigga offered as she stroked Thor's face, but her eyes looked distant and worried.

"How? It's about stolen children and Jotuns queens?"

"Maybe it's more relatable then you know, Thor." She said with a sigh. Hoping Thor wouldn't ask many more questions.

"I don't understand," Thor scratched his thick blonde hair and laid down on the solf silk pillow that laced his bed.

" It's a story about a smaller child saving a big strong child," The queen tried to explain.

"Yeah, but he doesn't save him with a fight or with powers or anything," Thor went on still perplexed by how anyone could find that tale so interesting.

"No, Gert rescues Kai with something much stronger…"

"What?"

"Love, my son" Frigga said as planted a kiss on Thor's forehead. "No more questions tonight now dear, it is very late and you had a very busy day," she soothed. Thor nodded sleepily before turning over getting in his normal resting position.

"Goodnight mama," he murmured as his eyelids closed and he saw her leaving his room.

"Goodnight love," Frigga whispered back blowing one last kiss.

As times passed Thor always thought he'd figured out how Loki related to the story. Loki was Gert small and feeble, but well learned. Making, himself Kai the strong, beautiful child. And maybe that was the truth when they were younger, but the roles had changed. It happened so quickly and suddenly that Thor hadn't even noticed. Loki was Kai the easily bewitched child turned cold by the learning that he was the rightful child of the Snow Queen or Snow King as the case ended up being. The realization that his life had been a lie pushed out the wise, gentle person Loki had been giving way to a cold cruel person. That made Thor Gert. The one who was suppose to save the other, but he hadn't been able to do that. Instead he watched his brother fall off of the shattered bridge into an abyss. Loki was lost and Thor cursed himself for not having enough love to save his brother. He twisted uncomfortably in his sleep as the night continued.