A few hours had passed; Sigyn had been lead from the room Loki was held in to a smaller one, a table in the middle and dim lights. But everything on the ship was dim, the whole place was nearly shrouded in darkness, much like it was shrouded in mystery. All Sigyn had been told that this was an organisation called SHIELD, and that they wanted to put a stop to her husband's schemes - no matter the cost. They had assembled what Nick Fury labelled 'The world's mightiest heroes - and Tony Stark' to defeat him.

So now she was sat at the table, the Black Widow - who's name she found out was actually Natasha was sat opposite her. At first Sigyn thought she had been placed with her to make sure she wasn't part of Loki's plan, but upon asking the woman; she told Sigyn that she seemed like the sanest one here. And the one with most knowledge on Loki - which was true.

"Excuse me, Sigyn; but there's something that I really don't get."

"Yes?" Sigyn asked, leaning forward so that her elbows were placed on the table. Natasha sighed, leaning back and folding her arms as she stared directly at Sigyn. The woman was intimidating even to her; incredibly beautiful, more so than her and she was a Goddess, and dangerous. That much was evident from the respect she literally demanded with her tone of voice - almost bored, but observant.

"What is it that Loki sees in you? Or saw in you..."

"Is there a deeper meaning to that question?" Sigyn asked, scoffing a moment later as Natasha squinted and placed her hand on her forehead, pulling her brow together. Sigyn glared at the woman, half-shocked at the audacity she must have had to ask a question like that, "If you are trying to say something, then I would much prefer you say it to my face directly rather than implying it."

"No, I didn't mean it like that - what I mean was; You're nice, kind and quiet. Loki's..."

"Loki is what?"

"... Not like you."

Sigyn arched an eyebrow and sat back, Natasha picked up her cup and took a sip of something she had called 'coffee' - the very smell of it had made Sigyn nauseous. "He has not always been like this."

"How so?"

"He has not always been so..."

"So what?"

Sigyn shot her a sharp look and the other woman reclined, a smirk toying on her face for once. The only display of emotion she had shown so far.

"Loki is different to this. He is a husband, a son - a typical man. I don't know if it is the same here on Midgard, but Loki is normal."

"Aside from wanting to take over the world and enslave humanity."

"Watch your tongue, you sound too much like Mister Stark."

Natasha scoffed and shook her head, pressing the cup to her lips again. "Stark's an ass; I'm not."

Sigyn nodded in confusion "Yes, you are far from a donkey.."

Natasha blinked a few times before shaking off the comment, turning her full attention back to Sigyn. Her eyes clouded over as she drew Sigyn in, leaning forward so that their faces were inches apart. "I have one more question."

"Yes?"

"Loki isn't like us humans; he's immortal and pretty much unbeatable; but everyone has a weakness. What is his?"

Sigyn paused for a moment, her mouth agape as she closed her eyes. They had spoken of weaknesses before, and he had once told her that she was his weakness. But not anymore, Sigyn was far from being a weakness. It was as if he didn't care about her enough, and whatever he had gone through to begin to feel like that; she was desperate to know. Had she said something to him, something to hurt him and cause him to hate her? Or had he simply gone mad? The first one seemed more likely, Loki was smart, incredibly so; and cold. He did not lose his mind, only by effects of spells and exposure to things did he enter madness, and even then he slipped out. She must have said something, it was the only viable answer; but what had she done?

Days before he disappeared, he had mentioned his true heritage. The Frost Giants; ghastly beasts and unforgiving enemies. They took pleasure out of killing, and were pure evil - at least that was what children of Asgard were taught. It was only normal that Loki would be hurt. He had been brought up to think they were monsters, and now he was one of them. She had even called him monstrous.

Monsters.

That was it. That was Loki's weakness. Monsters. Being thought of as a monster, controlling monsters.

"Monsters." She whispered, and Natasha's eyes widened for a moment before she slid her chair back and rose to her feet.

"Thank you for your help."

Sigyn nodded her head and sank back in her seat, her hands covering her face as the once Russian left the room.


Sigyn had sat in the room until she felt as though the walls were closing in on her, she drummed her fingers against the desk and nearly fell asleep. But she couldn't. Her mind was awake and running away with itself at the thought of Loki in that cage of his, the way he looked as if he was ready to kill her. The way he looked pleased to see her nearly quaking in fear, and then the look of satisfaction when he had gotten the desired emotion out of her; anger.

Was he still the same? She didn't know, it didn't seem like it. The only man she'd ever loved, the only man who'd ever taken a real interest in her was losing his mind. It made her feel sick, and incredibly sad to see him so lost. If that was the word. It probably wasn't, he was too dark and mean to be lost.

But how did he get so mean?

That would remain a mystery until he chose to speak up and explain, but until then she knew her mind was be clouded with thoughts of him. But this time not thoughts of sadness on how she could have saved him from destruction, but confused and embittered thoughts. Love. Thoughts of love.

But how could she love a man who was so... evil?

Sigyn's eyes began to water and she slumped forward, gently brushing her fingers underneath her eyes to stop the tears from falling. She sighed, staring at the door. She closed her eyes lightly for a few seconds before she pushed her chair back and rose to her feet, slipping out of the door.

In the corridor, she walked face first into what felt like a wall made of the strongest rock she had ever felt, and she would have hit her head against the wall from falling back if the rock hadn't had snatched up her arm and kept her upright.

"Ma'am; I'm sorry-"

Sigyn brushed herself off and lifted her head to come face to face with the 'super soldier' as he was called. "No, no it is my fault. I should watch where I am going.."

Loki had told her that once. She fought the urge to screw her face up in disappointment before the man spoke again;

"Mrs Lo-"

"Sigyn." She said, before he could finish. The last thing she needed was to be given the name of nothing but 'Loki's wife.' "Sigyn Freyjasdottir."

"Steve." He said with a smile, "Steve Rogers; at your service."

"It is very nice to meet you, Steve."

The man nodded his head, and Sigyn looked down to his hands; he carried what looked like a gun. Her eyebrows raised as she took a step back. Steve's eyes immediately widened as he put his hands up in order to explain himself, he almost look panicked.

"No, no it's not what it looks like; I swear."

Sigyn nodded her head warily, "Then what is it?"

"Something not for you to know."

Sigyn furrowed her brows again, and Steve shot her another apologetic look much like he had earlier on. He stayed there for a few moments before marching off down the corridor, leaving Sigyn to stand on her own.

Did they not trust her? They should have known by her performance earlier (that she was ashamed of) that she certainly knew nothing about what was going on. She had been told nothing other than Loki was attempting to take over the world, and had an army filled with alien drones. Everything else was kept in secrecy.

Oh, and that he had The Tesseract- but she couldn't for the life of her remember all she had read about that. But if she did remember correctly; it manipulated emotions. Controlled its environment via the energy it produced. And it must have given people the things it needed to control other, too. Especially since Natasha had stated that another agent, by the name of Barton, was being controlled by Loki.

There was more to The Tesseract than anyone could have imagined, that much was evident.

Suddenly, she felt herself pushed forward, a blinding heat swept across the corridor and she was pushed into another who had been walking along. They fell to the floor in a tangle as the heat grew, and then dissipated. She scrambled to her feet, her head spinning from the impact and she pulled the other up with one hand.

"Sigyn, right?"

She nodded her head at the man, who seemed to have sustained no injuries. Maybe he was an Avenger, too? One she had not met?

"Phil Coulson."

Coulson - Son of Coul. Thor had spoken of him many times, and he was the man who had entered with Tony earlier.

Suddenly things made sense.

"Come on, we should head down to the bridge." The man took her hand, and then quickly dropped it and shot off stumbling apologies as he shook his head. Sigyn made a motion for him to be quiet, and he complied.

"Take us to the bridge." She said, he grinned as best as he could - which still made him look weak. And awkwardly motioned for her to follow him.


In the bridge, Coulson left her immediately and ran towards a stairwell. Sigyn was left in the centre of the room, watching the people panic and desperately try to save them.

They were in trouble, that much she knew. That much of an explosion wasn't exactly healthy, even if it was on a strange flying ship. She considered her magic for a moment, but knew that wouldn't be enough to save them. She was too weak, and not very skilled.

Were they going to die?

At that moment only one thought crossed Sigyn's mind, and as she glared down at her hands and pictured his face; she knew where she had to go.

No one noticed her leave, slip past the people and press her hands to the doors in order to make them open. They had gone into lockdown and now they would not open, some sort of security measure she suspected. But luckily, the ability to unpick locks and open doors wasn't too much for her. And she left the room with ease.

She ran down the corridors, people passing her. No one gave her strange looks, the idea of this happening was probably quite normal in their lives; or they had been preparing for it and knew what to do in case of an emergency. But under her feet, Sigyn could hear other explosions - or the sound of structures being crushed.

And then even more explosions could be heard, some from underneath her and some from the way she had came. Sigyn stared back over her shoulder as walls of the ship crumbled apart, and people were thrown back. It was only then she realized how lucky she was to have near immortality, to be almost unable to die no matter what. Probably the only perk of being a Goddess - aside from that it was nothing but being bonded for life to Loki, and she had no say in the matter thanks to the gift Odin had given her.

Sigyn moved her eyes from the sight of the fallen men and towards a set of stares and a door in front of her. Sh ran forward, pressing her hands against the door until it gave up the will and allowed her forward, and then she set down the stairs. The metal clanged, even though she wore her flat boots, anyone around would have known she was on her way.

She ran down the darkened corridor, each twist and turn to the centre of the ship was remembered off by heart already.

But as she turned the final corner, it was too late.

Thor stood in the glass prison, and Loki in front of her with his hands clasped behind his back.

"Are you ever not going to fall for that?"


Two chapters in and already 16 reviews wow. I wasn't expecting that at all - so thank you all so much! Seeing the emails really make my day, and I think it's so nice that so many of you have things to say and share. It really makes me want to keep writing!

Also; I'm sorry there's not much Loki in this. I promise there's more in the next one.

I just want to say also; Tom Hiddleston as Prince Hal has left me forever frustrated. Just wanted to put that in there.

I was going tor reply to all review privately; but my PM's are terrible and don't send; so here you go.

Guest: Thank you so much! My first reviewer on this story and I can't thank you personally, which makes me sort of sad. But I'm so glad you're enjoying!

Rachie-girl: Ahh thank you! I'm really glad that people liked Into The Void, I didn't think it would go down well at all but it was a really pleasant surprise! Unfortunately, I'm an awful speller. Dyslexia and stubbornness aren't a good mix, but I try as best I can haha. I tried to make Sigyn as relatable as possible, (e.g; literally being weak but passionate about certain things) so I'm really glad you like this story, and thank you very much for your review!

Cherrytree237: I hope you had a lovely time! Haha and thank you very much!

WonderWomanFan: Haha, I think we'd all like to answer Tony like that at some point :P And yep, he's a total asshole - which is why I love him. Hehe.

Guest: I'm really glad you liked Into The Void! And thank you very much for your review!

The Yoshinator: It's supposed to be there; it sort of ties in both chapters. Like a non-linear paragraph, it starts off with that paragraph, and the next ones until you see the same one are just how she got there – from Tony and his thinking about drinks onwards – it's like an up to date thing of what's happening now, not what happened before hand. If that makes any sense.

Lornaa: I always feel sorry for Sigyn toooooo, it's really painful to beat up your own characters. But it's worth it in the end! ;) Thank you for your review!

I-de-BadBad-Wolf: I know! Haha, well maybe not the fastest.. my favourite author used to upload two or three chapters a day - now that is fast. I'm really glad you liked Loki and Sigyn, I was tempted to make him all soppy but then I realized it's just not Loki :P And The Hollow Crown was great! Totally worth an hour and a half of waiting, haha.

Sugar: Yep, courtly love. Hardly Courtney Love, right? I don't think she'd know courtly love if it bit her on the behind. ;)

Guest: Haha, is this enough SigynxSteve action for you? ;)

vainattempt: I'm sorry, here's a chapter for your troubles ;)

This. Is. Scrumptious: Ah thank you! yep, it's pretty different from my other story, but thank you for your review!