Chapter 4
Chiara narrowed her eyes and step closer as asked, 'why wouldn't they?'
Loki smiled as he glanced at her confused face, 'dear father likes to steal children.'
'What are you talking about?'
'Haven't they told you?'
Her silence answered him and he laughed briefly. 'They are not my real parents, Chiara.'
'You said that Odin was your father.'
'I thought that too when I met you, but later I found out that I am not. I am a frost giant.'
'I don't what that means?'
Once again he smiled and said, 'you should ask them.'
There was something in his voice that scared her. His tone was confident but it was his intensions that frightened her. 'Jace want to see you, and I promised him that he would meet you one day.'
It was Loki's turn to be quiet but his gaze spoke for him. He was curious and yet he was proud. It only made Chiara regret her promise more but did not intend to break it. 'Jace knows everything about you, Loki. He knows what you did in New York, and he knows that you deserve to be here. But he still wants to forgive you. He still sees you as his father.'
'That must really pain you.'
'No, it doesn't. I love Jace much more than I despise you. I admire his ability to forgive you.'
'Maybe he forgives me because he agrees with me.'
Chiara smiled derisively, 'he is nothing like you, Loki. He might your looks but he has a heart of gold. He can't even hurt a fly.'
'That sounds quite… boring. He is probably hiding it. Thor did not think I was like this either. You should have seen him when I manipulated him to think that father was dead and that mother didn't want him anymore.'
Chiara starred at him for while in silence and then she breathed, 'you were not like this before. I don't know what happened but when I met you, you were not like this.'
'I am disappointed. I thought you would know me.' He smiled sardonically
'I did, but you change.'
'You should get used to that because Jace is probably going to do it too.'
'No he won't. He is my son, Loki. I know him. He will never be like you.'
Loki laughed briefly again until a voice interrupted him. It was a young voice, and he knew instinctively that the voice belonged to his son. Slowly, he turned around and watched how his son anxiously and yet bravely approached his mother. Chiara peeked at Loki but was not sure what to make out of his expressions. He observed his son. Clearly, he thought as everybody else had said. He looked just like him. Jace, who had longed for this moment for so long, had no words. He merely stared at his father as he grabbed his mother tightly. For a second he did not breathe at all.
Loki turned around again and did not say anything. Jace followed his father's example but the fear in his eyes stroke Chiara. She kneeled down her son and stroke a hand through his hair as she said, 'you don't have to be scared. There is nothing to be scared.'
'There is if you plan to stay in Asgard.' Loki interrupted.
Jace turned his gaze toward his father and his widened with fear but Chiara forced him to look at her, 'Jace, don't listen to him.'
'Fine but don't blame me when Odin captures you and forces you to become a weapon against the frost giants.'
Jace breathed heavily as his eyes became watery. Chiara turned to look at him and almost yelled, 'what is wrong with you? He is only eight! Stop scaring him like that.'
'I am warning him.' He smiled.
'Just stop it, Loki. You are trying to push him away because you are afraid that he will become your weakness. You don't want to care about him because you are a coward that can't handle to love anyone.'
Angrily and mockingly, he stared at her and walked closer the end of his cell. There was only a glass between them then. Chiara didn't move but stared into his eyes without even blinking. His smile returned, 'what will you do if something will happen to him?'
'Nothing will happen to him, because I won't let it.'
'You are in a world with Gods. What can you do?'
'You don't get it, do you? Jace is my son. I love him more than anything else in this entire universe. I will go through Hell and back if I have to but I will never let anything happen to him.'
'You humans are always so proud.'
'Was that what impressed you, Loki?' She smiled and continued, 'don't belittle me because you were the one that approach me, not the other way around.'
Loki smiled and observed her, 'you have changed.'
