Chapter 4

Loki was captured and brought back to the Hellicarrier and safely sealed away in a cell. After some discussion Cephera was escorted upstairs to the bridge with Diana and Devian with her. She knew she'd be brought there once Natasha spoke of her keeping a secret. Everyone was present including Thor. Thor didn't recognize her. She could tell just by the way he passively stood there.

"So you're the girl with magic. Convenient for our never to be king." Tony Stark said looking at Diana. "So was he going to make you his queen or something?" He asked curiously. Diana's face turned up in disgust.

"Mr. Stark leave my daughter be." Cephera said her eyes slightly narrowed.

"I was just wondering. I mean it would make sense. Wonder god comes in for his kingdom and finds his queen to make him little wonder babies." Tony looked amused but not so much when Diana's fist connected with his jaw. Devian grabbed his sister.

"Diana stop." He said.

"You're disgusting." She spat at Tony.

"Everyone calm down." Steve Rogers said putting his hands up.

"We have other things to worry about. Stark stop being your usual annoying self." Fury said giving him a warning look with his one good eye.

"I kinda liked watching him get his jaw knocked in." Natasha replied a mocking smile toward Tony.

"Everyone just stop." Steve said so harshly everyone fell quiet. Diana continued to glare at Tony. "I'm sorry ma'am." He said first to Diana before facing Cephera. "I know today has been a hard day for you and your family but you mentioned to Agent Romanov about further information you have." He asked Cephera.

"Nothing that would change anything about this situation." She said looking at them all.

"If there is anything you know about my brother I wish to know it." Thor replied stepping forward and looking down at her.

"I'm not surprised you don't remember me." She said to him causing Thor to look at her harder.

"I'm sorry. We've never met before." He told her shaking his head.

"Then perhaps you'll remember my name. Cephera Fair-O'Lite. Seraphina Drogo's sister." Thor paused. It wasn't her name he knew but her sisters which was what she needed.

"I know your sister. She comes every 10 years to speak with my father. I've been at several meetings." He looked at Cephera and shook his head. "I remember now but barely. Were you not brought here...what 180 years ago?" He asked her.

"200 actually." She replied.

"I thought you were a human?" He pondered, slowly regaining bits of her past.

"We all did but alas I've been stuck here on earth for 200 years with no way to contact anyone to let them know I still live." She replied. Thor nodded his understanding.

"You have information regarding my brother?" He asked her again. Everyone around them was silent and taking in their conversation.

"Information important only to my children. Before I left Asgard I met Loki." She said and Diana shifted behind her. "Thor, Loki is the father of Diana and Devian." She said.

"Ah snap." Tony said. "That's awkward moment when someone makes incest jokes." Tony said his mind gathering the information faster than anyone else.

"Smooth." Bruce muttered to him.

"How was I suppose to know." Tony insisted defending his jokes.

"Children." Thor said ignoring all other words spoken. "Loki never told me." He said.

"Loki doesn't know." Cephera replied. Thor scratched his short beard in heavy thought.

"I didn't even know you two met." He said thinking about it.

"We want to go to Asgard with you." Devian said cutting off all the slow building talk to cut to the chase. Thor looked at Devian and really looked at him. Cephera knew what he was staring at. Both her children stood taller then her and her son was at least Loki's height. Both twins had Loki's black hair but her violet eyes and thick dark lashes. Devian kept his hair cropped short and professional looking and Diana had hers held back in a long dark ponytail. Diana had soft looking features despite her firecracker attitude. She was lithe and well toned from all her training with SHIELD. Devian's face was narrowly chiseled and his frame was thin however he had much more defined muscle in his upper arms then his father had when Cephera knew him but not big like Thor's.

"Ha." Thor said smiling. "I see it. Your mothers eyes but Loki's strong angled jaw and dark hair." Thor sounded proud before frowning. "I do not know how Loki will take this news. There was once a time I would have known but now...much has changed." Thor said.

"I understand. If we can come to Asgard I need to see Loki first." She said.

"That's not possible." Director Fury said right away.

"He should know before he leaves this realm that he has children. Do what needs to be done Director. Listen to my conversation, watch me on camera. Place Thor outside the door so that Loki cannot escape but he needs to know." Cephera was looking at Fury with an intense stare. The director looked to be thinking it over.

"Loki has lost his army and lost his war. He knows this. He will not attempt to escape or do harm now. This I am sure of." Thor assured Fury.

(Loki)

Loki sat on the bench in his cell. This cell was all steel walls with guards outside most likely. Loki had no want to escape now. He would face the all father in Asgard and show him that he doesn't fear him. Odin no longer held any power over Loki as either his king nor his father. His respect for Odin died when Odin let him fall from the Byfrost. With all his great powers Loki was sure Odin could have saved them both had he really wanted to.

He sat back with his head resting on the wall a bored expression on his face. He was thinking over his past few days. He had had fun. Probably the most fun he would have now for a long time. He would not escape sentencing. After a moment his thoughts were drawn to the impossible sight he saw on this very vessel. The image of a woman he long thought to be dead. Her violet eyes piercing his thoughts and he thought perhaps it had been an illusion but nobody but Loki and her knew of their affair. There was no one, especially among SHIELD that would know how to distract him.

And he had been distracted. It was a shock to every sense to see someone you knew who should be dead and buried, alive and well. Yet there was a nagging part in his head that told him he had dreamt it up. That she hadn't really been there. Perhaps his former thoughts about bedding Natasha had brought about the illusion. After all Cephera had been the last and one of the few human women he had ever taken to bed. The ones before her had been many many years prior.

Loki smirked as he heard the cell door open. When he titled his head down to look at his company he expected to see Thor but had not expected to see the very woman he had just been trying to rationalized in his head.

"Hello Loki." She said her voice telling him she was indeed Cephera and not a descendant of hers. He remembered the voice well. He forgot very little. He gazed at her in shocked wonder. "I know. I don't understand it either." She said answering his unasked question of 'how'.

"What has it been Cephera? 200 years?" He inquired thinking back and smiling. He was thinking about their one and only meeting.

"Yes. It appears the ability to use magic was not the only thing I developed being born next to a half alien twin." She pulled a chair over and sat down in front of him.

"And how is your sister?" Loki asked. "She never mentioned you last she came to talk business with Odin." Loki smirked.

"She doesn't know I'm alive. No one does. I've been stuck here on Earth these 200 years with no way to tell anyone." Loki was looking her over. She was exactly as he remembered only perhaps a little less innocent. A little more mature, he liked the changes in her.

"Until now." He pointed out. She nodded. "You look as beautiful as the first day I laid eyes on you. You remember don't you? The library." He watched her cheeks tinge red. He knew very well people were listening but he certainly didn't care.

"How could I forget." She took a nervous breath which peeked his curiosity. "Loki that one day tryst we had..."

"3 hours." He interrupted to correct her.

"Whatever..." She tried to dismiss the correction and he interrupted again.

"It was a wonderful three hours." He mused grinning wide as her face flushed deeply.

"Yes it was and..."

"Tell me Cephera did you ever think of me while another man was seated between those pretty thighs of yours." Loki said deliberately having fun with her now. Teasing her and embarrassing her. It seemed his fun hadn't ended just yet.

"No other man has ever taken that spot since. When I arrived on earth I realized I had everything I could ever have dreamt of wanting." She said. She was holding her composure well.

"I'm honoured." He said with an arrogant tone.

"Loki after I arrived on earth I found out I was pregnant." Cephera blurted out. Loki knew his face had contorted into a bunch of different expressions. Disbelief, shock, confusion and finally realization.

"Ahhh...Diana." He said putting it together himself. He had noticed for that one small second her eyes looked so much like Cephera's but he hadn't thought much of it at the time.

"Yes. And another. Twins. His name is Devian." She told him.

"An interesting turn of events." He admitted. "Does Thor know?" He leaned forward toward her.

"He does. We'll be returning to Asgard with you." She told him.

"To stay?" He grinned giving her a hungry look. He wouldn't be apposed to bedding her again.

"I'm not sure yet. My sister will be contacted and depending on the judgement brought down upon you for your crimes I may stay." She answered truthfully. Loki gave all this careful consideration before speaking again.

"You don't think Odin will just let my children run wild away from Asgard." He pointed out making her think.

"You may have seeded them Loki but as of right now they have no father. That's a right to be earned, now especially after your acts against earth using your daughter against her will." Cephera told him in a matter of fact kind of way. "I don't think Odin will punish them for simply existing."

"Perhaps you are right. But in my defence I had no idea Diana was my daughter." He shrugged. Truthfully he didn't feel any remorse from it.

"True but she's not impressed with your use of the humans. They grew up in this world, they don't think like you. They respect and love these people." She explained to him. Loki scoffed instantly.

"I've no love for the mortals. And in time my children will understand that they are better than them. Once they are around their own kind long enough that is." He smirked.

"Have you forgotten they are half human?" She asked him. Loki had nearly forgotten Cephera's supposed heritage.

"You're not a human Cephera. You never were. Whether you think it or not you're something else entirely. I don't regret our meeting and unintentional outcome. In fact I'm intrigued." He said to her smiling and leaning forward. "Perhaps I will get the time to get to know them. I'd like that." He said. He was being truthful. If he had children he would not be happy until he at least saw what they could do. He knew Diana had strong magic but she was unskilled from lack of teaching. He wondered about his son. What could his son do?

"I'm leaving it up to them to get to know you. I won't force them to give you a chance but I'll encourage it. In fact I don't know anything about you." She said. "In the end I think it best we all learned about each other." Loki reached out but Cephera stood before his hand reached her. He chuckled.

"So this is the game we will play?" He asked her.

"There is no game Loki." She said.

"Do not pretend you don't want what I have to offer. I already know the things about you I am interested in. How you like to be touched, where you like to be touched." He said with a cocky satisfied smile.

"Stop. That us existed only one time. I'm not that same little girl anymore." She told him.

"No. You certainly are not." Was all he said but in the back of his mind he could only think how much more interesting he found her. Loki didn't usually take no for an answer. If she thought he would give up so easily she was dead wrong. The more she tried to deny him the harder he would try to obtain what he wanted from her.

"You'll see your children when we leave for Asgard, before they prepare you for the journey." She said.

"I look forward to meeting my son, as I've already met my daughter." Loki told her.

"Goodbye Loki." She said stepping up to the doors and knocking twice.

"See you again soon Cephera." He said in return as the cell door opened and Thor escorted her away. Loki looked up to the camera's and smirked at them.

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- Twifan 1987: you'll enjoy this chapter then. :P

- Vulcaniumx: yeah. A completely different set up from what I'm used to. The reason for her sister not visiting will be explained eventually. :)

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