Part four:
I took Thor twelve days to analyse his feelings for Loki, it was an odd thing to have to admit to himself that he had been in love with the god he had at one time considered to be his brother for a long time. At the time he had constantly been convincing himself that his feelings for the trickster were anything but what they truly were love...It explained why when he thought Loki dead it had been such a painful experience for him. The prince also now understood why he had constantly thrown his conquests in Loki's face he had liked to see that the silver tongued god was jealous of those women, it had made him feel desired by the other immortal.
After all this thinking and self confession there was only one question left on his mind and that was did he truly love Loki? He loved him yes but true love? Of this Thor was not so sure, after all how did you know you truly loved some one? This was a question which the blonde immortal could find no satisfactory answer to at this time so he set it aside for now for later contemplation and settled down to make some decisions on where to go from this point.
The thunder god decided that now he was sure that his heart had always in some way belonged to the god of mischief and more to the point still did, the honourable thing to do was to part from his relationship with Jane. Thor had no wish to cause Jane, Loki or himself any more pain by continuing with a relationship which he could not give his full heart to and was essentially dishonest.
With all of this now settled on the prince of Asgard went to see Jane, it took him a several days and a lot of stumbling to explain the situation but eventually he managed it. Though the mortal lady was upset to be losing him, she respected him for telling her the truth rather than just leaving her to wonder and worry as to why he had stopped coming to see her. "Thor if you love Loki and you are the one who is his true love, then I wish you joy. I know from what you told me that this love of his is the one truth of that lying devil and the only hope we all have."
"Thank you Jane and I am sorry that things could not have been some how different. But to lie to you would cause us both more pain in the long run. I want you to know, I did care, I did feel some love for you. I am grateful I was able to know you and have you beside me when Loki was gone. Know this also I respect and aster you Jane now more than ever." The thunder god said to her gratefully but seriously.
The lady smiled at him, she gave Thor a quick hug, she was truly grateful for his honesty with her but she was sad at the same time. "I am glad you told me the truth, I am glad to know you felt something for me but you should go now." Jane released Thor from her embrace and she watched him walk away. Her heart was sore, but she knew that now the blonde haired prince had returned home she could morn her loss in peace without making him feel guilty for doing what he clearly needed and wanted to do.
When Thor returned to Asgard it was to find the palace in an uproar, with a feeling of dread growing inside him the blonde immortal went in search of Sigyn. He located the goddess of faithfulness with Sif and the warriors three; they were all in deep discussion. "I leave for a short while and chaos erupts in my absence I see. What has happened?" Thor asked them drawing their attention instantly.
"Thor your back!" Sif exclaimed with relief and happiness clear in her voice.
It was Sigyn however who gave Thor the answer to his question. "A Fay prince has taken Loki."
"WHAT?" As he yelled dark clouds began to gather outside. "HOW?"
"We believe he slipped something into Loki's food at the feast being held to honour their visit. The prince then offered to help Loki back to his rooms claiming that the drink had obviously been too much for Loki but he did not return him to his rooms instead the prince spirited him away." The goddess explained to the clearly angry thunder god.
Thor gave her a confused frown. "But Loki doesn't ever consume alcohol at feasts he hates to lose his wits to it."
"That's what I said when Sif told me what the Fay prince Liten said." Sigyn told the golden prince in return.
Thor frowned with consecration when the brown haired goddess of faithfulness mentioned the Fay prince's name. "Liten...That name, were do I know that name from?"
"Perhaps you know it because last time he was here Liten perused Loki with such a single minded determination, that you had to beat some sense into him quiet literally when he would not take Loki's no to his perusal for an answer."
"Ah yes now I remember him, blonde skinny fellow with purple eyes. It would seem I shall have to beat some more sense into him. No one takes Loki unless he wants them to and since drugs were involved I highly doubt Loki wanted to go. I am not about to let anyone else make a claim on his heart, it is mine." Thor said in low tones gripping his hammer hard he addressed those around him again. "Will you all come with me I am sure I can use each of your skills in this situation."
Instantly Sif and the warriors agreed to his request, slowly Sigyn looked at him to find that the thunder god was staring back at her and as she realised this the goddesses' eyes filled with surprise and wonder. "You want me to come with you too?"
"Yes I want you to come with us as well Sigyn you are an extremely powerful mage and a good healer so I am sure you can be of assistance to us in our rescue of Loki."
"Please lady Sigyn." Sif said to the brown haired goddess gently.
"Alright, as long as you are sure I will be of help I will go." So it was that they set off together to rescue Loki.
It did not take long for them to get to the home world of the Fay prince, as soon as the other Fay noticed them and their anger they quickly made way for the Asgardians. Many of them were extremely prompt to point them in the direction of Liten when asked by the obviously enraged thunder god as to his location. Thor with the rest of the party close behind him hastily made their way to were the Fay prince was keeping Loki captive. The Asgardians did not find their battles with the defenders of the palace particularly strenuous especially with the blonde prince being in such a black mood.
When they reached the throne room of the Fay palace the king was on his throne with Liten standing before him, on his knees with his hands behind him next to the fair haired prince was Loki, the Asgardians were quiet clearly able to see that the silver tongued god's neck and wrists were manacled and between them ran chains. The dark haired god did not ware his usual clothes instead he was now attired in skin tight green trousers, he was top naked, over this was a see through gauzy shimmering long green robe which was pooled on the floor round Loki.
The blonde haired Fay king's eyes were wide, he was very pale, he clearly knew that Loki being here like this was going to mean a lot of trouble and from his next words it was easy to ascertain that his son's explanation for his actions had not satisfied the king. "You're stupidity in taking Loki like this will bring the wrath of Asgardians down on us all you foolish boy!"
"It is a bit too late for that warning!" Thor growled out loudly, his grip on his hammer was extremely tight, the princes blue eyes were fixed on Loki and his anger at the sight of the one Thor loved like this was radiating from the thunder god in palpable waves.
Liten turned to them, he held the end of a chain leash which clearly ran to the maniacal on Loki's neck and he gave the thunder god a look of contempt. "What are you doing here?"
"I came here for Loki."
"He is mine, you cannot have him can he pet?" Liten asked Loki who was still facing forward on his knees.
"No master." The silver tongued god answered in an emotionless voice.
The Fay prince smiled down at Loki and then spoke to him. "Turn to face the guests but stay on your knees pet." Slowly he obeyed, when the god of mischief had fully turned round, he looked up form where he was kneeling and the empty black circles which should have been his blue eyes fell on them. The sight of Loki's eyes like this had Sigyn and Thor narrowing their own eyes with anger, they both knew that the black eyes with no blue iris showing meant that Liten had only been able to control Loki by using an extremely powerful kind of magic.
"You will let Loki go now." Thor said angrily, outside black storm clouds began to roll in, rumbles of thunder started to be heard and torrents of rain started to fall hammering onto the castle windows without mercy. All of this caused the rest of the Asgardians to look at each other, it was extremely rare for the thunder god to cause the weather to change without actually having to use his hammer to do so. They all knew that this reaction meant that Thor was extremely angry or upset, right at this moment the Asgardians were quiet willing to say he was probably both.
Liten gave Thor a rather unwise self satisfied smirk. "If you can get your precious Loki to break free of the spells which make him my obedient pet then you can take him home with you, if not then you will leave and he will stay mine with no more interference from Asgard."
"Loki is not your pet!" The blonde immortal said angrily a flash of lightning flickered in the dark clouds outside mirroring his mood.
"Then go ahead, oh mighty thunder god do as you wish to try to free him but you will not be victorious in doing so."
The prince of Asgard stalked over, he pushed the Fay away so hard that Liten ended up sprawled out on the floor slowly he came up growling at Thor. When he brought some magic to bare intending to use it on the thunder god quickly Sigyn, Sif and the warriors stepped between him and their prince. "I wouldn't if I were you." Sif said in a cold flat voice, realising they would kill him if he tried anything the Fay prince lets his magic dissipate.
Seeing what Liten had been about to do his father the king said quietly but commandingly. "You will not interfere any further my son you gave Prince Thor no limits on how long he could try nor how many times, now you will stand aside and allow him to try to free Loki from your spells."
Unaware of any of this Thor was looking down on the dark haired head of Loki his nerves were stretched thin and the prince was more worried about the trickster than he had ever been before in his whole long life. Carefully the blonde haired immortal lifted the chin of the silver tongued god; Thor stared down into the blank black eyes and felt a terrible pain deep inside him in the region of his heart. "Loki...Please..." As soon as he spoke these few words the thunder god could see something flicker into life deep in the vacant eyes, it gave Thor hope that the trickster could hear him in there some were.
"You have to try to fight it...You need to come back to us...I need you to come back." As he spoke the prince watched the light come back as he spoke to the one he loved.
"Loki, I went to Midgard, I spoke to Jane. I told her the truth that I couldn't stay with her or come to see her anymore because I wasn't giving her my whole heart. I didn't want to hurt her, you or myself, so I thought it best for all of us for me to part ways from her." Thor was happy to see more light returning to Loki's eyes, the blue irises starting to appear slightly at the very edges of the darkness.
With sudden inspiration the blonde haired immortal went round behind the god of mischief and then carefully pulled the trickster up onto his feat so he could see the storm outside the widow. Thor held him from behind so Loki could not go back down onto is knees as the magic of the spells wanted to make him, this was a strange yet at the same time very intimate embrace between the two. "You see that storm out there, that how angry I am that he took you, how worried and upset I am and also how much I care about you all rolled into one very bad storm Loki. I know that you know how rare it is for me to be able to make such storms happen." It was at this exact moment that Thor noticed Loki's hands started to twitch at his sides, Thor could feel the dark haired immortal trying to stand, the arms and legs twitching a little. This reaction to his pleased the prince as he knew it meant that the silver tongued god was now trying to regain control over his body.
"That's it Loki you can do it." Thor said gently as he carefully gathered the pale immortal up into his arms and settled on the floor with Loki positioned with great care in his lap. Thor placed his dark haired head against his shoulder and gently turned the other immortal's face to look at him. Once they were both settled the Asgardian prince looked down into the trickster's eyes to find more of the blue had returned to them.
"I love you Loki." He said softly without much thought and a slight sigh to his words.
Thor blinked twice with surprise becoming aware of the fact that he had just said he loved Loki aloud. Slowly the thunder god raised one hand to his chest and he placed it to where his heart was under the skin, right now after those words he felt contentment and peace inside himself. "I love you..." Thor said again with astonishment at his realisation, evident in his voice and his eyes were staring across the room into space.
Slowly but surely the thunder god's sky blue eyes came down to meet the almost now completely blue eyes of Loki. An expression of realisation spreading over Thor's face and his mouth forming an o of surprise and comprehension for a moment before the blonde prince spoke again to the god in his lap. "I love you Loki, I truly do." As Thor spoke those words a slow smile turned up the lips of the dark haired immortal, and the prince smiled back.
The thunder god carefully moved them both so that he could kiss Loki, as their lips met the eyes of the god of mischief cleared completely of the darkness returning them to normal. The trickster blinked once, then he slowly brought his arms up to curl round Thor's back and began to kiss him back. They were both aware of the bright gold and silver light around them, that it was changing what they wore but neither of them was particularly interested in what was happening or the voice which spoke softly but clearly round them. "The true love of the trickster's heart is returned, his truth is found, Asgard will be given its greatest king's in these two men and the nine realms will now be spared its former fate." As this voice spoke a sudden realisation struck Sigyn, that because they were both men they would both be king of Asgard. This meant that when the prophecy had said one great king, it hadn't meant one person but one kingship one combined rule which would be one day called the time of the great king.
As the light round the pair very slowly cleared and the voice vanished, the Fay king let out a gasp of shock at the sight which now came into view. Sigyn bowed too them slightly this action was followed by Sif and the warriors three who also bowed to the couple before them. Thor's hair was now longer to his waist, he was dressed all in gold armour with silver swirling patterns on the arm guards and shoulder pieces. His dark trousers were also golden; however the thunder god still retained the same red cloak. In his arms Loki was also transformed, his long hair ran to his waist, his once dark black cloths were all silver with edgings to the cloths of green. Loki's long, flowing green cloak was now held firmly in place by silver shoulder pieces decorated with a golden pattern. On his arms there were now so silver arm guards also with the golden pattern as the shoulders, however despite all the changes the trickster still wore the same golden neck peace he had always worn.
Slowly Thor stood with Loki still in his arms and held close to him, the trickster knew better at this time than to argue with the other god carrying him as he was weak from the magic used on him and the blonde was still clearly agitate from all these events. So instead of arguing Loki settled his head against the shoulder of his true love and let out a sleepy sigh. The thunder god looked down at the dark haired immortal in his arms. "Rest Loki, we are going home." With a small nod the trickster complied, his blue eyes closed as he fell asleep against his true love.
Once Thor was happy Loki was completely asleep the thunder god turned his attention back to the Fay king and father of Liten. "You will make sure your son is punished appropriately for his actions against my true love and there for my soul mate?"
"I shall." The king assured him with all seriousness.
"Good. If I find you do not do so then I will come back to do it for you." With that promise and threat delivered Thor turned and with the other Asgardians behind him quickly left the castle, they returned home to Asgard. Once they had arrived home they all knew that one Loki was fully recovered there would be much to be done because of all revelations which had occurred during this journey to the realm of the Fay.