A/N: Oh boy, here comes a doozy!
Loki was trying to keep calm in the situation. After all, he was exactly where he wanted to be and when the daylight came the flying fortress would fall from the sky and the beast would be at large. This also worried him. Sigrid was on the flying fortress and there was nothing in the plan that said how to get her out with him. He obviously couldn't leave her or she would be doomed with the pathetic creatures that were Midgard's would-be heroes.
There was also the matter of SHIELD not allowing her to come and speak with him. He was certain she wanted to, but those idiots wouldn't let her. An agent had extracted some of his blood, but did not say what it was for. However, Loki guessed that they were determining whether or not he and Sigrid were kin. The blood would match, he was sure of it. A brief worry filled his mind that it did not match, which would be quite embarrassing.
What does it matter, he scolded himself, when you are king of this world one girl will make no difference in your reputation. Another voice in his head warned him that Sigrid was not part of the plan and meant nothing to him, but as cruel and heartless as he was, he managed to silence that voice. Even if she wasn't part of the plan she was his daughter. A king had to have an heir and so she was precious. Of course, there was the small matter that he would most likely outlive her, but details weren't important at the moment.
Loki was snapped out of his thoughts when the door to the room was opened. Thor stepped into the room, much to Loki's surprise. This was the last person he was expecting to see. Perhaps Agent Romanoff or Nick Fury again, but not Thor.
"Loki," Thor greeted gravely, "Banner has confirmed that you are indeed the father of young Lady Susan."
Loki turned his back to the man he'd once called "brother". He had known it all along, he did not need the confirmation of Midgardian technology.
"I have heard that the girl is not taking it well, though she believed you when you told her. I pity her."
"Why? Because she is related to one such as I?" Loki laughed scornfully.
"Nay, because her father was absent her whole life and when she finally knows him he turns out to be a monster that is ravaging her home world." Thor managed to keep his cool, but Loki could sense the anger building inside him.
"I did not know she even existed!" Loki hissed, "Besides, finding out your father is a monster isn't as bad as it seems, though you wouldn't know about that with your perfect life, would you?"
"Let us not diverge from the topic Loki. This is not about you and I, this is about Lady Susan." Thor snapped.
"Her name is Sigrid." Loki snapped back.
"Whatever she is called, she is in a state of unease and her father cannot comfort her because of his actions. Do you feel no remorse?"
"They are the ones keeping her from me and the only reason she is in a state of unease is because of me!"
"You are keeping yourself from her by choosing this course, Loki! If you told us where the Tesseract was then you could see your daughter. Is that not what you want? Is that not what is best for her?" Thor implored.
Loki felt anger burning in him and lashed out. "You do not know what is best for her! What experience do you have that could possibly make you capable of knowing what is best for my daughter?!"
Thor scowled and crossed his arms. "I am not the one sending her home world into ruin."
"Leave me Thor." Loki hissed. When the blonde did nothing he shouted it, "I said leave!"
Finally, big blonde oaf left the room, leaving Loki alone with the cameras and the cage. The trickster considered what Thor had said, but did not take any of it to heart. That fool was just as idiotic as the rest of them if he thought Loki would ever reform. It was much too late for that.
The matching DNA had sealed the deal. Susan was Loki's daughter. Even though she had known for sometime, having it confirmed by science shook her to the core. She was shown to a room with a cot and left alone for the time. In contrast to being left alone, the only thing she wanted right then was somebody to talk to. The people aboard the helicarrier were kind to her, but she really wanted to talk to someone who could understand her. Like her mom. Or Max.
After taking a few shaky breaths she thought about her possibilities of listeners aboard the helicarrier. There was Dr. Banner, but he was probably busy with finding whatever Loki hid. There was Tony Stark, but considering that he was a celebrity it might be kind of awkward. Then there was that guy with the eye patch, Nick Fury. He seemed to be a bit too hard core to be any good at listening to teenage drama. The red haired pilot, Natasha, had checked in with her once, but didn't seem like a great listener either. Everyone else seemed busy keeping the helicarrier in the air and functioning. There was only one other person on the whole base that wasn't busy right now. Loki.
"Well, who better to talk about father issues with than my father?" She sighed. Gathering her courage, Susan opened the door to the room and stepped out in the hallway, coming face to face with Thor, "Oh, hi there!"
"Hello Lady Susan!" Thor greeted, "I was just coming to check on you."
"How come?"
"It is my understanding that you have been disturbed by new information regarding Loki. I felt that since I have known him his whole life you might have a few questions. At this time I have no other duties to attend to and family is quite important to me." Thor smiled.
"I was actually just on my way to speak to Loki, err, my father," She made a disgusted face, "But I can spare a few minutes for my uncle."
"You know that I am not truly related to you, correct?"
"Really?"
"It is the truth. Loki was adopted into our family, but that does not mean that I will not treat you as one of my own kin. Adopted or not, Loki was raised as my brother and I as his."
"Adopted? Oh yeah, he mentioned something like that back in Germany. He said he didn't know who his father was for a long time and when he found out he wasn't too happy about it."
"I am not surprised. His father was my father's foe. A frost giant by the name of Laufey."
"A frost-what?" Susan felt her heart start beating fast, "He said that he was Asgardian."
"He is of Asgard, and I shall never see him differently, but in truth he was born to the frost giants, or Jotun. They are giant blue humanoids with a love for destruction…" Thor stopped, awkwardly noticing the terrified expression on Susan's face, "But clearly you are not blue, so you must have retained a good portion of your Midgardian heritage." He added swiftly.
"Blue? But Loki isn't blue?"
"That is something I cannot explain. I would assume my father, Odin, used magic to mask his true colors."
"I think I gonna be sick." Susan announced, clutching her stomach.
"Lady Susan, do not be ill! Should I summon a physician?"
Susan ignored him and rushed down the hallway. The signs pointed to the detention level and that was where she needed to go. A serious talk needed to be had with Loki. When she got to the door of the room they were holding him in there were four guards lined up, all with big guns.
"Um, can I go in there please?"
"SHIELD identification badge?" One of the guards asked.
"I don't have one, but Director Fury said I could go in there if I was feeling up to it." Susan was feeling a bit rebellious at the moment and if need be she would force her way into the room. Not that she could do much against guns, but she could cause a rucuss and that would bring Director Fury down.
"Wait, aren't you that kid that they're saying is the prisoner's daughter?" Another guard inquired.
"Yeah, that's me." Susan said defensively.
"I don't know why they don't just use you as leverage to get the Tesseract," A third guard snorted, typing in the security code to the panel, "Anyhow, the director did give the word to let you in when you seemed stable. You don't look so messed up so in you go."
"Gee thanks."
"You're welcome kid, have fun in there with your psycho daddy." He mock saluted her, stepping aside to let her in. Once in the room she spotted what appeared to be a giant glass jar. Inside of the jar was a dark figure, standing and glaring at a camera. He didn't turn when she came in.
"Thor, I will not listen to any more of your drivel so save your breath." He said wearily.
Not saying a word, Susan walked up the steps that made her level with her father. She sat on the floor and stared at him for a moment. His back was still turned to her. Sighing loudly, the man crossed his arms.
"Go away." He said.
"Make me." Susan called to him.
Hearing a voice that was most definitely not Thor's Loki spun around with a menacing smirk, hoping to find some poor foolish agent. Instead he saw Sigrid, sitting peacefully before him. She was wearing different clothing than when he'd last seen her and it seemed as if she had run a brush through her hair.
"Daughter," He said, smirk still in place, "What brings you to this dreary place?"
"Everyone else is too busy to talk and I figured right now would be a good time to get some things sorted. You know, before either they find the Tesseract-thingy or you set off some enormous destructive plan," Susan sat up a bit straighter, "And Thor isn't exactly a great listener."
Loki's smile widened. She had come to him. He hadn't even had to lift a finger to bring her here, she simply walked in and wanted to talk. Director Fury had been wrong.
"Now is probably the best time we will get to do any talking, so what would you like to discuss?" He pressed his forearm on the glass and leaned forward casually.
"First of all, why did you say you're an Asgardian when you aren't?"
Loki's smile dimmed a little. "That is an unimportant detail."
Sigrid snorted. "Yeah, right. Just like how your plan to rule the earth is an unimportant detail. Just like how you abandoned my mom is an unimportant detail."
"Why does it matter what race I am? Will it change the fact that I am your father?"
"Maybe it doesn't matter, but gee, it would have been great to know that I'm half frost giant every time the doctors ran twenty tests on me to find out why my blood was so cold all the time. Or when they wanted to know why I'm always shorter in the summer, yet tower above everyone else in the winter. That information might have been useful."
"I didn't even know you existed, you foolish girl!" Loki snapped.
"And why is that? Oh right, because you left! Poof, gone!" Sigrid yelled back.
"I had my reasons. Reasons you would do well not to question, daughter," Loki said in a warning tone, "I regret not learning of your existence until now, but what happened in the past cannot be undone."
"Pssh! Ever heard of revenge?" Sigrid asked, cocking her eyebrow.
"You would seek revenge on me for this?"
"Maybe not for that, but maybe for what you did to Max!" She shouted, "You had absolutely no reason to do that! He was just minding his own business, doing the job you were supposed to do as a father and then you killed him!"
Loki felt his blood begin to boil. "You cannot hope to understand any of this, you foolish child! That man died because he stood in the way of my conquest. You heard how he spoke about freedom, if he had just agreed with me - even if he had been lying - I might have let him go."
"But you singled him out of the crowd! Why did you pick the only person in that whole crowd who mattered to me? Explain that!" Sigrid's eyes flashed a brilliant blue and she radiated anger and hatred.
Loki smirked once more. "I singled him out because I am a protective father. So in a way, you were the one who caused his demise," This statement had the desired effect and she clamped her mouth shut and stood up, turning away from him. Loki grinned triumphantly. "Maxwell Quigley's death is your fault."
Sigrid spun around and briskly walked over to the glass that separated them. She got as close as she could and looked him directly in the eye. "Even if it was my fault, that doesn't change the fact that you are a monster and a power hungry lunatic. We may have the same blood in our veins, Loki, but you are not my father."
Loki frowned, but he did not break his stare. Neither of them blinked and for sometime neither of them spoke a word. They just stared at one another. Finally Loki broke through the icy glares by taking a jaunty step backwards and spreading his arms wide.
"Are you so offended to be related to me, Sigrid, that you would denounce the claims of science?" He laughed cruelly.
"My name is Susan. And you know that's not what I meant."
"What exactly did you mean?" He asked.
"That I never want to see you again after this conversation."
"I do so hate to spoil your plans, but we will be seeing much more of each other after this conversation. You have no choice in the matter."
Susan snorted at this comment. "Oh yeah? Well I'm not the one in the cage. How are you going to make that happen? Hmm? I can go anywhere on this whole helicarrier and you are stuck in this little cage with no way out," She was bluffing of course, she had no idea if he could get out or not. Hoping her bluff was correct, she continued, "I am as free as a bird. I can go anywhere while you rot in this cell."
Loki turned to the camera in the room and waved his hand at it. Susan wasn't sure what that did, but assumed it was bad. He smiled widely and in the blink of an eye he was outside the cell, gripping her shoulder in his hand. "Rot? No thanks, I have plans."
"There will be a dozen agents in here in a second!" Susan said, attempting to pull away, "They aren't just going to let you out of your cell!"
"But according to their cameras I'm still in my cell, so how would they know? You are all alone, Sigrid."
"Then I'll shout for help." She threatened.
"Right when we were getting along, too. What a pity," He pushed her back a few inches, and she would have fallen a fair amount if it hadn't been for the railing,"Would you really give your dearest father away like that?"
"I told you, you aren't my dad."
"So you have no qualms about forcing me to start my plan early and not even giving those 'heroes' a chance to prepare themselves? Really, you are as heartless as I am, which is honestly no surprise considering your lineage."
"Fine, I won't shout for help. What do you want?"
"I want you to promise that when the time comes you will come to me in this room."
"What time? What are you talking about?"
"I cannot give away too much, but when all of the commotion breaks out you must come to me, here. You must not go to any of the others, just come here. You will know when it is time."
"What if I don't come here? Even though you are out of your cell now, you'll be dealing with all of the commotion too. You won't have time to make sure I come back." Susan retorted.
"If you do not come here I can guarantee that anyone in this world that you care for or love will suffer because of it. You wouldn't want your lovely mother paying for your mistakes, would you?"
Susan felt a chill spread through her. He couldn't, could he? But why shouldn't he? He'd already killed Max and countless others. Loki put both hands on her shoulders and stared into her eyes.
"Do you swear you will come to my side when the time is right?" Not trusting her tongue to speak, Susan simply nodded, "Wonderful. Now that that is settled we can discuss whatever you wish." He disappeared and then popped up in the cage again. He waved his hand at the camera.
Susan shook her head and took a step backwards. She tore her vision from the man in the cell and rushed out of the room. Distressed by the situation, she felt as if it would be best to return to her room until the time came when she needed to leave it.
Loki watched her go with a satisfied grin. "I'll see you soon, daughter."