A/N: So many feels in this chapter. We start with Angry/Everyone-is-against-me-Loki overtaking Daddy-Loki and the aftermath…Yipes. This chapter also contains a remembrance by Thor about Loki, so he may seem OOC but keep in mind it's from way in the past. Thor's story is lengthy but that's where the feels are…you may need a tissue.

Chapter 6

Hela woke up the morning after Odin's visit and proceeded out to the living room area. Thor and Jane were in the kitchen with Tony. Bruce and Natasha were at the dining room table. Loki was sitting on one of the living room chairs reading a book that he had acquired from one of the book shelves in the guest bedroom.

"Good Morning," Hela said to Loki as she sat on one of the sofas.

He gave her no reply.

"What are you reading?"

Again, no answer.

Hela thought for a minute. "Are you angry with me?

No answer.

At that point the others in the area had noticed what was going on and began to watch Loki and Hela's exchange.

Hela got up and shoved Loki's knee to the side to get his attention. "Are you angry with me because I'm not going to go with your plan?"

He didn't answer but got up and started to walk out of the room. He stopped before he left the living room. "Why are you going to help them?"

"I want to stop Thanos." She answered.

"So you would risk yourself again in order to help your uncle's friends and his favorite 'pet' realm?" Loki questioned.

"I'm helping my friend, too. And, I know what Thanos is like and what he can do. If I can help stop him, I will." She replied.

"And you'll do that instead of helping me?" Loki questioned her.

Hela got up and walked over to Loki. "You can help yourself. You heard what the Allfather offered you."

"He offered me a chance to risk myself for Thor's friends and for his favorite little world." Loki paused. "What are you hoping to gain from this?"

"I'm not hoping to get anything out of this?" Hela looked almost confused.

"Are you sure? You're not hoping that in the end Thor's friends will then be your friends because you helped them save their little planet? Is that what this is about, your need for friends?"

Hela was taken aback. "You know, while it may be true that the friends that I do have are all dead, I least I have them. I don't push everyone away. I actually try. You don't even do that." She yelled. She started to storm away.

Loki grabbed her wrist to keep her from storming away. She shocked him with a jolt of magic so that he would let her go.

He grabbed her on her upper arms and held her in place, anger in his eyes. "You insolent child. Don't you use your magic against me. Remember who created you."

"Is that why you made me, then?" She yelled at him. "So that you could use my power when you needed it. You wanted me to be your pawn. And now that I am not going to do your bidding…now, you have no use of me! I am not even worthy of you speaking to me." She tried to shake loose of Loki's hold but he would not let her go.

She started again. "Why did you make me like this, then? Perhaps you failed at creating what you originally intended…you didn't get your minion that did everything you wanted. I'm sorry to have disappointed you….father."

She flicked her fingers and sent a sharp pulse of magic towards Loki that knocked him backwards, releasing her arms as he stumbled back. Before he could steady himself and respond to her, she teleported herself out of the room.

Loki stared into the space where Hela had been. Thor approached him. Loki looked at Thor. "What I have I done?"

Tony spoke up. "JARVIS do you see where she went?"

"Sir, she seems to be popping in and out of places. Now she seems to be staying put. She is in the garden area on the patio." JARVIS answered.

"I must go talk to her." Loki started to walk away but Thor stopped him by putting his hand on Loki's opposite shoulder. "Brother, she is angry. Give her time to cool off. Let me talk to her." Thor told him.

Loki swallowed hard and nodded. He retreated back to the guest room.

Thor proceeded out to the patio.

When Thor went outside, Tony spoke out loud. "JARVIS do you have a video feed from that part of the patio?."

"Yes, sir."

"Send the feed with the audio to the flat screen in the theater room. I have a feeling this might be worth hearing."

Tony, Bruce, Natasha and Jane gathered onto the seating surrounding Tony's flat screen in the next room.

Thor found Hela sitting on the brick patio overlooking the city. She started to yell something but stopped when she looked and saw that it was Thor approaching her. She looked back out on the cityscape. Thor sat down beside her.

Thor looked out on the city and after a minute or two, he spoke. "Did you ever wonder why Loki didn't protest when our father wanted to send you to Hel?"

"No, I just figured that the Allfather had made his decision so we were going to have to accept it." Hela replied, still looking out over the city.

"Have you ever known your father to just accept a decision made by our father?"

Hela thought a moment. "No, I guess not." She shrugged.

Thor nodded and then spoke again. "You were an infant when you first came to Asgard and you seemed to act like any other infant for the most part. Loki was your parent but we had hand-maidens that would do most of the tasks associated with taking care of an infant. This wouldn't have been unusual in the palace; especially since your mother was not present."

Hela nodded, following along with Thor train of thought.

He continued, telling this story slowly and deliberately. "One day you seemed to have gotten very sick. You weren't crying and wailing; but you were not acting normal for you. Something was wrong so Loki had taken you to the healers. They were not sure what was wrong with you. A couple of days passed and you had gotten worse. They really had no answers for your father because you were so… unique. They had never seen someone who had come into being as you did. They told Loki to prepare himself for the chance that you would not recover and would cease living. Your father decided to take you out of the healing room and back to his rooms. He dismissed all of the handmaidens who had been caring for you. He became your sole caregiver. He held you night and day. It took convincing for him to let our mother and myself hold you so that he could sleep for a bit and bathe. He was resolute in that you were to always be held during this time you had with him, you would never be alone in a crib. He would walk with you in his arms all throughout the gardens, telling you about all of the flowers and plant life. He took you all throughout the palace telling about what each room was. He took you through the Grand Library showing you all of the books full of knowledge. When he wasn't telling you about something, he was humming lullabies that our mother used to sing to us."

Thor slide closer to Hela and continued. "It had been about a week since the day that he took you from the healing room. He took you to the Bifrost Bridge and he sat in the observatory and told you all about the Yggdrasil and the 9 realms. He showed you Heimdall and told you all about what his duty was. And then you two sat and looked out into the cosmos for the longest time. Two days later, he decided to take you into the throne room. It was on a day when the citizens could have audience with the King and it nearing the end of the session. There were no more citizens waiting for their turn so your father entered the room. I was standing to the right of the Allfather during this particular session. As he was entering the throne room, cradling you, he explained to you how you were supposed to enter. He told you how far to walk up before you supposed to kneel. When he got to the spot where the citizenry would stand before the King he turned you around and told you about each person in the room and why they were there. He told you what to do when the King dismissed you and how since you were a girl you would curtsey and he pulled your blanket like it was a skirt and bobbed you down and then up in a pretended curtsey. It made me chuckle as well as some other people in the room. Our father just watched Loki with an interested curiosity. Then you two left."

Thor put his arm around Hela. "The next day you did not wake up in the morning as you usually did. You were breathing but you were not awake. Loki stayed in our mother's study with her that day. He wouldn't let anyone else take you out of his arms. About noontime, you still had not woken up and your breathing was very slow. Your father began to sob with you in his arms. When I came into the study with my father about an hour later my mother was sitting on the floor holding your father as he sobbed into her chest, cradling you into his own. My father looked at them for a moment and then left. I sat in the study with them. There was nothing I could do but I did not want to leave."

Thor paused to wipe the tears that were pooling in the corners of his eyes and then used his thumb to wipe away the ones that fell out of Hela's. He continued. "About an hour later a guard came to the study and said that the King wanted to see Loki in the garden and that he was to bring you with him. My mother and I helped him get to his feet. He slowly walked with you to the garden. My mother and I had our arms around him to steady him and move him along. When we got to the garden my father motioned for us to stay back as Loki approached him. He brought Loki to a bench and sat beside him. It was a most usual sight. Our father said, 'you love her.' It wasn't a question, more of an observation. Your father just nodded his head. Then our father told him that he had been researching and studying and believed that he might be able to help heal you. Loki looked at our father in disbelief. My father asked my brother if he could hold you. He could barely let you go, but our father took you into his hands. He studied you and told Loki that you were 'a pretty little thing' which made your father half laugh when he agreed. And then the Allfather said 'she looks like you, I'm assuming that was intentional' to which your father said 'of course it was.' Then the Allfather told Loki that he had to agree to something before he would heal you. Your father had to agree that if the Allfather had to make a decision about you that was in your best interest, Loki could not protest it, no matter how much he wanted to. Your father promptly agreed and the Allfather spread his magic through you and whispered several enchantments. As they waited, our father told Loki that he felt the great power inside you, that you were unique and that you would probably have another form other than the one you were currently in. They stared at you for what seemed like the longest time and then you took the deepest breath and opened your eyes. When you saw your father looking at you over your grandfather's arms you smiled at him and cooed. Loki scooped you up and our mother and I ran over the three of you. I have never seen your father that happy again. My father told Loki that you two would have a bond stronger than most."

Thor paused and then continued again. "You grew just like any other child. As soon as you could talk, your father started teaching you magic. You became very skilled which was no surprise because of who was teaching you. You even started to pick up some of your father's personality traits. Loki started exploring darker magic, he started to become more jealous and his mischief was starting be more than just pranks and jests. The Allfather started to see these things and became concerned that Loki would drag you into his darkness and corrupt your power."

"That's when he decided to send me away." Hela acknowledged.

Thor nodded. "Your father agreed long ago that he would not protest this decision and he said not a word." He turned to face Hela. "I don't know what your father's intention was when he created you. But I saw him when he thought that he had lost you. Hela, you are not his pawn, you are not his minion. You are his daughter. The Allfather said that you were one of the few things that Loki cherishes, we know this, because we have seen it."

Thor pulled Hela into an embrace. "You and I are no strangers to your father's mood swings and fits. He knows you made the right decision for you. He doesn't want to admit it to himself."

"I know." She told Thor.

Thor got up and pulled Hela to her feet. "Thor, you are my favorite uncle." She said as she linked her arm through his arm that he extended.

Thor laughed heartily. "And you Hela, are my favorite niece." They walked back into the main room of Tony's penthouse just as the others were exiting Tony's theater room. Jane was wiping tears from her eyes and she walked up to Thor. Hela proceed away from them as Jane began whispering into Thor ear about how sweetly he had spoken to Hela. Hela look at Tony and started to ask where Loki was. Tony pointed to the guest room.

Hela nodded and walked back to into the room.

Loki was sitting in one of the cushioned chairs when Hela walked in. He glanced over at her but didn't say anything.

She sat on the edge of the bed facing the chair Loki was sitting in but looked at the floor instead of him. "I'm sorry," she said. "I was wrong."

"I should be the one apologizing to you." He told her.

She nodded her head in acceptance.

"What did Thor say to you?" He asked her, neither one of them making eye contact, but instead looking in different places on the floor.

"He told me a story from when I was an infant." She answered him.

Loki froze and then turned at looked at Hela. She looked up at him and their eyes me and then they smiled at each other.

"Did you really pull my blanket like a skirt and bobbed me down to curtsey in front of Odin?"

Loki sighed and rolled his eyes with a smile on his face. "Yeeessss."

She laughed.

Hela thought for a moment. "Have you decided what you are going to do?"

"Not yet." He replied. "There might not be a decision to make, if the mortals' great leader does not approve of my assistance."

Hela nodded in acknowledgement. Just as she did Bruce came into the room and told them, "We all need to go to the SHIELD headquarters to discuss alliances."

Hela and Loki got up and met with the others as they all headed off to SHIELD.

A/N: Bit of a shorter chapter. This chapter came out of nowhere for me but I liked the idea of getting a glimpse of the past, before Loki really lost his mind, so to speak. We are going to visit SHIELD in the next chapter and then get down to business dealing with Thanos….plus something intriguing is going to catch Hela's eye.

As always I can't thank you enough for the follows, favs and reviews. This is my first fanfiction and you guys have really helped encourage me on. I will continue to update quickly since the story is coming to me quickly. I know the ending, I'm just in the process of getting us there. Also, any future stories that I do will also have quick updates.