SPOILER ALERT: If you have not seen Thor or The Avengers, you should watch them first.

Sorry for taking soooo long to update. No internet at my dad's place and what not. Happy Holidays and New Year! Hope you all had a great time!

This chapter I made extra long (not that much now that i look at it...) It's gonna be in 2 and/or 3 parts... Court day! *que the music*


Court Day- Part 1

It started as a normal day until around ten in the morning. They had to go to Gladsheim for the court. Yes, today was the day things would be as hectic as ever. There was little talk from people in the halls, which was abnormal for the Asgardians. The Avengers understood why though. They gathered into the Throne room where Odin sat with an unreadable expression. There were six older men sitting across from the Avengers. In between both groups is where the accused would stand. Thor sat to the King's left with the Queen, Frigga, to his right. The Warriors Three and Sif were seated by the Avengers but closer to Thor's side. They took their spots and everything was silent.

They were expecting more people in the room, but there was very few. Clint was examining all the six men's facial expressions and only one looked nervous, or guilty… According to Bruce, they would have to be the council. Natasha watched the Royals try and comfort the Queen; Frigga seems on the brink of balling her eyes out. Bruce followed the floor patterns with his eyes, going all science in his head. Tony was playing with his thumbs out of boredom; he was used to gatherings of odd people. This continued for what felt like hours but was only about five minutes.

Suddenly the doors were pushed open, being louder than normal in the quiet room, making everyone snap up straight in their seats. Four Royal Guards walked in, in formation. They stood to the side, three people walked in behind them, side by side. A Royal Guard on each side. Loki was in the center, head held high, looking pretty clean for being in prison. He was in the shackles again. They strode right in between the two groups, facing the King. The guard on his left un-hooked the shackles on the dark haired man's wrist; Odin waved for all the guards to leave. Looks like the old fogey finally lost it.

When the doors shut behind them, everything went dead silent again. Loki was paying no one any attention; he was soothing his wrist from those damned shackles. Odin spoke up to start the trial.
"Loki Laufeyson. For your acts on Midgard and on Asgard, we are here to sentence your fate." Clint saw Loki roll his eyes, though he wanted to do the same, they all knew why they are here… Odin took a breath.

"We will start from where it began." Loki clasped his hands behind his back, waiting for the next person to speak up. Sif stood up and shot a death glare at Loki before starting to state her case.

"I'm sure we all remember Thor's Coronation. How it was interrupted by frost giants in the treasure vault. Those monsters being in Asgard was Loki's doing." She looked at the accused for his answer.

"Indeed it was me who brought them in undetected. My reason being: Thor was not suit for the Throne, yet. He was to blood thirsty and thick skulled; fath…Odin did not see this fault in his son. That was my way to prove it to you all. No one would take my word, assuming that I wanted to steal the Throne from Thor." Loki cocked an eye-brow up at Sif. She just sat back down. One of the counsel men rose from his seat.

"Out of all the other options you could have chosen, why did you bring Jotun… and the vault of all places?" Loki thought about this for a second. "I did it because I was running short on time and patience for people. No one listened, no one cared. I made you all listen and care, did I not?" No one argued with his reason, The Avengers just sat and listened. Odin continued through the faults his 'son' caused.

"So what happened when you convinced Thor and his friends to go to Jotunheim?"

"I did not convince any of them to travel to Jotunheim. I went to comfort my 'brother', at the time, and told him that everything he claims I believed right. I then proceeded to tell him that there was no he could do anything without defying 'Father'…" He said 'father' with a poison on his tongue. "Thor then got the crazy idea to travel to Jotunheim just for answers. We all knew how that would and did turn out. We all refused but when Thor came to me, assuming I would always be there for him, I couldn't leave the poor puppy to be kicked. I agreed and with that, on their choices, Thor's friends tagged along." Odin looked at Thor and received a true, shameful nod. He took a glance at Thor's friends to see them avoiding eye contact.

"So what you say is true. Who caused the battle on Jotunheim? The Frost Giants, One of our own?" Loki looked at Thor and began giggling to himself.

"Everything was going fine, at first. Their ruler at the moment, Laufey, was getting pestered with the questions I presume. We were being surrounded by Frost Giants. Laufey gave us a chance to leave while he allowed it. Thor wasn't one to leave so I excused us. While walking away a Sentry Jotun decided to crack a wise joke, and I quote: "Run back home little Princess". You can all imagine how lightly Thor takes being called a Princess since his last run in when a Frost Giant stole Mjolnir." He began laughing to himself again. Thor gave an annoyed look at Loki only to end up with him laughing more. Tony was getting a kick out of Thor's face. Natasha noticed that Frigga's expression lightened up a tad bit.

"Anyways… Thor attacked them and the battle broke out. You showed up and took us back. End of story." He said rushing the rest of the story.

"Why did you go to claim the Casket of Ancient Winters?" Odin seemed to have all the questions. The others just listened. "I did not go to 'claim' it. I was curious on why they wanted it." Odin waited for more, but none came.

"What made you so curious to pick it up, out of the many years as a child when you snuck in?" Loki paused. With an exasperated breath he replied.

"During our battle on Jotunheim…" he looked to all who were there. "When that one Jotun grabbed Volstagg's arm, it broke through his armour with a single touch, and burned his skin. Well not soon after one took me by surprise and grabbed my arm as I went to kill it. It broke through my armour but instead of burning me…" He paused for a short moment. "…my skin, it turned colour." He looked at his feet. "I'm one of them…" He looked up at Odin. "My skin turned Jotun blue. He gave me a pitiful look, wondering why I was attacking my own kind I guess. I killed it no problem but it stuck in my mind of what the hell was going on."

"Wait what?!" Tony broke in. "ah… sorry for interrupting the dramatic moment, but Rudolf was a different race this entire time? Thor, when you told us he was 'Adopted' you didn't say that part." Thor looked shocked and when Tony addressed him, he snapped back to it.

"Friends, I only told you what I knew." Thor looked to Odin. "You left that part out Father. Why?" Before Odin could reply, Sif took a stand.

"Please, this has nothing to do with the current matter. Loki still did it. As a Jotun, Asgardian, Elf, it makes no difference." Loki in a relaxed, calm state commented on what Sif had said.

"It does make quite the difference Sif. If I was a Light Elf and committed those crimes, I would be sentenced to a court if I wished but I would not have done those things if I was an Elf. I did what I did because I am a Jotun. Not because of my heritage, nor my breed. I did them because growing up, what we were told about Frost Giants. They were claimed to be worthless, dull, blood hungry race of monsters." He began to raise his voice, going tense and angry. "I was told by your truthful King, my 'father' that when he 'stole' me from Jotunheim, he said I was left behind, never wanted practically, and so he took me in. Not out of kindness. He wanted to use me from the start, to raise me, use me to make a peace treaty between the Aesir and Jotun's. When we traveled to Jotunheim, we messed up his entire plan. He told me, right to my face that I no longer mattered!" Tears began to run in streams down Frigga's cheeks, making quiet whimpering sounds trying to hold back from crying out loud.

Loki took a deep breath, calming himself. His eyes were glossy and wet; he looked ready to cry himself but did not allow it. Since he was a child, when he saw his mother upset, it hurt him; he hated even knowing she was not happy. Odin felt that this was a good time to take a break. He stood from his Throne.

"Let us all have a break to collect our thoughts and relax. We will come back in an hour to get to the matters of what happened on Midgard." And with that, he walked passed everyone and out of Gladsheim.

No one moved for a short time, Thor made his way to his mother to sooth her but she stood and began towards Loki. He saw her coming and really wanted her to, but he had to keep his mind on the matter at hand. He turned and quickly strode out of the room.

Frigga stood in place for a few seconds before she wanted to go find Odin. She left as well. Thor followed after her leaving The Avengers, Warriors and Council. Tony got up and walked away he stopped when he heard Bruce's voice call out.

"Tony, where are you going? You'll get lost and probably won't make it back in time." Tony laughed "Oh don't worry doc. I just need to take a wicked piss." And he left. The Warriors Four left soon after, not wanting the awkward silence.


Loki quickly left the palace, he wasn't being watched by guards, but he had the maturity to not flee from something you can't avoid. He walked in cover so no one would recognize, nor see him. About ten minutes of traveling he found a field. It was all grass except on odd tree near the center. It was always the field they would go to as children. Thor and his friends would spar while he sat under the random tree and read books. He didn't want to be seen right now, and he didn't want memories fogging his view. He climbed to the thickest part of the tree and sat on a branch. For the first time in years, he let himself cry.


Odin returned ten minutes early with Frigga and Thor by his side. They took their seats once again. The Council were like statues other then when they would lean to each other and whisper. Natasha and Clint were practicing their hand-on-hand combat. Bruce was keeping score. Natasha won with 15-12. They went to sit back down, feeling awkward to fight in front of Thor's parents.

Loki awoke. He must have fallen asleep from the heat. He didn't want to admit to himself that he cried himself to sleep. Children do that, although he does feel like a child again. He jumped out of the tree, rubbing the sleep and dry tears off his face. He looked to the sky to see what direction the sun was in and realised he should be in the court room right now. He dashed for the palace keeping cover still. "How embarrassing to be late for my own meeting with the King" He thought while quietly laughing. When he entered the palace he stopped running, not wanting to attract attention and he just sprinted up a crap load of stairs, he was breathless. He slowly made his way to Gladsheim's doors when he heard a familiar voice yelling, he stopped.

It was a distance away but he heard it. He was too curious to not check it out. He turned down the hall and another. He took one more left and almost collided with Tony. They stopped and looked at each other. They both started talk at the same time "Shouldn't you be in the court? Okay that was creepy. Stop saying what I say!" Loki started laughing out loud, Tony gave him an annoyed look but smiled that Loki wasn't completely cold hearted. Loki slowly stopped laughing and Tony started talking.

"So I kind of got lost on my way back. Am I late yet?" both went silent. Loki looked at Tony. "Yeah… we're both late…" He gave a quick smile. Tony was confused.

"You were heading towards me, was I going the wrong way the entire time?" Loki sighed. "Nope, right way the entire time."

"So, are you running away or lost too?"

"I heard some bitch yelling 'hello' like a deaf lady answering the phone" Loki said laughing again. Tony began laughing too.

"Yeah, sorry about that. Human nature I guess. It worked though. I guess my head isn't quite on right, you'll lead me out right?" Loki gave him a serious stare.

"Even if I said I wouldn't, you would still follow me back so, why not." They both started walking back.

"So you didn't know what you were until about 2 years ago?" Loki sighed

"Can we not talk about that right now…"

"hm-kay… I'm usually good at mazes."

"Oh you know performance issues. It's not uncommon. One out of five…"

"Hey shut up!" They both started laughing but the fun and games stopped at the doors into Gladsheim. They stood side by side just standing there. Loki looked over to Tony.

"How late do you think we are?" Tony just gave a nervous look back to him. "I do not want to see Odin angry…" They both walked in. Heads held high. Odin can't destroy both of their prides.


Both of them were looking down at their feet, pride broken. Odin was scolding them for being so childish. He wasn't on his throne no more, but standing in front of both accused right now.

"An entire half an hour after we gave you enough time, we sat here waiting for both of you to return! I was just about to send guards to go looking for you!" He was looking at Loki most of the time. "So before we continue the other matters, and remember I can ask Heimdall, where were both of you?" Tony spoke first, which gave Loki a change to think about what he was going to say.

"I went to the 'water closet' my lord." He bowed while smirking, saying it all in a mock British accent. "On my way back I must have forgotten my path back home, pop." Odin starred for a moment longer, obviously not amused. He turned to Loki.

"I...umm took a breather. A nice walk around the Palace… it took longer than I expected…Then I heard Tony yelling down the halls and went to see if he was okay, but he was just lost and I brought him back." He gave a quick smile to Odin. The King looked between the two.

"So why were you both so proud when you walked in late? Causing mischief?"

"No fath… Allfather…we were making jokes, harmless amusing jokes." Silence fell again. The King motioned for Tony to sit in his spot, and he did of course after giving Loki a friendly nudge. Odin returned to the throne. Clint leaned over to Tony

"Were you being honest?"

"Dah, why would I not be honest. Loki, he's a pretty cool guy when ya catch him in the right mood." Clint looked over at Natasha worried.

"Let us continue the matter at hand, without disruptions" Odin said in his booming voice. "Loki, why did you attack Midgard a year after you fell from the BiFrost?"

Loki hesitated. "I do not know why, honestly. I don't remember…" One of the counsel men finally spoke up. "Or you choose not to remember, Magic wielder." Loki shot him a glare, remembering his face from years back. Lying horrible people formed the counsel, but like everything else, no one took his side.

Bruce stood up. "Sir, not to butt in, but what colour is Loki's eyes?" Hawkeye overheard the council men murmur to themselves that his eyes were red, like the monster he is. Odin looked confused. "They are a bright green…how is this relevant to our cause mortal?" Loki looked confused as well.

"When Loki appeared on earth, he brainwashed our people. When he did, their eyes went an icy-blue hue. I remember seeing Loki's eyes the same colour except when he got sense knocked into him, they would go green again." Loki looked at Bruce.

"Are you trying to say the Chitauri were brainwashing me?"

"Yes. I have proof, in words… When you guys were in Germany, you fought like a power hungry fool, but when Tony shot you with his repulsors, you simply surrendered. The sense was knocked into you. When the war hit Manhattan, you would kill anyone in your path; the Hulk literally smashed some sense into you there too. You surrendered practically and didn't turn again. Do you see my point?"

Clint spoke up. "I do remember seeing you in a sort of trance state of mind at points while Selvig worked. You would randomly lash out when you broke out of it. Not that I'm taking your side…" Loki thought hard about this and bits were slowly coming back to him.

"I…remember…falling into the Abyss, landing on an asteroid or something. There I saw the Titan and his servant. They called themselves Thanos and the Other. I was tortured. Broke and confused I agreed to what he offered. I saw new places you couldn't even imagine. Once he handed me that sceptre, I couldn't remember…" Loki now thought in silence. Remembering what had transpired before he was sent to Midgard. Odin gathered the info he just was told. "Thanos". Where has he heard that name before? Odin asked in a soft tone.

"What did they offer you so great to make you attack and want to rule Midgard?"

"It was not so much the offer, but the moment. I let go, hoping to die, failed in that too…" he smirked slightly. "They found me and took me under their wing. Not a good one, add that. They influenced me, beat me to do the wrong, and offered me redemption, which I believed. I couldn't lose anything more, I had nothing." Loki sighed, looking back, he was a pitiful creature. "I'm sure the rest is clear." Things went quiet for a quick moment, tends to happen a lot.

Natasha stood up at lightning speeds. "So why did you brainwash people, was that them too?" He directed his attention to her.

"Most likely, yes. My orders were simple. Get the Tesseract, open a portal for the Chitauri, win the war and rule." He looked back to Odin, hands again clasped behind him. Odin looked to Thor, and his son rose from his seat.

"Brother, when I came to return you home… was that your answer, or the Chitauri's?" Thor looked into Loki's eyes, full of hurt and compassion, although he avoided eye contact.

"I-I think… it was all me, Thor. I was upset at Asgard and my 'family'" he said sarcastically. "I wanted no business with any of you." The accused looked to his feet.

"If you wanted no business with us Brother, then why did you let me willingly let me take you back?"

"Did I have a choice? I was in magic binding shackles, a muzzle, and I felt as if a disk in my spine was dislocated." He shot a quick glance at Banner. "Thanks for that by the way. And that's not sarcasm." He took his attention back to Thor. "I really couldn't do much else, even if I tried." Thor understood and sat back down. Frigga stood.

"When did your heart break begin my son?" She wanted to know where they started off bad.

"The Death of Baldr" He said clearly. "People heard the rumours, believed and accused me. Yes I was the cause, but not how they described it." Sif almost knocked her chair over she got up so fast and furious, almost yelling.

"We were there to witness you kill him, you liar!"

"and you're the ones who spread the wrong." Loki said standing his ground. A council man stood up.

"Then tell us, what really happened on your side of the story. We are all ears." Loki sighed having to explain himself to the likes of those men.

"Baldr, second rightful Prince of Asgard was having nightmares of him dying. He came to his older brothers for help, Thor and I. We told him he would grow out of it; he was only ten years old at the time. They kept coming, getting worse. He went to his Mother and she promised to do an oath, and she did. She went to every realm and everything that could harm Baldr was at no harm at all, except one thing that was too young and who would think it could anyways."


*FlashBack*

"Tonight is the ceremony and celebration of Baldr's Oath Brother!" Thor was ecstatic. He seemed more excited than even his younger brother Baldr. Thor was around the age of fifteen (Asgardian years).

"I'm glad for him. His nightmares will finally be done, and after that he doesn't have to worry about you killing him in your sparring when he's older." Loki laughed. His age was about twelve. Thor gave Loki a confused look.

"Brother? If Mother can make an Oath that makes things not hurt us, why don't they just use it on the Warriors of Asgard? You know, in case those stupid giants attack again. We'd be invincible!" Loki shrugged.

He left Thor to his own stupid ideas. He was going to find his younger brother. He found him pacing in the halls, deep in thought. For only being ten, he acted much older. Loki placed a friendly hand on his brother's shoulder snapping him back to reality.

"Oh, Hi! You scarred me for a second." The young boy said innocently.

"Nervous brother?"

"Kind of. I don't know if it will hurt, or something goes wrong. People will have their eyes on me, then get wasted once it's done. It all seems so stupid." Before Baldr could continue Thor came charging down the hall yelling and screaming.

"BALDR! BALDR! YOU HAVE TO COME QUICK!" Thor gripped his youngest brother's arm and dragged him away. Loki just waved 'Good bye' and continued whatever.

The Oath was finished. Asgardians all around rejoiced in drinking. Baldr simply began walking away only to have a rock dropped on his head by Thor on the level above him. Much to all the brothers surprises, the rock bounced off the youngest one's head and smashed on the ground. Loki could see where this was going and didn't want any part of it, so he returned to his chambers for the night.

That morning, Loki began on his potions. He crushed some Mistletoe with a slight mixture of water to make it a liquid. He had to carefully and slowly pour it into the other beaker. Just as he began pouring the ingredients, Thor busted into Loki's room and grabbed him by the arm. He spilled the stuff all over himself, but mainly on his hands. Loki tugged and yelled trying to get free from his older brother, but for nothing. Thor was saying him and his friends invented a new game that he must absolutely play.

When Loki was shoved into a room, he saw Sif release and arrow from the bow. He darted towards Baldr's head. The arrow, instead of impaling his brother's head, it bounced off onto the floor just like the rock. Thor ran over and shoved a dagger into Loki's hands.

"Throw it at him brother. He's invincible!" He still refused. He tried handing the dagger back but his brother would not take it. Thor and his friends began ranting on how Loki has always been a chicken. As he began to walk away he heard Sif say "even if he did throw it, he would miss, at point blank!" They all started laughing. Baldr even joined in. Once he did though, Loki took stance and threw the dagger straight for Baldr.

Instantly, there was no noise except the sound of a boy's body falling on the ground. Thor and his friends ran off. Loki ran towards his younger brother. He pulled the dagger out of Baldr's chest. It had pierced his heart. Loki tried the little of healing spells he knew. He checked his pulse, nothing. He was panicking. It came to an end when Odin rushed into the room.

He grabbed the collar of Loki's shirt and threw him away from his brother demandingly yelling "WHAT DID YOU DO THIS TIME!?" He was shocked, afraid and speechless. His first thought was to run, and run he did. He ran all the way to Heimdall's Observatory. There, he went to Midgard to hide until things had gotten better.


"Five months I hid in a shack by a waterfall. Until Odin's pet wolves, Freki and Geri, found me. I was taken in, and given my punishment I completely deserved. I felt as if I needed to do more, though. I helped in ways I never of would of before, still I feel that I owe my life for Baldr's." Loki gave a serious look at the counsel men.

"You all have explaining yourselves, I'm aware of." Odin was intrigued. What could he mean? The center counsel man stood up.

"We owe no explanations. This is your trial. You have the explaining to do."

"I've done quite a lot. Tell the King on what you've all done to me. Right under his nose, disobeying him." Loki cocked and eyebrow. They were speechless. Odin rose from his golden Throne.

"I will have more hearing of this situation, after we all take a break. Three hours this time. Supper will be served in the dining hall and you two," He looked at Tony and Loki. "If you're late this time, I will not hold back." With that, everyone left Gladsheim, except Loki.


A/N: I changed the Baldr Story to my own thingy ma-jigy. I know his death is a sign of Ragnarok but hey, it's fanfiction and rules are made to be broken.

I added some funnies in there all though most is drama and angst. I know, sorry.

Part 2 up next, i'm not saying soon because you all seen how long this one took...

Reply to guest: "When are Vali, Nari and Sigyn going to come in. I'm curious to see what their reactions are when they find out how Loki is punished." I hope to have them in the next chapter and if not, the one after...Narfi will only most likly be mentioned because... well no spoilers but Norse Mythology should tell the story. (But I will be changing it to my own, to tie in) As for their reactions, chapters will tell. Thanks for Reviewing :)