This is where it all comes crumbling down! This time, instead of killing the main character, I'm gonna go even worse. Mwa ha ha ha!
This is only a little chapter, but that allows for extreme impact.
I was going to scrap this chapter because i thought it made the story to mean, but on a second thought, i decided to run on it.
Five figures stood on the flat expanse of white ice. A group of three with a red man hovering near another figure a little apart from the rest.
The whole party had stopped to look at Loki who had frozen at his lover's words.
"Kids?" He mouthed
"Uh, Loki I'm not sure now's the best time."
"Three miles north north west, you'll find the edges of a cloaking device. I'll make you invisible and attempt to break it down." Loki continued to stare blankly at Tony's face as he spoke in monotone.
"Okay, well, uh you guys go ahead. We'll just um... You don't want us cramping your style anyways and um... Iron man." The group continued to just stare. "You heard me, GO!"
"They didn't need us anyway, those bad guys were sitting ducks."
"Tony, I-"
"Suit's probably not that 'inconspicuous' anyway..."
"It's just that-"
"I would change it, but then that's not really me is it,"
"Tony I'm-"
"Inconspicuous, it's jut another name for boring really isn't it."
"Pregnant."
"Tony, are you okay?"
"No, I'm- it's just- What?!"
"You were talking about kids and then I just though."
"Thought what?"
"We'll I hadn't thought about it before."
"Thought what?"
"That I might be pregnant. And o&o just checked and... Yeah, pregnant."
"You're talking weird."
"Tony, I just found out I'm pregnant, I hadn't thought this was possible."
"But you've had kids before right? Sleipnir?"
"But I was a mare at the time. When I had Hela I was male."
"But-"
"I thought I was Aesir, but I am not. I am a frost giant." Loki spoke like this was supposed to explain everything, but tony stared back at him blankly. "Frost giant males can bare children when with other males. Hela's mother was a woman, so I didn't need to give birth. I didn't know how this would all work cross-species."
"So what? Your pregnant with mixed species demon baby and you 'don't know how it happened'?"
"Tony, no I-"
"No, just no." He fired up the suit, hovering a few feet in the air.
"Love, I-" Loki reached out his had but Tony was gone.
His face fell and silent tears began to cascade down broken cheeks. Loki stood for a moment until his knees caved and he crumbled in on himself, weeping silently in an undignified position on the floor.
The cold settled in around him and slowly, from hands to face, be turned a cool blue. Ancient Jotun runes scribed on his skin like liquid and his eyelashes began to frost.
Still and silent, he curled in on himself, clutching his knees to his chest and folding his arms around himself as if to stop from falling apart.
Everything he'd worked for, everything he'd loved. Everything that had filled the whole that had been gaping wide, everything that had held him close and sewn him back together.
The seams had erupted undone, and his stuffing was falling out again. That hole wider than ever in his chest. Old wounds were stubborn to heal, especially when ripped open constantly, over and over again.
He gripped his eyes tightly shut, squeezing them, trying to remember, trying to think, to recall the fault, find the gap in the coding, where he had gone wrong, what he should have done right. How he could possibly deserve this sickening torture. What he had done, an action to blame for his loss.
That was it. It was not he who had done this, not he who was to blame. Of course his beloved would have acted this way, wouldn't he?
The thing that had intruded on their life, the thing that had forced his love to leave. The perpetrator in this situation was the one Loki held, Loki provided for, the tiny child that found its home in Loki's body.
The demon. The demon had to go.
AARRRGH!
The next chapter is partially written, the wait shouldn't be too long.
-dM o&O