How Do You Like Them Apples?

Missing Scene: Epilogue: Thor and Odin fight about the princes' right to marry Jane and Darcy while Frigga watches Loki and Darcy from a window.

The man was insufferable! He was kind enough to them, but he had not really taken to his sons dating mortal women.

Thor had been in a constant fight with him since the day after they arrived. Both Thor and Loki had made their intentions to marry her and Jane known and Odin had refused. Frigga had just shook her head, gave Loki a look and left the room with an elegant huff.

Even from the garden in which Darcy now sat, she could hear as Odin and Thor argued over their right to marry whom they so choose.

A tap on her shoulder caused Darcy to turn around. Loki stood behind her, smile spread from ear to ear. He had been up to something.

"Father, you have in the past promised both Loki and myself that we would have our pick for brides. Why now do you revoke that right?" Thor stood before his father, one hand running through his hair as the other waved frantically around.

Frigga sighed from her place by the window. She kept it quiet, she was in enough trouble still for the stunt she had pulled two Midgardian years ago by sending Loki away. If Odin found out about her part in the latest scheme, well it just didn't bear thinking about.

"Aesir brides! Not mortal! Thor, you and Loki are princes of Asgard. You will one day take the throne, neither of you can marry a mortal woman. Now, I understand your attraction. They are beautiful women, but that beauty is fleeting. They will be gone in a blink of an eye. You need a woman to bear your heirs, who will stay by your side as Queen.

"Keep them as lovers, but you can not, and will not marry them!" Odin did not understand why his sons would not listen.

"Then test them, Father. Whatever you deem suitable, test them and give them the apples." Thor was seriously about to tear the throne room apart. Everything he had gone through, everything he had done, would all be for naught if he couldn't have Jane by his side. And what of Loki? Darcy had been the one to help him through his test, to show him the way back home. Would their father be so cruel as to actually take her away from him?

"No! Keep them as lovers Thor, I give you leave to. I will even have chambers set up for them. Give to them whatever they want, jewels, silks, gold. Let them share your beds, and love them that way. I will even give them leave to join the Court. But I will not test them, to do so would cause too much heartache for you both." Frigga rolled her eyes and turned away from her husband and oldest son. Odin could be such an idiot at times. Her sons didn't just lust over the mortal women, they loved them. To allow them to keep them and watch them die would be just as cruel as taking them away.

"You doubt they would pass your tests?! Have they not proven themselves already? Jane is intelligent, she had not run away when Loki sent the Destroyer. She was there by my side when I had died.

"Darcy was the one that put Loki back together. She was there for him when no one else was. How can you doubt such loyalty and love? You know as well as I that they would be a great asset to Asgard." Frigga smiled. She had no doubt in her mind that they would be. She peaked back at Odin, he would soon learn just how important the women were in her sons' lives. If the conversation with a certain mortal that morning was anything to go by.

"Listen to me well, you are better off keeping them as lovers. They would never pass my tests. Be content with what I have given you, for those mortals will never be given the apples." Frigga smirked as she watched the scene below in the gardens. She had known Loki had understood her look, he had always been able to read her expressions.

"I wouldn't be so sure about that, Love." Thor and Odin quieted at Frigga's soft voice. She still didn't turn to look back at them, her eyes glued to the scene below.

"What?" Both her husband and son ran over, peering down at Loki and Darcy as they reached Jane. Frigga swore she could actually hear Odin's teeth grinding as he watched Jane bite into the golden apple. She laughed quietly as Thor gave a sigh. When she looked up at him he was smiling from ear to ear.

"Sometimes, my brother's tendency towards mischief is a fine thing. Well, Father, when should we start the wedding celebrations?"

Abab

From down in the gardens, Loki looked up from where Jane was finishing her apple. Odin, his mother and brother stood at a window watching them.

Loki smirked and gave a little bow, before full out smiling as Darcy laughed.

"Don't tell me, you had a little help with this one?" Loki reached an arm around her waist, pulling her closer, his hand resting gently on her stomach. He looked down at her with such loving, Darcy fought to cry. She was beginning to wonder if hormones would be worse as an Aesir or not.

"Alright, I won't. But, I think you might want to wave up at Mother." Darcy laughed again. Why didn't it surprise her in the least? She turned around and looked up. She couldn't see as well as Loki, at least not yet, but she could make out three figures in the window that she figured had to be Frigga, Thor and Odin.

Taking a page out of Loki's book, Darcy gave a curtsy before turning and kissing Loki fully on the mouth.

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