Might Die Trying


"Get him to the healing room!" Thor declared as he looked to his comrades, "Leave Loki to me."

Roslynn lingered as Sif and the Warriors Three helped the injured Heimdall to the mentioned destination, grabbing Thor's arm as he started to take off, "I will go with you, and don't try arguing me out of it either." She stated as he started to protest.

Blue held onto brown and Thor noted her resolve to face his brother, the man she cared so deeply about that she had almost died because of him… He closed his mouth and nodded slightly. "Shall we?"

Roslynn smiled ruefully and nodded back, clinging to his arm as he flew them towards the palace with help from Mjolnir.

The blondes reached the palace within minutes and raced inside at top speed to Odin's chambers. That was undoubtedly where the Jotuns had gone to, and it was very important that they get there because if Loki was absent, then it was Frigga who was left to defend the sleeping Odin.

"…Swear to you, Mother, the Jotuns will pay for what they've done today." Both blondes could hear Loki as they turned another corner and stepped into the doorway, finding the doors to Odin's room open, which was another oddity as the doors were usually closed.

Roslynn looked first to Loki hugging his mother before her brown eyes flicked to the three dead giants lying on the smooth floor, Laufey being the closest to the safely-ensconced Odin before he had been slain by Loki. She momentarily took heart that Frigga wasn't hurt, even if her relief was as short-lived as it was.

"Thor!" Frigga gaped at seeing her oldest son present, and alive, stepping away from Loki to hug him tightly.

There was an odd darkening in Loki's green eyes that Roslynn likened to anger and frustration as well as hurt when he looked at his brother returned, and her spine straightened when his green found her brown, seeming to remember her words to the Destroyer only a brief time ago. "I see it found you." He said to his brother regarding the hammer, reluctantly looking away from her to the other blonde.

"No thanks to you." Thor retorted with a frown, glancing at Roslynn who had shifted a little incase she needed to shield his mother.

"What are you talking about?" Frigga asked confusedly as she looked between her sons.

"You didn't tell her, did you? How you sent the Destroyer to kill our friends, to kill Rose… to kill me?" Thor continued as his frown changed into a glare, gaze set on his brother's, as he stepped away from the two women to approach him. "You're a talented liar, you've always been."

Loki smiled briefly, bitterly, at that. "It's good to have you back. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to destroy Jotunheim." He sobered, quicker than she would've liked, before firing a blast from Gungnir at Roslynn and sending her flying with a slight yelp through the walls to crash through the palace wall only to fall to the ground below.

Thor was on her heels, following her long descent. He knew she was going to be the first to maul Loki for firing at her, the only woman he cared about aside from their mother, that Loki had struck her to give himself time to reach the Bifrost gate, and he was hurt with her for turning on him. Thor knew well that his brother wasn't one to take betrayals lightly.

Roslynn was glad that her chest plate, like Sif's, was durable enough to withstand a blast from Gungnir. That or maybe her mother posthumously willed it so she wouldn't die from such a cheap shot… she gave a yelp when Thor snatched her in time from making a crater of the garden's fountain, clinging to his neck before he landed expertly on solid ground. "Thanks." She panted slightly as he looked at her with some concern, getting out of his strong grip to stand on her own.

"You said you knew about what happened in Jotunheim. But he wasn't hurt then… Did they do something to him?" Thor asked when she shook off his concern, watching her look to the fountain for a moment as she seemed to recall the times she and Loki would talk amongst themselves in the garden.

Considering she was as stubborn as an ox –about as stubborn as him–, she had always loved flowers. It was one feminine trait she hadn't forced away to be more of the warrior she had become.

"It was more like a reaction to being touched by a Jotun… Come on, he's going to obliterate them, and the rest of the nine if we don't hurry." Roslynn shook her head fervently, her hand that had risen to the pendant dropping to ball into a fist, as she looked at him and offered her free hand.

Thor thought briefly of Evelyn at mention of the remaining realms being destroyed, taking her hand and flying them to the Bifrost gate.

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A blast from Gungnir sent Thor flying back to land in a heap on the gatehouse floor.

Having stood back when Thor was first into the room, Roslynn looked between Thor picking himself up and Loki advancing on him before she looked to the tree-like wave of raw energy that had been summoned to destroy Jotunheim, the tree resembling a massive ice sculpture with the branches seeming to strengthen and stretch with each second. She spared the brothers another glance before approaching the tree and noting that she could hack at it all day with her sword, but it wouldn't break or crack… Only Mjolnir could do the job.

"You can't stop it," Loki said as Thor seemed to shake off the blast, "the Bifrost will continue to build until it rips Jotunheim apart."

"You did this to erase them from existence, but it won't win you the throne." Roslynn stated, her mouth working before her brain could stop it, turning to scowl at Loki.

"No one's ever tried it before, have they, darling?" Loki retorted coolly, adding some venom to the last word as his hurt with her betrayal resurfaced, watching her bristle and her hand wielding the broadsword at her side tighten its grip.

"You can't kill an entire race!" Thor agreed with her, yanking the couple out of their glaring match.

Loki cocked a brow as he looked at his brother, "what's this newfound love for the frost giants coming from you… you of all people, who would've slain them all with your bare hands?"

Thor straightened a little, "I've changed."

"I have too, now fight me." Loki snapped the last three words after striking Thor once with Gungnir, swinging it at him again.

Thor punted the staff away before rushing for the Bifrost controls, having tried to be faster than his brother before being blasted away with Gungnir again. He quickly rolled to his feet. "Is the throne worth all this, what you'd become?" He glared at his brother.

"I never wanted the throne! I only wanted to be your equal!" Loki snarled, starting to swing Gungnir again before a sharp 'klang' ripped into the air, green locking onto brown, as Roslynn had blocked his strike on reflex. Hurt and anger warred amongst each other in their locked stares before Roslynn moved first and sent him back. A cold smirk adorned his lips as their stares continued to hold, "Your holiday to Midgard changed you too, didn't it, Roslynn? Turned us against each other?"

Roslynn swallowed the emotional lump that had risen into her throat, before she gave a snarl as she rushed him, her sword meeting Gungnir as the weapons shrilly protested to the collision. "The only one who's changed is you, Loki!" She said after being shoved off, swinging sharply for his torso before a blast from Gungnir sent her flying back to land against the curved gatehouse wall. The wind was knocked out of her lungs from the hit and she landed in a heap on the cold floor, wheezing and trying to get the air back.

"… is madness." Thor's rumbling voice pulled part of her conscious back to the fight, as he had risked a glance back at her to see she was trying to regain herself.

"Is it?" Loki taunted with his cold smirk from before changing to a smile, affording a bark of laughter as Thor could've sworn there were tears starting to form in his eyes, "is it!" He sent Thor bouncing back with another blast from Gungnir, advancing on him. "What happened on Midgard that turned you so soft? Don't tell me it was that woman, that reincarnated witch…!" He regarded the sudden darkening in Thor's blue eyes at mention of his mortal savior, laughing as he confirmed, "So it was! The mighty Thor, fallen for a mortal…" He shook his head and drawled, "Maybe when this is over, I'll go pay dearest Evelyn a visit!"

Thor threw himself at Loki with a growl. He knew he was goading him, he was best at it out of anyone he knew, but the thought of Loki harming a hair on Evelyn's head, his Evelyn…

Roslynn staggered to her feet, looking at the brothers and flinching when they collided. She hadn't known them from the day they were born, granted, but she still didn't want them to kill each other. She shook her head and looked around, finding much to her chagrin that there wasn't any way she could stop the Bifrost energy from building up, and they would get caught in the crossfire if it continued to destroy more than just Jotunheim. She looked at the brothers as they were locked in a battle for strength again, Loki with Gungnir and Thor with Mjolnir, and looked at the Bifrost again before drawing her sword and internally groaning.

It was now or never.

Roslynn rushed the brothers with a snarl, her raised sword blade swinging down to break them away from each other, closing her eyes tightly when her attack sent their odd trio flying out of the room and out onto the bridge. She and Thor had rolled across the bridge, whereas Loki had rolled off to the side and was clinging to the ledge.

"Thor!" Loki called, pleading for his aid.

Thor reflexively went to his side, unmindful of the second Loki that had landed on the bridge like them and was using Gungnir to get to his feet.

"It's an illusion!" Roslynn shouted as she got back up, her aching body protesting to the quick movement, using her own sword for aid as Thor turned at her words before Loki appeared behind him to knock him down.

Several visages of Loki converged on the blonde, laughing at his misery, as Thor regained himself.

"Enough!" Thor shouted as he slammed Mjolnir onto the bridge, causing a shockwave to strike the copies before the real Loki was sent flying back with Gungnir slipping from his grasp.

Roslynn rushed to his side, snatching Gungnir from the floor just as Loki was starting to pick himself up. "Stop the Bifrost, I can handle him!" She called to her fellow blonde, looking back and giving a quick nod when their eyes met. The power from the Bifrost threatened to suck them in, even from where she and Loki were, as the winds from the gatehouse played with loose locks from her braid. She aimed the scepter's tip at Loki's throat when seeing him start to scramble to his feet, glaring at him, green being held tight by brown.

Loki glowered up at her, his lover who had smiled when he gave her jewelry now gone to be replaced by the Valkyrie she was born to be, looking past them at Thor who lingered on the outside of the gatehouse, hesitating as he was at a loss of what to do. "With all your strength, what good does it do you now, brother?" He called tauntingly.

Roslynn looked back at Thor as the winds slowly picked up around them, watching him grip the handle of Mjolnir, before he swung down and struck the bridge. She stood her ground as the blow reverberated through her very bones, looking at Loki and the shock on his face when they both heard the cracking become louder.

"What're you doing!?" Loki shouted, having gotten up when Roslynn's gaze was turned away, starting to go to Thor when being solidly struck in the belly with the blunt end of Gungnir, looking from Roslynn to Thor who struck the bridge a second time. "If you destroy it you'll never see her again!" He stated.

His words rang in Thor's ears as he thought of Evelyn's smiling face, her confidence and her strength, her urge to avenge him… He summoned more lightning as he recalled the night she saved him. "Forgive me, Evee." He slammed Mjolnir down onto the bridge a third and final time.

Roslynn picked herself up from having been thrown aside by Loki who had run at Thor with Gungnir raised high, flinching as an explosion of energy came from the broken bridge, looking past the fading dust to see the brothers had fallen off the bridge. "No!" She shouted as she ran to pull them up, fear seizing her like a cold fist as she realized she was too late, skidding to a halt when seeing someone else reach them in time.

Odin was there, having been awoken from his sleep, grabbed onto Thor's ankle while Thor held tight to Gungnir that Loki was clutching onto the blunt end of.

Roslynn raced to the ledge and looked down at the brothers, "Don't let go!" She called to Loki, knowing Thor was okay because Odin had a firm grip on his leg, looking at the younger of the two whose green eyes were for Odin.

"I could've done it, Father, for you… for all of us!" Loki said as their gazes held, for a moment sounding like the gentle boy she had met many years ago, and her heart ached for those days.

Odin shook his head, "No, Loki."

Roslynn winced as she heard the disappointment in his voice, looking sharply to Loki as his grip seemed to weaken on the staff, "Loki don't! Please! Don't let go, do you understand? Loki, please…!" She begged as her vision started to blur with tears, watching with horror as he let go of the staff. "LOKI!" She cried as he disappeared into the wormhole.

Odin gave a shuddering exhale at losing his son, helping his firstborn onto the safer part of the bridge as Roslynn had broken away to not let them see her cry even though he could hear her sobs.

Thor gave his father a thankful look before stepping away to comfort his friend, placing his arm around her shoulders, holding onto her when she sank against him and clung to his armor.


so as it was in the prev version of this story, there will be Prologues/Epilogues, just letting you know. also TY to bakeral5 and AliceTheEvil-GoodBunny for the newest faves and (1) follow, you guys are so awesome. i think that's all for now so lates!