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Music

Sigyn and Loki's reunion - "Red Ledger" from Avengers
The next section - "Ayrie" from Love Never Dies
A soul restored - "Love never dies" (if you can find it without words, but it actually sounds good with it) from Love Never Dies

Chapter Twenty- Four - My faith restored

Sigyn stood very still looking down at Nanna. She wanted to make sure that Nanna did not try anything. This battle was over.

"Jane," she heard her human name call out to her.

Was she still Jane? Truthfully, what was she? What had she become? She had been this powerful Asgardian in a previous life and forced to grow up on Earth as a mortal.

Her whole life, the one she had lived for nearly thirty years, in a sense was all a lie.

And that she could never get over.

"Sigyn," another voice called out to her.

She slowly turned and faced her friends and "family." The people that were there were amazed at her use of power and energy.

It was Loki who was getting support from his brother. His frightening Jotun form still stared her down.

"Loki," she said his name.

Her mind was so confused and raw. All these thoughts were racing through her head. She had accepted that she was Sigyn, the Asgardian goddess of fidelity, compassion, and suffering, but she also was Jane Foster the daughter of James and Amelia.

Though she had accepted it, time would be needed to come to terms with it all.

"Jane," Loki said her name and she locked eyes with him. "Is that what I should call you?"

She slowly turned to face and stand apart from him.

"It is good for now," she said to him.

And Loki smiled, a face beaming that he was pleased and she began to walk toward him.

Then that face turned to dread when he saw something that she apparently did not.

"Jane! Behind you!"

Loki used what magic he had left to transport himself through time and space; putting his body in between his wife and her assailant.

Sharp and debilitating pain that struck through the leather of his abdomen, passed through his internal organs, and tip of a glowing crystal blade appeared through the middle of his abdomen. The blade had pierced through near the lower area of the spine.

He looked down, seeing the the tip of the blade covered in blood, and Jane's tear-filled sparkling eyes looking at him in disbelief.

"My...love," he said, his blood covered hand coming to her cheek before he clinched hold of her shoulder and began to fall.

"No!" she cried out and saw that Nanna had the blade in her hand, pulling it higher through his body. "No, Loki!" she howled.

She helped him go down to the ground so he would not be in pain.

Nanna shouted at her. "Now, dearest Sigyn, you will see what it is like to spend eternity alone, just as I have to."

His wife took her fist and backhanded Nanna with what strength she could being that she was holding onto him at the same moment.

Their attacker tried to come back at them, but Thor appeared. He ripped her arm higher, causing her to drop the blade to the ground.

His brother took her into his powerful grasp and smashed her into his body.

"Why do you do such evil?" his brother demanded. "Baldur has been gone for centuries. You were destined to see him again. Now you have caused chaos in the realms, created deals that you cannot pay back, and..."

"And freed our realms of the darkness known as Loki Laufeyson," Nanna interjected. "Our chaos will end with him gone. There will be no one to constantly plague our home. I hope that you are happy Sigyn," she cried out. "I have been alone since then and I will never allow you to experience happiness for what he did to my husband. Now we and all the nine realms will be free of his evil and you will watch your loving husband die in your arms; a luxury I did not get to do, but at least, you will feel the same pain that I have felt everyday since he was taken."

Sigyn held Loki on her legs as he gasped for precious breath. His eyes darted about as he tried to focus on anything but the pain in his body.

Her hands raced across his abdomen, trying to hold in the blood. The front of her shirt was becoming covered as it drained out the large space near his spine and on top of his flank.

They both were becoming coated in crimson death.

"Sigyn," he said her name.

"I am here my love," she told him, turning his face so they could see one another. "I am going nowhere."

His hands came and gathered hers within. "I want you..." Blood was no doubt in his throat and breathing was becoming difficult. "I want you to go home. Go home."

"Which home?" she asked.

"Stay here on Midgard," he instructed before coughing powerfully. "Defend it with your life. Come to me when your mortal life has ended." Their hands were pressed together as he looked to the ring he had given her. "I will be waiting for you."

"Don't you die on me," she begged. "Don't you leave me here alone! I cannot live knowing you are dead."

Loki's eyes were searching her. "You are no longer my possession," he barely got out, wiping away a tear from her chin. "You are my treasure."

Sigyn wept and released a laugh at what he had said.

"You know how cheesy that sounds?" she jested with him.

He snorted back one laugh. "Kiss me," he asked.

She brought their lips delicately together and savored the joy of being with him. His icy blue lips were almost warm to the touch while her fingers combed into his messed up hair while his took a comfortable grip of hers.

It seemed almost a desperate attempt to keep himself to her...for he wanted it to be the last thing he remembered.

Loki's hand released from her mane and his lips went pleasantly still. His shoulders relaxed over her arm...as his hand hit the ground beside him with a thud.

Her tear-filled eyes darted back and forth looking at his still form. "Loki," her voice whispered as she stared at his closed eyes. "Loki, no," she repeated a couple of times.

Her prince had passed in that moment of time.

She shook his body in her arms, receiving no response from him.

"No!" she cried out to the heavens above her, tears burning her cheeks and nose running. "Mother please!" Her cries were loud and filled with revolting pain.

Birds that filled the trees flew away at the noise.

Thor was also weeping lightly as he held onto the murderer of her husband. Though he had once cared for and loved Jane, she had become Sigyn now...and her heart would always belong to his brother.

As her looked in his direction, Sigyn's were drawn upon the dagger that was lying on the ground just out of her grasp. It was still covered in Loki's dark blood as bits of crystal shined under the moonlight.

She called the dagger to her hand.

"If I cannot be with you in life my dearest, we shall be together in death," she said, placing the dagger over her heart.

"Jane," Thor called out to her. "Jane, you do not want to that."

"Jane is dead!" she growled. "She died when she killed my beloved. Now we will be together forever." She looked to the blade as she was about to take her own life. "So now Juliet, let me show you how it is done."

Thor tossed his captive to the ground and nearly made it to them, when the heavens split open and light poured around them.

Thunder rumbled and raced across clouds that began to form.

They all looked up and saw that a storm was brewing, but not from anything that was manifesting on Earth. It was coming straight out of the stars, encasing them in golden energy.

"Sigyn," the voice of his father Lord Odin Allfather echoed around them. "There need be no more death."

The dagger was heated in her hand and she was forced to drop it to the ground, shattering upon impact.

"Loki, son of Laufey and adopted by Odin Allfather," he called, "you have learned...at last."

His brother's body became light and airy, lifting from her arms to where his hand barely grazed the ground.

"My son, your loyalty to your wife be honored in what you have done to be with her," Odin's echoing voice told her. "Let your love set your dark soul free."

"No!" Nanna howled. "Kill him!"

"Nanna, for your anger and revenge, in complete disregardance of your king," the voice and light came upon her, "may your energy fuel his return."

Thor took hold of Sigyn and ducked down, avoiding the golden tendrils that sprung from the clouds, reaching into Nanna's body, and leached out some of her energy. It danced slowly over to Loki's body; causing it to glow.

Nanna was still immortal, but her magical power had been stripped from her. It was a punishment worse than death; her power fueling her bitter enemy's return.

The wounds across Loki's abdomen sealed and closed. His armor was repaired asthough nothing had happened to him. The Frost Giant part of him was suppressed and he reappeared as the Asgardian prince he had once been known.

Sigyn walked slowly back to his body to stand beside it.

Hela, Loki's daughter reappeared and came to observe the events that were transpiring.

"What did I miss?" she asked.

"Only your father discovering his soul and how bright it really is," Thor answered his niece.

They both watched as Loki was delivered back into Sigyn's embrace. She lifted his head into her cradle delicately.

Sigyn held her husband in her arms, combing the tops of her fingers along his healed face. Though she had been frightened by Loki's Frost Giant form, she still loved him no less.

"With your soul awakened now Sigyn, goddess of Asgard, may your love fully heal him," they heard the voice of Frigga the Queen. "For your loyalty, honor, and faith, be rewarded."

She moved to place a delicate kiss upon Loki's still lips, just like the fairytales of her past human life. Normally it should have been he kissing her, but their story was anything but normal.

Suddenly, his eyes opened sharply and he took in a deep breath.

"Loki," she said his name.

"Sigyn," he called for her.

They embraced tightly, him sitting up so he could gather her tightly into his shaky arms.

"My love," he whispered to her.

She ran her fingers through his hair several times and held onto his body with her other arm.

They looked to each other again.

"I am overwhelmed," he said to her. "You wouldn't let me go."

"That is not the way marriage works," she replied. "You fight to the bitter end until death do us part. You are not dying without me or me without you."

"But you could have had your freedom," he said. "You would not be bound to me anymore."

"Maybe I like being bound to you," she jested with him.

They both heard Thor laugh, covering his mouth to prevent them from seeing him do so. He must have know that to be a human joke of an explicit nature.

Loki smiled at her before they kissed for another time, sealing their pact together in marriage and in life again.

"Shall I call you Sigyn or do you want to be called Jane as you have been her all this time?" he asked.

"I am pleased with whichever name you desire to call me," she said. "Though Jane is easier to remember and is does symbolize a gracious new start for us."

He curled a lock of her hair around his finger and allowed it to come to rest against her cheek. "Then Jane it is," he stated.

Jane stood and took both of his hands in order to assist in bringing him to his feet.

Thor watched with happiness that Loki would no longer be that tortured soul. He would find the inspiration to be happy again.

Nanna was less than happy that they were reunited.

But she had no one to blame but her own selfish ambition. If she had not come to Earth, they never would have been able to find out that Sigyn was not dead. Just reincarnated in another body.

It still troubled him that he did not know that Jane was Sigyn; even in the time that they knew each other before Loki knew. He truly was elated for his brother.

"May this be a new beginning for us," Loki whispered out of breath. Their foreheads were together as they stared into each other's eyes.

"To this and many more eternities together," Sigyn replied.

Thor coughed to get their attention.

"Oh yes my brother," Loki introduced her to him, "my beautiful wife Jane, goddess of fidelity, marriage, and compassion."

So she had selected to keep her Midgard namesake and carry on her human name as the goddess she now was.

"As unusual as this may sound Jane," Thor spoke to her, "I am pleased to not only call you sister, but I am glad that you will be coming with us. Now you will always be protected and safe."

And Jane laughed, before Loki pulled her against him.

"May this be a new beginning for us," Loki whispered out of breath.

"To this and many more eternities together," Jane replied.

They were going to kiss yet another time, but Thor coughed yet again.

"It sounds as though we have a wedding to get to," his brother told them. "We need to make this all legal, so how about we get home and welcome our goddess back home."

"First, we need to make a journey to Helheim," Jane spoke as they walked closer to him as he held Nanna in his tight grasp. "Our dear Nanna has a boat to catch."

The deposed goddess sneered at her and turned away.

"And I have several Jotuns who are in need of some intense repercussions," Hela spoke. "All in the name of keeping Helheim running as it should be."

"Hela," Jane spoke out to Loki's daughter. She slowly approached the death goddess, not swayed by how she appeared to be, but wanting to be near.

"I only hope that you can forgive me my lady," Loki's daughter said to her. "I did not mean her to escape and cause so much ill-will to you or my father."

She reached out and touched Hela's smooth white cheek, her thumb smoothing along her bone.

"I will never blame you Hela," she told her. "I hope that you will accept me now as your ally, if not your mother."

Surprisingly, the angel of death smiled and came into her arms.

Jane looked back to Loki, seeing him smile. He came forward to brush a hand down down his daughter's long striped hair.

"I think we should be getting home," Loki suggested. "This realm needs to get back to a sense of normalcy."

"Sounds like a dream," she said.

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