One Year Ago

Loki had just moved in to Amelia's apartment. It was his first night there. Amelia came out of the shower in just a towel and smiled at Loki. She dropped her towel and gave him a show of her backside. Loki saw the tattoo on the small of her back.

He came up behind her and touched the symbol. "What does this mean?" he asked tracing the interlocking circles with his fingers.

Amelia laughed. "Oh geez I got that when I turned 18. It is a trinity knot. I was obsessed with the idea of the supernatural back then. Magic and all that. I'm not really sure why I got it I just kind of did."

Loki smiled and kissed her. "Well I like it. It suits you."

…

Amelia looked down at her hands covered in blood. Loki's bright red blood. She was holding on to Loki's cold hand stroking his wedding ring. She put her head on Loki's unmoving chest. She hugged herself against him tears flowing from her eyes. She held on to him.

"Loki please come back. Please…please…please."

Her emotions went from despair to anguish to utter rage. Someone had killed her husband. They had taken her life away from her. She hadn't even screamed. The silence in the room was deafening. Her daughter was right next door and had no idea that her father had just been taken from her. Amelia's rage began to deepen and she felt it begin to go through her. It was like ice in her veins. A greenish blue light began to come from her fingertips. She looked down at it. What was this? Suddenly it consumed her whole body. The room was bathed in greenish blue light. Amelia laid her glowing hands on Loki's chest.

"Come back to me Loki." She said.

Amelia watched as the hole in Loki's chest closed up. "That's it come on."

His chest began to rise and fall again. She kissed him on the lips and breathed air into them. Loki's eyes snapped open and saw Amelia's completely white eyes above him.

"Loki!" she breathed and grabbed onto him.

Loki wrapped his arms around a glowing Amelia. "Amelia Amelia oh my god." He said kissing her.

He could feel the power radiating from her. It was unlike he had ever felt before. He watched as it turned from bluish green to just blue and then it went out. Amelia felt her power draining and then it left completely. Her eyes turned back to hazel and then they closed. She went limp in Loki's arms.

"Amelia?" he said shaking her.

He opened her eyelids and saw that her eyes were not moving. She was still breathing but her heartbeat was very faint. He picked her up into his arms and left the room. He kicked on Thor's door.

"Thor, Brother! Open the door now!" he kicked at the door.

Thor opened the door and saw Loki and Amelia covered in blood. Mjolnir flew to his hand. "Loki what is going on?"

Jane cradled the screaming Addy close to her chest. "Oh my god Loki."

Loki stayed out in the hallway. "Come on we must go now."

They ran out of the hotel and out onto the street.

"Heimdall bring us home! Now!" Thor yelled.

They were blasted back to Asgard right there in the street. Loki's feet had barely touched the ground when he was already running towards the palace. Citizens stopped and stared at their shirtless and barefoot prince running. They could all see the blood covering both himself and Amelia. Thor and Jane were a few feet behind Loki. Jane held on to Addy tight as she ran with her. Loki came into the palace screaming for the healers. He was running down the corridor when Frigga came out to meet him.

"Loki, my son what happened?" she said running to him.

He kept running with Frigga in tow. "I will explain once I know she is okay."

They got to the healer's chambers and he set Amelia down on a table. "Heal her!" He yelled at everyone who was there. "You bring her back to me. Please!"

They moved Loki out of the way to begin to check Amelia. Frigga came to Loki's side as Thor and Jane reached the room.

"Brother what happened?" Thor said sternly.

Loki took a breath, his eyes filling with tears. "I was dead." He put his hand on his chest where there was no evidence of there being a bullet there before. "All of this blood is mine. I don't know how or who but all I know is that I was dead. And then I wasn't. I woke to Amelia over me." He rubbed his hands over his face. "Only she wasn't the Amelia I know. She was glowing and her eyes were white. She brought me back to life. I don't know how but she did. And then she passed out."

Frigga handed Loki a towel to wash the blood off of him and someone handed him a shirt. He was staring at Amelia where the healers worked on her. He noticed Addy was in the room and was crying.

"Here give me my daughter." He took Addy out of Jane's arms.

He cradled Addy close to his chest and kissed her forehead. He bounced her in his arms. "Shh Addy it's alright baby girl. Mommy is going to be okay. She has to be."

They decided to move Amelia to another room now that they had her stabilized. Loki paced the room with Addy in his arms. He was getting impatient that no one was coming to tell him anything. Thor, Jane and Frigga waited outside the room. The healer Eir finally came into the room.

"Is she alright? Can you tell what happened?"

"My prince, from what we can detect Amelia had some magic of her own. It seems that her despair and rage from losing you was able to unlock it. That combined with your magic flowing in her made it strong enough to bring you back."

"My magic? How did she have my magic in her?" Loki asked.

"From your child."

"From Addy?"

"No my prince your wife was pregnant."

Loki frowned. "Was?"

"Yes. That spell required a lot of power. You were dead and nature must be balanced. One life for another."

"So is Amelia going to be alright?" Loki asked as panic began to rise in his voice.

"Yes your wife will recover but your son did not make it." She said softly.