Loki and Sigyn made their way hand in hand back to the house on the island after their sojourn to the Asgard of the past. Loki, glancing over at Sigyn, noticed a small bit of twig caught in her hair. Reaching over, he plucked it from her golden locks, dropping it to the ground.
"Well...that's something we never did there before." Sigyn said with a grin.
"We were children." Loki answered, also grinning. Sigyn began to giggle, putting a hand over her mouth.
"Do you think Heimdall...?" Loki turned his head to look to where they were going once again with an even wider grin.
"I hope he did. If his ears were half as well tuned as his eyes he most likely heard as well." Loki said. Sigyn swatted him playfully with her free hand as she laughed.
"You're terrible."
"Would you have me any other way?" Loki asked.
"I'm glad I got to see all of it one last time." Sigyn said.
"It need not be the last..." Loki said. Sigyn looked over to him as they continued to walk.
"I think it better if it was. The past is the past for a reason. It has shaped us into who we are today but we shouldn't live in it, not to mention the dangers of it."
"My mother once said something very similar." Loki said, recalling his conversation with his mother in the branch timeline he had created.
"I thought you had taken it back to Banner to be destroyed."
"Banner may be a genius by Midgardian standards but he is as easily fooled as most mortals, perhaps even more easily than my brother, which is saying something." Loki said.
"Well he certainly caught you by surprise." Sigyn said with a smirk. Loki's expression changed, his face almost seemed to go pale as he recalled the instance of which Sigyn spoke.
"I was momentarily distracted...let us speak no more of it." said Loki as the two crossed the field towards the new house as it came into view.
Loki sat in a chair before the stone lined fire pit Barton had installed in the yard to the side of the house, a fire blazing within it in the darkness. Frigga lay in his arms, dozing peacefully once again. An empty chair sat next to Loki where Sigyn had been sitting before taking Leiffrid inside to put him to bed for the night. Barton sat in a chair on the opposite side of the fire. As Sigyn reappeared, walking towards them, Barton rose.
"Guess it's time for me to hit the trail." said Barton. Sigyn walked around the fire to him.
"Thank you for everything." Sigyn told him.
"Yes, thank you." Loki said from the other side of the fire.
"My pleasure." Barton looked across to Loki and the sleeping Frigga. "Enjoy that, it doesn't last long. I'll be seeing you." Barton turned, walking away in the darkness towards the Quinjet parked in the field. Sigyn walked back around the fire to stand next to Loki.
"I'll get her to bed. I think Leiffrid was out even before his head hit the pillow. They both wore themselves out today. i'm glad Clint thought of putting in a playground. I'm sure he was thinking of when his kids were their age." Sigyn leaned over, transferring Frigga from Loki's to her own arms, careful to avoid waking her. As she carried the toddler into the house, Loki stood looking into the fire in silence.
Holding out his hand, the modified transport cylinder appeared within it. He stared at it for a few moments, his mind revisiting all that had taken place from the moment Banner had put it into his hand. Though he was already aware, Banner had warned him again of the danger that day, a warning his mother had also echoed during his time on Asgard in the branch timeline. Loki moved closer to the fire, holding the modified cylinder over it before releasing it to fall into the flames. He watched as the fire began to do its destructive work. Sigyn appeared next to him and reached over, taking his hand.
"So you made your decision." she said.
"I had made the decision long before now. I first wanted to fulfill your wish. I was waiting for this day. There is nowhere….or no when I would rather be than here with you in this very moment."
"I agree." Sigyn said. Both stood silent for a moment staring into the fire. Sigyn began to quietly weep. Concerned, he turned to her, taking her in his arms.
"What is it?"
"I don't know...hormones probably...it's just...when I was putting the children to bed I was thinking...all the time I was here with my father, alone... if anyone had ever told me that I'd be with you here, the children, if they'd told me of this day...I never would have believed them. But even still there was a part of me...I used to look at the stars and think how you were out there somewhere, you'd come for me to take me home...and you did….you took me home."
Loki pulled the blankets up after climbing into bed, moving them aside on Sigyn's side for her. Sigyn had started a record playing, a very familiar one, on the turntable of the new stereo, the first one it had ever played. She stood at the window, unlatching and opening it, allowing the breeze from the ocean to enter. Turning from the window, she climbed into bed as well, Loki reaching over and turning off the lamp on the nightstand beside the bed. Loki wrapped his arms around Sigyn, kissing her forehead as she put an arm around him, as both closed their eyes.
"Sweet dreams." Sigyn told him.
"I have no need for those." Loki replied as the next song of the record began to play. ( watch?v=aBKEt3MhNMM)
Didn't know what time it was and the lights were low
I leaned back on my radio
Some cat was layin' down some rock and roll, "lotta soul" he said
Then the loud sound did seem to fade
Came back like a slow voice on a wave of phase
That weren't no D.J. that was hazy cosmic jive
There's a starman waiting in the sky
He'd like to come and meet us
But he thinks he'd blow our minds
There's a starman waiting in the sky
He's told us not to blow it
Cause he knows it's all worthwhile
He told me:
Let the children lose it
Let the children use it
Let all the children boogie
I had to phone someone so I picked on you
Hey, that's far out so you heard him too
Switch on the TV we may pick him up on channel two
Look out your window I can see his light
If we can sparkle he may land tonight
Don't tell your poppa or he'll get us locked up in fright
There's a starman waiting in the sky
He'd like to come and meet us
But he thinks he'd blow our minds
There's a starman waiting in the sky
He's told us not to blow it
Cause he knows it's all worthwhile
He told me:
Let the children lose it
Let the children use it
Let all the children boogie...
The End