The next thing any of them knows, Odin is yanking the sword from its holder in the Bifrost and ordering Sif and the other two warriors to take Fandral to the Healing Room. He then turns to the three siblings, and sees Bloom unconscious. He says "You cannot even protect your friend or your sister, yet you think you can protect this kingdom! What happened to her?"

Thor says he doesn't know, but Loki explains "She was surrounded by Jotuns, Father, but then they were all thrown back. Her eyes were orange instead of blue, and fire was swirling around her. I think its her magic, the same kind of magic that brought her here in the first place. She collapsed when I got near her and hasn't woken up since."

Odin is thoroughly shocked by this, but also extremely angry with Thor - his idea nearly got them all killed! Loki, for his part, is more worried about his sister than anything else - and worried what this new magic might do. Take her away just as suddenly as it brought her here? The very thought makes him go cold as Jotunheim.

Thor breaks them both out of their thoughts, saying "There won't be a kingdom to protect if we do not act. The Jotuns must learn to fear me just as they once feared you."

Odin says "That is pride and vanity talking, not what a king needs, have you forgotten all I have taught you about a warrior's patience?" Dammit, he'd thought his son was ready! Looks like Loki and Bloom weren't jealous after all...

Thor half-incredulously, half-furiously says "While you wait and be patient, the Nine Realms laugh at us. The old ways are finished, and you would stand around giving speeches while Asgard falls."

"You are a vain, greedy, cruel boy!"

"And you are an old man and a fool!"

Odin looks down and says "Yes. I was a fool…for thinking you were ready."

Bloom groans and stirs in Loki's arm, just as he says "Father-" Odin practically growls at him and Bloom looks up, extremely disoriented, but she knows that Odin is absolutely furious by that growl alone. Loki sets her down and steadies her, quickly explaining what's going on - Thor's in trouble. And its not small this time either.

Bloom says "Father no!" before Loki can stop her, and nearly falls over from stepping forward. She leans on Loki as she says the rest, trying to protect Thor, "Punish me instead. I should have stopped him, but I didn't so-"

Odin stops her there saying "No, my daughter, the blame for this does not rest with you." Heimdall told him about the whole plan, and who told the guard to tell him; he knows that it was all Thor's idea, and that everyone else tried to talk him out of it. Bloom simply didn't try when he would not listen, and instead told someone who would, and could, stop them from leaving.

Dammit, he's not going to last a week off Asgard, as anything other than the Golden boy of the Realm Eternal! She tried to stop this, she tried to keep it from happening! She just knew Odin would be furious enough to really punish Thor if he made it to Jotunheim, to say nothing of what Thor's arrogance and short temper would cause. And real punishment is bein delivered right now, apparently.

Odin says "Thor Odinson, you have betrayed the expressed command of your king. Through your arrogance and stupidity, you have opened these peaceful realms and innocent people to the horror and desolation of war!"

He puts his staff in the slot that powers the Bifrost and as it powers up he continues while ripping off pieces of Thor's armor, "You are unworthy of these realms. You are unworthy of your title. You are unworthy" he says "of the loved ones you have betrayed."

Loki and Bloom can only watch, they've both tried to stop this from happening. Loki tried to talk Odin down, but got quite thoroughly cut off by that growl. Bloom tried to take the punishment for Thor, since he'll be completely lost without Loki to keep him from making a fool of himself and getting injured or imprisoned, but Odin shot that down to. Thor's on his own, now.

Odin rips Thor's cape off and takes Mjolnir as he says "I now take from you, your power. In the name of my father," he says, as the armor on Thor's arms crumbles off, "and his father before him, I Odin All-Father cast you out!" Using Mjolnir, he hits Thor in the chest and sends him into the Bifrost, and the rest of his armor is left behind.

Bloom promptly passes out from the shockwave of magic that hits both herself and Loki from Thor's banishment, forcing Loki to catch her once more. "Dammit, Sister," Loki mutters, "your not making me any less worried here." Neither is her magic, which still seems too close to the surface for his liking - too ready to lash out at anything and everything if she gets upset somehow.

Odin sends Mjolnir down after Thor, saying "Whosoever holds this, if they be worthy, shall wield the power of Thor." He then throws the hammer, now with no engravings on it, into the portal after him.

Loki carries Bloom out of the Bifrost, which had been messing with her even more than usual after the disaster that was Jotunheim and what happened to her, and takes her to the Healing Room with the others. If Thor weren't currently banished, Loki would be tearing him a new one - Thor had better be damn grateful he's currently banished, as its the only thing that's saving him from that.

When Bloom opens her eyes, her head's pounding and Loki hovering next to her worriedly. "Stars, my head…where are we, Loki?"

Loki eases her into a sitting position, putting a glass of water in her hands as he does, saying "The Healing Room, Bloom. What happened to you on Jotunheim?"

Bloom thinks for a minute, her expression turning confused as she says "I don't remember Loki. All I remember happening is the Frost Giant grabbing my arm, and then this weird feeling of heat in my chest, and with my necklace off it exploded out of me. The same kind of thing happened when we were walking away from the Jotuns, when Laufey insulted Thor, though that was milder."

Loki exclaims "So that was you! You stopped Thor from moving or answering." He figured it was, but the confirmation is good to know.

Bloom shrugs, and says "I was floating in this warmth for a while, and the next thing I know, we're back in the Bifrost and Odin is more furious than I've ever seen him. What happened to me - and to make father so furious?"

Loki tells her what happened to her, and what Laufey said on Jotunheim just before they left. All the while, checking her eyes, her pulse, her breathing - if she needed any confirmation of the detail that Loki's incredibly freaked-out by what he told her, she has it in full. Stars, the last time he hovered over her like this was when she got so worked up thanks to Thor she practiced her magic for...she still doesn't know how long, but by the time she was finished she was spent. Her magic, not her anger, but her magic was definitely the deciding factor. She woke up a full day later, with Loki refusing to leave her side even after Eir cleared her to leave the Healing Room for the next few days. She can only hope it hasn't been a day since Thor's banishment.

Everyone changes, and they meet up, when Bloom is cleared to leave the Healing Room - its been about two hours since they got back from Jotunheim, and Fandral and Volstagg have already been cleared.

Bloom and Loki are both quiet, but for very different reasons. Bloom's head is still pounding, even as she eats something at Loki's insistence and then lays down on the couch. Loki, on the other hand, is looking at his hand and wondering why he wasn't affected by the Giant's touch like Volstagg.

Volstagg's eating another plate of food while Hogun rubs something on his arm - probably a lotion or ointment for the frostbite, if Bloom had to take a guess. The others talk about what happened and how they were saved, and the question comes up from Volstagg, "But how in the world did the guard know to go to Allfather in the first place?"

Bloom answers "I told him." Seeing their stunned looks she goes on "While you were getting on your horses I told the guard about the plan and asked him to tell Father. I was trying to keep us alive, and make sure Thor got his throne some day; seeing as it and battle are the only two things he ever thinks of or cares about. I didn't think that Father would banish him, of course I didn't think that he would start a war either."

Sif gets up and says to Bloom "You two need to go to the Allfather and ask him to bring Thor back-"

Loki furiously interrupts "Why? Aside from Bloom, I love Thor more dearly than any of you, but you saw how he was today. He's arrogant, he's reckless, he's dangerous. Bloom caught fire on a realm made completely of ice and snow and drained her magic, and the oaf didn't even notice! Is that really what Asgard needs for its future king?" He storms out angrily, leaving four stunned Asgardians and Bloom. Much as he wishes to stay at Bloom's side until she's in her chambers, he simply cannot stay there one moment longer under their veiled accusations and blind hero-worship of Thor without saying or doing something he'll regret later on!

Once Loki's gone, Sif says "Loki speaks of the good of Asgard, but he has always been envious of Thor."

Bloom sits upright at once, headache or no headache, a glare on her face for Sif as she all but snarls "Shut up, Sif! Just shut up! You don't have a clue about what Loki's always been like, your too busy basking in Thor's popularity! Easy for you to say Loki's just envious of Thor, when you've no idea whatsoever what it's like for the two of us! Loki's always been compared to Thor and found second-best by everyone but Mother and I! Don't you dare speak of what you could never understand!" Bloom promptly storms out as well, leaving the four remaining occupants of the room shocked speechless for a moment.

Volstagg eventually says "He did try to keep us from fighting the Jotuns, by accepting Laufey's offer to leave, something Thor wouldn't have done. And Bloom saved all our lives by telling the guard what we were doing."

Hogun says "A master of magic, could have hidden three Jotuns inside the castle."

Fandral says "Loki has always been one for tricks, but this is something else altogether. And Bloom would never do something like this, even if she was a master of magic. Though throwing that many Frost Giants away from herself, and bursting into flame makes me wonder what else she can do."

Hogun says "Loki will kill you, should he ever hear you ask that." And they all know he would, he'd do it without a second's hesitation after immediately assuming what Fandral means by that. They never thought they'd be scared of Loki, but he can be legitimately terrifying when it comes to defending Bloom.

Bloom goes after Loki, and follows him to the Weapons vault - internally seething about Sif and her utterly ridiculous blindness of all Thor's faults - and says "Loki, I know Thor is everything you said and more, but he's not going to make it on his own on Midgard, we both know how he is, and…and what are we doing in the Weapons vault?"

"There is something I need to know, Sister, and one of the relics in here might give me answers." Loki goes to the very back, and despite Bloom's protests that enough has gone wrong for one day, he picks up the casket. As soon as he lifts it off the pedestal, his fingers turn dark blue, and the color starts spreading up his arms.

Odin immediately commands "Stop!"

How he got there so quickly is a question that goes through Bloom's mind, she files it away for later when Loki asks "Am I cursed?" It doesn't escape her how Odin hesitates before denying the possibility, not one bit.

Without turning around Loki asks "What am I?"

"You are my son."

"What more than that?" Loki turns around as he asks this, but with a dark blue face and red eyes. Bloom, to her credit, doesn't make much more than a strangled sound in the back of her throat - understandable, Loki thinks, given everything.

AN: Hey! So, yeah...I'm making Loki and Bloom's relationship much more prominent - they're siblings, before anyone tries to have me get them to date (same with Thor!) but Loki's a lot more protective of her than in the original. In my defense, it was my first story ever. My writing's grown a lot. As to Loki's behavior with Bloom...you try not freaking out when your sibling catches fire in a place like Jotunheim, then collapses twice in less than an hour. Especially when its never happened before. I seriously imagine Loki was the one who practically raised Bloom with Frigga, since Odin was busy running somewhere between seven and nine Realms - Svartlfheim is dead, and Earth doesn't particularly know about the others, but still - and Thor didn't particularly care whatsoever.

Anyway, enjoy! Please review!