'What are you doing?' A dark voice asks in the midst of the night as a lone figure floats in the air.
'Looking for the being that has been hidden from me!' The swift reply from said man, he knew he was talking to someone, who would rather talk to him through a mind link than an actual person.
'I can help.' The voice once again travels through his mind.
'Why would I want your help? You don't even want to show yourself to me.' The man asks only to receive a dark chuckle back, that sent shivers down the man's spine.
'Because you need my help. You will never find her at this rate, you know nothing of what she looks like, nothing of who she has been raised as.' The voice reminds him, 'So Prince Loki, one of whom has been casted out of two kingdoms and homes.' The man, Loki, grits his teeth.
'I was not casted out!' Loki grits back to the man, who again chuckles darkly.
'No, of course not, none would ever with your power.' The voice mocked the lost prince.
'And should I agree to getting your help, what shall you ask of in return?' Loki asks, he was skeptical at best, but he also had a bad feeling, by this time of the conversation Loki had once again risen into the sky and continued his search for his sister, he was somewhere on Midgard, it was humid, and he could hear the ocean, finding what he guessed as a Midgardian road he followed it, he stopped upon seeing a sign, floating closer he read it, 'Miami Beach, Florida'
'Nothing, call it a favor for now, but I will ask your help later, you see these Midgardians have something of mine, and I wish to see it returned to me.' The voice said almost too pleasantly. Loki narrowed his eyes by stayed where he was. 'She is close if that will help you decide.'
'Fine! Help me, I shall help you with your possession.' Loki said in a huff, he wished to meet his sister, to know her.
'Excellent. She lives in a place called Miami, Florida, for now. She was adopted by rich Midgardians, and has an older brother. Aside from this I know nothing of her.' Loki nods then remembers that this conversation was all, basically, in his head.
'I thank you, though I know not your name.' Loki turned to go to Miami Beach, figuring if he got there Miami should be close.
'Thanos.' The voice said, then as if someone snapped the line, he was gone. Loki landed and shook his head, holding it. He knew talking to 'Thanos' was a bad idea, and if how his head was feeling was any indication of how their 'partnership' would continue Loki knew he wouldn't be completely in control of himself for much longer.
'I must find my sister now!' Loki again shakes his head again and mutters the spell whilst pushing off the ground, he floated in the air before he stopped and centered himself. He starts meditating right there in the air, felt around in his soul and heart for that missing part that always bothered him, focused on it and decided to try and use to find his sister. Loki felt a small tug on his mind pulling him away from Miami Beach, he turned and flew the direction that the tug was trying to pull him. As he went the tugging got strong, so he flew faster and faster, until he got to a white house on a cliff in the middle of nowhere Florida. Looking around Loki was confused, and slowly lowered himself to the ground then used his magic to enhance his hearing.
"Rachel!" A male voice yells.
"NO!" A British accented female voice yells back.
"Rachel please!" The male voice replies in a calmer voice, though it was strained. Loki, being the curious creature that he was moved closer.
"I am helping no matter what you say!" 'Rachel' says, Loki quickly casts an invisibility spell on him as he gets to a window and looks in, he silently gasps catching a look at the 5'9 black haired green eyed beauty that was currently yelling at a 6' black haired and blue eyed man.
"I am your older brother and if I tell you no, I mean no damn it!" The man yelled at the woman, who in Loki's opinion would be him as a female.
"I don't really give a bloody damn that you are my brother, that is a lot of building for one man in a suit Tony!" She says back, her eyes flashing with determination.
"You are going British on me Chele." Tony mutters to himself.
"What was that you muling quim!" Rachel screams at the now fearful looking Tony. "Where you really trying to make a joke about my accent in the midst of an argument of you wanting to build a 100 floor tower in the middle of New York! BY YOUR SELF!" At the end Rachel was full out screaming at the top of her lungs, obviously furious with Tony. "I am helping. And. That. WILL. Be. That!" She grounds out, her eyes flash again as she turns, her hair coming close to hitting Tony in the face as she huffs out of the room, though as she leaves she yells at no one. "Jarvis! I want my suit, NOW!" Tony shivers as she screams out the last word, and an automated accented voice replies.
"Yes Miss Rachel." Tony gulps as the sounds of mechanics being used fills the air, then the sound of someone walking echos around the house and gets louder and towards Tony. A few seconds of dead silence besides the sound of walking a black/blue creature enters the room, it was standing on the tips of its toes with, with a feline shaped head stopped right in front of Tony, who flinched as it stopped.
"Chele-" Tony said to the creature, though a slightly mechanical female voice stops him short.
"I don't care." 'Rachel' growls, "You are not stopping me Anthony Edward. Now I am going to go flying for a bit, see if I can't calm down." The feline head splits at the muzzle and moves up and back, revealing Rachel IN the creature. Tony nods and kisses Rachel's head.
"Be safe, Pepper and I are going to go look at the sight, we should be back by tonight." Rachel nods, turns towards the wall of windows, where Loki was still hiding and started walking to him, for a moment Loki thought the enchantment had worn off, but he noticed she wasn't looking at him. "Chele." Rachel stops before opening the door. "Love you Princess." Rachel flinches a little and her eyes go depressed, before she gulps and opens her mouth before closing it and nods, she opens the door and quickly takes off out the door, the head coming back together and hiding her face, though Loki caught the tears trailing down her cheeks. Tony's sigh brings Loki attention back to him, as a redhead walks in.
"She didn't say it back did she?" The woman asks, placing a hand on Tony's shoulder, who shakes his head.
"She hasn't since the night that we found out she was adopted." He said glumly, staring out the open door, his own blue eyes swimming in tears.
"She will Tony, but it's a shock to the system I'm sure." The woman tries to help, Tony nods and turns towards the woman and smiles a little.
"I guess so, we have a building sight to look at, let's go." He slings an arm over the woman's shoulders and leads her out of the room. Loki looks back towards where Rachel flew off and decided to follow her, she was adopted, maybe it was her that was his twin. Muttering the spell he flings himself off the edge of the cliff and quickly trails after her, taking the invisibility spell off, and increasing his speed to catch up with her. He looks around trying to spot her, only then noticing he hears crying, and realising he hadn't take the enchantment off of his hearing. Following the crying he saw Rachel, sitting on the top of a cliff with her arms wrapped around her knees, which were pulled as close as she could get with, while she was in the creature, her head down, the feline head sitting next to her, crying. Loki lands softly behind her, though obviously loud enough for Rachel to hear, because she instantly stops her crying.
"My apologies." Loki mutters, just loud enough for her to hear. She sniffles and looks at him, an odd look passes over her face, which was red from her crying. Loki slowly raises his hands. "I mean you no harm, I heard you crying, and, I was raised not to let a maiden cry alone." Rachel tilts her head a little, looking quite confused.
"Maiden?" She smirks a little, a smirk that looked like Loki's own, "Did you just come from a cosplay? Are you still in character? You kind of look like you stepped out of the Renaissance." Her voice was soft, a small lit, hardly detectable, made her sound much more sophisticated, and it was slightly lighter with hidden laughter. Hearing it Loki had to smile, his green eyes lighting up with joy.
"Something along those lines my Lady. Though I must ask, why are you crying? And what are you in?" Loki walked slowly before sitting down a little ways away from Rachel, his feet criss crossed under him. Rachel watches him, grabs her feline head, and turns towards him.
"I had a fight with my bro-" She stops short looks a little pained, before taking a deep breath, "With my adopted brother. As for what I'm wearing. Don't you recognize me? I'm the Iron Panther, part of the Iron Siblings, Princess to the famous Stark Industries, Rachel Marie Antoinette Stark, the adopted little sister to Tony Stark. Though the public doesn't know I'm adopted, in fact Tony and I just found out, not a month ago." She starts to ramble before clapping a 'iron' covered hand over her mouth, her eyes grew wide, and slightly fearful. She slowly takes her hand away, "Oh Lords! I should not have said that!" Her lit getting thicker, causing Loki to laugh.
"Calm. Calm my Lady. Your secret is safe with me. So long as you can keep mine as well." Loki says, his eyes flashing mischievously. Loki smiles in delight when he notices Rachel's do the same.
"Oh? You have a secret as well? Well I shall take it to my grave, but I simply must know!" She smiles gently and leans forward a little.
"Well, you may not believe me." Loki says looking off to the side a little.
"A little machine both keeps my brother alive, and almost killed him. Plus people constantly wanting to kill the two of us because we run the biggest company in the world that makes weapons, and the only reason Tony and I have our suits is because Tony made a prototype in a cave with our own weapons, that a group of terrorist took, oh and finding out I am not actually related to my brother. I think I can believe just about anything." Her smiles wanes a little, as her eyes turn sad and slightly down cast.
"Well if you insist. I'm not from Midgard." Loki says, and Rachel's head pops back up, her eyes full of confusion.
"Midgard?" She smirks a little, "What is Midgard?"
"Here, this planet." Loki says looking at her seriously.
"Alright, if you are not from here, then where?" Rachel raises a brow.
"Asgard, or so I thought. I too just found out I was adopted, now I know I am from Jotunheim. The land of the frost giant. I am here on Midgard to look for the only family that I have, a twin sister I have never met. I don't even know her name." Loki says looking down, as Rachel starts to think.
"Wait, Asgard, Midgard, Jotunheim. These are names of the nine realms stated in Norse Mythology." Loki looks up at her in surprise, she knew of what he was speaking about. "Wh-what is your name?" Rachel asks slightly stuttering, almost if she is afraid to answer.
"Loki, Loki Odin-Laufeyson, Loki Laufeyson." He replies, stumbling a bit over the last part of his name, trying to remind himself he wasn't Odinson.
"Loki, as in the God of mischief, lies and magic? The adopted younger brother to Thor, and the adopted son of Odin, the All Father, and Freya, the Queen of Asgard?" Rachel says, he could see she was trying to piece it all together.
"Yes." Loki barely whispers it, but she hears it.
"And you have a twin sister here on Earth, Midgard?" Rachel asks tilting her head a little.
"Yes, Fa-Odin told me that she was here. But besides that she fell here to Midgard, and was raised by a wealthy family, I know nothing of her."
"Fell?" Rachel asks, her eyes glazing over, and she seemed to be ages away. Loki nods.
"Yes, fell." Loki watches her as she comes back to the present, a new light in her eyes, the green gets a bit brighter as they snap to Loki, she looks over his face before jumping to her feet grabbing her feline head and holds a hand out to Loki.
"Come on I need to do something at my house and I need you to come with me." Loki looks startled, blinking up at Rachel then looks at her hand, before looking up at her again, her eyes open and excited, he narrows his eyes and grabs her hand.
"All Right." He says a little skeptical, though it ends in a gasp as she starts to run towards the edge of the cliff, and jumps off, her grip on Loki's hand tightens a little as she pulls him with, they free fell for a moment before her boosters took over and they started to fly. Rachel pulls Loki towards her and flings him onto her back.
"Grab ahold and hold on!" She screams over the sound of the wind as she puts on her feline head. Loki quickly grabs hold of the woman as she put more power into her boosters and hurtles the two of them back towards the house on the cliff. She lands just outside the open door and Loki practically falls off her shoulder, she giggles and walks in. "Jarvis, a little help out please." Rachel asks as the top part of her feline head moves away from her face.
"Yes Miss." Mechanical arms came out of the ceiling and quickly helps Rachel out of her 'suit', she steps off the high heeled feet and walk over to Loki and pulls him into the room.
"Jarvis I need something else if you don't mind."
"For you, anything Miss." The voice sounds around the house, Loki turns in a circle looking for the person, Rachel laughs and stops him.
"Jarvis is an A.I, an artificial intelligence, he's mine and Tony's butler, he runs the house. Jarvis I need you to scan Loki's face and match it with my own, and maybe do a blood sample please."
"Yes miss." A light passes over Loki and he looks skeptically at Rachel.
"Come with me Loki, my lab is this way, there Jarvis will take a very small amount of blood so he can look at your DNA, and see if it is similar to mine." Rachel grabs Loki's arm and gently drags him down a set of stairs.
"Why?" Loki asks extremely confused on why Rachel was doing this.
"Because my father, well my adopted father, left a video for Tony and I, when he started talking about my being adopted, he said I literally fell into their lives. It makes me wonder." Loki looks at her in surprise, he had wondered if maybe she was his twin, the eye color was the exact same, the hair color, they were even the same height, but there are millions on Midgard, and it couldn't be that easy for him.
"Miss Rachel?" 'Jarvis' voice sounds around them, pulling Loki from his musing.
"Yes Jarvis?" She replies opening a door, the lights instantly come on and Rachel sits Loki on a stool next to the desk, which was slightly cluttered, Loki looked around and noticed practically everything was covered by a bookshelf overflowing with books.
"The face software is done." The automated voice replies.
"And?" Rachel says sitting in her chair, bouncing slightly, looking hopeful, as she pulls up her computer, and grabbing a sterile needle to get a bit of Loki's blood.
"Besides the two of you being different sexes, your faces are practically the same in every way. Other than yours being smaller, just by a bit." Jarvis says, and the two living people look at eachother, then Rachel quickly reaches out and stabs Loki hard enough to get blood to well up on his finger.
"Ow! The hell wench!" Loki shouts looking at Rachel angrily as he tries to pull away from Rachel, she grabs his arm in a steel grip and puts his hand on a sensor on her desk until it beeps before letting him go and repeating the process with her own finger.
"Sorry Loki, the quicker it's done the quicker we know." She mumbles as the sensor beeps again, and she quickly licks her finger before going to her computer and rapidly typing on it.
"What ARE you doing?" He practically snaps at her, she cuts him a cold look, her eyes hard, like emeralds, he quickly backs up a little, surprised how fearful her eyes made him feel.
"I am running a system on my laptop that will let me see our DNAs next to each other so I can study them closely." Her computer beeps and she quickly turns back to it, her eyes flinting around the screen. "Jarvis."
"Well Miss, looking at their structures, and how close everything seems to be in comparison." He starts only to be cut off.
"Jarvis." Rachel growls lowly, her teeth grinding, as she awaited the answer she already knew.
"Yes Miss, you are related." Jarvis replies quickly getting to the point. Rachel takes a breath, closes her eyes before popping them back open and back to the computer, her fingers start to fly over the keyboard again.
"Wha-Rachel?" Loki looks at the ceiling, where Jarvis' voice seems to be coming from, before looking at Rachel.
"From the facial scanners and the DNA tests, and what I'm looking at, it looks like I would be your long lost twin sister. Though I don't see how, you are eons older than I am, and I am a simple midgardian with no powers." Her eyes don't stray from the screen her fingers flinting to and fro of the keyboard, though it stills instantly as Loki places his hand on top of hers.
"Rachel." She looks at him, his voice soft, his eyes were as well, and a soft smile plays on his lips, "From what I know, you fell off of the edge of Asgard and floated through space, which means it would take eons for you to get to Midgard."
"And my aging?" She questions quickly, and the smile on Loki's face gets a bit wider.
"Your body must have frozen itself to keep you safe, after all there is no oxygen in space, Rachel. I want to see something, may I?" Rachel nods, still looking at Loki's eyes, seeing a very soft emerald green. Loki takes both of Rachel's hands in his own and turns her to face him completely, and slowly lets his Frost Giant side take over, the blue quickly spreads over his body and once it reaches his hand, it pauses for a moment before going up and over Rachel's hands and arms. Not that she noticed, her focus and attention was on Loki's red eyes, though he wouldn't look at her, she hadn't even noticed her own changing, or the fact that her eyes had also changed to red.
"Loki." She breathes, and lets go of one of his hands, she reaches up and goes to cup his face, but stops when he flinches and looks away from her.
"Hideous aren't I? On Asgard stories upon stories make Frost Giants the enemy, and to find out I am the greatest enemy ever." Loki shakes his head and closes his eyes, only to pop open as Rachel places both her hands on his face.
"If you are hideous, wouldn't that make me hideous as well?" Rachel looks at Loki sadly, he stares at her in surprise, both of them slowly returning to their normal colors.
"I-" Loki opens and closes his mouth trying to find the right words, and Rachel smiles at him shaking her head.
"Stay here." Rachel says, though she doesn't move from her chair. Loki looks at her in confusion, and she laughs.
"I mean, since you are here on Midgard, and I have a feeling that you won't be able to return to Asgard anytime soon, stay here, as stay in the house, with Tony and I. Well, me more like it. I think I'll tell Tony he can build his tower alone, or we could go to Britain, I have to check on my side of the corporation too. But, please. I want to know more about my twin," She laughs a little at the word, "And about the nine realms. And maybe I can show you a bit of Midgard and our schools and structures here. There are a lot of school on Midgard, and I've been trying to go to as many as possible. I love learning." She smiles and stands pulling Loki up with her. "Come with me, if you are anything like me, you'll be sleeping in this room too." Loki looks at her confused, but smiling brightly as she pulls him from the room. He chuckled and drags his feet a little to frustrate her. "Loki! Come on!" She pulls him harder and down the hall before stopping him and turning to the door and quickly thrusting the doors open and stepping to the side and waves him in. Loki looks in, and slowly looks around his jaw dropping in amazement, it was an extremely tall room, every inch of it was covered in book cases filled to the brim with books.
"This is-" Loki looks back to a beaming Rachel.
"Amazing right? Yeah, I usually spend most my time in here while Tony goes out and parties. Most of these books are educational, but the smaller book case under the window is fiction. Mythology is off to your left, science to your right, languages above the door, left of my desk is math, though hardly touched. On the right of the window is mechanics, the left is medicine. On the right of my desk is art, of all kinds. I want a book case for every subject in the world, and now that I know there are other worlds, I want a book case for those too." Rachel walks in, her walk is now relaxed and calm, a small smile plays on her lips, and she looks completely at home.
"You wish to learn about the other worlds?" Loki asks in amazement, watching Rachel's instant changes.
"Of course, knowledge is power, the more knowledge you have of, well everything, the better chances are you can take anything on. It's not always brawn, something Tony doesn't understand. His suit is so clunky and hard to maneuver in." She shakes her head. "Mine is not only thinner, but lighter and more flexible, and fit to me." She shrugs, "But Tony thinks if he can out power everything, then his brilliant mind doesn't need to do much work." Loki chuckles and walks up next to her.
"Seems like our lives were slightly similar."