"Rachel are you done yet?" The sound of a male's voice filters through Rachel Stark's office causing her to look up to the door, from her work. She smiled and waved the man in, he was just as tall as her, but he was wearing black dress slacks, a rather nice emerald green button up shirt, proper black loafers and a emerald and silver scarf.
"Just a little bit longer Loki, I promise, I'm almost finished, I just have to figure something different for my branch of the company to do now that we no longer produce weapons. I was thinking maybe furthering the science of the Arc Reactor, or maybe medicine. Something helpful to the world." Rachel said looking back down to her work from her now midgardian looking Demigod of a twin brother.
"Why not open schools? Teach the next generations as well as both the Arc Reactor and medicine?" Loki asks perching himself on the edge of her desk, it'd had been a few weeks since Loki and Rachel met, the two of them going to England so Rachel could work on her company, though in returning so had Rachel's accent, and now Loki and Rachel sounded just as much like twins as they looked.
"Hmm, I just might, I just don't bloody know how! I swear if I told Tony that I was going to work on the Arc Reactor he'd have my head!" Rachel leans back in her chair and throws her hands up, "And not only that but since Tony has made Pepper CEO I have also been working things out for the American branch, not that I don't trust Pepper and all, but I don't trust Pepper with Fath-Howard's company." She sighs after stumbling on her adopted Father's name closing her eyes and rubbing her forehead. Loki chuckles lightly and places a hand on Rachel's shoulder.
"It is ok to call him Father, after all you love him and he did raise you." Loki smiles at Rachel who looked up at him with a small smile.
"Not really, actually Tony and I had Nannies, and when we were with Father, Tony and I would get scolded for playing with things we shouldn't have. After his death when I was 10, Tony took over raising me, and as he didn't take over the company until after he was out of his second school, but by then I was already working on my first colleges." Loki chuckles at Rachel, "What?" She asks looking at him slightly irritated.
"The two of us, finding joy in our books and learning." Rachel send Loki a wry smile and looks at the paperwork on her desk.
"Let's have a break. I need out of this stuffy office, shall we go get tea then?" Rachel asks looking back up at Loki as she stands.
"We shall, come Sister mine, show me your favorite teahouse." Loki says helping Rachel into her jacket then taking her hand and placing it in the crook of his arm. Rachel smiles as the two walk out of the office that was Rachel's most current area.
~~*Time Skip 2 months*~~
"Loki?" Rachel calls from the end of a hallway in her England home, well mansion more like it. "Jarvis, have you seen Loki?" Rachel asks looking up at the ceiling where she had multiple speakers set up for Jarvis to speak through.
"Yes ma'am, he is in the library, though I must tell you, he has been speaking to himself more often. And his night terrors are getting worse." Jarvis' automated voice sounds, his British accent blending perfectly with Rachel's. She frowned and thought for a moment, since the time that she had met Loki it seems as though his mental health had been depleting, and it worried her, she wasn't sure how to help, though the two were quite alike, he had grown up as a Prince, and was use to certain standards, plus she wasn't sure how alike human minds were to frost giants. She walked to the library peaking in seeing Loki curled up in her favorite chair with a mythology book in his lap, though he was payin it no mind.
"Yes I know you helped me!" He growled, "I have not had much time with her, before I do any favor for you, I wish to know her more." He stopped talking almost listening to someone talk, Rachel took this time to look over her twin, noticing his eyes weren't their usual green, which looked exactly like hers, but instead this brilliant blue that looked a mix between ice and sky blue.
"What do you mean?" Loki's voice brought Rachel from her discovery, "You want me to use to this tesseract for what?! What of my sister!" Loki hissed, and stopped listening, before his blue eyes cut straight to her, frightening a gasp from her lips, her eyes widening, and almost instantly his eyes return to that emerald green she had grown use to from her brother.
"What are you doing Rachel?" He asked, his voice a bit hard, though he looked as though he was trying to make a joke.
"Nothing, wondering what my dear twin was up to." Rachel quickly lets her acting school time come forth in her mind as she smiled easily and enter the library walking over to Loki and sitting on his lap letting her legs hang over one of the arms. Loki's arms instantly wrapped around her, it wasn't the first time that they had sat like this, he was use to it from her now, knowing that she was a touchy-feely person and liked having the contact with someone she was close to, and also feeling rather happy that he could hug his sister like this, knowing only one other person got to touch Rachel, and that was her adopted brother Tony. Rachel looked at Loki's eyes taking in the spots of where the blue was, her eyebrows furrowing at this, she found it odd, and worrying. Loki brings a finger between her eyebrows and sooths the area and a smirk.
"Well I was reading until my dear twin decided to sit on my lap, and you must be thinking of something hard, don't furrow your eyebrows though, you'll gain wrinkles." He chuckled as Rachel's hand instantly goes to her forehead.
"I do not have wrinkles!" She pouts and looks away from him, still thinking about the blue in his emerald eyes.
"Have I said you did? I said you will gain." Loki said poking her side with a sarcastic smirk, one that Rachel was well acquainted with, she returned the smirk with one of her own, almost identical.
"Oh ha! Smart arse." Rachel squirmed a little as Loki tickled her sides before she hit his hands. Rachel lets her hair fall in front of her eyes so she could look at her brother from under the fringe. "Loki?" She said in a small voice.
"Hm?" He said his attention on his twin, his own eyebrows furrowing and his head cocking to the left a little as he tried to get a good look at his sister's emerald eyes.
"Promise me something?" She said in the same small voice, sending small glances at Loki, who frowned a little and pulled her chin up so he could look at her eyes properly.
"Anything for my little twin sister." He tried to smile a little, expecting her normal reactions of being called the little sister, though they didn't know who was born first, his frown depending when she didn't react, instead her eyes looked away from him. "What is it Rachel?"
"Don't change, be you, ok?" Rachel raised her eyes, mainly looking at Loki through her eyelashes, Loki looked confused a moment.
"I haven't changed, and I don't plan on changing." Loki said, still confused, though smiled as Rachel's face lit up a little. She nodded and got off of his lap stretching a little.
"I have to go to New York to talk to Tony, want to come with me?" Rachel says looking down at Loki as she places her hands on her hips. Loki shakes his head watching his sister, as he unknowingly lets the blue spread through his emerald eyes, which Rachel doesn't really notice this time. "Alright, I'll be back in three days, Tony wishes to talk about his tower, which he is wanting to make it self sustaining, using an arc reactor." Rachel rolls her eyes and waves her hand in the air as if she were waving something away. Loki nods and forces a small smile.
"Alright, I will be here once you get back." Rachel smiles leans down and places a kiss on Loki's cheek.
"I promise not to be gone more than those three days." Loki nods and places a kiss on Rachel's cheek before she stood up straight and walked to the door.
"Rachel." Loki calls as Rachel reaches the door, she stops and turns towards him, questioning him with her expression, he smiles at her, "Love you." She lights up like Christmas before running back over to him and tackle hugs him, causing him to chuckle.
"I love you too Loki, I'm so glad to have met you, to be your sister." She hugs him tightly as he wraps his arms around her and holds her tight. Loki smiles and tries to swallow the lump in his throat.
"As am I, Twin Dearest. Now go, I am sure Tony is waiting impatiently for you." Rachel laughs at this, hugging Loki tighter for a moment before walking away.
~~*Time skip 1 ½ days LOKI'S POV*~~
"I CARE NOT! I SHALL NOT BETRAY HER!" Loki paced around the library, it was only a day and a half after Rachel had left, his eyes blazed blue as he talked to Thanos, after Rachel's departure Thanos had been talking to Loki nonstop.
"You gave me your word 'Prince who shall never be King'. I can give you that, you and your sister will never have to hurt the way you have been. Never again in the shadow of anyone, she runs to 'Tony' who is not even her brother, she talks constantly about him. You have never once stepped from anyone's shadow, from Thor's to Tony's. Don't you want her affections for yourself only? Help me get my tesseract and you can have Midgard, and it will impress your sister, she will not leave you anymore, not like she has now." Thanos' dark voice drifted around in Loki's skull, placing that seed of doubt about his sister's love.
"My sister is important in Midgard, as is this Tony. They run this company from Howard Stark, he gave it to them. She must see him, even if they are not siblings, Tony is important to her." Loki battled with Thanos about Rachel, even though his arguments were getting weaker and weaker.
"Why is she not here then? To leave you in this house, locking you away from the light." Thanos' chuckle sounds in Loki's head, as Loki's once green eyes are covered in the blue.
"Taking over Midgard will keep her here, next to me?" Loki asks, his hands curling into fists, his nails digging into his palms.
"You could make her your Queen and never again will she ever leave you, you would have your sister and your family. All you ever needed, and a bonus would be you would rule Midgard, finally stepping out of Thor's shadow." Thanos said, a malicious grin sounding in his voice, he knew he had won Loki.
"What do I do?"
"I am Loki, of Asgard. And I am burdened with Glorious Purpose."
