Hullo guys! So I was supposed to update last weekend and then I got busy and I didn't and then I was supposed to update on Friday but I had a thing with some friends and got home late and so yeah, so extra long chapter for you!

This chapter marks the end of our second Asgardian Act. So I hope you guys enjoy it!

As always I love reading your reviews and love answering them but I'm a little pressed with time right now and I'm sure you all would like to have the chapter regardless of me answering your reviews, so here it is.

Much love, Alex

Next day, Alexandra and Thor walked into the throne room looking very well rested. Alexandra wearing a blue dress, while Thor was wearing his light armor, Stormbreaker attached to his hip. Frigga was standing next to the Throne talking to Loki, they both turned to Alexandra and Thor with smiles.

"Mother," Thor said hugging his mother, then Frigga moved to hug Alexandra.

"I apologize for the haste in which we left," Alexandra said once she let go of Frigga, the All-Mother smiled.

"It is no problem, Loki told me all that happened, I'm sure we can enjoy the next few days," Frigga said, Alexandra nodded.

"I'm sure we can, we have destroyed two stones, we deserve some tranquility, how has been Asgard, mother?" Alexandra asked, Frigga's smile grew as Alexandra called her mother.

Alexandra spent the rest of the day with Frigga in the gardens eating cookies and talking about everything and nothing at all.

"I have noticed that you and Thor are closer now," Frigga said, Alexandra blushed, a smile on her face.

"We are, I, he's amazing," she said shyly, Frigga smiled at her, "I mean, since I met him I knew he was great and he's been a really good friend, but I slowly started to like him more and more until I fell in love with him," Frigga held Alexandra's hands in hers.

"I'm overjoyed to hear that," Frigga said, Alexandra smiled. "You and Thor deserve to be happy,"

"We are, I couldn't have asked for a better friend or husband, granted, the way we came to be was not the best, but we have made the best out of it."

"And that all I, as a mother, could have asked," Frigga said before pulling Alexandra into a hug.

The next few days in Asgard were great, Alexandra cemented her friendship with Wanda, Pietro and Brunnhilde, they also managed to send a message to the Guardians of the Galaxy, telling them cryptically to keep Nebula with them and to visit Asgard whenever they could. Since Alexandra and Thor were King and Queen of Asgard in name only as Frigga was the one actually doing the ruling of the golden realm they spent most of their time having dates in several places of Asgard or visiting the dwarves that they had living in Asgard's old stronghold.

"Thor, where are we going now?" Alexandra asked the Thunderer as he led her through Asgardian foliage, she was wearing black leather pants, a tunic and boots, while Thor was wearing his lighter armor.

"You'll see," he said looking back at her with a smile.

"You said that like twenty minutes ago, are we lost in this forest?" she asked minding the ground, Thor laughed.

"No Alexandra, we are not lost," he said as he helped over the trunk of a tree that probably had fallen millennia ago.

"You never told me that you were taking me trekking through the woods of Asgard," she accused him, and he grinned.

"I told you to dress comfortably," he reminded her, she rolled her eyes.

"It's not the same, you dress comfortably for a Pizza date, not a hike," she complained.

"If I do recall the first place we visited in Midgard was the Central Park, it had a lot of trees," he said, Alexandra huffed.

"Also it had streets," she said and crashed into Thor's back as he stopped suddenly, she could hear water nearby.

Thor looked at her and offered his hand, she looked at him warily but took it and walked through a few bushes to find herself in a small clearing that had a pond were a small river ran by, many Asgardian flowers were around, the place looked as it had been taken out of a fantasy drawing, Alexandra looked at Thor with a smile.

"This place is beautiful," she said; Thor grinned.

"I told you," he said as he set down the basket he had been carrying, "I thought we could have a picnic, just the two of us."

"You should have said that first," she said pulling him down for a quick kiss.

"Didn't want to ruin the surprise," he said before he kissed her again.

Thor quickly set down a blanket on the floor and placed the basket on it, Alexandra for her part went to stand by the pond, the water was so clear that she could see the bottom, said bottom was filled with glittery rocks, it was a magical experience. Alexandra sat by the pond and took off her boots dipping her feet in the water, it was neither cold nor hot.

"You should have told me to bring a bathing suit," she told Thor, he smirked at her.

"Why would you need one?" he asked removing the upper part of his armor, Alexandra noticed that he had kicked off his shoes.

"I'm not getting in naked, what if someone comes by?" she asked and Thor laughed.

"No one is going to find this place, I had Loki cloak it yesterday," Thor said matter of factly, Alexandra couldn't fight the urge to blush.

Thor walked to her, only wearing his leather breeches, "So what's this, your personal nudist paradise?" she asked.

"Not really," Thor said nuzzling her neck with his beard, hugging her from behind.

Alexandra shivered in Thor's arms and he pressed a kiss to her neck, smiling as he did so, his hands traveled to the edge of her tunic and he began pulling it up slowly caressing Alexandra's stomach as he did so.

"I don't understand why midgardians are so ashamed of their bodies," Thor said as he removed Alexandra's tunic.

"I am not ashamed of my body," she said her voice wavering as she blushed completely as Thor's hand caressed her body, "We just don't get naked in public spaces, most of us that is."

"This is not a public space, Alexandra," Thor whispered into her ear as his hands traveled to the waistband of her pants.

"Outdoors count as public spaces," she said but her resolve was wavering as Thor kept pressing kisses to her neck.

She allowed him to remove her pants and stood in her matching black underwear in front of him. She smirked at him before dashing towards the water, her laughter resounding in the clearing. Thor stood confused for a moment before giving her chase.

"This is nice," Alexandra said hours later wrapped in Thor's cape as they watched the stars above them. Thor smiled at her and pressed a kiss to her bare shoulder.

"It is," he said.

"Once this is over we'll have to go on vacation, a real one, maybe Hawaii or Bali, maybe even Australia, I'm sure you'd enjoy surfing," she said, Thor nodded.

"Surfing is that thing the midgardians do with the waves, like the ones we saw at the Malibu place?" he asked, Alexandra nodded, "Have you surfed before?"

"A lifetime ago," she said with a sad smile on her face, Thor frowned.

"Surely not that long," he said and she laughed.

"It's an expression, it means that it has been too long," she said looking at him, Thor nodded and pulled her into a hug.

"Then we'll surf in this vacations you speak of," he promised.

They stayed in the clearing until very late, making love under the Asgardian night sky.

Alexandra woke up on her bed with Thor wrapped around her, his cape covering her body, she looked at his face to find blue eyes peering at her, she smiled at Thor, basking in the peaceful moment that they were having.

"Do we have anything planned for today?" she asked, Thor shrugged.

"Not that I am aware of," he answered pressing a kiss to her forehead, then one to her nose and then finally her mouth.

Alexandra smiled into the kiss pouring everything she felt for Thor into it. There was a knock on the door that made them break the kiss, Alexandra looked at Thor confused, he shrugged before standing, grabbing a pair of pants from the nearest chair and sliding them on before moving to open the door. Alexandra held the cape tighter around her body.

"Loki?" asked Thor, and Alexandra couldn't help but to frown.

"Ah, you are half dressed, good, brother, we have visitors, the team that goes by the name of Guardians of the Galaxy is here, mother is with them in the throne room, a really interesting group, a tree, a talking mammal, a half-earthling and two other weird species, oh and two daughters of Thanos, not one, two," Loki was saying sounding really exasperated.

Alexandra felt dread pooling in her stomach, she had forgotten that Loki had been tortured by Thanos, well not forgotten that part exactly, but the part that Gamora and Nebula were probably there when Loki was being tortured.

"Alexandra and I will be ready in a moment, if two daughters of Thanos are here then it probably means something good, Alexandra wouldn't have invited them to our realm if that wasn't so," Thor reasoned with Loki who gave him a dry look.

"Let us hope so Thor, because if not we're in trouble," Loki said before leaving, Thor walked back into the bedroom and eyed Alexandra who was sitting on the bed.

"Gamora and Nebula will not be a problem," she said softly, Thor raised an eyebrow at her.

"You were listening," he said, she smiled.

"You and Loki were awfully loud, I will apologize to him, I forgot that Gamora and Nebula were daughters of that monster, they are good now," she explained, Thor nodded.

A while later Alexandra and Thor made their way to the Throne Room, Frigga was there, standing next to the Throne, Loki to her side, eyeing the Guardians with distrust. Alexandra's gaze found his and she mouthed him a 'sorry', Loki's lip quirked upwards and he nodded. Thor looked at her and nodded. Alexandra cleared her throat and addressed their visitors.

"Welcome to Asgard," she said with a small smile, "Thank you for listening to our message, I apologize for the vagueness of it,"

"You're not Asgardian," Nebula pointed out, Alexandra nodded.

"I am not, I'm from Earth, Terra, Midgard, whatever you feel comfortable calling it," she said softly.

"What is a terran doing is Asgard?" asked Gamora, Alexandra smile.

"Saving the universe, enjoying the view,"

"She is also our Queen," said Thor, that confused the Guardians.

"I thought the Queen was the Angel," said Drax, Alexandra grinned.

"She is the Queen Mother, I am King and Alexandra is my wife and Queen," Thor explained, the Guardians nodded.

"You are Thor, son of Odin," said Gamora, Thor nodded.

"I am, you are here in Asgard because Alexandra believes that you can help us defeat Thanos," he said, Alexandra saw Loki stiffen at the mention of that name in front of Gamora and Nebula.

"We should be able to help each other," Gamora said slowly, looking between her team and the Asgardian royals, the she looked at Alexandra, "Is this why you wanted to see Nebula?"

"Part of it, I'm sort of a seer, I have seen one possible future outcome for Thanos' plan, it doesn't end pretty for any of us, and you and your sister are key points of it, the love you have for each other is your greatest weakness should Thanos attempt to use against any of you," Alexandra explained and both daughters of Thanos exchanged glances.

"And what is your plan?" asked Rocket, Alexandra smiled at the raccoon.

"Funny that you ask, Rocket, 'cause I was just getting there," she said walking down the staircase and standing right in front of the Guardians. "We are destroying the infinity stones, the mind stone and the power stone have been destroyed,"

"And Stark is working on a machine to destroy the tesseract," said Thor going to stand next to her.

"Stark? I've heard that name," said Quill, Alexandra smirked.

"My dad, you're from Earth, Peter Quill, yes, you were taken quite young, but you probably heard of Stark Industries in your youth, didn't you?" she asked.

"Ah, yes, I think so, weapons and such? Big in World War Two and Captain America, guy named Howard Stark, wasn't he?" asked Quill, Alexandra smiled and nodded.

"Howard was my grandfather, Tony Stark, my dad, he's a genius, he flew through a portal a couple of years ago and nuked one of Thanos' ship," she said, Gamora and Nebula's eyes lightened up.

"I remember that," said Nebula with a smile.

"Good, Dad will be happy that his efforts were not missed, now, why don't you all get comfortable and meet us for breakfast?" Alexandra asked looking at Thor.

"We might be just in time for lunch, or that brunch thing that you and Lady Pepper like to do," Thor said, Alexandra smiled at him and nodded.

Thor then motioned for some guards to lead the Guardians to the Guest wing, leaving the royals alone in the Throne room.

"I'm sorry about Gamora and Nebula," Alexandra told Loki as soon as the Guardians were not within earshot of the Throne Room, "I should have known better."

"Think nothing of it, they will help us, will they not?" he asked, Alexandra nodded, "Then they are allies,"

"Although, I wish to know," said Frigga going to stand next to Loki, who had descended the staircase of the throne, "What makes the two daughters of Thanos so important."

"Gamora is Thanos' key to the soul stone, she's his favorite daughter and in his own wicked way he loves her, also she's the only person, apart from me, who knows the way to it," she said softly.

"Then why haven't we retrieved it?" asked Thor, Alexandra looked at him.

"It is safe and protected where it is, besides, the price to obtain it, it's too much for any of us to obtain, unless you'd be okay with throwing the person you love the most in the universe over a cliff," she deadpanned, the three Asgardians looked a little bit sick at the confession.

"And what part does Nebula play in it?" asked Loki, Alexandra smiled sadly.

"Thanos believes that Gamora couldn't find the map to the soul stone, but she did, she burned it, if Thanos were to capture Nebula he would know what Gamora did, and then he would torture Nebula and Gamora would tell him, if only to save her sister," she explained.

"And this future, you have seen him win?" asked Frigga, Alexandra nodded.

"I saw him torture Thor with the power stone until Loki surrendered the tesseract, I saw then, Thor chained to the ground while he choked the life out of Loki, half of Asgard dead, I've seen Thor cry over Loki's corpse only to be blasted from a half destroyed ship," tears were pooling in her eyes as she spoke, "I've seen Thor take the full force of a star and burn from the sheer power of it, and my dad go toe to toe with Thanos, lose and then try to do it all again and die while saving the universe, but that future can't happen anymore, it can't, it won't, not while I live," she said as she brushed her tears away, her voice sharp.

"It won't happen, my dear," said Frigga pulling Alexandra into a hug. The Queen Mother of Asgard looked at her two sons and the daughter in law she was cradling in her arms, "That monster will not destroy our family."

Thor watched Alexandra as they waited for the small lunch feast to be ready, he could understand her previous outburst a little better. He wondered briefly how would it feel to hold all that knowledge, all the things she saw, he looked at Loki and tried to think of a life without his brother and he couldn't, the pain of losing Loki would be too much, losing his mother or Alexandra, it would be a literal hell.

Thor held Alexandra's hand and smiled at her when she looked up at him confused, he pressed a kiss to her forehead and she smiled.

"I love you," he whispered loud enough so only she could hear, the grin she gave him was enough to make his stomach jump as if he was no more than a kid.

"I love you too," she answered and got on her tip toes to press a kiss to his jaw, Thor smiled, whenever she was in Asgard she couldn't wear those high midgardian shoes that she favored, so she was quite short compared to him and Thor loved it.

"We are ready for you, your majesty," said a guard opening one of the doors, Thor nodded and then both doors were opened for him and Alexandra.

Loki and his mother were already at the table, as were all the Guardians. Thor led Alexandra to their seats and held her seat for her. Thor looked at the team in front of him, the talking rabbit, Rocket, was an interesting creature as was the teenage Tree. And the one called Drax was amusing. Mantis was different, and when Thor saw Alexandra interact with the strange bug lady, he realized that Mantis was just innocent and perhaps a bit naïve. The daughters of Thanos were cautious of them, and even more cautious of Alexandra and he supposed that it was okay, after all Alexandra's knowledge was dangerous.

Now, Peter Quill was one that caught Thor's attention, Alexandra had mentioned midgardian music and Quill had been enchanted by his wife. Not that Thor was jealous, he was Thor after all, but seeing Alexandra so at ease with the man was baffling.

"Footloose is the best movie ever," Quill declared, making Alexandra laugh, Thor stopped himself from gritting his teeth.

"It never was, but then again, you got taken away at a very young age, but Star Wars was already out by then," Alexandra said and Quill made a face, "Hey you do have a Han Solo vibe."

"Well chicks used to find him handsome," he said and Alexandra rolled her eyes at Quill, then he squinted his eyes at Alexandra, "But you look too young to be a Star Wars fan."

"I am not… well kind of, my generation will see the revival of it, the newest movie its coming out in December and Thor and I will go to the premier," she declared and smiled at Thor who nodded.

Thor knew about the Star Wars as Alexandra had made him marathon all the movies with her, and the Harry Potter movies, and The Lord of the Rings trilogy, so if another movie came out, who was Thor to deny his Queen the enjoyment of it.

"You're such a nerd," Quill said and Thor tensed briefly, but Alexandra laughed it off.

"And proud," she said with a smirk. Thor tuned out Alexandra's conversation with Quill and turned his attention to Loki, Gamora and Nebula, he adverted his Mother's eyes as she was sporting that knowing smile that he didn't like much.

After lunch, Alexandra explained what they had done to the Guardians and invited them to Earth, then she spoke to Gamora and the two left, leaving Thor and Loki to play hosts to the rest of the Guardians.

Alexandra guided Gamora to her favorite garden of the palace and the two sat on a small bench that Frigga kept there.

"I'm sorry," Alexandra said, and Gamora looked at her confused, "I… well, even though you hate Thanos, he was your father and even if you want to kill him, it may be painful to you, so I'm sorry for that."

"You have seen it?" Gamora asked softly, Alexandra frowned.

"Part of it, he tricked you, all of you with the reality stone, he won't get it, but in the vision I saw, he tricked you into believing that you had killed him, and you did, but you felt really bad about it, then he took you into his ship, leaving Quill, Mantis and Drax behind in Knowhere, he had Nebula and tortured her so you would give him the information he needed," Alexandra said, then turned to look at Gamora, "Then he took you to Vormir, where he exchanged your soul for the soul stone," Gamora tensed next to Alexandra, "They don't know, where it is."

"What?"

"Thor and Loki, they don't know where the soul stone is, they know that you know, and that Thanos could exchange you for it, but they don't know the exact place, just you and I do," Alexandra said softly.

"Thank you," Gamora said, Alexandra nodded.

"Knowledge is my burden to bear, that specific kind of knowledge gets people killed, I wouldn't put Loki and Thor in danger with it, just as you wouldn't put your family in danger either."

"As long as Thanos don't get his hands in either of us, the Universe will be fine," Gamora said.

"It should be, but I'm not going to take any risks, he will be dealt with, I won't ask you to personally kill him, but I will ask you to help me," Alexandra looked at Gamora, wide brown eyes pleading for help. Gamora's lips thinned but she nodded.

"I will, we will help you," she promised.

"Thank you."

The next few days in the Asgardian Royal Household were for defense planning, they needed to be ready if Thanos decided to attack Asgard, although Heimdall assured them that Thanos was in the void not yet moving in any particular direction. But Alexandra reminded them about the Dwarves and that she had killed Ebony Maw. Then the Guardians had accepted to go to Earth with Thor and Alexandra, Quill had to be convinced that the Milano could stay safely in Asgard and when the time to return to Earth arrived, the party of Earth goers was slightly bigger than anticipated.

"I trust you will find a way to destroy this, brother," said Loki as he handed the tesseract to Thor, Thor nodded.

"Stark will have something for us," Thor promised, Loki smiled.

"I'm glad that you have found happiness with the Starkling," Loki said, Thor nodded, a smile on his face.

"It seemed impossible once, but she's a truly marvelous woman."

"She is, and she has a long way to go yet, I'm sure once you return to finally settle here she will make an even finer woman," Loki looked at his brother.

"Thanos will not hurt you or her," Thor promised, Loki smirked.

"I know, stay safe you big oaf," Loki said, Thor smiled and pulled the dark haired god into a hug.

"You too, keep mother safe," Thor said into Loki's hair.

"With my life."

"Pietro stop jumping," Wanda complained as she and Pietro waited in the observatory for the rest of the group, her brother looked at her, a grin on his face.

"We're returning to earth, I mean, Asgard is fine," he said sneaking a glance at Heimdall, "But I miss coffee."

Wanda rolled her eyes at Pietro and looked at the stars around them, she was also excited to return, and even if she and Pietro wouldn't be going to Sokovia, she missed earth. She heard people and looked to the doorway to see the Guardians enter the observatory; Queen Alexandra had introduced them to her and Pietro and they were a nice group of people, even Quill, who was a little obnoxious, he and Pietro got along splendidly.

The Guardians were being led by Prince Loki and Brunnhilde, the latter was sporting a white and blue armor, and Wanda remembered that Brunnhilde was an ancient warrior, a Valkyrie, and that was probably her usual garb.

"We are just waiting for Thor and Alexandra," Prince Loki informed them and Wanda couldn't help but to smile.

Despite Alexandra being a Stark, Wanda quite liked the younger woman, Queen Alexandra had fire and Wanda could appreciate that quality. Also Queen Alexandra's words were true, Wanda and Pietro had hated a name, a person that had nothing to do with their parents' death and Queen Alexandra had given them a chance to redeem themselves, to let go of their hatred and then had given their powers a purpose.

Wanda knew of Thanos, Queen Alexandra had told her and Pietro of the mad man, and then Gamora and Nebula had shared their own stories. Wanda was decided, she would fight, she would fight for the good side. Asgard had helped her and Pietro train their powers, Queen Frigga and Prince Loki had been a blessing for her as they had helped her with her abilities, true, their Seidr was different than her powers but they had helped her control her powers.

Wanda saw as Prince Loki huffed in annoyance and hid a smile. She looked up to King Thor's relationship with Queen Alexandra just yet, even if they were somewhat friends and Queen Alexandra sought her out whenever she was not with King Thor, Wanda just didn't feel comfortable enough asking. Although she knew that for Queen Alexandra to marry King Thor, they must have really loved one another.

Alexandra was finishing packing the things she was taking back to earth.

"Thor?" she asked, and Thor stuck his head out of the bathroom, "Is there anything that you want to take with you?"

"Did you take the picture of Mother and Loki with your phone?" he asked, Alexandra smiled and nodded.

"There are several pictures actually, you can later decide which one we will print out, by the way, speaking about pictures, I want a portrait of us done, Mother, Dad, Pepper, Loki, you and I, so we can put it up in the living room," she said, Thor nodded.

"I'll make sure to tell Mother and Loki, they will surely go to our wedding, I'm sure Stark can arrange something," he said, and Alexandra smiled.

She hadn't thought about her upcoming wedding, she was trusting Pepper with the details, but she would tell Pepper of the family portrait she wanted. She zipped up her bag and smiled, all done. She was thankful of her armor and the fact that if she was wearing her armor she didn't need to wear a dress. She examined her reflection in her mirror. Her armor now had the addition of Thor's old cape, styled how he had used it in Sakaar so it didn't bother her when she walked. She grabbed her lightsaber, putting it in its holster.

"Thor, I'm ready," she said, Thor took that moment to walk out of the bathroom, she grinned when she noticed that he was trying to style his hair.

He pulled her into a kiss, before he moved to grab her bags. They walked to Friggas' rooms to say their goodbyes, and to promise that they would stay out of trouble. Thor then grabbed Stormbreaker and Alexandra and flew them to the observatory where everyone was waiting for them.