While Maisy fretted over what to bring with her to Midgard, Loki snuck off to talk with Thor. He hated the frequency with which he was speaking to his brother these days, but it was somewhat comforting for things to be almost the way they used to be. It wasn't that he'd ever hated Thor, he just resented him and the favoritism Odin showed him.
It was also incredibly annoying that his brother could invade Jotunheim, go to Midgard for a weekend, meet a woman and her quirky sidekicks, and come home with all of his flaws fixed enough to appease Odin. Whereas, Loki tried to conquer one measly planet with much more finesse and strategy and he was hated for life. Of course, it made sense since he wasn't actually Odin's son and he really hadn't done that much to change his ways, but Thor was the rightful prince and had mended his prideful ways enough that he would be an even better king than Odin. Too bad Loki was still thinking of ways to usurp him.
But that was a subject for another day. At the moment he needed to ask Thor if he could take a brief detour on the way to Midgard. He had business to attend to in another realm and he was fairly certain Odin wouldn't let him go. Thor was close with Heimdall, however, and might be able to convince the Gatekeeper to send Loki where he needed.
Thor was already on his way to pick up Loki and Maisy to walk with them to the Bifrost so the brothers almost collided in the hall. The elder prince was grinning widely and wearing a ridiculous Midgardian sweater with a deer on it and with real bells attached.
"Good morning, brother! Almost ready for your journey?"
"Yes," Loki nodded, "Just waiting for Maisy to finish some last minute packing."
"It looks as if you have something on your mind," Thor commented.
"Thor, has Sif told you any of what Maisy told her about her time in Muspelheim?"
"Some of it, why?"
"Evidently those cuffs you removed from her wrists were used to keep her chained to various pieces of furniture in Egil's lair. Whenever she misbehaved he snapped his fingers and the cuffs would connect to chains," Loki clenched his fists just thinking of it.
"Every word I hear about Egil makes me loathe him more," Thor growled, "It makes me furious that we were not allowed to punish him here and we had to leave it up to Surtur."
"I am glad you are in agreement with me. So here is the plan-"
"Plan?"
"To get revenge of course."
"On Egil?"
"No, on Sif - of course on Egil you oaf."
"We can't do anything about Egil, he's in Muspelheim."
"Can't we?"
"I'm listening."
A note from the author: I'll post another chapter a few hours after I post this one, so I'm not apologizing for its shortness.
It would appear that the way my schedule goes now, that Thursday is a good day for me to post things. Of course, now that I've come to that realization, my boss will probably change my hours and we'll have to figure something else out. But for now, I'm sticking to Thursdays. We'll see how that goes. Thank you for being patient with me!
Thanks so much for reading/following/favoriting! It means a lot to me that people enjoy this story and these characters enough to continue reading about their adventures. :)
Special thanks to the reviewers:
Ninja Squirrel: Aw shucks! You're too kind, seriously. I too enjoy how flawed Marvel makes their characters and I'm glad I'm doing a decent job of portraying that! Hopefully, I will continue to do so. :) Thank you for the well wishes, btw, it is much appreciated and I wish the same to you.
CheetahLover: Loki might like the help of your wolves in the next chapter... just a thought. ;)
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ferbette: Because I said so. XD
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Fair warning, the next chapter is going to be epic. You're going to love it. Hopefully. Let's just say it is somewhat satisfying. *evil smile*