So I am really, really happy with this chapter. I had fun writing it, even if there was parts that wasn't fun. But yeah still liked to write it. And I try to make things move along with Loki, but I don't want things to happen to fast. It has only been three days after all so sorry if you guys think it moves to slowly.
And yes in the original story, aka the mythology, that's not what happens to the kids, but well change some parts, and I am bound to change some more things.
I also want to thank you the new followers and for the reviews I got. I love to get them very much :D
Think that's everything, so enjoy the chapter :)
Thor landed in Asgard, and even if it only had been three days since he left, it felt like forever. With all the information he had got, he couldn't see the place in the same way anymore.
"My prince," Heimdall turned towards him. "Welcome home."
"Thank you," Thor said. "Has my returned home?"
"Not yet," Heimdall said and Thor nodded before he started walking towards his mother's chambers.
He was happy that his father wasn't here, because if he had been, Thor wasn't sure what he would do. He had started to see a side of Odin that he didn't thought existed, and he started to see all the hate Loki must have felt from their father all these years. For him to be so blind and not see it before, was a shock. For him to think that their life had been the same, it made him sick. He needed to fix this, he needed to be there for Loki now, and his kids, that was the least he could do.
Thor soon knocked on his mother's door and she opened for him.
"Thor?" She said surprised closing the door. "Has something happened to Loki?"
Thor heard her concern and he understood it.
"I, or rather me and Lady Cara, we received information that wasn't to our liking," Thor started, thinking that was the understatement of the millennium. Furthermore, he wasn't too happy to tell his mother what one of his friends did.
"Thor tell me what you know," Frigga begged him.
"Loki got attacked in the tower," Thor started, knowing that he dragged this out, not being brave enough to just say it. "Cara walked in on them, stopping what happened. I am unsure how long he had have his way with Loki before she did."
"Oh my baby boy," Frigga said and she could feel her eyes started to watering. How could someone do that to Loki? "Do you know who it was?"
Thor turned away from his mother and walked over to the window.
"Sadly, we do," Thor's voice was very low. "It was…Fandral."
Frigga was silent for a long time, not sure of how to grasp the situation. Thor meant to tell her that one of the boys that always had hang around him, that had played with both of her kids since young age, a boy that she had hold in her own arms did this. She almost felt her stomach turn on her.
"What…what did you do with him?"
"Cara mutilated him, and not in a nice way if you ask Natasha," Thor informed his mother, a bit unhappy by using such words around her.
"Good, if she hadn't I would have!" Frigga said and Thor looked at his mother first a bit taken, before he actually smiled.
"Cara asked me what we do with people who committed crimes like those of Fandral's?" Thor asked and his mother seemed to think.
"That I am not sure of. But I will look into it and see what I can find," Frigga told him and Thor nodded, knowing that it was all he could do. Thor then become quite, even more unsure how to continue. Besides Loki, Frigga may have been the only one to love Loki's kids, and he wasn't sure how she would take the news of them being used against her youngest.
"Thor? Is there something else you want to ask me?" Frigga said after a while and Thor nodded.
"Are you aware of where Loki's children are?" he asked and she looked at him.
"Why are you…" she started before she putted her hands over her mouth. "Don't tell me he used them against Loki?"
Thor didn't answer that since he couldn't.
"How could he? He knows how much Loki loves his kids!" She cried and then she suddenly cried more. "My poor darling, he don't know what happened."
"Mother what happened?" Thor asked in horror, knowing this would not be news of joy.
"I was questioning the sudden celebration, unaware of it's origin, not until much later, I was more unsure to why they had wondered out in the beginning, but when I understood I asked to see Loki to tell him, but Odin said he already had, promising that Loki would have permission to attend to their funeral. But I am sure he just used it against him," Frigga cried and Thor couldn't follow all that she had said, not at first, but then he understood what she must have meant.
"Which children?" He asked in horror.
"Fenrir and Jörmungandr. The warriors were honored." Frigga said. "You wasn't here; you were away trying to keep the peace in the realms. You father must have sent them out, masking at as the warriors own idea, and he knew that you would have stopped him if you where here. I knew that many of the warriors fell, but that did seem to have little meaning to Odin. Two of the children he feared the most was gone."
"How could father do that? Loki's children never hurt anyone!" Thor was furious, he didn't know how to handle this. He had never lost a child of his own, and even if he hadn't been close with his nephews, it was still a lost to him, and then he thought of how Loki must have felt.
"It must have destroyed Loki," Frigga said, feeling the pain her youngest must have felt.
"Mother, what happened to the other children, do you know?" Thor asked.
"I know that Odin can't touch Hel, throwing her into Hell, made her queen over the realm, and the realm of death have made her very powerful." She said, Hel was the only one Frigga was sure of. "I know that you father sold Sleipnir, to who I don't know. And what have happened to Narfi and Váli since they left, most likely thrown out by Odin, together with Sigyn, I do not know."
"He sold… he sold him?" Thor couldn't grasp what he heard. "I need to find him, and the twins!"
"I will help you with your search."
"I need to return shortly to earth to inform Cara about this before I return here," Thor told her and his mother nodded.
"I will be waiting," She said when Thor left her chambers.
Steve had founded Cara asleep at the table and had smiled, she must have been exhausted, guessing the news she got from Fandral really shook her up. He took a blanket from the common room and placed it over her before he went into the kitchen to get something to eat. He could give her the news later.
When Natasha and Clint stepped out of the elevator to get some food, Steve signed to the to be quite and the pointed towards Cara, and they nodded before Clint smiled a sinister smile. He started to sneak towards her, picking up a ridicules hat Tony had hanging on the wall, and he got closer with the hat in one hand, phone in the other, and a big smile on his face. The other two avengers just looked at him when he suddenly screamed, having got cold water all over him.
"Clint; I lived with the God of Mischiefs, you have to do better than that," she said without opening her eyes.
The other two laughed at him and Natasha walked closer and putted the hat on Clint's head and took a photo before he reacted.
"Natasha, delete it!".
"Not a chance. Sending this to our friends!" She said and pressed the send button on her phone.
"Natasha!" Clint and started to chase her.
"Sorry if we woke you up," Steve said to Cara, who just smiled.
"I am a light sleeper, helps you be prepared for what may happen. Normally it isn't stuff like that, but it helps with that too," she told him and looked at Clint who was pressed to the floor with Natasha on top of him, and he was demanding that she released him.
"Tony told me to tell you that the kids can stay here once we get them," Steve said and Cara smiled.
"It makes me happy to hear. Let's just hope that Thor has any luck then," she said and laughed when she hear a loud sound coming from the roof.
"When you speak of the devil," Steve said and she nodded.
When Thor entered the room she knew that the news wouldn't be good.
"How bad?" She just asked and Thor looked at her.
"I need to sit down," Thor said and almost fell down into the chair. The two assassins who had been wrestling on the floor, or rather Natasha still sitting on top of Clint, who tried to break free stopped when they saw Thor's look. They didn't know what was wrong, but they saw that something was really wrong.
Cara sat down in her own chair preparing for the worst. Thor seemed to have hard time getting the words out and she didn't rush him, not sure if it was because he needed time or because she didn't want to hear it.
"He…he sold Sleipnir," Thor started without looking at her. "Mother and I will try to figure out to who. Apparently Hel is safe, Odin can't touch her in her own realm."
"That is good," Steve said and Thor nodded a bit absent.
"Narfi and Váli is still missing, has been since the day they left. We will try to track them and Sigyn down," Thor's voice was very low and Cara understood where they were heading.
"When…when did he?" She just asked, unable to utter the words.
"Sometime during this year. He sent large group of warriors after them, they were successful. Odin told Loki about it. My guess is to threaten him what would happen to the others if he didn't obey," Thor said and she saw how sad he was, and she felt her own tears fall. "I wasn't even there to stop him!"
"This is not your fault Thor," Steve said when he understood what had happened.
"But it is. If I just had been more observant I could have stopped father a long time. But I really didn't see what you saw Cara," he said and she took his hands.
"Thor it really isn't your fault! Odin's actions aren't yours to control or feel blame for. I understand why you feel guilt, I do, and I can debate that it's a tragedy that you didn't see what happening before, but I can't blame you for all this. Not even I saw even half of it. All I saw was that everyone hated Loki without a reason, and no one gave him a chance. I can now see why, Odin wanted it to be like that. He has played with Loki his whole life, he has done this things to Loki for his own amusement," Cara said to Thor.
"That makes it even worst!"
"It does, but people who do this are expert at it. They don't let other people or the target know what they are doing. Trust me, it's not my first case with this problem," she said and thought of Jezebel.
"How did that go? With the other case?" Thor asked and she lowered her glance.
"I couldn't save him him, he was into deep when I met him. I tried, but neither me or Cassian was successful. They are now buried together," she said in a low voice and she was almost glad that she was already crying so she didn't have to start now. Maybe she had been able to save them today, but back then she had been so young, unaware of the world and how to handle such things. Losing them after losing her daughter almost destroyed her.
"I will not let that happen to Loki! I have already lost him once!" Thor said and she nods, but didn't say anything about it. In the end it would all come down to what Loki wanted.
Cara looked at Thor as he was about to say something when she stopped him.
"Hi Loki," she said and looked up and saw the other man coming from the corridor that lead to his room, she wiped her tears away and stood up. "Need something?"
Loki just looked at them, she could see the horror in his eyes and that he tried not to shiver.
"Are you hungry?" She asked and he nodded. "Want me to cook you something?"
Thor was about to say something but she just kicked him as she walked around the table.
"Want to join me in the kitchen, or do you want me to bring the food to your room when I am done?" She asked and he looked at the others and then at her. "I promise if you want to be in the kitchen with me, they will stay out here. Right guys?"
"Yes," Steve said and the other nodded and she could see that Loki was really unsure about it, but then he took a step towards her and she smiled friendly at him.
"Then let's go to the kitchen," she said and left the others.
"How does she do it?" Clint said in a very low voice. "I could never bare to see Natasha like that, and try to take care of her without being a mess myself."
"Training, I guess," Steve said.
"That sounds awful. Doing this so many times that you get good at it," Clint admitted and the other nodded.
"I just hope she can help my brother. I have never seen him entering a room so unsure. Normally he would own the room, despite of how much he didn't want to be there. He even managed to make it look like he owned Asgard when I brought him back to court. Like he was the one holding the guards in chains, not the other way around," Thor said in a sorrowful voice.
"Let's hope for the best. He seems to be able to be around Cara at least," Steve tried to sound hopeful and Thor nods.
"She has always managed to bring out the best in him, I just hope that it's enough this time," Thor told them then stood up. "I need to return to Asgard, hoping to find the rest of Loki's children before Odin returns."
"How long will you be gone?" Steve asked.
"I don't know. Hopefully not to long", Thor said and looked towards the kitchen.
"Don't worry, we will help her look after him," Natasha insured him.
"Thank you my friends," Thor said and then left the room.
Cara stood in the kitchen while Loki hovered near the door, ready to run out, if he felt like it. She didn't say anything about it, just glad that he had left his room. It was a huge step, and she was happy about it, but she also knew that things could become go south very fast. She had one of the earlier times pushed herself to hard, thought that she was ready and almost threw herself back to her normal life, only to hit a wall. Everything become worse after that, and it was one of the longest recovery she had to do. So she hoped that Loki didn't do that.
"So what shall we make?" She asked and looked at Loki. "Fish? Chicken? Meat? Corn?"
At the last one Loki shook her head and she smiled at him.
"Okay, no corn then," she added and then thought about it "How about some rabbit, with potato and jelly?"
Loki thought about it and then nodded.
"Then let's do it. Do you want to help me or do you just want to watch?" She asked and he sat down, very carefully, still near the door so he could leave. "Guess I do the cooking then."
Cara had handled herself in the kitchen without a problem, talking to Loki the whole time about nothing special. First she had talked about the food, who had thought her to cook rabbit, then she had gone over to the books Loki had borrowed, noticing that he founded it very interesting to hear what she thought about them. After that she had talked about places she had visited, and about the people she had met. It made Loki become more relaxed, and he had stopped shiver. He was still very observant towards everything she did, but she was careful to not do anything that could scare him. When she was done she smiled towards him.
"Dinners ready. Do you want to eat here in the kitchen, or in your room?" She asked and he stood up, and she nodded. Knowing that he may not be ready to be away from his room for too long. "Then let me just give there other there dinner and we can eat in your room if you want the company?"
Loki nodded and she smiled taking the plates out to the others.
"Dinners ready," she said and placed the plates on the table. "Better get the geeks down in the lab."
"Already here," Tony said from behind her and she jumped, screamed and dropped the plate on the floor.
"Great, happy?" She said and turned around. "Well there is your food."
"Not fair," Tony complained and reached for another plate at the table.
"No, don't touch our food!" Clint said and Cara just took a deep breath, trying to get her her pulse down, and as she bent down to pick up the shards she saw Loki standing there, unsure what to do. She saw that fear in his eyes but also what seemed to be worry for her.
"Don't worry Loki, it's nothing else then Tony being stupid," she said and started to pick up the shards when she cut herself and cursed. Loki have her a concerned look, and she was glad that her wrist had healed up by now. "It will heal soon."
Loki didn't say anything as he slowly walked towards her and made a bandage appear in his hands. He then looked unsure at her and she held her hand for him to take if he felt like it.
"I can do it myself if you don't want to," she said and he just looked at her. "But I would like if you did it."
Cara could see the effect those words had on him, he was so scared and shocked to hear that she gave him a choice, but also that someone would like his help. And she knew that they had most likely told him over and over how useless he was, how no one would want him his help. Slowly Loki wrapped the bandage around her hand, very carefully. The others in the room just looked at them, they didn't dare to even breath. When he was done he stepped away very quickly, afraid that he would have done something wrong, but Cara just smiled.
"Thank you very much Loki. It already feels better," she told him and he nodded very slowly. "Are you ready to eat? If you still want the company?"
Loki once more nodded and took his plate and she took hers.
"Tony will clean up the rest," Natasha said and Cara smiled at them and left the room with Loki.
"Did you see that?" Clint said, he was surprised at what they just had seen. "Did you see it? Did you see how careful he treated her?"
"Yes Clint we saw, we was in the same room!" Tony said irritated that he had to clean up, and didn't get any of the good food. First he actually thought about eating the food on the floor, but he had some dignity.
"Hard to believe that it was the same guy that almost destroyed the town," Bruce said when he sat down.
"He was really worried about her. I haven't seen anyone treat someone that careful in a long time," Steve said.
"Yes, so your screw up wasn't totally bad Tony," Natasha teased and he just took a potato and threw at her, she easily dodge it.
"Tony, don't throw food!" Steve said.
"It's my house I can do whatever I want!" Tony answered.
"Very mature," Bruce informed Tony as he sat down after he had cleaned up.
"You can have some of mine," Steve said when Tony sulked.
"Always the hero," Tony said happily and started eating.
"But Tony, I wouldn't do what you did again," Clint advised him.
"I know, I don't want my food to end up on the floor again," Tony told him.
"That not what I meant," Clint said and Tony looked at him.
"Then what Bird Boy?"
"It looked like Loki wanted to kill you," Clint said and Tony laughed.
"Yeah right. They guys is afraid of everything. Okay that is not funny, that's kind of sad actually. But anyway he would never have the courage to pick a battle."
"Not right now. But if he gets better he may. My guess is that he is as overprotected of her as she is of him, if not even more. Cara may be understanding towards us why we act like we do, Loki may not be," Clint said.
"Did he really look like he wanted to kill me?" Tony asked.
"Without a doubt. It was only for a second before he turned to Cara, but even if Loki is broken, we need to remember who he is," Clint said. "And that he may actually be more dangerous now then last time we met him. He may not seek a fight or anything, but since we don't know what Odin did to him he may snap at anything."
The others looked at Clint, surprised that the archer had thought of this, while none of them. But maybe it was because he had been mind controlled, and he had seen what Loki really could do and now feared what he could do even more. They had all thought of Loki as weak, and he was right now. He was really broken, but a broken man could also be dangerous, it not even more than an unbroken man.
"Let's try to avoid that and hope that Cara can control him if something happens," Steve said.
