Hi, it's me again. I am so glad I managed to write this chapter today. And I liked writing it, so I hope you guys like reading it.
I don't have that much to say. Not more then that I know that it isn't how hell look, but hey I wanted to change it a bit. And don't worry you will see the kids again, I am not done with them. And we also have Narfi and Váli out there somewhere.
So yeah that's pretty much it, have fun reading :)
Thor hadn't been able to sleep that night, he had try to come up with a plan, but he hadn't been successful. Telling Loki, well the only thing he could think of there was just tell him. He knew that his brother would be sad, but what else could he do? And wasn't it better for Loki to know the truth? And the earlier he got to know that Sleipnir was gone, the earlier he could start healing. That was what Thor thought.
He could only relate to when their grandfather chose to pass away, going through the ritual of becoming mortal, Thor was devastated, his grandfather had been one of his best friends. And when he died Thor hadn't known what to do, Loki hadn't seemed to care much of it, but Thor felt like the world had come to an end. But as time went on it become easier, especially since he had known that his grandfather would die, he had time to say goodbye.
It wasn't easy to lose him, but he still had all the great memories with his grandfather. So Thor thought that it would be the same for Loki. He would miss Sleipnir, but he would have memories of him. Therefor Thor had decided just to tell him, and when Loki become sad Thor could hold him like their mother had done when they was sad.
But he had an even bigger problem coming up with a plan on how he would contact Hel. He didn't know if it was even possible. He guessed Loki had a way to do it, if Odin hadn't destroyed that way. And Thor know Odin had a way, but he couldn't ask his father. Besides that, Thor didn't know who could do it. But he had decided to come up with a plan after he told Loki, he needed to take care of his brother first. And after that, maybe he could ask his mother.
When Thor left his bedroom a few hours later to go by the kitchen before he talked to Loki, he founded the others there. Thor poured himself a cup of coffee, needing the energy.
"Hi Big Guy, Jarvis said you was back," Tony said. "Any luck on finding the kids?"
Thor looked at his friend but he didn't know how to answer, and Natasha who seemed to understand that something was wrong punched Tony on the arm.
"Ouch, why did you do that for?" Tony asked and Natasha just gave him a glance and Tony looked at Thor. "Oh yeah, right, sorry."
The others stayed quite as Thor sat down to eat something.
"Where is Cara?" Thor asked when he couldn't see the blond woman.
"Sleeping," Bruce informed him. "She was here earlier, made breakfast for us and Loki, before she went back to bed. She looked really tired."
Thor nodded, guessing that she hadn't got much sleep either.
"Thor are you alright?" Steve asked when he saw that Thor hadn't eaten anything, he just couldn't get any food down.
"I wouldn't say I am," Thor said and stood up. "I need to talk to Loki."
"That doesn't seem like a conversation that will go well," Clint said and avoided Tony when he tried to hit him, but that only meant that he had walked into Natasha's reach and she hit him in the head and Tony laughing. Which got Clint to start chasing him around.
Thor stopped at Loki's door, not sure how to proceed. He had decided to tell Loki, but when he was standing there it felt like such a bad idea, but Thor didn't know any other way and he nervously knocked on the door.
"Loki it's me. I wish to speak with you," Thor said and he heard Loki move around but then he stopping, and Thor guessed that he was wondering why Thor was there. Thor was about to knock again when Loki opened the door and Thor walked inside. He looked around, and by the look of it Loki had been reading and Thor smiled a little bit, Loki had always loved reading.
He turned away from the books to find Loki, who stood very unsure next to his bed, not knowing what he should do. Thor didn't know either so he just stared at Loki which seemed to make him very nervous, and finally Loki started to undo his button on his shirt and first Thor didn't follow at all. He just kept staring at his brother until his brain caught up.
"No Loki!" Thor shouted which made Loki jump and looking down. What the hell had they done to him, making Loki think that Thor wanted that from him. Thor looked away. "It wasn't that I needed to talk to you about."
Thor heard how Loki sat down on the bed and when Thor turned around he tried to look anywhere except at his brother.
"No I needed to talk to you about…about…" Why was this so hard? He just needed to tell Loki about it. "About Sleipnir."
That made Loki look at him, Thor could feel it and he walked towards Loki, slowly, trying to remember how Cara had done it. He watched Loki but when his brother didn't do anything or seemed to try to get away from him Thor sat down next to him. He still sat a bit away from him, not wanting to be to close and making Loki think he wanted something else, again. Still horrified over the fact that Loki thought that Thor would ever use him like that.
"Mother told me that father had sold him," Thor started and he saw the anger in Loki's eyes, only for a second before he lowered his head, most likely scared that Thor would hurt him for being angry. "So I went on getting him back, to you! Fandral said how they used to threaten your children when they, you know did things to you."
The words had made Loki look away and Thor didn't understand why, was he ashamed of it? He had nothing to be ashamed for! They had threaten his children, Thor was sure that he would have acted in the same way as Loki did, if it was his children, so there really wasn't a reason for Loki to be ashamed. Surely Loki know that, so Thor didn't say anything about it.
"Anyway, I thought that it wasn't right that they did that to your children so I wanted to find them. But when I got to the first man he had already sold Sleipnir again, so I went to the next one and then to the next one, etc," Thor said, not feeling like he needed to tell Loki how many buyers he had visited. "I followed him to Nilfheim, when I got there a little girl was trying to get him to stand up, not wanting Sleipnir to stay at the man that had bought him. I wanted to help her but I soon figured out that he was badly hurt. I do not know what caused it…"
Thor stopped again, feeling that Loki was watching him, Thor swallowed before he started again.
"Hel came, and I couldn't do anything, she just took him with her, I tried to stop her but I couldn't. I am so, so sorry brother," Thor said and he truly was, he was sorry that he hadn't been able to save his nephew. "I understand if you are sad, and I want you to know that I am here for you. I promise that you will soon feel better."
Thor looked at Loki and expected to see him crying, but he only saw hate, hate he hadn't seen in a long time. Loki pushed Thor out of the bed and he landed on the floor. Thor was shocked over the sudden reaction.
"I am sorry Loki," Thor said again when Loki suddenly made a knife appear in his hands and Thor looked at his brother with horror. "Loki?"
Thor started to back, or rather crawl away from his brother when he saw the look he gave him, Loki really wanted to kill him, he knew he couldn't unless he had learned some magic Thor was unfamiliar with, but Loki could still hurt him very badly. Thor couldn't even remember Loki looking at him with this eyes the last time they fought. Sure Loki had intended to hurt him, wishing to kill, but he hadn't given him this look.
"I am sorry brother, I am sorry that I couldn't save him," Thor said and got up on his feet as Loki walked closer. Loki stopped in front of him, only staring at him before he threw away the knife and felled down on his knees with a scream. Thor took a step towards Loki, attending to hold his brother in his arms so he could show him that he was there for him.
"It's going to be alright brother," Thor said and took another step towards Loki when Loki once again pushed him away. "Don't push me away…"
"Leave," Loki suddenly said in a very low voice.
"Don't ask me…" Thor tried again.
"LEAVE!" Loki shouted at him and Thor felt the magic hit him in the chest before it sent him flying, only to hit the wall next to the door.
Thor took his chance of leaving, just as he heard Loki scream again before he closed the door. This was not how it was supposed to happen. He understood that Loki was upset, but why would he want to hurt him? He hadn't done anything wrong. He couldn't save Sleipnir no matter what he did, the only thing he could have done was taking Sleipnir's place, but he couldn't do that. He couldn't leave Loki alone, he needed him. Or did he?
Loki seemed to hate him more than normally, but Thor guessed that was the sorrow talking. He would soon feel better, he would soon remember the lovely memories he had with Sleipnir, and then Loki would be back to normal, Thor thought as he went back to the others.
The others had been eating there breakfast when Cara returned to them.
"You look like a human again," Tony said and she raised an eyebrow.
"A few hours of sleep can do wonders," Cara answered and took a cup of tea.
"I can tell," Tony said and Cara gave him an look when she started to eat.
"Thor is talking to Loki," Steve told her and she nodded.
"He said he would do that…he found the horse, Sleipnir, one of Loki's children, yesterday, but he couldn't save him," Cara started. "And I told him that I can't tell Loki that… um after losing my own daughter, I would most likely start to cry and not be to any help. All the focus would be on me, and I can't ask Loki to do that, not now."
"We understand," Steve said and she nodded. "Thor should be able to handle this."
"I hope so," Cara answered and they all went silent, until Tony brook the silence.
"So, Loki fucked a horse?" Tony said trying to lighten the mood, which resulted in Natasha hitting him once more.
Tony's comment had actually lightened the mood, and after that they had talked about silly things, trying not to think about anything.
"…So there I was trying to save the baby from falling down from the shelf, not even sure how it got up there, and it starts to throw mugs and stuff at me, luckily they are all plastic. And at that moment a guy calls me, and tries to order pizza, clearly not knowing who I am. It was the last time I was doing a favour for Rhodey. And the last time I will ever babysit!" Tony said and they all laughed
"I am not even sure why he thought it was a good idea to leave a baby with you," Clint said.
"Hey, I can take care of babies! I just don't like it. They are so boring. They don't do anything!" Tony defended himself.
"They are babies, even you should know that they don't do anything when they are young," Natasha said to Tony.
"Where did the baby even come from? Why was Rhodey babysitting?" Steve asked.
"He was…" Tony started when they all heard Loki scream and they all went silent and looked at each other.
"I guess he knows now," Clint said and Natasha punched him. "What?"
Natasha just gave him a look that told him to think about the things he said.
"Cara are you alright?" Natasha asked when she saw her tears.
"No I am not. I should be in there with him, but instead I am here, since I am too much of a cowered to even talk about my own lost. I forced Thor to do it, Loki is going to hate me for not being there."
"He is going to understand," Steve said, trying to be supportive just as Thor walked into the room. Cara gave him a look and Thor rubbed his neck.
"He…He is soon going to be okay," Thor tried to sound convincing.
"He is not going to be alright," Cara said and stood up. "Oh I knew that he wouldn't be able to handle this."
"He is strong, he has lost children before," Thor tried and Cara just shook her head.
"That's the problem," she said and started walking back and forth. "He blames himself."
"Why would he do that? He knows this isn't his fault. He was locked up and couldn't do anything to save them," Thor pointed out.
"That's why he blames himself, he wasn't there to protect his children!" Cara said in an angry voice.
"Oh," Thor looked at her, he hadn't thought about that. "But he must know that it isn't true? He went through what he did to protect them. He must know that, and he will soon understand that, and he he does he will remember all the good memories he has with his children, and then he will feel better."
At that Cara stopped walking and looked at Thor.
"Please tell me you didn't say that he soon will feel better?" She asked and Thor looked at her in surprise.
"But it is true, no one is sad forever. He will feel better. And…" he started when she just shook her head.
"No…no…no. Thor you idiot, you don't say that to someone who just lost someone. Not only did you most likely make him blame himself even more, you also told him that he would feel better soon. You just don't do that," she said.
"Even I know that you don't do that" Tony said.
"Why don't you do that?" Thor said.
"It's like you are saying that it isn't a big lost, that the person passing away isn't that important," Cara said and started to walk again. "I should never have sent you in there Thor, never."
"I am sorry. I didn't know. I didn't mean to make it worse," Thor said.
"I can't blame you, I should have known that you would make it worse. I should have done it myself," Cara sighed and wiped here tears. "I need to talk to him and hope that I can fix it and that your words didn't do too much damage Thor."
Cara left the others and stopped at Loki's door. She had hoped that Thor would be sorry, and she hope that he will do what she thought he would. But she hadn't thought Thor would say such things to Loki, she just hoped that she could talk to Loki, making him feel better, or at least know that he wasn't alone, and allowed to grieve. She took a deep breath and knocked at his door.
"Loki it's me, I am coming in," she said, hoping that he hadn't locked the door, but she was lucky.
When she entered the room she got a shock, the whole room was destroyed, more or less. All the books laid trashed on the floor, the furniture was either thrown away or destroyed and the glass in the windows was gone. Loki sat in a corner and she saw that he was crying, and she saw that he was bleeding, most likely a cut from something in the room.
"Hi Loki," she said as she closed the door. She walked closer but he gave her a look that told her to leave. "I will not leave you, not when you are like this."
She could feel the magic in the air at once, and she felt that it was dangerous magic, Loki was really angry and sad, a dangerous combination for a magician.
"I know what you are going through…" she started but Loki gave her a look that said that she had no idea.
"Just don't…" Was all Loki said and she knew what he meant, he didn't want to hear the fake story of how well she understood, the story people always said when you lost someone, and had it been another time, she may have paid attention and notice that he talked to her again.
"No Loki I…" she started and looked away. She walked over to the window and looked down. If it wasn't for daughter, she wouldn't have any problem telling Loki about his son, and if she had done it, she hadn't mentioned her daughter, but no she understood that she would be needing too. "Loki this isn't something I am telling you lightly, and I didn't have any plan on telling you this now, or if ever. I am only telling you this because you need to understand that I really understands what you are going through," she said in a low voce before she turned around and faced him.
"You knew that before I met you the first time I was hunted. I had people after me, people that I have meet on my journeys. They all chased me for different reasons, you know about some of them, and you also know that the first person to hunt me was my father, since you killed him for me. I informed you that he wanted me to marry a man I didn't want to marry, and when he couldn't force me to do it he looked me up as you know. He normally would only hit me, but when that didn't work he let the man that I was supposed to marry have his way with me, you know that as well. However, seeing that I am a woman and I can get pregnant, without needing to do any shift shaping, that was what happened." Cara took a short break, closing her eyes.
"When I figured out that I was pregnant, I knew that I needed to get away for my child's sake. As I told you, my godfather, Severus helped me leave my father's world, and at first I thought I was safe, being in another world then my father and the man that raped me, but soon I figured out that I wasn't. So I started traveling between different worlds, until I give birth to a beautiful daughter, Minna. At that moment I had founded a place where I thought I would be safe. I had friends who said they would protect me and my baby, and everything seemed to be fine. It was for a few years actually, I felt safe, Minna had gotten some friends and I thought that we were free." She briefly thought about them all, and the short time she got with them.
"But I was so wrong. Just after Minna's fourth birthday he found us. I got home one day and my father was there, holding my baby girl. And there was nothing I could do. I was soon back in my home world, captured again. Everything started over, except that this time, my father had Minna. I don't know how long I was there, until both my father and Minna's father lost their patience. They threatened to hurt her and I knew that the game was lost, I couldn't do anything to put my girl in danger, so I surrender, thinking that everything would go well, but it didn't." She became silent for a few seconds.
"Minna, not having accepting any of this tried to free me, and when my father was about to kill me, she stepped in between us, trying to protect me, and it resulted in her death. She died bloody in my arms, and there was nothing I could do. My father left me with her, actually laughing when he locked me up. I don't know how long I was there before Severus, just coming home from a trip once again, found me and we fled. I returned to world where Minna was born and buried her before we started traveling again." Cara had forced herself not to cry while she talked to Loki. "I am not telling you this so you should feel sorry for me. I just wanted you to know that I actually know what you are going through Loki. I am not pretending to make you feel better, I would never do that to you. I just want to let you know that you aren't alone in this, if you want me here I am right beside you."
Cara finally turned around and met Loki's eyes. The anger was gone, replaced by remorse over how angry he had been on her.
"No need to be sorry for that, I understand why. I was angry at everyone at first too," she said and Loki stood up, walking over to her and actually sat down next to her and she smiled, joining him on the floor.
"I…" he started but he couldn't say anything and she say his tears falling.
"You don't need to say anything," she said to him, and he really didn't, she know exactly how he felt. They just sat there next to each other, not saying anything until Loki felt asleep.
When Cara come back to the common room Steve and Bruce was the only one there.
"How is he doing?" Steve asked.
"He is sleeping," she only said.
"And you?" Bruce asked and she smiled towards them, it was really sweet of them to ask.
"I rather not think of it," she said and went to the kitchen, she needed something to drink after all the crying.
"Does he need anything?" Steve asked and she shook her head.
"Nothing you can give him anyway," she said and then looked at them. "Where is Thor? I need to apologise to him."
"I haven't seen him in a while, not since he went to his room," Bruce said.
"Can you guys show me to his room?" She asked and the nodded.
When they got there Steve knocked but there was no answer.
"Jarvis is Thor in there?" Bruce asked.
"I can't tell Mr. Banner, something is blocking my view," Jarvis informed them.
"Like something is wrong with the signal, as it was when Fandral was here?" Cara asked.
"No not like that. Here something is merely put in front of the cameras," Jarvis explained. "Not a very advanced way of doing it, but it works."
"Thor?" Cara said and knocked again. "I need to talk to you."
But there was no answer and they all looked at each other, and Cara starting to think that Thor may have done what she thought he would.
"Jarvis, is Thor anywhere else in the tower?" Cara asked.
"No he is not Lady Cara," Jarvis answered her and she nodded.
"Thor it's about Loki," she said, but still no answer. "Okay, Thor I am coming in."
"You can't do that!" Steve said and Cara didn't answer she just turned the knob and felt that the door was looked and she then used magic to get it open.
"Just did," she said. "Thor?"
The other two entered after her but they stopped when they saw Thor laying bloody in his bed, with a knife next to him, she saw the runes on it, making her guess it was a special weapon that actually could kill a God, she didn't know how it worked, but it wasn't important at the moment.
"Thor," Bruce said and both him and Cara rushed to his side. "I don't feel a pulse."
Bruce said and Cara nodded, she didn't know how long Thor had been gone, she hoped that it wasn't for too long, because then this would be hard to do.
"We need to bring him back," Bruce said.
"Yes," she only answered.
"Guys?" Steve suddenly said and they turned to him. "He left this note, saying that he went to Hell to get Sleipnir back. He says he is sorry and he wants you Cara to tell Loki how sorry he is."
"You idiot! You forbid me from doing this, and then you go and do it yourself," Cara said in an angry voice, couldn't let the other guys knowing that this was a part of her plan.
"You wanted to do this?" Steve glanced at her.
"This is not the right time for this conversation!" She told him and turned to Bruce. "Can you get him breathing again?"
"I may be able to do that. But if this Hel has him, I am not sure if it's possible," Bruce informed her.
"That's why I am going to visit her and bring this idiot back," Cara told him.
"No! Can't have you killing yourself too!" Steve said and she smiled.
"Don't worry about that, I will not kill myself, I will simply use Thor's body to get to Hel. If everything works like it should I can get him back."
"If everything works?" Bruce asked.
"Never done this before, it's just something a friend told me about a long time ago. She taught me a way to get into the realm of the dead and bring someone back. I am not sure if this works in this world, but it's all I can do."
"Are you sure?" Steve asked "Can you really do that?"
"I need to try. I have enough of blood on my hands, I can't have Thor's too," she said and placed one of her hands over Thor's heart on the other one on his head, and she let the black magic leave her hands as she closed her eyes.
When she opened them she was in a dark and cold place. She saw the piles of bones, creating a wall. Cara walked towards the only gate she could see, not really sure where she would go, but she needed to find Thor and Hel, and soon, she had no idea how long she would be able to stay here, since she wasn't really dead, or from this world.
The gate was gigantic, and she felt like the smallest person there was when she walked through it, but guessing giants also died and needed to talk through the gate, it was only logical that it was big. As she walked down the path in front of her, she could hear the sound of people screaming from the wall, begging her to release them. Cara kept walking, thinking it was best not to mess with anything down here, not knowing what would happen.
The path seemed to go on forever and she could neither see the end or the beginning at it anymore, but now further away from the gate, she started to hear a river and voices laughing. It was still dark and she couldn't see anything, and that started to worry her. What if she would be bound to walk down this path forever, without getting anywhere. She hoped that it wasn't the case and that she soon would come find what she was looking for.
"She is here," she suddenly heard a voice say when she walked into a light. The light come from a gigantic hall, a bright and warm hall. Cara had started to see light a while ago, and first she had gotten to a village where people was laughing and seemed to have a pleasant time. They had just pointed at a mountain further down the road and Cara had kept going until she got there. Then she had stopped, the way had been blocked by a gigantic door and she knew that she would never be able to open that. With it closed she almost thought it was locked until the doors opened and she walked in. In the other end of the hall she saw a throne at a table where people seemed to be waiting at her.
"We have been waiting for you," a young teenager said and Cara guessed it was Hel.
"I am sorry to have kept you waiting," Cara said with a smile.
"Oh don't be sorry, you couldn't have gone here any sooner," the girl answered.
"Then I am not sorry anymore," Cara laughed and looked at the people with the table, she saw Hel, then she who she guessed was Sleipnir, Fenrir and Jörmungandr, and finally Thor, sleeping.
"I have actually been looking for him," Cara said and pointed at the god.
"He has a faithful friend," the girl said.
"Not really. I kind of tricked him and hoped he would end up here, so I would have a chance to talk to all of you," she admitted.
"Is that so?" The girl said and laughed. "Well then we feel honoured Cara."
Cara wasn't surprised to know that they know her name.
"It's me who should be honoured Hel, it's not every day I am allowed into your realm," Cara answered.
"You know of our names?" Hel asked.
"Thor informed me about you," she admitted. "Before he started looking for you."
"Well he found us," Hel said in a cold voice and Cara nodded.
"He surly did," Cara answered in a sad voice. "I had just wished he had done so sooner."
"It was never in his interests, not until he founded out about father. Then he wanted to do this for his own sake, not for ours," Hel said. "That's why I didn't granted his wish to take Sleipnir's place."
Cara didn't know what to answer.
"I can see that he cares about father, but if he had cared for real he would have done something sooner. But he has always been to absorbed by his own life." Hel said.
"Of that I can't disagree," Cara told her. "Even if he is starting to realise it all for the first time, i still wished he did the first time I met him."
"As do we. Maybe then my brothers would still have been alive, and father wouldn't have been treated the way he did," Hel said in a sad voice.
"I am sorry for not being there to help him," Cara told them.
"Nothing we can blame you for. You didn't know that father was alive, if you had known we are sure that you would have been there for him," Hel said and she nodded.
"I would have been," she told them and then looked at Thor. "So what will you do with him?"
"I will send him back. I do not wish him to be here for his selfish reason. He thought he did something good, but he only did it because he feels bad for not helping Loki before. He is not here for the same reasons you are. You are here because you love Loki, you do not feel guilt, you are truly capable of doing anything for father," Hel said and Cara smiled.
"You do crazy things when you are in love," she joked and Hel smiled too before she touched Thor and he started to disappear, Cara guessing back to his body.
"Since you seem to know why I am here will you accept my life in return of Sleipnir's?" She asked Hel.
"No," Hel said and Cara just looked at her and was about to say something. "Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against you, and you wishing to do this for father makes me really happy, but taking your life will not help. Father will still be as sad as he is now, and I don't want to be the cause of that. And even if I had accepted the deal, it wouldn't have worked. For it to be possible to work, the persons who is changing places with you must accept the deal, and Sleipnir will not accept it."
"Why not?"
"For the same reason as me. He doesn't want to be the cause of father's sorrow. He knows that father would love to see him ones more. But he also knows that he would be sad every time he looked at him, knowing you died to save his son," Hel said and Cara nodded.
"I see," she only answered.
"We all know that you wanted to do this for father and we wish we could help you with it, but we can't."
"Then I guess I can't get you to come back with me either?" Cara asked Hel.
"No you cannot. I need to stay here, in my own realm. Without me it will be destroyed and I can't let that happen to my people, or my brothers. But father knows that I am safe here," she said. "And you can tell him that I am not alone anymore, I have my brothers here with me."
"I am sure that it will give him some consolation," Cara said. "May I ask if all of your brothers are here?"
"If you are thinking of my youngest brothers Narfi and Váli, I can inform you that they aren't here. I do not know where they are, but they are alive. And I hope that they will stay alive until you can find them," Hel said and Cara nodded.
"I hope that too."
"I wish that you could stay with us, but it's time for you to get back," Hel said.
"I wish I could stay a bit longer too, or take you with me, but I knew that I can't, and that this is a goodbye," Cara looked at them.
"Take care of father, and let him know that we love him very much," Hel said and walked towards her and gave her a hug and Cara hugged her back, something that seemed to make Hel really happy. Cara guessed that Hel hadn't got many hugs since she had been thrown down here. Cara looked at the others as they also stepped forward to her. Cara hugged each of them.
"Take care, all of you. And I really wish that I will see you again," Cara said.
"Maybe you will," Hel said and she had that voice Loki used to have when he planned something. "Farewell Mother."
Cara had no time to react over the fact at Hel called her mother, before the goddess waved to her, and they all disappeared.
When Cara woke up a few seconds later she heard people around her fighting. At first she couldn't tell who's voices it was, not until she actually felt alive again. When she opened her eyes she saw that it was Steve and Bruce who was scolding Thor, who didn't seem to know what to do. She also saw Loki standing behind them and he looked furious. The other two actually kept his distance from him, fearing what he may do. They all stopped when she sat up.
"Cara you are back," Steve said and she nodded. Loki walked over to her and she first thought that he would be mad at her but instead he actually pulled her into a hug. She understood how worried he must have been.
"I am sorry for making you worry," she said and hugged him back. "And I am also sorry that I couldn't bring any of your children back. But they wanted me to tell you, that they all love you very much and Hel wanted you to know that she didn't feel lonely anymore, not with her brothers there."
Cara could feel Loki's tears as the landed on her shoulders, but she didn't say anything about it, she just hugged him closer until he was ready to let go of her.
When Loki finally let go of her he turned around towards Thor who just smiled at them, but stopped when he saw the anger in Loki's eyes.
"If you ever drag her into something like this again, I will kill you Thor!" He said and Thor looked at Loki and understood that he meant it.
"I didn't mean to drag her in," Thor said.
"And what did you expect me to do Thor? Just let you die if I had the chance to save you?" Cara said. "What should I have told your mother?"
Thor didn't say anything about that.
"So let's not have any more trips to Hel, at least not trips that means that some of us are dying," Cara said and smiled towards Thor.
"Agreed!" Bruce said and Thor just nodded.
"So now I want something to eat, I didn't know it, but visiting hell makes you really hungry," Cara said with a laugh and Loki just gave her a look but then followed her out of Thor's room towards the kitchen.