Hi there my wonderful readers. I am ones again very glad that you are reading my story, and I am glad for the new followers! :)
So here is the newest chapter, and I am very happy with this. I had fun writing it, and things did go as I wanted. So now things will move a bit forward, not to fast but yeah you will see. Hopefully I can write more tomorrow, if not I will write as soon as I can.
Anyway once again I am sorry if Amora is way, way out of character, and if you like her and I do her so wrong.
And that was it, I think, if I have forgotten about it, it can't be that important. So enjoy the reading :)
Cara woke up when she heard a knock on her bedroom door. She was just about to get out of bed to see who it was when she heard a loud bang and the door broke. The door flew through the room and landed on the other side. At ones she let her magic flow in her hands, prepared for the worst when Thor suddenly sprung towards her and lifted her up in a hug. He started to spin her around and he smiled the biggest smile she had seen him ever smile.
"I am getting married," he shouted and let go of her. Cara a bit dizzy tried to grasp what she just heard.
"I am sorry," Jane suddenly said when she walked into the room. Cara looked at them both before she smiled.
"Congratulations," she said and gave Jane a hug, and Thor one when he looked disappointed that she didn't hugged him, even if she told him that he technically already had gotten one.
"Thor proposed yesterday. And he is very excited," Jane told her.
"I can tell," Cara said with a laugh and looked at the destroyed door.
"Again, sorry for that. You think he would have more patience, especially since he walked in on Tony and Pepper having sex. But it didn't seem to bother him that much. Can't say that about the other two. But after Tony stopped yelling at him and Pepper getting dressed, Thor could tell them the glad news. After that he destroyed Steve's door only to notice that he wasn't there. Then he broke Bruce door, it's a miracle that he didn't Hulk out," Jane said with a laugh.
"But it's a day to celebrate, I want my friend to cheerer my happiness," Thor said.
"And I am sure they do," Jane said and smiled at him. "However, they may not be pleased that you broke their doors."
"And now I need to tell Loki," Thor said with a big smile, ignoring Jane's word, and Cara who was on her way to get changed stopped.
"Thor…" she started but the God didn't listen to her.
"I want him to be my best man. He is going to have something to look forward to," Thor started and smiled at Jane.
"Thor!" Cara said again when Thor walked towards the door, still talking about the wedding.
"I am so excited. I need to tell him now," Thor almost run out of the room and Cara snapped her fingers. When Thor tried to walk out of the room he walked into the barrier Cara had created.
"Ouch," he said in surprise and looked at her. "Friend Cara, what is the meaning of this?"
"Well you didn't listen when I tried to talk to you," she said and Thor looked dumb fooled, he hadn't heard her.
"I didn't?" He asked and Cara just rolled her eyes.
"You did not. What I was trying to tell you is that you cannot do the same to Loki as you did to the others," she told him.
"What do you mean?" Thor said, not understanding. Couldn't he tell his brother he was going to get married?
"I mean you cannot break his door, walk in, grab him and hug him! You are going to scare him," she said and Thor suddenly understood what she meant. He had thought of doing that, just like when they were kids. He hadn't thought that it would scare Loki.
"Thank the gods that you stopped me," Thor said and Cara smiled.
"Someone had to. So now if you give me a few minutes I will get dressed and we can walk to Loki together, and tell him in a very calm way," she said and walked to her closet.
Thor walked next to Cara and he was almost skipping, Jane just smiled at him, thinking that he was adorable for behaving like he did. Thor couldn't help it, he had loved Jane for years now, and after Cara caught Enchantress he felt that he dared to ask Jane, knowing that she wasn't in the same amount of danger anymore.
But he hadn't never been so nervous as he was when he asked her. Despite having kids,, and Jane not being his first partner, he had even been married before, yet he didn't know if Jane felt the same for him as he felt for her. So when she had said yes he had been so happy that he hadn't stopped smiling. And now he was about to tell his brother the good news, hoping that he would be happy for him.
Cara stopped in front of Loki's door and knocked very soft.
"Loki it's me Cara, I have Thor and Jane with me, can we come in?" She asked and waited for Loki to make his move. Thor was still jumping up and down, more or less and Cara gave him a look that told him to calm down and the God of Thunder did his best. After a few minutes Loki opened the door.
"Thank you," Cara said and they all walked in. Loki stepped away from them a bit, not wanting them to close. "Thor has something to tell you."
Loki looked at her with a scared look.
"It's not something bad. I wouldn't take him here if it was," she said and Loki slowly nodded and then looked puzzled at his brother.
Thor smiled at his brother and then at Cara who nodded, telling Thor that it was okay to tell him.
"Loki me and Jane are getting married!" Thor almost shouted. Loki just looked at Thor then at Jane and then back to Thor. Cara could tell that he wondered why they told him that. "And I would love if you wanted to be my best man!"
Loki just stared at Thor with horror. Cara could see that he wondered what kind of trap it was. Why would Thor want him to be his best man?
"What do you say Loki? Do you want to be my best man?" Thor asked, waiting for an answer.
"I..." Loki started, trying to answer something, but he was too scared to say anything and Cara could only guess the scenarios his mind played with him.
"I think he needs some time to think about it Thor," Cara said and Thor looked at her a bit disappointed. He wanted Loki to be his best man, so he could show him how much he meant for him, that Loki was still his brother, a part of his family. But instead Loki had been scared, and wasn't sure about it at all. Thor couldn't understand why.
"Come Thor, we still need to tell Steve, Natasha and Clint," Jane said and Thor looked at her and smiled.
"You are right," Thor said and then looked at Loki. "Take as much time as you need."
Then the couple left the room.
"Do you want me to leave too?" Cara asked Loki who looked at her and then shook his head. Cara sat down in a chair observing Loki as he slowly sat down in his own chair.
"Why?" Loki slowly asked and Cara looked at him.
"I can't be sure, but my guess would be that he want his brother there. He still loves you, no matter what happened. And he doesn't want anything from you, except to see you happy. And I think he thought that you would be, if you were a part of the wedding," Cara said and she saw how Loki wasn't sure about it. And she understood that he had a hard time believing that someone would want him there.
"I don't deserve it," Loki said in a low voice.
"Thor think you do," Cara said in a friendly voice. "And you have done nothing wrong. Or okay, taking over a planet may not be a good thing, but I can't blame you for that. Wanting to rule earth, who hasn't dreamt of it."
Cara laughed to tell him that she was joking and Loki gave her a weak smile and she nodded.
"It's all up to you, no one is going to force you to be there. But just remember that no one is blaming you for anything. I know that it's hard to believe, it feels like everyone is blaming you for what happened. That everyone is looking at you with judgmental eyes wherever you go. But trust me it's all in your head. None of us is doing that," she explained and Loki looked at her and she could tell that he didn't believe her. "One day you will see it."
That was at least what she hopped. She knew that the fear for the people doing things to you was easier to get over then to stop blaming yourself for what happened. But she wouldn't push Loki about it, that was something he had to figure out for himself.
"So do you want breakfast?" She asked instead and he nodded and they stood up.
They sat down at the table after Cara had made them some breakfast, and she was proud of Loki for wanting to at the table, instead of eating in his room. It may be because they were alone, but it was at least a step in right direction.
"I must say I am surprised, I never thought they would get married. But I guess if it feels right, you will go for it," Cara said and Loki gave her a look. "But I do not envy Jane, she will have a lot to deal with."
At that Loki nodded in agreement and Cara laughed.
"But love is blind, so she may not see the same things we see," Cara sipped on her tea when Loki gave her a wondering look and she tilted her head to the right, not sure what he meant this time.
"Have you ever thought of doing it again?" He asked in a low voice, almost ashamed to ask.
"Getting married? Well I have been married almost four times already," she said and Loki looked surprised over the number. "Some of the people I have met in the past has proposed to me."
Loki just looked at her, and she couldn't know if he was hurt because she hadn't told him about all of the times or not. She didn't mean to hurt him, but she wouldn't lie to him either.
"Anyway, it was like I said years ago. They are all dead now, and I haven't got married since Wesker died," she said in a sad voice. She did miss them. But death was a part of her life and she tried to keep going, for their sake, knowing that they didn't want her to be sad forever.
"How did they die?" Loki slowly asked and she looked at him.
"Different ways. Well I never got to marry Simon, my father killed him before we could, since he wanted me to marry another man. The second and third one died of old age. Since my magic allows me to change my age, and let me age very slowly, people die before I do. And you knew that Wesker got murdered. He was fighting a war he couldn't win, and in the end it got the best of him and he got killed," she thought of them, all of them was different, very different. But like she had told the others, she saw the person behind the actions. "Since then I haven't gotten married. It always ends bad. And I don't think you have to marry someone to show them that you love them and want to be with them forever."
"I am sorry," he said and Cara smiled at him.
"Nothing to be sorry about. You had nothing to do with it," she told him, and it was true. The people she had lost, had nothing to do with Loki. Loki didn't say anything about it and she continued to sip her tea.
They had continued eating in silence when the others walked into the kitchen, and she could tell how Loki become uncomfortable at ones.
"Good morning," Tony said to them and she could tell that he was a bit cranky and she could only guess why.
"Are you sure it's a good morning?" Cara teased.
"Okay, I take it back, just morning," Tony said and sat down and started to eat. Cara watched Loki, who was unsure but he hadn't left the room. "You know your brother is impossible to handle. Can't see how manage to live with him for so many years. He broke my door!"
Loki looked at Tony, not sure what to answer when he talked directly to him. Cara smiled at Loki when he looked at her, telling him that it was okay to answer if he wanted to, but he didn't have to. Loki seemed to think about it.
"He does that when he gets happy," Loki finally said to Tony who almost choke on his drink, and spitted it out all over Clint who sat opposite from him.
"Hey," Clint said very displeased but Tony just stared at Loki.
"You answered? Wow…It's fantastic," Tony said in a very high voice which made Loki very unsure and Cara gave Tony a look. "Yeah sorry, take it cool. But good for you Reindeer games."
Cara raised an eyebrow at Tony.
"Reindeer games?"
"Oh yeah right, forgot that you wasn't here when Loki was here the last time. Thought it was a fitting nickname for him, since he has the helmet and all," Tony said and Loki tried to grasp the situation, not understanding why they were so happy. Cara gave him a friendly smile and he nodded but he didn't say anymore.
"I like his helmet. It fit's him very well," Cara said and she was honest, she had liked Loki's helmet since the first time she saw it.
"He looks like a cow," Thor said and laughed.
"And you have feathers on yours, very graceful, chicken," Cara said and Thor laughed.
"You are so much like my brother sometimes," Thor said and smiled at Loki and then her.
"Well everyone can't be like you, that would be a disaster," Cara answered with a smile and Thor laughed again. Cara looked at Loki who still was very unsure about the situation but he had relaxed a bit, and she smiled, glad that he was starting to become a bit more comfortable around the Avengers.
After the breakfast Loki went to his room and Cara thought she would give him some space, sometimes he needed to be alone. She didn't want him to feel like she was guarding him, that he could have time for himself, but she also let him know that if he wanted something he could just call for her. And she decided to go and talk with Amora, hoping that she would get some answers out of her. She was just on her way down the elevator when Steve stepped inside.
"Can I join you?" He asked.
"Well you are already in the elevator," she teased and Steve got a bit red. "But don't worry about it. So what do you want to join me in?"
"You are going to talk to Enchantress, are you not?" He asked and she nodded.
"I am. I want to see if I can get some more information," she informed him.
"Do you think you can?" Steve asked.
"I am not sure. I could get some information out of Fandral because I have met him before, I know how he thinks. But when it comes to Enchantress I don't have much to go on. She gave me some information during the battle, most likely because she didn't think about it. If she has calmed down now and are thinking, it can be difficult," Cara wasn't sure how Amora worked, but if Loki had thought her, she knew that she would have a hard time to get her talk. But it all depends on how smart she was, and how much of the thing Loki thought her, she used.
"Let's hope for the best," Steve said and she nodded as they walked out of the elevator.
Amora was furious at her, she could tell when she entered the room. She sat at the table and they could almost see the thunderclouds around her head.
"I demand you to take the collar off me," she said when they both sat down.
"Demanding things from me works very rarely, if ever," Cara said calmly.
"You have no right to do this to me!" Amora told her.
"You had no right to do it to Loki either," Cara informed her.
"Odin gave me the right!"
"Fine I give you that one. Odin gave you the right, but even if he did, you shouldn't have, you don't do that to your friends. So since we aren't friends it gives me the right to put it on you," Cara smiled.
"You can't be mad at me for following Odin's orders," Amora said.
"I can, and I am. No one forced you to follow his orders. You did it because out of personal reasons. You said Odin did you a favour the last time, if he hadn't, I am sure you hadn't obeyed him," Cara said.
"Who says no to a favour from the king of gods?" Amora laughed.
"Everything has its price, and yours was to betray a friend," Steve said.
"Why do you even care? You guys hates Loki, you guys was the reason he got captured," Amora looked at Steve.
"We may have been the reason for his captured, but we did not know what they were going to do with him," Steve said.
"So now you feel bad. Must be hard being the good guys and know how much bad you have done," Amora taunted him.
"Are you trying to push your own guilt away Enchantress?" Steve asked and Amora gave him an hateful glance.
"I think you are on to something Steve," Cara said and laughed.
"Shut up, you two knows nothing," Amora said.
"You are right about that. We know nothing about this. That's why we are trying to get all the information. We are building a case to give Loki some justice," Cara told her and Amora laughed.
"Good luck with that. No matter how good your case is, Odin isn't going to do anything about it," she said.
"Who said Odin will be the one doing anything about it? Odin rules Asgard know, but who know for how long?" Cara said with a smile.
"You are crazy? Are you going to fight against Odin," Amora laughed again.
"Well I am apparently crazy, that you should have understood yesterday, but I am not the one that will go up against Odin," Cara said and Amora looked puzzled at her.
"Then who?" She said with a curious voice.
"That will be the royal family and possibly the people of Asgard," she said and Amora looked really surprised.
"How did you manage to do that?"
"I didn't do anything. Odin is digging his own grave, with a little help from us. And that's why you are here. You are going to help us dig it a bit deeper," Cara said.
"Neve,r" Amora looked at her.
"People are always so stubborn," she said to Steve who nodded. "We have what you did say yesterday already, and we can use that against you and Odin, so in worst case we don't need anything else. But knowing that you aren't the one that have done the worst things, Thor and Frigga may go easy on you if you tell us something."
"Thor? Thor will know what I did? Odin promised he wouldn't know!" Amora said and Cara smiled.
"He already knows, and he isn't happy. You hurt his little brother, did you think he would be happy? But like I said he may be happier if he knows that you didn't do anything worst then put on the collar on Loki. I mean he nearly killed Fandral for touching him, so you may be in the clear and he may even be happy that you didn't hurt Loki to bad." Cara said and Amora thought about it.
"Do you promise to tell Thor what I said?" She asked and Cara nodded. "I promise I didn't do anything else then put on the collar. Odin asked me to do it, since he knew that it would hurt Loki even more if a friend of his did it. If Odin had done it himself Loki wouldn't have felt as betrayed."
"And what more did you do?" Cara asked.
"Nothing."
Cara gave her a look, letting the other woman know that she didn't believe her, not at all.
"I promise, I didn't do anything else. After that I wanted to find Thor, trying to get him to love me," Amora said.
"For having the God of lies as your teacher, you are a bad liar," Cara said and Amora looked at her, and when Cara didn't turned away she gave in
"Fine, I visited Loki from time to time. I wanted to see that he was still there, knowing that he couldn't come after me for what I did," She said.
"That's half of it," Cara only said.
"Orr, how do you know?" Amora said before she could stop herself.
"Well I could say that dating Loki taught me a lot about lies, but that would be a lie. It thought me a bit, but I mostly learned through experience." Cara said and smiled. "So what more did you do?"
"I…I…I practised some magic on him. Odin said it was okay!" Amora informed her. "I wanted to try some new things, and since Loki couldn't defend himself it was perfect. I could practise on him as much as I wanted and it helped, I got better. Odin also said that they would heal his wounds after I left."
"And you believed that?" Steve asked in a very displeased voice.
"Not sure if I did," Amora only said.
"I would rather say that you didn't care if it was true or not," Cara just said and stood up, preparing herself to leave.
"Promise you tell Thor that I didn't do anything awful! Promise me, I want him to know that I was a good girl" Amora said and Cara smiled.
"Did I promise that?" Cara said and looked at Steve who didn't know what to say. "Can't remember I promised anything. But I can promise you something now, I will tell Thor exactly the awful things you did to Loki. He will know it all."
With those words Cara and Steve left the room.
"You are taking this very well," Steve said as the stood in the elevator.
"Not really. But if I get to upset and to down, I couldn't help Loki, so I try not to think about it," Cara admitted.
"I am not sure if I could ever do what you are doing," Steve told her.
"You never know until you are standing there. But I hope that you never have too. Watching someone you care about going through something like this is really hard, you are just hoping for the best."
"Loki seem to be doing better at least," Steve said.
"It goes up and down. And I know that just the smallest thing can make it worst. Like the meeting with Amora yesterday really scared him. And he may seem fine and I hope he gets better, but we aren't out of the woods yet, far from it," Cara said and Steve just nodded as they stepped out of the elevator. As they did Tony almost ran into them.
"There you are! I have been looking for you!"
"And you didn't think of asking Jarvis where I was?" Cara said with a smile.
"He did not, Lady Cara," Jarvis said and Tony glared at the celling.
"Then you could have said something," Tony told Jarvis.
"You didn't ask Sir, therefore I didn't say anything, as you have asked me many times not to," Jarvis said.
"This time you could have broken that rule and just told me," Tony said.
"I will remember that until the next time," Jarvis said and Tony was about to answer.
"Tony?" Cara said and he looked at her. "Why have you been looking for me?"
"Right, Jarvis almost made me forgot. We have found them," Tony said happily.
"Found who?" Steve asked.
"Loki's kids, the twins," Tony said and Cara just looked at him, unsure what to say at first.
"Are they alive?" She asked and Tony didn't smile anymore.
"It's better for you to see this yourself," he said and they all stepped inside the elevator again to go to Tony's lab.