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Authors note: So, I'm evil, an evil dick, an ass, a brilliant ass, lord of cliffhangers (shouldn't it be lady)…haha anything else, I know you guys say it because you love the story. In my opinion, I haven't done many cliffhangers for this story and don't worry, I don't intend to do lots but if just the few cliffhangers I've done is putting you off the story, then stop reading or wait until it is finished. The way the story is written and the little hints and plot holes you may find, will all get resolved by the end of the story as there is a much bigger storyline than Dahlia just being Loki's daughter. From that, you can probably guess that the story is nowhere near finished and I was tempted to cut it in half and make the other half of it a sequel but I decided against it as I know some people search for this story by its name, as they don't have an account. Welcome to the new followers and favourites and a thank you to those of you who reviewed.

Chapter 29: Aftermath

Seeing her sister come through the portal, Dahlia was relieved and finally smiled as best as she could with a knife wound. The others didn't think so though as they held on to their weapons, not knowing what to expect from the Goddess of Death. It was a surprise to most who have never seen her before and only heard the stories from Thor, that she was in fact half dead but she was also extremely beautiful and held the posture of a true queen. Although the Avengers, minus Thor, played little part in the condition Dahlia was in now and was trying to stop the bleeding, they suspected Hela would feel differently, not knowing the whole story, and instantly held on tightly to their weapons, ready for an attack. They all suspected the Goddess of Death and her soldiers to rip through them, killing as many of them as possible and maybe attempting to kill Odin but what they saw was different. As she laid eyes on her bleeding sister, gone was the royal queen who held her head high, gone was the strong and confident young woman who ruled over a realm and whose name was feared not just across the nine realms, but throughout the stars. What they saw was that young woman wash away and in her place a grieving, scared sister.

Hela took only a quick look around to see who was present in the room but took little notice after she saw her baby sister bleeding on the floor, with Odin standing only a few feet away. Almost running to her, Hela practically slid on the floor in her dress and pushed Steve away as she took Dahlia into her arms. Akio and Morek, however, drew their swords and stood either side of their Queen and Princess and their main focus was on the Asgardians. Held tightly in Hela's arms, Dahlia relaxed but that certainly didn't calm Hela's worry as she was looking over her little sister and only assessed two injuries to her leg and abdomen. She even touched the wound at the abdomen, which Bruce was applying pressure to, and noticed it was the same blade that Akio had gifted to Dahlia. With her sister's blood on her hand, she said, "no, no, no, no, no, not you too. I can't lose you too, not again".

Dahlia, who was gasping at the pain in both her leg and abdomen, raised her hand and held her sister's bloody hand as she said, "they're not that bad".

"What?"

"The Avengers…minus Thor…they're not that bad".

Hela looked surprised at her sister's words and looked to the Avengers, minus Thor, to see them looking worried about Dahlia and actually trying to help stop the bleeding. It wasn't her sister's words that shocked her, Dahlia did have a good heart, but it was her timing. Shaking her head, Hela looked back down to her sister and said, "you've been stabbed, you could die and you're what? Complimenting, defending them?"

Dahlia shook her head with the little strength she had and said, "they didn't know the truth…following blindly by Thor's stories…"

Hela saw, at the corner of her eye, Odin take a step forward and immediately looked to him and the rage that was in her eyes was so familiar to Odin as he saw, in her father's eyes, the same rage the day she was banished from Asgard. She seethed, "you step one more step closer and I will end you. You know I have the power to do so".

Odin stopped, not knowing how much her powers had truly developed in the last thousand years, but he wasn't willing to put it to the test. He wasn't the God of Wisdom for nothing. He did, however, stand his ground and said, "another bastard child".

"Which makes four, and papa treated us like his children, unlike how you treat yours like a puppet," she glanced quickly to Thor.

"Her mother?" Odin questioned.

Dahlia squeezed her sister's hand tighter as Hela glared at Odin and said, "don't you dare bring her into this. Ragnarok has already started because of your attack".

"He didn't do it," Dahlia said weakly.

"What?" Hela asked confused as she looked down.

"I did it. I had to. Outnumbered, had to alert you…Thor has a poultice bag, I couldn't contact you. Three inches in the abdomen, with the blood loss from the arrow too, I calculate it's about an hour before I die of blood loss, that's time for you to save me," she said breathlessly.

"And I'm sure you can tell you don't have that long. 45 minutes, you forgot to add in the poison of the blade and you don't seem like you can keep your eyes open now," Hela said seriously, as if telling off a small child.

Dahlia let off a small laugh and said, "you got me".

"You shouldn't have done it. You know I would have fought for you".

"I don't want war," Dahlia said then hissed and Hela glanced at Bruce who shook his head slightly, knowing it was bad. "Sister, please. I don't want anyone else to die for me. I know if I die, I'll go to Niflheim, I'll be with you and everyone else".

"And how do you think Violet and Jonathan are going to react when they see you with blue skin, and not Jotun blue, on Niflheim?"

For a split second, Dahlia's eyes widened in fear as she gasped, "Grandma is gonna kill me, I've gotta hide in the castle".

Hela shook her head amused and said, "I warned you about Jonathan. Your grandpa is gonna yell at you either way…if you wanted to come home, all you had to do was say so earlier, forget about Hogwarts and go home. You know I would have taken you within a moment. You're the normal one, not with a prophecy of death and destruction on her head".

"No, just one with a mad man," Dahlia then violently coughed and blood began to seep out of her mouth.

"Internal bleeding in the right side of the abdomen," Bruce said, "I think she cut further than three inches".

"Shh," Hela shushed her sister as she stroked her hair, then Falcon came through the portal with healer Saida, a light elf who was the main royal healer of Niflheim. "About time," Hela almost snapped as the portal then closed.

Dahlia's skin was now going deathly pale due to the blood loss and healer Saida quickly ran to her side with her medical bag and took over from Bruce while Falcon went to Hela. It took only moments for Saida to examine Dahlia before she said, "I need to go somewhere clean, I have to stop the bleeding from the inside".

"Hela," Dahlia said fearfully and Hela immediately held her hand as tight as possible.

"We can transport her to St Mungo's," Madam Pomfrey said, "they'll know what to do, it's our hospital".

Saida shook her head and replied, "she cannot be transported by any means. Her biology is different to that of Midgardian mortals, giving her your potions when she is infected with the poison of the blade may only decrease her chances".

"The hospital wing," Madam Pomfrey said, "I should have everything you need there".

Saida said, "that would be most helpful," then she looked to a Hela, "my Queen, I need her to be asleep".

Hela nodded and kissed her sister's forehead and whispered, "I love you," her magic radiating from her fingertips, Dahlia's eyes slowly closing to the sound of her sister's voice.

Akio then picked her up as Hela stood and commanded, "do not leave her side," he nodded as he, carrying Dahlia, Madam Pomfrey, and Saida left the room for the hospital wing.

Hela was then in the Great Hall with some of the people she hated most in all of the cosmos, not just the nine realms. It took all of her being not to attack Odin but even then, Falcon placed a hand on her lower back and whispered, "live to fight another day. Dahlia needs you".

Hela thought over his words for a few moments before taking a few steps to Odin, his warriors immediately drawing their weapons and Thor even touched her shoulder to stop her, believing she was going to attack. She twisted his hand and his entire being began to age. His skin was withering and aging, the first demonstration of her powers for many of them in the room. As Thor fell to his feet, his throat constricting under her powers so he couldn't even scream, she looked between Thor and Odin as she said, "you continue to hurt my family, one brother chained, the other I cannot find, and now my little sister. She isn't even a child of the monstrous prophecy, yet you were going to take her".

Odin swung his staff in order for her to let go of Thor and when she did, Thor lay on the floor for several moments before returning to normal with Lady Sif and the Warriors Three helping him to stand. Hela could only smirk as Falcon even changed into his true form, causing many of them to stand back.

Hela then said, "always a man of war, never of peace. I'll give you this warning, if she dies, if I lose my magical connection with her, I'll kill you. I'll start Ragnarok without my brothers and father and you know I'll get them back, one way or another. The funny thing is, you don't even know how many enemies you have. Claiming to protect when if you look in your own history, even since you were a Prince, you have attacked and killed those on almost every realm and planet close to the nine realms. You may have spread the word of how horrible and monstrous I am but your one mistake was…you gave me an army. An army that cannot fall by ordinary means. You believed the Old King would kill me but he only gave me the strength to carry on. There are so many out there who hate you, they would happily ally themselves with me with the one goal of, not destroying Asgard, but putting your head on a spike…Dahlia is the last light we have, untouched by you and your kind. We lose that, you'll be sorry".

She then walked away, Falcon and Morek following behind her. But, as she left the Great Hall, Frigga ran through the doors to the castle, her hand immediately going to her mouth as she gasped when she saw the blood on Hela's hands and expected the worst. Hela only glanced at her for a moment as she didn't believe the Queen of Asgard deserved any more than that before she walked away, not wanting to speak to her.

Frigga then walked into the hall and saw the pool of blood and the looks of shock, regret, and anger and asked, "what did you do? Odin, what did you do?"

"She did it herself, mother," Thor said, still feeling weak from Hela's magic.

Clint couldn't help but comment, "it looked to us that she didn't have a choice". Thor looked back at his Midgardian comrades to see them all looking at him differently.

Natasha then said, "they both seemed to believe you're responsible for Loki going crazy. Thor, you told us you took his kids away because they were dangerous, tell us they were dangerous before you took them away. Tell us you did not take away kids from their father because of that stupid prophecy".

As Thor didn't answer, they got their answer and it only strengthened their new image of Thor when Frigga stepped closer and said, "they were innocent. Fear of a prophecy is what had them cast out".

Steve then said, "Thor, you're an honourable man so tell us the truth because right now, Dahlia could die. I say it's pretty clear now that it didn't matter what we thought, you had no intention of listening to us when it came to capturing her. Dahlia is innocent and has a good heart, even after what we did to her father, she still saw past that. After you learned that, did you even for a moment have any hesitation in taking her to Asgard for whatever sentencing you and your father have?"

"Loki's daughter-" was Thor's reply but Steve shook his head, not wanting to know what Thor's answer is, if he started it like that.

Frigga then looked between her husband and son and shook her head, "end this madness. Leave this child be. She's already hurt, let her live in peace". When she only saw her son look down and the expression on her husband's face didn't change, she said, "as you wish," and turned away.

"Frigga," Odin bellowed.

"No," Frigga said turning only slightly so she could look him in the eye, "I watched three of my grandchildren be turned away, treated as monsters. For a thousand years, I've listened to people talk badly about them or not even mentioning their names like they didn't exist. I watched my son fall into madness and now I may lose the grandchild I didn't know existed because of your fear for a prophecy. No more. You may not consider them family, but I do". With that Frigga left the room, leaving everyone in silence.

Hela, stood outside the hospital wing, she was told that it would be best if she waited outside. Akio followed her commands and stayed in the room with Dahlia, watching what they did to the Princess. At first, Madam Pomfrey was nervous with him being in the room, but he was certain that he had seen everything in battle. Saida too made the matron nervous with her pale-blue death complexion, her pointed ears, her long white hair and long light-blue robes. Madam Pomfrey had never seen a light elf before but hoped the elf was qualified to perform the surgery because Madam Pomfrey was only a matron of the school and could only assist.

Hela had commanded Morek to go back to Niflheim and assemble soldiers, not frost giants or fire demons as they wouldn't blend in out of all the beings she had and would make the children feel uncomfortable. She was to open another portal a few hours later so that they could come back through. She didn't trust being in the Hogwarts castle, especially when she knew the castle's defences had weaknesses. The last thing she wanted was for Voldemort to attack while Dahlia was weak and they couldn't transport her anywhere. So, she sat outside on a bench, Falcon sat next to her while she held her sister's wand and necklace in her hands. All magical objects being taken from her during the surgery.

"She'll be okay," Falcon said, his arm wrapped around her waist, "I promise".

"Don't promise something you can't control," Hela said, her voice finally breaking, not wanting to cry in the hall.

"I know because her name was flickering on my list before, and now it's almost not. She's gonna make it," Hela couldn't help but smile and turned her body closer to his as he held her.

He held her for a few moments before she felt him move his head and was looking behind her. Following his gaze, she found Frigga, clearly standing nervously but other than that, stood in all her regal form. Hela, wiping her tears away, stood and said, "I don't want any Asgardians here, Queen Frigga".

Frigga took a few steps closer until she was in arms reach and said, "you grew up into a beautiful young woman, Hela".

"Queen Hela. We're nothing but Queens of realms, Queen Frigga, not even allies. It would do you well to address me as such".

"Just like your father," Frigga said, shaking her head ever so slightly, "always so perceptive of everyone but yourself".

At the mention of her father, Hela couldn't help but stiffen and replied, "what are you doing here, Queen Frigga? You have no place here".

Frigga raised her hand, pushed a strand of white hair out of Hela's face, and wrapped it around her ear. She didn't miss the young man behind Hela move closer, taking a protective stance with a hand at his waist, where Frigga was sure he had a blade hidden. She also noticed that Hela gasped for a single moment, Frigga moving the hair out of her face like she did when she was a child, smiling like when she was a child.

Hela didn't want to be remembering how Frigga used to be, so she raised her hand, grabbing the Asgardian Queen's wrist and said, "like I said, we are nothing to one another".

"To you, but not to me. I know you miss the family you once had-"

"The family that turned their back on me, betrayed me because of a single prophecy that may not come to pass. Imprisoned my brother, sent the other away so I couldn't see him".

"I never turned my back on you. I tried to fight for you...Hela, I've seen what you've become-"

"A monster".

"Never," Frigga said as she ripped her arm out of Hela's grip. Falcon was now standing beside Hela and seemed to glare at Frigga but she wasn't intimidated. "You think your father is the only one who knows about the passageways. You think he's the only one who uses them. You may never have seen me but I was there. Watching as you transformed Niflheim-"

"I won't ask you again, Queen Frigga," Hela said cutting her off, not wanting to speak about Niflheim with Frigga being there, knowing she would now have to up the guards around the passageways and speak to Akio about security. "What are you doing here?"

Frigga sighed knowing Hela was just as stubborn as she was as a child, just as stubborn as Loki. Trying to repair her family, especially at a time like this, seemed impossible. Straightening herself, Frigga answered, "your father felt your sister's pain-"

"He's her father, we taught her magic. He may not have been there physically but he was there. The connection was formed, of course he can feel it".

"I came to see what happened. Your father is beside himself with worry-"

"You mean he's threatening everyone on Asgard," Hela said with a small smirk she knew would irritate the Queen. She knew her father all too well.

"Yes," Frigga answered bluntly, "Odin will not release your father, I know that. So, I came to see her, to see what happened".

"You're not seeing her," Hela almost snapped and almost took a step forward if Falcon didn't have hold of her waist. "My sister doesn't need any of you in her life. Your precious husband and King showed up and now look what's happened. You cause death and destruction and pain wherever you go...go back to Asgard, tell my father that my sister stabbed herself because of Odin. Because she didn't want to be captured, she saw no other way. Tell him that my healer is going to save her, she'll heal, then she's leaving with me".

Hela then turned and walked to sit back down, looking at the double doors to the hospital wing, while Falcon stood in front of Frigga, waiting for her to leave. Frigga glanced to her granddaughter, wanting to say more, to stay with her until she knew her youngest granddaughter would be safe. She didn't even know her name.

"Dahlia," Hela said as if reading her mind, "her name is Dahlia Lily Astrid Amara. Papa won't listen to you, he'll believe you're lying. Not many people know her full name. If you tell him her name, he'll know I told you that she's being taken care of". Frigga could only nod, even though Hela wasn't looking up at her and only Falcon was, but he too nodded as she began to walk away.

"What you created was a self-fulfilling prophecy. By taking the kids, you gave them a reason to hate you. A reason for revenge," Frigga heard, not knowing who said it as she approached the front of the castle, only knowing it was a male American voice so she knew it was one of the Avengers.

As she approached the front of the castle to leave, she saw a group of people in the hallway near the door, discussing matters that she didn't want or care to listen to, but she could tell they were mortals. From their style of dress, different from the mortals she met, she knew they were members of the wizarding community, clearly professors of the school, while one man with rumpled grey hair, a green bowler hat and a pinstriped cloak seemed to believe himself superior by the way he held himself. Clearly, the others were trying to calm him down about the matter.

Frigga walked past them without a glance and saw that the Asgardians and her son's mortal friends were stood in the courtyard, if she could call them that considering the way they looked at Thor. She only paid them a glance before walking towards the scorch marks where she originally came through the Bifrost. She glanced up to the sky and said, "Heimdall, open the Bifrost".

"Frigga," Odin said as he walked towards her, entering the scorch marking.

"Loki needs to be told of his daughter's condition," Frigga said and Odin gestured to the soldiers and Warriors Three to enter the marking, knowing they too should be returning to Asgard. Thor followed, sensing that for the moment, he was unwelcome.

Before they could leave, however, Tony said to Thor, "hey, Point Break, remember you take her, you won't just be condemning her. All the kids you've taught, you may as well hand them to Voldemort yourself". Thor knew it to be true and as he looked up the Hogwarts tower he could see some of the children through the windows spying and knew that if Dahlia was to be taken, her prophecy would never come to pass. The Bifrost opened and the rainbow light took all eight Asgardians away.

Returning to Asgard, no one said anything as Heimdall bowed to the royal family, all that was heard was Frigga's quick steps as she wanted to get to the palace as soon as possible, Odin following her, trying to reason but she refused to listen. Reaching the palace grounds, a group of guards ran out while the bells chimed, signalling that a prisoner had escaped. "My King, Loki has escaped".

Odin tightened his grip on his staff and shouted, "FIND HIM, WAKE EVERYONE".

Odin knew that time was limited, if Loki was out of his cell, it was only a matter of time before he found his way off of Asgard and with the night sky, it didn't help them. He knew that if Loki was to escape, he would go to Midgard but with Hela there, it would be a fight Odin didn't know he could win. Even he didn't know how to defeat an army of the dead without having their weapons. It would be a fight to regain order. Odin did, however, have one advantage. He knew Loki's weakness. For almost 2000 years, Loki's weakness was always his children, it was the reason why Odin didn't kill them when many said he should have done. He knew that Loki would be uncontrollable if he did. Loki was always an intelligent boy, he knew that if he escaped and left Asgard, he would never make it back in undetected. Knowing that, he wouldn't leave without his son. That Odin could depend on.

While the Warriors Three and Lady Sif left to find Loki, Thor going to find his wife and son, and Frigga to find her son before anyone else, Odin gestured to one of the inner guards, Ake, who went with them to Midgard and said quietly, "go to Tyr, check to see if the beast is still contained".

"Yes, my lord," Ake said before walking hastily, not knowing that hidden in the shadows was the father of such beast.

What happened in the Great Hall, the ultimate truth behind the girl who lived, was now the talk of the school and everyone knew it would soon be the talk of the wizarding world. Many in the Muggle world even believed once it got out that Loki, the man who tried to take over New York, had a daughter on earth. While everyone had different opinions on what happened, none could compare to the group of Gryffindor's currently sat in their common room.

Hermione sat on a couch chair, while Fred sat on one of the arms and Ginny and George sat on the couch. Ron stood, leaning against the fire as they all stared at Dahlia's box on the table in front of them.

"She lied to us," Ron said breaking the silence that felt like it lasted forever.

Hermione's head snapped up, looking away from the box at Ron's bluntness, it was clear that his insensitive and immature nature was present. She said, "she couldn't help it. You heard in the Hall, they're going to take her".

"Her father's a murderer," Ginny mumbled looking down at her hands, "Loki...Professor Odinson said Loki killed-"

"It doesn't matter," Hermione snapped as she stood, "'Lia is our friend, no matter who her father is or what he's done. He's been in prison according to the professors for almost all of 'Lia's life, it's not like she was raised by him. We have to think rationally about this. She must have reasons for not telling us but she was clearly going to. She told us she had a sister before we went to the Hall-"

"And her father?" Ron asked, "for years, she's kept it a secret. We're supposed to be her friends, everything we've done, and she kept it from us. We've almost died, risked our lives for her and she couldn't trust us enough to tell us the truth". Ron then stepped away from the fireplace and picked up the box, which made the twins lean closer and Hermione to take a step towards him. Ron tried to open the box but then said, frustrated, "this stupid box. What'd you think is in it? Gold? Jewels? Power? Her father is a god".

"Ron," Hermione scolded, sounding like a mother which really annoyed Ron. "Put it down. It clearly means a lot to 'Lia if she willingly revealed herself for it".

Hearing this only increased Ron's anger, wanting to hurt Dahlia just like they had been hurt by her ever-growing lies. Feeling his grip tightening on the box, knuckles turning white in the process, his eyes began to flicker between the box and the fireplace. Hermione saw this and tried to grab the box, but it became a tug of war. One wanting to keep the box, one wanting to destroy it.

In the end, Ron's hand slipped and slapped Hermione, who was falling to the ground while raising a hand to her red cheek. Ron's other hand that held the box threw it into the fire before he even knew what he had done. He only noticed that Hermione was on the floor when the twins jumped up from their seats and Fred pinned Ron against the wall. "What the bloody hell?" Ron exclaimed then glanced down to see George by Hermione's side while Ginny went upstairs, not wanting to see her brothers fight.

"You ever touch her again and I swear-" Fred started before Hermione interrupted.

"Fred, it's okay".

"No, it's not," Fred sneered, his grip tightened on the front of his brother's jumper.

"Mum taught us better," George said, sharing his twin's anger. "We'll make sure to tell her she failed in manners from one son".

"Hermione, I'm sorry," Ron said pleading, honestly sorry for what he had done. "I didn't realise, my hand just slipped".

"Why?" She questioned, "why throw the box into the fire?"

"She lied to us, betrayed us-"

She cut him off, "so that entitles you to destroy something of hers? She could be dying right now, she could die tonight and that box was important...I don't know why, but did you ever consider that maybe her sister would want it? No, you didn't. You just threw it into-" she cut herself off as she glanced to the fire and mumbled "not burning".

Fred released Ron slightly as they all looked to the fire to see that she was right. The box was in the middle of the fireplace but the fire itself was pushed around the box so it wouldn't touch it. The box itself was pushing the flames away.

Crawling to the fireplace, Hermione reached in and brought the box out, not a mark or burn only soot on the clear wood. Brushing it off, the fire then went back to normal as if the box had some control over the flames and Hermione mumbled, "magic," as she stood holding it.

Ron pushed his brother's arm away before he stormed upstairs, Fred going to follow him, but Hermione said, "don't. I told you, I'm fine. Right now, all we need to worry about is 'Lia".

Authors note: I know some of you were expecting a fight scene or going to war instantly but I saw this chapter go one of two ways. Firstly, Hela instantly starts fighting and tries to kill Odin and the others. Secondly, running to her sister and protecting her. I happen to have a little sister and a few of my friends do too and the one thing I know about sisters, especially being an older one, is that you're there for one another. I don't know how many of you have siblings but I'm willing to bet if they were hurt, you would make sure they were safe and healthy and you would get revenge later, after they are safe. please review.