"Mother?" Thor was the first one to recover from the shock.

"Hello, boys." Frigga said and smiled. Her smile bore the signs of deep sadness, but it seemed that seeing her boys relatively well and, more importantly, together, made Frigga incapable of not letting her eyes shine with pride and a hint of happiness.

Not waiting any longer, Thor made a quick few steps towards his mother. Then, he stopped all of a sudden just a step away from her. The fact that he was a head taller than her didn't make him look any less her son.

Meanwhile, Loki was sitting on the bed with his legs crossed, completely unable to process the situation.

"Mother, this is an illusion, a projection, isn't it?" Thor said carefully, as if he was trying not to let his hopes up.

"Yes, it is, darling." Frigga replied only. She was still smiling.

Thor eyes dropped for a moment.

"So that means that I cannot hug you." Thor mumbled.

"Does it?" Frigga questioned, her right eyebrow raised. She quickly glanced at her younger son who seemed to be in some kind of shock. Frigga would give him the necessary time to adjust to the circumstances.

"That's why they are called illusions, are they not? I…we were fighting against Hela, mother. I would always toss things at Loki to know if he was really there or not. You cannot touch the illusions, that's why they are illusions." Thor was trying to explain and Frigga had to supress a big smile forming on her face. Thor was clearly in as much shock as his brother was, but he would deal with it in a completely different manner. While Thor tried talking until he could make a sense of the situation, Loki would close into himself.

"You're right, Thor. They are illusions. Tossing things at the one projecting them is actually quite a clever idea of proving whether they are real or not." Frigga said the words of praise to her son, noticing how Thor's eyes brightened upon hearing them. Her older son would always be congratulated for his strength, but not as much for his ideas. "But, my son, do not forget the position that your brother managed to acquire."

Thor seemed confused.

"Officially, I held the title. And there was no one better to leave the honour to than your brother for there was never a god who would be able to wield the magical arts as gracefully as your brother does. The mortals here think they found the ultimate magic, your little strange friend is the example of that, but the sorcerers supreme have always resided in Asgard."

"Are you saying…" Thor began but got lost in his thoughts.

"Your father is the Allfather, honey. It is not easy to woo the sorceress supreme in the end, is it?" Frigga smiled. "I was the sorceress supreme. Until that title came to your brother. He is the most powerful magician in the Nine Realms and beyond."

Frigga inconspiously glanced at Loki who seemed to be fidgeting with his fingers, a habit as Frigga noted with a smile, he got from her. But she knew that he was listening to every word she said.

"And so, my son, do you think that a former sorceress supreme would not be able to conjure an illusion with an actual substance if a need be? I admit that it is quite a difficult spell but if a true need arose, I am sure…" But Frigga was not able to finish the sentence as Thor's brain kicked in and he embraced his mother desperately.

Frigga smiled and breath in the scent of her son that she missed so much.

She connected her gaze with Loki's.

In the end, her younger son was the reason she made the difficult journey from Valhalla to Midgard in her full form.

Loki's eyes were wide upon seeing Thor being able to embrace their mother.

And then, Loki simply let go of everything. Quickly, he slipped out of the bed and ran towards his family.

Thor heard his steps and so he loosened the embrace just on time for Loki to almost jump at Frigga. The younger god brought his long arms around his mother's body and buried his face into her shoulder, holding on so tightly that it would be impossible for his mother to once again disappear from him.

Thor, who still had his left arm around Frigga's waist as well, couldn't resist the big grin forming on his face and gently, he brought his arm around his brother all his way to his mother.

Loki found himself being squeezed between his family members who both loved him unconditionally.

Thor rested his head on his brother's back.

"I thought I would never get to hug you again." Loki mumbled against Frigga's shoulder.

"Never say never, darling." Frigga said tearfully.

"I couldn't hug you for so long. The last time was when Odin was in the Odinsleep and…I wanted to sit next to you so much when you visited me in the dungeons but those illusions were never with substance. I wanted to hug you so much but I never could." Loki breathed out.

"I know, love. I know. I am so sorry. But you know better than anyone how difficult it is to conjure an illusion with actual substance." Frigga replied. She felt Loki smile against her skin.

"Yes. But I could do it." He replied with a hint of mischief and need for approval.

"Of course, you could Loki. If the situation really required it. But it uses a lot of your magic as you know." She said and suddenly, both the mother and the son felt as if Loki was a child again and Frigga was sharing the world of magic with him.

"Let's talk, boys." Frigga said finally.

Thor nodded happily.

"Let's go sit on the bed, shall we?" The Queen suggested, and Thor glanced on the bed. Noticing that it was not made, he quickly went towards it and began putting the blanket neatly over it. As neatly as Thor could.

Loki, on the other hand, refused to let go of the embrace.

"You are not going to disappear, are you?" He whispered and looked at his mother.

"No, I am not." Frigga assured him.

Still, Loki found it safer not to let go of the touch and so while letting go of the embrace, his hand found its way into Frigga's.

Hand in hand, mother and son walked towards the bed Thor was trying to put into a presentable version.

"It is alright, Thor." Frigga smiled finally.

Thor blushed and seated himself onto the bed.

Frigga sat down as well. It was with some difficulty as Loki seemed absolutely unwilling to let go of her hand.

Frigga didn't blame him.

As the Queen gracefully rested her back against the wall, her younger son mimicked her movements and sat as close to her as possible.

"I am so happy you are here, mother." Thor said finally.

"Me too." Loki added.

Frigga smiled.

"I am so proud of you, boys. You have saved Asgard. Watching you fight side by side gave me much joy." The Queen said and both gods blushed slightly, looking as if they just de-aged.

"Loki, how is your chest and shoulder?" Frigga's voice got more serious as she eyed her beautiful son. She could see the bandages and her blood was boiling at the mere idea of what those mortals did to her son.

"It is better." Loki mumbled as if embarrassed.

Frigga gave him a pointed look and brought her left hand onto Loki's chest. Loki embraced himself for the pain but there was none.

Frigga's hand began shining with green light and Loki could feel his ribs falling into place painlessly while his shoulder repaired itself completely.

"Better?" Frigga questioned with a smile.

"Thank you." Loki replied, finally feeling physically alright. What was even better, Loki understood that Frigga helped his magic to fully fill his being again. The lingering effects of the magic-supressing shackles were gone.

"I came here because…" Frigga began saying but even the Queen, who was one of the strongest beings in the entire universe, had to pause before uttering the next few words. "Because I witnessed the trip your memory lane, son."

Loki looked at his mother, completely horrified.

"Why?" The raven-haired god asked finally, his brilliant eyes focused on his lap.

"Loki…I…just had to know. I am sorry to have invaded your privacy without your consent."

Loki looked at his mother.

"It's alright. I think that…I am actually happy that you know."

Frigga breathed out in relief. Then she braced herself for the next words.

"What Odin did shames me to the bottom of my heart. I should have known. I should have done something. Can you forgive me?" She asked.

"There is nothing to forgive, mum." Loki mumbled, still unable to keep an eye contact with Frigga.

"No, Loki. There is so much I should have done differently. Your parentage…" But Frigga was interrupted by Loki who finally raised his eyes.

"Don't." Loki said. "I understand why you did what you did. You told me that Odin kept the truth from me so that I would never feel different. But these were actually your reasons, not his. And those I can understand."

"Loki…do you want to talk about the Void? About Thanos?" Frigga asked and Thor visibly tensed.

"I think that the memories were self-explanatory." Loki replied after a while.

"Yes. But, please, know that if you feel like you want to talk about anything at all, your brother will be here to listen. No one should have to go through what you did, Loki. I cannot change what happened, but we can all try to make it better." Frigga said seriously. Thor nodded his agreement.

After a moment, Loki gave them a soft smile.

Frigga squeezed his hand in approval.

"Will you be alright, my sons?" She said finally.

"Tell me you're not leaving so soon." Thor said quickly. Loki's hold onto Frigga's hand tightened.

"I am afraid I must go as the spell is draining me. Also, I have a few things to attend to as your father has been uncooperative when it comes to running Valhalla properly. There is a warrior who I need to talk to. Skurge. Some gods are against him entering Valhalla. I need to settle this business now. But I leave with a lighter heart, knowing that you boys have each other." Frigga smiled.

"Skurge is an idiot, but I believe his intentions to be good. He just got caught up in the bigger game." Loki said and Thor nodded.

"I'll take that into consideration." Frigga smiled, happy that her sons had mercy in their hearts.

"Farewell, my boys. Know that I love you." Frigga said and Loki sensed that the spell was wearing off.

"Mother?" Loki said in the last moment. Frigga gave him a questioning smile. "Now we know that you are capable of conjuring yourself here from time to time."

"You are my little God of Mischief, aren't you, love?" Frigga smiled and winked at Loki who returned the smile.

When the brothers were alone once again, they could still feel the warm feeling their mother has spread around the room.

"This was…" Thor began saying while looking at Loki. "Perfect." Both gods finished and smiled.

"So…" Thor started after a moment, "you are a sorcerer supreme now, huh?"

"No. I am the sorcerer supreme." Loki corrected Thor with smug.

"I think that my friends are all jealous that my brother is a…the sorcerer supreme now." Thor announced.

"They should be."

"Loki, are you alright?" Thor said, his tone suddenly serious.

"I would not lie to mother, Thor. I am." When Loki saw that Thor gave him an uncertain look he continued. "I wasn't alright for quite some time. But for the first time since it all went wrong, I finally feel safe and relaxed. Not just on surface, but also deep inside me. I am here on Midgard with you. We are safe. Our people were saved from Ragnarok and they don't hate me anymore. Yes, brother, it was difficult to have to go through those memories, but I believe they also reminded me that it was not my fault. I think that one of those things that were constantly bringing me down was that I felt that it was me and me alone who with my ambition and lack of appreciation triggered the chain of unfortunate events that led me to suffer that much. Now I can see that it was all much more complicated. What happened, happened. Past is past. Now both of us are stronger than ever. I believe that we can be happy again."

"I would like that very much, brother." Thor said his eyes full of tears.

"Don't get your hopes too up though. I may turn you into a frog occasionally." Loki smirked to ease the tension.

"I wouldn't doubt that." Thor winked.

"Actually, there is one thing I really want to do. When we emerged from the memory spell, you said that you have done a lot for me. You are right, Thor. Consider this to be my way of thanking you." Loki said cryptically.

"Loki, it is alright." You don't have to…" Thor began but was interrupted.

"I know. That's what makes me so nice." Loki winked back and cleared his throat. "Strange?"

Stephen appeared almost instantly.

"Yes?" The Doctor asked.

"It turns out that I am the sorcerer supreme." Loki began. Thor wondered where he was going.

"I am aware of the fact." Strange replied.

"Are you? Then why have you not been showing me more respect?" Loki raised his eyebrow.

"It is a position you must deserve. I was testing you to see if you were worthy." Strange said. "Also, I am not great when it comes to respecting authorities."

Loki chuckled. "I think we may have that in common."

"Indeed."

"Let me propose a truce. We both know how intricate and delicate magic is and how unappreciative others might be towards it. I would be willing to overlook your past mistakes if you could share the favour and we could start brand new." Loki proposed. Thor smiled to himself; this was the Loki he knew, the diplomatic silver-tongued genius.

"I think that could be quite fun." Strange said and extended his hand towards Loki who didn't hesitate to shake it.

"Two sorcerers going at it." Loki said mischievously.

"Quite a team." Strange continued.

"There is a favour that I would like to ask if you don't mind." Loki began and continued when Strange nodded him to go on. "There is something in Norway at the Asgardian settlement that I need. Could you fetch it for me?"

"It will be my pleasure." Strange said and disappeared right after.

"How does he know what you need?" Thor asked confused.

"I send him the mental picture." Loki replied.

"Can you do that?"

"Two sorcerers can."

It didn't take long and soon Strange was back. He put a wooden box onto Thor and Loki's bed.

"See you soon, Loki."

"You too, Stephen."

And then Strange was gone.

"How did you know that his name was Stephen?" Thor wondered.

"Mother's touch has returned all my magic to me, brother." Loki said happily. Then he moved towards the box. Carefully, he opened the cover and smiled when he saw that everything he needed was inside. Without further show he emptied the contents onto the blanket. Thor's mouth opened wide.

"That's….that was…that's…" Thor tried to say but couldn't finish. Loki actually laughed.

"Yes, Thor. It's the remainders of Mjolnir. As I said, my magic is back. Your little friend Korg told me that you admitted that losing Mjolnir was almost comparable to losing a loved one. Considering that faking my own death has been one of my favourite tricks, consider this to be my way of saying sorry for all that." Loki said and then focused all his attention to what used to be Mjolnir.

Loki knew that Hela was powerful to be able to break the magic of Mjolnir. But Frigga's words gave him the self-confidence that he was always lacking. He knew he could do it.

Loki's fingers began emitting a marvellous, shining green light that seemed to be gracefully dancing around his fingers. For a while, he played with the sparkles, concentrating all his energy into the spell. Then, he sent the light towards the remainders of Mjolnir.

Each piece of the broken hammer flew into the air where it began spiralling above the brothers' heads. Then, the green light began bringing the pieces together as if it was knitting them by an unbreakable energy-thread. After a magical moment, the light disappeared, and the ready product fell onto the bed.

It was Mjolnir. Beautiful as ever with no sign of any damage.

"That's not possible." Thor mumbled.

Loki smiled. "Thank you for everything, Thor."

Thor looked at Loki, then at Mjolnir and then back at his brother. This went on for quite a while.

Loki laughed. "Brother, you look like an idiot. Pick it up."

Thor extended his hand but then he brought it back. He looked at Loki. "Brother, that…magic that you did. It was truly beautiful."

Loki bit his lip. It was nice to hear his brother complimenting his magic.

And then Thor extended his hand and without any problems, Mjolnir flew into his hand. Unbelieving, Thor stared at the hammer and enjoyed the power that was running through his veins once again. Yes, he was the God of Thunder, not Hammers. But Mjolnir was Mjolnir.

"Loki, I…I don't know what to say. Thank you so much." Thor said on the verge of crying.

"I actually made one little improvement." Loki said mischievously as he extended his hand and opened his palm.

Mjolnir began shaking in Thor's grip and surprised, the Thunderer opened his fingers. Mjolnir flew straight into Loki's open palm. He grinned.

"It is yours, brother. It has always been. It fits you and your fighting style. I just…I feel worthy."

Thank you so much for reading! There is quite a lot that I would like to say.

Firstly, I am sorry for not updating for ages. Well...the exams are here but more importantly, Infinity War just...sucked (euphemism). So I was thinking about all that and how and whether to incorporate it into this story. In the end, I think you may be able to spot a few...well...how to call it...reasons? why Loki is a smart cookie and that he always has a plan B. Other than that, I will follow my storyline.

As you may have realised, the idea of Loki and Strange forming some sort of alliance came to me from Chris and Tom's interview for Ragnarok promo. It's just a great idea so I wanted to use it ;)

If you enjoy reading about Loki and Frigga, you can try to give a go to my one shot The World Needs You (the title I guess is also a bit of a reference to my dissatisfaction with Marvel's latest endeavor). But it takes place in the middle of The Dark World.

Quite a few of you have been messaging me about the nature of the relationship between Thor and Loki. Basically asking if it will turn into Thorki or if it is just a bromance. It is a bromance. Tom said in one interview that he doesn't think that Loki is particularly keen on kissing anyone and I have also never noticed his interest in any romantic partner. Obviously, fanfics which give him some romantic interest, either from the Norse Mythology or the Avengers, are great but I don't really see myself writing that. There is a lot of physical contact between Loki and Thor which is my explanation for why some of you may got the impression that it may turn into Thorki. Bacially, my reasoning behind that is that Loki has always seemed to be kind of afraid of physical contact, maybe most prominently when Odin fell into the Odinsleep in the Vault. However, I think he really needs a friendly hug reminding him that he is indeed loved. I think he was hurt a lot by not being able to hold Frigga's hands in the dungeons in the Dark World. And so I just want to give Loki a lot of hugs.

Anyway, I think that it's about time to bring Thanos down, don't you think? Let's see what happens in the next chapters ;)

And, of course, reviews are very much appreciated.