"Get him to the healing room now!" Odin roared at Volstagg and Sif as soon as we landed. I turned to follow them, but Odin grabbed me by the arm roughly holding me in the room. "No you stay!"

I swallowed the lump in my throat and stood tall waiting for the oncoming storm.

"Why did you bring us back?" Thor demanded, not backing down from Odin.

"Do you realized what you've done?" Odin shouted still not releasing my arm, holding it so tightly I could feel a bruise forming.

"I was just trying to protect our home." Thor shouted back. He was still grasping his hammer tightly in his hand.

"You can't even protect your friends, how do you expect to protect the kingdom." Odin replied loudly. He shoved me towards Thor for emphasis. "Laufey was going to take Cadence. You went to Jotunheim to fight and you brought the one thing he wants the most!"

"I wasn't going to let him have her father. I would never let anything happen to her." Thor said. He looked at me, and took a deep breath, his eyes softening. "Cadence I wouldn't have let him have you."

I nodded slowly. Echo came up next to me and pressed himself into my side. Loki still hadn't said anything, but he was hovering on the other side of me silently watching the drama unfold.

"But we cannot be afraid to act! The Jotuns needed to pay for what they did." Thor continued looking back at his father. "They need to fear me like they once feared you!"

"That is not leadership, that is vanity. You have forgotten everything about what I taught you, about a warriors patience." Odin responded angrily.

"You can wait with patience while Asgard falls. All the other realms laugh at us, while you sit on the throne and wait! The old ways are done, and you stand there giving speeches and lectures to me while Asgard falls!" Thor shouted, his voice echoing around the expanse of the room.

"YOU ARE A VAIN CRUEL GREEDY BOY!" Odin roared thrusting his scepter out towards Thor.

Thor took a step forward challenging his father. "AND YOU ARE AN OLD MAN AND A FOOL!"

Odin shook his head, and an uncomfortable silence settled on the room.

"You're right. I was a fool, a fool to believe that you were ready to be king." Odin murmured.

A chill settled right in the pit of my stomach.

"Father." Loki said softly taking a few steps towards Odin, but Odin cut him off with a shout and a wave of his hand.

The hair on the back of my neck stood up, and I knew something was wrong.

"Thor Odinson, you have betrayed the commandments of your king. Through your arrogance and stupidity you have opened these realms and innocent lives to the horror and desolation of war!" Odin raised his scepter in front of him and threw it down into the pedestal opening the Bifrost. He lunged forward and began ripping apart Thor's armor. "You are unworthy of these realms and unworthy of your title! You are unworthy of the loved ones you have betrayed!"

No.

I took a step forward towards Thor, tears forming in my eyes. Loki grabbed me and held me back against him.

"Odin please. It's my fault don't blame him for this! I could have stopped him, but I didn't." I shouted struggling against Loki's grip.

Odin ignored me, stepping up slowly to the pedestal.

I made eye contact with Thor. His usual bright blue eyes, were stormy gray.

"I now take from you your power." Odin pulled Mjolnir from Thor's hand. "In the name of my father, and his father, and his father, I Odin you father, CAST YOU OUT!" he shouted as a bolt of lightning shot forward slamming into his chest and pushing Thor into the Bifrost bridge.

"NO!" I shouted struggling harder against Loki's arms. "No!"

"Cadence, you need to gain control of yourself." Loki said coldly through my mind.

He never did that. He never snapped at me that way.

Odin raised Mjolnir to his lips and whispered, "Whosoever holds this hammer, if he be worthy, shall possess the power of Thor." He threw the hammer into the swirling Bifrost.

I took in a shaky breath.

Odin turned slowly to us. "Loki leave us!" He shouted.

Loki slowly let go of me and stalked down the rainbow bridge, with Echo following slowly behind him.

Odin's eye was on me, anger flashing across his face.

"I'm so disappointed in you Cade. After I told you to watch Thor and Loki you do this? I took you into my palace and practically raised you and this is how you repay me?" He yelled, his face turning red.

I looked down at the ground, not trusting myself to speak.

"I should have sent you too." He snarled as he stomped away towards the palace.

My breath caught.

I swore I would never go back to Midgard. Not ever, not after what happened there. I feared for Thor. He was going to be swarmed by people, would he be burned at the stake also. What would happen to my oldest friend.

The fire crackled loudly in front of Sif and me as we lounged on the leather couch. Volstagg was still nursing his partially frozen arm, Hogan was helping him apply a salve that was supposed to be helping him. Frandral sat to our left holding a cup tightly in his hand, while Loki hovered behind us.

"We should never have let Thor go to Jotunheim!" Volstagg said angrily.

"You know there was no stopping him. Once he makes up his mind he always has to do it." I replied softly staring into the flames.

"Well rather be banished than dead, which is what we would be if that guard hadn't said anything." Frandral mused.

"How did the guard find out anyway?" Sif asked. She was unnaturally stiff in her seated position and I knew it was because she missed Thor.

We all did.

"I told him." Loki murmured from his position behind us.

Every single head turned to look at him.

"What?" Frandral said his eyes blazing.

"I told him to go to Odin after we'd left. He should have been flogged for taking so long, we never should have reached Jotunheim." He said cooly.

Well this is new.

"You told the guard?" I asked him calmly.

"Yes. I saved our lives. Especially yours Cade, you saw the way Laufey was looking at you. If Odin hadn't showed up well-" He stopped abruptly not wanting to finish his sentence. He swallowed and continued. "I had no idea that father would banish Thor."

Sif rose quickly from the couch. " You must go tot the Allfather and ask him to bring Thor back."

"I love Thor more dearly than any of you, but you see how he is. He's arrogant and reckless and dangerous. You saw how he was today! Is that what Asgard needs from it's king?" Loki spat.

He began to walk from the room swiftly.

"Loki wait." I said rising from the couch.

"Cadence just leave me alone!" He roared through my mind.

I stopped in shock.

Loki never did that. He never lost his temper with me, he never yelled at me like that. What was going on?

"Oh must be trouble in paradise." Sif taunted me.

I lunged forward and grabbed her raising her off the ground with one hand.

"Sif I swear to you, if you throw one more rude comment in my face, I will decapitate you and give your body to Echo so he can use it as a chew toy." I spat angrily.

She gasped for air against my hand, and I lowered her slowly to the floor.

I took a few breaths. Murderous rage blazed in her eyes, but she did not attack me. She walked calmly to the couch and sat down.

"I don't care about what Loki says, he has always been jealous of Thor." Frandral said quietly trying to turn the conversation around.

"We should be grateful to him, he saved our lives." Volstagg argued.

"Laufey said, 'there are traitors in the house of Odin.' A master of magic could bring 3 Jotuns into Asgard." Hogan whispered to the fire.

"Loki wouldn't do that. Sure he's jealous of Thor, but even he has his limits." I argued.

But maybe I knew they were right, deep down something felt wrong. Maybe Loki did this.

I teleported back to my room, and took a shower. Letting the warm water rinse everything away. It was supposed to be a good day, but it turned bad so fast. When I was done I heard a scratching at the door, and crossed the room to let Echo in, he crouched to jump on the bed.

"Oh hell no!" I shouted grabbing him by the scruff of his neck. "There is no way you are getting in that bed with frost giant blood all over you."

He gave me a sheepish look and I walked him into the bathroom to clean him off. After 20 minutes of trying to dry his fur I gave up and flopped on my bed. I didn't want to go to Loki's room. Not after the way he brushed me off.

Echo curled up in a ball next to me, but didn't close his eyes. He wouldn't go to sleep unless he knew I was asleep.

I sighed and closed my eyes, unsure of what dreams would assail my unconscious mind.

After a nightmare filled sleep of Thor being killed on Midgard I woke up. Echo was still curled into a ball at my side, snoring soundly. I hugged my knees to my chest and looked out the window. It was late in the day, I guess my body had really needed the sleep after yesterday.

I heard a knock at my door, low and soft. I sighed loudly and rose from my bed forcing myself to open the door. Loki stood there a wide frown on his face.

"What?" I snapped my hand still on the door knob.

"Cade can I come in?" He said ignoring my tone.

"Fine." I replied rolling my eyes.

He walked into the room a few feet then stopped.

"What do you want Loki?" I said crossing my hands in front of my chest.

"My father has fallen into the Odinsleep." He said plainly.

I uncrossed my arms. "What? Is he okay?"

"Which he did after he told me that I'm a frost giant." Loki said pursing his lips.

Shock ran through me.

"What?" I stuttered.

"Aparently I'm Laufey's son. Isn't it wonderful. And we have the same taste in women." He spat at me.

"Laufey's son?"

"Yes. When Odin went to Jotunheim to destroy the frost giants he brought me back. I had been left to die in the cold by my real father. Cold bastard just like me." Loki snarled, his hands curled into fists.

"Loki don't compare yourself to him. Just because you are his son doesn't mean you are anything like him. Frigga and Odin raised you and that makes you their son." I replied, my head still spinning. I took a step towards him and grabbed his hands in mine.

He ripped his hands away from me. "And of course he told me after I got to watch you cry over Thor being sent to Midgard!" He shouted. "You know I always knew you liked him better. I knew that you would choose him. The first day we met I thought 'hey she hasn't met my gorgeous blond warrior brother yet maybe I have a chance and even though we have been together this long you still like him more." Anger flashed in his eyes.

"Loki that's not true. You know I love you. Thor is just my friend, he always has been." I reasoned with him.

He sighed heavily, and pursed his lips, not wanting to look at me.

"Loki listen to me." I moved forward and placed my hand on the side of his face. "I don't care what species or race you are. I love you more than this entire universe. So please don't be afraid that I will push you away, because I won't ever do that."

His green eyes blazed into mine, not breaking contact with me.

He sighed. "I'm sorry." He murmured, looking away.

I turned his face back to look at me.

"It's okay. I love you." I said smiling at him.

A small smile crossed his face. "I love you too."

And then he was kissing me, wrapping his arms around my waist and pulling me to him.

"I missed you last night." He murmured against my lips.

"I missed you too." I whispered.

But even after all this, something tugged at the back of my mind.

A chill crept through me, warning me that something big was in store. Something that would change everything.