The group of ten visit Windhelm and one of them finds out Loki's secret.
21st of Rain's Hand 4ERA 211
The next morning had the Avengers and Asgardian all eating breakfast that consisted of apple cabbage soup this time while also in their night clothes when Loki opened the door to greet them. "Good morning everyone. I hope your all eager to venture into your first city." she said to them in an eager tone while wearing this fancy looking dress with the long skirt part of the dress being a dark blue color and the top having the center being that of a steel armor with the rest of the dress covering the armor part, with her also having a dark blue fur jacket on with gray looking armbands with metal on those, along with her boots also having metal on it and also a gray looking color.
Clint then spoke up at how the outfit looked familiar to him but couldn't think of where he saw it, "What can you tell us about Windhelm?"
"Windhelm is the oldest city in Skyrim and the first true city Skyrim ever had that dates all the way back to the Atmoran's." She then made a gesture, "Now hurry up, I plan on us being in the city for most of the day, meaning you will all need these." She then waved her hand and these backpacks appeared in everyone's hands. "In case you all decide to buy some things, you can keep them in there, and I even gave you all 5,000 Septims each as spending money."
While Loki waited for them all to change into day clothes, she grabbed one of her many books to wait for them, which didn't all that long, with them all heading out the door, down the path and taking a right to the bridge.
"I have a house in Windhelm called Hjiem where if any of you need to take some time out of the city, you can stay there. And also," she paused, then continues, "I won't be with any of you since I'm need at the Palace of the Kings for Thane business and all, so your all on your own, so no fights because I am NOT saving you or bailing you out. And just so that you know, none of you are aloud into the palace unless I am with you."
"What kind of shops are there?" Bruce asked, really hoping that he might find a shop that he likes.
"There is an alchemist shop, a general goods shop, a bookstore, a clothing shop, a blacksmith, and even a number of stalls. And some more, but those are just to name a few."
And once they entered the city, the first thing the foreigners saw were humans and elves and even Argonians walking freely in the city, with an Argonian, which Clint, being the one that knows Skyrim the best thinking, 'Is Brunwulf Free-Winter the Jarl?', which to him would make sense since he would always side with the Legion when he would play the game, so he has no idea what siding with the Stormcloaks game-play looks like. As Loki walked towards the giant stone building that had to be the Palace of the Kings, the group went on with their day.
~~~~~~~~Later
Well over an hour to nearly two hours after they arrived, Natasha, who still needed to make sure that the real Loki is no threat to not only them, but to Earth, she snuck off to Loki's house in the city and used that to change into her Nightingale Armor that she snuck into her backpack, along with a bunch of invisibility potions that she made and bought from the alchemist shop (along with a few other potions).
Changing into her armor and leaving the house, she drank the first invisibility potion and with her skills, she avoided knocking into people that would break the invisibility on her, and when she made it to the palace (completely ignoring what Loki said earlier), she was lucky when the door opened and two guards walked out to replace two other guards. Seizing her chance, Natasha ran into the palace unnoticed and ran to a darker area and then quickly drank another potion that was made to keep her invisible for 5 minutes. As she watched, she saw not just Loki in the room sitting at the very long table that was piled with food and going through some papers, but also a large man sitting on the throne that too wore an armored chest plate and fur jacket the same as her's and another man that was an Argonian in a bear furred based armor talking about something that sounded like it was about the guards. The there was also a woman that was a dark elf who, from what Natasha could make out was about new trainees, and as Natasha was listening, she eventually heard the Argonian and the Dark Elf as one point addressing the man on the throne as 'Ulfric', and Ulfric addressing him as 'Scouts' and the woman as 'Nervana'.
Thinking back to Clint's game, Natasha realized this man on the throne is none other than Ulfric Stormcloak, meaning that HE is the High King of Skyrim and no longer is the Jarl and the Argonian was Scouts-Many-Marshes, but as she was listening, she saw the Dark Elf woman address Loki as 'My Queen', which had Natasha's jaw drop. She almost fell out of her hiding spot when after the Argonain and Dark Elf left the main room and back into the city, Loki got up from the table with Natasha seeing her not only pregnant and her dress, while still the same style but minus the armor part, now resembled that of a maternity dress with Loki walking over to Ulfric to sit on the stone armrest. But what had her trying not to gasp was when two little girls that had to be at least the age of three ran into the room and called Loki and Ulfric 'Mommy' & 'Daddy'. Being as quick as she could when the palace door opened again, Natasha ran out and back to Hjirem, processing the new information about Loki.
While she wanted to tell Thor, she had a feeling that after hearing how she fights with weapons, Thor would say and do something that would piss Loki off again, resulting in Thor regretting it, but Natasha had a feeling that Loki will tell them herself when she is ready. Changing back into her day clothes and placing her armor back into her bag, Natasha left the house, to continue exploring the city.
~~~~~~~~~~~Later
It wasn't until sometime around possibly 2 or even 3 in the afternoon when Natasha spotted Loki, still wearing her fancy dress but with her two Deadric swords and her pregnancy hidden again, who happened to be heading to some training area. Following her with it looking as though she wasn't following her, Natasha noticed the training area was empty, save for Loki, who was attacking a training dummy with her two swords.
It didn't take long for Loki to speak up. "I know you were spying on us earlier. It took me a while to convince my husband that I will talk to you later."
Answering her, "I had to ensure you were no threat to us and to Earth after what your golem did."
"What my golem did is not of my concern on acount the mind of a golem can easily be tainted and destoryed."
"I still needed to be sure that..." She didn't get a chance to answer because the next thing she knew, Loki had both her swords inches from her nose, surprising her, and she is a highly skilled assassin herself.
"I am NO threat to you or to the rest with you. In fact, your right now, your considered a threat to us."
"Me?"
"Yes you. You not only were wearing the armor of a Nightingale, but you also spied on the High King and High Queen of Skyrim, along with the crown Princesses. And you also spied on the pregnant High Queen, meaning that I'm in a more vulnerable position." Loki said, using her trusty silver tongue against Natasha.
As for Natasha, she knew Loki was right about what she did. She was wearing armor that is considered hostile, and with Loki being pregnant, she was technically in a more vulnerable state, along with her daughters were in a way, in danger because of how young they are, and with her as a Queen, she had the power to throw Natasha in the prisons without question.
"Your right Loki." Natasha started, "what I did was wrong and I am sorry for doing so."
Sheathing her swords, "I forgive you. But next time I say your not aloud to go somewhere, I mean it."
Eventully, the two women began talking, until it was starting to get dark out with Loki noticing first. "I had no idea we were talking for so long since its starting to get dark out."
"I do have to ask thought," Natasha started, "Isn't Ulfric supposidly racist towards anyone that isn't a Nord."
"My Husband is not racist." Loki stated firmly. "Ulfric's great-great-grandfather was the one that was racist, with the Argonian and Dunmer you saw him talking to earlier being his two childhood best friends Scouts-Many-Marches who is Captain of the guards & Nirvana who trains the recruits for the guards and when the Civil War was going on, she trained the recruits for the Rebels. Ulfric also not only fought along side the different races during the Great War and had a variety of races in his unit, and was even rescued from the Thalmor by his two best friends with help from other elves that hate the Thalmor for making all elves look bad. The Stormcloaks also happened to have been a diverse group during the civil war with some of them being veterans of the Great War that wanted to get the Thalmor and the Legion out of Skyrim, while the Legion mainly consisted of Imperials from Cyrodiil, with the Legion being far less diverse than the Stormcloaks."
"What made you fall for him then?"
"A lot of things did." Loki said with remembrance in her voice. "For one, he is very courages and brave and when Helgen was attacked by Alduin when Alduin first attacked, I escaped with Ulfric, Ralof, and a couple other lucky ones and got to fight with them and saw how much of a warrior Ulfric is. His voice is another thing that I fell for when I first heard him talk, my knees actually felt weak. He cares deeply for his people and wasn't afraid to fight for everyone to worship who they want to worship and not what the Thalmor wanted everyone to worship. He's a great leader and with him as High King, he actually knows what he's doing and thanks to me being royalty already and help from his friends, he has some help in ruling.
"And while there are other things that had me fall for Ulfric, the biggest one is when we're in private, he can be so caring and compassionate. When I was pregnant with the twins and during this pregnancy, not only he was quite the worry-wort since twin births don't always end well, he was also very attentive and sometimes when he thought I was asleep, I would hear him talking to them. Even when the girls were born, and I was getting some well deserved rest, I heard him talking to them."
"He sounds like a wonderful man." Natasha said, now starting to realize that this Ulfric might not be like the one in the video game.
"He is."
The two women then began walking to Loki's house Hjirem, with the two parting ways outside the house with Natasha joining the rest of the group and then they all left back to Loki's Estate, while Loki went back to the palace to be with her family.
~~~~~~~~Later that night
It wasn't until well into the night at around midnight with Loki fast asleep in bed, she didn't even hear the door open nor hear Ulfric walking in. She began to stir when she felt the bed shift as Ulfric joined her. Loki shifted herself so that she was using his chest as her pillow, followed by Ulfric wrapping his arms around her.
"They need to know the truth." Loki said, breaking the silence. "Since one now knows, the rest has to know, about me being married to you, about the girls, and about the pregnancy."
"Your afraid of how your brother will react?"
"Of course! I'm afraid that he not only won't react well since I saw the look on his face when I said that I fight with weapons far bigger than a small throwing knife, and knowing him, he won't react well when he sees me being married for love instead of on Odin's orders."
"I won't let your brother do anything to you."
"I know you won't." Loki said, followed by a yawn and her falling back asleep, followed by Ulfric, with the two snuggled up in each other's arms.
Once again I used that Snow City PC mod.
For the fic, I have Scouts-Many-Marches as Ulfric's childhood best-friend, which according to Scouts coding, he and Ulfric are suppose to be friends, and as for Nirvana, she serves as a Dunmer OC of mine and also as Ulfric's childhood best-friend.
Next chapter is the big meeting.
