I don't own Supernatural
Characters: Loki, Thor, Natasha, Steve, Bruce, Clint, Tony, Sam, Dean.
Genre: Supernatural, Drama, Angst
This one is more Thor meeting new people than Loki but it's about Loki.
He had gotten there first and it looked like he was just in time. The blue from the alien artifact that Loki had stolen was growing bigger but had not yet been released into the atmosphere. He still had time, he could stop this, stop millions of people from dying when the light reached it's apex. He took out his sword as his hammer never seemed to quite make it's mark.
"Loki stop this!" he cried. He didn't want to hurt him but he had made a promise that no more people would be hurt by his brother's hand and his inaction. Loki looked at the sword dismissively and back to the building blue light as if he didn't think that he would actually go through with it.
"Loki stop this!" He repeated desperately because he didn't want to hurt his brother, but he couldn't let him hurt millions of Midgardians either. Loki didn't heed his warning and after one last look at the building blue light Thor rammed the hilt of his sword into the pale being. Loki looked down at the sword and then up at him, nothing in his face or his stance made it seem like he was in any pain. Thor would think that he had hit a clone except that he had felt it slice through flesh. It was a fatal wound. Why was Loki still standing and why he grinning?
"I suppose there's something I should tell you Thor, though I wasn't really planning to, but I never actually thought that you would stab your brother no matter how mad you were at him," Thor frowned at the way that Loki was speaking about himself, perhaps he was truly mad.
"However, it will became very obvious fairly soon so I might as well," his eyes turned black. Completely black. Thor backed up as he had never seen such a thing.
"You stabbed your brother. I never thought that you would actually do it, but you did," Loki said and took a step forward for every step that Thor took backwards. "I suppose that you really must hate him, I guess he was right."
"What going on? What's wrong with your eyes," Thor said trembling slightly as he had never heard of such a thing and had no idea what was going on except that it left a bad taste in his mouth and and bilgesnipes running through his stomach.
"It's so great that you are so stupid that you don't know what I am even after I've shown it to you," he said with a laugh then moved some more mechanisms on the dial causing the light to build more. "Granted I'm not really sure how many Asgardians have come across us... I think their system works differently," he added the last part absently.
"What are you?" Thor said brandishing his sword.
"I would have thought that you would have learned by now. The only person you're hurting when you attack me is your brother. The fact that I'm in him is the only reason he's still alive after you stabbed him. It's also the only reason he survived the fall but that's neither here nor there," he added with a dismissive wave.
"What?" Thor said still confused but also horrified because it sounded like something was in his brother, and without the thing in his brother he would have just killed his brother who maybe wasn't responsible for his actions.
"Are you inside Loki?" Thor asked slowly.
"Give the man an award for stating the obvious," the black-eyed being said with a series of sarcastic claps of his hands.
"Stay away from the controls," Thor shouted as the black-eyed being started moving the controls again. The being paused.
"What are you going to do to me if I don't?" he said with a wide smirk. "Are you going to stab me again?" he said stepping towards him. "Are you going to put more holes in your brother's body? Right, I forgot, you must not care about him much, after all, you did just stab him."
Thor's blood boiled in anger as the creature in his brother body taunted him, he stepped forward a few feet.
"So you? You are responsible for everything that has happened between me and Loki?"
The creatures smirk stayed firmly in it's place.
"Wouldn't that just be convenient? Wouldn't that wrap everything up into a neat tidy bow? Unfortunately for you it's really not that simple. I only come across this meat suit after his fall through the land of the lost souls. Everything before that, that was him through and through."
Thor frowned as he had never heard of the land of the lost souls before and wasn't sure what that meant.
"The land of the lost souls?" he asked aloud, uncertainly tinging his voice as he tried to understand exactly how long this creature had been in his brother's body.
"The land of lost soul is what the Bifrost traverses. Most of the time you Asgardians go so quickly through it that you are normally untouched by the souls who are lost there; however, when one falls through it that's a different story." Thor blinked. The fall. When Loki let go he had fallen through where the Bifrost was and apparently had encountered the creature in him in his journey. Everything that had happened on Midgard wasn't his brother. The thousands of humans who had died was because of the creature inside of him, but it also meant that his brother was responsible for everything else. He had lied to him and tried to hurt him and decimate Jotunheim. Granted after Loki's 'death' he had understood his brothers reasons a lot more than he had at the time at least for some of the things that he did. Nothing he had learned though had changed the fact that Loki had killed Thor not long before Loki's own 'death', granted Thor had come back to life. However, after Loki had 'died' he hadn't cared much about any of that, he had just been happy that Loki was alive. All he had wanted was for Loki to come home it was Loki's actions on Midgard that had driven the wedge between them and had led to Thor stabbing him in the first place. Those actions had been because of the creature in his brother's body.
"Leave my brother's body!" he demanded.
"Your brother? He's your brother again?" the creatures said like it was surprised. "Well I could leave your brother, but as I've already told you there's a slight problem if I do that you see. I'm the only thing keeping him alive and if I leave him then he'll die due to the rather large wound you just put there. Do you really want me to leave him?" Thor noticed that black eyes faded back into the green.
"Thor, do you want me to die?" he looked so innocent and vulnerable the likes of which he hasn't seen on his brothers face in a long time. Thor opened his mouth but didn't know what to say. He noticed that Loki was edging back to the controls.
"Stop!"
Loki turned but rolled his eyes."I think we've established that nothing you can do to stop me all you can do is put more holes in this body."
Thor dropped the sword and took out his hammer.
"I don't see how that is going to make any difference," Loki said moving one of the controls. Thor's eyes caught the expanding blue light. He was right, he could fry his brother's body again and again and nothing would happen to the creature inside. He dropped his hammer and took out something that Tony had given him a while ago in case of emergencies He pressed the middle and a red light lit up. 'Loki' took notice of the item in his hand and for the first time seemed a little alarmed. Apparently he knew or could guess what the item in his hand was.
"You'll kill him,"
"I'll stop you," Thor countered.
"Temporarily," 'Loki' agreed "I will just find another body. I like this one because it has magic and strength but that doesn't mean that I will not just find another one if you destroy this body. It will be inconvenient for me, but you will be the one to lose your only family member that you have left." Thor looked between 'Loki' and the growing blue that in moments would destroy people. Just minutes ago he had made the decision to kill Loki rather let him ruin more lives, but it was hard to make the same choice knowing that Loki hadn't been responsible for many of his terrible choices.
He turned off the bomb in his hand and dropped it and a moment later called Mjolnir to him which he threw at Loki who had turned back around when he had dropped the bomb. Mjolnir hit 'Loki's' head with enough force to knock him down. He was not moving, but hopefully the blow was not hard enough to hurt him permanently. He started forward to check his brother's health when he heard the sound of Tony's suits and quinjets in the not so far distance. Then the blue caught his eyes. Right, stop machine of blue light that would kill millions first, then check on his brother. He hurried to the machine only to discover that he had no idea how to stop it. There were numerous controls and dials but he had no idea what would turn them off. He looked up as he heard the sounds of Tony's arrival and moved aside to let Tony at the controls hopefully the genius would figure them out. The others were nearing but if Tony couldn't stop it, it wouldn't matter that they were close. He started moving one if controls and the lights sluggishly started to recede. Tony had done it. Now that the threat was over Thor turned around to make sure that his brother was okay only to find a empty spot where his brother had lain just moments before.
"Where's reindeer games?" Tony asked turning around. Thor didn't answer just looked at the spot where his brother's body had been moments ago. He had lost Loki again, there was a creature out there doing who knew what in his brother's body and he had just let him walk out.
"Thor, where's Loki?!" Tony demanded sharply turning him around from the spot on the floor that he was looking at. He heard footsteps behind him and knew that the two of them now had an audience, but they didn't speak as they either hadn't heard Tony's question or were waiting for the answer. He didn't know how to answer that. Loki's body had escaped but Loki himself, where was he? Stuck inside his mind watching the creature inside him screaming, or merely stuck there and not fighting it at all. The creature had never offered a clue to Loki's true state and Thor felt his legs go weak for a second at the thought of his brother screaming in his own mind. His legs nearly buckled when Tony shoved him and snapped.
"God, Thor. You need to stop letting the fact that the two of you grew up together influence how you face him," he said irritated but didn't shove him again, he just starting pacing up and down.
"I did," Thor spoke softly and he looked down at his hands that he had used to stab his brother. There was blood on them he hadn't noticed that before. There wasn't a lot but there was a smear of blood on the underside of his arm.
"What?" Tony asked and then noticed the blood stain.
"Is that…" he trailed off and Thor resisted the sudden urge to cry at what he had found out as he was going to have to tell Tony and the others about it. He was glad that he was facing away from the others and that they hadn't spoken. He knew that they would probably have doubts and that Clint wasn't likely to take his word on the matter but he had to tell them, he had to tell them the truth.
"There is something inside him," he spoke softly, too softly probably for anyone other than Tony to hear him. "Something that had made him do many of the things he has done," Tony didn't seem so mad anymore and he put his suited hand on Thor's broad shoulders.
"He's probably tricking you, trying to get you to show him some sympathy so he can use it to his advantage like he did here today," Thor shook his head and the tears that he had blinked before came to his eyes as he said.
"You don't understand...I stabbed him, in the heart, I felt it slice through his flesh and he didn't die." Thor said slowly as the words kept getting stuck in his throat.
"What?" Tony said looking confused and alarmed.
"It has to be some kind of trick, his magic," Clint's voice came from behind them.
"His illusions have no substance, while he did do a similar trick before, but the way he spoke…" Thor trailed off not able to continue that train of thought. "His eyes were black as coal," Thor said sadly as he had no idea how to free his brother from his prison that he hadn't even been aware that he was in until then. All he could think about was that he should have known. Should have felt that something was off, but he hadn't. He hadn't felt anything and his brother was the one that had suffered for it for years. But even knowing now he didn't know what he could do to save him.
"Wait, what?" He turned around to look at Natasha who looking at him like she was trying to measure how much she could trust him. He was not lying, so he just did his best to show her that.
"What color of eyes?" she asked again if he was lying it was be hard for him to lie with the look she had in her eyes; she would be able to tell instantly if she wasn't being told the truth
"Black," he said honestly.
"How much of it?"
"The whole thing,"
"I know what it is and I know someone who can help," she said and Thor felt sometime inside of him rise at notion that there could be hope for his brother.
They had to travel to Lebanon, Kansas. Despite his insistence to go alone the other Avengers had followed him. The team found themselves in bunker looking at two men who were rather tall for Midgardians. One was taller than the other with long brown hair and other had short blond hair. Both were wearing plaid and looking at them surprised. Everyone but Bruce and Steve were dressed in their Avengers uniforms. Bruce because his Avenger's uniform was really The Hulk and Steve because he didn't like wearing his uniform except when he was fighting. Thor hadn't changed because he had been too anxious. The other three, he was sure didn't because they didn't want to let their guard down in front of strangers who they knew nothing about and nothing about their particular area of expertise. The surprise was slowly transforming into what looked like anger on the shorter of the two Midgardians face "So let me get this straight. You want us to go after the guy that trashed New York City?!" he shouted and then looked to the taller man. The two of them having a quick silent conversation. He turned back to them still glaring but didn't say anything else.
"What makes you think he's possessed?" the taller Midgardian asked politely but still with a hint of suspicion.
"Natasha said that he was. I have never before seen anyone with black eyes," he said honestly even though he did not like the suspicions and particularly didn't like the shorter ones attitude.
"Black eyes," the taller one said rising his eyebrows and looking at the shorter one.
"Yeah, but that guy has magic crap right? Couldn't he make his eyes look like that?" the shorter one asked.
"Why?"
"To stop Thor from pummeling his ass," he said motioning to him but still looking at the taller one. Then winced "Man, our lives are so weird," The taller one nodded then said.
"Devil's advocate, what if he's really possessed? If he is and we stop the demon possessing him we can save a lot of people," The shorter one looked irritated then sighed.
"Aliens, man," The taller one nodded sympathetically. The two of them turned to look at him.
"Alright we'll help you, but what are you going to do if he isn't possessed if this is some trick?" The taller one asked him but he said it softly with sympathy. It was not a trick. Thor knew that he had been tricked before by Loki on numerous occasions, but he knew in his bones that this was not a trick. His brother needed him to save him and save him he would.
"Blood or not he is my brother and I would do anything to save him. Wouldn't you do the same?" The two of looked at each other slightly confused, most likely because they had never actually said that they were brothers, but he knew. He could just see it in their interactions. It made him ache for his own brother that much more, even if they hadn't been like that in years. The two Midgardians gave each other another quick look before they turned in unison to look back at him and they both nodded.
"How do we start?" Thor asked.
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