"Change of plan, girlie."
"And what's that?" Siggy cooed as she wiggled her daughter's toes, eliciting shrill giggles.
"Grace has ta go to New York and ye have ta go wit her."
At that, Siggy looked up from changing Hela. "And why am I going with? I already have something to do. We have something to do. Does a cube-shaped glowy thing called the Tesseract ring a bell?"
"Aye it does, but ye aren't going with. I'm taking Danila this time."
"What the hell, Moira?" Siggy had actually been hoping to catch a glimpse of Loki during the drop off, but at the same time she also dreaded a reunion. Something just told her it wouldn't be a very pleasant or very calm meeting. "Why?"
"Well the randy virgin Captain got a call and Grace wants to help her boy out. It's you that should go. Ya did work wit em, the Avengers lot."
Siggy sighed at the abrupt change but knew Moira was right. "Will Danila be okay going with you? I mean, big hulking Asgardians...what am I saying. Make sure you try and look after her? Get in, drop the cube and get the hell out."
"And to the pub." Moira murmured with a sly grin, "Ma Bear is gonna be there."
"You blow my mind, woman, and not in the best way."
"Aye, I know."
Not 12 hours later Sigrün was on the quinjet with the whole of the Avengers team and Grace, who was seated in the co-pilot seat beside Natasha. After having such a tearful goodbye to her baby Siggy was possessed into passing around her phone with snapshots of her daughter. Natasha was surprising interested and seemed to melt a bit. Shocking...Siggy thought with a smile.
"So who's the baby daddy?" Tony barked from the back of the jet as his suit wrapped around his body. "Was it a particularly broody god of Asgard?"
Everyone seemed to look over and glare at the man in unison. "What?"
Thor looked rather ill and Siggy frowned. She wished she could have said something to ease his grief. Wondered once more if she should, but it wasn't her secret to reveal.
"Yes, Tony. You're right. Nailed it on the head. Now shut up and look at my angelic daughter."
Tony actually just grinned and took the offered phone. "Well she is damn adorable."
Siggy couldn't help but grin back despite trying to maintain a glare. "Why thank you." She said, just as a large, warm hand set over her shoulder.
"Lady Siggy," Thor said, "My brother...my late brother..."
Siggy turned to stare up at him as she waited for him to finish asking what she knew he was going to ask.
"Is your daughter Loki's child? You and he must have...she must have been conceived right before he died."
"Thor..." she said quietly. "Don't do this to yourself. Hela is a gift. She is Loki's daughter and your niece."
"Niece." He said and the cloud of grief seemed to pass over his face in an instant. "My niece! HA!" he boomed and laid both his large heavy hands over her shoulders with a clap. She winced, waiting for the inevitable pain to bloom, but she'd forgotten that she was more like the Asgardian with her transformation to a full-on Valkyrie. It felt like a normal person had just clamped their hands on her, not the god of friggin' thunder.
"Hell yeah, Uncle Thor."
"Uncle!"
His excited reaction was infectious and Siggy felt like it might be a good day after all as Natasha interrupted over the com. They were getting near the drop point next to Sokovia.
All Siggy really knew about what they were doing was that they were after the staff the Loki wielded during the battle of New York. Some Hydra nutcase was using it and none of them wanted that relic in enemy hands.
Siggy pulled on the neck of her tight suit that Tasha had let her borrow. Unfortunately her boobs made it a tight fit, but other than that she and Romanoff we similar in size. Not to mention the suit had an armor factor. Better safe than sorry...
Banner looked a bit nervous in the corner while everyone gathered near the exit, but he was benched until they needed him. She hoped for his sake he would be left out of this skirmish.
Grace hovered nearby, but she probably wouldn't be involved in the fight. There was little vegetation and her gift was of the earth. With a bit of a rumble factor, Siggy smirked. She'd never seen Grace stressed enough to cause an earthquake or create a sinkhole. But one day...
"So Grace, why exactly are we here." She said quietly as she neared her sister-by-circumstance.
The elder female barely hid her blush, but she recovered. "Steve asked for our help. He didn't want to place either of us in danger, but he knows we can handle ourselves and they need to get that scepter out of enemy hands."
"So this isn't just a chance to get behind that view?"
Grace didn't need to follow Sigrün's finger to know she was pointing at the Captain's derrière, nor did she need to see it to figure out why the woman had a shit-eating grin. "I'm not granting that a reply."
"You kinda just did." Siggy said as the jet touched down. "Anyway, I like the suit Tasha found for you. You're a bit bustier than Hill, though, and your ass is screaming to get free. I'm sure the Cap got an eyeful."
"Sigrün!"
"Stay safe, Grace!" She barked as she bolted past the others as the doors opened. She had to elbow Thor who was a bit excited to go to a fight as well, and she noted she took some wind out of him.
"Eager for battle I see!" He said with a big, hearty laugh and shoved Barton playfully. "Let us do battle!"
Grace watched the others file out to head for a fight while Steve remained behind a moment to pat Banner's back and reassure him not to jump in unless he needed to. "Just stay here with Grace." He said and turned to her. It never failed to give her some butterflies.
"You better get after them." She said and nodded to his bike. "Wheels or not."
"I think they could use a head start. Just a small one." He said and reached up to catch her chin. "I have a fine woman seeing me off." God did he turn her to mush.
"I suppose you do." Grace said and tipped onto her toes to give him a deep kiss that left them both a little breathless.
"Wow." He said and she smiled. "I'll going off to battle with you behind me more often."
"Uh huh, don't get used to it." She said and watched him hop onto the bike. With a wink her way, he was off and she could hear the banter of the team over the console with Banner listening in carefully across from her.
Just as she was about to step forward and say something to the Doctor, she felt the buzz of Danila's mental link in the back of her mind.
Hey Grace, there's a guy here in Asgard who might be after Siggy. Like, we don't know what he's up too but he's got black hair and he's uber tall as hell. Also he looks a little crazy. Should probably warn Siggy.
Grace frowned. Did he say anything else?
Well, Moira and I were dropping off the cube and he just appears behind us in the creepy treasure room. He said "I knew someone was hiding Sigrün's location from me of late." And then Moira barked at him of course. He ignored her. Said, "I know it was you who hid her."
Oh my god...
Yeah, then he goes "Nothing is going to get in my way. Know this." Danila deepened her voice, Then he went poof and left us. What kind of friggin' maniac warns people he's going to find someone?
He wants her to know...he wants her scared.
"Damn it." Grace murmured as she lifted her hand to her head. When she severed the link between herself and Danila she looked up and saw Banner looking up at her with fear, his eyes glowing in a way that was altogether inhuman. She heard chaos over the com and knew something was going down in the fight with the Avengers. His skin began turning a green hue and she felt her blood run cold. "Oh shit..." she whispered and backed away slowly.
Sigrün was having the time of her life. Fighting along side her Avenger-ing friends was like a soothing balm, in that she could be herself completely, just as she was with her Valkyrie sisters. It was also incredibly invigorating to be part of the ass-kicking crew of the avenging kind rather than just being the girl-who-gave-up-some-hair-that-one-time.
She was back to back with Barton at the moment, with a jeep coming their way. Concentrating, she conjured a sizable fireball and hurled it in a way that any softball pro would approve. The molten substance exploded over the windshield and melted the glass, sending splatters of liquid flame in an arc. The poor idiots in the jeep who didn't get killed right on had to leap out into the snow, trying desperately to douse themselves.
Siggy heard Tony over their connected mic yelling, "Stop, drop and roll!" She began laughing and Barton snickered nearby as he notched an arrow, readying to blow a bunker. He stretched the bowstring taunt and turned out of cover, loosening his grip on the arrow.
When nothing went kablooie, Sigrün snapped her head back and met his eyes. "The piss?"
Snow crunching behind Siggy had her turn around, her flames already leaping around her body as she eyed a lone enemy hydra solider. Behind her she heard Barton getting knocked to the ground. With a hiss she glared at the bastard in front of her and back to make sure her teammate was good. He just looked a bit embarrassed on his back before he nodded at her and leapt to his feet.
Satisfied that the man was fine, Siggy turn her gaze back to the soldier and found herself looking at Loki. She nearly choked.
"Sigrün." He said with a growl and took a step forward.
He'll take you away from here...her mind told her. She could not be taken from this plane. She had a baby to return to.
"Loki." She whispered as she took a step back, her voice surprisingly strong for how conflicted her emotions were. "Why are you here?"
"What? No dramatic leap into my arms?" he said and threw them out wide. As badly as she wanted to fly into his embrace, she would never take that bait.
The sound of a blast nearby had her crouch and look back. "Clint!" She snapped her head back in time to see Loki taking huge steps to get at her position. "No!" Siggy barked and threw up her flames. "I can't go with you!"
Without hesitating even an instant he stepped through her fire, shocking her. No one had touched her or even got near her when she was at full flame. Not since him. And she'd only gotten more efficient with it. He had to be feeling the burn.
Yet Loki seemed undeterred by the searing heat as he snatched her arms in an iron grip, dragging her to her feet and bringing her face close to his own. She did notice the skin of his hand turned blue with delicate looking scales. She snapped her gaze to him when he spoke again.
"You no longer care for me, I see." He said bitterly and sneered at her in a way that made her heart hurt. "Perhaps you asked your Valkyrie sibling to hid your location from me."
"What?" She sputtered, blue skin forgotten. "That's not true." She took an instant to look back at Barton who was bleeding on the ground and looking dazed. "Let me go, Loki. Let go!" she snapped and raised her temperature to warn him off.
He didn't even flinch. "Let go of my flighty quarry?" he hissed and dragged her even closer to his body. "I think not." Siggy couldn't stop her blush at his closeness. The innate chill of his skin seeped through his clothing to her own infernally heated skin. It was bliss; an instant of pure bliss.
She took a moment to meet his eyes and found them full of emotions that battled her own. Unable to endure his gaze long, she closed her eyes and took a breath to steady herself. Then she lifted her lower body with ease, connecting her feet with his chest, before she extended her legs and slammed him to the ground with a powerful force.
Loki offered a fleeting look of shock at having been thrown back into the snow as she scrambled to her feet and backed up. Siggy felt like snapping some smartass quip but she knew to do so would only entice his anger and wouldn't bode well for her if she wanted to stay on this plane.
With concentration she roared to full liquid-flame, her body going transparent as she transcended human form to fire. "I can't let you take me, Loki." She said and watched him get to his feet slowly, methodically. It was odd seeing him in cold-weather military fatigues and in another life she'd find him sexy as hell. Now, however, he looked murderous. "You don't know everything." She finished.
"Siggy!" She heard from behind and felt the ground suddenly quake beneath her feet. Without warning, the earth cracked and split between herself and Loki. An instant later they were separated by a chasm at least ten feet wide.
"Jesus, Grace!" Siggy snapped and caught the rage in Loki's eyes before she threw a quick glance to the women rushing toward her. "Warning next time."
"It's him isn't it?" Grace said, out of breath and throwing looks from where she came from. "He told Danila he was coming for you."
"Yeah, well apparently she's been blocking my location." Siggy said with grit as she chanced a glance back a Loki whose sneer could not be more cold toward them.
"Well she is telkenetic..." Grace said and looked back again at the forest behind them. "We need to move. Lullaby." She said pointedly.
Understanding the kind of danger they might be in, Siggy nodded and looked back at Loki. "You should go. Thor is here and unless you want blow your 'I'm dead' cover you need to get the hell out of here."
"I will come for you again, Sigrün. You won't be expecting me." He snarled and took measured steps back, never looking away from her. His green eyes looked poisonous with his anger and it worried her that she'd never see warmth there ever again. "Your sisters won't protect you next time. I will get the truth from you and know why you betrayed me."
She took a breath to offer some kind of weak protest, but he disappeared from her sight. Knowing him, he wasn't far off. She'd have to watch what was said until she was safe in the jet or near the others, but her emotions were welling up. As well as tears.
"Fuck!" she snapped and grabbed her head in her hands. Her little white lie to hid her daughter until she could properly explain has turned into a stony, bleak wall that had wedged itself between herself and her lover. She doubted they'd ever reconcile at this point. And if he found out the truth without preparation or an explanation? He just might kill her.
Grace's soft hands gripped her shoulders. "We have to go. Banner changed and I lost him to the lure of gunfire, but I think things are winding down."
"Barton was hit." Siggy snapped and turned around to rush toward him. He was breathing harshly but seemed coherent enough. God she felt bad for forgetting about him.
"Was that who I thought it was?" Clint quipped suddenly, hissing in a breath an instant later as Grace inspected his wound.
"Yes." Siggy said plainly. "Please, don't say a thing. Thor will not be too forgiving..."
"Yeah I'm pretty mortal." Barton said as Natasha finally joined them carrying a broken-down aluminum stretcher. "I'd rather not get involved in a beef between two crazy Asgardians."
"Crazy is right." Natasha said as she caught the last of his scentence. "What the hell are you on about Barton? Are you concussive?"
"Don't think so? Can I get some food or something? Ramen." He muttered, as Natasha groused at him.
"Oh shut up. Lets get you on the jet."
Siggy took a mental sigh of relief. He'd thrown Natasha off scent but that didn't mean she wouldn't get a follow up question on what Clint was talking about.
Grace helped snap the stretcher to full size and together the three of them lifted the man onto it. Siggy motioned that she'd take one end while Grace took the other and the two lifted him with ease as Natasha followed next to it.
Siggy sent one last glance over her shoulder around the area, but she didn't get a hint of Loki's presence. She'd always hated how he could disappear at will but she had never been left in fear of him. She'd trusted him. But now? She was terrified...for more than herself.
If you enjoyed this drop a comment for me ^_^ didn't expect to go this way and I'm not sure where it's going to go...but Siggy is definitely in some trouble.