Hi...Yes, I know I have not updated in enternity. I am a horrible person and honestly I don't blame anyone who reads this to hate me for the rest of my life. I apologize sincerely for my lack of updates. Please, please forgive me. I really do apricate everyone for reading my stories and I'm sorry I haven't shown my gratitude my staying on top of updating my work. I will try much harder to update regularly and to not leave you all in suspense for months. Anyways, here is chapter 9 and I hope you all enjoy it :)

Loki POV

The power, the control, I Loki, God of Mischeif ruling Asgard right under the royal courts nose. Not even Thor could see past this disguise. Everyone calling me Odin, thinking I'm the Allfather. That would all soon change.

My thoughts were interupted when I saw her. There she was, her face full of sorrow. Even in her saddest days, she was still beautiful as ever. It killed me not to go to her. To not comfort her. I wanted her to know so desperately that I was alive. But I knew that could never work. She would foil my plan. It would be disasterous. She would have to wait. In good time, she will know what I'm doing, what I'm doing for her.

3 days later.

Your POV

The palace halls were quiet. Loki's death had caused a unearthly silence in the palace that was once filled with excitement and joy. Even Odin hadn't been seen for quite sometime. You missed him. He had hurt you so many times, but for the first time in a long time, Loki did something good and right. He had saved Thor and yourself, but paid for it with his life. It would be a debt you could never repay.

"Y/N, are you alright?" Thor asked as he entered the great hall. He had been asking you that a lot lately.

"Yes, I'm fine. Just thinking. I seem to be doing that a lot these days."

Thor gently placed a comforting hand on my shoulder. "Loki has been plaguing my thoughts as well my lady. My brother made his mistakes, but he died a good man."

"Yes, Loki was an honorable man. Still is." Odin appeared, asending down the palace steps to greet us. Although as he got closer, he was no longer Odin.

"Hello darling, Thor."

Your heart nearly stopped. A rumble shook the palace as chunks of marble fell from the celing.

"Loki." You breathed.

"What have you done!?" Thor boomed.

"Oh nothing." Loki said mischieviously as he waltzed around with his hands behind his back. "Just called my army to infultrate the palace so I can seize Asgard as my own and not under Odin's disguise." And with that, hundereds upon hundreds of dark, shadowlike beings emerged around the both of you, blocking any hope of escape. You grasped Thors arm for support. At the moment, the shadow soliders were the least of your concerns. You thought you might feint. Feint from the shock of the man you loved who only weeks ago was thought to be dead to suddenly reappear, and with an army that could be the demise of all you and the royals of Asgard had worked for, to maintain peace and order. Now the man you knew you still loved, despite all of his sinister flaws, was going to end it all.

"Send Thor to the dungons, but leave the girl with me."

"You are mistaken. I am no girl, time has past and I am not the girl you once knew, and you are certainly not the boy I once knew, the boy who would read to me in the gardens, the boy who-"

"Silence!" Loki pounded his staff forcfully into the ground making you jump ever so slightly. Loki took a few moments to calm himself and collect his thoughts. "Walk with me." He comanded. He extended his arm as if expecting you to grasp it, but you pushed it away in digust. The two of you walked down the long corridors in silence until you finally reached Loki's old chambers.

"I showed you that I was willing to die for you. I risked my own life-"

"You risked nothing!" You shouted. "You used magic and trickery like you always do! You tricked me into believing you were dead! You tricked me into believing you had died a noble and honourable man. But now you come back to Asgard, pretending to be it's rightful king then exposing your true self to finish the evil ambition you started? What's the point Loki? A king with power is nothing to a man with honour. Ask yourself I beg of you, what will you truely gain?"

"You are wrong my love. Power is everything. I will have all the power in the world! We can have our ideal future no matter what the circumstances. We can take what we want without having to answer to anyone! We can be whoever we want to be, we can have whatever we want to have, if only you'll take the chance to have it. I'm doing this for you. I want you to have whatever you want."

Tears were now flowing freely down your face. You now knew the true extent of Loki's flaws, and for a man who was known to be a source of great wisdom, you had never known someone to be so blind.

"Oh my love, all I ever wanted was you."

Loki's POV

Y/N electric blue eyes bore into my deep emerald ones and at once, I understood. I understood everything. I had never seen so much love and sorrow in someone's eyes at one time in my life. She meant it. She just wanted me...just as I wanted only her. I took her cold, pale, delicate hands in my own. The feel of her soft hands was enough to break me.

"Oh Y/N! What have I done!?" I couldn't control my emotions any longer. I sobbed and sobbed. The sarcastic and conniving demenor I used as an emotional sheild had been broken and all that lied beneath broke lose. I felt a cold hand softly land on my cheek, wiping away the tears that seemed to never stop flowing.

"Loki, Loki look at me." Both hands were on my cheeks now, steering me to face her even though it pained me to do so. "You can still change. You are not completely lost. Help me, help me save Asgard, and you can redeem yourself. If you save Asgard, you may not be fully forgiven, but at least it would be a start."

I looked into Y/N's eyes once more, but they were not the violent shade of electric blue they once were. They had settled into a bluish grey that I found somewhat calming. I took deep breaths and pulled myself together. "How do you suggest we go about that? The shadows are made of pure darkness. If I try to command them to do something good, they will turn on us instantly, riot against my orders. Believe me, the shadows are powerful. Battling a whole army of them against the Asgardian army, Thor, you and I will result in our demise. On forces alone will not be enough to overpower them."

Y/N smiled as if I might have, mischeiviously. "Maybe we don't have to fight alone..."

Oh how I had missed her cleverness.