A Cold Hand

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters from Harry Potter and The Avengers/Thor.

Summary: Harriet Lily Potter escapes to New York when she realizes her never ending life isn't going anywhere. Loki Laufeyson, as punishment by Odin for attempting to rule Midgard, must stay on Earth in his original form. The two damaged souls meet unexpectedly, will a bond be made between the two?

Rated: T

Warnings: Suicidal thoughts, cursing, mentions of torture, death, and child abuse, fem!Harry.

Pairing: fem!Harry/Loki.

a/n: Thank you all so much for all of the reviews, follows, and favorites! Also, thank you for everything you guys have said! Now, I'm going to respond to some of your questions/reviews because I thought some of them were hilarious.

Alice: I haven't really thought about it that much, but I'm pretty sure I'll be keeping Loki in his frost giant form, even if that does seem so cruel. And, how ironic, when I first thought of writing this my first thought was Beauty and the Beast! Also, it is irony that Loki did call her mortal, I can't wait to type his reaction...

ptl4ever419: Wink wink nudge nudge... ;P

Guest: Yes Odin was pretty cruel but you'll see why I made him do it. If anything I feel kinda cruel for doing that to my precious Loki...

Moon's Lullaby: I just go with the flow, but Harriet will try to help Loki look normal.

Extended Experience: You literally sound just like best friend, and yes, that would be exactly what I want... how did you know?

purple sky always: If you can't believe it, it is also difficult for me to now let Loki have his magic in this story, and I also don't know when, or even how, Odin is going to give his magic back to him. I also don't even know how he took it in the first place :O

Nayami-Chan: Thank you! And those conversations would be very amusing...

Shadow-the-Knight: Oh, I try...

Difficulties

"STOP!"

Silence, a pause-

"Am I cursed?"

"No." Odin answered calmly.

"What am I?" the black haired god rasped, staring blankly at the glowing blue casket resting on a tall stand in front of him.

"You are my son."

Loki dropped his arms from the Casket of Ancient Winters. He slowly turned around to face the king of Asgard, his red eyes looked straight at him, blue skin chilled and freezing at the touch. Once he was fully turned to Odin the blue on his aristocratic face slowly faded away.

"What more than that?" the prince asked plainly. He lazily strode toward the older man, still talking."The casket wasn't the only thing you took from Jotunheim, was it?" Loki looked up at Odin.

The king hesitated. "No." he looked back at his son. "At the aftermath of the battle I went into the temple, and found a baby. Small, for a giant's offspring, abandoned, suffering, left to die. Laufey's son."

Loki looked away. "Laufey's son..." he said numbly, Loki blinked and looked up at Odin.

"Yes." he said patiently.

"Why?" came the harsh reply. "You were knee deep in Jotun blood. Why would you take me?"

"You were an innocent child..."

"No, you took me for a purpose, what was it?" his breathing was getting harder, his composure was falling.

Odin didn't answer.

"TELL ME!" he screamed, his breathing harsh and rattling from fear, his whole body trembling.

The one eyed man took a deep breath. "I thought we could unite our kingdoms someday. Bring about permanent peace, through you."

He stared. "What?" the younger man asked weakly.

"But those plans no longer matter."

Loki looked at him in horror. He was just a tool? Nothing more? "So I'm no more than another stolen relic? Locked up here until you might have use of me?"

"Why do you twist my words?"

"You could have told me what I was from the beginning, why didn't you?!"

"You're my son." Odin said, as if it would fix everything. "I wanted only to protect you from the truth."

Loki looked around rapidly in a panic.

"What? B-Because I-I-I'm the monster who parents tell their children about at night?"

"No-"

"It all makes sense now, why you favored Thor all these years." Loki spat. "Because no matter how much you claimed to love me, you could have never had a frost giant sitting on the throne of Asgard!" he screamed. He stepped closer to Odin, ignoring when the king nearly fell back. He sneered mentally but stopped when he reached his hand out as if to touch Loki's shoulder. Odin stumbled back onto the golden stairs and collapsed. Loki stared, he crouched down and hovered his hands over the prone figure of the king. He touched his hand and wrapped his fingers around it.

"Guards! Guards please help!"

This was all Odin's fault. If he hadn't treated Loki cruelly and acted like he actually cared for him, maybe none of this would have ever happened. He wouldn't have attempted to take over Midgard, he wouldn't have been banished and reduced to form, pathetic, weak, and empty. Odin claimed their was a reason he sent him here, a purpose that would teach him a lesson.

Loki doubted he would ever learn his lesson here.

Harriet summed up pretty quickly that the blue man she had healed was not completely stable. He was a handsome man, even with the blue skin and red eyes (in her opinion, it make him look attractively exotic), he had a short temper, and she still hadn't asked what his name was. But what urked her the most was the only thing he had said when she found him in the alley. "You have magic."

It left her mind for a few hours while she was talking to him (Harry informing him what happened and him ignoring her) and while she was treating him. How could he have possibly know she was a witch? Was she too obvious when she went to grab her wand? Maybe he was from the wizarding world, but he didn't look or seem like anything she has seen in her school textbooks from whats she could remember. Harry didn't feel any magic on him, there was literally no possible way for him to know.

She raised her arm, rubbed her temples, and sighed. She couldn't figure him out no matter how many times she tried, he was like an uncomplete, scattered puzzle. He ignored her, snapped at her and all she wanted to do was help him, but she also wanted to punch that smug, snarky grin he had on his face all the time right off.

Harry lowered her arm and opened the door leading to the room the man was in. She was carrying a tray of food for him to eat with her free hand, seeing as he probably hadn't eaten in hours or maybe days. His back was resting against the wooden headboard, his cold skin was still covered by the black sweats she had put on him. His blue head turned to her and he raised an elegant eyebrow in her direction, the corners in his lips curled up in a smirk, showing some of his sharp, white teeth.

"Are you hungry? I brought you food if you are," she said politely. Harry say down in the chair next to the bed. The man crossed his slightly muscled arms and looked at the food in her hands. She leaned forward and outstretched her arms and plopped the food gently on his lap, ignoring his bared teeth when she came close to him. She rolled her eyes at his attitude. She crossed her legs and laid her hands down on her right thigh. "So, since your now my patient," she started with an uneasy smile, "what's your name?"

The man stared at her with his red eyes. His eyes narrowed and a sigh escaped his blue lips. "I am Loki."

"Loki?" she raised her brow and snorted. "Like the norse god? What, were your parents norse fanatics or something?" She didn't mean to sound rude but it just came out like that. But when he told her his name something in the back of her mind tickled. He obviously wasn't a normal person, he was blue, and he even talked formally and properly, maybe that was how gods talked. She had thought his accent was odd, she considered that maybe it was an old British one? His parents were obviously, and most definitely, not norse god fans.

The man now named Loki have her a furious sneer. "No," he snarled. "I am a god."

"H-how nice..."

a/n: I am so sorry for the long wait and such a short chapter but I promise that the next chapter will be much longer. But, thank you all so much, I apologize if there are any mistakes, I just kinda rushed through this. If you want, PM me or review suggestions or pretty much anything you want to happen between these two love birds! Again, the next chapter will be much longer than this one, I promise!

Posted: 5-6-14