Part two:

Gradually days turned into weeks, but Loki did not stir form his sleep at all during this time, all the machines in the room told the Avengers that the god was alive and asleep but nothing more. Thor sat beside the bed every day watching over the other immortal, the blonde king of Asgard spoke to him about anything and everything he could think of but nothing changed Loki's state. It was one of these days that Bruce came to see the thunder god as he sat with the still and pale Loki. "You mentioned Sigyn before, is she his friend?"

"Yes, they are both very close."

"Maybe she can help with Loki's current situation."

Thor looked at the other god thoughtfully for a moment. "Yes, perhaps."

Sure enough the next day when Thor arrived to see Loki there was a woman beside him, the Avengers all looked at her with surprise, she was slender, shapely and pale. The lady had brown hair in waves to her waist and brown eyes, she wore a lovely sky blue dress and she smiled at them gently. "You must be Sigyn." Bruce said to her with a smile.

"I am. I have come to see Loki."

"Well I am sure another visitor will do him some good, Thor can show you the way." Tony told her with a grin on his face.

The goddess followed Thor to the room which held Loki quietly she settled down on one of the chairs beside the bed. Sigyn ran her eyes over the god of mischief critically before she spoke to him. "Well you are usually pale my friend but you are a lot paler than usual. Why won't you wake up Loki, what is holding you under...? Thor told me what Jane said, I can't help but think that this might be something to do with this, if true love is what brought you back from the brink of the realm of Hel then her words might have caused you to have this problem."

"Is there nothing to be done Sigyn?" Thor asked her ever so gently.

"I am not sure, it was your love which brought him back from the brink of death, he could stay like this until you sort out were your heart truly lies, he could wake and be changed in some way it is hard to say how changed or there is another possibility which I have seen happen once before..." Her voice trailed off the tone was both thoughtful and sad.

"What Sigyn... please tell me."

"When I was very young something like this happened to a much older cousin of mine Jehrida. One day she woke from her sleep, but Jehrida's memories were gone, before it happened she was brown haired but after she had gone blonde. She spent the rest of her life like that, the old Jehrida was gone and she never came back to being herself. I discovered a few years after her death that the only way back from such a thing is to help the one who helped you, to have them say your name and confess that they truly love you once more."

Thor looked down on the god of mischief. "Do you think that this will happen to Loki?"

The goddess gave shrugged and then spoke. "It is a possibility; you need to sort yourself out Thor, for both of your sakes."

Carefully the lady settled on the chair beside the bed side, she took Loki's hand into hers and stroked the back of his hand gently. "I hope you wake up soon and that you will be alright. I'll make sure to come and visit you as often as I can, I'm sure your tired of listening to Thor." She said with a smile and a laugh for the sleeping immortal in the bed, the thunder god quietly left the two long time friends alone. The goddess sat with Loki for some time before she departed back to Asgard, with a promise to come back to visit her friend again soon.

The next day Thor stood in the door way looking at Loki, Tony came and stood in the door way beside the king of Asgard. "What are you going to do?"

"I don't know, I care for Jane greatly, but I have always..." The thunder god began and then stopped talking again.

"It's okay to say it Thor, go ahead."

"I have always loved Loki, when I thought we were brothers I felt that to have such feelings for him was wrong but now I know we are not related, I find that the feelings I have want to break free and I want to express them to Loki. I cannot help but feel something for Jane, she brought me through the darkness I had to face but it is not as deep as what I feel for him."

"Have you considered that you feel this way because she was your support when you had to fight what you truly felt for Loki as well as the man himself? After all she was there when you had to imprison him and when you thought you had lost him. I cannot help but think that you see her as an easier option than the very powerful true love you feel for Loki."

Thor looked to Tony for a moment then back to the god of mischief. "I think you may be right my friend."

"Then you don't actually love her Thor, you might think you do but I think you are hiding your heart behind a shallower version of the love you feel for him. I should know I hid that way myself for the longest time, that is until I met Pepper and then I knew I had found the right one."

Slowly Thor walked into the room, he sat down beside Loki and looked at the sleeping god for a long moment. Carefully he lifted one of the dark haired immortal's hands gently Thor closed his much larger one round it, and let out a deep sigh before talking to Tony again. "Am I doing the right thing by allowing myself to love him, can I truly change him for the better?"

"Thor, you brought him back from the edge of death, it is a bond that the two of you will always share one which I believe after hearing all that was said between the two of you that day is very strong. If you truly love Loki Thor then you will discover what it is that you have to do."

The new king of Asgard spent the day by the bedside of the one he loved, holding his hand as the sun began to set on yet another day Thor lay Loki's hand back down at his side, he was about to stand when he noticed it the dark eye lashes against the pale cheeks were beginning to flutter slightly. "Loki?" The blonde immortal said surprised and overjoyed all at once.

At the sound of his voice Thor watched as the lashes flickered again, hope sprang forward in Thor at this sight. "Loki." The thunder god said gently, he felt joy bubbling in him as very slowly Loki's eyes inched opened, as they did the happiness the king of Asgard had felt only moment sago died instantly as he noticed immediately that the other immortals eyes were flat and dull, Loki seemed to stare at the ceiling without seeing it. "Loki..." Thor said to him gently.

"Go away Thor." The trickster said in a flat monotone voice which actually sent a shiver of apprehension through the blonde immortal.

"No..."

"I said go away, shouldn't you be with Jane rather than here with me."

"I do not wish to be with her." Thor said to the other god sincerely.

"She is the one you are in love with not me...I am awake now you can go you need not feel guilty over my state anymore."

"Loki..."

Slowly the dull eyes turned onto the blonde king that flat blank stare and the monotone voice made Thor feel as though someone had stabbed him in the heart. The mouth of the thunder god opened and closed, he was unsure what to say when looking into those dull lifeless eyes but eventually the king found there was something he had to tell Loki. "I shall be returning to Asgard, I must take my place properly as King and calm the chaos that my parent's deaths have caused. I have asked Tony to look after you and Sigyn to stay here with you so that you will have company and protection, they both have agreed I hope that you will cause them no trouble."

"I have no intention of causing any form of trouble for anyone. I will be glad to see Sigyn, thank you for asking her to stay with me."

"You are welcome. I will to you return soon Loki and I hope to see you much better at that time."

As Thor turned to leave Loki spoke to him and as he did there was a slight hint of worry to the monotone voice which gave the blonde king some hope of the other immortals future recovery. "Be careful."

"I will be." The thunder god promised him, Thor walked from the room which held the one he loved more truly than he had loved any other to claim his throne and world back from the grip of war and chaos.