Chapter Nineteen

Katherine groaned as she sat up slowly and placed a hand on her forehead as she sat up and looked around. "No, no I can't be here!" she whimpered. She recognize this place. They were in the underground prisons. The all-white rooms with the see though looking glass that no kind of magic would ever break.

"Oh, but you are." Came a voice from next door.

Katherine pressed an ear against the wall. "Loki, is that you?"

"Yes," he said sounding bitter. "It seems Heimdall opened the Bifrost and brought us back here and Odin had the guards lock us up. Did you kill, Elena?"

"Yeah," she looked around the empty white room. "Though, I'm wondering if it was worth it." She glanced back and saw Thor approaching her cell with a grim expression. "Thor!" she tried to greet him, but the glass bounced her right back. "Thor, let me explain-"

"I don't want to hear your explanations," Thor said coldly. "You told me you wanted to stay to take care of a few things, not to kill an innocent girl. I expected this from Loki, but I didn't expect this from you."

"I did what I had to do, Thor," Katherine said through gritted teeth. "And if you expect me to feel bad about it you're wasting your time."

"Are you listening to yourself? You are obsessing over killing a girl whose is of no fault about that curse being place on you." Thor retorted. "Do you know what this last task could cause you? Life imprisonment."

"At least it will be worth it."

"What happen to you? You didn't use to be like this."

"Well, you used to be an arrogant jackass, and you don't hear me complaining!"

"That's enough, Thor. Leave them to me, your father needs you."

Thor gave a quick nod as he exited the room.

Katherine gulped as she stood in front of a woman who in every way was a queen. "Mother." She whispered. Frigga removed the shields from the glass so that Loki and Katherine could exit. Katherine hugged Frigga feeling a lump in her throat. "Mother, you're here, you're here."

"I'm here, Katerina." She mumbled as she kissed her forehead and looked at Loki who was facing her, but didn't move from his spot. Frigga leaned over and squeezed Loki's hand. Loki refused to move, but he squeezed her hand back in reassurance.

"Mother, I am so sorry for everything," she choked out, putting the words together. "I didn't want to disappoint you . . . I was just so angry and so alone. But I never wanted you to be ashamed of me."

"I am not ashamed of you, Katerina." Frigga insisted as she touched her cheek. "Neither of you. I love you both, no matter what you did. A mother will always love her children, no matter what."

The ground started shaking and Frigga raised her head. "Something is wrong, stay here. I will be right back."

The ground continued shaking and Loki and Katherine saw guards and warriors running all over the place and shouting. Katherine gulped. "Loki?"

"Yes."

"You don't think that the consequence for me killing, Elena was that Asgard would be destroyed do you?" Loki's silence gave her everything she needed to know.

"Lock them up?" Thor stared at his father who looked beyond stressed sitting in his chair. "You want to lock Katherine and Loki up for the rest of their lives? Isn't that a bit . . . harsh." the last statement was an understatement. Thor knew perfectly well, that this was how Odin would react. He had already imprisoned Loki for life for trying to take over the world, but Thor hadn't thought that he would lock both Katherine and Loki up for the rest of their lives. Nor he didn't think, Frigga would allow it.

Especially since she had seen her daughter for the first time in 500 years.

"Look around you, Thor," Odin said disgusted as he spread his arms. "Loki and Katerina are a danger to themselves and to other people. Loki has done his fair share of misdeed and Katerina has done possibly worse. Did you know that minutes before she killed a girl with no remorse?"

"I am aware." Thor said. "Katerina, has had an obsession with killing her doppelgangers and to destroy the curse place on her centuries ago and Loki helped her achieve goal. I'm not making excuses for them-"

"But you are Thor," Odin said tiredly. "Because I know how strong bonds are between siblings. When Loki went to earth you tried to convince him to give you the tesseract to come home, but Loki didn't want anything to do with us and you trusted him to get Katerina back out all of yours friends. Ever since I send Katerina to exile you have been checking how she is doing through Heimdall, you have hidden things from your mother so that she is not disappointed in her, you choose to trust her even though both you and I know that Katerina is far from trustworthy. But you still care for them even if you're angry at them, you want to believe them. Thankfully, I don't share that foolish notion. Katerina and Loki must pay for the things they've done, it's only fair. You need to stop thinking like a brother and being so naive and start thinking like a king. Trust and love my son are what is going to keep you from being a great king."

Before Thor could respond an armful of guards and Lady Sif entered the room. Sif gave a quick bow. "Sir, Thor you must come quickly. Asgard is being attacked."

-End of Chapter Nineteen-