Jane heard rapid-fire shooting behind them, she wanted to open her eyes but she was way to exhausted too, she felt as if she hasn't slept in weeks. She felt the ship do a zig-zag to avoid getting hit. Huh, Loki was a good pilot. Then she felt the ship lift out of the water and move faster, the cool air felt good atleast.
"Fandral." She heard Thor say, she heard movement around the ship and the handsome blond man named Fandral pick up something.
"Right." He said already knowing what he has to do. Jane peeked her eyes open a bit with all her effort and see the man on the edge of the ship, nodding to Thor.
"For Asgard."
With that he jumped from the ship, Jane was going to scream but then she saw the rope and sighed in relief, relaxing back down.
"Jumpy Miss Foster?" Loki asks suddenly with a smile tilting his head a bit in her direction. Jane rolls her eyes tiredly and turns so her back is facing him, she could've sworn she heard Loki chuckle. Thor gives his brother a warning look and Loki just shrugs his smile widening in joy of getting a reaction from his once lover.
Once Fandral salutes to Thor, giving him the signal that everything is clear, Thor nods back and turns to see that Loki turned the ship so they're headed for a mountain.
"Loki?" Thor calls uncertainly furrowing his eyebrows turning to face his black-haired brother that has an expression Thor's seen way too many times, usually when Loki's done something mischievous.
"If it were easy, everyone would do it." Loki answers simply Thor's unspoken question with an excitedly edge to his voice that even Jane notices.
"Are you mad?!" Thor yells as they fly closer to the mountain, his blue eyes wide.
"Possibly!" Loki answers smiling, Jane feels Thor's comforting hand on her arm waking her up from her mini unconscious and conscious nap. Jane peeks her eyes open to see a small hole in the mountain and Thor's grip tightens on her. They fly through the small opening narrowly with the close walls with the sides of the ship scraping against the walls screeching loudly and Jane screams.
"Ta-daa." Loki says with a laugh as the screeching stops and they're now in Svartalfheim, the land of the Dark Elves.
Loki glances around them as he steers the boat, the mountains and mountains of junk and scrap of metal feet below them, the murky deathly sky that barely hides the sun that seems to be wanting to peek through, but there's too many murky green clouds passing by, making the realm look dark for a few thousand years. The black sand that covers the realm, Loki wonders how anything could have lived in this dump of a realm. Loki's gonna need a nice long bath after he's done here.
His gaze flickers to Thor and Jane. Thor gently cradles Jane's head with his expression worried, he sighs deeply and tiredly going over to the other side of the ship sitting down.
"I'm going to rest, brother, wake me when we get to our destination." Thor says giving Loki a knowingly look, Loki nods his head once in promise while Thor closes his eyes, realizing how tired he really is.
Loki keeps his gaze on Thor, then presses a blue button on the ship putting it on 'auto-pilot'. He makes his way silently over to a sleeping Jane and gently shakes her. Jane groans softly not wanting to be bothered and she hears Loki chuckle.
"Wake up, Miss Foster, if i'm certain you asked for some answers."
Jane's eyes slowly open to a dark and kinda creepy looking setting. She decides to ask where they are later, she feels the Ather slither inside her irritatedly at the sudden intrusion of being woken up, she ignores it the best she can and slowly sits up to face Loki. She motions him for him to sit and he complies sitting cross-legged and leans in looking at her questioningly licking his lips.
Jane takes a deep breath and tires to think of what to ask first, she glances over at Thor's sleeping form then back at Loki who remains expressionless. Jane gathers up her courage and asks softly.
"Was it real, the dream?"
Loki's jaw clenches and the wind picks up a bit making Loki squint a bit.
"Some part's of it, yes."
Jane looks down at her hands fiddling with her thumbs, furrowing her eyebrows, thinking that's a cryptic answer, but he must be meaning his feelings.
"How, how did you do it? How did you turn my usual dreams into...Some magical alternate universe?" Jane asks firmly, keeping her eyes on the god who keeps his gaze straight back at her, but Jane could see a flicker of guilt hidden in them.
Loki sighs deeply and looks out towards the sun of Svartalfhiem.
"It wasn't easy. It took a great amount of my magic to cast such a spell, so forgive me if I seem bored," Loki starts glancing down at his chained wrists.
"I got help from Amora, who is the blonde woman you saw in the dream. She's equally as powerful as I am by the way." Jane hated the quick surge of jealousy that flowed through her the way spoke about her, but she remained silent and listening.
"Dream manipulation is not a easy thing to do you know. It takes years of practice and I myself never practiced it, mostly because I felt no need to have use of it in the future, until you showed up of course," Loki shot Jane an amused look before continuing.
"On to how i did it. You see, you still have normal dreams, even with the Ather stirring inside you. Amora bended the Ather so it would warp your dreams, turning them into strange one's you would never usually have. Amora showed me how to completely warp and control your dreams and so I did, I simply created an alternate universe." Loki shrugged lightly and Jane stared at him, her fists curled into a ball.
"Why? Why go through all of that trouble for me?" Jane swallowed down her growing anger that Loki would go to great lengths just to mess with her head, literally. Loki's eyes were glued to hers and he spoke softly and calmly.
"Because I wanted to see what my brother saw, and I did." Loki said glancing at Jane up and down in a way that made her have goosebumps, she didn't know if it was good or bad. Jane tucked a piece of her hair behind her ear and took a deep slow breath, then she slapped Loki across the face.
Loki grunted softly, his mouth slightly agape and he slowly turned back to a fuming Jane who glared daggers at him.
"You could've killed me! How could you just mess with my situation like that? I don't see why you just didn't let that woman Amora do whatever she was going to do to me, it would be much easier If I Just-"
"Don't you ever say that again, I could not fathom the idea of you dead and gone. You know why I didn't let her?" Loki asked, his voice rising with emotion that Jane countered raising hers glaring at the God of Mischief. "Why?"
"Because I love you, you foolish, beautiful woman. You're annoyingly the most brilliant woman I have ever met and I will do everything in my power to see that you live to see another day."
Jane stared at Loki with her mouth slightly open and her heart seeming to be speeding up at his little speech. Did he really feel that way about her? Or was this another one of his little acts? Loki blinked away frustrated tears away, hoping she wouldn't see and stood up, struggling to do so. He went over to the steering wheel of the boat.
"Amora ought to be searching for us by now. But I wouldn't worry about her, you have enough things to worry about," Loki said in a monotone turning the boat off auto-pilot. Loki then went over and nudged Thor with his black boot.
"Wake up, we're nearing our destination." Loki went back over to the steering wheel and Jane felt suddenly really, really cold. Cold to the point she was shivering, it vaguely reminded Jane when she was younger and had fevers, she would get the most terrible chills. Her vision darkened and Jane looked out into the murky land of Savartalfhiem to see Malekiths ship materializing in the distance.
She wanted to call out to him, go to him, something. She felt the Ather slither excitedly inside her at the presence of its owner. She heard Thor's worried voice but didn't pay him no mind.
"Jane?"
"Malekith.." was all Jane whispered, she wanting to yell out his name, to tell him that she was here..
The trio approached the ledge where Malekith and his army of Kursed where at the bottom. Jane was tempted to jump down and run to Malekith's side but she refiraned, but eager to get this demon out of her already.
"You know this plan of yours is gonna get us killed." Loki stated as he looked down with Thor at Malekith walking towards them, towards Jane. the wind blew slightly and Thor agreed, if they did die, Thor would die trying to save the one he loves.
"Yeah Possibly."
Loki looked at Thor for a moment, Loki considered being selfish and having Jane to himself when this was all done and finished, and even though he envied Thor more than anything, Thor had given Loki more chances than he deserved. Loki held his wrists up to Thor raising his eyebrow.
"Still don't trust me, brother?"
Thor looked at the chains and back at Loki with a small smirk.
"Would you?" And with that, Thor took Loki's chains off effortlessly with one hand. Loki rubbed his sore wrists looking towards Malekith, then behind him at Jane whose eyes were all black except for the ring of blue around the iris. This was for her.
"No, I wouldn't.."
Loki grabbed his dagger from his side pocket and stabbed Thor in the stomach with it. Thor grunted loudly holding his stomach and tumbled down the black sand to the ground. "Thor!" Loki heard Jane shout just as he jumped down to meet Thor at the bottom.
Jane's wide black eyes watched the terrible scene, what had Loki done? Jane carefully slid down the black sand to meet up with the two brothers as fast as she could.
"You really think I cared about Frigga, about any of you?" Loki came up and kicked Thor square in the head making Thor turn over, struggling to get up.
"All I ever wanted," Loki continued, Thor saw Jane rushing to him and he saw Mjniior resting far from him. "Was you and Odin, dead at my feet!"
Thor raised his hand to call Mjniior, but Loki grabbed Thor's hand and brought his blade down and severed Thor's hand. Jane ran to Thor as he screamed.
"Thor! Oh my god.." Jane panted, her eyes frantic, she turned her head to glare at Loki who suddenly picked her up from the waist and held her to him.
"Malekith!" Loki growled out roughly, Jane tried to pry his hand away so he could put her down, but it was no use. He was far too strong, stronger than he was in the dream.
"I am Loki of Jotunheim, and I bring you a gift!" He threw Jane down in front of him so hard that she yelped.
"Now Loki, it's not nice to break your toys."
A familiar female voice came from behind them. Everyone turned to see Amora strutting over to them dressed in her battle gear. Which consisted of a green-schoolgirl skirt, a strapless shirt that barely hid her cleavage, a gladiator inspired helmet, knee-high green golden boots and green arm armor.
Loki breathed hard glaring at her.
"Amora, how nice to see you." Malekith's dark voice boomed looking at the Enchantress who smirked shrugging her shoulders cheerfully.
"A pleasure to finally meet you as well, Malekith."
Malekith smiles with his sharp teeth and his gaze goes back to Jane, he lifts up his arm and Jane levitates high in the air, her arms out in eagle-style. Thor watches cradling his 'severed' hand. His blue eye's go to Loki and nods at him, silently asking him if he's ready. Loki nod's back his gaze going to Amora as she watches in awe, but her pupils are slits at the sight of Jane.
The Ather slithers out of Jane and into the air collecting in a huge heap in the air. After it's all out Thor calls to Loki when Amora breaks into a run to Jane.
"Loki, now!"
Loki flings his hand out in a burst of green restoring Thor and his hand. Loki shoots another at Amora who easily blocks it and laughs as Loki steps in front of Jane protectively.
"Look at the villain who want's to be a hero," Amora taunts walking around Loki and Jane, ready to strike at any moment. Loki keeps his eyes on her's, feeling slightly winded from his magic regenerating.
"You forget than I am more powerful than you, Laufeyson." Amora say's with a smile and suddenly throws a beam of green energy at Jane which Loki deflects stumbling a bit. Amora notices and smirks gleefully.
"Awe, is the little god tired?"
Loki narrows his gaze and musters up all the energy and duplicates himself making 5 of him to stand guard of Jane. Amora makes an 'ooh' face.
"Impressive, I can't even do that...yet."
Loki clicks his tongue shaking his head as if she's said something disappointing.
"Yet you think of me inferior of you."
Amora clenches her fists and with a battle cry she runs at Loki materializing a sword in her hand wielding it. Loki's magic quickly comes back just as Amora swings her sword and Loki dodges easily, now behind her he kicks her in the back of the knee sending her face first in the dirt, and with the sword now sticking out from her back.
Loki pants slightly, he should be jumping for joy that she's impaled but it takes alot more to kill the little harlot.
Amora laughs and stands, slowly pulling the sword from her, covered in darkened blood. She turns to Loki with a playful smile.
"Were you this fast when you were rolling around in the chambers with the mortal?"
Loki seethes and runs at her, throwing his star-daggers that Amora shields with her metal arm amor. Once he's close to her he grabs her shielded arm and flings her to the closes rock. She flies through and hits the ground with a grunt and blood dripping down her back and mouth. She licks the blood away and grabs her dagger jumping high in the air and crashing down at Loki who grabs her neck just as she was about to land and throws her to the ground hard. Amora growls and turns just as Loki is about to attack and kicks her heel that has a small poisoned dagger at the heel into Loki's leg.
Loki yells out at the burning pain giving Amora time to punch him square in the jaw and back into a large rock. Loki groans slowly sitting up to see Amora straddling him with a laugh.
"Bet you're wishing you didn't give me those powers, aren't you?"
Loki glares up at her, shaking slightly from the poison attacking his body. But of course, Loki has a plan. Amora smiles at him and her face lights up.
"You know what would be really fun? If I just rode you nice and long and hard right here, Malelkith kills Thor, and Malekith makes Jane watch as you scream in pain and pleasure, double the fun for me, right?"
Loki spits in Amoras face and she hisses, almost a snake. She turns back to Loki with a forced laugh.
"You like playing dirty, huh?"
Amora laughs and Loki takes that as a cue, he musters up his strength taking Amoras tongue and slicing it off with his small blade hidden in his amor under his wrist. Amora screams holding her mouth scrambling off Loki, she'll grow a new one, but Loki just wanted her to shut up.
Loki jumps up grabbing Amora's blonde hair hard twisting it so she cries out, tears streaming down her face when Loki is inches away from hers.
"I gave you you're powers, but you forget I am more advanced than you in every way, now leave before I dismember you in front of your beloved Thor." Loki seethed as Amora nodded quickly, turning into the shape of a green small bird and flying away.
Loki watches her fly away and turns to go back to his brother when he doubles over, wincing in pain from the poison.
Woozas! this was pretty fun to write! and I'm super sorry for any confusion on what Loki did to Jane. He basically casted a really big and long spell on her dreams just to see what Mr Thor saw in little Jane. :)