"What are you doing?"
"Nothing," Branden closed the video feed as quickly as he could but at the look on his friends face, he knew she had seen. He sighed and opened it back up. "I thought…there had to be a reason the suit attacked you guys and not the two more powerful beings."
Tali bit her lip, "What do you mean?" she asked sitting next to him, how could he watch this footage? She felt sick just thinking about it, and she really did not need to get sick again, she could still almost taste the last time, and that had been a week ago.
"Well…it's just…the moment you and Leifr came out, the suit attacked you guys, and when you guys were trying to run, it came directly for you, I don't think it even cared about Tony and Loki," he said, pointing at a screen shot, it was blurry and she couldn't make much out, so she didn't have to think too hard about it.
But finally she sighed and looked at the screen, frowning in concentration, if this helped them solve things, then she would do her best not to think about how this was the footage of how her boyfriend and Uncle died.
"He was attacking you and Leifr, do you think the suit may have been ordered to geet ride of us because he knew we would go back in time?"
He replayed the video, the more she watched the more she frowned, "No…" she murmured, "He wasn't after me! He was after Refr!" she said, "He was after Leifr and Refr! Not me!" she said eyes wide.
"What?" Branden's own eyes widened and he looked back at the screen, "Holy shit…you're right! But…why would he want to kill Refr?" he asked.
"Because Refr can use magic! Leif never had any affinity for it, but Ref did! That's it! He was trying to stop us from coming here!" she said, "He knew! How did he know?!"
"This is, holy shit, this makes things ten times more complicated, what the hell is going on?"
"That is an excellent question, Branden," they both turned around to see Loki leaning in the door way of Branden's room.
"You have really got to stop doing that," Tali muttered, because every single time she and Leifr had started making out, poof! Daddy Loki was there to make sure things didn't go too far.
Loki only raised his eyebrow at that but didn't ask, instead he stepped forward, "Who are Leifr and Refr?" he asked casually, the two teenagers shared glances.
"Why do you ask?" Tali asked with an innocent grin, Loki gave her a look.
"They are hardly Midgardian names, and you spoke of magic…" he said, "By my own conclusions I would say they are my sons," he cocked his head to the side.
Branden snorted and shook his head, "Honestly," he muttered, Tali made a face at him.
"Yeah, what of it?" she said, crossing her arms, challenging him for no reason at all.
"I was simply curious," he said, "So what happens to them?"
"They're killed," Tali said bluntly, "That's what we're trying to change, the one who's behind this attacked them specifically, he wanted them gone for whatever reason, we need to change that."
Loki's lips pursed, he did not looked pleased by this news but finally he nodded, "I may still be…indifferent to Stark…but knowing I have children…" he trailed off and Tali smiled.
"It's okay, we know," she said, "So…how do we know when we have to do…what we do?"
"If it is by my magic you were sent here…I think it will be some kind of hot or cold feeling around whatever it is you need to change," he shrugged, "Other than that, I can not really say," he said with a sigh, "I wish I could be of more help."
"Naw, that's good, at least it narrows it down," Branden said, "I think…hmm…I think we can actually do this, Tal."
"Yeah?" Tali smiled and Branden smiled back at her.
"Yeah, we can save them, everything will be okay."