Leah went to fall to the floor as the dizziness of the travel and the nausea from being pregnant hit her hard but Thor caught her, helping her to her feet laughing.

"This way of travel does not suit your people."

"Thanks." She snorted looking up at him smiling.

She stood up straight to see a woman fly pass by her before embracing Thor, she had seen a photo of this woman before on the SHIELD database knowing it was Thor's Jane. Leah just stood there trying to stop the waves of sickness that rolled through her being. She just looked around seeing the familiar space, it felt more like home here than it did back on earth. The woman, Jane then looked at Leah.

"Oh you must be Leah." Jane smiled staring at Leah a huge smile on her face. "You managed to get her to come back." She glanced at Thor who smiled with her and nodded.

"Hi your Jane." Leah tried smiling back holding her breath to stop herself from actually being ill. "I have seen your file at work."

"Oh right. Thor said he hoped you would return to help his brother."

"Well I had to come back some time didn't I." Leah glanced at Thor giving him the knowing look. "If you would excuse me, Thor's way of travelling never suited me well. I am going back to my old chambers if that is still where I am staying."

Thor nodded, Leah headed back to her room before sitting down on her bed and putting her head in her hands. She just looked around, nothing had been moved since she had left. The dress she even wore, that Loki had gotten for her still hung there. She just stared at the rich gold and green color of it, it was as beautiful as she remembered it, shame she wouldn't fit into it for a while. She finally pulled out the photo of the scan and looked at it. It was clear that it was a child growing inside of her but after what Thor had told her it could be anything when she gave birth. That terrified her more than anything even the thought of going to face Loki. She just stared it before a hand went down to her abdomen, She faintly her hand back and forth over it. She didn't bother looking up as the door to her room opened till she heard footsteps. She quickly put the photo under her legs hiding it as she sat up seeing the Queen there.

"Leah." She sighed looking pleased to see her. "Thor said you were back and you had news?"

"News?" Leah rose an eyebrow before realizing what Thor meant. "I suppose you could call it that." Leah watched her walk further in before sitting beside her on her bed. "Firstly how and where is Loki?"

"He is back in the cell in the dungeons." The queen looked very concerned and worried, it was written over her face how bad it was. "He won't eat, drink, talk or see any one. I am anxious about his well-being."

"Right." Leah looked down feeling worse than before now. As much as it hurt her that he didn't tell her, she still loved him and didn't want him to be in that much pain. "Did he explained what happened."

"Just before you left, when we met you." The Queen looked at her sympathetically "I do not blame you child. It is hard enough for you to accept our ways let alone understand that. He should have explained from the beginning about his pass and not left it for some one else too. It is his own fault but it is all in the pass I can assure you. It just happened that Sigyn was back. Even thought there romantic and sexual relationship is over they are still friends."

"It was just how they were talking." Leah mumbled thinking back to it. "I could tell there was more than just."

"They were friends for many years before they married, they have history." The queen explained trying to be as caring as possible. "It is not easy I do understand but they have no romantic involvement any more. Once you are married there is no way out of it, the men can be married a number of times. Rarely woman re-marry, but there are changes starting. It's just our way, the young ones do not tend to think about the serious nature of marriage."

"I feel guilty about leaving now." Leah sighed before slowly bringing the photo out from underneath her legs. "I read the book you gave me, I only have gotten to when Thor and Loki were well born/adopted. What was your pregnancy like?"

"Pardon?" The queen frowned looking a little confused.

Leah passed the picture of the scan over to the queen, placing it in her hands. She could see the queen couldn't understand what she meant till she looked closely at the image seeing the child. She just sat there her hand still protectively on her stomach. It took a couple of minutes before the Queen let out a gasp.

"You carry Loki's child?" The Queen looked up at her with a shock expression on her face.

"At the moment." Leah sighed feeling the worry pass through her again as she stoked her stomach trying to reassure herself. "I am scared though, Thor explained about Loki's other off spring. Then with Loki being a god and me just a human I don't know what to expect any more."

"My other grandchildren were all made of magic, Loki said so himself. He tricked his first wife into marriage due to a infatuation to her, then had to use further trickery to bed her. Then sigyn, they were both sorcerers so there was bound to be magic involved. You on the other hand."

"I am different." Leah muttered thinking aloud "I mean I have abilities."

"Yes but this child was created by pure raw love." The queen placed a hand on Leah's swelling abdomen making Leah smile slightly. "Not by magic. We will make sure that both you and your child are looked after. What ever the circumstances."

"Thank you." Leah smiled knowing the Queen meant well. "So how long is a pregnancy?"

"Till its ready, each pregnancy can be different, Thor took a while to enter this world from memory. Now we must start with the celebrations." The queen stood up smiling looking at Leah lovingly. "For a new little prince or princess of Asgard."

"No." Leah shook her head looking a little stunned "No thank you. Firstly I need to see Loki, no one else can know not till Loki does."

The queen nodded before leaving Leah, Leah just took her jacket off before sighing picking up the photo tucking it in her jeans pockets. She made sure that her pregnant bump wasn't too obvious before she headed down to the dungeons remembering what Thor had said to her. She slowly headed down, catching a glimpse of the wolf which Thor had said was Loki's child. She stopped staring at it for a moment before it let out a low growl showing her its teeth. She looked down and continued walking to the cell she knew had always been occupied by Loki. It was dark she looked for a minute before turning to a guard.

"Is he in there?"

"Yes milady." The guard nodded.

She just stepped up to the cell touching the glass, she just stood there not really sure what to do. She hoped it was going to be easier than this, but she knew Loki better than that. He never did things easily, she turned to the guard.

"Let me in."

"My Lady, I don't think it is." The guard began.

"Now." Leah said with a little more authority than previously.

She heard the force field go down, she just stepped into the darkness, she stood there her arms wrapped around herself. She just looked around, she couldn't see anything in front of her. Her heart pounded in her chest and she could feel herself begin to tremble.

"Loki." She whispered finding that she lost all her strength. There was nothing, she just waited a few more moments "Please Loki, I am here to talk."

"Talk." She heard his voice growl at her some where within the room. "You think it matters now what you say."

"Because it means something." She retorted feeling a little braver. "to both of us. I know I must have hurt you as much as you hurt me."

"You think you can come here." She could hear the anger and hate in his voice. "Tell me what I feel. You are nothing but a pathetic human full of meaningless emotions."

"Loki." Leah sighed wishing she knew where he was so she could look at him. "I am sorry for leaving, I just needed to think, it was too much to take in."

"It gave me time to think too." Loki hissed his voice growing closer to her, making her shiver sightly in anticipation. "To realize how weak you have made me, I will not let it happen again, I will not let you manipulate me."

"Loki." Leah tried to get him to listen.

"Get out now human." Loki spat his voice seeming closer again and full of rage. "Or I may not be control myself."

"Please Loki." Leah repeated trying to stay calm, though part of her felt the fear run through her entire being. "Don't be like this."

"Leave." Loki screamed as he came into view, it was not him shouting at her what terrified her the most. It was what she saw, he had changed in a way which she had not expected. His red eyes glared at her as her hand flew to her mouth. The cold blue coloring of his skin made them even more prominent. "Are you scared now?"

She couldn't manage to say anything, she just stood there frozen. This was not what she was expecting at all, she felt a large tear roll down her face as her other hand placed itself over her abdomen. She was scared now, not of the man who was in front of her but what ever it was that was growing inside of her.

"Run while you can." Loki sneered at her. "I will not give you another chance."

"I am sorry." She whispered as she turned and left him in his cell.

As she stepped out she placed both her hands in her hair running it through it. She was not sure what to make of what just happened, as she looked up she saw Thor standing at the top of the stairs leading out of the dungeons. His expression was one of concern and worry, she knew then he knew the full story. Slowly she made her way up the stairs staring at Thor, she finally stood beside him before she said.

"I think we may need to talk."

Thor stayed quiet for a moment before he just nodded, turning around and heading out of the dungeon. Leah just followed him, her hand protectively on her abdomen, she knew that Loki was trying to hurt her, like she had hurt him. He had managed it in a way which she knew he didn't understand. They entered a room, Leah had even seen where the hell they were going.

"Mother." Thor said shutting the door behind her.

The Queen stepped out from behind the a stand, looking at her son before her eyes fell upon Leah who stood silently behind Thor.

"What is the matter." She asked looking at the pair of them before her eyes fell on Leah which must have told her everything. "Oh."

"I believe Leah will have some questions which I will be unable to answer alone." Thor replied sounding very serious about it. Leah guess he saw the way she was when she left the dark cell and knew what she must have seen. Which made her angry, that he knew something that she obviously needed to know.

"You saw him." The queen stepped forward looking at Leah before guiding her to sit on a very comfortable chair by a open window. "He was, was in his" The queen obviously seemed to find it hard in what she was about to say. "his other form."

"He was blue." Leah muttered the anger seeping through her voice, as the realization that she was the only one in the dark about Loki's condition. Considering she was the one carrying their child, which had half of Loki's genetic makeup. "If that's what you mean."

"Yes." The queen nodded passing Leah a goblet of wine. "I know, it's a lot to take in."

"He is not Asgardian as such." Thor began coming further into the room moving around Leah. "He is from another realm, a place with frost giants. My father found him, alone crying obviously abandoned. He changed him so he looked like us before bringing him home. My mother and father adopted him into our family."

"We took him in." The queen continued, "I begged of Odin to explain to Loki when he was old enough to understand what he was. But Odin believe it was best for Loki to continue to think he was our true son."

"When he found out about himself was when he tried to prove he was worthy son." Leah realized what the trigger of the hate and anger Loki had towards his father especially. Leah started to understanding all the bits of information she had gathered. "It was what made him turn away from you?"

"Yes." The queen nodded guilt spread across her face.

"My child will it be." Leah looked at the pair of them, neither of them saying a word. She just looked down wrapping an arm around her abdomen. "Well blue?"

"I do not know." The Queen shook her head.

"Do you want to go back to Midgard?" Thor began trying to be kind but Leah knew that she was unable to go home now, if her baby has a chance of being blue.

"What would I do there, I have killed people but I am not going to kill my innocent child just because of who its father is." Leah said still looking down at her abdomen getting very defensive. She knew now that this was a lot more serious than it seemed to be earlier that day. She knew what she had to do to guarantee the safety of her baby. "I will have to stay here, there is no other choice. SHIELD would not allow me to have this child especially if it came out blue." She felt more tears fall from her eyes.

"I am so sorry." The Queen sighed pulling Leah into a hug holding her like a mother. Leah felt it was genuine and it did help her feel better slightly. "I hoped he would be honest with you, I guess he must have been afraid you would reject him."

Leah didn't say anything she pulled out the hug and went to the window just sitting down looking out of the window. She felt more alone than she had ever done before, she just stared at the view before her knowing she was trapped here now. The Queen fussed about her, but she was too lost in thought to really think about what the queen was doing. Thor had left them to it obviously finding the situation too hard to stay.

"Do you love him." The queen asked making Leah looked up at her. Leah didn't need to think about it, she knew her answer. Even with all this new information about him, it didn't change who he was with her. It was a lot to take in but she knew the reason why he hadn't told her. And perhaps he was right it would have made her distant from him then but now, now she couldn't help but pity him. She didn't care whether he was blue, green or his familiar skin color she did love him. Slowly Leah nodded, the queen just knelt before her and took her hands. "Then keep trying, give him a chance. He is a lost soul and he need to know you're not going to run. Just give him time to accept that, he love's you Leah any one could see that." Leah just smiled at the Queen. "Now let's get you looking like a Asgardian woman, you are after all family to us now."