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by the way , would you like to read another FF of mine . It's a Loki/Thor, post Avengers, it's a mix of romance and humour , it's called 'Expecting something unexpected', so far it's only the beginning (two parts)
of course, don't feel forced in any way... you're already too kind with this one *hugs*
I apologize, but this chapter came out huge, I had to split it in two XD
okay, now I'll shut up. Have a nice reading ^^ :
IV. (I)
"Thor, dear, you unbuttoned your vest all wrong. Come here!" Frigg called him, setting it with care, under the little boy's bothered look.
"Mother! You're embarrassing me!" the blond protested, with a loud snort.
"Well, yeah, it's very embarrassing the fact that, although I'm younger than you, I can dress myself flawlessly!" Loki made fun of him, earning a glare from the blond.
They were all gathered in Thor's room, as their mother was dealing with the last preparations for the party that had been promised to them.
Yeah, because that long, annoying and terribly boring week confined in their rooms was finally over.
"That's true, honey, you dressed yourself correctly, but there must be some serious quarrels between a comb and your hair. Come here!" the queen called him, arranging lovingly his messy, jet-black hair, as the youngest prince showed his utter disappoint.
"Well, I know. Not everyone has the big luck of being born with such perfect hair as mine!" Thor made his witty remark, as he passed a hand though his golden hair that came back to their perfect hair set immediately after.
"Shut up!" Loki grumbled, parting from his mother.
"For Odin's sake! You two! Stop arguing if you don't want the umpteenth castigation!" Frigg sentenced, with the proper authority that sometimes a judicious mother must have.
"Sorry..." the two children groaned in unison.
"Tonight's party is very important and you two must behave, especially you, Loki! Your father told you what he's planning to do, didn't he?"
The child nodded.
"And do you agree?" Frigg went on.
Loki shrugged.
"Well, it's not that I'm likely to increase my popularity at court." he murmured, grieving.
Just like a conditioned reflex, Frigg held him tight.
"Loki, no, do not talk like this. You'll see, everyone is going to accept you; and if they don't, they're blind and heartless!" she whispered. "Besides, I'm sure that your brother won't let such a thing ever happen!" she added, turning to Thor and including him in her embrace.
"Never ever! If someone dares to treat my little brother badly, I'll kick their asses!" the elder prince swore.
"Thor! That's not the way a prince should talk!" Frigg reproached him, but not so bothered after all.
Loki thanked him with a genuine smile.
"But it's not necessary. I can take care of myself!" he declared, with a hint of pride.
"Fine. You're ready. I'll go to the party room. Don't you dare to be late!" their mother reminded to them, leaving the room.
"Here we go." Thor stated.
"Well, for once, I'm going to be the protagonist!" the younger prince smirked.
Thor nodded with a smile.
"But don't you get too accustomed to that!" he added immediately after, pinching his cheek affectionately
They walked though the corridor that leaded to the room that was used for parties, receptions and big events.
And that night would be a great event, indeed.
Frigg had suggested it like an ordinary party, in order to cheer their sons up; but Odin had seen it as the proper occasion to let all the Asgardian people know about Loki's real origin.
Since the kid concerned had found the secret out, he knew that for one reason or another, that news wouldn't have remained hidden for too long; so the wisest thing to do was beat the time.
Obviously, he had chatted with Loki for all that morning long about that, and he was glad that the kid had consented to him doing that.
Odin walked towards his sons, allowing Thor to go and taking Loki aside.
"My dear son, are you ready?"
Loki nodded, with fierce and determination sparkling in his look.
"Tonight we're going to take a very important step." the king asserted.
"I know, father, but I feel that it's right to take this step." the little prince replied.
"This is very good," the Allfather smiled, placing one hand on his son's shoulder. "I made a promise to you, do you remember?"
Loki nodded again, but this time more wavering.
"I always keep my word!" Odin smiled benevolent at him, showing his younger son a certain object that he kept hidden inside the cape.
It was a helmet, identical to the royal guards'one, but smaller.
Loki beamed. He had insisted so stubbornly to convince Frigg to let him wear the helmet that Thor had made for him, but the woman had been irremovable, saying that such a thing wouldn't be proper for such a solemn situation.
"Thank you, father! Can I really..." he murmured, so excited that he didn't even manage to end his question.
The king nodded, giving the accessory to him.
"It's yours." he stated.
Loki didn't waste time and wore it, looking for the closest mirror, in order to stare at himself. He didn't know why, but to wear that helmet made him feel more self-confident, without mentioning the fact that it fitted him to a T.
"Now, you can go to your brother and the others. I'll call you when it's the moment for the announcement." the king sent him away; and after thanking him one more time, Loki ran away happily, despite the etiquette that forbid such a wild behaviour.
Odin chuckled, but then his faces darkened a little bit.
- Oh, Loki, I wish that I'm really doing the right thing!-
The party had been going on for almost one hour.
Among the several appetizers, Thor and his closest friends were chatting about everything and nothing. Loki was there with them, making a huge effort to stand the company of those kids who he regarded only as intruder.
And the feeling was mutual to Thor's friends.
"Hey, Loki, is it true that you ran away from home?" Fandral wondered. He was a blonde child, with an aristocratic and hoity-toity attitude.
"Yep, it's true." the questioned guy replied shortly.
"And is it true that you even wanted to leave the realm?" Volstagg clumsily asked, with his mouth still plenty of the deliciousness he had stolen from the buffet.
Volstagg was a child with brown hair and a very robust constitution.
Loki stared at him with disgust. At least, Fandral was much more refined.
"Yep, it's true, I even wanted to leave the realm!" the brunet pandered to him, smugly.
"For once you were doing something clever! Couldn't you avoid coming back?" Sif commented acidly.
She was a very beautiful little girl, with long, amazing blond hair, but with an unwomanly attitude.
"Sif! Take it back , now!" Thor summoned her, glaring icily at her; as Loki felt the blow, controlling himself not to give those hateful idiots the satisfaction of seeing him cry.
It was enough to look at his brother's smiling face to find again the proper serenity. Every time Thor smiled at him, for Loki the whole world ceased to have any sort of importance and everything was okay.
"As you wish, Thor, but there's no way I'm going to apologize to him!" Sif snorted, pissed off.
"Is it true that this party is in your honour?" Volstagg asked Loki, this time having the accuracy of not gorging.
Loki nodded.
"What the heck can you have so special to deserve a whole party in your honour?" Fandral wondered, sceptically and coldly.
"You'll see!" Loki sneered.
"Besides... what the heck did you put on your head? You're so ridiculous!" Fandral burst out laughing coarsely.
Thor was about to say something, but Loki anticipated him.
"Yeah, laugh as much as you please! The truth is that you're only envious, because I have a royal ornament and you have a worn, fur jacket that you wear way too much, in my opinion!" he made his venomous remark, as he pointed just at the fur jacket that the blond child had decided to wear even in that occasion.
Fandral jolted in awkward, which meant that Loki had hit the mark.
A snicker escaped from Thor's lips, but it wasn't the only one, since even Sif didn't resist to that impulse.
To Loki that was a double victory.
Hogun, Thor's fourth friend, had kept silent all time long, exchanging some mutual glares with Loki
After all, Hogun had always been a taciturn kid and his dark hair and olive skin made him even grumpier.
"Loki, come here!" Odin called him.
"Oh, this is such a pity! I'm forced to leave such oh-so-pleasant company!" Loki commented sarcastically, pretending to feel deep regret.
Thor chuckled, as his friends watched the brunet walking away.
With his head held high and with a fierce, royal bearing, Loki reached Odin at the pulpit, at the bottom of the wide room.
"My dear subjects, my beloved Asgardian people, we're all gathered here tonight, because I want to prove you that the harmony and the peace between two realms are not only a pure utopia!" the wise king commenced.
The whole population was listening in respectful silence, hanging on his words.
Frigg was beside her consort and exhorted him to go on.
"Before the last, violent and bloody war against Jotunheim, I received an explicit request." Odin recounted.
After all, if he had hidden a part of the truth from Loki, he had to do the same with the whole Asgard.
"There was a baby from that realm, too small to be fully considered of his kind, too defenceless to be abandoned to himself. Who had given birth to him, in order to protect him from all this, asked me to take care of the baby, to welcome him among my people," he went on, as Loki could already feel one million pair of eyes on himself.
However, among all those faces, Loki searched for Thor's friendly face, who nodded, smiling at him.
Loki mirrored both of his smile and nod, getting ready to face all the consequences of that revelation.
"Not only did I fulfil that request, not only did I welcome him among our people; but I welcomed in my family, like a son." Odin revealed, taking Loki by the hand and taking him to the edge of the pulpit, in order to expose the kid to the crowd.
"That baby was Loki nonetheless; but the most important thing is that he's my son, to all intents and purposes!" he asserted.
In the room there were some screams of awe, a few tentative clapping of hands of encouragement and several grumbles of protests.
"Silence!" Odin ordered. "Loki is the link to the Asgardian population and the Jotun population. He's our hope for a harmonious and serene age. He's an instrument of peace!" he proclaimed, full of pride.
"Instrument of peace. I'm an instrument of peace." Loki repeated to himself, with a pleased smirk.
He couldn't understand its meaning yet, but he liked that definition.
"Now you know the truth, but this doesn't authorize you to enact any sort of discrimination. My son Loki deserves to be treated as a prince of Asgard, because this is what he truly is!" Odin pointed out.
"Yep, Loki must be treated as an equal of Thor, his brother. If anyone of you doesn't keep in that in mind, they will deal with me!" Frigg had to add, while she saw winking benevolently at Loki, who smiled at her.
"So Loki is a dirty frost giant, is that true?" Fandral repeated, horrified.
"I've always said that there wasn't anything good in him... and I was right!" Sif hissed.
Volstagg was too busy eating to speak, so he confined himself to nodding.
Hogun was about to say something, but Thor cut him off.
"Don't you dare to add a single word more. You should be ashamed of yourself. Didn't you hear what you've just been told? This must not change and won't ever change anything. Loki is my brother and I'll always protect him... even from you, if it's necessary!" he declared and the last part there was a hint of threat. "You're my dearest friends, so try to still be!" he added, coldly.
His four interlocutors bowed their head, with a remissive attitude.
The blond prince forced his way through the crowd, heading towards Loki; as, one by one, the Asgardian inhabitants paid a visit to the brunet prince, to render homage to him and make questions.
While Odin and Frigg assisted him, Loki tried to answer, a little embarrassed, making his best to be as exhaustive as possible.
He wasn't accustomed to receive all those attentions; after all he had always lived in Thor's shadow.
From one hand, Loki was enjoying that situation, a lot; but from the other hand he was caught off guard, but he tried his best not to show that.
When he saw his brother approaching, he decided to allow himself a more than deserved break from all those interest towards him.
With a look towards the king and the queen, Loki made his silent request, getting the permission.
He reached Thor and they parted in a more isolated corner to speak more freely.
"Thor, did you see? Finally father said that. Now everyone knows!" the brunet prince exclaimed.
"I saw." the other smiled, but then he noticed a shade of disquiet in those big, amazing, emerald eyes. "What's wrong, little brother?" he added, putting a hand on his shoulder.
"I don't know. I have the feeling that this won't last. Tonight everyone is nice to me, because father and mother ordered that; but then this will make increase the scorn they already felt towards me," the younger kid confessed, parting from him.
"No, Loki it won't be like that. What father did tonight changed everything, yeah, but for the better. And this is going to last!" the blond comforted him.
Loki turned to him.
"Really? And what do you tell me about your dear friends? How did they react?" he asked him.
"Well, they were in shock, at the beginning, but then they started to figure out so many things... and from now on they will find your company much more pleasant!" Thor blathered, without facing the questioning eyes of the brunet, who burst out laughing delighted.
"Oh, Thor, please! You're so incapable of lying!" the younger kid stated.
"You're right. They weren't nice to you at all, both before and after that news." the blond admitted, facing his look and this time in those little but wonderful sapphires Loki could read the uncomfortable truth.
"But, you know, they're not mean, it's just that they..." the elder kid added.
"You always justify them, even when they don't deserve it!" Loki snapped, indignant.
"Loki, I can't say that you always behave with them!" Thor made him notice.
Mistake. A terrible mistake.
Loki's eyes got teary.
"You never understand anything! It's called 'self-defence'! Both with words and facts. If they insult me or attack me, you can't expect me to let them do that. I react, wrong or right, it doesn't matter!" Loki replied, clenching his fist.
"I-I didn't want to..." Thor trailed.
He wanted to say that he had stood up for him, before, with his friends; but he said nothing. he was sure that Loki wouldn't have believed him.
"Go away, Thor. If your dear friends are more important than anything, go back to them!" Loki hissed.
"NO!" Thor protested, with an increasing determination sparkling in his blue eyes. "You are more important than anything. Loki, you come first. Always!" he declared, as serious as Loki rarely had seen him.
"Really?" he murmured, wiping the tears from his face.
Thor held one of Loki's hands in his.
"Really. If there's a way to show you..."
"Yep, there is." Loki cut him off, resting his other hand above the one Thor was holding.
Those were the words that Loki couldn't wait to hear and an evil smirk appeared on his features.
"Would you help me teach your dear friends a little lesson?" he wondered.
Thor quitted holding his hands.
"Loki! We've just finished a whole week of punishment. Don't you think that we'd better be quiet for a while?" his brother retorted.
"It's nothing dangerous. It's only a little, innocent joke. But if you don't feel like helping me, I'll do on my own!" Loki teased him, totally aware that he was pushing Thor's right buttons.
"Never, Loki. I'll never leave you on your own and you know that. Now just tell me what you plan to do." the other stuck back.
"We'll talk about it tomorrow, at morning. As soon as you're ready, go to my room and I'll explain you everything." the brunet informed him. "Now go back to the others and let's enjoy the rest of this party. I'll take advantage of that to get all the stuff what we need." he instructed him and the other obliged, without making any further question.
(End I)
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