In Times of Trouble
A Thor, Supernatural Crossover
A/N- This chapter was 156 words. Which ruins the challenge I set for myself but I can't see getting what I wanted into it in any smaller amount. And I'm pretty sure different books record different angels performing the same biblical disasters but as my Dictionary of Angels has Gabriel down as a killer of giants I figured he can be the cause of Noah's flood.
"All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair."
-Mitch Albom
Loki steps onto the desolation of Jotunheim, a quiet numbness taking over. Though he claims not to read minds but hearts, and though he denies it Loki is certain Gabriel -Loki of another time and place- used magic to nudge the die in Jotunheim's favor, the winged man says Loki needs closure. All Loki can see is a land of monsters that has been decimated. Ruin wrought by a monster's hand. His hand.
Loki expects words measured for guilt, shame, and repentance. Instead Gabriel take three large balls of snow and stacks them. He summons a green scarf from the ether.
Loki's pinched eyes and clenched fists ask what his voice is too clogged with emotion to articulate.
"I once flooded all of Midgard on my Father's order." An orange vegetable is thrust into the topmost snow ball. "It was before your grandfather's time."
Loki gives the dumpy thing eyes that burn like embers.