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"Oh, after all this time, and now you come to visit."

I glanced up when Loki greeted his brother. I put my book down, and stood, silently making my way over. Thor glanced over at me, and his eyes widened. "You!"

I cleared my throat and grinned sheepishly. "Yeah, sorry. Not your subconscious."

Loki gave me an odd look. "Pardon?"

"I may or may not have gotten caught by Thor one night my second week, and may or may not have said that I was his subconscious," I said.

He sighed and shook his head. "I thought I taught you better."

I shrugged. "He didn't find me. I figured he wouldn't believe me, but it efficiently confused the hell out of him."

Thor cleared his throat. "As… surprising as this is, I must speak with Loki."

"Why?" Loki asked, continuing his little rant. "Have you come to gloat? To mock?"

"Loki, enough," Thor interrupted, glaring at his brother. "No more illusions."

Loki allowed his illusion to fall, revealing his bedraggled state and destroyed furniture. I was sitting on the floor, only because he had ruined the chairs in his grief over Frigga's death. "Now you see me, brother."

Thor didn't reply, simply walking around to the side closer to Loki.

"Did she suffer?" Loki asked, still not getting up. It hurt slightly, seeing him like this. I was used to the arrogant mischief-maker with a sharp tongue and impeccable wit, not this broken man who didn't care what happened to him anymore.

"I did not come here to share our grief," Thor replied. "Instead I offer you the chance at a far richer sacrament."

Loki tilted his head, intrigued. "Go on."

"I know you seek vengeance as much as I do," Thor said. "You help me escape Asgard, and I will grant it to you. Vengeance. And afterward, this cell."

I raised my hand to interrupt. "Hold on. I'm included in this, too, right? Because, technically, I'm not supposed to be here. I was just kinda waiting for this all to go down, so I could leave."

Loki looked at me, giving a half-hearted smirk. "Is my company that unbearable?"

"It is when you're a sulking mess whose highlight of the day is stepping on legos," I shot back. Loki simply chuckled.

Thor seemed unsure. "I don't believe that is the best course of action…"

I stood up and walked to be face-to-face with him. (It was more like face-to-chest; if I looked straight on, my head barely came to his shoulders.) "Thor, I'm mortal. Nor did I do anything to deserve being condemned to a cell for the rest of my life." I smirked. "Plus, I could be useful."

Loki scoffed. "What could you possibly do that I could not?"

I glared at him. "Quite a bit. Besides, it can't hurt to have an extra sorcerer around, can it?"

"You can perform magic?" Thor asked.

I nodded. "Loki has been teaching me for a while. So, you're busting me out of this hellhole too, right? Because I'm following you guys either way."

"I suppose it would be best," Thor answered my question uneasily. "Though, I cannot guarantee you will be safe."

"And I wouldn't expect you to," I replied.

"Your little deals aside," Loki said, turning to his brother. He laughed. "You must be truly desperate to come to me for help. What makes you think you can trust me?"

Thor was quick to answer. "I don't." He gave Loki a pointed look. "Mother did. You should know that when we fought each other in the past, I did so with a glimmer of hope that my brother still existed in there somewhere. That hope no longer exists to protect you. You betray me, and I will kill you."

I rolled my eyes. "On that happy note. When do we start?"

Loki, Thor, and I walked through the destroyed halls of the palace, Loki with the most enthusiasm of the three of us. "This is so unlike you, brother. So clandestine. Are you sure you wouldn't rather just punch your way out?"

"You keep speaking and I just might," Thor replied. I snorted, staying silent. I much preferred to watch Loki torment Thor.

"Fine, as you wish," Loki said. "I'm not even here." Putting up an illusion, he made himself look like a guard. "Is this better?"

Thor barely glanced at his brother. "It's better company, at least."

"Still," Loki sighed, "We could be less conspicuous." Altering the glamor to make himself normal, he made Thor resemble Sif. "Hm, Thor. You look ravishing."

I fake-gagged. "Please don't."

Thor glanced down at himself, not amused in the least. Though, it took all my willpower not to laugh when hearing Thor's voice come from Sif. "Still, it will hurt no less when I kill you in this form."

Loki shrugged. "Very well. Perhaps you would prefer one of your new companions, given that you like them so much." He changed the illusion once again, making himself look like Captain America. I had to stifle a laugh because, quite honestly, the concept amused me to no end. "Oh, this is much better, whoo. Costume's a bit much. So tight. But the confidence! I can feel the righteousness surging!" He spun to face Thor. "Hey, want to have a rousing discussion about truth? Honor? Patriotism? God bless Amer-"

He was cut off, and his illusion dropped, when Thor slammed him against a pillar. I quickly used my magic to make myself invisible, hiding from the guards that were walking past.

Loki pulled away from Thor annoyedly. "What?" He followed his brother's gaze, looking at the guards, before turning back to Thor. "You could at least furnish me with a weapon. My daggers, something."

Thor looked his brother over, handing him something. Loki grinned smugly. "At last. A little common sen...se."

He trailed off when he realized that Thor had tricked him. Instead of getting a dagger, Loki was now handcuffed. He raised his wrists and glared at Thor, who was simply smiling amusedly. "I thought you liked tricks."

He walked off with a chuckle, and Loki glanced to me. I raised an eyebrow, smirking, not following Thor before throwing a glance at Loki over my shoulder. "He has a point."

Soon, we caught up with Sif and Jane, who recognized Loki immediately. "You're-"

"I'm Loki," he introduced blandly. "You may have heard of m-"

Loki was cut off when Jane slapped him across the face, eliciting a stifled laugh from me. "That was for New York."

Loki glanced at her, before turning his gaze to Thor, grinning. "I like her."

I rolled my eyes. "Of course you do, Loki."

"Who is this?" Sif asked, glaring at me.

"My name's Rachel, it's a long story, and we really don't have time for it right now," I answered, not caring if it was insufficient for the female warrior. The guards had just shown up, and we had to move.

"Take her," Sif said to Thor, referring to Jane. "I'll hold them off." Before Loki could move, he had her sword at his throat. "Betray him, and I'll kill you."

Loki chuckled. "It's good to see you, too, Sif."

We approached the Dark Elf ship that had crashed into the palace, where Volstagg was waiting for us. "I'll buy you as much time as I can."

"Thank you, my friend," Thor said, grasping his forearm.

Jane nodded as she passed Volstagg, and I shot him a grin. He stopped Loki, however, in order to issue his threat. "If you even think about betraying him-"

"You'll kill me?" Loki guessed.

"Evidently there will be a line," I tossed back, pausing to wait for the two. Volstagg let Loki go, preparing himself to fight the guards.

Loki and I joined Jane and Thor on the ship, where Thor was experimentally hitting random in hopes of figuring out how to turn it on.

"I though you said you knew how to fly this thing," Loki quipped.

"I said 'how hard could it be'," Thor corrected.

"Well, whatever you're doing, I suggest you do it faster," Loki said.

"Shut up, Loki."

Loki did not heed this order. "You must have missed something."

"No, I didn't," Thor growled. "I'm hitting every button on this thing."

"Why don't I give it a try?" I asked, pushing the two aside. I had seen the movie enough times to vaguely know what to do. I pushed a few buttons and heard the ship hum to life. Loki gave Thor a taunting smirk.

"See?" he said. "She knows how to do it."

I huffed, rolling my eyes as I widened my stance to take the helm. Thor tried to move me aside, but I stopped him with a glare. "Uh-uh. I've seen you try to fly this thing. I'm driving."

"Do you even know how to?" Loki asked.

The strange thing was, I actually did. When I first stepped on, I had no idea what all of the buttons and levers did, but now everything made sense. I could read the holograms that had shown up, and knew exactly what to do to make the ship do what I wanted. "Apparently so."

Theoretically, at least. Steering was a bit off, and I crashed into a bunch of pillars on the way out.

"I think you missed a column," Loki joked.

"Shut up!" Thor and I both yelled at him. I maneuvered the ship around and under the buildings, while Loki decided to be a backseat driver.

"Look, why don't I take over, I'm clearly the better pilot," he said.

I rolled my eyes, steering to avoid the shots being blasted at us. Suddenly, Jane fell over, to which Loki commented with lazy interest. "Oh, dear. Is she dead?"

Thor went to help Jane, while I tried to focus on flying. It's rather hard when you have someone breathing down your neck, making sarcastic comments every five seconds. I crashed into some sort of building and glared at Loki. "Not a word."

"Now they're following us," Loki said, his voice more urgent. I had to pull some quick moves to avoid the blasts they shot, making Loki more agitated. "Now they're firing at us."

"Yes, thank you for the commentary, Loki," I growled. "It's not at all distracting."

I narrowly made it into the passageway, but not without clipping the statue along the side. Loki, of course, had something to say. "Well done. You just decapitated Thor's grandfather."

"Thor, when can I push him out?" I asked through clenched teeth, not taking my eyes off the hologram in front of me. He didn't reply, as I was too busy avoiding the other ships.

"You know, this is a wonderful idea," Loki said sarcastically. "Let's steal the biggest, most obvious ship in the universe, and escape in that. Flying around the city, smashing into everything in sight, so that everyone can see us. It's brilliant, it's truly brilliant!"

"Fuck this!" I yelled, and shoved the annoying bastard out the side of the ship. I turned to the others. "Wow, that felt good."

Thor grinned, before picking up Jane and jumping out. I flipped a few more switches, before making my way to the hatch. I really should have had Thor push me out. Falling was one of the few things I had a serious fear of, along with the dark and being completely alone. But the Asgardian ships were approaching, and my window to jump was closing. I squeezed my eyes shut, taking a deep breath before forcing myself to jump. I expected to crash painfully onto the deck of the ship Fandral had brought, but instead, I was caught in a pair of rather awkward arms, with metal jamming into my side. I glared at Loki before he set me down.

"Was that truly necessary, Rachel?" he asked.

"You have no idea," I breathed.

He turned to Thor. "You lied to me. I'm impressed."

Thor stood straight, done tending to Jane. "I'm glad you're pleased. Now do as you promised. Take us to your secret pathway."

Loki seemed all too pleased to take the helm, zipping over the water in our flying Viking ship. Fandral leaped off the boat, in order to take care of the last few who were following us. Loki began steering towards the cliff face, an action that made the others nervous. I, however, knew that he knew what he was doing.

"Loki," Thor warned as we drew closer.

Loki simply grinned and maintained course. "If it were easy, everyone would do it."

"Are you mad?" Thor shouted.

"Possibly," Loki replied, at the same time I said, "Most definitely." Loki threw me a grin, which I returned, having gotten over my annoyance at him when I got to push him out of the ship.

We flew into a narrow passageway in the side of the rock, the wings scraping the walls. When we popped out in Svartalfheim, Loki celebrated with a small, sing-song "Ta-da."

I zoned out, paying more attention to the world around me as Loki and Thor began arguing again. I turned back as Thor raised his fist to strike Loki. "Stop. Frigga wouldn't want you two to fight."

Loki raised an eyebrow, a small smirk appearing. "Well, she wouldn't exactly be shocked."

Thor smiled sadly at his brother. "I wish I could trust you."

"Trust my rage," Loki muttered.

We hunkered behind the rocks, hidden from view, watching the Dark Elves. Thor turned to Jane. "Alright, you ready?"

Loki looked up, a malevolent glint in his eye. "I am." The two brothers stood. "You know this plan of yours is going to get us both killed."

"Yes, possibly," Thor replied.

Loki held out his chained wrists. "You still don't trust me, brother?"

"Would you?" Thor asked, but uncuffed him nonetheless.

Loki pulled a dagger from behind his cape. "No, I wouldn't."

He plunged it into Thor's gut, making the god tumble down the hill, holding his abdomen. Loki followed, and Jane cried out for her lover. I held her back as best I could, muttering quietly to her. "It'll be okay, trust me."

Jane didn't listen, breaking away and running after the two. I sighed, and prepared myself for the oncoming fight. Loki wrenched Jane away from the injured Thor, offering her to Malekith, while I stood off to the side.

The Dark Elf looked to me, suspicious. "What of the girl?"

"I am no threat to you," I said, my voice strong and even. "A mere mortal, of no importance. Though, if it would ease your conscience further, I would follow Loki to the ends of the Earth and back."

Malekith seemed pacified by this answer, especially when the Kursed told him that I had been in the cell with Loki. Turning away from the two of us, Malekith extracted the Aether from Jane.

With the Aether vulnerable, Thor shouted to Loki, who cast away the illusion and covered Jane, protecting her from Thor's lightning. There was a boom, and the Aether shattered into many tiny pieces. They began to float, piecing back together and drifting towards Malekith. He absorbed the Aether, and it was then that I registered how much trouble we really were in.

Thor began fighting the Dark Elves with his hammer, Loki doing the same with his daggers. I didn't know what to do, but sort of instinct took over, and fire and ice shot out, ruthlessly attacking the elves. I found that I could control it, beyond the usual properties of the two natural substances. I didn't know exactly how or why, but, at that point, I didn't care, simply going along with it.

Despite this, we were losing. Thor was going to be overwhelmed, and Loki was slowly working his way to fighting the Kursed. This fact distracted me slightly, enough so that my enemy could get a blow to the side of my head, knocking me unconscious.

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