Frigga walked into the chambers she and Odin shared and found him sitting on the couch in the common room. He was sitting looking at the fire, but turned his head at his wife's approach. "I am guessing Ava is still angry with me?" Odin asked.
"You would have to ask her, but I would imagine she would be. She and Loki are married now and I left them in their new apartment." Frigga replied.
"Are you angry with me?" Odin asked.
"Angry doesn't even begin to cover it." She answered her husband. "I am furious with you. How could you ruin Ava's day and risk her life, not to mention the life of our grandchild?"
"I had to." Odin replied. "I had to find out if Laufey would want peace or if he was just making a plot to take the casket back and bring down Asgard…I was also not completely convinced of Loki's innocence…I had to find out where his loyalties truly lie."
Frigga glared at her husband. "He declared his loyalties to Asgard."
"Yes, when I was about to execute him." Odin countered. "Anyone would lie to get out of that situation…now I know for sure. I know he truly does love Ava and wasn't just using her…and that Laufey will never want peace."
"You should have picked a better time." Frigga said. "There are plenty of other days and better ways than risking your daughter's life."
"I was doing it for the good of Asgard!" Odin shouted as he rose from his seat. "I am the king and I made the decision as king to do what is right for my kingdom!"
Frigga kept her temper cool, though she wanted to shout back at him, she didn't. "That is the problem. You were thinking as king. You are so busy thinking about Asgard that you forgot to think about the good of your family. You may be king, but you are still a father. You were a father before you were a king. Start acting like your family means something to you." She then turned and headed to the bedroom that she kept for when she wanted to be alone and tonight she did not feel like sharing a bed with her husband.
Odin sat back down on the couch and stared at the fire once again. He thought about the words his wife had just said to him. His mind went to the scene in the dungeon earlier, when Frigga and Farbauti had worked together to trap Laufey. He thought about the look on Ava's face when she had shouted at him. He could see the way she felt in her green eyes, hurt and betrayed. Even his son and wife were now against him. It seemed where Ava was concerned, he was nothing but a screw up as father and somehow managed to get his entire family against him.
Odin let out a sigh as he thought about these things. "How to balance being king and being a father?" He muttered to himself.
In the dungeon…
Farbauti entered the dungeon and walked to stand in front of her husband's cell. He sat there, bound in chains, looking at the floor. "Have you come to mock me, my dear queen?" He asked, not even looking up.
"I came to reason with you." Farbauti answered.
Laufey scoffed and looked up at his wife. "You reason with me?"
"Yes." Farbauti answered. "It is obvious that Asgard's forces are far superior to ours. We had a truce and with Loki's marriage to Ava, we could have had an alliance with Asgard. It would have been beneficial to us."
"How can you say that after what they did to us?" Laufey inquired.
"You brought war to us." Farbauti told him. "You brought it about by invading Midgard and being power hungry. You brought about the fall of our world, of our people. Loki falling in love with Ava and marrying her could have joined us with Asgard. It could have healed what has broken between our worlds. We could have rebuilt our relationship with Asgard and in doing so, we could have rebuilt our world. Now that will never be. No one on Asgard will trust you or anyone else of our land."
Laufey glared at his wife. "You and Loki are traitors. I will never forgive you for this. You are no longer my wife and he is no longer my son."
"If that is the way you want it." Farbauti told him. "So be it." She then walked away, leaving Laufey alone with his thoughts.
Laufey sat there, looking at the chains that bound him and limited his movements. He knew that Odin would have him executed, he would do the same if their roles were reversed and he knew that it was a fate he would not escape. He resigned himself for the axe. "I have been betrayed by my own family and for that I will fall…and my kingdom will as well." For the short time he knew he had left, he would blame his wife and son for his downfall. He would never see things the way his wife did. "This is…the end."