Disclaimer: I do not own these characters. If there's a town by the same name as Misty Park in California then it's only a coincidence.
A/N: So far I'm thinking this might be no more than 10 chapters. I hope. Also, the following chapters will start getting longer. The first two were short to kind of move everything a little quicker.
un-beta'd
Loki accepts most of the blame for many things in his life now.
Before he fell he would have gladly foisted all the blame on to his parents and brother so that he would be free of all the bad decisions in his life. However, something in the fall had made his mind clear of every jealous and hate filled thought.
When he lands, crashes, on Midgard he's surrounded by trees. He stays in his crater mulling over the recent events. He thought his fate would lead to his death but instead he lives.
He spends the following days gathering magic to heal himself. It's a long and lonely time for him. At one point his desperation grows enough for him to call for Heimdall. After no reply by way of Bifrost his heart begins to ache.
Time passes and even when he's healthy enough to stand on his own there is no reply. Surely, if he found passages to Midgard without the use of the Bifrost then Odin would've sent for him.
Right?
Loki would gladly return in shackles if it means he would be rid of the guilt harboring within him. The hours stretch into days and days stretch into weeks but there is only silence to his cries begging for forgiveness.
The small part of him still rolling in anger slowly becomes larger. It whispers awful thoughts, needling him until he's shouting profanities at the sky.
But he waits.
More time passes but after spending the day under a powerful rain storm he becomes desperate again. With the water rising around him he attempts scrying home. It works and the god is so glad to see the halls of his home he almost misses one wrong detail.
Loki searches for his mother, father, and brother and worries when all he sees are angry or disappointed faces. And then he hears a voice.
"No," he whispers in fear.
He moves towards the speaker and sees himself. Something wearing his face grins menacingly at Odin. It's too much. Loki listens to his doppelgängers trial and the destruction it caused.
His mind spins, "What is this sorcery?"
He loses hold and yells in anger, at the unfairness of everything.
After leaving what would've been his tomb had he been a weaker, he walks. The town he stumbles into is small, smaller than what he's used to. There are no spiral towers or gold painted buildings. There is no Rainbow Bridge to welcome him.
He creates an illusion to hide his Asgardian clothes to blend in before he makes his way down a sidewalk. He clamps down on his magic and wills himself to look harmless.
This is how he starts his new life. He let's go of everything and anything tying him to the destructive part of his past and it's freeing. This is where he strives to live a humble life as a nobody. If a few mortals suffer at his hands to sate his anger when his thoughts return to his old life it doesn't bother him.
In Misty Park he carves something for himself. He chooses a name that will be his forever until his dying breath because Loki is dead.
He's welcomed by the residents and gains sympathy and a job after recounting a heavily edited version of his life. Somehow he works himself into the lives of the humans and eventually feels that this is his place.
Here he's known as the smiling blond working part-time in a small café. He rents a two bedroom trailer with a coworker at the edge of town near the forest. He buys donuts from his neighbors bakery for the children waiting at the bus stop on his road every Friday morning. He takes cooking lessons twice a week and goes on runs every Sunday afternoon with his roommate. He's a model citizen and no one ever thinks to accuse him of the odd deaths that began since his arrival almost a decade ago. He believes he'll live this quiet empty life until he fades into nothing.
When he comes across a boy in an alley he knows he's wrong.
tbc