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Chapter 112: Final Confession

Asgard

Sigyn keeps her eyes focused on her father who hasn't stopped laughing since Thor threw her in here. Even when Loki ran out of breath, he continues to wheeze away his laughter, bending over and holding his sides which are cramping. Sigyn rolls her eyes and puts a hand to her forehead in annoyance until Loki would quiet down, which he did after about ten minutes. Loki walks over to a chair and finally takes a seat to catch his breath as Sigyn approaches her.

"Are you done?" Sigyn questions.

"For now," Loki responds.

Sigyn figures that's a better response. She sits on the side table next to Loki's chair.

"I did a bad thing," Sigyn confesses.

"On a scale of your mother kidnapping you and your friends at grad, turning your Hulk friend into his Hulk only to have him rampage at you and hypnotize Apollo into killing you; compared to what I did in New York with the Chitauri invasion and the Tesseract, and almost ruling everybody mortal on Midgard; how bad was whatever you did?"

"I took Apollo's memories and abandoned him on Midgard, borrowed some of Hela's fleet, stole the Serpent Crown from the vault, froze time, almost killed my friends with those skeletons, and almost got Apollo to kill me."

Loki stares at her passively and Sigyn sits there impatiently for some reaction. At first, Sigyn expects him to cry out laughing but instead, he tears up out of pride as he puts a hand on her shoulder.

"You truly are my offspring," Loki beams. "I didn't think I'd be this proud of you! Ever"!

Sigyn shrugs away his hand as she stands up. She crosses her arms and walks back and forth with her head down. Then, she turns to Loki and sees him sitting back in his chair. His eyes are narrowed, not in an irritating way but a studious one. She huffs out a breath as she raises her eyebrows at him.

"What?" Sigyn asks.

"I would ask why you didn't stay on Midgard if you were so keen on avoiding Thor because you harmed his only child and took the crown that started it all." Loki sits up in his seat with a smirk starting to form on the corner of his mouth. "But you would have responded with something like how your friends from Midgard hate you although they protected you while Apollo wanted to slice you open."

"You think they hate me?" Sigyn questions although she knows the answer is yes. "Why would they protect me if they hate me?"

"Because you're crazy. A crazy woman that has history with them and unanswered questions with everyone else including them."

"Fair enough."

Loki walks up to her. "You're unbelievable, Sigyn. You're playing both hero and villain."

"If I had known that my actions would have caused so much chaos and heartbreak, I wouldn't have done it."

"Liar."

"Shut up."

Loki sighs happily as he puts a hand on Sigyn's shoulder again. "My darling one, you're so young and lovely but inexperienced and dense. The world and its magic are at your fingertips and will rise to tread on you. Don't blame yourself for protecting someone."

"Why do you let me do this?"

Loki removes his hand from her shoulder and puts it on his chest in disbelief that he's the one being blamed. "When did I ever say to do your stupid plan? All I said to you was to go to Hel."

"Which was pointless, by the way. Hela trapped me in there for months."

"She didn't trap you. You could've left whenever you wanted to. You have all the power in all the Nine Realms and you know there isn't a spell for everything."

Sigyn takes a shaky breath and looks down at her hands and they're trembling. When she exhales, her breath turns into a cry. Tears start streaming down her face as she listens to how much power she has in her and how it resulted in her doing something moronic. And now she's here: bandaged and sobbing in her father's prison cell after she left her cousin with his memories that will distress and worsen him than how he was on Asgard.

Loki approaches her and lifts her chin so that her eyes look into his. All he sees are her tears and he drops her face. Sigyn gives him a strange face.

"You already look like Amora and took her power too after you killed her," Loki tells her. "Maybe you're her daughter and barely mine."

Sigyn backs away at the sound of that name, holding up a shaking hand that glows with magic. If there was one thing that made her trigger more than anything, aside from what happened in Asgard during the past seven years, it was the mention of her mother.

"She was an awful sorceress and thank god she's dead but I'm still alive and I'm begging you for once in your life to be honest with me," Sigyn confesses to him. "Help me. Care for me more."

Loki's face softens with a slight smirk. "Please don't force your fate as she wanted."

-o-

Later in the day, Thor renters the prisons. When he approaches Loki's cell, he sees Loki reading a book with his legs crossed on the couch and Sigyn lying on the floor, staring up at the ceiling absentmindedly. He clears his throat as Sigyn's head pops up. When she sees Thor, she scrambles up and begs on her knees for him to release her.

"Please get rid of her," Loki says to his brother. "All she does is cry and complain."

Thor sighs in annoyance as he takes Sigyn out, knowing that Loki is very well joking about his distaste in his daughter, but the crying and complaining might be true. When he takes Sigyn out, to her surprise, he slaps chains on her wrists and bounds them behind her. These chains held back her magic so she couldn't escape them.

"Seriously?" Sigyn asks as she can hear Loki laughing at her from his cell. "What are these for?"

"You said I was being extra," Thor responds with a small laugh as he begins escorting Sigyn out. "So, I took it upon myself to make proper use of that word."

Sigyn rolls her eyes. "Why was I even locked up? How dare you treat me like a criminal? Sure, I did some bad things but really?"

"How dare I? I'm the ruler of Asgard and protector of Midgard - two realms which you have done cruel towards. Needless to say, but do I have to list every criminalistic action you have committed? Because that will take all day. You're under my legal jurisdiction and I must protect you as well. You were in there so you would talk to Loki."

Sigyn nods a little behind that reasoning. Then, she glances up at Thor as he opens the door for her to walk through.

"Do you regret taking me in?" Sigyn asks.

"Loki is complicated and I know from experience that he's rotten to the core," Thor responds. "Seeing you as Amora's target and you ending her life left me stunned. However, Jane and I don't regret taking you in one bit."

"Seems like you do."

"Now, I do." Thor nudges her a little to get her to lighten up which she doesn't. "In violent times, you shouldn't have to sell your soul."

Thor grips her bicep and begins leading her towards the Bifrost. Sigyn starts shaking her head and skidding her feet before Thor has to drag her.

"Where are we going?" Sigyn asks although she already knows the answer.

"Midgard," Thor replies.

"Do we have to? I was just there and Loki's furniture in his cell needs reupholstering. I know a man in town."

Thor glares at her. "We'll go to Apollo. You don't have to talk about it now or even think about it, but you'll have to. At some point, you both will have to face what happened, just not now."

-o-

Stark Towers - 8:42 AM

Thor yanks Sigyn from Heimdall's shooting portal and she recognizes their location as the landing dock at Stark Towers. Sigyn can't breathe for a moment since she hasn't been here since she was a teenager and now she was back in handcuffs. So much can happen in seven years and she's learned that the hard way. She follows Thor's lead, looking over his shoulder down to the ground. Thor immediately pulls her closer and she frowns.

"Don't think about it," Thor tells her as if he read her mind. "You have a horrible habit of wanting to jump off high ledges."

"I was thinking of throwing you off it and making a run for it," Sigyn mutters.

Thor laughs a little as he takes her right inside Stark Towers.

"You can't just waltz right in without knocking," Sigyn ironically scolds Thor. "That's not polite."

"You're not one to tell me about manners."

"Rude!"

The moment she yelled, Sigyn notices people entering the room to greet them. It's her friends if she can still call them that. They stare at her as if they're looking at a display in a museum - astonished that she's still around and acknowledging a look-but-don't-touch mindset. They almost feel the need to walk on eggshells in her presence. Lucky for her, Jane runs out and approaches Sigyn and Thor. Her gaze immediately falls on Sigyn's bound wrists.

"Really, Thor?" Jane questions. "The cuffs?"

"She asked for it," Thor innocently responds.

Sigyn opens her mouth to object to that but sees that Jane doesn't have the time or interest to deal with it. She takes Thor's hand and drags him to the next room where Apollo is. Sigyn smirks at the fact that Thor was now the one being dragged around. But now, she's alone with her maybe-still-friends and it's making her uncomfortable.

"...so…" Sigyn mutters as she testers on her feet. "How have you all been?"

"Worried," James replies flatly.

Sigyn nods. "Good answer."

"Do you want anything to eat?" Emily asks.

"Nope," Sigyn lies because she's starving. "I think I would end up vomiting. Are you and Daniel married yet?"

"Nope."

"Still planning," Daniel adds. "Are you okay?"

"Also, no." She looks over at Iqadi. "Any children?"

Iqadi shakes her head. "Miscarried a while back."

"Oh…" Sigyn suddenly feels empty for her. "I'm sorry."

Iqadi smiles a little. Sigyn can never feel the same pain as her at the moment since nothing she has experienced can be compared to losing a child (or maybe she can imagine. Time is still young and Fate's clock is still ticking even after she tried to speed it up).

"Please tell me you'll stay this time," James says to Sigyn, sounding a little desperate this time.

Sigyn is taken aback for a moment since they still want her. "You all have a large capacity of forgiveness."

"You haven't even apologized yet," Merida says with her signature snarky flare. Sigyn admits to missing that and appreciates it now more than ever.

"Forgive me, but I have a list of apologies and explanations to do," Sigyn mutters.

She smirks a little but it suddenly vanishes when she sees Apollo walk into the room with his parents behind him. He cleaned up and changed into a fresh set of Midgardian clothes, but the fright on his face is still present when he sees her. She wants to make a run for it but she can't move. She watches Apollo turn around to look at his parents, and he and Sigyn both can't take their eyes off of them. Their expressions will forever be burned into their memories. Fear and panic mixed with relief and concern, not just for what happened but what could've.

She knows that Apollo wants to yell at her. He would want to berate her for taking away his memories, for controlling Hela's soldiers, for putting their friends through this - but his mind is too desperate for an explanation for this.

Sigyn steps back and looks at the ground with guilt. Tears start forming in her eyes which gets Apollo to do the same unintentionally. Sigyn gulps air into her lungs which feel right at the moment. Her eyelids are fluttering and she can't find her voice. She knows what's coming: those rehearsed deep breaths, the flood of questions, and some bizarre type of relief because all ends will be tied. She couldn't imagine what would happen if she lied again. She couldn't do that anymore because it shows how scared she is of the truth, especially after her recent errors - all the chaos and remorse - even if she can't fully get rid of those demons.

"Sigyn, I -" Apollo clears his throat. "- you lied to me."

Sigyn heaves a breath. "I don't want to lie to you anymore but I also don't want to tell you the truth because the truth is what got us in this situation."

"You said that you were trying to protect me, that you were doing the right thing."

"Falling apart didn't make you weak. A strong heart is fully capable of breaking. You're not weak for needing time or space to heal but, Apollo, you became so terrified of dying that you became scared of living. I lied in the form of false memories. I recreated disaster and chaos by censoring what I didn't want coming out."

Apollo shakes his head a little. "Why did you do that?"

"Selfishness. So much of my life is out of my control so I decided to do what I wanted. That entire scene was a realization of my worse fears that my overanxious mind projected as a coping mechanism. In my head, I concocted a plan that was so beautiful in its simplicity."

Sigyn knows that this is the part where she has to start explaining it all not only Apollo, but Thor and Jane, and her friends. Her friends back out in case of privacy and if Sigyn has access to her hands, which she forgot she didn't have for a slim second, she would've stopped them with a gesture. If she would tell the truth, they should tell all of it.

"I need you all to stay here so I only need to say this once," Sigyn says and they all stay. She glances at her cousin. "Apollo, you will have to help me with this."

Apollo hesitantly and slowly nods. "Where do we start?"

"Asgard. Seven years ago…"


[And that concludes the chapters I'll be publishing for the summer. As of now, I'm going on a hiatus for who knows how long because of other stories and the start of university. Don't be alarmed, THIS STORY WILL BE CONTINUED!

Besides, you have to find out what happened in Asgard…]

[2020: Ah, shit, I won't have fun revamping that.]