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Chapter 129

Chapter 129
Thor returned from his mock trip to Svartalfheim. It had been Suvia's idea for him to take his friends, but not tell them what was actually happening, and go search for Loki's body, which Thor knew wouldn't be found.
It was all a part of the show. Inside Suvia's room was enchanted so no one could see nor hear what was happening and inside it they plotted. She was sure that if they didn't first take down Tyr's defenses about Thor's return that he would be on his guard. So they had decided to do meager things to first take away his weary eyes.
After that, they needed to take him by surprise. Suvia had a spell ready to trap him so he could not escape, but afterwards they would need Gungnir to enhance her magic and seal her husband power completely.
The hard part would be getting their hands on Gungrir. Currently his brother was in possession of it and he would not hand it over lightly.
Thor entered the throne room to give his 'father' his report. He bowed to one knee in the respect he'd normally give. It was hard to look up and picture this man as Loki, either of them, for Tyr was also present. It wasn't often that he left the Kings side, which was annoying.
"Father," Thor began as he stood straight once more. "As you predicted we were unable to locate Loki's remains." Thor tried to look solemn. It turned out it wasn't that hard. All he had to do was remember that both his mother and father were deceased.
The thought left him wanting to wrap his hands around Tyr's throat and choke him till he ceased to breath, but Thor remained well composed. There had once been a time he might have already ruined this plan but charging in, but not this time. He'd learned patience over the years.
"I am sorry. I know what finding him meant to you, and to Cephera." There was no mistaking that change of tone when Odin spoke her name. A loving caress. Cephera was right to have believed Loki loved her too much to just die without so much as a goodbye. It wasn't as if he hadn't had enough breath to say last words.
"I mourn more for her than for I." Thor replied. "She is desperate for answers, for closure, and when I return to Earth she'll have neither." Thor watched his brother closely, saw the small drop to his eyes.
Thor had never been one to stand and watch for anything. It was never his trait to pay attention to detail. Now that he was, he found it amusing how much he could tell from the smallest of movements. A flinch here, a deeper intake of breath there. Subtle and yet screaming, these movements told the true story.
Jane taught him patience. She's often scolded him for his brash actions. In his past, most people just let him do as he pleaded. Perhaps, they were afraid to speak up as he was their prince and heir.
It was a breath of fresh air to finally have someone who wasn't afraid to speak their minds. Thor's mother often spoke her mind, but because she was his mother, he didn't listen as, kids often ignored their parents.
"He is dead. Is the word of Odin not good enough for the princess?" Tyr interjected. Thor tried to keep his scowl at bay. He had time to think of all the suggestions Tyr had ever made. It had been Tyr who had insisted that Odin should be at the battlefront during Loki's nameday all those centuries ago and also Tyr who had insisted Cephera not be sent to Earth to live with Jane, among other things.
Suvia's suspected that her husband was trying to drive a wedge between the couple by creating a situation where Cephera would and indeed had, made friends with Loki's enemies. To put her in a position to choose to protect them when the time came or join her husband on his quest for world domination.
To Thor this made sense. It would certainly cause a fight between Cephera and Loki. He would certainly feel betrayed and therefore pushing him further into his destructive thoughts.
Suvia assured Thor that Loki is not yet corrupt and he can be saved. He can turn from the path he's been set on. Thor hoped she was right. To think his brother would be capable of half the things Suvia's husband has done was inconceivable. It made everything Loki had done so far look like child's play.
"She respects my father...," Thor began to defend his sister, but Odin had turned in his throne to look at the old man.
"She grieves, it is not uncommon to look for answers where there are none." Odin's tone was dark with warning. It would seem that, even in his disguise, Loki would not tolerate anyone speaking ill of his wife. "She has lost two people in her life who meant the world to her." He added turning back around.
Thor watched Tyr's jaw tighten and his lips press into a thin agitated line. Tyr knew it was Loki beneath the Odin facade, but Loki did not see through Tyr. All these years he'd gone through so much to separate Loki from his loving wife and failed. It was a wonder Tyr hadn't just killed her.
"Father, I know that Asgard is still in a state of repair, but I would ask that you reconsider your decision and initiate a divorce for myself a for the Lady Sif." Thor needed a new reason to stick around, and this was it.
"So that you may marry the mortal, no." Odin replied.
"Not so that I may marry Jane, but for myself and for Sif. We are friends, the best of friends, but our marriage prevents either myself of her from moving on. If she should wish to marry another, have children, create a family, she could not. It is unfair to her." Thor pleaded.
Even though this was a way to stay, it was also the truth.
"You both made the decision to go against my wishes when you married, surely you realized the consequence should you change your minds." Thor had to remind himself that Loki was pretending to be Odin. He certainly hoped Loki wasn't doing this just to be spiteful.
"We've learnt a valuable lesson, I assure you." Thor replied. "I only ask that you think about it." Thor added. "I will be here a few more days as I have missed my friends." Odin scratched his cheek.
"I will consider the words you've said, but know this, if I should grant your request you still do not have my blessing to marry the mortal. A human has no place in Asgard." Thor bowed his head with no reply.
XxX
"Now what?" Thor asked Suvia sitting at her table and eating food she had brought up.
"Tonight, just as Odin is leaving the throne room to retire to bed, we strike. I've watched them, Tyr does not leave his side until they depart in the eastern hallways. The guards are far enough away to advance our plans, but there is a possibility they may hear the ruckus." She replied.
"It feels soon." Thor replied.
"It has to be. You cannot stay in Asgard and leave your Jane for much longer before questions are raised and Tyr begins to wonder. We wait for them to reach the intersection. I will cast my spell to prevent Tyr from teleporting from the hallway and you will have to keep him and the guards, if they come, busy while I acquire Gungrir." She seemed so calm.
"Perhaps, I should deal with my brother." Thor replied.
"No. I don't have the brute strength to deal with my husband, but you do. Because your Loki is still young I can handle him and once I have the staff it will only take a moment to achieve our goal rendering my husband mundane." She clutched her cup hard, her knuckles turning white.
Thor couldn't begin to imagine what this was like for her. Already her life sounded sad and lonely, this task she'd set herself on couldn't be easy. As horrible as he was, her husband was all she had left.
"Very well then." Thor agreed.
(Suvia)
Her heart was pounding harder than even on her wedding night and that's saying something. She hadn't wanted to be married to him. Hadn't wanted his hands on her. She'd been so nervous and almost disgusted at the thought of him.
She'd submitted because she felt she needed to. She wanted to make it work as her beloved Theroic had been killed and she had no one. It hadn't been as bad as she imagined. He'd been gentle and passionate. Nothing what she expected from him.
Those memories only served to depress her now. They were long gone and the happiness she'd always thought she could achieve had been nothing but a dream.
They waited, herself and Thor, in the cloak of magic at the junction of hallways. They could have stolen Gungrir from Loki as he slept, but Suvia could never figure out where her husband would go to after the day ended and so that would have been futile. He'd hear of the theft before morning and all hope would be lost of catching him unaware.
A surprise attack inside the palace with Loki present was the only option that she'd come up with that didn't have a hundred ways of going wrong.
Of course, there were always ways for it to turn bad, but at least the odds were not as bad. She turned to Thor, as only they could see one another and she nodded. The king and his advisor were coming.
"Another fruitful day." Tyr was saying to Odin.
"Yes. Soon enough Asgard will be as it once was and we can move forward and on to more pressing matters." Odin replied.
"Yes," Tyr replied. Suvia noted the familiar excitement of mischief in his voice and narrowed her eyes. They were close to them now and her heart felt as if it might pound from her chest.
The moment they reached the proper distance away she launched herself from the wall she'd been leaning against. As she conjured the barrier spell her other spell disappeared leaving her and Thor visible. There was no turning back now.
It was satisfying to see the look on her husbands face. He didn't recognize her, of course, as she was still disguised in her own spell, but the attack caught him off guard. It was more Thor that surprised him.
As predicted, Tyr made an attempt to use his own magic and was met with resistance. Her spell locked on and trapped him from disappearing. It was then she twirled so that Thor was now facing her husband and she was facing Thor's brother.
She heard the whirl of Mjolnir as Thor wound up for a Stike. Loki, still wearing Odin's face, aimed Gungrir at her while shouting for Thor to cease his actions.
"I'll take that," Suvia told young Loki, conjuring an effective spell that hit the prince in the face. He staggered backwards coughing and urging, wiping at his smoke-screened face. She caught hold of his staff and with a swipe down of her arm she forced his arm to bend at the elbow.
He held on fast, but it didn't matter. She could feel the pulse of Gungrir's power below her fingers and decided that Loki needn't let go for her to accomplish what she needed.
She locked her underarm around the staff, bracing herself against the prince who was trying to shake her off. She aimed the staff at her target who had been knocked to the floor. She uttered the words she'd been practicing for a long time now, lending her energy to the staff and when it's light beamed and struck her husband she flinched.
She fell from the staff to the floor as her husband screamed. The Kings vision cleared and he trapped Suvia to the floor with the end of Gungrir, his face contorted into rage.
However, his hated look dissolved when he caught sight of Tyr's illusion dissolving away to reveal Loki himself. His grey hair tied back into a ponytail, his wrinkled mouth set to a scowl.
"Put down the staff Loki." Thor warned. Young Loki's eyes shot up to look at his brother. "We need to talk and we can do so calmly."
Not a single guard had come to the scuffle, but then again it hadn't been as loud as she expected it to be. Loki looked confused as to what do to. "He is the reason your wife was sent away from Asgard, he is the reason she thought she'd slept with you," Suvia said thinking Cephera was the best way to make Loki back down and she was right.
He removed the staff from her and stepped back. "What is going on?" He asked his form shifting and Loki let them all see that he was indeed not Odin.
"Sigyn," Old Loki growled from the floor.
"Husband," she replied with equal coldness. And then, he laughed.

Notes

Comments

@fraychan
Then I have done my job well. :p

Yasumi Yasumi
6/15/15

Your cliff hangers wound me D:

fraychan fraychan
6/12/15

@fraychan
Keep that adrenaline pumping, still a lot to come.

Yasumi Yasumi
5/14/15

Oh god I can't even describe how happy this chapter made me. I'm feeling a slight adrenaline rush haha

fraychan fraychan
5/12/15

@fraychan
I agree, things have could been so much different if things had just come to light sooner.

Yasumi Yasumi
5/7/15