Chapter 11
My POV
I screamed and kicked and sobbed but to no avail as I was drug across the rocky ground of Helheim behind Hela who laughed as she drug me along. "Please, I haven't done anything to you! Just let me GO!" I begged her as I flipped over and pleaded with her back but to no avail. She completely ignored me and continued to walk towards something in the distance.
After what seemed like hours we finally approached a large black castle, it's silhouette large and dark against the rest of the depressing landscape. She gestured as though flicking away a fly and the huge doors to the castle flew open and I was immediately met with the sounds of miserable moans and agonized screams and I felt an ice cold ripple of fear coursed through me as the realization hit that I was going to be hurt, badly, and there was little to nothing I could do about it. Hot tears began once again to stream down my face and I hugged myself as I squeezed my eyes shut and more tears began to fall as she slung me, using the tendril of dark red magic, across the room and I landed ribs first into a pillar and yelped in pain. I didn't move an inch because I knew that if I did the pain that she was going to inflict upon me would be much worse for doing so, so I laid still the only movements were my ragged breathing.
"Not going to fight? Have you already given up?" She sneered as she stalked towards me her voice practically dripping with venom. Looking up at her through my tear filled eyes I watched as the black clad goddess of death advanced slowly towards me and ran my tongue across my dry lips and whispered hoarsely, "No, Hela. I'm not going to fight you. I've done nothing to you for you to steal me away like you did and for you to hurt me like I know you're going to. So do what you will to me but just know I'm not going to retaliate, I'm not going to submit and I damn sure will return to my love, your brother, Loki." As soon as his name was out of my mouth her swords were in her hands and I braced myself moments before she drove first one then the other deep into my chest popping my lungs causing me to scream in agony. She twisted the blades to cause severe bleeding and I screamed louder although this time it was more of a gurgling scream due to the massive amounts of blood filling my lungs.
Ripping the blades out of my chest she leaned down and closed a hand around my throat and hissed in my ear, "I'm going to take great pleasure in breaking you, you pathetic little mortal." Just as she slams me back down I swore I saw a dark figure standing in the corner vanish. A figure that looked as though it was wearing gold armor with a deep red fur cape and an eye patch. Before I could process whether I'd truly seen who I honestly hoped I had saw she kicks me and my vision goes black.
Loki's POV
"WHY ARE YOU HOLDING ME BACK?!" I scream as I writhe against my father and brother as the Avengers all come to where they'd been tossed. "Loki, my son, you could not have bested her. She is..." Odin said faltering causing everyone even Frigga to look at him slightly suspiciously. "She. Is. What?" I growled as I finally broke free from their grasps. For the first time in my entire millennium of existence I saw Odin's fierce side crumble away and his fatherly side come raging through as he sat down heavily in the nearest chair and began to sob.
"TELL ME!!!" I screamed desperately as the fear threatened to overwhelm me and the Avengers gathered around us. I chanced a quick glance towards the Midgardians and saw Bruce, Tony, Peter, and Pietro were all white as phantoms and shaking from head to toe, Sam, Bucky and Steve were having a quiet conversation towards the back of the group with Clint whom they were having to hold to keep from lashing out and Natasha and Wanda were sobbing with their arms around each other.
Odin cleared his throat and immediately all eyes were on him as he whispered so sadly that I heard every heart in the room shatter into a million pieces, "Hela is the goddess of death, Loki. None here would have been able to stop her." Panic, pure and ice cold, shot through my veins as I realized what he was saying and an anguished wail ripped from my throat as I hit my knees and wrapped my arms around myself trying to keep myself from shattering into pieces. Frigga, Natasha, Wanda and Sif all gasped in horror as fresh tears streamed down their faces, Steve, Bucky and Sam all grabbed for Clint as he lunged at me screaming something incoherent and Bruce, Peter, Pietro, and Tony all either sat down or hit their knees as the gravity of the situation finally hit them.
"YOU! THIS IS YOUR FAULT!" Clint screamed still fighting like a wildcat to get to me and I looked up at the adopted father of the woman I love with nothing but livid hate in my eyes as I stood up to my full height. "And exactly HOW is it MY FAULT?!" I roar causing everyone to take a step back as Clint stops trying to fight his way to me. "It's simple isn't it? You wanted her and you were banking on us not saying yes so you had big sis come and take my daughter away so that way you'd have her all to yourself. Only we said yes and you didn't have time to tell sister dearest not to show up and-SON OF A BITCH!" Clint screamed as I teleported to him and slugged him hard in the nose feeling it break. I watched, with great satisfaction, as blood poured down his chin and he spit blood into his hand and I waved my hand and rooted him to the spot as I began stalking around him.
"You honestly think, that I would have my own fiancee KIDNAPPED?! ARE YOU ABSOLUTELY OUT OF YOUR MIND?! DID YOU NOT JUST HEAR THAT ODIN KEPT THE KNOWLEDGE OF HELA FROM EVERYONE HERE ON ASGARD OR ARE YOU TOO HELLBENT ON BLAMING ME WITH EVERYTHING THAT YOU CHOSE TO IGNORE THAT NEW INFORMATION! WHY DOES IT ALWAYS HAVE TO COME TO THIS WITH YOU PEOPLE?! YES I AM THE TRICKSTER, YES I AM THE GOD OF LIES AND MISCHIEF, YES I AM THE DEMON PRINCE OF CHAOS BUT I FUCKING LOVE HER AND I WILL GO TO HELHEIM MYSELF AND TAKE HER PLACE IF IT MEANS THAT SHE'LL BE SPARED EVEN A SECOND OF AGONY!" I roar as I turn and stomp out of the palace with ice cold tears running down my face leaving a group of stunned Avengers and Asgardians behind me as I do, not noticing Odin go into a trance as I left.
My POV
Blood. I see it, smell it, and can damn sure taste it as I hang between two pillars by the chains wrapped around my arms. "Do you yield, Midgardian whore?" Sigyn sneers. As soon as Hela found out that Sigyn had been sent to her realm because of me due to long agonizing hours of going through my memories she immediately stopped Sigyn's torture in order for her to torture me for her amusement.
Spitting out a mouthful of blood in her general direction I licked my busted lips and hoarsely say, "Fuck you, witch." Sigyn's eyes darken as she swings the whip again and it leaves a rather deep gash from my right shoulder down to my left hip and causes me to scream again. She laughs mirthlessly and Hela says, "Enough! You must let her rest for now. Tomorrow we'll see how she fairs after the wounds have healed." The chains around my arms suddenly vanish and I crash to the floor in a bloody heap, coughing and trying not to get sick as I swallow a mouthful of blood.
"Sleep well, whore. I plan on kicking things up a notch tomorrow." Sigyn growls as she leaves the room and Hela follows behind chuckling darkly. I manage to crawl into a corner and curl up sobbing wishing more than anything that I could see Loki or the phantom of Odin that I'd seen in the main hall of this forsaken hellhole and slowly very slowly I cry myself to sleep.
Loki's POV
I was wandering aimlessly around the palace as tears still slowly cascading down my cheeks when I felt a hand on my shoulder and turned with my hand on my dagger only to find myself staring at Odin himself. "I have a way to make sure she's alright and I may be able to bring her back." He said as he lead me down a side alley and I stopped almost unable to believe my own ears.
"You...what?" I asked incredulously. He looked down at his feet and then back up to me and said softly, "In all the years that you've been old enough to court maidens I've never seen you so taken with any but this maiden. You laugh, you smile, you jest lightheartedly and it's all genuine and it warms your mother and I's hearts to see you so happy, my son. If this is truly your soulmate, then I will gladly fall into Odinsleep to help you get her back." He smiled softly as he spoke the last sentence and a fresh wave of tears fell from my eyes as I processed what he'd said.
"You...you will do this...for me? For...us?" I asked softly. Odin smiled wider and simply nodded and I did something that I hadn't done since I was a child, I walked over to him and wrapped my arms around him and sobbed against his shoulder. I felt him wrap an arm around my back and rub my shoulder soothingly with his other hand as he let me breakdown. "It will be alright, Loki. Everything will be alright. Come, we need to get back to the palace. You know how your mother worries." He said quietly as he began leading me back using alley ways so we wouldn't be seen by curious townsfolk.
As soon as we reached the hallway inside the palace, Frigga walked up and took me in her arms and walked me quietly to her garden. We were both quiet as we walked through out the palace but as soon as we sat down on the bench in the middle of her garden the tears I'd been holding back flooded forth once more and I laid my head in her lap and sobbed.
"Oh, my poor sweet Loki. It shall be alright. Your father will go get her and deal with Hela and as soon as she is ready, you'll be wed here in this garden and everyone will live happily ever after. Shhhhh. Shhhh." She said softly as she stroked my hair. I wrapped my arms around her waist and she continued to stroke my hair as I cried myself to sleep with my head on her lap.