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Chapter 3- Midgard

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A/n: Above is the readers armor and on her face is the markings she has, obviously hair and skin tone is changed to yours. Early update! Because I'm too excited to wait. Enjoy!

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"Do me a favor and don't be dead."

(Y/n)'s eyes snapped open and she sat up, groaning at the soreness that dominated her entire body. Her healing factor would kick in and get rid of that within the next two hours or so.

"Wow, you come from a convention or something? I'm loving the armor," one of the girls exclaimed.

Thor groaned and his eyes opened a few seconds after. He looked to his side where the other woman was standing.

"Does he need CPR or something because I know CPR," the girl who commented on (Y/n)'s armor stated.

Thor sprang up from the ground, grabbing (Y/n)'s hand and pulling her up as well.

"Hammer?" Thor called, "Hammer?"

"Thor you thick headed oaf!" (Y/n) shouted, "You lost your place in Asgard and you got us both sent to-Where are we?"

"Yeah we can tell you're hammered, pretty obvious," the first girl commented.

"Oh my God Erik looked at this," the first woman bent down, addressing the man -Erik - about the Asgardian pattern on the ground, "We have to get this before it changes."

"Jane, we need get them to a hospital," Erik stated.

"Not right now. It'll take too long. County's an hour away. We'll drop them off after we're done here. Look at them, they're fine."

"Father! Heimdall! I know you can hear me! Open the bridge!" Thor called to the skies. He turned to (Y/n) and grabbed her wrist, "You, you call Heimdall."

"Thor, if he were to do that you could be sent back to. Your Father wouldn't allow that, no matter my importance."

"Okay, you and Darcy take him to the hospital, I'll stay here."

"You expect me to leave you alone in the middle of the desert?" Erik asked.

"You! What world is this? Alfheim, Nornheim?"

"New Mexico," the other girl pulled something out that shone a red light on
Thor.

"You dare threaten Thor with so puny a-"

The girl fired the weapon. What seemed to be small lightning shot out at Thor and hit him in the chest until he fell unconscious. (Y/n) held up her hands in a surrendering motion.

"He deserved that completely."

"What? He was freaking me out," the girl defended herself when the others looked at her strangely.

The man took Thor to their Midgardian mode of transportation, a car, and pulled Thor into the back, laying him on the floor.

"Next time you decide to taser someone, do me a favor and make sure they're already inside the truck," Erik turned to (Y/n), "And what's your name?"

"(Y/n) Cardottir," (Y/n) introduced herself, "I trust you are bringing him to medical attention, otherwise it would be quite unfortunate for you."

"Yeah the hospital," Jane assured.

"Good," (Y/n) nodded, stepping into the trunk.

"You might want to change before you go into the hospital, put away the sword," the other girl suggested.

"What is proper Midgardian garb?"

"Oh, um, here," Jane reached into a duffle bag and dug around until she pulled out some new clothes.

"Really digging the face tatoos," the other girl complimented.

"They are birthmarks, signifying my rightful ownership of the Reality Stone," (Y/n) stated in confusion. Why would her marking be mistaken for tattoos?

(Y/n) waved her hand and her armor disappeared, leaving her in her underclothes. She looked at the Midgardian clothes in confusion. Is this really what they wore?

She pulled on the clothes, feeling strange in the new pants and shirt. The shirt was light grey, the pants a blue material that felt scratchier than their normal leather pants. The shoes were boots like the ones she was used to, but there was no steel backing. They were laced with string and brown, stopping below her knees. Looking around the vehicle she spotted a green jacket. She reached out for it.

"Lady Jane, may I use this jacket?" She asked.

"Well actually it was a present..." Jane trailed off as (Y/n) put on the jacket, but there was still a green jacket where the other one was before, "What the hell?"

(Y/n) twirled the ring on her finger, thinking of Loki.  She knew how upset he would be at the moment. She was gone, away from Asgard, and until she left Thor - unlikely considering he was the only other Asgardian on Midgard - she couldn't use the Bifrost to return home. She wanted the green jacket because Loki loved green, and it reminded her of him. A little piece of her love.

"I'm Darcy," the other girl introduced herself, "Nice to meet you weirdo."

"Thank you."

The vehicle soon pulled into a lot full of other cars. As they entered the building (Y/n) marveled at all of the strange appliances and people around her. Midgard was so different from the other realms, she dare say they were more advanced in their own special way.

Thor was wheeled away to be looked over while they stayed up front.

"Are you feeling alright?" Erik asked her.

"Perfectly normal," she assured.

"I don't know, I think she should be drug tested," Darcy cut in.

"She isn't trying to hurt us," Jane argued.

"I do not know of these 'drugs'," (Y/n) said in confusion, "But I promise you I have never touched them."

"Can I get a name for the patient?" The woman at the front desk asked.

"He said his name was Thor," Jane said unsurely.

"T-H-O-R, alright. And your relation to him."

"I've never met him before."

"Before she hit him with his car," Darcy cut in.

"I grazed him. She tasered him."

"Yes I did," Darcy said proudly.

"She was with him," Jane pointed to (Y/n).

"Alright, what's your relation to him?"

"I am betrothed to his brother," (Y/n) smiled.

"Alright, a sister-in-law," the nurse typed on her strange board, the words appearing on the screen in front of her.

(Y/n) heard a ruckus and a loud scream from down the hall, "How dare you attack a son of-"

"That's Thor alright."

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"You don't think this was just a magnetic storm?" Erik asked Jane.

The group had left the hospital after Thor had been checked in, going back to Jane's lab.

(Y/n) sat in one of the extra chairs, continuously turning her ring while she stared out the window.

"I think the lensing around the edges is characteristic of an Einstein-Rosen Bridge."

"A what?" Darcy questioned.

"I thought you were a science major."

"Political Science," Darcy corrected.

"She was the only applicant," Jane sighed.

"An Einstein-Rosen Bridge- a theoretical connection between two different points of space-time," Erik explained.

"A wormhole," Jane simplified.

"Why don't we just ask (Y/n)? Hey (Y/n)," Jane called, "What was that storm we found you in?"

"It's called the Bifrost, similar to your Einstein-Rosen Bridge. It allows those who have the power to control it to travel through different worlds and realms."

"Okay what are you on? Because you've been like this since last night."

Jane looked over the pictures on the board, seeing two figures in one of them,

"I think I left something at the hospital."

"Is it Thor?" (Y/n) asked, following after Jane, "Because being on Midgard is punishment enough, perhaps they may release him."

Darcy and Erik followed the two as they got into the car, driving to the hospital to pick up Thor. When they arrived the police were on the scene, in the room Thor was formerly in. He was gone.

"Oh my God," Darcy said before running out of the room and back to the van.

"I just lost one of my most important pieces of evidence, great," Jane sighed.

"What do we do now?" Darcy asked.

"We find him."

"Did you see what he did in there? I don't know if finding him is the best idea."

"Thor will not be violent if you do not threaten him," (Y/n) explained, "He was trained to be a warrior and he has proven that is the only way he thinks."

"We're finding him," Jane said with a tone of finality. She started the car and began to back up.

"Lady (Y-"

(Y/n) turned around and laughed loudly, Thor had just been hit by Jane's car once again.

"What?' Jane screeched, jumping out of the car and running to Thor, "I'm so sorry, I swear I'm not doing this on purpose."

"He'll be fine," (Y/n) nudged Thor with her foot, "He's survived worse than this."

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(Y/n) looked over the images of the Bifrost from the Midgardian equipment. Jane had explained that they showed where there was body heat and where there wasn't, but the majority of it was red, full of life.

"You know, for a crazy homeless person, he's pretty cut."

(Y/n) looked over at Thor, emerging from the restroom shirtless. She had seen such before, during the summers spent swimming in the lake near the castle. While Thor was 'cut', Loki was better in her eyes. Less towering and nearly overbearing muscle, more natural and lean muscle. How she longed for another day at the lake with Loki. Just like the day he gave her the Asgardian ring of promise.

"Hey, excuse me," Jane ran over and took back a piece of technology from Thor's hand.

Thor looked at the shirt he was given. A name tag was placed on it.

"What's this?" He asked.

"Oh," Jane took off the nametag, "My ex. Good with patients bad with relationships. They were the only clothes I had that would fit you."

"They will suffice."

"You're welcome," Jane said when she received no thank you.

"This mortal form has grown weak, I need sustenance."

"Thor," (Y/n) smacked his arm, "All those years of endless training, manners was a course was it not? Just because they aren't royalty doesn't mean they don't deserve respect."

Thor looked at the three, "My apologies. I give my thanks, for your assistance."

"Thanks weirdo," Darcy thanked (Y/n), "You got quite the hold on this guy."

"Well some day I shall hold more power than nearly anyone in all nine realms," (Y/n) explained, "Staying on what you call 'my good side' is wise for the future."

"Very," Thor agreed, "Loki is the only one who she'll allow some ease on."

"And Loki is..."

"My betrothed, his brother."

"Of course, and where is he? He should be here right now, taking you home."

"Loki is unable to bring us home, only Heimdall or Odin can, and thanks to his majesty, that won't be anytime soon," (Y/n) glared at Thor.

"Cut ties with me and you can return (Y/n)."

"You wouldn't survive a day without me."

~*~

Sif, Loki, and the Warriors Three, still in shock from the days events, sat in front of a fire in one of the castle's sitting rooms.

"We should have done something," Volstagg sighed over a goblet of wine.

"We wouldn't have been able to," Sif shook her head.

"At least they're only banished, not dead. Which is what we'd all be if that guard hadn't told Odin where we'd gone."

Loki looked down at his hand, the one that had turned temporarily blue once the Frost Giant had made contact with him.

"Who even told the guard?"

"I did," Loki admitted, "I told the guard to go to Odin after we left."

"You did?"

"We never should have reached Jotunheim. I had no idea that Father would banish Thor for what he did. Nor did I know that (Y/n) would get caught in the crossfire," sadness filled Loki as he realized that (Y/n) was stuck in Midgard until she left Thor, and she was much too loyal for that. If only she could drop that loyalty, come home to Loki, so that they might be married.

"Loki," Sif stood up, "You must go to the Allfather and convince him to change his mind."

"And if I do then what? I love Thor more than any of you do but you know what he is. He's arrogant, he's reckless, he's dangerous. You saw how he was today. Is that what Asgard needs from its king?"

"And are you to keep your betrothed under the sentence she wasn't meant to have? You love her more than you love Thor, Loki. Will you keep her there?"

Loki stayed silent, leaving the room quickly after Sif questioned him. He would give anything to be able to just take (Y/n) back, but the Allfather's mind was made. She was to stay on Earth with Thor in exile until she cut ties with him.

"Please be safe (Y/n)," Loki whispered, his eyes on the gold ring on his finger, there was to be another ring added to that, and Asgardian wedding ring. Was she looking at her ring as well? "Please."

Back in the room Sif and the others were talking.

"He may speak of the good of Asgard but he's always been jealous of Thor."

"Laufey said there was a traitor in the house of Odin," Hogun sighed, "A master of magic could bring three Jotuns into Asgard."

"Loki's always been one for mischief but your talking about something else entirely," Fandral disagreed, "He would never do anything to put (Y/n) in harm's way."

"And now that she's gone?" Hogun asked.

No one had an answer for that.

Loki left his place in the hallway to walk to the Room of Relics. From the stairs he could see the Jotuns Casket.

Loki slowly walked over to it, grabbing the handles on each side and lifting it off of the pedestal. As he did so, a blueness spread from his arms across his body. Behind him, the Destroyer began to step out from its place, ready to destroy the person who was stealing the Casket.

"Stop!"

Loki turned and saw Odin hurrying into the room. The Destroyer stepped back into its rightful place.

"Am I cursed?" Loki asked.

"No. Put the Casket down."

Loki set the Casket back down, his body returning to its normal color.

"What am I?"

"You're my son."

"What more than that?" Odin stayed silent. Loki's eyes widened in realization, "The Casket wasn't the only thing you took from Jotunheim that day, was it?"

"No," Odin answered truthfully, "In the aftermath of the battle I went into the temple and found a baby. Small, for a Giant's offspring. Abandoned, suffering, left to die. Laufey's son."

"Laufey's son?"

"Yes."

Loki's breathing began to quicken as he realized the lies he had been told his entire life, "Why? You were knee deep in Jotun blood, why would you take me?"

"You were an innocent child."

"No," Loki knew there was a deeper reasoning, "You took me for a purpose. What was it?"

Odin stayed silent.

"Tell me!" Loki screamed.

"I thought we could unite our kingdoms one day, bring about an alliance, bring about a permanent peace, through you. But those plans no longer matter."

"So I am no more than another stolen relic, locked away until you might have use of me?" Loki asked.

"You are my son."

Loki's eyes widened, and anger flowed through him, "You wanted to unite Asgard and Jotunheim. Through marriage? Is every moment that (Y/n) and I have spent together a lie? Were we pushed together? Does she know of these plans?"

"Your love is truer than that of any I have seen in my many years," Odin's voice became slightly desperate, "The plans were made before (Y/n) was called to the palace, before you gave her a ring of promise. Why do you twist my words?"

"You could have told me what I was from the beginning, why didn't you?"

"You are my son." Odin repeated, "I wanted only to protect you from the truth of your heritage."

"What, because I-I-I'm the monster that parents tell their children about at night? You know it all makes sense now, why you favored Thor all those years. Your absolute enthusiasm in my engagement to the most powerful woman in Asgard. Because no matter how much you claim to love me, you could never have a Frost Giant sitting on the throne of Asgard, because I was just another weapon of your to end a war."

Odin stumbled back, falling on the stairs. Loki's breathing was still erratic as he bent down next to his Father.

"Guards, guard help!"

As the guards entered the room to assist Odin, Loki took in a few calming breaths. Odin had lied to him his entire life, and perhaps the last conversation they had was their only true conversation.

(Y/n) didn't know of the plan, of his heritage, and she truly loved him. But Loki was frightened to ask himself, would she continue to love him, even though he was one of the monsters they were taught to fear?