Twisted in Ties (Loki x OC)

Chapter 26

Izetta's POV

We headed off again, Loki being put back in the driver seat since Thor and I needed to keep an eye on Jane. I looked around at the wasteland that surrounded us. Something about it felt familiar...badly familiar. Loki and Thor were more focused on Jane than I was.

"What I could do with the power that flows through those veins." Thor looked back at him.

"Don't even think about it. Izetta would control it before you would. She is connected to it too, you know." Loki looked at me, but I didn't say anything, looking back out at the world around us. "We don't know why, but...she can control the Aether."

"I wouldn't say that. I only got a sliver of it before," I reminded him.

"You held it in your hands with ease, that says something," Thor told me. I frowned.

"...Define 'something'." Loki was still looking at me.

"Maybe you're one of them." I looked back at him, fear instantly rising at his conclusion.

"No! I can't be! I'm..." I paused. "I-I'm not just one thing. Odin himself said so. I'm a combination of creatures. We're sure of it."

"Did he say what creatures?" I frowned.

"...We...we couldn't tell."

"...Well, if you don't know, perhaps I would be able to control it better." Loki wouldn't let up.

"It would consume you," Thor told him sternly.

"She's holding up alright," Loki argued. "for now."

"She's strong in ways you'd never even know."

"Say goodbye," Loki told him.

"Not this day."

"This day, the next, a hundred years, it's nothing!" Loki insisted. "It's a heartbeat. You'll never be ready." He looked at me. "Either of you. The way you protect the mortals in your lives as if you'll get to spend eternity with them. It's pathetic!" I growled.

"At least we have hearts for good people! You kill them with pleasure!"

"The only reason you're different from him is that you didn't realize just what you were! Your ignorance was the only reason you could live happily on Earth!" He looked back at Thor. "The only woman whose love you've prized will be snatched from you."

"And will that satisfy you?"

"Satisfaction is not in my nature."

"Surrender's not in mine." Loki grinned.

"The Son of Odin-"

"No! Not just of Odin! You think you alone were loved of Mother? You had her tricks, but I had her trust!"

"Trust?" Loki growled. "Was that her last expression? Trust!? When you let her die!?"

"She fought for Asgard and for you her entire life!" I snapped. Thor quickly agreed with me.

"What help were you in your cell!?"

"Who put me there?" He snarled. "Who put me there!?"

"YOU KNOW DAMN WELL!" Thor said, pushing him back angrily and pinning him against the side of the ship. "YOU KNOW DAMN WELL WHO!" Thor backed off after a moment and I held my tongue, keeping an eye on Jane. "...She wouldn't want us to fight." Loki still didn't seem fazed.

"Well, she wouldn't exactly be shocked." The two of them smiled a bit.

"I wish I could trust you." Thor turned away and I glanced at Loki. He didn't notice my gaze, focused on his brother.