Mischief Reborn

CHAPTER TWELVE

Loki

After Atë slapped me my mind reeled, I certainly hadn't been expecting it but then moments later the rage vacated her grey eyes leaving regret and shock, at least I hadn't been the only one surprised by her actions. Her apology worried me; she said that recently her emotions were all over the place but why? She never had that problem before she came back and until now I hadn't noticed it.

Once the goddesses left to fight, I caught Tony watching me, uncertainty brewing in his brown irises, the billionaire looked away immediately when I noticed only increasing my curiosity. "What?" I asked, watching the armoured hero.

Stark shrugged, "it's nothing." Tom scoffed while Natasha and Bruce watched.

Tom shook his head, shooting Stark a look, "just because she keeps secrets from everyone doesn't mean we need to do the same. Just bloody tell him."

Stark gave a hesitant nod before pointing to his arc reactor, the HYDRA convoy not yet visible, "Atë is using an earlier model of this reactor, the one she has almost killed me. The element her model uses was poisoning me; I think that rather than killing her it's causing over side-effect that may or may not include aggression-," it was then Tom decided to interject.

"Not to mention strong emotions allow her to harness more energy, she's still weak from her rebirth as much as she tries to ignore it so I'd say the only way she was able to get from Asgard to here by herself would be to use her strong emotions which knowing her is love and anger," the demigod paused, pulling out a pen that when clicked expanded to a sword before continuing, "not to mention she's stressed and waking up to all of gone would have freaked her out. Atë cares for all of you quite a bit and she doesn't want to lose another family; as you could imagine watching your children and husband being tortured in front of you until they die is quite traumatic..." the demigod stopped speaking as if realising what he had said, cursing Tom groaned, "you knew about that right?"

Those of us present nodded, she had told us about her husband and son but had only mentioned the daughter's name; Azaria.

The sound of vehicles had grown louder and we all got into position, ready to face the convoy. This would be my vengeance against the organisation for harming the goddess I loved.

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HYDRA clearly hadn't expected much resistance after they injured Atë, the organisation hadn't brought any serious ammunition and had fallen swiftly.

Atë was the first to return covered in burns, a bit of blood but with a smirk across her face, blade dripping with blood and a manner of other things.

Then it was Discordia and Angerona who smirked at their friend/sister, "I take it you still enjoy slaying beasts," Rona stated smiling at her friend with crossed arms. Discordia shook her head at the mess her sister was covered in.

But Atë just shrugged, "would I be me if I didn't. You are talking to the girl who spent most of her younger years fighting beasts, enjoying hell and diving into Tartarus. I still hold the record for most trips through Tartarus you know?" Her sister shook her head again, apparently amused by Atë reply.

Interjecting I stepped towards the goddess I loved, "you are a worry, you know that?" Pulling her into my arms she groaned.

"Loki, I'm covered in hydra venom and blood, both are not things you want to get all over you. We'll hug later, but now we need to get back to Asgard and I need to have a talk to Tony." Her words reminded me of something I needed to address.

Putting a hand up to stop her from walking to the billionaire I spoke, "about that Atë, it would have been nice to know that you were experiencing side effects from the arc reactor." Said goddess looked to my left, narrowing her eyes at Tom and Stark. "Don't go after them, I was simply concerned about your aggression, you really need to tell me things like this. Promise me that you will stop keeping things like this from me?"