Round 6
ROUND 6 IS NOW CLOSED.
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Welcome to norsekink!
Keep up the awesome, folks.
NOTE: We've noticed that some of the prompts being posted have Thor characters only making cameos or not featured at all. We realize that Thor is closely involved in the Avengers, but we're requesting that any prompts that do not have at least one Thor character playing a central ( Read more... )
“What?!” came the shout from three at once-and even Hogun’s eyes went wide as an astonished murmur escaped.
“You cannot be serious!” Fandral said, seeming ready to grab him by both arms and shake.
Sif spoke then, her voice low and serious, cutting through the air of panic. “Thor, you must not do this.”
“It is already done,” Thor said, shrugging. “I gave him my word.”
Sif shook her head, her dark hair tossing back and forth like the tail of a whip. “No, Thor, there are things you do not yet know. Things you should understand. Loki has tricked you into this.” She reached out to take his hands in hers, squeezing them as she looked into his eyes. She had grown up with Thor, and with Loki. She knew how close they were, and she also cared for them both, though she had become warier of Loki now than when they were all children-a wariness he had brought onto himself. She also knew Thor would not wish to hear evidence of his brother’s betrayal, but it was her duty to give it. “We know it was he who was behind the Jotun attack on the day of your ascension. He has likely orchestrated everything that has happened since then. Jotunheim. Your banishment. You said yourself he had come to Midgard to deceive you once already. He nearly killed you with the Destroyer. You must not do what he says.”
Thor smiled at her fondly. “Sif, you are a true friend. I am grateful for what you are trying to do. But you don’t realize... I know what Loki has done, and it does not matter.” At least, he had guessed at Loki’s involvement as soon as they had told him that Odin still lived. To bring the enemies of Asgard to the realm on the day of his coronation was not like any prior trick of Loki’s, far darker and more malicious-yet still it held something of the same spirit, the same way of thinking. He felt a new stab of pain in the center of his being at the thought of what could have driven Loki to those depths. Coming back to himself, he looked into the faces of each of the friends arrayed around him. “In my time on Midgard, I have come to understand several things that I did not know before. I was not ready to be king and would have only brought disaster on the whole of the realm. I have not been the man I would wish to be. I have failed Loki as a brother. If this is how I must make up for those failures, I will do it.”
Sif still clutched his hands, but her grip fell slack as she saw the determination in his gaze. “We should return home,” she said, looking down at the pale ground of Midgard, a helpless knot of anxiety growing in the pit of her stomach. “Before we are missed.”
And as soon as Thor bade his goodbyes to the mortals he had come to call friends, they did so, the rainbow light of the Bifrost streaming around them in the familiar, chaotic, soaring moment. It seemed to pull harder at Thor now than it ever had in the past, almost painful, bringing tears to his eyes as he landed on the golden floor of Heimdall’s observatory and found himself home. Home and mortal, with Mjolnir a world away.
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