Loki's Redemption

Chapter Three

They exit the golden portal onto the roof of a tall building overlooking the smoking city of New York, Stark's tower visible in the distance. This building somehow seem to have received minimal damage during the recent assault though there were dead Chitauri littering the roof around them. As Loki looks around Sigyn sees his shoulders slump; knowing something was one thing, seeing it with your own eyes was another. She knew he needed to see what he'd done but it hurt her to see him hurting.

"I did this." He whispers, walking to the edge of the roof.

"You were used to do this." She corrects, coming to stand beside him.

Sirens could be heard screaming through the air as countless fires burned around the city, the mortals working tirelessly to put them out and rescue any survivors; it was a sad scene.

"Odin wasn't wrong, not completely. I wanted to rule this world, it wasn't just Thanos. I could've simply stolen the Tesseract from them and returned it to Thanos; Earth was my ambition. If I'd have just taken it to Thanos..."

"If you'd have Thanos would collect the remaining stones that much easier and then kill half the Earth's population with a simple snap of his fingers. These deaths, though sad, are better than that fate. It also brought the Earth's heroes together, but I wouldn't expect a thank you from them any time soon."

She chuckles softly drawing his eyes. He couldn't understand how she could care for him after everything he'd done. She'd even defended him from Odin's rage, something no one had ever done for him before; not that he'd been caught for many of his tricks growing up.

"Back on Asguard, when you blocked Odin from reaching me, you seemed to...there was a smoke coming off of you. What was that? Why did you defend me at all?"

"I told you, you're my partner. It's my job to protect you. Some battles I cannot fight for you but even those you won't fight alone."

"Thank you, truly. I do not know how I can ever repay you."

"By being the man I know you can be. You are not a saint but you can fight for what's right."

"What if I fail?" He asks, turning to face her.

"You only ever truly fail when you stop trying." She whispers, cupping his face with her hands, "I believe in you Loki."

He smiles and turns back towards the city, her hands falling away. A large explosion rocks the buildings around them, and they both see a large plum of fire and smoke shoot skyward. Sigyn extends her hand towards the plum and the fire rockets towards her. Loki flinches beside her but the flames seem to seep into her skin without causing her any pain at all, though her skin glows and smokes for a few heartbeats. She smiles down at him and his eyes go wide, her eyes seemed to be on fire.

"You're hot." Loki teases, looking up at her smirking.

"You have no idea." She purrs back, blinking so her eyes go back to normal.

He watches her as she walks back towards the center of the roof, admiring the view and trying to decide if she was flirting with him or not. He wonders, not for the first time, what she'd seen about them but knew she wouldn't tell him even if he had the courage to ask her. She had seemed pretty familiar with him since the moment they'd met but for all he knew she was like that with everyone.

"Come away from the edge please. We're about to have company." She says looking up at the sky as a clap of thunder sounds.

He scrambles towards her, looking around knowing who was about to make an entrance and wasn't looking forward to it. Sure enough a moment later Thor lands in front of them, followed by Tony.