A/N: Right I know I posted twice yesterday but I'm writing so many chapters now that my assignments are done and I just want you guys to read them all ASAP hehe. Also the gif is unrelated but uhhh wow I love her. Enjoy!
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You woke up to an odd floating sensation.
Opening your eyes slowly, you lifted your head from Loki's shoulder and looked outside.
You'd made it. The ship was flying smoothly through space now; there was no more turbulence.
You started to smile, but then you saw Asgard. It was on fire.
"I never thought I'd be back here." Valkyrie said from the front of the ship. She sounded like she was fighting back a range of emotions.
Lokes, wake up.
You watched as he regained consciousness, one hand on his leg. As he woke up he looked at you, and then out at Asgard.
"Remind me why we're doing this again?"
You gave him a look before standing up unsteadily and moving to stand next to Bruce at the front of the cockpit as the ship descended into the clouds above Asgard.
"I thought it would be nicer. I mean, not that it's not nice. It's just, it's on fire."
Your breath caught in your throat as you took in your home, destroyed, and a renewed hatred for Hela rose in your throat. Loki came to stand behind you.
Bruce was right, you had to admit that Asgard looked pretty woeful. It possessed none of the gleaming grandeur you'd witnessed on your first visit; instead it looked like a devastated ghost town. Fires littered the city, most of the buildings looked to be wrecked and plundered and dead soldiers were strewn across the streets.
"Here, up in the mountains." Valkyrie said, pointing to a projected map on the console which showed the mountain where the stronghold was located, full of Asgardian citizens.
"Heat signatures, people clustered together. Hela's coming for them." she continued. You prayed that your parents were in there somewhere.
"Okay, we'll land at the palace and I'll draw her away." Thor said.
"Thor, no." you said, right as Valkyrie said, "And get yourself killed?"
"The people that are trapped down there are all that matter. While I'm dealing with Hela, I need you to help get everyone off of Asgard." Thor told the four of you.
"How the hell are we supposed to do that?" Bruce asked incredulously. He was starting to look vaguely sick again.
"I have a man on the ground." Thor said.
"Heimdall?" Loki asked in trepidation. He hadn't seen him since he'd tried to have him imprisoned for treason.
"Yep." Thor replied, unconcerned.
He made a fairly good landing in front of the palace, and about six minutes later you'd gained a massive Asgardian blaster which Thor had helped move into the ship, Valkyrie had some new armour which Thor had found in the armory and you'd risked teleporting to your room in the palace for a swift outfit change.
"Where are you going?" Loki had asked as you exited the ship.
"Wardrobe change. If we're all going to die I want to go out in style." you told him matter of factly before teleporting away. He followed you to your room.
"No one's going to die. Well, we're not. I can't say the same with such certainty about my brother or that crazy Valkyrie. Or Bruce." he told you as you swung your baldric from over your head and quickly grabbed your favourite gear, amour and cape from your wardrobe.
"I know that we'll all be fine." you said, laying the items you'd chosen out on your bed and closing your eyes. A second later Valkyrie's clothes which you had been wearing were on your bed and you were wearing your own clothes.
That's much better.
You were ten times more comfortable in your own Asgardian-made gear and armour; your cape swished familiarly down your back as you picked your baldric back up and swung it over your head to rest across your torso.
"Are you getting changed?" you asked, looking at his Sakaarian outfit in concern; it didn't look overly protective.
"No, I only need this." he told you, his golden horned helmet appearing in his hand. You smiled.
"Of course."
"We should get you one of these." he told you, spinning it around and placing it on your head gently. It was way too big and slipped down to cover your eyes, making you both laugh.
"It's too heavy." you said, pushing it back up so that you could see Loki, who looked oddly bright eyed all of a sudden. You took his helmet off of your head and put it on his instead.
"Better." you told him. He smiled and pulled you towards him. You let him.
It'll be okay.
You didn't know who you were trying to convince more, you or him.
"I'm seriously considering locking you in that wardrobe until this is over." he told you, his chin resting heavily on your head. You smiled.
"I hate that you worry about me so much."
"I can't help it." he replied defensively, "You don't know how it-"
"How it felt when I died, yes, I know." you finished for him. You'd had endless conversations about it; how it'd felt for him. You prayed that you would never have to experience the same thing.
"Hela is ridiculously powerful. I don't know how we're going to beat her." he told you. You pulled away from him and looked out of the window into the courtyard where the Commodore was sat.
"Hopefully we won't have to face her. We just need to get everyone out of here." you replied.
But how?
I told Korg to follow us through the wormhole on the biggest ship he could find. We have to hope that he listened and made it out of Sakaar.
That was clever of you.
I hope so.
You both stood for a second, knowing you should return to the ship but not wanting to leave the security of your familiar room. In fact... suddenly the strongest feeling came over you; one that you couldn't explain at all. One look at Loki showed that he felt it too.
Something feels... weird.
I know.
What is it?
Loki was frowning; looking past you into nothingness. When he met your worried gaze it was with concern.
Something bad.
What?
"It's... our soulmate connection." Loki replied. You followed his thought process: I don't think we should go out there. It's too dangerous.
Why? Do you think...?
It's trying to tell us something, and it's not something good.
Lokes, we can't not fight now...
I won't lose you again!
"You won't! We're probably just worried about each other and it's making our connection... whatever it is, play up." you asserted. Loki was shaking his head; you grabbed hold of his face to stop it.
"If I die, you can say I told you so. Okay?"
"You'll be the death of me." he muttered after a pause, in which you tried to engrave the exact colour of his eyes into your brain so that you would never forget it. You'd done it a million times before and could categorically remember it off by heart, but hearing you think it always made him smile.
"I hope not." you whispered back, closing your eyes and pressing your forehead against his. Ten seconds passed, then twenty, both of you waiting for the other to move first.
"I'm going to lock you in the wardrobe now."
You laughed, and then he was kissing you, hard. Tears pricked at your eyes as you kissed him back and he pulled away, a question in his eyes.
That was a goodbye kiss.
No it wasn't. It was a don't die kiss.
You'd stalled for as long as you possibly could.
"Come on, let's go and get it over with." you finally told Loki. He nodded reluctantly, setting his jaw.
As you teleported out of your room and back to the palace courtyard, you knew inherently that that was the last time you would ever set foot in that room.
Thor was nowhere to be seen when you got back to ship. Just Bruce and Val, both of whom were looking oddly solemn.
Val smirked when she saw Loki's helmet.
"Nice horns."
"What's happened? Where are the others?" Loki asked, ignoring her.
"Thor, uh..." Bruce said, pointing out of the windshield across the courtyard, where Thor was kneeling down next to one of the hundreds lifeless bodies which scattered the courtyard. Your breath hitched in your throat. You'd been sure that it was coming, but the confirmation that Hogun was actually dead still hit you hard.
The Warriors Three. All of them gone.
Loki reached for your arm, but you had teleported across the courtyard to Thor before he could touch you, tears pricking at your eyes yet again.
Thor wasn't crying, he was just radiating a sort of quiet anger. You put a tentative hand on his shoulder and he looked up at you, his eyes ablaze with emotion.
"This stops now." he said, his voice low in anger and grief.
"Thor?" you both spun around, Thor standing up swiftly at the sound of a female voice behind you.
"Sif." you breathed in relief, stepping towards her instinctively. She stepped back, away from you. There was true anger and hurt in her eyes. Ah, you'd almost forgotten that you were a traitor and an awful person.
"Thor." she said again, and walked straight past you into Thor's arms. You stayed stock still and concentrated on breathing. Sif was alive, that was all that mattered.
"Where have you been? Hela, she's torn everything apart..."
"I know, we're here to stop her, what are you doing down here? Everyone's up in the stronghold with Heimdall." Thor said.
"I've been scouting the city for survivors, just to be sure. I'm so glad you're here, she must be so close to finding our hideout. Heimdall is moving everyone as we speak."
"Then we're running out of time. Y/N, you need to get moving, go with the others to the Bifrost, quickly." Thor told you, looking back towards the Commodore where Loki, Val and Bruce were talking.
"What about you?"
"I told you, I'm going to distract Hela." he said, a steely look in his eye which told you that now was not the time for arguing. For the first time you saw Thor not as your friend, but a god; a leader. King of Asgard. He was practically radiating power as he stood before you. You just nodded, and then turned to Sif. She stared right at you.
"I'm sorry." you said simply, your voice breaking on the last syllable. Then you teleported back to the ship.
"We need to get to the Bifrost." you said, making Valkyrie and Bruce jump as you reappeared suddenly in their midst.
"What about Thor?"
"He's going to distract Hela."
"But -"
"He won't change his mind. We need to move quickly, the whole of Asgard is on the move right now." you stressed.
"We can't just leave him here to die!" Valkyrie stressed.
"I'm not happy about it either, but he can look after himself. Right now there are several hundred people who need our help more than Thor." you told her. You met her steely gaze with an imploring look, and she sat heavily back down in the pilot's seat.
"Thank you." you said. As you took of you watched Sif disappear off to who knew where, and Thor ran up the steps and into the palace.
"He'll be alright." Loki said loudly to no one in particular. You nodded, again to no one in particular.
Val flew you out to the Bifrost, upon which was all that remained of the Asgardian population. You suspected there were about a thousand refugees down there, led by Heimdall who carried the Bifrost sword. Bruce suddenly grabbed your arm and pointed out towards the Observatory.
Sat at the far end of the Bifrost was an enormous, evil looking wolf.
"Fenrir. Hela's mutt." Valkyrie said, her voice filled with hatred. Even as she spoke, the hound stood up and started making its way menacingly towards the refugees, who looked for all the world like a herd of frightened sheep. From your point of view you saw Heimdall gesture for everyone to turn around, but blocking them was Skurge, wielding a massive axe and accompanied by an army of evil looking half human, half demon creatures.
"The Draugr." Loki breathed, following your gaze.
"The what now?" you asked.
"Hela's army of undead. She's brought them back." he explained. "Valkyrie, take us back over there. Y/N and I will hold the Draugr off while you two deal with that beast; we'll have to hope that the refugee ship arrives before Hela finishes with my brother."
You looked back towards the palace, praying for Thor's safety.
"Refugee ship?" Bruce asked as took the ship low over the refugees. Heimdall was squinting up to see who the pilot was.
"Val will explain. Don't die, you two." you said, putting one hand on Val's shoulder and one hand on Bruce's arm. Val reached to pat your hand and Bruce nodded; you and Loki teleported down onto the Bifrost.