"Sigyn came to Earth?"
Loki doesn't know who asked the question. He, frankly, does not care. Words, actions, memories have all spun together inside of him in a tapestry he can now see clearly if he steps back from it. He was so focused on Jaycee and how she fit into the web of Vanaheim's history that he forgot the woman who came first. It was never Jaycee who split from Hel. It was Sigyn and Hel who divided long ago.
They were the dragon. Hel became the goddess of death, the ruler of Niflheim over the generations she left Vanaheim far behind. But Sigyn, Sigyn became a different goddess. Thor is the god of thunder, Tyr a god of war. On Asgard, Sigyn was nothing more than a pawn in the Aesir game for dominance of the Nine Realms.
But on Vanaheim, Sigyn was known as the goddess of Victory.
If Jaycee is right and he knows that she is because he has never been so sure of anything in his changeable life, then Sigyn came to Earth. Her soul, if not her body is here.
Someone started the Victory Project. Whoever that was knew Sigyn of Vanaheim.
Sigyn is connected to Warren Biochemical.
He feels the circle close in his mind, feels the edges of an infinite that ties him to Jace and to Sigyn and Hel begins to close.
Now the final question that remains is very simple.
Where did Sigyn leave the last remaining piece of her soul?
"Loki." The voice is soft. "Sigyn is here?" He feels Frigga's hand on his arm, a comforting touch that brings him back to the present reality of where he is. The Avengers are looking at him, a chorus of confused faces trying to peer into his mind. The irony of it strikes him and a smirk, but a true one comes over his face. She gave him the key. Now she needs him to unlock the rest of the mystery.
Like donning a suit or a persona, Loki shifts from the grief and memory that have taken ahold of him back to the trickster god they do not trust. He can feel the lies on his silver tongue as he walks briskly towards the conference desk. He leans over the glass surface, pulling the files on Warren Biochemical that Stark had managed to pull with Jarvis's aid. He rifles through the pages, searching the documents, eyes sharp.
"What are you looking for, Loki?" Thor asks him, coming to his side and looking down at the papers.
"The Victory Project," Loki says succinctly, eyes now scanning the papers rapidly. He knows he will know it when he sees it. "You thought it was Tyr that started it. But Tyr had no reason to harness clairvoyant powers. However, if someone else had met someone from Vanaheim...,"
Stark gets it first. "You're saying that someone on Earth must have known Sigyn."
Loki nods, looking up at him. "Can you pull files on the person who founded Warren Biochemical."
As Tony gives commands to Jarvis to search the company databases, Loki continues to explain. "Why was Warren Biochemical started in the first place?" he poses to the Avengers. "Was it to experiment on Jaycee?"
Clint is starting to catch on as well. "You're saying Warren Biochemical wasn't about genetic experimentation at all. It wasn't founded by Tyr. It was about something to do with Vanir clairvoyants."
"Precisely," Loki says. "But why would anyone on Earth want weapons that mimicked clairvoyant powers? The only reason anyone from Earth would know about clairvoyants from another realm would be...."
"Would be if they had met one," Natasha says, coming to his side to look down at the papers, her eyes now joining the search.
Stark adds the files he has found to a holo-board above the table. They are all searching now. "You're looking for the name of the founder. I would wager it is not Mr. Tuesday," Loki says, already knowing this to be true. He needs to prove it to the Avengers to set the rest of his forming plan into motion.
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Havoc and Retribution
FanfictionThe struggle between Hel, former goddess of death, and Jaycee Strong, mortal telepath and great-granddaughter to Sigyn of Vanaheim, is only just beginning. This is the final book in the Jaycee Strong series, which started with "Psych the Avengers O...