Goddess of Light

Chapter 65 ~ Family Reunion

"Surprise!" I yelled as I fell level with Loki.

He jumped out of skin with his hair whipping past in the wind as he fell. "Theia? What is going on? Where am I? Why are you here?" He questioned pleadingly.

I was feeling lucky Strange had enchanted me so that I couldn't feel the falling because it didn't look particularly enjoyable. But the warmth of the wind was just washing past me, and it felt rather nice.

"Hello to you, too. You are falling through a continuous wormhole, and I am here to do this." I answered before floating closer to him and rapidly started smacking him around the face and back as he tried to push me away.

"Hey! What was that for?" He asked, outraged while rubbing his face, after I finally stopped.

"Are you serious? Did you forget that you are supposed to be dead right now? I don't know why I am acting surprised considering how tragically you pretended to be Father." I verbally attacked him as he looked shellshocked over the fact I knew it was him.

"You knew it was me?" He spluttered in disbelief.

"I had a little help figuring it out, but please promise me that you will never take up a career in acting." I berated him as his shock turned into outrage over the criticism.

"You aren't much better." He sneered, clearly stropping.

"At least I didn't try to impersonate our father and play pretend as king of Asgard." I continued to scold him.

"I was just-"

"What? About to make an excuse?" I interrupted him with a smirk.

He actually chuckled slightly at this, understanding that I knew him better than he thought. "It's not like I caused any harm. I was impossibly friendly to your muscle man." He tried to excuse his actions as predicted.

Unfortunately for me, that was a good excuse. I thought back to all the things he had done to help me over the time he was supposedly dead. He obviously preferred helping me when I didn't know it was him.

"I guess that is true." I mumbled trying to conceal my appreciation.

"How are my niece and nephew by the way? I hope that me saving your life was worth it too." He added, bathing in his own few good deeds.

"Ok, enough. Thank you, Loki. I am eternally grateful." I rolled my eyes while bowing sarcastically, mid-air.

"You don't have to sound so sarcastic." He huffed, clearly expecting more gratitude when in reality, I didn't even consider us even after all the things I had done for him in our lives.

We both stared at each other for a few moments, still weirded out over the fact we are finally speaking to each other after all this time, before uncontrollably smirking and spluttering with a few chuckles.

"You actually looked out for me more, as Father, then our real father did." I bantered.

"There wasn't much else to do to be honest. I never realised how boring it was ruling a kingdom." Loki laughed as he continued to fall endlessly through the air. At first it was a little distracting to speak to him like this, but I am barely noticing it now.

"I think that means you were doing it wrong." I giggled as I remembered the first time I saw him as Odin, sat on the throne with a dozen girls fawning around him. I remembered how my stomach churned thinking it was my actual father.

"Hey! I more or less did what Odin did." He tried to defend but we both knew that was far from the truth.

"Odin didn't put giant gold statues of himself around the kingdom, nor did he enforce a play about the 'Tragedy of Himself'." I scoffed as I hoped this would make Loki squirm at his own actions, but it simply did the opposite.