Hope's Marvel ( A Loki Love Story)

Chapter 12

3 years later

Hope's Pov

A lot has happened over these last few years. But I'll start explaining from the beginning. After the events at Stark Expo, Hammer got arrested, I received a medal for bravery with my dad and Rhodey, and ended up declining Fury's offer for the Avengers Intuitive for a few reasons. One because he was a complete asshole for threatening my dad to take me away. Yeah, dad told me about that. And because I wanted to focus on my education so I could graduate from homeschool, which I did a few weeks ago. Fury was disappointed but respected my wishes. He was also able to get the government off my back so I wouldn't get locked up. Which I was thankful for.

Dad had spent the last 3 years building the Stark Tower in New York; Which was now our new home. He had Jarvis set up the security system and made the tower a pure energy source for the city. As for my powers, they progressed over the years as I gained new ones in the process. However, I was still struggling to control my firepower because it was in tune with my emotions, making it harder to control at times.

I stayed in contact with Natasha, despite my dad's disapproval. We became close friends as she trained me to improve my combat skills. It was a lot of work but fun, in a way

As I continued to age, Dad told me that I wasn't allowed to have a boyfriend or girlfriend (depending on my preference which I was unsure of) until I was 30. Pepper thought that he was being ridiculous but I understood why. He was so protective of me because he knew how people were. Especially since I was a Stark. About a year ago, Dad went to the library with me to get new books, when a boy about my age was hitting on me. Before I could do anything with my flames, Dad pulled him to the side and threatened him with his life if he ever went near me again. And because of that incident, he decided to build me a library in the Stark Tower and said that he would just buy me new books so I wouldn't have to leave the building to get more. Yeah, he was that protective. He said that no one would ever be good enough for me and that he would be happy if I decided to stay single for the rest of my life. Luckily for him, I wasn't focused on dating at the moment, however, I did have one special man/God in my mind. But he only existed in my dreams.

I read through all of the Norse mythology books I could think of so that I had a better knowledge of him. But I still rather have Loki tell me about himself from his perspective. For the past few years, In my dreams, I was able to get to know him better. Even though he wasn't real, I was happy that I'd made a friend.

From getting to know him, he was charming, funny, kind, mischievous in a good way, and very intelligent. He told me a lot about himself, like how he was the son of Odin and Frigga, the King and Queen of Asgard. Of course, he told me about his brother but didn't go into detail. Since he had some issues with him because, for some reason, Odin favored him more than Loki. Which made me very upset.

I asked Loki to tell me more about his relationship with his mother, just to get off that sensitive subject. He told me how he was very close to her and that she was the one who taught him how to perform magic; which then he showed me a few tricks. He was very passionate when he was talking about his mother, which made it very clear how much he cared for her. I admired the relationship between them.

Over the time we shared together, we both found out we shared some common interests. Like reading, music, and little bits of mischief.

In my dreams, I enjoyed each moment I had with him until something happened about a year ago. He acted differently around me, closed himself off, and avoided any subject about himself. And each time I saw him around that time, cuts and bruises were covered all over his body. I tried to ask him what was wrong but he refused to speak about it; saying he just wanted to enjoy his time with me. I respected his wishes as I distracted him from any pain he was having to deal with. However it didn't stop me from being concerned.