The Jotun, the Billionaire, and the Other

I Will Have To Go

"I've never seen anything like this." Loki said coolly, a fresh wave of blue crashed Gabriel's skin, "Hold on." Loki spun around and green swirled rapidly around his hands, and when nothing happened. Loki flushed white as the paint.

"What's the matter?"

"Frigga, I can't summon her, something's happened. She won't... oh dear, oh no, p-please, no!" He tried what seemed like a hundred times, when he stopped, his chest was heaving, and he had tears streaming down his face.

"Lokes, what's the problem?"

"Frigga! I can't summon her! I am reaching out for her and she won't appear, this is bad. Very, very bad!" Loki tried once again, this time, a small blue spark, that grew larger, appeared, then a single message rang out, her sweet voice the only thing breaking silence: "I'm sorry." Loki instantly sank to the floor.

"Wait, wait, wait, what did that mean?"

"She's dead."

"Dead?! What do you mean dead?"

"Dead you idiot! Beyond this world, Valhalla. That means... oh god! Anthony, my duplicate is going to soon fail me. It can only last, and act as myself, so long as she is alive, so long as both connections exist. I'll be called to it, and called soon."

"Wait, so you-"

"I will have to go, when, I am uncertain. It could be in the middle of the morning or the night, my body will-" It was faster than anything. One second Loki stood there in his pajamas, then his body was covered in Asgardian armor, then gone the next. The next thing, Tony looked in the crib and saw that Gabriel was crying, he was fleshy pink again, but his eyes were red. Crimson red.

"JARVIS, is it a fever now?"

"Yes, sir, it is. I shall inform Miss. Potts to get medicine for him."

"Thank you, JARVIS."

***

Loki stood in Svartalfheim, Thor was with him, and another. Apparently he had stabbed someone, and this large Dark Elf creature, had the sword protruding from him. Very quickly, stealthily, he cast a message. He sent it to his beloved, and only, daughter, Hel. Father is stopping in for a visit.

Then, pain.

The creature had impaled him with the sword too. He heard a deep throated scream, and was shoved to the ground. Clutching his chest, every evil deed he ever had done swept by him. But, the Trickster God had one trick left up his sleeve, the creature had had something along its belt. He grabbed and squeezed it, letting go when shoved.

"See you in Hel, monster!" Loki growled, panting all the while. It looked at its belt, catching the trick, it roared in anger, then blew up. Thor soon filtered into his fading vision.

"I will tell Father all you did here today," Was all he made out.

Voice trembling, tears catching before they could fall, his memories of past evils, his husband, his children, Gabriel his newest, Frigga, "I didn't do it for him." Loki said as Thor screamed. Loki soon slipped into blackness.

***

"Thank you, Pepper. Do you mind calling the others, tell them it's urgent?"

"Have Loki do it."

"I can't, he-" Tony couldn't finish his sentence, he looked at Gabriel who had just quieted down a little, his whimpers becoming softer, and his rose-red cheeks becoming a dark pink, have two large tears roll down his face.

"What's the matter?" Tony handed her Gabriel, something was wrong. Very, very wrong. His heart beat like a drum, faster than, it had no beat it seemed. His chest tightened, he began to sweat, his nerves climbed up the walls and threatened to jump-they did.