The Servant Series (Loki fanfic)

Servant, Friend, or Love? Ch 8

Chapter 8

We reached the throne room where Volstagg awaited us. He was ready to fight already. I hated that in order to do the right thing we had to defy the All-Father.

"I will give you as much time as I can." He offered as he took Thor's hand.

"Thank you, my friend." Though not as good as Thor, Jane and I each offered a nod.

"Thank you, Volstagg. Truly." I told him.

"Yeah, yeah. Just don't die, alright?" I nodded with a chuckle and passed. Loki tried to do so behind me, but Volstagg put a hand on his chest to stop him.

"If you even think about betraying him,"

"You'll...Kill me? Evidently there will be a line." I laughed and shook my head at how easily Loki took this.

"You're insane." I told him.

"Have you ever known me to be any less?"

"Nope. Of course, that's what I've always liked about you." He smirked and together we entered the ship. Thor had started banging on buttons trying to get it to turn on, which caused worry for Loki.

"I thought you said you knew how to fly this thing."

"I said 'How hard could it be.'"

I heard armor clanking and someone yell, "They're on the ship!"

"Get to the ship!" another ordered.

Loki shared my nervousness; I could tell by how he was being too calm and not making any jokes. "Well, whatever you're doing, Brother, I suggest you do it faster."

"Shut up, Loki." was Thor's only reply.

We heard the battle continuing for another moment, which unnerved Loki that much more. "You must have missed something."

"I didn't. I'm pressing every button on this thing!" Thor yelled as he punched at buttons.

"No, don't hit it. Just press it gently."

"I am pressing it gently! It's not working!" He slammed his hand down again and the ship started. "Ha ha." He said with a grin.

"Good job, Thor." I told him with a pat on the back. He grinned at me like a little kid before trying to figure out how to make it work. He was soon lifting it off the ground and making it turn around. I couldn't help but chuckle as he hit several columns.

"I think you missed a column." Loki warned him sarcastically.

"Shut up." Normally, I'd have told them to be nice, but they were going back to their old selves. It was nice to see. I actually wanted it to continue.

I was giddy as we flew, but Loki didn't like not having control. "Look, why don't you let me take over. I'm clearly the best pilot." Oh gosh. Loki, honey, I don't care what you or anyone else said, you're still the same old you... with tweaks.

"Is that right? Well, out of the two of us, which one can actually fly?"

From there, it was like a rollercoaster. We flew under bridges, around lasers, and curved around buildings. I smiled out of joy and couldn't help but look between the brothers. It will always be these two. Fate will always have them together one way or another.

Loki looked down at me as my attention was brought back to him. He smirked at me and pulled me so I stood right by him. "You seem quite pleased for some reason."

"It's just...it's like old times. I mean, on a larger scale, but..."

He lifted my hand and kissed my fingers. "I know what you mean."

"What are you apologizing for?"

He pulled me that much closer. "Who said I was apologizing?" Suddenly, Jane collapsed. I pulled myself away and checked her forehead.

"Oh dear. Is she dead?" Loki asked to get on Thor's nerves.

"Jane?!" Thor asked with a hint of terror. He didn't even realize that yet again he'd given Loki the pleasure of freaking him out.

She raised her hand weakly. "I'm okay..."

We continued flying when several more ships fired at us. We managed to get out without much damage. Only because we did take off the top of a building was there any.

"Not a word." Thor threatened Loki.

Loki couldn't keep quiet, though. What fun would that have been? "Now they're following us." Of course, right as I stood and tried to go over to Thor and Loki, the ship was hit by the gunmen a few times, causing us all to fall over slightly. I blushed at I realized I'd fallen into Loki as his arms went up. He ignored me, however, and put his arms back down, effectively trapping me. "Now they're firing at us!"

"Yes, thank you for the commentary, Loki. It's not at all distracting!"

Loki dragged me with him as he moved to the other side of the inner part of the control system. As the ship fired, Thor maneuvered to avoid the shots and ended up removing the head of a statue.

"Well done. You just decapitated your grandfather." Loki bit sarcastically. The small ship continued to fire and once more, Loki dragged me with him as he moved about, this time to the same side of the room but the outside side of the controls. "You know, this is wonderful. This is a tremendous idea. Let's steal the biggest, most obvious ship in the universe and use that to escape; flying around the city, smashing into everything in sight so everyone can see. It's brilliant, Thor! It's truly brilliant!" I screamed as Thor pushed him out the door of the ship, taking me as well. I clutched onto Loki, and right when I thought we'd hit water, I landed on a boat with Loki on top of me. He pushed himself onto his hands and knees and smirked. "I quite like this position."

Thor landed gracefully with Jane in his arms as I told Loki, "Hm. And here I was hoping you'd drown."

Fandral laughed at us and Loki pushed himself up, now freeing me from his hold, but didn't bother to help me up because of my comment. "I see your time in the dungeons had made you no less graceful, Loki." Fandral teased before helping me up. "Or good with women."

Loki ignored the comments and turned to Thor who was laying Jane down. "You lied to me." He nodded. "I'm impressed."

"I'm glad you're pleased. Now do as you promised. Take us to your secret pathway." With a smile, Loki followed orders.