Loki's Last Chance

Bed Time With New Info

Maria's POV

The nurse was a short girl, with short blond hair and dark blue eyes. She looked to be younger than me, but definitely looked like she knew her stuff.

She moved to my left side and sat on the edge of the bed. She asked again if I wanted to know, and said that they couldn't determine which parent was which.

"One of your parents was an Asgardian and the other a Midgardian."

I just sat there in a daze, not able to really do anything but stare at the foot of the bed. Midgardian... That's what was different about me.

The nurse asked if I wanted her to tell Loki, so I gave her a nod. There was no way I wanted to be the one to tell him. He was the one who thought Humans where beneath 'us'.

She left me to my thoughts, closing the door behind her.

It would take a bit to wrap my mind around this new fact, but in the back of my mind, one worry nagged. How was Loki going to feel about this and would he treat me any differently because of it.

Loki's POV

The nurse left me standing outside the room Mari was in with the new information fresh in my mind.

Midgardian... How could that be possible? No Asgardian had been to Earth other than Thor and I in a very long time. I doubted many knew what it looked like down there. So how did one meet a human and manage to have a child without anyone finding out? Or did somebody find out... They were found dead, who's to say they weren't murdered.

I pushed those thoughts aside. It was an absurd notion, it's not like there was anything preventing the love between the two races... Was there?

I opened the door and ventured back into the room. Mari hadn't moved and was just staring at the foot of the bed. I could tell her brain was fast at work by the way her eyes were unfocused and how her head twitched slightly sometimes as she sifted through information.

I sat back down slowly, trying not to disturb her thought process. I had learned that lesson the hard way a long time ago.

Mari was around 7 when it happened. Mine and Thor's Tudor had explained the events surrounding an unsolved murder and had asked us to come up with a theory on how it was committed as homework. We told Mari everything and asked if she knew how it was done. She told us she had to think and so closed her eyes. Moving her hands purposely through the air, she attempted to figure it out. In hindsight she looked like she was using one of the high tech screens Tony Stark seemed to be always using. Anyway, Thor blurted that he thought it was a provoked assailant or something and I told him he was crazy and that it was obviously a well thought out murder. Apparently she wasn't too happy we interrupted her thought process and yelled at us. Something about how we wouldn't get an answer if we couldn't wait for it. Her outburst really shocked us, so we sat there in a scared silence until she was done. She said it was the maid and that she slipped a undetectable poison into his whisky after he cut her pay because he thought she stole an ashtray, or something. The Tudor was impressed, but Thor and I learned an even more important lesson.

Don't interrupt a goddess of wisdom when she's thinking.

She hadn't moved her arms or legs since I'd left, but she didn't seem to be in any pain. The nurses had patched up the hole in her abdomen and stopped the bleeding. She lost so much blood. I was surprised she was awake so soon.

Maria POV

I blinked from my thoughts and noticed Loki had sat back down. He was looking me over again, like he wasn't quite sure I was there.

"You're doing it again." I pointed out, with a smirk.

"Doing what?" He asked, leaning back in the chair.

"That look! I see you doing it, stop it."

"What look?"

"The way you look at me like I'm going to disappear. You're not getting rid of me anytime soon." I told him.

I tried to cross my arms, but I still could barely move my appendages. My arms just twitched and sort of flopped so my palms were facing up. I frowned, staring at my hands, trying to get them to move the way I wanted.

Loki chuckled beside me. I growled under my breath at him and kept trying.

He slid his hand under mine and held it in his. After a moment he placed it on my lap, then reached over my to get my left hand. Placing it with my other one on my lap, he leaned back into the chair.

"Better?" He asked, smirking.

"No..." I made a face at him. "I was trying to cross my arms, thank you very much."

I was trying really hard not to smile, but this was what i really missed. The clever banter we always annoyed each other with. If we weren't friends, we'd definitely be enemies.

"So, how long have I been out for?" I asked, tilting my head up to the ceiling and closing my eyes.

"We got back to the palace in the early afternoon and it is now ten in the evening. So, I'd say around nine hours. Thought you wouldn't wake for another day or so. You lost so much blood... It's no surprise that you can't move."

"Oh, be quiet." I said, hearing the amusement in his voice.

He gave a small chuckle in reply.

I was so tired still and my eyelids had become heavy again. As I drifted back into unconsciousness, all I could think of was how it was nice that nothing had changed much between Loki and I.

Loki POV

It took me a minute to realize Mari had fallen back to sleep. All I could do was watch her as my mind wrapped around the fact that she would make it through the horrible events of this morning.

I could hardly believe she was treating me as if I wasn't the monster she knew I was.

Before I knew it, I had dozed off in the chair beside her, happier than I had been in a long time.

A/N:

On to the last chapter and then it's all over! Or is it? I'll be starting the sequel ASAP after I finish this.

I love writing this story! It's so much fun.

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