The Tale of a Midgardian Frost Giant

Chapter 7

(Trixie's PoV)

I hesitated before answering Loki's question about why it was my fault my brother was dead. Panic rushed through me, but I didn't let it show.

"I...I...it's," I began but I stopped myself. I couldn't bring myself to say it. I just couldn't. The memory flashed through my head, and I tried to stop thinking about it. But I couldn't. The horrible images raced through my head. The fire, the ice, the screams, the tears, the bullets, the blood, the scars, the knife, and the marks I had left on him. The images flashed through my mind and it felt like I was being torn apart from the inside out. Every feeling I had that night, I was feeling again. I was imagining the pain of the knife being dragged down my leg, the scorching heat, the feeling of total darkness and regret at what I had done to Adam. The pain I had long sense locked away deep inside had resurfaced, and this time I wasn't sure if I had the strength to lock it back up. I tried to think straight, but I couldn't. All I could think about was the screaming, and the pain. I starred at the floor as the memories constantly replayed in my head. My thoughts were stopped when I felt a hand on my shoulder. I had nearly forgotten Loki was even here, and the fact that he probably just saw everything I did sense he was probably reading my mind. I didn't say anything, or look up. I noticed that my hands were now blue and the rest of my skin was turning blue as well. My heart raced in fear at what Loki would say when he saw it. I prepared myself for the worst. But to my surprise, he didn't say anything about it. No criticizing, and no look of shock or disgust. I starred at my hands, and it did nothing but bring the memories back. As the memory flashed back in my head I didn't try to get rid of it, I just let it hurt. I saw the younger me crouched next to Adam. His wounds weren't to severe at the time, but if he had tried to move he might become to weak to keep himself alive. the agents that had done this were long gone, and there were now walls of ice blocking every entrance or exit.

"Adam, you're going to be alright ok?" I told him. He tried to lean forward but I stopped him.

"I don't know i-if I will," Adam whispered.

"Yes you will! You have to be alright!" I said as I held his hand. I watched the younger me silently cry as Adam began talking.

"Trixie, I might make it but you know I might not. There's no way to know until it happens. But if you stay here, they'll just come back. You need to go," Adam said to me as his voice cracked.

"I am not leaving you!" the younger me yelled at him.

"Trixie you have to!" Adam yelled me. I watched the anger in the younger me grow, but at the same time so did the sadness. The sadness of knowing Adam was right.

"I said, I'm..not...leaving!!" the younger me yelled as her skin quickly turned blue. A scream of pain was heard, and the younger me quickly backed away from Adam. On his hand was an incredibly severe burn from the coldness of my hands. I watched the pain in Adam grow.

"I...I'm sorry...I...I didn't mean to Adam...I s-swear!!" the younger me said as she walked back over to him.

"It.....i-it's not...your f-fault. I know y-you have a t-trouble with it. B-But whether you d-did....did it or not, I...I probably wouldn't have made it a-anyway," Adam said in a voice filled with pain, as he struggled to hold on.

"Adam no, please! You can't leave me here alone, I...I won't let you!!" the younger me cried as she hugged him, and he struggled to hug back.

"T-Trixie, you....you have to let m-me go. You can't stay w-with me forever," Adam said. The floor by the younger me's feet began to freeze.

"But y-your all I have," the younger me stammered back as she held his head close.

"Trixie, you need to keep going...f-for m..me," Adam said as his life slipped further, and further into darkness.

"I...I will," the younger me stammered.

"Trixie promise me t-that....that you'll never forget me," he told me.

"I promise," the younger me whispered to him as he could barely keep his eyes open.

"A-and promise me that....y-you'll know this wasn't y-your fault," he whispered.

"But it was my fault," the younger me said as the tears streamed down her face.

"Trixie....g-goodb-," Adam began but stopped as he slipped away.

"Adam?" the younger me said as she shook him a little. "Adam please!! Don't leave me!! I'm s-so, so sorry!!" the younger me cried again as the whole floor was now coated in ice. "Please Adam....I need you...," the younger me said as the memories ended. I stopped thinking about it, but the pain was still here. I knew Loki had been reading my thoughts, and he saw everything. I didn't notice that I had been crying while thinking about it. My face was stained with tears, and the tears silently kept coming. The room got much colder, and Loki noticed. I hid my face with my hands, but it didn't stop the tears or the cold.

"You  do know it wasn't your fault, right?" he asked in a tone full of sorrow as he hugged me. I didn't answer, I just continued to cry. "Trixie, there is nothing you could've done to stop it. He wasn't going to make it either way," he told me.

"If I would've just left...I...I wouldn't have h-hurt him. Even if he d-didn't make it I could've had m-more time with him. If I would've made sure no one saw my powers they wouldn't have been after him, b-because the only r-reason they were a-after him was because he w-was my b-brother. They k-knew he didn't have any powers like m-me but they came after him anyway," I cried as Loki hugged me tighter. The painful memories flashed through my mind again.

"Trixie, it wasn't your fault. Your brother knew that, and you need to learn it," he said in a kind tone, that made me feel a little better. But it didn't help to much.

"Well thanks to me, the only person who could ever care about me is gone," I said letting the pain in my voice show.

(Loki's PoV)

I now knew why she didn't like that place, and I now knew why she hated the powers she had. I understood her pain. the pain of not being accepted.

"And why was he the only one who could ever care about you?" I asked her as her tears did not come as quickly as before.

"Because no one can care for a monster like me, and even if they could I wouldn't let them care," she said.

"You're not a monster, but why wouldn't you let them care about you?" I asked her with sympathy in my voice.

"Because I don't want anyone to care!! If they care about me, then I might start to care about them, and I don't ever want to go through losing someone I care about again," she said.

"You know, having something to lose, it better than not having anything," I told her. 'I should know,' I thought to myself as she looked up at me. Her once pale blue eyes were now red, and her skin was still blue. There was a knock on the door, and I knew it was Dr. Celvic. I stood up and walked over to the door. "And for what it's worth I don't think your a monster," I said as I left the room.

(Tony's PoV)

We headed to New York as fast as we could. I was ahead of the others, and when I got to the roof of Stark Tower I saw the tesseract in a machine.

"Shut it down Dr. Celvic!" I yelled at him.

"It's to late for that now," he said back. I went into the tower and there was Loki. He wasn't to happy that I came here, but I wasn't to happy that he had come to Earth. After threatening him, he tried to use his staff on me but it didn't work. But I figured it wouldn't work. He quickly grabbed me by the throat and launched me out the window. But once again, JARVIS pulled through and I got the suit.

"and there's one other person you've pissed off, his name is Phil," I said to Loki after flying back up. I heard a loud noise, and as I looked up I saw that the tesseract had shot a blast into the air. A portal opened up and that's when Loki's so called "army" came.