The adventures of the captain and the god (CapsLok AU)

The Queen, the sorcerer and the castle

After the horrible feast the day before, the Avengers can't wait to go home. However... they can't leave without having breakfast with the king and queen first. 

A queen who is sick of her husband's behaviour, a sorcerer who is sick of his father's behaviour and a castle sick of nothing. It's a castle, it doesn't feel stuff. Duh.

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"Do we have to go? I don't wannaaaaa."

"Tony, it's the polite thing to do. They gave an entire feast in out honour. The least we can do is join breakfast with the king and queen. Besides, you don't want to disappoint Frigga, do you?"

Before Tony could start whining again ("I never whine." "You always whine Tony." "I do not!"), Bruce dragged him out their room.

Outside a servant was waiting for them, he bowed upon seeing them exit their chamber. "My Lords. Can I escort you to the King and Queen. The other Avengers are already there."

After walking through a dizzying amount of hallways, they arrived at one of the many dining halls. The other Avengers were already seated, and were currently talking about last night's feast with Queen Frigga. Odin was nowhere to be seen. Yet?

"...I just can't process why Asgard hates the Jötunn so much. I mean... humans have had wars. We have held grudges, some are still rather fresh, but we don't hate them forever. We realise everything that happened, happened during war. Why blame normal people for what their rulers decide. They suffered just as much as you did, maybe even more. Since they lost."

Oh crap. Looks like the captain was on a rant.

"You are wise Captain, but you forget one thing. Humans have short lives, they live with all the passion and emotion of a lifetime suppressed in barely a century. If you look at it in comparison, if you hold a grudge for a mere year, an Æsir will held the same grudge for fifty years. And even humans will take quit some more time than a year to forgive." The queen's face seemed to age. "From our point of view the war was rather recent. It will take more time for our people to forgive the Jötunn. Of course it would help if we worked on a truce between our-"

"Or if their kind would not behave as beasts." ("I really hate that guy..." "Nat, you can't say stuff like that." "But it's true...")

The king came walking in, interrupting his wife, a frown on his face. "As long as the Frostgiants insist on behaving like the monsters they are, they will never earn our forgiveness."

The Allfather sat down at the head of the table. "That will be all on that subject. I will not allow any more wishful comments on the matter." He started to eat in silence.

Loki was looking at the table, jaw tense. His face a mixture of pain, sadness and hatred. Every Avenger felt a pang of sympathy, mixed with a burning desire to punch the king in his face.

It didn't get better.

"Father, surely you cannot mean that? Not all Jötunn are the same? Didn't Loki prove that?" Thor's voice was hopeful. Like he couldn't believe what his father had said. Didn't want to believe it.

"I believe I said the subject was closed. But to answer your question, I do. As far as I am concerned Loki has done nothing to prove him any better than his kind." Odin spat out the last word, like it was something dirty. "He let Frosgiants into Asgard, he tried to destroy Jötunnheim and take over Midgard. If it wasn't for Queen Frigga, I would have given him a far more... appropriate punishment."