A Tale of Mischief and Mutants

There's a Lot You Don't Know

—-Mary—-

As I get ready for bed I'm thinking about how on Earth I ended up here. In less than a week so much has happened. I had been outed as a mutant and kicked out of my home. I had been taken in by the X-men and found out I have a sister who is one of them and that my sister, who I didn't even know existed, is in a seemingly pretty serious relationship with a fucking Norse god.

A Norse god who also happens to be an ex-supervillain. Now I've travelled halfway across the world to a country full of literal aliens in which she lives. Oh yeah, I had almost forgotten my sister is also one of the few who can lift the legendary Mjölnir.

She's so cool, not to mention drop dead gorgeous. I can't help but be a little jealous it seems like she's got her life together. Meanwhile mine's a mess. She has perfect control over her abilities and I barely have any control over mine. I'm so scared by everything Sam's obviously not if she's dating Loki.

She's got that going for her too. I'm a looser who's never dated and is still a virgin. She somehow snagged the scary yet admittedly incredibly attractive prince of New Asgard and is already living with him. He's not as intimidating as I first thought.

He actually took an interest in talking about music with me and I noticed him being a complete gentleman to Sam whenever he got the opportunity. I hear their door close as I crawl into bed. She's so lucky. I wish I had my life together like her. Minutes later I drift off to sleep.

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I'm woken up by the sound of someone screaming then crying. It's coming from Sam and Loki's room. I quickly get out of bed to see what's wrong. What if there's something going on between them I had failed to pick up on and he was hurting her?! I hesitate at their closed door but hearing another sob obviously coming from Sam I concentrate hard and summon a flame into my hand.

I then somehow find the courage to turn the knob and open the door to confront him. When I enter the room Loki shifts his head towards the door looking a bit startled. Sam who is clinging to him seems to be scared by the noise too.

I see an emotion in Loki's eyes When he sees the flame in my hand I didn't think I'd ever get a glimpse of from him, fear. I continue holding the flame unsure of what's happening exactly. I don't know if he's a threat or not and I'm not about to put the flame away if it gives me an advantage. I speak softly.

"What's going on? I heard screaming."

"She had a nightmare."

Loki pulls his attention away from me back to Sam when she starts whimpering. He pulls her closer to himself and begins soothing her, brushing is hand through her hair and telling her she's safe. The way he's speaking to her and everything makes it seem as if this is a regular occurrence.

"Is she ok?"

"No, but she will be in a bit. This was an especially bad one."

He rolls up his sleeve and shows me horrible bruises I can only assume Sam gave him from the fear her nightmare brought on either in her sleep or upon waking up in confusion.

"Does this happen a lot?"

He looks at me sadly and nods rolling his sleeve back down.

"It's gotten better since-"

He stops himself.

"Since what?"

"There's a lot you don't know Mary, and it's not my place to tell you if Sam's not ready for you to know."

'What?!' He's acting like she's been through some sort of trauma. 'What happened to her?!' I'm about to press him for more information but I hear Sam let out another sob and my priorities shift. I drop the subject for now and nod. I concentrate hard on the flame and manage to extinguish it. I then make my way over to the bed and sit down next to Sam who's wrapped in Loki's arms. My fear of Loki overridden by my concern for Sam.

"Sam?"

She looks over at me her eyes filled with fear and tears.

"I don't know what scared you but I promise everything's gonna be ok."

She doesn't look convinced by me. Vili slithers through the doorway I left open a crack when I walked in causing it to creak. Her eyes dart to the door as if she's expecting someone to walk through it and hurt her in some way.

"Nobody's going to touch you if anyone tried I'd burn them to the ground."

I don't know why I feel so protective over Sam I barely know her but I love her all the same. She's my sister and I won't let anyone fuck with her. I reach my hand out and hold her's. Vili slithers onto the bed and wraps herself around Sam seeming to somehow know something's wrong.

"You're safe."

Sam seems to come out of whatever state she was in though she's still crying.

"Mary... I'm sorry. I didn't want you to see me like this."

"Sam I'm your sister, I want to be here for you. I don't know what's wrong but whatever it is you don't have to hide it from me."

I hug her not caring that it means I have to get uncomfortably close to Loki. I pull away and she's still in tears.

"I didn't want you to worry about it at least not for a while. You have your own shit to deal with. You don't have to know yet I can get along just fine..."

She seems to think for a moment looking at the worried expression that's surely plastered on my face begging her to go on.

"But if you really want to know... I-I'll tell you."

'What could she have gone through that's so awful that she thinks it would burden me to even know about it?'

"I just want to be able to support you and I don't think I can do that properly if I don't know what's wrong."

She nods. She tells me everything though she keeps some details vague. I feel this is only because she thinks getting into them would be too much for me to handle at my age (and from everything she does tell me she's probably right) it's also likely she kept things vague because it's a topic that's hard for her to talk about.

I can't believe the atrocities that she's been subjected to. I'm in tears with her by the time she's done explaining. I look over at Loki to find he's also in tears. I see him in a whole new light now hearing from Sam what he's done for her and now seeing him cry for her. I'm not afraid of him now he's not what I thought at all. I hug Sam tightly.

"I love you Sam. The time we lost, it doesn't make a difference in how much I love you ok? I know we're strangers but I don't feel that way. It's like some part of me remembers you."

She nods as she hugs me back. When she pulls away she seems to realize something and pulls Loki's sleeve down. She looks in shock at what she did.

"I'm so sorry."

She makes a move to touch him directly I assume to take it from him. He pulls away.

"You know full well I'm fine mortal. Don't fret over me. Let me carry this one."

She nods giving in to his request. He kisses her on the cheek and Loki holds her close as they lay down in the bed. That's my cue to leave. I get up and walk to the door. I'm dumbfounded at his level of affection for Sam. He clearly loves her. It's suddenly hits me that my sister might end up being the future princess of New Asgard. I smile slightly at the thought.

I look back at them as I shut the door Sam's already back asleep and Loki doesn't look far behind, the snake is curled up by their feet seemingly asleep too. I go back to bed and fall asleep trying to let everything I've learned sink in.