The Many Adventures of the Avengers and Friends

💜✨💧 A Mother's Love

A/N

I'm soooooo sorry for the lack of updates. I've gotten so busy lately and my writing motivation was in the shitter. But in my honest defense, I had to power through the previous AU in two days, which was a FEAT, lemme tell you.

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~Asgard, Hundreds of Years Prior (Physically 7-8)~

For most of that day, Olivia was nowhere to be seen. She didn't come out for breakfast, she didn't make her lessons with Frigga, she skipped lunch, and her door was shut and locked. Thor and Loki just assumed she wasn't feeling so well or was just having a bad day. Besides, they knew better than to pry.

Though, even if her sons tried to stay away, Frigga wasn't so sure.

Olivia may have had bad days in the past, but she was usually such a positive girl, despite distant painful memories. Whatever was wrong, Frigga had to figure out what it was.

She sent her sons away to go play as she cautiously approached Olivia's locked door. Clearing her throat, she lightly knocked three times.

"Olivia?" She asked through the door. Olivia didn't seem to respond, but Frigga could sort of hear muffled sobs. She pursed her lips before using magic to unlock the door.

Inside, Olivia was still in her night clothes, curled under her furs and sheets on her bed. She clutched one of her pillows with her face buried in it, her crying being muffled. Instinct overcame Frigga seeing the poor young girl so upset.

"My darling girl, whatever is the matter?" Frigga asked her calmly, approaching Olivia's bed. Olivia peeked out from her pillow, her eyes bloodshot and rimmed with red. "Did someone hurt you?"

Olivia wordlessly shook her head and buried her face back into her pillow in hopes that Frigga would leave her be. Frigga wasn't so easy to give up, however. As Goddess of Motherhood, she had instincts to protect and it broke her heart to see a child so upset, especially for a reason she didn't know.

Frigga went back over and shut Olivia's door before seating herself on the girl's bed.

"Whatever it is, I'm here for you. You can tell me what's the matter and we can figure out what to do." Frigga said calmly. "It's no use crying about and waiting for the solution to come."

Finally, Olivia turned her head to look at Frigga, her cheek still pressed into the tear-soaked pillow.

"But there isn't any way to fix it." Olivia muttered.

"Then what is it?"

Olivia paused.

"How come everyone else gets to have parents and I don't? Why did my parents die and leave me alone? Why don't I get to know what my parents were like? Everyone else got to be sung to sleep and tended to by their mothers and played games and taught about the world by their fathers. Why did the Norns take my mother and father away from me?" Olivia burst out, followed by another fit of sobs. "Why was my mother taken from me??"

Frigga looked at the crying girl with sadness in her eyes. She had known that one day reality would crash down on Olivia and there wasn't anything Frigga could do to protect her from it. She had cared for this girl since her parents died, considered Olivia almost as her own. But no, she wasn't Olivia's mother. As much as she could try, it's nearly impossible to replace such a figure in a child's life.

Considering how best to proceed, Frigga took a breath.

"It's impossible to know why anything happens. But everything happens for a reason. I knew this day would come that the realization would hit you." Frigga started. Olivia sniffed and wiped her nose.