The Giant Asgardian

Chapter 8: Scared of His Actions

As Thor walked down the hallway to his room, Peter kept rambling on questions about why he couldn't stay with Loki.

"Young one, I have said it before and I will say it again. I just want you and Y/n to be safe. You both can't be in the hands of my brother", said Thor. Peter was about to put his two sense in, but Thor put his finger over Peter's mouth. "Shh, little one. We can't talk about the same subject for hours", said Thor.
Peter sat there the entire time trying to push Thor's finger off of his mouth, but failed to no avail. 'I hope Y/n is doing better than I am', said Peter to himself.

Back to Y/n and Loki

Loki laid in his bed, fast asleep, with Y/n sleeping on his chest. His hand was draped over her like a blanket and the two were very content. Y/n was pulled out of dreamland, however, when the doors to Loki's bedroom were opened. Fast footsteps could be heard walking around the room and Y/n couldn't help but think that Thor had come back to take her away from Loki.
"Mr. Thor, can you please be quiet! We're trying to sleep over here!", said Y/n. Almost immediately, the footsteps stopped and silence filled the room. Y/n mumbled a thank you to who she thought was Thor.

She felt Loki's hand lifting off of her very slowly, causing her to shiver from how cold the room was. Without warning, Y/n's ankle was grabbed and she was lifted up into the air upside down. "Ahh!!", yelled Y/n. She looked up to see who was holding her. A man with brown hair and a long beard was dangling her hundreds of feet from the ground. He looked to be one of the servants that worked in the kingdom. "What in the world is this nonsense?!", exclaimed the servant. Y/n covered her ears with how loud he was being. "Oh goodness, we can't have mythical creatures disturbing the prince while he's sleeping, now can we?", said the servant with a smirk. He squeezed Y/n's ankle to the point where it ended up sprained. "O-Ow!!!", yelled Y/n. Her eyes widened with tears. "N-No please, stop! Let me explain!!", yelled Y/n. "Oh pipe it. If you thought you were going to try and come in here to smooch off the royal family, think again!", said the servant. Tears threatened to pour from Y/n's eyes. She just settled down from all the chaos that has been happening all day and now this had to happen?

The servant switched from holding Y/n's ankle to squishing the life out of her in a tight fist. "This will teach you to come into Asgard's royal palace", said the servant. "A-Ah! S-Stop please!", yelled Y/n, who was having trouble breathing. Her vision started to get blurry and she felt nausea wash over her. The pain that was coming from her ankle didn't help either. Y/n looked over at Loki to see that he was still sleeping. She worked up her last breath and said, "M-Mr. Loki!" In an instant, Loki shot up from his bed as if he was having a nightmare and his eyes fell upon the horrific sight in front of him.
The servant looked over at the prince and bowed his head. "Oh, my prince, thank goodness you've awoken from your slumber. I found this little rat sleeping in your be-..", the servant didn't even get to finish his sentence. Loki practically threw himself at the servant, grabbing him by the neck. The servant's grip loosened on Y/n and she started free falling towards the ground. "Ahh!!", screamed Y/n.
Loki's eyes darted towards his small friend and without hesitation, he let go of the servant and dove to the ground, catching Y/n in the process.

Y/n grabbed a hold of her sprained ankle and started crying. Loki stood up and asked, "My darling, what happened? Did he hurt you?" Y/n struggled to speak and said very quietly, "M-My ankle is sprained."
Loki held her close to his chest and walked back over to his bed. "It's alright little one. You are safe now. I've got you", said Loki. He gently put Y/n down on the comforts of his bed. Loki's attention was now on the servant, who was sneakily trying to leave the room. "I'm not finished with you!", said Loki. He bolted up towards the servant and grabbed him by the front of his collar with his left hand.
"I do not appreciate you coming in here without my permission. But what I really hate is how you were manhandling my little friend!", yelled Loki. "My prince, please, f-forgive me! I did not know that she was a close friend of yours!", begged the servant. "Lies, all lies. You knew from the start you pathetic Asgardian", said Loki. He stood there for a moment before deciding what punishment he should give the man. Loki started laughing and said, "I know exactly how to teach you a lesson." Before the servant could question what Loki just said, he was punched in the face. Loki's rage drove him into a frenzy and he continued to punch the man. How dare anyone treat his closest friend like a mere animal!

Loki, out of nowhere, conjured up one of his daggers and, without warning or hesitation, drove it into the servant's side. "Ahh!!", screamed the servant. The servant fell to his knees while Loki watched him suffer. "They always kneel", said Loki with a mischievous grin. He grabbed the servant by the back of the shirt and dragged him to the bedroom doors. "Make sure to tell the guards what you did", said Loki.
And with that, Loki threw the servant out into the hallway and yelled, "Guards! Please! Come quick! Throw this servant into the dungeons at once!"
Y/n was unfortunately able to witness this whole catastrophe and she grew terrified. She never knew that Loki would do such a thing.

Loki turned back around to see Y/n standing on his bed. He walked over to her and said, "I am very sorry that you had to witness that, little one." Loki went to pick her up, but she flinched at his oncoming hand. Loki pulled his hand away from her. His eyebrows furrowed with confusion. "What's wrong, darling?", asked Loki. He could see that she was visibly shaking. 'Is she scared of me?', thought Loki to himself. He shook his head, be ridding the thought and went to pick her up again, only for Y/n to stumble backwards. She tripped over a fold in the blanket and fell, causing even more pain in her sprained ankle. "Ow!", exclaimed Y/n.
Loki stood there astonished. 'She is scared of me', he thought. Loki didn't want to imagine his small friend being afraid of him all over again and he certainly couldn't handle the terrified expression on her face.

"Y/n, are you..a-afraid of me?", asked Loki with a hint of sadness. She sat there, staring up at Loki with fear in her eyes. All of that terror inside of her turned into tears. She looked away from the Asgardian prince and down at her ankle, crying softly.
Loki, on the other hand, was more than disheartened. He felt like he had just ruined his friendship with the tiny mortal and he did not want that whatsoever. Just the thought of losing her as a friend made him tear up. His eyebrows furrowed again and for once in his life, Loki was speechless. He decided to kneel down in front of her.
Loki set his right hand behind Y/n, letting it act like a wall. He wanted nothing more than to scoop her up and hold her in his embrace. Once Y/n felt Loki's hand behind her, however, she started crying louder. "P-Please don't hurt m-me", said Y/n. Loki pulled his away from Y/n in an instant.

Loki absolutely lost it. Tears poured down his face with how Y/n, his only friend that had been nothing but nice to him, was pleading not to be harmed. "Child, I am never going to lay a single finger on you that would ever cause you any harm. I am terribly sorry that you had to see my aggression, but I only acted in such a way because of how harshly you were treated", said Loki. Loki didn't know what else to say. He imagined that Y/n probably would want to go stay with Thor for the remaining time she had on Asgard. He lost his only friend.
Loki slowly stood up and made his way around to the right side of his bed. He sat down and laid back on the bed with his legs hanging off the side.

Y/n slowly looked up to see that Loki was gone. She looked around the room until she heard sniffling coming from behind her. Y/n turned around to see Loki laying on the bed with his hands resting on his chest. 'I-I can't believe I made him cry', said Y/n to herself.
She wanted to run up to him and hug him as best as she could, but her ankle was throbbing in pain. Her fear she was feeling towards Loki was slowly going away. 'Mr. Loki was only trying to protect me. There's no reason to be afraid of him. Ugh! I just had to act scared, didn't I?', said Y/n to herself.
Y/n grabbed a hold of the bedding and pulled herself up onto her feet as best as she could. She winced in pain. Her ankle was practically pleading with her to sit back down, but Y/n had to make her way over to Loki. She needed to fix this.