The Mischief Twins

Betrayal

Emmett sat in the back of a room filled with Asgardians arguing back and forth. His father sat in the corner, a strange look of guilt on his face.

"No! We cannot go forth after her!" Thor said to the yelling Asgardians.

This made Loki shoot upwards from his seat "What makes you say that, brother! She's my daughter, I should be able to save her!"

Thor walked over to his brother and rested his hands on Loki's shoulders "Brother, the darkness is doing this on purpose. It wants to kill you. You're not safe."

Emmett, whose heart was racing incredibly fast, got to his feet "So what?! Ella is in danger! I bet she'd save you is you were in trouble!"

Thor walked over to Emmett "I can sense the fear in your voice, kid. This is not something you can defeat."

Emmett's felt his face twitch and he ripped his fist through the air; hitting Thor square in the chest, sending him flying across the room. When Thor stopped at the wall, Emmett stomped out of the room, so angry he felt like he could punch the wall down.

Emmett ran down the corridors and out the front entrance. He ran all the way down to a small beach-like area, where he kicked up the sand in frustration. Screaming in frustration and grief, he fell to his knees. He'd just got his sister back and she was taken from him.

"I don't deserve anything. No one could ever care for me."

Emmett felt a brief cold wind blow through his hair and tousle it. Looking up slowly, he came to meet the gaze of a woman with brown hair and brown eyes. She smiled at him fondly.

"Emmett, my son, come to me."

Emmett got to his feet and approached the water. Stopping at the shore, he gazed out at her.

"I cannot walk on the water."

"And I cannot walk on the land."

She waved her hand and the sand beneath his feet tightened around his feet. He felt his feet leave the ground as the sand lifted him into the air. He was now hovering less then a foot away from his mother's spirit thing above the water.

"Mother, I...."

"Shh. My dear boy, I've been watching you your whole life. You are more capable than you think."

Emmett felt tears forming in his eyes "But, I can't do the simple mind tricks Ella can do. All I can do is punch stuff."

His mother smiled at him "You were the one who first found out about Norgyn coming in through the backdoor, were you not?"

"Yeah, and Ella was still taken."

His mother smiled at him "But you still made them aware of the danger."

Emmett looked at his mother for a long time before they were interrupted by sand under feet sounding behind them. Emmett did his best to turned in the sand that was holding his feet tightly in the air in order to make eye contact with his father.

His father's eyes strayed from Emmett to his deceased wife. He said with his voice small "Hattie?"

Hattie smiled at him and walked across the waters surface to the shore; stopping before she reached the land. Loki approached the waterline, gazing into Hattie's translucent face with tears forming in his eyes.

She attempted to reach for him, but her hands went right through him. Instead, she said to him:

"I love you, sweetheart."

At that moment, a gust of wind blew and Hattie was swept away in it. Emmett fell down into the water with a loud splash.

Loki had a smile filled with grief plastered on his face as he muttered to the sky "I love you too, Hattie."

Emmett walked out onto the shore, soaking wet. He looked at his father "Dad, you were the one to find the backdoor in and out of Asgard, right?"

Loki nodded "Yes. What are you proposing?"

Emmett looked around "Let's go get Ella."

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Ella lay in her cell when she heard something clang against the bars.

"Here's your lunch, kid." Norgyn grunted.

Ella crawled toward the plate he pushed through the bars. Ella turned her nose up at the sad plate he called lunch.

Two thin slices of bread, an apple that had a couple bites out of it, and water that had something floating around in it.

"I'm not hungry, thanks."

Norgyn grumbled as he walked away. Ella stood up and walked to the other end of her cell. There, she sat on a platform in the rock. Sighing, she set her chin in her palms.

"This will be a long day."