Hey all. 

I thought I'd just screw over the posting dates. I've done as best as I could with weekly updates, but I KEEP WRITING MORE DANG IT. 

The unfortunate thing is that if I finish Ei Diafol before Age of Ultron comes out, you might be in for a nasty 2-3 week long wait. But I'm trying to stagger it as much as I can, and I really really apologize if you DO have to wait at some point.

(Really am trying.)

You thought last chapter was revealing? 

Wait til you get a load of this one ;) 

Told you you guys should have been watching out for stuff...

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The Christening (Maleficent soundtrack)

JC (The Mortal Instruments soundtrack)

Penthouse/Training (The Hunger Games soundtrack)

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Part XVIII

        Thea crawls backward, near long panels of intricate glass, her eyes wide. "You...you're king of Asgard?"

        "So it would seem," says Loki coolly. He crouches down next to her, and Thea tries to get away, but Loki seizes her and pulls her up, so that their faces are inches from each other. "And only one person knows it. Now..." He smirks at her, "Two."

        "Who's the other one?" Thea demands, already knowing the answer.

        Loki stands up. "Myrinea."

        "But I thought-" Thea closes her mouth tightly, and if she would have finished her sentence, things in the future would have been so much worse.

        "You thought what?" Loki asks lightly.

        Thea swallows, thinking quickly. "I thought...thought that Myrinea was good."

        Loki smiles and says quietly, "People are prone to change their mindset when they have a dagger held at their throat."

        "You threatened her?" whispers Thea.

        "You might have believed that she and I met for the first time when we were plotting against Ardhigiza. But no, I had met her, a year ago, after I heard from...certain elements that she was a powerful prophetess and a powerful sorceress. With her, I could veil a mask around me that would hide me so absolutely...except for you. Why am I not surprised?"

        "Because I'm good at finding out rats like you?"

        Loki snarls, "Be respectful."

        "What did Myrinea do?"

        He smiles, "After my 'death' in the Dark World, I returned to Asgard and quickly... disposed of Odin."

        "Wait..." Thea whispers, "Odin is dead?"

        "I don't think you need to concern yourself with the details, darling," says Loki, looking down at her, "All you need to know is that Myrinea helped create a spell that when activated, will leave nobody with a trace of memory about me after my unfortunate demise at the hands of the Dark Elves. And I will be free to rightfully rule Asgard without any interference."

        "What...but..." Thea stammers, standing up, "You're not making any sense. Why would you waste your time blowing your cover again and coming out into the open? Why?"

        Loki walks to her, and she backs up, her thirteen year old eyes terrified.

        "Why are you so afraid of me?" Loki asks.

        "You don't get to ask me any questions," Thea says, her voice shaking, "You need to answer mine."

        Loki laughs, "Thea! You're so bold, but boldness is wasted. There will be nobody that enters this throne room, there is no help for you. It's just you and me."

        "You killed Odin! You killed him! For the throne!"

        "I never actually said I killed him," says Loki, "Although yes, I did."

        "No!" yells Thea, "I TRUSTED you! I thought...I thought you changed! I thought-"

        "Compassion has never been my strength," says Loki, "I only make a few exceptions. My family."

        "Your FAMILY?!" screeches Thea. "You KILLED Odin, you've betrayed Thor! The only person you've ever loved is your mother, and maybe you didn't even care about her either!"

        Loki narrows his eyes, and Thea tries not to quake away from him as he stalks towards her. He pushes her against one of the marble columns.

        "Let me make this clear," Loki hisses, "I loved my mother. She was the one who showed me the way, showed me the power that I could yield."

        "She's not even your real mother," snaps Thea. "They're not really your real parents! Your family is GONE, Loki!"

        "You're one to talk," whispers Loki, "You're one to talk."

        "They're gone! Thank you, I know! No thanks to you! I loved my family, unlike you!"

        Loki throws his head back and laughs. "You loved your family? That's fantastic, Thea, it's honestly hilarious. You loved your little half-sister?"

        "Leah is-"

        "You loved your step-brother?!"

        "BRYCE IS MY BROTHER!" Thea struggles against Loki, but he holds her tightly.

        "What about your stepfather, the stepfather that you loved, that pretended to love you, even though you were never his child?"

        "MY DAD?!" shrieks Thea, "HE IS MY DAD! You can't-"

        "You look nothing like him," says Loki, "You look nothing like Eric Fossil! He's blond, you dolt, and his blue eyes-"

        "I AM blonde!" Thea screams. "You IDIOT!"

        She kicks Loki back away from him and slams his face with her hand. But she loses her balance and stumbles, crashing into the glass panels. Glass flies around her, and she cries out as some of the shards pierce her arm.

        She shrieks as Loki grabs her chin and forces it to the side, forces it so that she is looking into their reflection in the broken glass. She fights him, but he keeps her facing forward, tangling their legs together so that he is holding her down to the ground. Thea closes her eyes tightly, tears leaking from her eyes.

        "Blonde?" whispers Loki, "Is that so? Watch this."

        He puts his hand on her head and Thea feels as if something cool is coming over her. She doesn't want to look.

        "Look."

        "No."

        "LOOK!" He shakes her, and she cries out, before opening her eyes.

        Two pairs of green eyes shine in the mirror, precisely the same color, although Thea's are slightly larger from youth, wide from fear, and red from crying. But in the mirror, there are the same sharp cheekbones. The same pale skin. And the same thick raven-black hair. In fact, if it weren't for the fact that Thea's face is rounder than Lokis, and her nose is slightly upturned and not straight, Thea would look at herself and see an exact copy of Loki.

        "No," Thea whispers, "No, please no-"

        "Yes," Loki says, "You are my daughter, Thea."

*

        "What?" Thea says hoarsely. "How...how...how....?"

        "Do you really think that you got your powers simply from my mental control?" demands Loki, "If that were the case, then you would have all the powers of Videl and his ilk. No, Thea, when I tried to control your mind, it worked, for only a short time. Thankfully, the only time I needed. But there was the fact that you latched onto my powers. Weak at first, but strong now, I'm sure."

        "You...you are not my father!"

        Loki raises an eyebrow, "Do you need any other proof, Thea? How about the fact that Joy never told you anything about her life in college?"

        "J-Joy?" Thea stammers, "No, who-"

        "Your mother."

        "What!? That's her middle name!"

        "I know. When she was young, she went by Joy. And she was a joy," says Loki, something flickering in his eyes, "She was my joy."

        "No!"

        "I was down on Earth for a routine scouting expedition with Thor," says Loki dryly. "During the summer. Thor, the idiot, got us stuck at a weapons department near a local college. I saw your mother the first time in the weapons field, as...an intern, you might say? She was so lovely, with long blonde hair and those beautiful blue eyes. But it was the blonde hair that I treasured most. In the weeks that followed, I fell in love. I never thought that possible. But I did."

        Tears flow down Thea's cheeks.

        I was only in love once before I met your father. During college, as an intern....

        ...Daddy walking inside and laughing the conversation off, steering it in another direction.

        "She left me at the end of the summer. She knew something about me was...different. I disguised myself, you see, whenever I was around her. I discovered that she was pregnant right before I left," says Loki in a monotone voice. "She was ashamed. But before she left, I met her one last time, near the ocean shore. And I guaranteed that her child would have the same blonde hair, even if it was just an allusion."

        Thea is shaking violently. "No..."

        "I suppose she met another man, years later, who already had a son. Bryce Fossil. And when they married, they only had one true child, of both of them. And that child was Leah."

        "LOKI!" Thea screams.

        "Please, my darling."

        "NO! DON'T CALL ME THAT!" She is sobbing, gasping and stammering.

        "Why are you surprised?" Loki murmurs, gathering her into his arms and rocking her back and forth, "Why? We are alike, you and I. So alike. We both have tempers. We are both masters at manipulating the minds of others for our own purposes. We both have a push to survive, no matter the cost. And we both love each other so much."

        "No," says Thea harshly, "I don't love you! I DON'T!"

        She looks up at him and sees that his eyes are pained.

        "Thea..."

        "I DON'T, I DON'T, I DON'T!"

        She sobs in his arms, and Loki holds her tightly, leaning down to kiss the top of her head, her head that is covered in messy...black hair.

        "That's why I came to Earth when I heard about the attack on your apartment," says Loki quietly, "I knew that the price for what I had done with the Chitauri had finally gone after not me, but those I cared for. For Joy. And her family. You have wondered why it was you, why the Imeldi attacked your family. Now you know."

        "Bu-but-"

        "I came back because I knew that there were two little girls that survived. And I knew one of them was mine."

        "That's...that's why you c-cared about m-me and n-never about Leah."

        "That's not true," says Loki, "Leah had your mother's eyes. I saw her shyness in Leah, her pureness, but in you, I saw my fire and my strength."

        "My mother was strong! Stronger than-"

        "I never said she was. But I knew that-"

        "You still never cared about Leah," snaps Thea, but she is clinging to Loki's armor nonetheless.

        "I did, Thea. A bit, I did. But if it ever came down to saving your life or hers, there would have been no question as to whose I would save."

        If Loki had known what would have happened, he never would have said that.

        Thea tears away from Loki's grasp and slams him in the face. Before Loki can recuperate, she sends a flame right at him; if he were not so fast, he would have been scorched in the face.

        "Oh you!" snarls Loki, "You never realize when to stop, did you? Didn't your mother ever teach you to respect your father?"

        "You're not my father!" screams Thea, grabbing her dagger from her side and pointing it at Loki, "You left me! You could have come back any time, but you abandoned me to Earth! My real father is Eric Fossil!"

        "Eric Fossil never could give you what you needed! He scarcely cared for you, you can't deny it!"

        Images swirl through Thea's head. Of her father laughing with her, but laughing more with his son and youngest daughter. Of him being hesitant to dance with her in front of the television. She realizes why now. Because he had been afraid to love another man's daughter.

        "What about Bryce!? He loved me! He never acted any different towards me than to Leah!" She sends another bout of flames at him, and Loki parries it with a swirl of ice so powerful, Thea can feel the frigidity from across the room.

        "I tolerated Bryce," says Loki, "And that is why. That is the only reason why!"

        "You killed him! Your alien army-"

        "Bryce Fossil wasn't supposed to die that day!" roars Loki, and Thea sees the fury in his eyes, "I mistook the information I had been delivered, and ordered the attack of the building that I had thought encased someone else. Eric Fossil was supposed to die, not his son!"

        "You were going to kill my father?!" Thea wails, clenching her fists. As she does so, fire erupts from her fingers.

        "Have you never heard the tales?" Loki sneers, "The stupid tales that ancient people made up about me? How I sent Sigyn's husband into battle so that she may die, and I may have her? It's the same principle, really. And he wasn't your father!"

        "Oh, you're terrible!" sobs Thea, "You're terrible! Why didn't you just kill him after?"

        "Because your mother had already gone through so much! I couldn't take the man-"

        "The man she loved!" Thea exclaims, "My mom loved him, and that's why you were so mad! And now you murdered your father, for the throne. But I won't let you keep it a secret!"

        She doesn't give him time to reply.

        Thea runs at him, and leaps up, trying to yank him down by encircling her leg around his neck. But Loki catches her and throws her to the ground, where she gasps.

        She scarcely has time to grab her dagger before Loki is upon her, looming over her and pushing her shoulders to the ground. Thea grits her teeth as she swipes her dagger at his wrist, but she misses, although keeps ahold of the dagger. She thrashes her feet, but Loki holds them down with the weight of his long body, "LOKI!"

        He is breathing hard, his long hair falling in a curtain around her face, "What are you trying to do, Thea? Kill me? Is that what you want now?"

        "I want you to let go of me! I want you to tell Thor, to tell EVERYONE what you did! I want you locked up-"

        "You're in shock, Thea, you don't know what you're saying" growls Loki, and tries to grab the dagger from her grip, but she buts her head up, slamming it into his forehead with a resounding crack. Thea cries out, but Loki winces. Even though she is seeing stars, Thea rolls away from him and leaps to her feet.

        She whirls around, her dagger poised, and Loki is there with his own silver knife. She gasps, using all her concentration and strength against him, and as he parries with her, she feels her eyes narrowing and her muscles tightening.

        "L-Loki, s-stop this!"

        "You're-the one- fighting me!"

        "Because you're a murderer! Because you deserve EVERYTHING that comes at you!"

        Loki kicks hard her in the stomach, and Thea cries out, clutching her sides as she falls. The dagger clangs next to her as she gasps, coughing.

        When she tries to get up, holding herself up with her arms unsteadily, Loki kicks her again, away from him. She wails as she rolls several feet and coughs. "L-Loki," she gags. She feels liquid on her lips, and feels it on her tongue. Blood.

        "Do you want to play with me any longer, Thea?!" exclaims Loki, yanking her face up. His eyes are wild, "Do you?"

        "What are you going to do to me?" whispers Thea, tears dripping down her face and mixing with the blood.

        Loki cocks his head, but his eyes look furious, "I have no choice but to let you go to Midgard. There would be too many complications. But you will not say a single word about this, do you understand me? By the end of the day, the spell will be complete-"

        "So nobody will remember you?" chokes Thea, "Good, I never want to remember your-"

        "No, Thea," says Loki softly, "One condition upon Myrinea's spell was that you would always remember me, so that you could live with me forever."

        "I don't want to live with you! I want to live with Max and Kyle!"

        "I know you do," Loki says, but he is mocking her, "But the fact of the matter stands. And besides... I doubt your mind would cooperate much with any spell that Myrinea tries to cast upon you."

        "I will tell," spits Thea, "I will, as soon as I can-"

        "Oh, but you won't," says Loki with a smirk, "This, I can assure you for two reasons. One," He snaps his fingers, and Thea feels as if her throat is closing around her. And then, the sensation is over, "One, the fact that you can no longer say my name or anything about me, write it, act it, nothing, unless you are in my presence."

        Thea glares at him, and Loki sees the same fury in her green eyes that are in his own. "What's the other one?" she spits.

        "Oh, just a minor thing," Loki coos. He caresses her cheek, and Thea winces, "I will only kill your entire little 'family' if my name slips out of that little silver tongue of yours."

        Thea's eyes widen and she bares her teeth, "You wouldn't!"

        "Oh, I would," says Loki calmly, "And I'll start with that gangly young man that you are beginning to have feelings for. Wouldn't it be a shame if Jack Barton suddenly decided it would be a delightful idea to kill his two cousins before turning the blade upon himself?"

        "Stop," sobs Thea, "Please stop, I won't say anything!"

        He smirks, "I know you won't."

        Thea glares up at him, and Loki raises an eyebrow, "There is one other thing." He waves his hand in front of him, and in a green mist, a golden band appears. It looks to be made of solid gold, with little snakes of metal swirling, moving across the stem. Shaped a bit like an ancient Egyptian necklace, it looks just as powerful.

        "Wh-what is that?"

        Loki sits back on his heels and allows Thea to unsteadily sit up as well. "This golden band will ensure to me that you are alive, for I will not always be able to see you. The only way for it to break is for you to die." He holds up his arm, and Thea sees a thick golden bracelet around his left wrist, "And this is mine. As long as it stays fastened around me, I know that you are breathing. And that the spell is still in effect."

        Thea knows that she doesn't have a choice. Bowing her head, she lets Loki fasten the golden band around her neck. He does so gently, and smooths her black hair around it with all of his former tenderness.

        She touches the band. It's cold to the touch, but light and almost ethereal on her skin. She knows by a single touch that she will never be able to break it.

        "Thea..." Loki whispers, "My darling daughter."

        She looks up at him sharply, and there are tears in her eyes.

        He leans forward and kisses her forehead softly. Her shoulders heave in silent sobs, and Loki once again wraps his strong arms around her thin body and holds her close to him. As she cries, he says, "I'm so sorry that this had to happen. I had been meaning to tell you in a much better way, instead of forcing you into submission."

        "Y-you're not f-forcing m-me in-into anything!" snaps Thea with the most dignity she possesses, "I still hate you. I'm doing this by myself, to protect my family. My actual family. If I can't have Eric Fossil as my adoptive father, then I'll have Max Calen instead!"

        She feels him suck in an angry breath.

        "You don't mean that, do you?" he asks.

        "Yes, I do."

        "Perhaps you shouldn't have told me this. What's to stop me now from following you back to earth and slitting your precious Max's throat?"

        Thea goes cold, "Please...please don't," she whispers, "It'll be like you taking Bryce from my mother."

        His voice is now gentle, but with a hidden hardness, "I won't, pet, and for that very reason. But I am your father, Thea. Not Eric, and not Max. One day, you will see that. One day, you will return to me."

        "What's the point?" Thea buries her head in his chest, and her staggering voice is muffled, "What's the point!? I'm not immortal. You'll lose me anyway soon en-"

        "One problem at a time," says Loki in a tone that Thea can't decipher. He squeezes her tightly, "One problem at a time, kitten."

        "You...you...I hate you..."

        "I know you do. I know you do." He pulls back away from her and lifts up her chin with his finger, "Now are you going to be a good girl and do what I've told you you must do?"

        "I don't have much of a choice," says Thea in a furious voice, "Do I?"

        Loki chuckles, "No. You really don't."

wow. I'm even in shock and I was the one who wrote it. 

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