You were very rudely awoken in the middle of the night by someone barging into your bedroom. You had been having terrible dreams about Balder returning, so you didn't mind waking. You did, however, greatly mind someone barging into your bedroom in the middle of the night.

You sprang up, drawing a dagger as you did. The lights came on and you saw Thor standing in the doorway to your bedroom. "Where's Loki?" he asked you grumpily.

You looked in the bed where Loki had been laying next to you. He wasn't in the bed. That wasn't a good sign. "Apparently not here," you replied, sheathing your dagger.

Thor sighed in exasperation. "I'll go find him. You stay here," he told you firmly.

You were already climbing out of bed to help him. "Yeah, right, Thor. Like I'm not going to help you find him," you told him just as firmly. You saw his face turn a deep red and he turned around. Your pajamas had ridden up, not even enough to show anything, but he still had too much honor to look. You rolled your eyes, but threw on a pair of Loki's pajama pants for Thor's propriety's sake. "Come on Thor. Wonder where my wayward soulbond has disappeared off to..."

"Without you? I would suggest we try the library first," Thor suggested. He offered you his arm, a proper gentleman even when you were both in pajamas. You took his arm and the two of you walked through the silent corridors to the library. You found Loki there, pouring over old texts, reading by the green glowing lights that surrounded him. "At least he was easy to find tonight," Thor commented dryly.

You went over to Loki and placed a hand on his shoulder to get his attention. Only your hand passed right through. It was an illusion. The illusion vanished when you had touched it. You sighed heavily. "Or not." you grumbled.

Thor growled. "He's getting better at this game. Use the soulbond," he told you as if that were obvious. He wanted to get this over with, which you didn't blame him.

Though you just wanted to know what Loki was up to.

"I can't," you reminded Thor, holding up your arm with the metal bangle on it. "Our Lady Mother was quite insistent that I cannot do any magic until my eyes turn back to their normal color," you added, rolling your eyes and grumbling over that restriction.

Thor laughed. "You can do this, even with no magic. There is power in the soulbond itself," Thor explained. "Just focus on him, the soulbond will lead you to him. It works, I promise. Anything to get us all back to our beds faster tonight."

Thor wouldn't lie to you, so you closed your eyes and focused on the soulbond and on your Loki, questing out with your senses to find where your wayward husband wandered off too.

Husband?

Where had that thought come from?

You felt the tug though, and pointed away from the library. "This way."

Thor bowed elegantly. "Lead on, sister dear," you giggled and set off with Thor. You had to backtrack a few times to find new routes. The soulbond led us in a straight line, it didn't take corridors and walls into consideration while it did.

You finally ended up in a tiny room hidden behind a tapestry. Loki was in there with a stack of books, a filched apple, and glowing green magic lights around him. He looked up legitimately startled when we burst in to his hiding spot. "How did you-?" he started. You held up your left hand, the soulbond marks were glowing on your arm. "Ah. There is no chance you will allow to you continue your work, is there?" he addressed that last comment to both you and Thor.

"Not a chance," Thor replied dryly.

"Nope. Come along love. You can play with the books tomorrow," you told him with loving exasperation. You were just glad you'd found him and he was ok. You held out a hand to pull him to his feet. Thor beat you to it and threw Loki over his shoulder. You caught the book Loki had been reading and gathered the others from the stack while Loki spluttered and cursed. Thor grabbed you by the back of the tunic before you could get all of the books.

"Come on, sister dear, or you're going over the other shoulder," Thor told you firmly. He grumbled about how he shouldn't have brought you along. You could only only hold a couple of Loki's books, since Thor grabbed one of your wrists, like you were going to wander off or something. "Why can't you sleep at night like normal people?" Thor grumbled.

"You have been asking me that since I was five," Loki grumbled. "Now will you kindly put me down?" He demanded grumpily.

"You have yet to give me a decent answer on why I cannot sleep because you cannot sleep,"

"It is not my fault that Mother thinks you need to forcibly carry me to bed just because I was up reading." You imagined Loki briefly with an anime character's pouty cat ears and couldn't help giggling at that image. Loki must've caught the image from your mind, because he chuckled and with a flash of green magic, had cat ears of his own, raven colored like his hair. You laughed and broke from Thor's grip so you could go investigate them. You giggled in delight at his newest trick.

Thor stopped and set Loki down so he could glare at both of you. "Can you two please behave for five minutes?"

"But he has cat ears!" you protested, standing up on your toes to touch Loki's ears. "They're adorable."

Thor just huffed. "You are both incorrigible. Come along, children," he threw you both over his shoulders, laughing. It didn't take much to cheer him up. "I should have just done this in the first place. And not woken you." He directed that comment to you.

You and Loki both just laughed.

He finally set you down outside of your suite and produced two vials of potion from his pocket. "Hey!" you protested when he tried to hand one to you. "I helped you find him!" you grumbled. The last time you had taken one of these potions you were unconscious for a whole day.

"Just take it," Thor replied. "Mother color coded them this time," he added, handing you the blue one.

You sighed, but took the stupid potion. "Are you sure this is the right one?" you asked when you were nearly instantly dizzy with exhaustion and swaying on your feet after just moments.

Loki wrapped an arm around you. "Mother must be displeased and thinking you aided in my mischief," he said with an apologetic tone. "Come darling. Bed for both of us." You don't know how either of you made it back to bed. You were both pretty drunk on sleeping potion. You had a feeling that Frigga was displeased with Loki too for his mischief tonight when you were supposed to be resting.