Epilogue

Loki smiled as he watched Thor laughing and joking with his friends, the Avengers were enjoying their time on Asgard and the party following the coronations, though most of it seemed focused around trying to get Steve drunk with Asgardian mead.

The soldier was laughing and taking it in good humour, indulging them and chasing after Tony who kept trying to sneak off to snoop into their technology.

Loki hoped that he would like the mixture of technology that he had put together for the genius as an apology gift for throwing him through a window and destroying his newly built home.

"I hope you're happy with yourself," Sif snapped.

"I'm exceedingly happy, but I do not think that that is what you mean, it sounded a little more of an accusation," Loki raised an eyebrow turning to her.

She was clearly tipsy, the alcohol not helping hide the anger, or mask her disgust that she felt towards him.

"I know you're going to hurt him, and when you do, I will be there to pick up the pieces and show him what he can really have, he won't even think twice about allowing you to come crawling back," Sif sneered.

"You're brushing dangerously on the edges of treason there Sif, I would be careful," Loki warned lowly, bristling in annoyance at her inferences.

"You don't deserve your place here and I will prove it!" The blow that Sif tried to levy at him with her suddenly drawn sword was easily deflected with his magic, and easily hidden from the eyes of those watching them. He stood to his full height in front of her, glowering down at her, and gaining the attention of more of the room.

"I am what is best for Thor!" Sif snarled.

"That might be true, I don't particularly care, because I am who he wants," Loki smirked at the wounded hurt that flashed across her face and stepped closer to her. "You think that you are best for him, whatever, I don't care, because I am the one that he wants, I am the one that he risked everything for, I am the one that he makes love to, the one he sates himself inside and fucks as though my body is the answer to all his worries. I am the one that he has given his heart to, and that just burns you up, doesn't it?" Loki tilted his head.

Her blow this time was clearly meant to kill, and nearly the whole hall saw it. He deflected it with a thought again before blasting her back into the wall. Before she could climb to her feet Volstagg, Hogun and Fandral gripped her tightly, disarming her of all the weapons that she had on her and pinning her to the wall.

"You traitors! You traitors!" She screamed.

"The only traitor here is you Sif," Volstagg shook his head sadly.

"You can't agree to this!" her anger was clearly getting the better of her by the second.

"Where we to or not, we vowed ourselves to Thor and this is Thor's choice. He is Thor's choice. Nothing else matters," Hogun said firmly.

"Take her away," Thor commanded stepping up behind Loki, wrapping his arm around his waist.

"Thor...not Thor I did this for you!" Sif cried out, suddenly seeming to realise her actions.

"For me? I would hate to see what you would do against me," Thor snorted.

"No! Thor, please!"

"My King has no need of a warrior who can not even use her brains to try and kill someone outside of the sight of an entire hall," Loki hissed, waving to the hundreds of eyes watching them. "What use is a warrior that is clearly so in wanting of brains?"

"I will kill you. I swear I will!" Sif screamed, thrashing against those holding her and managed to shove Hogun and Volstagg away. She lunged at Loki, Fandral trying to yank her back and release his sword desperately.

With a lazy sigh, Loki flicked her forehead as soon as she was in reach, and with a yelp Fandral found himself on the floor, partially pinned under the suddenly sleep limp body of Sif.

"Well, that will do it!" Volstagg boomed with laughter, reaching down and threw the female warrior over his shoulder. She let out a loud snore, which startled the hall into noise, laughter filling the space again.

The Warriors Three nodded at their King and Consort before they took Sif from the hall, and the party started up again.

"Thor?" Loki hummed softly, leaning back into the firm, warm body of his King.

"Yes?" Thor said gently.

"Is that your hammer in your pocket, or are you heavily erect right now?" Loki smirked, looking over his shoulder to meet sparkling blue eyes.

"I am heavily erect right now, have I told you about how many times I have practically stripped myself raw after watching you verbally flay an idiot? Or use magic so simply to take them down?" Thor husked into his ear.

"I would far rather you fuck me raw instead," Loki licked his lips.

Five minutes later they burst through the doors to their new rooms, ripping off their Coronation clothes as they desperately tried to touch as much of the other as they could, their mouths hungrily demanding more and more kisses, unable to slake their thirst for the other.

"So," Clint smirked at them.

"Yes?" Thor smirked right back at him.

"That sound and light show happen every time you two bump uglies?" Tony asked drawing snorts and splutters from the Warriors Three and Heimdal.

"We are all hoping not," Frigga snickered leaning forward in her seat to look at where the Avengers were standing guarding her sons.

"I'm not complaining," Steve coughed.

"I would worry though," Hogun managed to gain his stoic look back.

"Worry?" Tony tilted his head.

"If you gave into the arousal that you felt last night, there is a good chance that you're pregnant," Loki smirked.

"I'm male!" Tony squeaked looking at Steve.

"Both of us are sterile," Natasha patted Bruce on the shoulder.

"Thor is the god of fertility," Fandral snorted.

"What?!" Tony, Steve. Natasha and Bruce shouted while Clint blinked before he started roaring in laughter.

"He never likes to mention it," Loki shrugged.

"Which is rather offensive considering he gets it from me, truly offensive, but indeed he is quite skilled as well, it is why you felt the arousal spilling over from their coupling. It was his fertility powers reaching out to help others," Frigga nodded.

"But…"

"The Prisoner Odin!" The call went through the hall cutting off their conversation for another time.

Thor and Loki sat on their thrones at the top of the dais, hands joined and presenting a strong united force. Frigga sat on her own throne to Loki's left. Heimdall was guarding them, standing to Thor's right, and the Avengers and Warriors Three stood guard either side of them.

Odin walked in, chained and looking defiant, and behind him filed in the nobles of Asgard.

"You think that you can do this to me! You think that you can…"

"You think that you are above the laws and rules of Asgard?" Loki waved his hand and silenced Odin, looking down at the man with disappointment and disdain.

"My Consort is right, you have no respect for the rules and laws of our country, you use and abuse them to your own will and that is why we are here. You are being charged for the unlawful incarceration of Loki, Consort of Thor and of Princess Hela, daughter of Frigga who you incarcerated to cover your own War Crimes. You are charged with the attempted murder of the now King and Consort of Asgard during our coronation ceremony. We have read your statements, and we have heard evidence provided by hundreds against you. There were a few that spoke for you, but they could produce no evidence that in any way challenged the evidence against you," Thor stood gripping Gungnir tightly.

Loki watched as he looked down at the man who had raised them, and there was nothing but hatred and disdain for the man. Frigga was glaring at him with out and out hatred, the proof of the fact that Hela had been blamed for the unlawful and murderous actions of Odin, that he had set her up to take the fall for the genocides that he had tricked her into completing, or did himself, had hit her hard.

"It would seem that your children will always just be pawns for you, to move and destroy, sacrifice as you wish," Frigga hissed.

"Indeed. The royal family, the King, Consort and Queen Mother, removed ourselves from the final decision as to your guilt and your sentence, we wished to make sure that none could accuse us of influencing the choice, or of breaking the laws ourselves,"

Loki watched amused as Odin actually smirked and looked certain. He turned to look at the Nobles standing either side of him, guessing correctly that they had been the ones to make the decision.

He actually thought that he was going to get away with this.

"You were found guilty by unanimous vote," Thor's voice boomed through the room. Loki stood and took his hand again as Odin stared up at them completely stunned.

"Your sentence is to be stripped completely and utterly of all your powers, you will be sent to Midgard to live out whatever remains of your life as a mortal. You will be granted no protections and all knowledge of your powers will be stripped from you. Should any of your enemies find you, they can do with you as they wish. You will return with Thor's team, the Avengers when they return, after Frigga has stripped you of all your powers," Loki spoke into the hall, and those watching could not help but admire the balance that the King and Consort possessed standing side by side.

The choice of Frigga to complete stripping Odin's powers was a clever double hit. She was the most powerfully gifted in magic beside Loki, but considering the questionable...condition he may be in, that was not going to happen, and she had a personal hit in all of this, she would make sure that not a spec of power was left inside of him for him to use to attack her family.

Looking into her blue eyes Odin realised this.

"Take him!" Thor waved his hand.

"Little brothers, how delightful of you to visit me! Congratulations on your bonding," Hela paced in front of them, eyeing them. "What can I do for you?"

"Mother misses you," Loki said and watched as Hela paused in her pacing.

"And?"

"And I can not undo the punishment that Odin laid on you, not the way that I did for Loki," Thor said softly.

"So, you came to gloat?" Hela sneered.

"We can not release you, however, were we to leave...holes in your prison, that would not be releasing you," Loki shrugged.

"Holes? Hela blinked.

"Asgard will be stronger with all its rightful children there. I am King, Loki Consort, we, and mother, would like to have our sister there, at our side. Odin's actions to blame you for his war crimes have been revealed. Asgard would welcome you back, as long as you come in peace and to take your palace with us," Thor nodded.

"I might delay your return to Asgard though, perhaps take the scenic route back, a holiday perhaps?" Loki said as he and Thor turned to leave.

"And where would you suggest that I take this holiday?" Hela asked them as she watched them leave, the first hole 'accidentally' appearing in her prison.

"Midgard is nice this time of year, though you may want to pause and take a tour of a nursing home in New York," Thor hummed, a piece of paper with an address on fluttering into her fingers when Loki waved his hand.

"Am I to be your weapon then?" Hela asked.

"We have had our revenge, we got to watch his face when he realised that he is lost. You did not have that chance. Whatever you wish to do, you have the right to look him in the eyes and let him see he has lost," Loki said softly.

"I did not kill him," Hela said strolling into the family living room in Asgard a month later. Thor, Loki and Frigga looked up from the plans that they had been working through, and in second Hela found herself wrapped in her mother's embrace.

"What did you do?" Thor asked curiously.

"I made him piss himself," Hela smirked. "I wanted him to live, knowing that I was here, back with my family, getting to know mother again, getting to know my brothers and their children. Knowing that we survive and thrive without him,"

"Good," Loki inclined his head, and Hela dropped her dark head onto her mother's shoulder, gripping onto the back of her robes tightly with both hands like she was a little girl again while her mother rocked her and crooned.

They could all easily have blamed Frigga for Odin's actions, for not stopping him, but they all knew that she was his longest prisoner, he had twisted and used her powers and gifts to lock her down.

Loki slipped his hand into Thor's and smiled when his lover turned to look at him. The taller man reached out and brushed gently over Loki's mouth where the thread had been when he had first seen his love again after the battle, the area was still sensitive despite being healed, and the healers thought that it always would be.

They would all always bear the scars that Odin had left upon them, but together they were stronger than the wounds that had been inflicted, and they knew that together they would always stand back up again, whatever came their way they would always win.

Asgard and Midgard were working together to start preparing to take on the Mad Titan that had used Loki, they would strike before he was strong enough to attack them.

Loki looked up into Thor's eyes, losing himself in the bright, sky blue of those eyes and he smiled gently as a large, gentle hand covered his stomach protectively, lovingly and proudly. Whatever they faced in the future he knew that he would never again know the loneliness that had haunted him and ripped him apart. Because he would always have Thor, he knew that his King would always come for him, would always find him, would always do the impossible to save him when everyone else said that there was nothing to be done.

Thor's love was a charm that he would never take for granted. And he would always make sure that his own love guarded and protected Thor.