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TITLE: missed CHAPTER NO./ONE SHOT: Chapter 5/14 AUTHOR: hiddlemediddles ORIGINAL IMAGINE: Imagine being one of the few female frost giants left. As the race is dying out, you are expected to bear as many children as possible. You escape when Jotunheim is under attack, finding yourself on earth. Dr. Strange senses your arrival and takes you to the Avengers, where they are in awe of your appearance. Blue skin and crimson red eyes. When Loki sees you, he doesn’t quite know how to respond. RATING: M NOTES/WARNINGS: Things complicate.. and move on rather quickly! Tagging @lokislilslut x - Falling asleep was impossible. Despite having spoken a great deal to Strange and Parker, you felt none of the usual tugs of fatigue. All of your nerves felt shocked, they felt primed for action and stimulation. You had been sitting there for hours already, blindly staring at Raze’s sword. You had also, involuntarily, been running Loki’s conversation in your head. What struck you the most was his appearance. His appearance as a Jotun. It was a sight you never thought you would see. Perhaps Thor had not even seen it.

You had been given a room, which they had cooled down considerably. You had wanted to, initially, sleep in the freezing vault. However, after lying down for a while, you felt that it was too strange to sleep like you had slept in Jotunheim when you were.. on Earth. What troubled you the most was not only your grief.. the deep engraving of grief. The stamp on your existence. It was also the uncertainty of your future. What happened now? Did you simply live on in grief? Did you simply live on in this tower, sitting in their freezing vault for the rest of your days? The only answers to those questions could be answered in the future.. when those events had either occurred or never occurred. You wondered if you would ever be in Jotunheim again. How strange it was to think.. it was not long ago when you were being primed as a wife for Ymir. It was not long ago when Grundroth was announcing assigned wives. It was not long ago when Rana was kissing and hugging Raze in your home. None of it was long ago. From your conjectures, you had gathered that it had been two weeks. Two weeks of waking up, or not even having slept, only to then grieve for the rest of the day and eat little. Two weeks of.. feeling nothing. Feeling.. numb. The only time you had seen Loki which had been a few days ago when he had entered the freezing vault, embodying his true form, to speak to you. Days had passed, though it felt like hours. Time passed far too quickly for you to even be able to tell the difference between night and day. After all, you had been confined to the building for two weeks. A sudden thought struck your mind. Would you ever see the light of day again? Not that Jotunheim contained the light of day. That is, would you ever step outdoors? You had decided that if you were going to die anywhere it would be in Jotunheim. Before that had happened, you would try and.. gather the lost pieces. You were out of the room early. You yearned to be outside.. to be out in the fresh air. It didn’t strike you, however, that it was a good idea to walk outside of the building and expose yourself to the Midgardians. Innocent as they were, you did not wish to tarnish their psyche. As people said, they had little to no knowledge whatsoever that they were, in fact, not alone in the universe. All of those Midgardians who had seen you were ‘in on the secret’ as they said. You knew that you wouldn’t be able to leave.. they had likely made some type of system to prevent you from stepping even a foot outside. Instead, you were standing beside the windows of the largest room in the Tower. It felt so inexplicably high. You leant against the barrier of the window, gazing out at the large buildings which surrounded the tower. You tried to look down to the streets.. to see the people walking around, yet it was too high for you to even make them out. “I once threw Stark through this window.” A voice said smoothly behind you. You did not bother turning around, knowing those tones well enough already. “What prompted that treatment, Loki?” Loki stood beside you, gazing out at the buildings with you. “I was under the influence of the tesseract. It took over my mind. I threatened Stark with an army of Chitauri.. suddenly I was throwing him out of the window” “Do you remember much of it?” Loki chuckled smoothly. “Thankfully, I do not. I believe I placed many people under my subjugation.. including a few agents of SHIELD who also cannot remember much of what they themselves did. The mind stone is just that - a stone which grips each crevice of the mind.” You suddenly felt another question niggle in your mind, though it was nothing to do with the topic. You turned to him now, gazing at him in his human form. You could tell that he felt comfortable in this form. In the mask. “Do you regret not knowing your heritage from childhood?” Loki absorbed the question, allowing it to float through his mind. It was one of the most difficult questions that he could answer. He regretted not knowing who he truly was, though he found that he would have felt like an outcast as a Jotun.. playing the role of an Asgardian prince. “From the point of view of knowing who I truly am, then yes. Yet, I would not have felt accepted as Odin’s true son. I resent him only for driving into my brain the idea that I could be a King.. when in reality, the only kingdom that I could have legitimately ruled was Jotunheim. I regret that I was ever obsessed with the idea of subjugation.. obsessed with ruling over people that I would have viewed as my subordinates” “Do you ever think you could have reconciled with the idea that you were.. Jotun.. at that age?” “I remember when my father went to show us the Casket. When I asked about it afterwards, it was my mother who told me about Jotunheim. Yet, she didn’t speak about them with the hatred that I had heard from others. Had I been a Jotun, I could have reconciled.. reluctantly.. yet I could not have accepted lightly that my mother was not my.. biological mother” You turned your head away, staring ahead again. You had heard, years ago, of the battle waged against the Asgardians by the Dark Elves. Frigga had been mortally wounded. “You are not the only one who has..” Loki said, almost trailing off. You turned your head to look at him again, focusing those crimson eyes on his face. “Lost..” You could almost feel his arm resting against your own, from how close you both were standing to one and other. Instinctively shuffling away from him, you realised how foolish you were being by pushing him away. He seemed truly reformed. You had even told Strange that you did not harbour resentment towards him.. why was it so different now that you were in his presence? Rushing footsteps broke you both out of your reverie. You both instinctively turned, finding that Wanda herself was running towards you both. “You both need to leave, now” she said, ushering you both towards the exit of the room. “Why is that?” You asked, utterly confused. Before your confusion could continue, Wanda was already moving you both away from the room. “A SHIELD agent.. rogue.. tipped off to the rebels that you are here, on Earth” she said quickly. “You have to leave.. they’re here.. they can probably sense you from a mile off.” “How did they escape the prison in Asgard?” Loki asked, dumbfounded, yet he continued to quicken his pace. “Thor is going out of his mind with confusion about it. What worries him, however, is how many more rogues there may be inside SHIELD.” “Where on Earth can we go if they can.. sense me?” “We aren’t even sure if they can sense you.. but we can’t take any risks. If they can escape the most secure prison in the universe, they have power very much on their side.” Before you could even think of protesting, they were conveying you inside some black vehicle. Barely sitting down, the car started to move. Wanda was sitting in the front seat, meanwhile Loki was in the back with you. The driver didn’t seem disturbed in the slightest when he saw you. He must have been forewarned that he would have an alien-looking being in the back of his car. “Just keep driving. We’ll figure out the particulars when I get some more information on this.. thing” she said, holding up some square electronic device. “I believe that 'thing’ may be a telephone, Miss. Maximoff. Though, I will forgive you for the fact that it most definitely does not look like one. Screens seem to be getting bigger and bigger these days..” Loki mumbled, smirking secretively. Catching everything, she turned around. “Remind me why you are here?” It was her turn to smirk. You smiled, one of the first you had displayed for a long while. Loki was lucky enough to have seen it. Yet, it vanished almost as quickly as it appeared when you remembered the reason you were abruptly driving away. “I volunteer myself to guard Y/N” Loki said, almost heroically. “We can convey her to my residence. I have magic surrounding it which will prevent any.. hostile forces.. penetrating it” You thought your stomach had quite literally flipped within the cage of your body, or at least jumped to your rib cage. You slowly turned your head to look at him. He was already gazing at you steadily. “If Y/N is.. content with that” he continued gently. You wondered if you were truly content with that, but realised that in the heat of the moment you didn’t exactly have any choice in the matter. Wanda had also turned around to look at you. You felt pressurised to make a sudden decision. Though, internally, you knew from the moment he had proposed it that it was the correct route to take. “Okay” You said quietly, barely perceptible to them. “As long as it’s safe.. and nobody will die trying to protect me” “That is a difficult combination” Wanda said. “But I suppose it makes sense” “You will be safe” Loki said, ignoring the last part of your sentence. You nodded your confirmation, unable to perceive any ill intention within Loki’s eyes. You were reluctant to trust him, seeing as who he was, yet you found that you did. “Put it into the route finder, then.” Wanda said, gesturing at the car box. One moment you had been gazing over the view from Stark Tower and now you were suddenly moving into Loki’s private residence. As the car drove on, you found yourself questioning why you were hiding away from the rebels. A part of you, likely the part of you which clung onto Raze, wanted to go and confront them.. a part of you wanted to fight. Yet, you would be fighting a force that you could only just hope to even understand. “Ah, yes.. I did not mention.. my residence is quite far..” “Quite far? Where on earth…” she whispered, before she discovered that Loki’s residence was in fact located in an area not too far from the top of Scotland. “Scotland? Right, you put in the airport.” “Of course. Scotland is in the United Kingdom, which we would need to take a plane for. Excellent spot.. perfect for those needing the cold weather” Loki said, turning to you with a smile on his face. You gave a curt nod before turning back to look out of the window. The car was going so fast that you knew that nobody would see you within. The word 'plane’ suddenly caught your attention and you turned back. He smirked at you before you realised that there was simply no other way. You turned back to look out of the window. You were seeing so much. So many.. people. All of whom you would likely never see again in your life. You wondered what it was like to live amongst them. Where the men as violent and brutish as those in Jotunheim? Where they.. as dominant? They were questions which you yearned to ask, yet you could never find the right time. You felt the pangs of fatigue take a hold of you. The vehicle’s swift movements.. the sensation of moving yet staying.. was enough to make you feel tired enough. You leaned back against the seat, allowing your head to drop back against the head rest. You tried to forget that there was anyone around you. You tried to forget that Loki was sitting a mere few inches away from you. Slowly, but surely, you were falling asleep. Loki had turned his head secretively to look at you. He didn’t think he had ever seen a sight so.. beautiful. As he gazed at you, he couldn’t believe that he could ever have thought of something to beautifully innocent to ever have been.. evil. He traced his eyes over the patterns of your skin, willing himself to stop at the dip of your neck. Before he could get carried away, he turned his eyes towards the window with restraint. You enticed him. He knew that you were far more beautiful than he could have ever anticipated.

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My Thoughts on Endgame

I went to see Endgame last night and have had all day up in my office all alone to compile my thoughts and feelings, of which there are numerous, about the movie while it’s all still fresh. Major spoilers below the cut, so if you haven’t seen it, back away!

Warning: Super long post ahead.

First, I’d like to say I am a Tony/Nebula stan, wholeheartedly. Somehow, the Russos managed to lighten up a very dark reality where Tony and Nebula are floating listlessly in space and running out of oxygen. The dark mood is made a little lighter by a noticeably very thin Tony teaching Nebula about paper footballs, and her innocence of Earthly activities gave her a human depth that only made me fall even deeper in love with her character. And the way she pushes Tony’s (probably last) bag of food towards him, knowing he needs it more than she does. (Does she even eat? Do cyborgs eat?)

Second, Clint’s family disappearing was the first time I cried. Honestly, I didn’t have a dry eye the entire movie, but it progressively got harder and harder for me to not sob. We’ll get to that.

Carol popping out of literal space to come cart Tony’s ass home was admittedly a little cheesy, but I didn’t hate it. What I really loved was Tony’s reunion with both Steve and Pepper, and the fight that ensued, mostly on Tony’s end, was emotional and so very Tony that I still had a hard time keeping it together. And I’m really glad that the Russos didn’t just skip over Civil War in favor of uniting everyone to take down Thanos for good. And it showed how broken up over it Tony still was because we all know Tony does have a heart and Steve Rogers broke it.

An appropriate time skip 5 years into the future and Scott Fucking Lang and that goddamn rat busts out of the Quantum Realm only to discover almost his entire family has been dusted. Ouch. And once he finds his daughter, instead of moping and falling into a pit of depression and grief, he hauls ass to the compound to talk to the Avengers about time travel and undoing everything.

Here’s where Meg really loses her mind. The teams. The effort to get the stones back. Natasha Fucking Romanoff schooling the Science Bros in figuring out there are three stones in New York all at once. Fucking Captain Sassypants fighting his 2012 self and Mr. Stark Scott Lang (i’ve been corrected) perfectly coining the term “America’s Ass” and Steve just going with it. I can’t with these two, honestly. Steve swearing. Talk about sticking it to Joss Whedon for that pathetic little joke we all thought was funny until we knew better. That whole sequence was perfect, especially because it didn’t go off without a hitch. Which means Loki is still alive somewhere in another reality. Yahoo!

Thor. Poor alcoholic, out of shape, PTSD-stricken Thor. My baby angel. It hurt to see him so lost and broken, but Korg and Meike playing Fortnite about killed me. The balance of humor to sadness was utterly perfect through this whole movie and it was all comprised of jokes that made sense. The fat suit made me cry of laughter because it looks so goddamn unnatural on someone who’s as cut as Hemsworth, and Tony’s Lebowski dig was wholly appropriate.

This is where Meg realizes she is not going to be okay for the eightieth time. When Nat and Hawkeye are delegated to retrieve the Soul Stone, because we know while they don’t what needs to be done in order to get the stone. I had a feeling Nat might be one of the ones we lost, but I have to say I never saw it coming like this. I was inconsolable through the entire sequence as she and Clint are fighting over who’s going to be the one to die. I had my sweatshirt over my nose to stifle my sobbing and my boyfriend’s looking over at me wondering if I’m going to be okay. Y’all should see my eyes today, no lie.

And the fact that they played the same music for Nat that they did Gamora in IW was the knife through my heart followed by that heart-wrenching shot of her lying dead at the bottom. She’s gotten rid of the red in her ledger. Natasha, my beautiful, intelligent, bad-ass, super spy, we love you. So much.

Steve in mourning for Nat deserved more screen time than just a quick shot of him crying while Banner pitches a bench across the lake. Steve and Nat were one of the powerhouse friendships of the MCU, and this is one of the few shortcomings of Endgame. I wanted to see Steve angry, and heartbroken, something on par with Clint’s outburst that it should have been him. Steve and Nat were best friends, he deserved a little more screen time to mourn such a powerful relationship.

The epic battle scene that follows after this is nothing short of incredible. The entire theater erupted in cheers when Steve wielded Mjolnir like he was meant to, so at least Joss Whedon got some foreshadowing right! At first I thought it was lifting by itself but nope! Steve is worthy, and he knows he’s worthy. There’s an incredible theory out there that Mjolnir can detect someone’s perceived self-worth, and I fully believe that theory after watching this movie. And the little humor in there when Steve ends up with Stormbreaker and Thor gets Mjolnir and says, “No, no, give me that. You get the little one.” Kill me. The fact that Thor is doing all this badass fighting with a beer gut leaves me in stitches just thinking about it.

That epic entrance of all those who fell to the Snap emerging in a beautifully shot sequence gives me life, okay? It was perfect. I even looked to my boyfriend and said, “Where are the others? If it worked, where are they?” and BOOM! There they all are. Bucky with his long-ass hair is such a fucking look, I can’t even. AND STEVE FINALLY SAID THE THING. I swear the entire theater cheered again for this!! Also Rocket wearing Bucky’s goggles that he probably stole? Epic. Even if they aren’t his, but you can’t really convince me they’re not because they’re too similar. So Rocket hasn’t lost his penchant for stealing things.

Okoye, fierce queen, we see you taking out Corvus Glave all on your own. We also see that amazing, powerful female battle squad who cut through Thanos’s army like it was fucking tissue paper. Wanda, the Strongest Avenger (fight me on that, I dare you), taking on Thanos and stripping him of his armor like the fucking boss she is. Say it with me again: Strongest Avenger.

I also really really loved the game of Hot Potato with the gauntlet. Which brings us to...Mr. Anthony Edward Stark. The OG, the Big Guy. These next two paragraphs will be dedicated to him. The man who, 7 years ago, told us he would just “cut the wire” rather than lay his life on the line to save the other guy. When Dr. Strange said to Tony, “If I tell you what happens, it won’t happen,” I really, truly believed that Strange didn’t think Tony would go through with sacrificing himself in order to stop Thanos. He’d try to find another way. And yet I, along with a lot of others, knew he would do just that. Because Tony is nothing if not determined to prove everyone wrong about who they think he is, including Steve Rogers. Especially Steve Rogers.

Tony gets to interact with his father and learns that while Howard was incredibly flawed, he was still wholly dedicated to his family. Proven by his nervousness about fatherhood because all he’s ever known is technology, and he knows a child does not work the same way tech does. He’s terrified. And he hides, buries himself in his work because he doesn’t know what to do. But he loves his family, I know he does. A lot of other people know he does. I was a mess for that whole thing, too.

Tony’s funeral was absolutely perfect, a perfect sendoff to this legendary man who basically built the MCU. RDJ, we love you 3000. Thank you for giving us Iron Man. Thank you for carrying us through this journey of hilarity, sadness, darkness, anger, grief, all of it. I have a ton of emotions over RDJ’s exit from the MCU but I can’t properly formulate words.

ALSO: HARLEY WAS AT TONY’S FUNERAL. HE WAS THE LONE OLDER TEENAGER. CUE MORE CRYING FROM MEG.

And the final bit that seems to cause a lot of dissatisfaction: Steve’s final decision.

I personally loved it. I don’t like the misstep in jumping over Steve and Bucky’s bond, because that was a driving force for an entire movie, Russo brothers. So I feel a little cheated with their relationship taking a backseat to Sam receiving the shield to take up the Captain America mantle. But aside from that, Steve’s decision was very, very fitting. He’s given so much of himself to wars and other people that he deserves to be selfish. And maybe he had that quote in AOU that someone else came out of the ice, but A4 Steve knew he could have that life, and he chose it. Bucky knew, almost instantly, when Steve was about to bring the stones back, which was why he was so relaxed and calm when he didn’t come back.

Bucky, I feel, is relieved above all to see Steve reach old age, since he probably never expected him to, at least before he became Captain America. He’s lived his life as Cap, and now he gets to live another as the man who finally got the girl. I just wish we could have seen more of the bond between the two of them, unless they had some kind of heart to heart off-screen which, again, a waste of one of the quintessential relationships in Steve Rogers’s life.

And Bucky and Sam having some kind of mutual understanding, I know for a fact there was some reconciliation in the Soul World that we may or may not get to see in the new series coming out. I would love to see the two of them struggle with coming to grips with the fact that they were dead, and came back because their friends put themselves on the line at an incredible risk to try and bring everyone back. I think they could really create a bond similar to Steve and Bucky’s that was built on being “men out of time” and instead create a bond that’s men who survived the Snap and now are living a life without Steve Rogers (assuming he won’t take up the mantle again and will succumb to old age, like he goddamn deserves). Bucky is all for Sam taking that mantle, and that second of understanding between the two of them sent me off into another cry fest because I really love their dynamic, and Seb and Mackie both just have amazing on-screen chemistry. I am so excited to see what they bring to the new series coming out.

I would also like to say that while I was very emotional over Steve hearing Sam’s voice over comms saying, “On your left,” I really feel that Bucky should’ve had something. That’s really where Endgame’s biggest shortcoming is. They’ve built up the relationship between Bucky and Steve through CTFA, CATWS, and CACW, especially Civil War, and all you’re going to give them is four minutes of screen time together? Outta here with that. You dedicated an entire movie to Steve going to war for Bucky and y’all are gonna disrespect them like that? Even not shipping Stucky romantically, I can see the loving bond between the two of them that’s held up for 8 years. They deserved more than just a one-off line from CATFA, though that really set me off on another crying spree. I’m really not joking when I said there wasn’t a minute of that movie that I was dry-eyed.

Overall, I give this movie a 10/10. For what it was meant to be, it was everything I had expected and so much more. This movie made me roar with laughter, broke my heart more than once, and gave me an overall feeling of closure all at once. I am forever grateful to the cast, the crew, and the amazing characters created. The incredible late Stan Lee with his final cameo, to which the theater, again, erupted in applause. I’m just so overwhelmed by the work everyone at Marvel has put in to these characters and this world to give us these amazing stories. I’m tearing up as I write this because this is the end of an era for a lot of people who grew up with Iron Man, Hulk, Cap, Thor.... Black Widow. I just want to extend the biggest of thank yous to all of those people who made this world possible and brought so many people together.

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