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Loki stands up to leave when he's done eating and meets Aquas eyes.
"Goodnight Frigga, goodnight Odin" Loki heads for the doors.
"Loki, my son, may I speak with you later?"
"Yes, of course."
Loki looks surprised and Aqua can clearly see Loki's Adams apple move as he gulps down worry.
Loki has always been good at not showing his emotions, so why is he showing them today? Something wasn't right. Loki walks out the door and they are closed behind him.
Aqua kept eating some more for a while not making herself full. Aqua decided that now is this right time to leave and go to Loki.
"Father, may I be excused?" Thor looked down at Aqua slight suspicion crossing face, than it was quickly gone as if it had never been there. "Yes, of course, Aqua." Aqua smiled and left down the hall to Loki's room.
Aqua opened the doors to her uncles room and looked around for him.
He wasn't anywhere to be seen. Aqua stayed in the room waiting for him to come. She scanned the covers of his books. A lot of them about magic and few with bedtime stories.
Her uncle would read these books to her instead of Thor because of Thor's booming voice.
The door opened and Loki walked in.
"Hey, uncle! What did you want to talk to me about?"
"Have a seat," Loki motioned to the chairs next to the fireplace.
Loki sat in the chair across from her looking into the fire. "There are somethings... that have happened and...I never told anyone about them, well in full detail," Loki starts off slow choosing his words carefully. "Do you promise not to tell?"
"What? Why?" Loki looks over at her. Loki stands up and places his hands on the chairs arm rest, trapping her between him and the chair looking straight into her eyes and sternly says, "Never tell anyone about this. Promise?" Loki's eyes narrow in on hers.
"I promise."
In a way her uncle scares her. He can be so serious about certain things. He has a look in his eyes showing he could kill you in an instant. That's scares her.
Loki sat back down in his chair across from her. "Your father told you about I fell from the rainbow bridge, yes?"
"yes,"
"He doesn't know what happened to me after that." Loki's gaze goes back to fire. There's a hint of sadness and torture in his bright blue eyes.
"I would be dead if I wasn't pulled out of the void by....Thanos. He saved my life but....he tortured me, they beat me, and they raped me."
Aqua could tell Loki was torn up, he still trying to keep himself together. He didn't want his niece to see him broken even though tears were falling down his face. "I was pitted against his so called children. Gamora, and Nebula. Every time Nebula failed Thanos replaced a part of her with machinery. Every time I failed, I was whipped, and tortured, than thrown into a cell. Day after day. I was completely exhausted. What made it worse was when Thanos mind controlled me into going to earth to retrieve the Tesseract for him. You know what happened, but not everything."
Aqua watched him not saying a thing while she listened to her uncle. Even Aquas eyes watered threatening to fall down her face. Loki looked up and say Aquas eyes watering. "Come here," Loki adjusted himself so Aqua could sit on his lap. A tear fell down Aquas face and Loki walked over to her and knelt down taking her hands.
Aquas hands were cold despite the heat. Loki looked up at her than hugged her.
She hugged back and they both sank to the floor still hugging.
"I'll tell you the rest later."
Loki pulls back and wipes the tears from Aquas face. "I'll protect you. You know that. Don't cry. Don't" Loki hugs Aqua comforting her.
Even Loki doesn't truly believe he will protect her forever. Especially when Thanos comes for the Tesseract on Asgard.