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comment_ficIt's almost 2013 where I am, so I figured I'd go ahead and put up something for Monday, last day of 2012.
Family.
I'm about to lose someone to circumstances beyond anyone's control, so I figure today's theme can be families of choice and blood and whatever else y'all think qualifies.
If I stepped on somebody's toes, I'm sorry.
theme=family
Family.
I'm about to lose someone to circumstances beyond anyone's control, so I figure today's theme can be families of choice and blood and whatever else y'all think qualifies.
If I stepped on somebody's toes, I'm sorry.
theme=family
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Date: 2013-01-01 03:04 am (UTC)Geico commercials, pig vs gecko, sibling rivalry
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Date: 2013-01-01 03:05 am (UTC)Revenge, Emanda + Nolan, raising Amily’s baby
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Date: 2013-01-01 03:05 am (UTC)Revenge, Emanda + Charlotte, Emanda learns about her little sister much sooner and decides to make contact
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Date: 2013-01-01 03:06 am (UTC)Avengers movieverse/Norse myth, Loki’s children, they escape and return to Asgard to free him; Ragnarök, eternities early
suffer the little children (part 1/2)
Date: 2013-01-02 09:59 am (UTC)They should have remembered who his dam was, before they assumed him nothing more than a simple beast of burden. They should have realised that he has been listening and learning, all these millennia as Odin's favoured steed.
He remembers being a shaky-legged foal, his dam at his side. He remembers his easy acceptance of Loki's shapeshifting (isn't that something all dams do no dear one it is not) and he remembers everything Loki ever told him, before he was taken away and broken to saddle and bridle.
Isn't that when Loki's playful tricks started veering into cruelty? Funny how a supposed dumb beast is the only one to have noticed that, even if he hasn't received the appropriate socialisation to really understand what it might mean.
What he does understand is that Loki is now a prisoner somewhere in Asgard (have you heard what loki did on midgard i'll tell you only beasts to hear us here) and that should not be. Do none of them understand that Sleipnir has served with the understanding that Loki is and always will be free?
No one notices as he slips away in the night. Neither of his parents have eight legs, but his dam is a consummate shapeshifter, and they all seem to have forgotten that as well.
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He finds his way to Hel's realm. The way, and the place itself, is cold and dark and dangerous, but that's fine. He has carried Odin headlong into more frightening places than this.
He saw her several times, long ago when she was a little girl. The other horses shied away, but he did not mind the charnel smell that always lingered about her. He did not even mind when she trailed dead fingertips down his face.
He wonders what she is like now, this dreaded goddess of death, always spoken of in whispers. His sister.
He walks right into her hall, his form the eight-legged horse he is so well-known as, and she looks at him with wide eyes. Something moves in the shadows, but goes still again at a gesture from her.
"Sleipnir?" Her gaze takes in the absence of bridle, saddle and rider. She smiles, slow and wide, and moves to meet him.
His sister tangles her fingers in his mane and presses her cold lips to his skin, and he knows that everything will be alright, finally. He does not know what to do next, but he has faith that she does.
suffer the little children (part 2/2)
Date: 2013-01-02 10:00 am (UTC)He looks a horror, and not simply in the manner of a monster. How long has he been here, unable to run or hunt or eat, only able to stretch a little?
Hel is at his side in an instant, murmuring soothing nonsense as she works to free him. Sleipnir lingers further back, observing silently.
He never really interacted with Fenrir, only saw him once or twice from a distance, long ago when the wolf was young and still a favoured hunter in Asgard. Before the æsir heard a prophecy and decided Fenrir was too dangerous to keep, too dangerous for decency.
He meets Hel's eyes. "Brother," she says. "Would you collect Jormungand, from the Midgard oceans? I shall stay with Fenrir."
He nods. Find and summon the whale-eating sea serpent, yes, he can do that.
Especially if he takes the form of a giant snake. If he had realised how much he would enjoy shapeshifting once he started really experimenting with it, he might have done all this centuries ago.
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It is an incredible feeling, to swim in all the vast oceans, with such a sinuous, supple body. Sleipnir thinks that he might return to this, at least for a little while, after everything is over. Oh, he already knows that he will always return to running, but this...
Well, it certainly has a charm, an allure, of its own.
Jormungand yawns and uncoils. "Alright, brother," he says. "Let's get started."
~
They leave destruction in their wake. The time for stealth has passed, now that Fenrir has recovered and Sleipnir has refined his abilities, now that they have called all the enemies of Asgard to their banner.
They reach Loki, just as was their aim all along, and he looks at them with laughter and savage pride in his eyes. Hel's fingers trail magic as they work deftly at the metal contraption that has kept him gagged. Finally it opens, revealing reddened skin and a few sores where it has chafed.
"My children," he murmurs, and his voice is quiet and rasping from disuse. "Aren't you a bit early?"
"No such thing," says Fenrir.
For their own safety and that of their family, and for Sigyn and the ill-fated twins growing inside her, and in memory of Angrboða,
They will burn it all.
Re: suffer the little children (part 2/2)
Date: 2013-01-02 03:09 pm (UTC)Yes. Yes, Yes, YES. Oh, this is bitter and sharp and gorgeous.
Thank you.
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Date: 2013-01-06 06:26 am (UTC)Re: suffer the little children (part 2/2)
Date: 2013-01-11 05:47 am (UTC)I mean, oh noes, the apocalypse ... *waves hands ineffectually*
This was so tragic and fantastic. YAY, burn it down, kids! Burn it down with your daddy!
Re: suffer the little children (part 2/2)
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Date: 2013-01-01 03:08 am (UTC)Glee, Kurt (+ Burt), the first holiday after Burt dies
(make me weep oceans)
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