Days and Steps
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A Day in the Sun by CatKing_Catkin
Fandoms: Marvel (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types, The Avengers (2012), Thor (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
19 Jul 2013
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Even after everything, Thor holds out hope that his brother can be redeemed. Now that he's away from the Chitauri, his mind is fully his own again. Not that he's home, even as a prisoner, maybe he can start to remember what it's like to have a family and a place to belong. Maybe he can even come to truly understand the other worlds as something other than a conqueror.
Odin allows Thor to take Loki down to Earth, under guard, for one day, and Thor hopes to show his brother some of the good things about the human world, and show him why he fought nearly to the death to defend the humans there. Some long overdue discussion happens over shawarma, even if it only serves to uncover more problems between them. But in the end, things go horribly wrong and their peaceful day out ends in bloodshed. Loki is left with Thor's life in his hands, and it's not as pleasant as he sometimes fantasized it would be. Even after everything, Thor is his brother.
Written for H/C bingo, prompt "counseling".
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- Part 1 of Days and Steps
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A Night in the Moonlight by CatKing_Catkin
Fandoms: Thor (Movies), Marvel (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types
31 Aug 2013
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Sequel to "A Day in the Sun".
One relatively peaceful year has passed since the day Thor first tried to give Loki a lesson on the wonder and worth of Midgard and its humans. Loki has been obedient in his punishment since, and Odin has finally agreed to another day for the lessons to continue. But no one can predict the events that will unfold from an innocent visit to Earth in their continued attempts to rehabilitate Loki.
Thor gets a glimpse of how deep Loki's pain runs, when a new threat presents itself and his younger brother tries to flee in fear for his life. He sees that Loki's faith in his family is not so strong as Thor's faith in his brother, and learns the reason why. But Thor is resolved not to surrender Loki, or the steps they've taken together, to anyone no matter their power. He offers protection, understanding, and trust in the days and fights to come. All he asks in turn is that Loki return that trust in him, and stand with him once more in defense of their home. Talking happens, fighting happens, and questions are answered.
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- Part 2 of Days and Steps
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A Day of Reckoning by CatKing_Catkin
Fandoms: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (TV), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies), The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types, Thor (Movies), Thor (2011)
26 Feb 2014
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Sequel to "A Night in the Moonlight".
This year, on Loki's one day a year when he's allowed out from his cell, interference arrives as their paths cross with an unexpected and impossible familiar face. Coulson and his team are also in New York, investigating the rise of a deadly new cult with cold blue eyes, and they didn't get the memo that Loki has been working to be better since he last made his presence known.
Throw in a visit from Jane Foster, a rash of significant disappearances, dreams bathed in blue light that have reached Loki even in his cell worlds away, and the fact that the Other has not taken his defeat last year lightly, and this might be one fight that even the brothers together can't untangle without losing one another. That doesn't mean Thor doesn't intend to go down fighting. The only question is whether or not Loki will let him.
The road to redemption never did run smooth, and learning the true meaning of regret can cut more deeply than any knife and leave far more lasting wounds.
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- Part 3 of Days and Steps
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A Look at the Past by CatKing_Catkin
Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel (Movies), Thor (2011), Thor (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types
19 Oct 2013
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Sequel to "A Day of Reckoning".
Some things should stay safely buried in the past and left behind, so they weigh down as little as possible on the hopes for a better future. As the years of Loki's sentence tick by, he and Thor come to an unspoken agreement to mention life before Loki's fall as little as possible. And it's an arrangement that serves them well, until one day's border patrol with Thor and his friends almost leads to another fall. It's not the Void that he sees at the end of that empty space, just the ground at the bottom of the cliff, but Loki still finds himself frozen in panic at the memories brought forth.
And for a moment, when Thor comes to help him, Loki finds himself afraid that the nightmare will begin all over again.
Thor notices his distress, and comes to see him later in his cell, wondering now if there is anything he can do to convince Loki that he does not remember that night at the broken Bifrost as it really happened. Loki realizes that he does have a way. It's just going to take a lot of trust extended on both sides for it to work...and the brothers might not like what they see on the others ide.
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- Part 4 of Days and Steps
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A New Day Dawning by CatKing_Catkin
Fandoms: Thor (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel (Movies), Thor - All Media Types
09 Jul 2014
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Sequel to "A Day of Reckoning".
It's been two hundred and fifty years, and in the eyes of Asgard, Loki has paid his price for his crimes against the Nine Realms and emerged from his cell a better man. It's a tumultuous time for Loki to take his place back in the world, however, especially when he's no longer entirely certain what that place is. Who is he, if not a prisoner or a monster? What does it mean to be free?
A tragedy that hits much too close to home leaves the remnants of Asgard's royal family clinging all the more fiercely to each other in the midst of mourning. No one ever said that love came without pain or cost, after all. And as Asgard prepares for the ascension of a new king, Loki wonders if he can really follow his brother this time without making the same mistakes all over again.
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- Part 5 of Days and Steps