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I've been telling myself for months I was not going to start reading Thor/Loki. Not. Not. Not. And darn you for making me a liar!! :->

:D :D :D

Have not read yet, but it is AMAZINGLY AWESOME that you have the K-T Extinction as one of your STORY TAGS. *nerd*

hahaha, I have to tell you, I had a line in there at one point where Tony thought of it as the Pleistocene (because Tony Stark knows not his geological eras and that one sounds nice) and I kept agonizing over the line because it was WRONNNNNG. :P

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♥!

OMG IT'S POSTED!!!

*cartwheels*

I am grinning like a loon.

*beams*

commenting here because AO3 isn't loving me right now - horray for Loki/Thor! Horray for Loki/Thor returning to Asgard together. Tony is beautiful in this, in all his ham handed 'well that will fix it' kind of ways (especially at the end), and I adored the Thor actually *enjoying* what Loki is still so displeased about (the cold, the ice, etc) and in some ways probably ribbing Loki into still loving it. Absolutely wonderful read!!

Have to ask though, Athelas? The healing herb from LOTR? I'm thinking the hands of the king are the hands of a healer, but then is Odin king here with his apples? Or Loki too in the whole ice-transformation kind of way? Or perhaps there's some other use of the word I'm not privy to?

The title stuck early on, mostly because the story built for me from the idea of healing, and a little bit because the other name of athelas is "kingsfoil" which is what I think Loki is to Thor. :)

oh very nice! i had the kingsfoil thing rattling around in my head but didn't actually turn it on its side like that. lovely!!

That was so great. The Loki and Thor sections are so great and heart-wrenching, and then Tony's POV is so hilarious. I laughed out loud at the pic at the end, too.

yay yay yay, thank you <3

The whole thing is awesome, awesome, awesome. It is !made! of awesome. And I loved it from the first word to the last. The characterization is spot on, from the soft, brotherly Loki (as far as he can be) in the first part to the cunning, punishing on in the second part. Thor also had his wonderful moments, but Loki was brilliant done.
Ideas which especially appealed to me:
-That Loki sits in the cave entrance and spins. He must have learned it from his mother, Frigga. She is the one who - for example - spins the clouds for the sky. The image of little!Loki sitting on her knees in her cool and shady rooms and learning her craft and magic while Thor is somewhere out in the glaring sunlight, brawling and learning to fight with his friends. Both content in their own way.
- Oh, and how Jotun make love. That both participants are equally joined and it’s absolutely mutual. Not one sticking something of his into the other, even if it´s nice enough, this is way better. Best idea ever. If the world were made new, I would vote for this, everyone would be much happier. :-)
- The Leaves of Annuvin, really had class and elegance. They fit Loki excellent. If my Google-fu is right, Annuvin was the realm of death, so the name for the moths is quite fitting.
- And last but not least, how Jotun experience snow and cold. The description of the cushy softness and how it got to be their element that would serve them effortlessly. How happy and content they were.
Oh, I’m sure they were lonely and Thor missed his friends, but they had each other and had to answer to no one else.
Wonderfull work, thank you for sharing.

Yay, thank you so much for lovely fb! And yes, Annuvin is the realm of the dead -- in Welsh mythology, not Norse, of course, but I decided I could do some mashing-up. :D

I love this so much, I cannot begin to tell you. Well, I can *begin*... This just hits so, SO many of my buttons -- funny aside, I actually posted an anon prompt at norsekink a long while back, that this story would pretty much have been the perfect fill for, and it never did get filled, and I was slightly sad not least because I really WANTED to read a really meaty "Loki rescuing Thor because Thor is his brother dammit, and also other Avengers pls" fic, and my perception is that they are thin on the ground, so, GLEE!!!

So anyway... yes. And this story goes in places I never dreamed of but it is all wonderful and fascinating -- from Loki's solution to giving Thor the time he will need (cutting it a bit close, are we?), and how through it all shines the way Thor experiences (most of) life with joy and exuberance, so of course his experience as a Jotun is going to be completely at odds with Loki's, and then how badass Loki is with all the duels, AND AND AND! (I have to confess that the only part that gave me pause was that the villains at the very start had managed to put Mjolnir on the wall. I'm curious about your explanation for that: was their being able to do that, at least, part of the spells in the room that were able to hold and depower Thor? I came to the conclusion that their being able to move it wasn't the same as their being able to wield it, and quickly moved on, but still am curious.)

Plus! -- you give GREAT Avengers. Your Tony is consistently hilarious and so very believably HIM ("and that will fix everything!" *disaster follows*), and Steve is a great foil to that, and Bruce! You did wonderful things with even a small part for Bruce, and I loved that even when he was being the Hulk, Tony continued to think of him as "Banner" (such a small touch, but very telling, and I'm not even sure how often it is done). And how they were all so very worried for and wanting to rescue Thor as soon as possible warmed my fangirl heart. Now that we've seen all of them (well, except Ruffalo's Banner -- and oh god, it's going to be nearly impossible to keep from typing "RuffaLOL" as time goes on), I only want EVEN MORE to see them interact and be a team and oh god the next 9 months is going to be soooooo lonnnnnng.

In conclusion: HOORAY!

aww, yay! <3 I may have been inspired, then! I have at least skimmed all of the prompts and even the ones that I did not actually save are sort of churning away in the back of my head (which is what I love love love about promptmemes <3).

Mjolnir on the wall, I er, hadn't exactly worked it out! I did have in my head that the room was a sort of ancient sacrificial chamber, and the runes and the carved table somehow undermined Thor's power (and Mjolnir's) in a way that enabled them to make him prisoner, so let's say that the same thing allowed them to get the hammer up on the wall inside the room. ;)

And omg yes, I cannot WAIT for Avengers. :'( It is TOO FAR AWAYYYYY.

Thank you for sharing such wonderful story(please excuse my poor English if I make any mistake).

I haven't watched Thor but I love this story so much and plan to watch the movie.

I love Loki. Although he's not kind or anything near that,he's just perfect in many ways. I love the way he always act so calmly and then when he lost his control in the last confrontation between him and Thor, It just makes his feeling more intense.
I love the scenes which he has stayed beside Thor for 126 year and always try to avoid him himself causing any "harm" to Thor (and I like that it always not turn out like he wishes).

I love Thor. He is full of optimism for the future despite his many problems. The way he reacts when he becomes a snow giant, his protection and unquestioning believe for his brother, and the way he respect his brother pride in the end just makes me like him more.

It's quite interesting when some scenes show the divine natures of the brothers, like the way they treat about time and death.

And Tony? I love all the decision he makes. Some good decision, some bad decision. But mostly good.

PS: I'm a little bit confuse about the timeline between the ten year isolation of Thor with Loki and the time when the avenger come to the past searching the brothers in three places. Can you explain it a bit please?

♥ awesome fb! ty! And the timeline moves back and forth a bit -- the Avengers don't arrive in the past until a couple of weeks before the final scene in the past where they find Thor. Their search is intercut with the last two years of Thor and Loki's stay in the past. Does that help? :)

Thank you for your answer. It does help.

To be honest, usually I just skip story involved rape scene, but I think you do a good job for writing it in a subtle way that I'm comfortable with. What to my surprise is that I think this setup is necessary for the time travel happened.

I feel sorry for Thor as he has experienced hunger and cold for nearly ten years, and furthermore, he can't even stay near Loki for a few years if I'm not mistaken.
As the story is mostly based on Thor's POV, I keep guessing what is Loki thinking or feeling whenever Thor reacts to all the problem and changes that happen between them. I think Thor mostly reacts positively and this soften Loki up somehow.
I really like the time when Thor and Loki are stuck in the past.I think it's the healing period for both parties. I'm glad it all turns out fine.

Sorry, 'm just keep rambling. I should stop now. Look forward to your next fic\^o^/

I could not stop thinking about it, but:
Thor and Loki have intercourse (Awesome coequal intercourse). Yay! Really, thumbs up. But (and here it comes) they lived quite a while in their Jotun forms and had sex. We know that Loki has children, so he is fertile (both ways), and Thor also fathered children, so it stands to reason that all his parts work fine.
They are relatively happy, are well feed, don´t have any stress to speak of and there are no environment toxins yet. They even stay locked together after sleeping together and so the genetic carrier doesn’t run out again. Why isn´t one of them pregnant? *whines* It would have caused chaos without end for the following plot but I love myself some happy, healthy mini-Thor/Lokis.
They even could both simultaneously gotten pregnant...
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I really should stop now.
Anyway. Like I said in the first comment, wonderful story, thank you so much.

heeee, it's, uh, it's possible that I didn't do that mainly because I already have at least two MPREG stories going. :P

Weeee! Then I´m laying in wait to pounce on them as soon as posted. ^^

I know I'm late to the party, but I just recently figured out that I haz the technology, and was trying to hit up fanfic archives on my smartphone with tragic results when I typed in intimations.

first I was thrilled that the website worked so well on my droid browser, then I freaked out because you had new fic up, then I shut up and read Athelas 3 times before my battery died.

This is the best story I have ever read.

I thought the World Turned Over and Beautiful Lifetime Event were really amazing fanfic, but this is THE BEST STORY LIEK EVAR. Better than any classical or bestselling lit... I cannot express the perfect! Every single thing about this is WIN WIN WIN.

...um, so I really liked it. Just in case that wasn't coming across. ahem.

<3 LOVE <3 (I'm just going to go away now and print this and laminate it and put it in my zombie apocalypse/emergency backpack because it needs to be preserved for future generations :)

Thank you! I don't know how you feed the kid AND write. I get exhausted just babysitting! ...If you need a babysitter to get more writing time in, come to Vegas ;)))))