Telling the parents
"YOU HAD EVERYTHING, THOR!"
I raise a brow at the screen.
"Everything!"
I rewind the tape.
"Ya have no idea," Joy starts off. "Bein' outcasted and all." The edges of her eyes are turning purple. "Getting a bullying cult behind ya, getting into a relationship with someone only ta find out they will break up with you two weeks later,and trying to be the person who people can hang out with. I TRY not ta be a attention hog."
Attention hog?
Prior to watching this video I had came to realize Joy's real identity after using some trickery to make Joy slip out a name she had lived by at first. She claimed 'Joy' is her name but it is a lie. A lie. She changed her name for some reason that I may never really know. I didn't tell the other Avengers that Joy had lied about her name.
I wasn't aware that in Knight's original timeline she had been bullied; so it explains some of Knight's original disbelief at the first time I said 'I love you' and how she originally didn't trust me very much after breaking the rules. She had been set up with a bully-who she know about it prior-only for the information to be revealed.
It also explains why Knight didn't want to be annoying and left me be in the original timeline.
"I TRY, THOR," Joy shouts. "AND YOU'RE TREATING EVERYONE LIKE TRASH AND YOU ARE ACTING LIKE A GREEDY KING OF THE PRIDELANDS." I witness cups be tossed into the wall then break apart into pieces once hitting the wall. "YOU KNOW WHAT QUALITIES MOST KINGS HAVE? SEVERAL BUT THEY MAKE IMPORTANT CHOICES EVERY DAY AND YOU ARE NO EXCEPTION!"
I turn the tape off.
So that is their 'sob' story. Their story is more of a story I can't describe by using two words to say it all. I get out of the chair remembering another order of business coming back. This one may just be the one not many people can ever picture me doing; at all. But it has to be done because secrets like Clarise should eventually be told.
This two days after Thor's attack on New York had been stopped and he had been taken into custody. I repaired Jane's mind to the best of ability with what much I remembered of mind magic to undo what damage the scepter had done.
I believe this is where the scene changes.
It just did, but it is a couple hours later. The scene is in the White House-the one where the President family really live in-to be precise in the oval office. I know a change in scenery within a paragraph of saying someone did something somewhere else can be a little confusing but I believe others can follow up as this meeting unfolds.
"So," The President said,sitting in a couch by his wife. "What brings you here, Loki?"
"Your daughter," I said.
The first lady raises her brows.
The door across from the sitting area swings open then came in Clarise followed by a young dark little girl appearing to be having fun. Fun. Fun in what I can turn quickly into not very fun within the oval office.
"Clarise!" The President said. "I told you not to play tag and seek!"
The little girl lands on the couch, giggling, while Clarise stops at the chair staring at me.
"Jenna, come here," The first lady said.
Jenna,being the little girl, came over to the first lady pretty bubbly.
"Why is he here,father?" Clarise asks.
"He has something to tell us about one of our beautiful daughters," The first lady said.
"What she said," The President said.
"Please, sit down," I said.
Clarise sat down in a chair across from her family.
I sigh.
"Jenna," I said. "How old are you?"
"Ten," Jenna said.
I lean my arm on the arm rest to the couch rubbing my forehead.
"What is it?" The president asks.
I didn't want to say it, but I had to.
"I am becoming a big girl!" Jenna said, cheerfully.
I take my hand off my forehead.
"You are Jenna's double," I said. "Jenna died two years ago because of an accident and so Clarise made a double of her dead sister to make you think you're raising a little girl. You're not. You're raising an ageless double."
"Don't say that about my daughter," The President said.
I can feel my blood run cold at the comment by the president.
There is only one reasonable explanation.
"What do you mean by double?" The first lady asks.
"You don't know," I said.
"Mommy, he's scaring me." Jenna said.
I look over to Clarise.
"Tell them," I said. "Or else I will show them."
"You can't," Clarise said.
"I can make a exact fake version of your sister and your fake will be dead," I said. Jenna stares at Clarise, confused, mostly. "I can tell this one is a fake because her eyes are purple. No one's eyes are like that unless they have contact lenses in."
The President and the first lady stare at Clarise.
Clarise looks guilty as hell.
"Clarise?" The first lady said.
The President turns his head towards me.
"Who else knows?" The President asks.
"SHIELD and the Avengers," I said. "They are covering up for her. No matter how nice Clarise may seem; she can kill people."
"It was an accident," Clarise said. "I...didn't think Jo would be there."
"Her power is to make doubles," I said, as Clarise looks down. "The original person and the copy die when they see each other." I tap my fingers on the arm rest. "Your real little girl is in a shallow grave, near a playground most likely, where you last lived before becoming important figures to Midgard."
The first lady gets up then ran out of the room in tears.
"Mommy?" Jenna said, confused even more. Jenna looks towards Clarise. "Sissy, did I die?"
"Don't lie," I said.
"It was an accident," Clarise said.
I half wanted to kill Clarise with a piano.
If I hear 'It was an accident' one more time from Clarise then it is not good.
"I want to hear how I died," Jenna said, coming over to Clarise. Jenna takes Clarises's hand. "Come on, big C, tell or else I'll tell Daddy about your secret boyfriend!"
"..Not much of a secret now," I said, amused.
"You were so hyper; Bryan and I wanted to have time for ourselves," Clarise said. "When I realized what happened it was too late. You were...It was Bryan's idea! I swear by it. We did it that night, in your favorite blanket, ten feet from the monkey bars."
"MY BLANKET IS IN THE GROUND?" Jenna shouts, mad.
"Yes," Clarise said.
"...Sissy, I want my blanket back." Jenna said.
"And you made your sister, that night, after coming home." I said. "Mr President I know what Odin did for you but apparently there is still some Asgardian inside you." The President is distraught. "Jenna will be gone when she see's the original's dead body...or what remains of it."
The President steps away.
"You killed your sister," The President said.
"We never meant it,father," Clarise said. "I never wanted my sister to end out this way."
The President turns his head towards me.
"How do we get rid of this power?" Jenna has came over to The President, now with a 'I want my blankie' attitude. "Please."
"First," I said. "You have to decide which body of Jenna you want to bury." I point over to Jenna. "Mr President,do you want to live with a ageless Jenna or to bury your little girl?"
Jenna tugs at The President's hand.
"I want my blankie," Jenna said.
The President looks down towards his little girl.
"We'll get your blankie," The President said.
Jenna smiles.
"Best daddy ever!" Jenna said, with a hug around The President.
Clarise ran out of the room.
The President looks towards me, sad by the inside.
"Can you please be there for us?" The President asks.
"I do not see why," I said.
"I can't hold my little girl while going to where her body is when she gets weak," The President said.
"Understood," I said, with a nod.
Only few know what a parent feels holding a dying child.
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