Seeing her sister come through the portal, Dahlia was relieved and finally smiled as best as she could with a knife wound. The others didn't think so though as they held on to their weapons, not knowing what to expect from the Goddess of Death. It was a surprise to most who have never seen her before and only heard the stories from Thor, that she was in fact half dead but she was also extremely beautiful and held the posture of a true queen. Although the Avengers, minus Thor, played little part in the condition Dahlia was in now and was trying to stop the bleeding, they suspected Hela would feel differently, not knowing the whole story, and instantly held on tightly to their weapons, ready for an attack. They all suspected the Goddess of Death and her soldiers to rip through them, killing as many of them as possible and maybe attempting to kill Odin but what they saw was different. As she laid eyes on her bleeding sister, gone was the royal queen who held her head high, gone was the strong and confident young woman who ruled over a realm and whose name was feared not just across the nine realms, but throughout the stars. What they saw was that young woman wash away and in her place a grieving, scared sister.

Hela took only a quick look around to see who was present in the room but took little notice after she saw her baby sister bleeding on the floor, with Odin standing only a few feet away. Almost running to her, Hela practically slid on the floor in her dress and pushed Steve away as she took Dahlia into her arms. Akio and Morek, however, drew their swords and stood either side of their Queen and Princess and their main focus was on the Asgardians. Held tightly in Hela's arms, Dahlia relaxed but that certainly didn't calm Hela's worry as she was looking over her little sister and only assessed two injuries to her leg and abdomen. She even touched the wound at the abdomen, which Bruce was applying pressure to, and noticed it was the same blade that Akio had gifted to Dahlia. With her sister's blood on her hand, she said, "no, no, no, no, no, not you too. I can't lose you too, not again".

Dahlia, who was gasping at the pain in both her leg and abdomen, raised her hand and held her sister's bloody hand as she said, "they're not that bad".

"What?"

"The Avengers...minus Thor...they're not that bad".

Hela looked surprised at her sister's words and looked to the Avengers, minus Thor, to see them looking worried about Dahlia and actually trying to help stop the bleeding. It wasn't her sister's words that shocked her, Dahlia did have a good heart, but it was her timing. Shaking her head, Hela looked back down to her sister and said, "you've been stabbed, you could die and you're what? Complimenting, defending them?"

Dahlia shook her head with the little strength she had and said, "they didn't know the truth...following blindly by Thor's stories..."

Hela saw, at the corner of her eye, Odin take a step forward and immediately looked to him and the rage that was in her eyes was so familiar to Odin as he saw, in her father's eyes, the same rage the day she was banished from Asgard. She seethed, "you step one more step closer and I will end you. You know I have the power to do so".

Odin stopped, not knowing how much her powers had truly developed in the last thousand years, but he wasn't willing to put it to the test. He wasn't the God of Wisdom for nothing. He did, however, stand his ground and said, "another bastard child".

"Which makes four, and papa treated us like his children, unlike how you treat yours like a puppet," she glanced quickly to Thor.

"Her mother?" Odin questioned.

Dahlia squeezed her sister's hand tighter as Hela glared at Odin and said, "don't you dare bring her into this. Ragnarok has already started because of your attack".

"He didn't do it," Dahlia said weakly.

"What?" Hela asked confused as she looked down.

"I did it. I had to. Outnumbered, had to alert you...Thor has a poultice bag, I couldn't contact you. Three inches in the abdomen, with the blood loss from the arrow too, I calculate it's about an hour before I die of blood loss, that's time for you to save me," she said breathlessly.

"And I'm sure you can tell you don't have that long. 45 minutes, you forgot to add in the poison of the blade and you don't seem like you can keep your eyes open now," Hela said seriously, as if telling off a small child.

Dahlia let off a small laugh and said, "you got me".

"You shouldn't have done it. You know I would have fought for you".

"I don't want war," Dahlia said then hissed and Hela glanced at Bruce who shook his head slightly, knowing it was bad. "Sister, please. I don't want anyone else to die for me. I know if I die, I'll go to Niflheim, I'll be with you and everyone else".

"And how do you think Violet and Jonathan are going to react when they see you with blue skin, and not Jotun blue, on Niflheim?"

For a split second, Dahlia's eyes widened in fear as she gasped, "Grandma is gonna kill me, I've gotta hide in the castle".

Hela shook her head amused and said, "I warned you about Jonathan. Your grandpa is gonna yell at you either way...if you wanted to come home, all you had to do was say so earlier, forget about Hogwarts and go home. You know I would have taken you within a moment. You're the normal one, not with a prophecy of death and destruction on her head".

"No, just one with a mad man," Dahlia then violently coughed and blood began to seep out of her mouth.

"Internal bleeding in the right side of the abdomen," Bruce said, "I think she cut further than three inches".

"Shh," Hela shushed her sister as she stroked her hair, then Falcon came through the portal with healer Saida, a light elf who was the main royal healer of Niflheim. "About time," Hela almost snapped as the portal then closed.

Dahlia's skin was now going deathly pale due to the blood loss and healer Saida quickly ran to her side with her medical bag and took over from Bruce while Falcon went to Hela. It took only moments for Saida to examine Dahlia before she said, "I need to go somewhere clean, I have to stop the bleeding from the inside".

"Hela," Dahlia said fearfully and Hela immediately held her hand as tight as possible.

"We can transport her to St Mungo's," Madam Pomfrey said, "they'll know what to do, it's our hospital".

Saida shook her head and replied, "she cannot be transported by any means. Her biology is different to that of Midgardian mortals, giving her your potions when she is infected with the poison of the blade may only decrease her chances".

"The hospital wing," Madam Pomfrey said, "I should have everything you need there".

Saida said, "that would be most helpful," then she looked to a Hela, "my Queen, I need her to be asleep".

Hela nodded and kissed her sister's forehead and whispered, "I love you," her magic radiating from her fingertips, Dahlia's eyes slowly closing to the sound of her sister's voice.

Akio then picked her up as Hela stood and commanded, "do not leave her side," he nodded as he, carrying Dahlia, Madam Pomfrey, and Saida left the room for the hospital wing.

Hela was then in the Great Hall with some of the people she hated most in all of the cosmos, not just the nine realms. It took all of her being not to attack Odin but even then, Falcon placed a hand on her lower back and whispered, "live to fight another day. Dahlia needs you".

Hela thought over his words for a few moments before taking a few steps to Odin, his warriors immediately drawing their weapons and Thor even touched her shoulder to stop her, believing she was going to attack. She twisted his hand and his entire being began to age. His skin was withering and aging, the first demonstration of her powers for many of them in the room. As Thor fell to his feet, his throat constricting under her powers so he couldn't even scream, she looked between Thor and Odin as she said, "you continue to hurt my family, one brother chained, the other I cannot find, and now my little sister. She isn't even a child of the monstrous prophecy, yet you were going to take her".

Odin swung his staff in order for her to let go of Thor and when she did, Thor lay on the floor for several moments before returning to normal with Lady Sif and the Warriors Three helping him to stand. Hela could only smirk as Falcon even changed into his true form, causing many of them to stand back.

Hela then said, "always a man of war, never of peace. I'll give you this warning, if she dies, if I lose my magical connection with her, I'll kill you. I'll start Ragnarok without my brothers and father and you know I'll get them back, one way or another. The funny thing is, you don't even know how many enemies you have. Claiming to protect when if you look in your own history, even since you were a Prince, you have attacked and killed those on almost every realm and planet close to the nine realms. You may have spread the word of how horrible and monstrous I am but your one mistake was...you gave me an army. An army that cannot fall by ordinary means. You believed the Old King would kill me but he only gave me the strength to carry on. There are so many out there who hate you, they would happily ally themselves with me with the one goal of, not destroying Asgard, but putting your head on a spike...Dahlia is the last light we have, untouched by you and your kind. We lose that, you'll be sorry".

She then walked away, Falcon and Morek following behind her. But, as she left the Great Hall, Frigga ran through the doors to the castle, her hand immediately going to her mouth as she gasped when she saw the blood on Hela's hands and expected the worst. Hela only glanced at her for a moment as she didn't believe the Queen of Asgard deserved any more than that before she walked away, not wanting to speak to her.

Frigga then walked into the hall and saw the pool of blood and the looks of shock, regret, and anger and asked, "what did you do? Odin, what did you do?"

"She did it herself, mother," Thor said, still feeling weak from Hela's magic.

Clint couldn't help but comment, "it looked to us that she didn't have a choice". Thor looked back at his Midgardian comrades to see them all looking at him differently.

Natasha then said, "they both seemed to believe you're responsible for Loki going crazy. Thor, you told us you took his kids away because they were dangerous, tell us they were dangerous before you took them away. Tell us you did not take away kids from their father because of that stupid prophecy".

As Thor didn't answer, they got their answer and it only strengthened their new image of Thor when Frigga stepped closer and said, "they were innocent. Fear of a prophecy is what had them cast out".

Steve then said, "Thor, you're an honourable man so tell us the truth because right now, Dahlia could die. I say it's pretty clear now that it didn't matter what we thought, you had no intention of listening to us when it came to capturing her. Dahlia is innocent and has a good heart, even after what we did to her father, she still saw past that. After you learned that, did you even for a moment have any hesitation in taking her to Asgard for whatever sentencing you and your father have?"

"Loki's daughter-" was Thor's reply but Steve shook his head, not wanting to know what Thor's answer is, if he started it like that.

Frigga then looked between her husband and son and shook her head, "end this madness. Leave this child be. She's already hurt, let her live in peace". When she only saw her son look down and the expression on her husband's face didn't change, she said, "as you wish," and turned away.

"Frigga," Odin bellowed.

"No," Frigga said turning only slightly so she could look him in the eye, "I watched three of my grandchildren be turned away, treated as monsters. For a thousand years, I've listened to people talk badly about them or not even mentioning their names like they didn't exist. I watched my son fall into madness and now I may lose the grandchild I didn't know existed because of your fear for a prophecy. No more. You may not consider them family, but I do". With that Frigga left the room, leaving everyone in silence.

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Hela, stood outside the hospital wing, she was told that it would be best if she waited outside. Akio followed her commands and stayed in the room with Dahlia, watching what they did to the Princess. At first, Madam Pomfrey was nervous with him being in the room, but he was certain that he had seen everything in battle. Saida too made the matron nervous with her pale-blue death complexion, her pointed ears, her long white hair and long light-blue robes. Madam Pomfrey had never seen a light elf before but hoped the elf was qualified to perform the surgery because Madam Pomfrey was only a matron of the school and could only assist.

Hela had commanded Morek to go back to Niflheim and assemble soldiers, not frost giants or fire demons as they wouldn't blend in out of all the beings she had and would make the children feel uncomfortable. She was to open another portal a few hours later so that they could come back through. She didn't trust being in the Hogwarts castle, especially when she knew the castle's defences had weaknesses. The last thing she wanted was for Voldemort to attack while Dahlia was weak and they couldn't transport her anywhere. So, she sat outside on a bench, Falcon sat next to her while she held her sister's wand and necklace in her hands. All magical objects being taken from her during the surgery.

"She'll be okay," Falcon said, his arm wrapped around her waist, "I promise".

"Don't promise something you can't control," Hela said, her voice finally breaking, not wanting to cry in the hall.

"I know because her name was flickering on my list before, and now it's almost not. She's going to make it," Hela couldn't help but smile and turned her body closer to his as he held her.

He held her for a few moments before she felt him move his head and was looking behind her. Following his gaze, she found Frigga, clearly standing nervously but other than that, stood in all her regal form. Hela, wiping her tears away, stood and said, "I don't want any Asgardians here, Queen Frigga".

Frigga took a few steps closer until she was in arms reach and said, "you grew up into a beautiful young woman, Hela".

"Queen Hela. We're nothing but Queens of realms, Queen Frigga, not even allies. It would do you well to address me as such".

"Just like your father," Frigga said, shaking her head ever so slightly, "always so perceptive of everyone but yourself".

At the mention of her father, Hela couldn't help but stiffen and replied, "what are you doing here, Queen Frigga? You have no place here".

Frigga raised her hand, pushed a strand of white hair out of Hela's face, and wrapped it around her ear. She didn't miss the young man behind Hela move closer, taking a protective stance with a hand at his waist, where Frigga was sure he had a blade hidden. She also noticed that Hela gasped for a single moment, Frigga moving the hair out of her face like she did when she was a child, smiling like when she was a child.

Hela didn't want to be remembering how Frigga used to be, so she raised her hand, grabbing the Asgardian Queen's wrist and said, "like I said, we are nothing to one another".

"To you, but not to me. I know you miss the family you once had-"

"The family that turned their back on me, betrayed me because of a single prophecy that may not come to pass. Imprisoned my brother, sent the other away so I couldn't see him".

"I never turned my back on you. I tried to fight for you...Hela, I've seen what you've become-"

"A monster".

"Never," Frigga said as she ripped her arm out of Hela's grip. Falcon was now standing beside Hela and seemed to glare at Frigga but she wasn't intimidated. "You think your father is the only one who knows about the passageways. You think he's the only one who uses them. You may never have seen me but I was there. Watching as you transformed Niflheim-"

"I won't ask you again, Queen Frigga," Hela said cutting her off, not wanting to speak about Niflheim with Frigga being there, knowing she would now have to up the guards around the passageways and speak to Akio about security. "What are you doing here?"

Frigga sighed knowing Hela was just as stubborn as she was as a child, just as stubborn as Loki. Trying to repair her family, especially at a time like this, seemed impossible. Straightening herself, Frigga answered, "your father felt your sister's pain-"

"He's her father, we taught her magic. He may not have been there physically but he was there. The connection was formed, of course he can feel it".

"I came to see what happened. Your father is beside himself with worry-"

"You mean he's threatening everyone on Asgard," Hela said with a small smirk she knew would irritate the Queen. She knew her father all too well.

"Yes," Frigga answered bluntly, "Odin will not release your father, I know that. So, I came to see her, to see what happened".

"You're not seeing her," Hela almost snapped and almost took a step forward if Falcon didn't have hold of her waist. "My sister doesn't need any of you in her life. Your precious husband and King showed up and now look what's happened. You cause death and destruction and pain wherever you go...go back to Asgard, tell my father that my sister stabbed herself because of Odin. Because she didn't want to be captured, she saw no other way. Tell him that my healer is going to save her, she'll heal, then she's leaving with me".

Hela then turned and walked to sit back down, looking at the double doors to the hospital wing, while Falcon stood in front of Frigga, waiting for her to leave. Frigga glanced to her granddaughter, wanting to say more, to stay with her until she knew her youngest granddaughter would be safe. She didn't even know her name.

"Dahlia," Hela said as if reading her mind, "her name is Dahlia Lily Astrid Amara. Papa won't listen to you, he'll believe you're lying. Not many people know her full name. If you tell him her name, he'll know I told you that she's being taken care of". Frigga could only nod, even though Hela wasn't looking up at her and only Falcon was, but he too nodded as she began to walk away.

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"What you created was a self-fulfilling prophecy. By taking the kids, you gave them a reason to hate you. A reason for revenge," Frigga heard, not knowing who said it as she approached the front of the castle, only knowing it was a male American voice so she knew it was one of the Avengers.

As she approached the front of the castle to leave, she saw a group of people in the hallway near the door, discussing matters that she didn't want or care to listen to, but she could tell they were mortals. From their style of dress, different from the mortals she met, she knew they were members of the wizarding community, clearly professors of the school, while one man with rumpled grey hair, a green bowler hat and a pinstriped cloak seemed to believe himself superior by the way he held himself. Clearly, the others were trying to calm him down about the matter.