Dahlia, Hermione and Neville couldn't stay and help the ghosts all day as they did have class and thanks to the new rules in place for Dahlia, it meant that she had to go and she had no idea what they had even been learning for the past week. It just had to be Thursday, so she had the Avengers' classes, or at least two of them, but one of them was Thor's class and she really didn't want to attend. Hermione practically had to pull her to class after getting their bags and books from the tower and everyone was still staring at her as she walked the corridors. Dahlia tried to think it had something to do with her dress, with her long-sleeved Olympus green dress with golden trimming at the wrist of the dress, a flower pattern along the edge of the neckline and her golden belt that held her pouch, wand and dagger. She knew it wasn't her attire though but her existence that rather scared them or held their curiosity.

It was History of Current World and Realms which she was hating with every step she took when they got down the corridor as she saw that the students that were lined up outside were starting to go in. She glanced at Akio and Tonks who were following and asked, "you're not coming in are you?"

Tonks looked at Akio as if the decision of her going in was dependent on what his decision was, and he answered, "I do not trust Asgardians".

"So, you're coming in," she sighed, and Tonks nodded.

They entered the room, and everyone stared at them as Hermione and Dahlia sat down next to one another and Neville sat next to Dean as Ron had moved seats to sit next to Seamus. Tonks and Akio stayed stood at the back as students were looking cautiously at them, but Pansy couldn't help as she said, "what are you doing here? You're not one of us".

Steve answered, "she's a student, she has a right to be here too".

"You've spent all year telling us how bad her family are," Tracy said, "it's not safe to be around her".

Dahlia sighed as she brought her books out of her bag and said, "and the majority of what they have taught about my family is bull so why don't you keep your mouths shut".

A few students smirked, laughed or scoffed and Pansy said, "and if we don't, you're going to get your soldier on us?"

Dahlia turned her head to glare at her but a second later, Pansy jumped up and screamed, "FIRE, FIRE!" she pointed to her desk.

Everyone around looked confused, except Thor who commanded, "enough".

Dahlia glared at him then and said, "I don't do as you tell me to do. I'm not one of your brainless citizens and I'm not the one who's taught an entire school wrong and spreads lies".

"Dahlia, please," Steve said, "stop whatever you're doing. You're just encouraging what they believe".

Her glare disappeared as she looked to Steve then hesitated for a moment before she looked down to her desk and Pansy who was on the floor curled up, assuming the fire was all around her, stopped screaming and looked around everyone. "DIDN'T YOU SEE THAT?"

"What?" Theo asked.

"FIRE!" she exclaimed. "Fire everywhere".

Dahlia rolled her eyes and said, "a simple illusion, grow up".

"See!" Pansy almost shouted as she stood, "we're not safe".

Steve looked to Dahlia and she said, "want me out of the class?".

"No," he said then smiled slightly, "I want you to teach it".

"What?" Dahlia asked surprised.

"We've heard Thor's side, about the prophecy about Niflheim, let's hear the opposing side," he glanced to Thor and shrugged, "it's only fair".

Dahlia looked around as people were looking at her and her hand went to her locket. She held it in comfort as she looked back to Captain America and shook her head as she let go of the locket. She said, "I shouldn't have to tell people I don't trust my family's story. I shouldn't have to defend my family when it wasn't their actions or the prophecy that made them that way". She glanced quickly at Thor and said, "it was the actions of those who were supposed to love and protect them no matter what". She then glanced quickly around the room and said, "as for Niflheim, the majority of people here will end up going there, they'll see with their own eyes what it's like. But they shouldn't listen to an Asgardian who has never stepped foot on the land and when there isn't a single Asgardian soul there". She then looked back to Steve and said, "if anyone wants to make judgement on a place they've never been to, maybe they should question why there's more than a thousand ghosts outside that want to go there".

Steve looked shocked as he said, "you have a chance to tell them".

"I shouldn't have to," she shrugged. "The average lifespan of a normal human is what eighty years old? A wizard's lifespan, who knows depending on remedies, potions and alchemy. Either way, it's one lifetime versus the rest of eternity. Everyone will learn the truth eventually".

She then leaned back into her chair and crossed her arms, showing that she wasn't going to say or do any more and would just sit in silence for the rest of the class.

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The double period of Science and Technology after went pretty much the same as the lesson before but Tony tried to joke when he saw her and the others walk into the room. Tony was eating strawberry laces when the students sat down and teased, "oh look, Loki junior, glad to have you back". Dahlia rolled her eyes as she took a seat and Akio and Tonks stood at the back and Tony looked at them but didn't say anything as he just looked between them and Dahlia, as if he wanted to ask something but wouldn't.

There were laptops on all the tables. The students opened them and used their log-ins and passwords for the system Tony invented for the school, so each student had their own account. It made it easy for Tony to monitor when it came to banned websites or when researching things they shouldn't be looking at. Tony wasn't surprised when porn flagged up on the system several times, but what did surprise him was that it wasn't Muggle-born boys that researched it, as they were probably smart enough to know the system flagged certain words. After all, they probably had parental security on computers at home and on school when they were in primary.

When they were all logged in, Bruce sat down at the front of the class as Tony wrote on the board 'SOCIAL MEDIA'.

He turned back to his class and said, "you probably already heard about this from other students in the class who live in the Muggle world, but social media is a big part of it, especially for someone your age". Tony glanced down at his own computer to the side of him and said, "It's the reason why Mr. Thomas is on it now".

Everyone looked to Dean who looked up and quickly defended himself, "I already know about social media, clearly".

"Clearly," Tony said with a shake of the head. "So, Mr. Thomas, you can give us a list of social media accounts before you go back to checking your Facebook".

Dean said, "Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, WhatsApp, Skype, Snapchat-"

"Okay, thank you, that's enough," Tony said as he wrote them down on the board and said, "now they're all different. Some of them you can just talk through text, some you can share photos, videos, some you talk through video using a web camera which I'm sure many of you have seen some of your peers do to talk to people at home. Every teenager that has a phone has probably got a minimum of at least three of these, some have all of them and more and some teens even have multiple accounts on the same sites-"

The door to the room crashed open and from up front Tony couldn't see who it was until he heard a few girls go aww and saw a little Niflheim girl run to Dahlia. Dahlia smiled as she turned in her seat and said, "Lucia".

"I did it!" Lucia said excited, "I did what you told me to do".

"Good job, you completed your mission!" Dahlia praised smiling then asked, "how did you find me?"

"I asked the moving paintings," she answered simply as Dahlia held her hands and Lucia swayed side to side like a child that did not want to keep still.

Dahlia glanced to Tony and Bruce and said, "sorry".

"It's okay," Bruce said.

Tony, however, approached and said, "hey squirt," and kneeled in front of Lucia and smiled, "are you a new student?" Lucia laughed and shook her head. Tony said, "really, so you're here for Dahlia?"

Lucia nodded, "I finished handing out teddies and dollies".

Tony frowned and looked to Dahlia who answered, "to the ghost children. They can touch and have toys from Niflheim".

"They were scared," Lucia said.

Dahlia then looked down to Lucia and asked, "did you tell your momma where you were going?" Lucia looked to the ground. "Lucia," Dahlia said again.

Lucia looked up and said, "she knows".

"Does she?" Dahlia asked as she raised her brow.

Lucia nodded rapidly, "she started following me".

Dahlia let off a little laugh as she said, "Lucia, did you run away from your momma to come tell me you finished?"

"You told me to tell you," Lucia defended.

Dahlia sighed as she stood and let go of Lucia's hands as she gestured to Lucia to come closer so that she could pick her up. She picked her up to put her on her hip as Tony stood. Dahlia said, "I'll be back in a minute". She then walked towards the door as she said, "you can't just run away from your momma, this place isn't like Niflheim. It can be dangerous, and you can get hurt".

"AKIO!" Lucia said happily when she saw Akio as they were towards the door and Akio gave a quick wink to the child who chuckled.

Dahlia stepped out of the room to see Eva coming down the corridor and turned to Akio and Tonks and said, "she's here, just stay in here".

While Tonks did that, Akio kept the door open so that he could watch the princess and the two residents of Niflheim. Eva walked quickly as she said, "what did I say about wondering off?"

"Sorry, momma," Lucia said with her bottom lip pushed out.

Eva sighed as she looked to Dahlia and said, "thank you," as Dahlia handed Lucia over.

Dahlia looked to Lucia and said, "you need to stay with your momma while you're here".

"Okay," Lucia said.

"Pinky promise," Dahlia said as she held up her pinky and Lucia hooked hers around it and nodded. Dahlia smiled and said, "good girl".

Eva hummed however as she smiled to her daughter, "and just how long are you going to listen to the princess?"

Lucia laughed and tried to hide her face in her mother's chest and Dahlia said to Eva, "if you need a tracking spell, just ask".

"I think I might take you up on that," Eva said smiling but not at all joking.

"How's everything going outside?"

"Good. Your friends Fred and George are outside helping. I feared from your stories that they would jokingly make mistakes or pull a prank, but they seem to be very respectful and responsible".

"They can be like that when it comes to something serious. They know how important it all is to me".

Eva nodded then said, "you were in class, we should go".

"Okay, will you be at the camp tonight?"

Eva nodded, "yes, but those of us who came through to help will be returning later tonight".

"I'll see you later then".

"Bye," Eva said as Lucia waved.

Dahlia returned to class to see them all typing at their computers and almost half the class glanced at her as she sat down. Hermione asked quietly, "is she okay?"

Dahlia nodded, "Eva was down the hall, she was just doing what I told her to do. I told her this isn't like Niflheim and to stay close to her mother though".

"Kids very intelligent for her age," a male voice said, and the girls looked up from their desk to see Tony stood in front of it.

Dahlia shrugged and said, "she's a lot older than she looks".

Tony frowned, "how old?"

Dahlia scoffed and answered, "asking someone on Niflheim how old they are is basically asking them when they died. Some take great offence to it as they could have died terribly, and they may not be over it".

"She's got to be a toddler," he said as if ignoring what she said, "she talks well for her age".

"Everyone on Niflheim stays the same as they did when they died. However, children as young as Lucia learn to talk better and understand things a little more but still keep their childish personality...her parents were murdered in the thirteen century, here on Midgard, they married in Niflheim then adopted Lucia. Gives you an idea how old she maybe".

"Adoption?" Bruce questioned as he stood and walked over. "You have adoption on Niflheim?"

Dahlia rolled her eyes, "Let me guess, Thor said something along the lines of keeping the children in caves or chained to rocks, or even better," she let off a small laugh, "I bet he told you we use children's souls for spells or sacrifices". Dahlia licked her lips as she looked down to her lap and pressed her lips together to not swear at the two Avengers for their clear lack of knowledge of Niflheim. She looked back up and said, "it would shock you the number of children that are abandoned or murdered by their parents. Those who are left and forgotten. Those who have been abused. They can't be with the people who hurt them, and they definitely aren't just left behind and forgotten. If homes can't be found for them, they are taken to orphanages and many are adopted. There are some, however, that are in orphanages because their parents are in Valhalla but usually they end up with grandparents or other relatives...you know, if you want to live to see your grandchildren and great grandchildren, if you intend to die of old age, you and the other Avengers may want to forget about everything that Thor told you about Niflheim".

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At the end of the double period, Dahlia, Hermione and Neville returned to the courtyard to see if they were still assessing ghosts but there weren't nearly as many as before. They walked over to Fred and George who took their places beside Eva and Dahlia asked, "how many left?"

The twins looked to Eva who had Lucia on her lap as she said, "about two hundred remaining ghosts to be assessed, it should only take us another half an hour to an hour. The rest have been passed to the in-between or are waiting to be sent".

Eva gestured to the end of the courtyard to see a large group of ghosts. Dahlia watched as Hela and Falcon had a group of fifteen ghosts and had them stand in the middle of white multiple symbols that seemed to be burned into the ground. They were unfamiliar to Dahlia. As they stood on the symbols, Hela and Falcon stood in front of them and held hands before raising them to the ghosts and they said a few words before the symbols glowed to life and the ghosts disappeared. Hela seemed dizzy for a moment and it looked like her legs almost gave way, but Falcon grabbed her waist and kept her up straight.

Dahlia saw this and immediately left her friends to go to her sister and she heard Falcon as he said, "stop taking all the pressure, I'm not weak".

"I never said you were," Hela gasped as his hand at her waist still held her upright.

"Are you okay?" Dahlia asked as she stopped next to them.

"I'm fine," Hela tried to answer but Falcon cut her off.

"No, she's not," he said, "sending the ghosts over takes a lot out of both of us but she's using her magic to make it, so she takes most of the pressure. Get her to stop". He said the last part as he let go of her as he could tell she was steady but that didn't stop Dahlia reaching out for her sister's hands to help steady her just in case as Falcon walked away.

Dahlia noticed Hela glance at him as he walked away and she said, "Hela, you have to stop this".

"Stop what?"

"Taking all the pressure. You both wanted to do this for so long, it's been your plan for so long together, let him take his half of the pressure".

Hela immediately shook her head and responded, "no, I can't. 1125 souls, that's how many we've sent through so far, it's just a few hundred more then we're done. I can take it".

"You shouldn't have to".

"Yes, I do. He's going to spend all his time collecting these souls, I may as well help in whatever way I can".

A moment of silence passed between them before Dahlia said quietly, "this isn't about the souls, it's because of your guilt over breaking up with him and you know it".

Hela didn't say anything, she just looked at her sister with a tight lip and almost a glare as if she betrayed her by bringing it up. She pushed Dahlia's hands away and took a few steps back as she said, "if you want to help then help by finishing the assessments of the last souls, if not then I'll see you later".

Hela then walked away, and Dahlia sighed knowing now wasn't the time to go after her sister and let her calm down. The breakup was still fresh in Hela's heart and Dahlia knew she was wrong trying to get through to her sister by bringing it up. So, she just walked back to her friends to help.

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It was dinner time and just in time as they had finished sending the ghosts over. Those remaining from Niflheim made their way down to the camp and the small group of Gryffindors went into the castle for dinner, except Dahlia followed by Akio and Tonks, as she went to Professor McGonagall's office, hoping she was there as she wasn't in the dining hall. She knocked on the door and heard the professor shout "ENTER".

Dahlia went inside as Akio and Tonks waited outside.

She saw the professor piling paper, tidying up her desk before going down to dinner and asked, "Miss Lokidottir, what can I do for you?"

"I was just checking to see if it was okay if went to the camp?"

Professor McGonagall asked, "dinner has just started, have you had something to eat?"

"I'll get something at the camp. Promise. Can I go?"

Professor McGonagall gave a single nod and Dahlia smiled and went to leave but not before Professor McGonagall said, "I want you back before curfew and I want you to come here with your belongings. You'll be staying in the spare room in my quarters".

Dahlia sighed as she said, "let me guess, the Gryffindors don't want me back and have been complaining?"

"You have to give them time, they'll come around," Professor McGonagall said, even though there was a hint of doubt in her own tone knowing that some people may never be able to look past who Dahlia and her family truly were.

Dahlia gave a quick smile to the professor as she said, "maybe...I'll see you tonight".

Dahlia then left the professor's office and went back to the camp. As the trio were making their way to camp, Dahlia noticed three Aurors patrolling the hallways and another two on the outer grounds. It was when they made their way past the middle courtyard leading to the greenhouses and then past the greenhouses and out the exit that the camp came into view. Dahlia then turned and began to walk backwards as she asked Tonks, "I counted five Aurors, not including you. So, how many are there here?"