Asleep and Dreaming

Loki couldn't live with the humiliation of having been tricked, so he went to his daughter and begged her to make the problem go away. Hel laughed in his face. Eventually, though, her protection has to come to an end.

I have no idea what I was on when I wrote that summary. I think I meant Loki is embarrassed about Natasha tricking him, so he asks Hel to kill her, and Hel does not agree. I think I intended to make this a series or at least longer, detailing an increasingly intimate relationship between Hel and Natasha, in which they disagree about when/whether Natasha should die, until, of course, she does. But I didn't write any of that. Sorry.