Round 8

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[FILL] Fake Empire (3b/6, Loki/Thor)

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Thor’s mouth is set in a thin line as he studies Loki. “Next time, just ask me. But stay out of the fights, why is it so difficult for you to understand that this is only me protecting you?”
“Why is it so difficult for you to understand that I do not need any protection?” Loki spats back. “Certainly not from you!”

At this, Thor calls for Heimdall. Loki, Thor, the Warriors Three and Sif are back on the Bifrost in no time at all.

When the four other warriors look at Loki with a curious eye, Loki turns around and walks away.

He visits Freyja, who is still crying over her lost husband, and asks her how she copes with her grief. It is a strange question but Loki supposes she must know something for else she would never have been able to stay alive for quite so long without him being near her.

They talk for hours and in the end she gives him a hug.

“I’m sorry, Loki,” she tells him. “Midgardians might see me as the Goddess of Love, but there is nothing I can force him into.”

Loki stays quiet for a while, knowing that while Freyja is not a clairvoyant she does know more than she leads many people to believe. He wonders if she knows the faith of her husband, if that is why she keeps crying-if she knows that he will never return, or perhaps that he stayed behind in a foreign world with someone else.

He hands her a cup of mead and pours another for himself.

Freyja is the first one to who he confesses everything: His confusing thoughts as a young child, how he likes Sigyn but isn’t sure if he loves her anymore even though she is the mother of his son. How Thor looks at him like he is a putrid little child, rather than a grown man who happens to fight with magic.

She holds him throughout the first three nights, patting his hair and telling him it will be alright. Then Loki’s chest fills with a warmth he has only felt a few times before. He doesn’t tell Freyja, because she needn’t know, but for the first time in decades he feels more or less at peace with himself.

When he leaves, he makes sure that she gets his gift: a carefully crafted bust of Odur, made of gold and crystal. It’s not much, he knows the pain she must feel has to be larger than how he feels about Thor, but he hopes it’ll make him feel better. The warmth in his chest makes him care more, and it is not entirely unpleasant, he decides.