Their Queen

Chapter 7

Present day..

"Where are you taking me Vana?" Thor asks trying to hide his worry as we get closer to 9R. "Calm down you big baby. I have to stop at the bar and get some work done." He sighs in relief. "It's after that when you should be worried" I wink, letting out a small laugh. We pull up to the back entrance of the bar and park. I jump out and walk into the back entrance. There's a little commotion that i recognize as the girls rehearsing.

"Emma! You better not be scuffing up my bar again with those God awful combat boots." I say loudly as i drop my keys on the counter, ripping off my jacket. "Cassie, I just thought they would do well for the army guys that were in here last week! I won't wear them on the bar again i promise!" She says standing on the bar. The girls all stop talking and Emma lets out a small squeak, staring behind me. I look to see Thor leaning against the door frame, pressing a beer bottle to his lips in an attempt to hide his smile. "Hello," He says with a small wave.

Tracy looks down at me from the bar, Hey that's the guy from last night. PLEEEEASE let him be family and not her flavor of the week, she thinks. I laugh aloud, "Come on, give me the run down, how's it going?" She nods and lets me know that the beer guy gave us extra like he promised and she reminded me that letting him drink free would work in our favor. I laugh and sit down at a table sat dead center of the bar and motion Thor to his table. Once he has complied, "Lets get through this so we can all go home." I say to the girls and I start the music.

After an hour of running routines with the girls and listening to their dirty thoughts about Thor, I pay them out and give them the night off. Putting a sign on the door and walk the girls out, shutting the door behind them. Walking back to the bar clearing up the glasses and wiping down the bar I turn around to meet Tracy's questioning gaze.

"Yes?" I question with raise eyebrows. She turns her head to glance at Thor before grabbing my hand pulling me into the walk in, shutting the door behind us. "Okay, spill." She says crossing her arms. I chuckle and shake my head. "He's an.. old friend." I say scratching the back of my neck, in an attempt for a story.

"Liar! I'm an old friend. This is guy looks at you like you're the moon and this is the first time he's seen it, so who is he. Really." She says with a small annoyance. There's no sense in lying, well, not completely. "He's my ex, remember the one i told you about. The brothers I dated in college, well.. this is brother number one." I say shyly.

"THAT'S HIM?! You have got to be kidding! He looks like he was carved from stone by Greek gods!" She exclaims before i can clamp my hand on her mouth, shushing her. Odin's beard, if only she knew. "I'd love to see the other one," She says wiggling her eyebrows. I laugh, "Stop it, he could hear you." She raises an eyebrow

"Yeah okay. Mr. Movie star can hear me through a steel freezer." She rolled her eyes laughing. "So why is he here? Why now, that was so long ago."

"That's too long of a story for now." I shake my head looking at the floor. "Well, then we are having girls night soon. Because i cant be kept in the dark much longer." I laugh and open the door feeling the warmth of the room again. I scoop her arm into mine hauling her to the door before she can ask anymore questions, and with a quick hug she's out the door.

"Well, I like her. She does not know of who you are?" Thor asks when he hears the lock on the door latch. "No, she doesn't know I'm older than the invention of a wheel. They would have had me locked up." I laugh, walking around the half wall and I find him at his table drinking the last of the case of beer i had left with him, being completely sober.

"These mortals have no idea what real alcohol is," he laughs. I walk past him to a secret compartment i had made in the seat of the booth. Inside, the large gold bottles Odin had brought with him on one of his visits. "For when you miss home," He had said to me.

Thor's eyes shine like diamonds as he recognized the bottles in my hand. I laugh as i grab a glass and pour him a healthy dose. Sitting down across from him. "None for you, dearest?" He looks at me curious. "I have to drive, also I stopped drinking when I left." He looks confused for a moment before i see images of our "trip" to Vaneilhiem flash in his mind.

Another sharp pain in my shoulder tells me they've injected me with something again. Draining my powers out of me, keeping me compliant. The man gets in my face pressing his nose into my my neck, inhaling my scent. "I bet you are as new as the day you were born, never been touched by a real man." I try to move but my hands are tied and I'm strung up to the ceiling by my hands. He walks around me, pressing his nose into my cheek taking another whiff of me. Like hunter circling its prey, toying with it before the final kill. I feel weak and like all the strength has left my body. He grabs hold of my chin jerking it to look at him."I wonder how the Allfather feel if he knew the nasty things we were going to do to his precious little girl." I hear a groan from behind him. I look to see Thor strung up across the room, he looks weak and tired.

"Leave.. her.. alone.." he says taking deep breathes after each word, looking up at me trying to get himself out of his restrains. One of the men go to him getting close to his face, "Or what? Take your little hammer and smite us down? Can't do that when its still in the Kings castle," the man says, slithering around Thor. Pulling his hair so he's staring right at me. "We're going to enjoy taking turns on her, until she's so beyond recognition, Odin will not even recognize her. He will think nothing more of her than just another dirty slut from a brothel." I look at the man holding me feeling dazed but I spit in his face with the only life I have left in me. He releases me only to slap me across the face. "You're going to regret that," he runs the tip of a knife up my thigh before grabbing the ends of my dress, taking the knife and cutting off bottom half of my dress. "No... stop... I'll give you whatever you want. Just let us go... please.." i whimper, trying to move out of his grasp. "Don't worry, you will have a long time to beg. But first," its then that i feel cool metal before the pain of the knife plunging into in my abdomen. "That's to remind you who is in charge." Just look at me Vana. It's going to be okay, I hear from Thor's thoughts. Just as i see a tear glisten his cheek, i feel my own escape.

I gasp and look away from him as tears gather in my eyes, shutting them tightly to get the images out of my head. Pressing my hand to my side, feeling the scar that is there. "Hey," He says softly, reaching across the table. "We got out of there, it was so many years ago. They cant hurt you any more, dearest." I take his hand, gritting my teeth trying to swallow the lump in my throat. "Lets get out of here, you had some where else to show me right?" I nod and slide out of the booth.

Just then i get a phone call, digging my phone out of my pocket and looking at the screen, BLOCKED. "Cassie," I answer. "Do you keep a notebook of all your aliases so you don't get confused?" I hear Tony say on the other line. "Hey could you put Point Break on the phone?" I roll my eyes, tossing the phone to Thor, "Your friends are looking for you." I say as he catches it confused at how to work it. I walk to the bar, grabbing my jacket and keys, Thor on my heels. "Okay, we will leave now." He hands me the phone after i lock the back door and we head to the parking lot, the sunset just finishing as we make it to the car. "What now, cat stuck in a tree? Or did i have you out past curfew" I laugh.

"Loki and a small group of men broke into the facility in an attempt to steal his scepter back. They have captured him and have him in holding. We need to get there and figure out his plan." Thor tells me as the Jeep roars to life and we speed off down the road. "What do you think is going on? Why is he doing this?" I ask him, hopeful. "I have no idea, but we are about to find out." He returns. I look back to the road, trying to keep my calm, unsure how Loki could have changed from the soft and sweet man i knew so well to this one who wants to either take over or destroy one of the worlds he swore me he would protect.