"Loki"
"Yes, Love"
"I need help"
"With what, Love," He asks as he looks up to see what I might need help with. As I look at Loki I noticed a light blush of pink across his cheeks.
"Loki are you ok, Baby. . . Darling" Before I realize what happened he had let down the illusion stopping the world from seeing his true self. "Loki, are you ok, your illusion dropped". He stood up and came over to me. Once he reached me he materialized a mirror so I could see what happened.
"Oh no no no no no" When I looked into the mirror I see the raised black markings on my face appearing and disappearing. After a little bit of me stunned by the markings on my face. I rush to the bathroom but as I'm halfway there suddenly I'm in the arms of my love with him comforting me.
"It's ok, Love, shhhh" Loki sat there trying to get me to calm down for about an hour before he realized that he had done too good of a job and I had fallen asleep in his arms.
Loki's POV
After a little while, I look down only to find a peaceful Winter sleeping in my arms with tear stains on her cheeks. Is she not burned by me. I was scared one wrong move and she would have a burn wound on her so I put back up the illusion, and let all the blue dissipate from my skin. I look down and the raised black markings on her cheeks have stuck no longer flickering in and out.
I brought her to the couch and laid her down kissing her forehead before I leave as reassurance that I'll be back.
Winter's POV
As I woke up I impatiently looked around for Loki only to find him nowhere to be found. After I rule out the fact that he is not in the room I start to get up only to find that I have a major headache. "Loki. . . " I call out for him and yet there is no sign of him anywhere. "Loki"
"Yes, Love"
"Where are you"
"In the bathroom getting a bath ready, you felt a bit hot. I didn't know if you were feeling very well since you fell asleep so fast earlier" I guess that makes sense for the water sounds.
"Ok," I yell and start to undress and walk into the bathroom almost completely naked.
"Hey, I wanted to ask-" as soon as he looked at me he fell silent.
"What, is there something wrong" I look at myself in the mirror and I could see the black marks were staying all over my body. Two on of my legs, one circle around my mid-thighs and another around my ankles. On my arms, I had circles on my shoulders kinda like a bullseye and two circles around my wrists on both of my arms. I had a line going down my midsection and split off into two right at my breasts.
I slap my hand over my face which had raised markings on it. It wasn't a dream.
"What wasn't a dream. . . Love" I finished taking my clothes off and hopped into the tub.
"I thought that earlier was a dream"
"Oh" After a while of me sitting there he finally spoke up. "Do you want me to. . . You know" I nodded my head knowing it would be a little less painful if he knew what I had gone through, I mean from what he told me he went through something very similar. He had reached for my forehead and when he got close I flinched a little. "If you don't want to, we can do it another day"
"No no it's ok" I replied, he picked me up and set me on his lap so we were facing each other, he had put his forehead to mine and the next thing I know I'm reliving all the nightmares and torture I was promised to never have to visit again. After reliving all the nightmares I felt tears flow down my cheeks, when I came to fully I was cuddled against Loki's chest.
When I looked up at Loki I swear I saw a few tears fall from his eyes.
