Soulmate Chronicles I - Part of my Soul // ft. Loki Laufeyson

31: Loki de Danann

Loki:

He could see that Nemain was in a daze for a few seconds, just a little too overwhelmed with the surprises of having her parents here for an impromptu wedding and their friends at the compound congratulating her on the baby.

So he gently hugged her waist and looked at her. "You okay? I don't mean to put pressure on you, you know?", he softly said.

She smiled up at him, leaning in for a short kiss. "Are you joking? I couldn't be happier Loki. We're already soulmates. I love you with all my being. A traditional wedding is just the icing on the cake."

He smiled. "Well then. I do have more surprises coming", he promised with a wink.

"Even more?", she chuckled out, "I can barely keep up with the surprises that I already know of", she shook her head, "I should change into something more weddingy right?"

"Well yes. I believe your mother also brought along a dress for the occasion", Loki smiled, "So why don't you go and put that on while I entertain our guests?"

She nodded, pecking his cheek and then running to her room after fetching her mother.

He watched her go, more running than walking. Right now she wasn't very much the War Goddess but just a woman in love, excited for her wedding day. He chuckled lightly, seeing that side of her was refreshing and made him fall just a little more in love with her.

Nemain:

She pulled her mother along to hers and Loki's room faster than she usually would, she felt like a teenager again when she would do the same thing to show her mother some new weapon she made. One of her favorite pastimes when she had been young. "Did you bring the dress I'm thinking of?", she asked her mother now, opening up the door.

"Yes Nemain", she chuckled out, "I brought the one you picked as a young woman. But I'm still wondering if you still like it. So much time has passed since you picked it out."

"We'll see I guess. But I'm hopeful", she said, entering the room and turning around to her mother.

Danu smiled, pulling out the dress from her leather bag and handing it to her daughter who promptly ran to the bathroom to put it on.

When Nemain came back out wearing the dress. It was a beautiful strapless dress of white slowly bleeding into grey and ending black. Made out of light fabric and hugging her curves perfectly. "I still love it", she whispered, smiling gently and looking up to find her mother looking at the scan of her future grandchild.

"That's a picture of your child?", she asked even though she knew of course.

"Yes", Nemain smiled, sitting down next to her mother and taking the scan print from her and running her fingertips over it, "Our little miracle."

"Every child is", her mother said.

"Indeed, but we will have more time to talk about it tomorrow right? For now I have a wedding to attend", Nemain smiled and stood up again.

"You do look amazing in it daughter. It suits you very well", Danu stood up to walk her daughter out. Once they closed the door she gently took Nemain's hands into her own. "I wish you a lifetime of happiness with your soulmate my dear. I will see you at the front", she softly said, walking ahead since she would be the one to marry them.

Nemain took a deep breath, smoothing down her dress and waiting for a few minutes before walking back to the common area.

Loki:

By now he had conjured up a suit and was waiting with the others, his brother smacking his back as Nemain's mother rejoined them first. "I never thought you to be the one to marry brother but look at you now. You look happy", Thor said.

Loki smiled lightly, watching Nemain follow her mother soon after and she just looked as lovely as ever as she slowly approached. "I am happy", he whispered in response, his breath just taken away by his Love walking towards him.

Once she joined him he gently gripped her hands. "You look lavishing my Love", he softly said with a smile.

"As do you my heart", she smiled up at him, beaming off happiness. Then the both of them turned to Danu as she started the ceremony.

"We have come together on this evening to join two people in a new family", Danu raised her voice so that everyone around them would hear them. Violet was already dabbing her eyes from tearing up.

"Tonight will be about the physical representation of your soulmate bond. I will tie your hands together and you will have to make sure that bond does not slip off your hands for the entire night. It is a sign of good fortune for your way to come", the Queen next explained and picked up a black, green and gold band that represented both of them, slowly wrapping it around Nemain's left and his right hand, binding them together for the night, "Now have you chosen by what name your family will move forward?"

"Oh...", Nemain now blinked, "We... didn't really talk about that", she sheepishly said.

"Well that is your next and final surprise for the night my Love", Loki said now, smiling, "You're the one that finally gave me a place where I can be myself. Where I'm appreciated and where someone believes in me, loves me wholeheartedly and unconditionally. I finally know where I belong to", he softly said, lifting her hands up and kissing them.

"Loki what are you-", she started with a little confusion showing on her face.

"I'm saying that I will proudly carry your name because you and your people have truly given me a chance to redefine who I am without showing me any prejudices. And I will forever be grateful for that, for your love, for the way you believe in me", he ended with, putting their hands back down now.

Nemain had actually teared up hearing him say all this. "Oh Loki... I love you more than I ever could another being. You truly showed me a new side to myself. A selfish side which I really needed", she chuckled out, "Without us constantly pushing each other to become better versions of ourselves this day would not have happened", she said, "This new life I'm carrying would not have happened."

She placed their hands down on her belly, leaning her forehead onto his and just enjoying the warmth that was filling her heart and soul.

"With your love strengthened by the invisible bond of soulmates and shown to the world by tonight's ceremony and the bond that ties your hands together, you have now both entered a new chapter, a new family. Going by the name of Nemain and Loki de Danann", Danu now ended with a big smile.

Loki didn't waste any time, he pulled his woman towards him, dipping her down and kissing her senseless while cheers erupted from their friends.

Of course this was where the party really started, drinks going around - of course none for Nemain - but she still seemed to have fun, smiling and joking with Violet, Thor, Starlord and the others. And he was by her side all through the night, bound by the wedding band her mother placed on them.

At one point Loki started to feel the alcohol, it was almost as if he just saw Nemain hiccup a green bubble that erupted into sparks of golden light. "I must be really drunk", he said and stared at her, "Did you just hiccup a green bubble Love?", he asked.

"Uh...", Nemain said, staring at him in shock as it then happened again, "That's not the alcohol Darling", she said, "No... this is really-", she hiccupped another bubble, "-happening."