The Lady of Midgard [Book 1]

Chapter 6

After the display at dinner Loki decided to hide in the library knowing Thor would come looking for him eventually. He had given up trying to read after his mind yet again kept filling with thoughts of you. Instead he sat there thinking about you. The way you had a response to his comment, he knew you had a backbone, he'd seen it in action your first day here but no one had dared talk back to him like that before and he didn't know how to feel. Oh the way you had smiled at Thor, that smile lit up the whole room...and then you had turned that beautiful smile of yours, not to him, but to Fandral of all people!

The next thought caused him to scowl, you had yet to even say 'thank you' to him. Clearing his throat Loki tried to concentrate back on the book. After a while he heard his mother enter the library, pinching the bridge of his nose knowing what was coming - a scolding over his behaviour in the hall.

"Loki, your father would like a word."

"He usually does." Getting up Loki he brushed past his mother and made his way through the palace to his fathers study, knocking lighty when he arrived.

"Come in." He heard his fathers muffled voice.

"You asked for me?

"Ah yes, you are still charting the stars are you not?"

"I am, why?" Loki questioned, he had not expected this to be the topic of conversation.

"Have you noticed anything...odd?"

"Well there was that black hole in the Andromeda quadrant that appeared a few days before you sent Thor and I away but it appears to have now disappeared. Do you think this has something to do with what happened to the bifrost?"

"I think it has something to do with the mortal."

"What do you mean?" he asked his father, confused.

"It appears that black hole was actually a break in our timeline. Don't look at me like that, you also theorised there were alternate timelines. Anyway that black hole somehow converged onto the girl's timeline which it shouldn't have been able to do and the bifrost must have attached itself to the anomaly as it passed it. That is why she is here."

"So she can't go home?"

"Unlikely."

"We have to tell her."

"Not yet. I want to see if there may be another way to send her back, if not at least try and see if you can replicate that black hole.

"And if I can't?" Loki knew his father was asking the impossible.

"Let us hope you can."

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The day dawned with Stiorra rushing into your room like a whirlwind telling you to eat quickly while you just rolled your eyes and took another bite of food, settling back on the couch.

"Stiorra, isn't it too early for this much fussing?" you said trying to finish your mouthful watching as she rifled through your cupboard.

"Nonsense, Volstagg was very kind to invite you to watch him and the Warriors train and it would do well to look nice, not dress like a commoner."

"But isn't that what I am?"

"No you're a mortal, there's a difference. Now put on this dress."

Once you had both wrestled Áedán into his clothes you set off in the direction Stiorra had pointed. She had told you she wasn't coming with you as you needed to learn your way around, you'd only briefly been shown the way weeks ago and you tried without success to remember as you walked the corridors that all looked the same. Eventually Fandral found you looking lost and confused standing in the middle of the corridor unsure if you should go back the way you had come or continue on.