Frozen Love

Chapter 25

Chapter 25

My breathing hitched in my throat as I froze in place looking at Loki who was only a mere inches from my face. He still had his wide grin on his face but seemed amused for some reason. There was silence between us and I couldn't take my eyes off of him, his icy blue eyes staring deeply into mine, I felt almost exposed like he was looking right through me. I felt a tingling sensation in my head and furrowed my brow, the sensation soon turned to pain.

"Shit!" I hissed in pain

I could see Loki's amused expression and he stared harder into my eyes, I felt as if someone was going through my brain, searching my thoughts, my memories, my feelings almost like it was a filing cabinet and they hadn't found the right file yet. I soon realized that it was Loki trying to enter my brain and he was searching for something. I imagined walls up around my brain blocking him from my memories and thoughts. It was working for a short time and he broke his stare and chuckled.

"Not bad for a mortal" he stated

I could feel him trying to infiltrate my mind again and he was slowly breaking down the walls I had built. I shut my eyes and tried reconstructing them but I also had another idea, I put up a "fake" memory reel, I thought of random thoughts and things that I had seen other people do but replaced them as my own thoughts.

I had "me" running around and bouncing a ball before I fell and scraped my knees and looked at my bleeding knees before limping home and bandaging them.

There was a moment where I had been shopping in stores looking at clothes.

Reading in my pillow fort.

Eating my favourite pop tarts.

Getting a haircut.

Running in a field of grass and flowers.

Walking in a forest.

Swimming.

Putting Make-up on for the first time.

Hugging my stuffed animal.

Laughing.

Being happy.

I was thinking of any random thing or fake event that I could place in this slide show, but then I couldn't help myself but to think about Edna. The elderly woman who gave me advice and handed me the smooth green stone, I was remembering our conversation, and the way she looked at me kindly and didn't treat me as if I was a freak or a mistake.

All of these things were running through my head as an extra barrier to my bullet proof walls I had around my brain. I could tell Loki could see these images and wasn't getting past them especially the memory of Edna. He had dismissed all of the little fake memories and now only saw my thought about Edna, the real memory.

Once he realized he couldn't get past it he lowered his gaze to the floor and almost looked tired. I guess mind control takes a lot out of you.

When he brought his gaze back up to mine he stared at me blankly before smiling. It was very unnerving and I was getting noticeably uncomfortable. He seemed even more amused at my discomfort.

"What?" I said finally having my fill with the staring

"I should have given you more credit" he said still smiling

"Nobody has thought to put up a reel of memories as an extra precaution to prevent me from seeing into their minds. Given they were fake memories that I easily surpassed, but..." he paused

"The real memory you had thrown into the mixture was very strong. Powerful. I could feel the emotion you had to this memory. Who was that old woman?" he asked still standing very close to me.