Heaven Sent (Loki/Asgard Fanfiction - Aislinn's Story)

Chapter Nine

Aislinn waited until they were outside, down away from the house, behind the pool, near the gate that opened to the beach, then she pounced. "Do not say anything about Dad, our bestefar, or Asgard." She whipped about to pin Selig with a steely glare. "Please."

"Why?"

"Because I haven't told him about our family yet, Sel. I don't know how to work it into the conversation. Hi, I'm Aislinn, want to see me make an elephant appear? He'd be all kinds of freaked out and I like him. A lot."

"Yeah, so I gathered. You spent the night with him." Selig folded his arms over his broad chest.

"Oh, don't look at me like that. How many women did you spend nights with before you got married? And anyway, that's beside the point. I like him, Sel. He's a nice guy."

"So what have you told him?"

"Almost nothing. I've managed to dodge most of it for now." With a heavy sigh, she sank back against the black iron fence. "And I hate doing it. I hate lying and I hate having to remember what I've told him and what I haven't told him. I want to bring him home, to have him meet Mom and Dad--and if you tell either one of them I've spent the night with him, I will conjure up the noisiest toys in the world and give a dozen to both of your sons."

"I won't say anything."

"Promise me."

"Al."

"Promise me, Selig. I mean it."

"Okay," he sighed, "I promise. But you have to tell him. Trust me, you have to be completely honest with him. And I know this all too well."

That was true. Selig's womanizing past nearly sank his budding relationship with Celia, whom he'd loved since they were children, so he definitely knew of which he spoke.

"I don't know how." The wind picked up, sending her hair whipping about her face as she turned to stare out at the water. Whitecaps dotted all the way to the horizon, but unlike Asgard, that horizon didn't signify the end of the realm. But it did mean the same thing, a storm was most likely coming their way.

"You have to find the way, then." Selig draped a brotherly arm about her shoulders. "Trust me, Al. If you wait and he finds out, he's going to be way more pissed off than if you tell him now."

She raked several dark strands away from her eyes as she peered up at him. Ever since they were children, he was her best friend. They shared almost everything, even now, and there was no one in all nine realms she trusted more. "He is going to freak out, Selig. Don't even try to tell me he won't."

"No, you're probably right." Selig pressed her closer. "But, then he'll get over it. If he likes you, and from the way he looks at you, I'd say he does, he'll accept it."

"What if it's too much, though? I mean, it's one thing to find out the girl you thought was an ordinary girl is the daughter of a king. But that she can do magic? That she can heal in the blink of an eye? That she lives in a magical realm with gods that were believed to only exist in mythology? That she's part giant who can turn blue on a whim or shift into any sentient being she wishes?"

"Then he's not good enough for you and fuck him."

"That's what scares me." She leaned her head against his shoulder. "I really like him. He's not like any other man I've gone out with. He's nice and sweet and funny and--and my gods, he's so gorgeous! He's a teacher, Selig. And he coaches football and wrestling and when you hear him talk about his kids..." She sighed and shook her head as the wind blew her hair across her face once more. "I don't want to scare him away."