Close to You

Fellow Fool

"The dresser"
"No."
"The kitchen"
"Nope."
"Upstairs bathroom?"
"Wrong again, Thor"
"Freya! Are you even planning on telling me if I get it right, or is everything I say going to be wrong?" Thor was clearly frustrated with the lack of assistance he was finding in his friend, but what more could he expect from a girl who was utterly loyal to a fault?

"Thor, you're smart. I am sure you have the ability to locate him without cheating. You found me, didn't you?" The young god sighed and looked back to his friend. "You and I both know that I would never have found you had you not completely disregarded the sign on the balcony saying that the stone was not dry."

Yes, that is true. Freya had learned her skills from the best of the best, and had she not been distracted by the pure terror in hearing Thor nearly finished counting she would have remembered that the stone completing the balcony she had escaped to was indeed not done drying.

"Thor, please! Just look for him! If you fail to find him soon, he will never let you hear the end of it." As usual, Freya was correct. Loki was many things; kind, loyal, generous; but sportsmanlike was not one of those things.

"Alright, alright! I will keep looking, but you have to come with me. I refuse to run around this palace like a fool alone." Freya smiled excitedly and began to run in a random direction, "Well, are you coming fellow fool?" Thor smiled boyishly while rolling his eyes before he made his way over to run beside his friend.

It seemed that hours passed before Thor and Freya finally discovered where Loki had hidden himself. When they did find him, he was fast asleep in Freya's chambers; his snores being the only clue that had given him away and indicated his location to the pair that had searched for him. Freya, of course, had known where he had been the entirety of the game, but Thor would never have received assistance against Loki from the young goddess. Loyal to a fault, to say the least.

"You knew he was here the whole time, did you not?" Thor wasn't mad, just curious, and Freya knew this so she simply smiled, "Come along, Thor. We could all use a nap."

Loki opened one eye when he felt the two other kids lay beside him, "Hmm. You found me." Freya snuggled between the brothers, as she usually did, and put her head down on Loki's chest. She loved the sound of heartbeats, and her best friend's was her favorite.

"We will always find you when you're lost, even if it takes a while." It was a promise made while half into the dream realm, but it was a promise kept all the same.

:. little chapter to start us off. let me know what you think, constructive criticism is always welcome. -j .::