ASGARD (A THOR FANFICTION)

Chapter Sixteen: Unconditionally

I have this idea... Like how my life is supposed to pan out after I have gotten married. It's supposed to be something like marriage, honeymoon, and after a few years kids.

It literally went marriage and straight to work. Asgardians don't believe in honeymoons I guess, but I was ok. I was now learning how to become a Queen and it was pretty fun for the first few weeks. Nice and peaceful at times; hard and exhausting at others. I even spent a lot of the night before we slept complaining to Thor. He found it funny, but I was down right serious these people were crazy. Even here they thought of us as gods. They wanted us to do all the work and they didn't want to do any of it by themselves... Selfish. Very selfish people.

But I loved them and I know I probably would depend on me the same way they do if I were in there shoes. I was very tired and very overworked and sick. I've actually been sick for a very long time now and I've decided to see a doctor. At this exact moment I'm sitting in my room waiting for the doctor to appear.

"Queen Esmerelda?" I hear the doctor say as he enters. I stand up and turn to him. He bows and comes over to me. I smile and sit back down. He follows suit after. This will never get old.

"Hi Mahtia. I need you to tell me why I've been so sick." I am not beating around the bush. I don't like doctors and I never ever will.

"Would you mind telling me your symptoms?" He asks. The one thing I love about our doctors is that they never need paper. They can tell us what we have almost immediately. They only carry small X-Rays just to see if everything inside is how they are supposed to be. Mahtia won't use it until after I've told him what's wrong with me.

"Well I always have to use the bathroom, a lot of food makes me sick, I always seem to have to puke in the morning, and I can barely hold food down. I've been loosing weight fast and I can't sleep much. I'm always tired." That's basicallly all that's wrong with me at the moment. Mahtia nods and then pulls out the X-Ray. He roams my entire body, showing everything on the inside. Everything inside of me is running fine, there's no sickness growing, no health issues, except....

There was a small ball growing in my belly and it was pulsing. Actually it was more in my abdomenon. Mahtia smiles and looks up at me. What? I'm not catching on right now.

"What?" I ask him. He pulls back and straighten into a standing position.

"The only problem with you is that you need more vitamins and rest. You should pull back on some of your work and eat more fruits. At the moment I would say eat some crackers, drink plenty of water. I can perscribe you some pills that'll help. Morning sickness comes with pregnancy so there's nothing I can do about that. After the first term you should start to feel a little better and stronger." The only word that has completely stuck is pregnancy.

"I'm pregnant?" I ask.

"Yes you are." Mahtia walks out of the room and I stand in wonder. I was pregnant. My first child. Thor and I were going to have a baby! I laugh slightly as tears fill my eyes and spill over. I was gonna have a baby! I gently place my hand over my baby and start to think of all the things that'll happen for my baby. If it was a girl she'd have all the pretty things she wanted. If it was a boy he'd have all the fun playful things he wanted. Plus it would have a loving mother and father who would always protect them and lead them in the right direction. Loving grandparents and a realm that would devote their entire life to it.

I was so lost in my own happiness that I almost forgot about my training with Sif. I hurriedly run to the arena. She was waiting patiently for me and I knew I had to step out of this training. For my child's sake, so I would tell her but make her swear up and down that she wouldn't tell Thor or anyone else.

"Sif I can't train today." I tell her. She swings her sword and looks at me up and down.

"Yes you can. There's nothing wrong with you." She moves to grab a sword. I place a hand on my abdomenon and repeat,

"Sif I can't train today." It takes her a while to understand, but when she does the look of utter surprise and happiness makes me smile.

"No way!" She screams. I nod and she runs over and picks me up into a huge smile.

"What's the big news? Sif never runs like that or acts... girly." I hear Loki say behind me. Sif tenses a little, but I whisper fast into her ear not to tell anyone.

"Maybe it's becuase you aren't manly enough to be girly around." Sif answers turning to him. He's got that slim ball smile and I swear I wanna wipe it clean off.

"Oh, I've been told I'm manly enough." Loki answers and then looks at me. "Won't you tell me about the happy celebration?"

"Of course." I tell him. Sif looks at me crazily but I continue on. " I was just telling Sif about my plan for dinner with Thor. Would you also like the details of my dress?"

"Definetely not. Enjoy yourselves...." He turns around and adds on an after thought, "While you still can, and Esmerelda. I really am sorry for you." What? What was he talking about? I wanted to chase after him, but at that moment the castle shook. Something had hit it. I gasped and steadied myself then one thought hit me.

"Thor." I gasped and took of running.

"Esmerelda!" Sif yelled behind me, but I couldn't stop. I needed to make sure he was fine.

The castle was in havoc. People were running to get away from the middle of the castle and soldiers were advancing forward and being thrown back. I pushed hard between people. I needed to know what was going on. I could hear screams and shouts and laughter. The laughter was sick and twisted and left my insides cold. I needed to get to Thor.

"Move!" I shouted at two soldiers who were blocking my way. They turned in shock and I slipped past them. It took them a while to figure out they hadn't done their job. They were supposed to keep me away from harm, not let me advance towards it.

"Stop the Queen!" some soldier shouted, but I was already too far ahead. I wasn't letting them grab me until I knew where Thor was. I moved farther in and that's when I saw it.

A man in black held Thor above the ground. Thor was unconcious and he floated in the air, blood dripping down his chest.

"THOR!" I screamed in horror. The scream seemed to wrap around the entire castle and make everything scream in pain. The people all seemed to fall in pain, even the man holding Thor up. I moved to get closer, but someone grabbed my arm. I reallly didn't want to hurt anyone, but if I didn't get to my husband soon I would kill someone.

"Let her go! Let her see what becomes of her puny husband before I take him." I heard Sefrina gloat. I didn't even turn to look at her. I ran straight to Thor who was still unconcious. I grabbed his hand, his face, everything but he didn't wake up. I started to cry.

"How lovely. You do love Thor well guess what? I'm removing him from this castle. You can stay.. For a little while, but I'll be back and I will take you. Ha ha. To think you had a chance." Sefrina was saying.

"Enough Sefrina. She's been hurt enough." I felt a thrill of shock go through me. I looked up to see the man dressed in all black pull his hood off. Now I could see the chocolate brown hair, the blue eyes, the broken nose that I knew so well. The one I hadn't seen for years.

"Daddy?"

AUTHOR'S NOTE:

oooooh..... Ok please COMMENT, FAN, VOTE!!!!! I look at them when everI can and I do answer them when ever I can

The song on the side sums up Esmerelda and how she loves. She loves completely and unconditionally and her love blinds her, but also makes her stronger. This song really suits Esmerelda.