ASGARD (A THOR FANFICTION)

Chapter Seventeen: We Fight From Within

I don't know which one of us spoke first. Me or the little girl. I think we did at the same time. Standing beside me is a beautiful ten year old girl. She's as pale as Thor and even has the same eyes. Her hair seems to be the same as mine and all the way to her waist. She's got pretty pink on that flows straight to the floor. It has that material that has a square neck to it and she's only 4'4".

The girl crumples onto the floor and starts to cry.

"Daddy?" the girl asks Thor. I stare in shock. Thor had a daughter? Why didn't I know this? I was his wife after all, I should know this. Shouldn't I?

"Wait. What? I didn't know Thor had a daughter." I say to the little girl, but then I remember what I was doing first and I looked over at the man staring down at me. He is my dad, but my dad's dead.

"You have grown so much Esmerelda." Dad says. He looks the same. 6'1" with black hair and blue eyes. The only difference is he seems to like the color black a lot and he's got lines on his face because of old age.

"You're supposed to be dead." I say matter of factly. He nods, staring down at me, but I stand up. I need my stregnth in this conversation. This is a sore spot for me.

"I know." He answers.

"King Oden murdered you in front of everyone." I say. Dad points and smiles.

"He murdered someone, not me." How can a person smile about something like this? He murdered someone.

"That wasn't you?" I ask. Dad shakes his head. "Silva? Avalion? Mother? What about them? Are they still alive?" It's a long shot, but I feel a little hope go through me. I wish they are alive. I wanna see them again. I would love to see how they look when they are so much older.

"No, I'm sorry but they actually died." Dad seems genuinely sad, but it kills me.

"Did you try to stop it from happening? Did you try to save them?" I ask. His face drops and he shakes his head. My heart feels like it's breaking. "You didn't even try? Avalion worshiped the ground you walked on! Silva was the one who woke up every morning to see you off to work! Mother loved you! They cared the world for you and you didn't go back for them?"

"I had to leave. If I didn't leave I would've been dead. You have to understand. The very fact that you are standing here alive says you didn't think of them either." He's trying to blame me. I feel anger stir inside me.

"I didn't leave. I was playing with Thor when your so called execution was called. I was walking home when I heard them scream for me, for you to help them. I ran there, but I couldn't help them. By the time I reached the house they were dead." My throat clogs and tears flow down my eyes but I keep on going. "I tried hard to reach them, but the flames wouldn't let me in. I burned my skin so many times to reach them with no results. Do you have any idea what I did at ten? I left the only home I knew to roam the streets of a mortal world until I was sixteen and got a job. I didn't give up on my family. They died and I'm sure it had nothing to do with Asgard, but with your pride."

"I-I didn't know." Dad says.

"Did you kill them?" I ask.

"What?" He looks shocked, but theres something too fake about it.

"Did you kill my family?" I ask again.

"Why would you ask such a question? They were my family too! Do you obviously think I would kill my own family?" He looks fake.

"Yes, please answer the question. Did you kill them?" I ask him.

"Oh for the love! We don't have time for this. Tell her Davarian." Sefrina says. I stare at her and she answers the question. "Of course he killed them. He killed them for me. I wanted them dead and I wanted him to myself. Yes he killed them." She smirks happily at the end of this. It seems she's relieved to tell me, but I seem to be having the opposite reaction. I have the urge to kill them both and the urge to keep Thor away from their slimey hands.