My greatest hero

chapter 41

Loki was laying on the healing table, he had fallen unconscious pretty much right when he got back to asgard. The healers were cleaning him off, trying to get the blood off of him, he stayed asleep until Eira started to wash the blood out of his hair, right when she touched him with the water, he woke up. he started to panic, all the healers surrounding him made him think of when he was being tortured, and the water did the same thing. "Hey hey hey, it's okay, it's just me" Eira said calmly to him, trying to settle him down. He was so weak it didn't take much to get him to lay down, but he was still unsure what was going on, and was panicking, thinking he was going to be tortured again.
"Eira" Afya said, she was the only one who ever called Eira by her name. "I need you to try to keep him calm, I need to clean the burn on his side, and I don't want him to panic" she told her. Eira sat next to loki, she tried to get him to focus on her, but his eyes weren't even really open. Right as Afya touched his side, he started screaming in his throat, he couldn't focus on anyone in the room, everything was a blur, all he could feel was the pain. "Loki, loki, look at me. Loki" Eira said, trying to get him to see or hear her. "Stop, he needs to have a break" Eira told Afya. She stopped and loki stopped screaming, but he was still breathing hard. Eira didn't know what to do, she didn't want to just be torturing him further, but she needed to clean his wounds.
"Get him some food and water, he's probably delirious because he's been starved" Eira told one of the healers, realizing that he hadn't eaten anything since he got back, and was clearly underfed when he was a prisoner, she then took the cloth off of Loki's mouth.
"Afya!" She called, seeing the stitches on his mouth, Afya was shocked when she saw it, but was able to cut them out, he was still panicking when she came close to his face, but she was able to undo the stitches without cutting his mouth. The healer came back in with food and water, Eira fed him the food, and let him drink the water,
he was starting to come back to his senses now, he could see that he wasn't in the torture room anymore, and he could hear that it was Eira's voice, which made him calm down. Afya continued to clean his side, he held tightly onto Eira's hand, trying not to scream as she did.
"Can we move him to our chambers, I can take care of the rest" Eira asked, after they had taken care of the burn, a few places that needed stitches, and a few broken bones. "Yes, I'm sure that would be fine" Afya told her. They brought loki back to their chambers and laid him down on the bed, the healers left, leaving Eira to take care of loki. She took a small towel and stared cleaning all the cuts on his chest, he flinched every time she touched a cut, he held onto her hand again, unintentionally squeezing it every time something hurt. "Eira" he moaned her name quietly when she was finished. "Thank... you... for-" she could tell he was having a hard time speaking, he could hardly even open his eyes. "Shhh, it's okay, don't try to talk" she told him softly. She leaned down and gently kissed his lips, she put her arms around his shoulders and neck and held him up so she didn't have to lean down so far. In a few moments she realized he had fallen asleep in her arms, she smiled slightly and laid him back down, he shifted to one side so that he wasn't laying on the cuts on his back. She raked her fingers through his hair, and gently kissed his temple, when he had been laying still for a few moments, he took a deep breath and exhaled contently, feeling safe and comfortable. Eira looked at all the wounds on his body, she thought about how he had had his mouth sewn shut, she felt the hatred towards Embrey starting to surface, and wondered how anyone could do this to another person.
"Embrey, why do you find joy in the misery of others?" She said aloud with a sigh.