My greatest hero

chapter 44

After a few days of laying in bed, to weak to do anything for himself, loki finally started to regain his strength. he was starting to feel more normal, and he no longer had nightmares about Eira.
"What do you think you're doing?" Eira asked coming into their chambers, seeing loki sitting up in bed, and half dressed, with the rest of his cloths folded next to him.
"Well I think I'm getting up, what do /you/ think I'm doing?" he said sarcastically.
"Loki, you can't get up yet, you can't even walk" she told him, standing in front of him.
"Yes I can" he said as he stood up, he was now standing right in front of her, and she had to look up at him in order to see into his eyes, she had forgotten how short she always felt when standing next to him, and suddenly she felt less powerful.
"And I'm tired of sitting in bed all day doing nothing" he said looking down at her, and taking her hands.
"I'm not falling for this" she said looking him in the eye.
"Falling for what?" He asked in a whisper, and with a smirk.
"You. With your blue eyes staring at me, and you soft voice, and how you whisper and get close to my face, and hold my hands, and this time you even took your shirt off. But I'm not that foolish, I know you're just trying to manipulate me so you can get up an walk around, but I'm not going to let you" she said, feeling as though she caught him at his own game, but the smirk didn't leave his face.
"I've let you get to know me a little to well" he chuckled and leaned down to kiss her.
"Still not letting you leave" she said after he was finished, he laughed.
"Alright, fine, I'll stay here. But you have to keep me company" he said sitting down, and pulling her down with him, he started to tickle her and she started giggling.
"Stop. Loki, stop" she said through her laughter. He moved her so that he was now laying on her back and he was sitting next to her, continuing to tickle her. Listening to her laughing and giggling, and seeing her smile made him forget all his pain, he was laughing at her playfully trying to break free, and her bright eyes, and wide smile.
For the first time in a long time he felt a happiness that had been forgotten when he was tortured, he just felt like things couldn't be better.
"Loki, please, stop for one second" she said, still laughing. "I need to breath" she continued, he stopped and let her catch her breath.
"I told Fandral I would help him with something, let me go tell him I won't be able to assist him today" she said, he couldn't really argue with that, so he let her go. He sat there for a moment before hearing a voice.
"Loki" it said, he felt a shiver run down his spine, he knew that voice, it had been haunting him for years now.
"Mother?" He said before turning around to see his mother standing on the other side of the bed.
"So you're calling me 'mother' now, things have changed since the last time we spoke" she said coldly, he tried to swallow his tears as he remembered those horrible last words he spoke to her.
"Mother I- I was angry, I was hurt, I just- I didn't mean what I said, please, believe me" he said, with tears forming in his eyes, frigga was always an emotional weakness, and every time he thought about her his heart ached.
"Loki, my son, I died because of you" she started.
"No, please don't" he begged, knowing where she was going with this.
"Your anger broke my heart, destroyed a family I tried so hard to keep, and then killed me" she said in a voice that tore his heart to pieces. "Please, I-" he couldn't finish, tears were falling down his face."Don't let Eira see that" she said. "You've been so needy lately, if she sees you crying she'll realize what everyone else already knows; you're weak" she spat at him coldly. He covered his face with his hands, "why does she always come when I'm happy?" He said to himself, he looked back up and she was gone, he then heard the door open, and Eira walked in.
"Loki, what happened?" She asked, he shook his head.
"In fine" he said wiping his eyes with the back of his hand.
"Why do you always do this?" She said shaking her head "why is it so hard for you to let people in" there was a moment of silence. Before he spoke.
"Because I don't want you to think I'm weak." he mumbled.
"Loki, I don't think your weak, after everything you've been through, I'd say you're pretty strong" she told him, standing in front of him again. "you could cry every day and I wouldn't think any less of you, I love you loki, now and always " she said, putting her arms around him, letting him rest his head on her chest.
"When We got married, we promised to take care of each other, if that means sometimes I act more like your mother, that's fine" she told him. He wrapped his arms around her waist.
"Thank you" was all he could think of to say. His smirk came back, and he started to tickle her waist again.
"Hey!" She half shrieked. He pulled her down, forcing her to lay down next to him again.
"But right now I want want you to be my wife" he said in a playful tone.