Tabula Rasa (Unlike Loki: Book Two)

Chapter 15

(Anna)

I called for a couple of guards to escort the girl to the physician. They picked her up softly, helping her walk.

By had already stormed into the garden. When I got there, I expected to smell the sweetness of the flowers. Instead, a metallic, musty smell invaded my nose, making me cover my face with my hand to avoid gagging.

It was the smell of blood.

"By? Where are you?" I called.

"Over here!"

I followed the sound of his voice and ended up in the garden's center. There, I was confronted by large pools of dark red blood, almost black. It was a brown color in the places where it was thinner, dried out.

And there was a heart.

Dark and bloody and gooey. I had never seen a heart out of someone's body. It looked as if it had been slightly deflated, just laying in it's own pool of blood.

My head was spinning. Not only because of the scene in front of me, but because of the fact that we had a murderer on Asgard, and that they had taken the body.

"I'll have this cleaned up." I wheezed through my mouth. "Any ideas on who could have done this?" I asked By.

He shook his head. I watched as he thought, the gears turning in his head. "If someone ripped the heart out and then took the body, I'd guess it was a possession. But there's no way of knowing who was possessed."

My shoulders fell. This was just what I needed.

By and I walked out of the garden, and I called for it to be cleaned up as quickly as possible. I also urged that everyone keep their mouths closed. We didn't need panic to arise.

"I want extra guards stationed at and on the Prince's room. And that those guards stay near him at all times." Guards were scurrying about to my commands.

"What's going on?" it was Thor.

"There's been a murder. Heart ripped out and body taken." I said curtly. I had no idea what the hell I was supposed to do about this.

Thor stared at me in shock and then he turned to By. "Possession?"

"That is what I was thinking."

"How do we find out who's been possessed?" I asked, keeping my voice low.

"We keep an eye out. Look for any signs. If someone is possessed they only know the last thing the person was thinking about. Everything else they know would be gathered from common knowledge. So we start asking people things only they would know." By said.

Thor and I nodded our heads. "And when we find it?" I asked.

"Then we kill it. The original person is dead, so we kill it." Thor said sternly.

"Should we check each other?" By asked.

We nodded our heads in agreement.

"Thor? How did Loki die each time?" By asked.

"The first two were scares or fakes. He fell into a void, then he was killed by a Dark Elf. But the real one was when he was stabbed."

"By?"

Thor looked at me sadly. "By Anna, who was possessed."

"I'd say you're good." I looked at Thor, telling him he had nothing to be sorry for.

"By? What happened the first time we met?"

"We laid together."

Thor's mouth dropped open. "You slept with him?!"

"Shh! Yes, ok?"

"Anna? Who had you in custody for 7 years on Midgard." Thor asked.

"Hydra disguised as SHEILD." I said plainly.

"I think we're all good. No possession here." By said.

"Possession? Who's being possessed?" Torren came up behind me and wrapped his arms tightly around my waist, setting his head on my shoulder.

I saw By eye him suspiciously. "There's been a possession. We don't know who." his voice was low and quiet.

"Ah." He kissed me on the side of the head. "Come with me."

I followed Torren as he lightly tugged on me, waving goodbye to By and Thor, neither of whom looked happy at my leaving.

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I knew he was taking me to his chambers.

He began kissing me passionately and nearly ripped off my clothes.

He picked me up and set me on the bed, our naked bodies smashed together. He kissed me and touched me. Making me climax again and again and again. He kissed and touched me all over. Then, he went inside me, no warning at all, and began pushing against me. I moaned, biting my lip.

When he was done, he pulled out and then rolled me over, picking my hips up so that I was on my hands and knees. We had never done this before.

He quickly went at me from behind, moving impossibly fast and terribly rough. I screamed out in pain and tried to pull away, to tell him that it hurt. but he kept going, pounding his body against mine.

He let go inside of me, and pushed me away. I fell onto the bed, wincing. He began to lick me, and I pushed his head away. "What the hell?" the hurt was in my voice.

"I thought we would tease the boundaries between pleasure and pain." He smiled slyly and stuck his fingers inside me, making me squirm. I hurt and I didn't want him anywhere near me.

"Stop!" I yelled, angry.

He did, and looked up at me. "Oh, come on now. I'm making an honest woman out of you. That's what your king is supposed to do." He began kissing my stomach and grabbing at my breasts.

And then it hit me. "And I am soon to be your Queen? To stand beside you, as you are the current King of Asgard."

"Exactly." He sucked on my breasts.

I nearly threw up.

Whoever this was, they were obviously very powerful, being able to possess someone. They were not someone to mess with, or make angry.

And that also meant that Torren was dead.

I had to blink several times to keep the tears away. Things were just starting to get somewhere with us. We were happy. We were in love.

And now he was dead, his body being used by this monster. This monster who had ravaged me over and over again. Who thought my body belonged to him, that I was their to satisfy his needs.

He, whoever this was, began touching me again. I let him. I didn't want to make him angry or suspect that I was on to him.

Soon, he was inside me again, grunting as he pulsed against me. I cried out, pretending that I was enjoying it.

I tried to keep my fear from showing as he went again and again and again, never letting my body rest.

When he was finally done, he held me to his chest, stroking me with his hand. He held our hot bodies together as I tried to stay calm.

I hurt so badly.

He fell asleep, his hand resting on my lady part, in between my legs.

I cried silently against him, terrified.