Astro and Wonderman: (The Adventures of Team Pixie) Book 9: The Book of Secrets

The darkness that had entered the home

(1 week later)

(Loki's point of view)

When I heard what had happened with Pixie I cried even if I was drunk. I also no longer had the desire to drink at that moment. I simply just went into my room with cans of soda and stayed there for the duration of this week. I would try to save her but I knew it wouldn't matter what I would do this time. This time the time warp was trying to fix things up. The more and more I thought about it though the more and more it was seeming to be exactly like the past Pixie spoke of. Even our new sister Jess was in the past. I wasn't sure if that was a bad thing or not but I hoped we could live through it.

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Plete point of view

Loki was upstairs in his room as always now and Pixie had broken into another round of tears. She'd been like that for the past week. Just when we think she might be getting better she cried yet another storm.

We comforted her of course but I don't really think we were breaking through to her. Still we tried as best as we could.

We also had been spending some time with our new sister when Pixie didn't break out in tears. Sometimes we felt like Jess in a way helped Pixie through this little by little. It wasn't easy seeing her like that. In fact we'd never seen her so broken before.

Eventually as we all sat down on the table I had said "That's it. I can't take seeing two of my siblings so upset when there's nothing I can do about it. Why don't we go to an amusement park or something?" I asked.

"Yeah. An amusement park sounds fun. Can we go Daddy" Hope and Angel asked.

Loki just closed his eyes which to the kids was a sign he was at least thinking about it.

"Y.....you m....mean with......p.....people there" Pixie asked her voice getting high pitched and sounding very anxious all of a sudden.

This case Loki to pull Pixie into a hug subconsciously and he opened his eyes.

"It's a bit dangerous. I don't know" Loki finally answered the kids.

"You think everything is dangerous" Hope protested.

"I'm just trying to protect you guys. Can't you understand that?" Loki replied back.

"Things were better when mom was with us" Angel stated.

Now they've done it I thought. It was a well known fact by now not to mention her in his presence while she was evil. If you did he would go deeper into his own sorta darkness.

"Well.....Mom's not here right now is she?" Loki replied back with a dark look in his eyes.

"Loki, you okay?" I asked walking towards him.

"Stop asking are you okay when you know the answer to that question. I'm not going to be okay either until..........she meant a lot more to me than any of you guys could guess and she's not here right now and she's not gonna be. This is the time warp fixing itself so until she returns safely at home I'm never going to be okay again. Can't we just accept that and move on" Loki shot at me.

"I......it's all I really know how to do in this situation. That and comfort you but you only ever let me do that when your drunk" I argued.

"I appreciate your efforts but I'm too far gone for anyone to really save me at the moment" Loki told me.

Hope and Angel started crying a little bit again so Loki gave them a hug. "Daddy's gonna be fine" he sighed.

"Loki, I know you don't like talking about her but she wouldn't have wanted this. She would have wanted you to smile and be happy. That means something to you doesn't it" I asked.

"Maybe after some time I'll be able to smile but I can't right now" Loki responded his voice sounding very dead now.

Suddenly we jumped at another one of Pixie's storm of tears as she screamed Jason's name.

I was honestly scared and not sure what to do anymore. After all none of us had ever been through such a situation before.

Lex came in with a sad look on her face now. It had been raining and you could definitely tell from her outfit even though she had a coat on.

"I know what price I had to pay in order for me to save Pixie" Lex began.

Suddenly as if the life had been sucked back into Pixie she stopped crying and looked at Lex. She wanted to form words but they never got out. Lex already knew what she wanted to ask though.

"I can't have any kids" Lex voiced.

Pixie put her hand on her mouth as a whole other round of tears came. At least you could see a flicker of life in it here and there. Pixie then ran to Lex to hug her. Lex hugged her back knowing in Pixie's own way right now she was saying the words she wanted to say.

"Your more important to me okay Pixie. I'm just glad that your here" Lex told me.

Pixie didn't say anything back but the answer came in the form of the tears coming down even harder.

"Hey, it's okay" Lex told Pixie.

Pixie just held on to her for a while until she eventually fell asleep. So Lex put her on the couch and then looked around at the faces at the table. Loki seemed to be in his own head and everyone else seemed to have a little bit of a worried expression on their faces. This worry had even reached the kids faces.

"Can't we do something fun to take our minds off of everything that's happened so far for a little while" I asked.

"There's nothing left that's fun without her" Loki replied as he got up from the table and when to his bedroom.

I sighed as I came to the realization that things weren't going to change any time soon.