The Winter's Sun (Bucky Soulmate Fanfiction)

Chapter 7: Little Star

AN: Something to note would be that Elysia calls Frigga and Odin mother and father, seeing as that is the more formal name for them, while she refers to her birth parents as Mama and Papa. I imagine the younger children of Asgard calling their parents that and since Elysia never really got to meet hers, she would have never stopped referring to them as such. It also made it easier to create a distinction about who she was talking about.

Ek ann þér: I love you

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Elysia had gone to see Eir that night but the healer could not give her much insight into what had actually happened. Without being able to witness it in person Eir did not have any way to measure the pain nor find its source. The best she could offer Elysia was that it was a side effect of the stone. After all there had never been another to absorb a part of it, giving them no precedence to use as a judge.

After that whenever she was hit with a wave of cold, or struck with the sharp pain in her head, it never lasted more than a few moments and it was never as bad as the first time. Elysia determined that there was nothing that could be done about it and that she would just have to live as though they were nothing more than minor inconveniences.

Another thing that had left her puzzled were her dreams. They were few and far between but occasionally she would dream of a man who was holding a strange looking item in his hands. She could never see his face, but when he would lift the object there was a loud sharp sound and a figure would crumble to the ground in front of him. The only thing she could ever see clearly was an image of a red star, but that did not provide her with any significant clues.

A shout from the outer courtyards drew her attention and she sighed deeply. She knew that this must once again be the cause of her two brothers. She pushed her food away and walked quickly to the source of the shouting. What she saw upon her arrival was not shocking.

Laying on the ground was Thor, holding his bleeding side while Loki stood off to the side with a bloody dagger. When it looked as though Loki were going to make his way back to Thor, she shot her hands out in front of her, creating a shield around the eldest.

Loki whipped his head in Elysia's direction, taking note of the large scowl on her face and pouted. "Why must you ruin all my fun sister?"

"Fun?! You call this fun? You stabbed me Loki!"

With barely a head tilt in Thor's direction Loki tossed a reply back to him. "You act as though this is something new. Quit complaining, it did not even go in very far, you are fine." He was telling the truth, he had merely jabbed straight in and out, hardly called for all the fuss that Thor was putting up. Obviously by the indignant look upon his face Thor did not share the same sentiments.

"Loki I am sure that is not the point he is trying to make. You cannot just stick him with a dagger whenever you so feel like it." Elysia tried to be a voice of reason, but she doubted that it would help any. For months this had been going on between the two of them and for the life of her Elysia could not figure out why.

"It is not because I just so happen to feel like it." This time Loki turned to glare at Thor, who started to look a little sheepish, "He has broken yet another promise to me. He was supposed to accompany the two of us in the gardens yesterday for our lesson and I've just come to find that he abandoned us to explore the marketplace with those three commoners."

So that had been why Elysia's lesson was postponed. After getting over her initial shock at the amount of venom in Loki's tone, she realized the words that he had actually said. "Loki, you cannot call them commoners. It is ill mannered and untrue." She understood his frustration, she herself still did not care too much for the three boys Thor chose to stick beside. But at the same time she understood that it was her eldest brother's choice to choose his friends, that was not something her or Loki could take from him.