Bloody Blue Lips

Ch 17: Chocolate Chip Pancakes

The Present: 

     Kubera woke up feeling...well it was hard to put into words. Every minute he spent with Freya seemed to make him like her more. Kubera's arm reached over to the other side of the bed. He felt around for a while. Where's Freya? He wondered, opening his eyes to see she was gone.
Kubera sat up. She's been taken. He thought. No. It would be dumb to assume the worst. 

     He opened the bedroom door and was hit in the face with the smell of pancakes. He sighed and felt at ease. She was just making pancakes. 

     One foot fell in front of the other carefully. He watched her. She had stolen his shirt and wore her hair up to keep it out of the pancakes. She flips a pancake and it sizzled on the hot pan. 

     "Good morning," Freya said turning to face him. She smiled brightly. 

     "Pancakes huh?" 

     "The absolute best chocolate chip pancakes on the planet." She turned to take the pancake off the pan and then poured a new one. 

     "Oh really?" Kubera held her waist from behind and spoke gently into her ear. "I think I'll be the judge of that." 

     Kubera looked over to the stack of already made pancakes. He grabbed one and practically inhaled it. Then he chewed.

     "Oh my god." Freya laughed.

     "What?" Kubera had his mouth half filled with the pancake. 

     "That's gross!" 

     Kubera smiled with his chubby cheeks. Freya pushed him. 

     "Just go sit down." She laughed. 

     Kubera went to go turn on a movie of some kind. He was looking through the DVD's when two goons blast in the door. He turned to face them. 

     "Good morning fellas." Kubera was calm. He had gotten used to this but Freya seemed alarmed. Kubera purposefully brushed past her as he left, touching her back.

     "Both of you." One of the goons says. Kubera looks to Freya. She's confused. What do they need with her?

     "No," Kubera says. "You don't need her." 

     Both goons share a glance. One of them pulls out a gun. He shoots a dart into Kubera. Freya screams holding her hands over mouth. 

    Kubera's eyes roll to the back of his head. He falls back. The goon looks over him and shoots another dart for good measure. 

     Freya stands frozen. She loses her hearing. Her world spins. More goons flood the room. Camulus enters and looks at Freya. He stands tall and mutters something. Freya is shocked by the tiny electroshock mechanisms that flow inside her. 

    She falls into the arms of the enemy: Camulus.