Dreaming in Blue

XI - Flower gleam and glow

"I didn't do it by choice," Nina spoke.

"It's alright if you don't want to tell me," Loki reassured her. He was extremely curious, but she didn't seem comfortable speaking of it, whatever it might have been.

"It's alright. I mean, you are going to have to know this one way or another," she mumbled. "I spent a hundred and fifty years on earth, Loki." This shocked him, to be honest. He wasn't aware of her situation. He thought she had gone to earth for a few years and could come back whenever she wanted, but by the sounds of it, she had been stranded on that god forsaken world for all of that time. "I didn't chose to go to earth, it was not my destination of choice. I lost my ship and just got stuck... in 1869. What I mean by that is; I was the first non-human some people had ever seen, some bad, bad people," she looked down, wincing st the memory.

"What happened?"

"They captured me. Along with a good friend of mine. And they wiped our minds and used us as their pawns, their slaves," she said with a look of disgust upon her face. Loki didn't have the courage to say anything. "For fifty years, I was in their hands. And then I got away, and met you a few years later," she said. "But those people they... they didn't treat us like people."

Nina stood up and turned around to face him. She lifted her shirt, to Loki's surprise once more, and slightly lowered the side of her pants. She brought his attention to quite a big scar on her lower stomach. Loki immediatly understood what those people had done to her, and he looked at Nina with a frown upon his face. They had castrated the poor girl.

"They said it distracting. So was the hair," she explained, replacing her clothes. "So they chopped it off to here," she gestured to her shoulders. "Otherwise it would get in the way."

"I'm sorry," Loki told her, honestly clear in his voice and his face. Nina smiled sadly at him. "I can make it longer, it you want." Nina frowned.

"What, like a spell?" Nina asked him. "It could be useful for the party."

"Not just for the party, I can make it longer permanently," he corrected. There was a moment of silence between the two. Nina looked at him as if she couldn't believe what she was hearing. "If you want, of course," Loki quickly added. Nina stayed frozen, silent. Loki wondered if he had said the wrong thing.

"Yes, please," Nina's voice spoke quietly.

"Are you sure? You look beautiful like this too," he assured her. Nina chuckled silently.

"I'm sure." He smiled at her and asked to turn around. Loki had used this spell many times. As a child, he used to have short hair, and his mother had shown him this spell to help him feel better.

He ran his fingers through her hair, closing his own eyes in concentration as he silently used the spell on Nina's head. It took him mere minutes, and when he opened his eyes, Nina's golden locks were long enough to reach her waist. 

"Open up" he whispered in her ear. Nina did so and stared. "Consider it an apology for abandoning you and my brother in Svartalfheim," he said with a smirk.

"Oh, you mean when you pretended to be dead for five years?" She asked. Loki's smirk fell, but soon enough Nina turned around and threw her arms around his neck, burying her face in his neck.

Loki was taken aback, but quickly wrapped his arms around her waist.

"Thank you," she said, her voice muffled. "Thank you so much."

"It's my pleasure," he said , a smirk growing once again on his face.

Nina pulled back and caught his lips in a kiss. A much heated, much needed one. Loki didn't even hesitate before kissing her back. They didn't know how long they kept that way, but after what felt like hours, Loki had to pull away to breathe.

They stared into each other's eyes, forehead against forehead, both breathing heavily.

"So that just happened," Nina commented in a whisper, not really trusting her voice to speak any louder.

"I believe it did," Loki agreed.

"Do it again."

"Gladly."