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Chapter 17 -
You ran as fast as you could, the breeze flying past you and hitting you on the face, you however didn’t care. You could hear the uproar a head, as well as smoke rising higher from god knows where. Your heart rate picked up as you could see the entrance to outside of the forest, upon reaching it you stopped to survey your surroundings, being caught by guards wouldn’t be good right now so you had to tread lightly. Nobody was about, but you could hear shouting and the sounds of metal hitting metal, you didn’t want to be caught up in the war, you just wanted to know who exactly it was attacking Loki and his men, you had hope that maybe it was Thor.
You had missed him, the amount of sleepless nights just hoping he was okay.
You decided getting back inside would be your best bet at finding out what was happening, you didn’t have a weapon having dropped the knife in the forest like a fool so getting wrapped up in a stupid fight was not on your agenda.
Before you could even make well on your plan someone had roughly grabbed your shoulder twisting you around to face them. You held an expression of shock at the sudden contact but your features changed when you saw who it was who had found you.
‘Sif?’’
She smiled at you, a tired one which looked forced. She had acted different with you once you got with Loki, like she didn’t trust you, but here she stood now looking worn out and like she might collapse her sword covered in dark red blood.
‘’What are you doing here?’’ She questioned you as she removed her hand from your shoulder and surveyed the area feeling on edge.
‘’I could ask you the same thing, where’s Thor?’’
She gave you a weary glance.
‘’Dealing with Loki.’’
You didn’t reply only nodded in understanding.
‘’I should go help him.’’
You stepped forward but she stopped you with the tip of her sword and you gave her a questioning look.
‘’I don’t think that’s a good idea.’’
You scoffed at her and stood back a little.
‘’Why’s that?’’
‘’You know why.’’
Her eyebrows furrowed slightly.
‘’Don’t be like this Sif, I’ve had enough of Loki just as much as you.’’
She gave a short laugh of disbelief.
‘’You’d have to be blind to not see you still love him.’’
‘’And you don’t think Thor loves him?’’
She pondered for a moment and sighed loudly, facing you.
‘’He won’t stop. It’s like he can’t, not even you can save him…’’
She paused.
‘’Not even Thor can.’’
You moved forward and she didn’t stop you this time.
‘’I want to be there; I owe it to myself.’’
You glanced at Sif to see if she’d stop you but she didn’t make any moves like she was planning to, she instead handed you her dagger and nodded in understanding.
‘’I won’t be weak anymore.’’ You whispered more to yourself as you grabbed the dagger in your hands watching your knuckles begin to turn white.
‘’I’ll have your back’’ She responded as you gave her a short nod and headed forward.
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As you made it inside it was eerily quiet, with all the noise of a battle going on outside you had expected the same from within but instead you were only greeted with a bitter silence and coldness creeping down your spine like a spider. You shivered at the feeling and made your way towards the throne room where you could hear talking, not shouting just talking. You couldn’t quite discern what was being said but you could tell the two voices…
Brothers.
You paused as your hands touched the wooden doors, you didn’t know what was stopping you but something felt heavy, like it was dragging you back. Maybe Thor could, do it? Maybe all along it had been him who could make Loki see sense and maybe the moment was now, you walking in could ruin it. You stepped back a little starting to feel unsure on what the best movement would be to make that was until you heard the shout of Thor.
‘’JUST STOP THIS.’’
You could hear the breaking in his voice and that’s when you knew you needed to be there. You pushed open the doors and looked at the two before you.
Loki standing on the steps of the throne, sword in hand as Thor looked up at him with pleading eyes, his hammer tightly in his hand. Loki didn’t even acknowledge you, he looked angry and so did Thor. You knew this day was coming and you hated the feeling of choosing a side, it was true you still loved Loki, it was stupid to go on denying it because what was the point? But you also loved Thor like he was your own brother and betraying him when he had done nothing wrong just sat weirdly with you.
You made your way towards Thor and stood next to him, and that’s when the both noticed you. Thor quickly made to hug you, squeezing you tightly as his shaky breath travelled down your ear. He whispered your name and moved away from the hug to look at you with searching eyes.
‘’Are you okay? Did he hurt you?!’’
You almost laughed but held back on it, now was not the time but you honestly felt sick. You wanted to say yes he had hurt you, but not physically in the sense.
‘’Thor’’
You turned to look at Loki as he watched on with no expression on his face, this was him at his scariest, when he wasn’t smirking, when he wasn’t playing or tricking, this was him at his most serious and you’d never be able to read him or what his next move would be. Thor followed your gaze back onto Loki as the silence grew thick between the three of you.
Thor felt torn, he didn’t want to kill his brother, and he didn’t want her to witness it either. He loved both of them like family, he wanted to help but, how could he? What could he do!
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Flashback…
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Thor and Loki sat under the sunlight, Loki was concentrating on a book as Thor lazily looked at the clouds passing by painfully slow, why was everything boring! He sat up and peered over his brother’s shoulder and groaned loudly.
‘’Why can’t you be normal brother!’’
Loki didn’t look away from his book and he gently turned a page.
‘’How do you know what you see as normal I don’t?’’
Thor rolled his eyes and flopped back down to glare at the clouds. He could hear Loki shuffle slightly and he peered his head up to look at what he was doing and that’s when he noticed it, off in the distance she stood, hanging up washing onto a line to dry in the sun. She held a grin on her face as she seemed to be in a conversation with another maid, both very happy and content going about their day. Thor looked at Loki watching him observe her until she went back inside, Loki went back to reading as soon as she left and Thor gave a sly smirk as he clasped his hands onto his brother’s shoulders earning a glare from Loki.
‘’So my suspicions are correct!’’ Thor laughed loudly.
Loki gave him a deeper glare.
‘’Whatever you are referring to you are greatly mistaken, like always.’’
Thor glared back at his brother but then cracked a wide smile and pointed to where she had been but minutes ago.
‘’So you weren’t just staring at her?’’
Loki scoffed.
‘’I wasn’t.’’
Thor laughed loudly and shook his head.
‘’I know love when I see it.’’
‘’Clearly not.’’
‘’Stop being stubborn, I’m your brother you can tell me these things.’’ Thor pestered.
‘’I don’t not wish to delve into my love life with you.’’
Thor raised an eyebrow.
‘’Oh? So you do love her!’’
Loki sighed shaking his head, while Thor pulled him in with a laugh.
‘’Hey brother, I’m here for you…if you ever need the you know…’’
He paused and then winked.
Loki gave him a disgusted look and shoved him off before standing up, Thor followed quickly not wanting to let this go.
‘’And what makes you think I don’t know about that?’’
‘’You’ve gotten laid?’’
Loki turned back and glared at Thor as he threw his hands up in defence.
‘’Chill, I’m joking brother, I know you have.’’ Thor winked as they walked back inside.
‘’But seriously stop holding back, because she likes you back.’’
Loki groaned as they walked off a head with Thor laughing loudly.
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End of Flashback…
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Thor shook his head as he glanced between them both.
You didn’t move your eyes from Loki as he kept his locked on you, that’s when Thor decided to end the painful silence.
‘’Broth…Loki, you’ve caused too much devastation for me to let this pass.’’
Loki turned his gaze towards Thor and took a step down.
‘’And what makes you think you stand a chance against me, brother.’’ He spat full of venom.
Thor shook his head and looked down at his hammer.
‘’I don’t want to do this.’’ He whispered but then he looked up.
‘’But you leave me no choice, we end this here. No one else gets involved, we fight to decide who gets the throne.’’
Your eyes grew as you looked at Thor and the determination on his face, you then looked at Loki as he took another step down.
‘’So be it, brother.’’
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To be continued.