Sif blinked, unsure of what to say- if she dared speak at all. The black look Thor was giving her was usually reserved for his most hated of enemies. Apparently that grouping now included her.
Sitting up stiffly, some pain still left in her battered body, she looked out the window and then back at Thor.
"Just let me explain and then you can talk."
After taking a deep breath, she started to tell him everything about their daughter.
"By the time I found I was pregnant we'd broken up. You were courting some ridiculous princess from Vanaheim and Odin seemed to really want her so you could take her kingdom's throne as well as Asgard's.
Odin found out about my…condition from the healers- I'd gone to them for something to settle my stomach not knowing what was wrong. They told him before they told me.
He found me, dragged me off to the coast on a 'mission' and kept me there with your nanny until after the birth. I never even got to hold her."
Sif repressed a sob here, despite all her battle prowess, she'd always hoped to be a mother and that chance had been taken from her by Odin.
"The birth was rough, I cannot have more children and I cannot see Astrid. No one can. If either of us were to go to her, Odin would turn her mortal and banish her to Midgard for her short life- it's a threat of his that I do not wish to have carried out. You know what he did to Loki's children, ours would be no different to him- nothing will stand in the way of your glorious ascension of the throne."
A sigh, a deep heartbroken sigh, passed her lips as she sank back into the bed.
"I got to see her once- she's happy. Not that she would know me from any other stranger in the street…"
Thor listened in silence, steadily growing less angry at SIf and angrier at Odin. How dare he lock Sif away, take away her only child? Thor's child. Their child. And then threaten the babe for her parent's righteous actions?
He glowered out the window, vicious storm clouds moving in. Sif had lied (though it seemed she hadn't much choice), Odin had lied (no surprise there) and Jane would not like finding out that he had a daughter.
Lightning split the sky in half as his anger broke and his decision was made.
"I'm going to get Astrid and bring her back. I will announce she is my heir and Father will do nothing to harm her."
Sif just stared, had he listened to nothing she'd said?