Thor has always been a terrible liar. If he mentions our skirmish in any way, shape, or form to his parents, I will personally make sure that live burial is the end of him. It isn't necessary to mention that Odin has never preferred Jötuns; it's a fact set in stone. So it doesn't come as a surprise when he aims his allegations at me, rather than his Asgardian son. I'm quite used to the blame, in fact. I've learned my lessons when it comes to my temper. There's one fundamental rule to challenging the All-Father- Don't.
Thankfully we made it downstairs and to the table, finding our seats with little altercation. That wasn't much of my concern, anyways. The conversation is what I'm more worried about. As we ate, I noted that I was placed across from Thor's father again, which made me sigh with frustration. The Æsir always seemed to stare at me with a burning hatred… but was "hatred" really the correct word? It was more like distrust, or even caution.
Frigga looked up at Thor with a smile. "How did you sleep last night?"
He nodded in response, mumbling a subdued "good" through his full mouth. I raised an eyebrow and looked away from his direction in disgust. How can these people stand him? He arrives home smelling foul and not bothering to shower unless he's ordered to do so, and on top of that, he speaks with his mouth full. Disgraceful. However, the goddess didn't seem to mind, as she kept prying to find out details of the uneventful night that she didn't know I had, alone, in Thor's bed… by myself… without Thor.
"Did anything thrilling happen yesterday evening?"
I gazed up at her. Was she serious? What was she insinuating? That I, being the "Jötun whore" that I was known as all throughout Asgard, had finally shown the least bit of sexual attraction to their son? Psh, as if I would stoop so low.
Odin cleared his throat, "Please…"
"I was away until the sunrise, Mother." Thor intervened. He had already finished his breakfast and I could see that uncomfortable look in his eyes. It was boiling with a passion and I knew at that moment that he was going to desert me. He removed himself from his seat as I stared at him with a scorching fury.
I whisper a "don't you dare" before I realized that he took no notice of me and exited through the doors we had arrived through an hour ago. Unenthusiastically, I thanked the two older gods for their "graciousness" and walked after Thor, who was too busy running from the breakfast table to hear me following behind him. As we drew closer to his bedchambers, I began calling to him, "What was that?"
"I was uncomfortable."
"Well good, now they are bound to know something is wrong!"
"Loki-"
"-You know, today, I feel like I'm going to cause a mess of a scene, first thing in the morning! Brilliant job, Thor!"
"Loki, stop."
"No, I won't stop, because I have had enough of your leaving at the early hours of the morning and returning hours later when the sun is up, only for your parents to believe you to have demoralized me! Oh, and they are so disappointed when you haven't! They lie in wait for me to be deflowered… and by their own son!"
He turned on his heel and stared into my eyes. "Have we not just stopped our fight moments ago? Loki, must you battle me every hour of the day?" His face displayed exasperation and exhaustion; so much so that it softened my being for an instant.
"…Shut up. I'm staying in your room all evening, so there will be no more conflict, anyways. I will be reading in bed until you return."
"It is still early in the day-"
"-I don't… care." I exhaled loudly, "I prefer to be alone with my books."
"My books." He corrected.
I walked past him, sighing and my eyes becoming two daggers piercing into his own. I stopped right at the foot of the stairway. "Thor."
He remained equally still, yet did not speak a word to me.
I mumbled through clenched teeth, "I hate you."
His lips parted, "Your feelings are mine as well, Jötun."
I nodded to myself, feeling my jaw tense. Placing my right hand on the railing, I ambled step by step up to the second floor. When I get into Thor's room, I'm going to take a nap, and no one is going to stop me.
There's so much fighting!
Sorry that this one took a while to get published. I wanted to finish this week of school before I finished because I had virtually zero time to work on it and I had too much stress anyway. I wanted this fic to be like a stress free process so I stopped working on it. Lol sorry I kept you waiting ^^
I hope you like it so far. I'm thinking that this may be one of my best writings in quite a while. I'm so excited to finally be writing again :D
