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Chapter 4
"Loki, go talk to her," his father said. Loki looked at him.
"A forced courtship? This seems barbaric," he responded.
"You are my son, and I want what is best for you. That means keeping you alive." He walked toward Loki.
"What is this sickness I have, father?" King Odin clapped his hands at his sides.
"It is a curse, a curse of the rulers and the Gods. It is rare that they survive. Yet I had it and found healing when I was ordered in a forced courtship with your mother." There was silence in the room. "Loki, go talk to her. You may hate each other now, but as time goes on, you will grow to love. She needs to believe that she is a Goddess."
Loki stared at his father. This was no joke on his father's end. This is one of the few time that he did has his father truly said. He went to go talk to the mortal Goddess.
The door slammed shut making Ditto jump. She had not been aware that it was opened. Sitting up in the bed she looked at Loki standing at the foot of her bed.
"Hello," he said, he put his arms behind his back and waited for her to respond.
"Hi," she said. He looked serious, like he was on a business trip.
"Let's make a deal," he said. Ditto looked him up and down as she stood up. He wasn't that bad looking. Stop it Ditto. You do have a boyfriend.
"What sort of deal?"
"I don't exactly want to do this, and I know you don't want to be here. I will take you back to Earth once we have father thinking that we are, well, courting." Ditto thought this over. She did want to go back to Earth. That was a given.
"Deal." She stuck out her hand to shake, but Loki took it and kissed her knuckles with a twinkle of something in his eyes.
"I will come by to gather you for lunch in three hours," he said dropping her hand and walking out of the room.
What the hell just happened?
It had almost been three hours, about ten minutes before Loki promised to gather her. Sliding off her bed, she tried to look at the shoes one more time. Retrying them all on, they were all too small. Just because one is tall does not mean they have small feet. She stood up and went to check her blood sugar. When she pricked her finger, there was a knock on the door.
"Come in," she yelled. The door opened and closed. She swiped the blood of her finger and put the new blood in the meter.
"You are bleeding," Loki said over her shoulder.
"Not for long." Ditto put the plastic blood container in the machine, and it told her a number-100. Ditto stood in awe.
"Again, perfect."
"My brother did take you to a healer, correct?" Ditto nodded "Then why do you test to see of it worked?"
"I have been sick with this since I was five. Half of it is an old habit, but nearly 15 years of having to keep track of my blood sugar does not go away because someone made their hands glow." Ditto turned and looked at him, their eyes meeting for a moment. She lowered her eyes to end the staring contest. She had not realized how close to her he really was.
"Are you ready for lunch then?" Loki asked. Ditto nodded. Loki stepped back and extended his arm for her to take. She looked at him trying to say with her eyes that it was too soon, when really she did not want to get shocked. I detail she was not going to say. Loki put his arm down.
"After you, my lady," he said. She bowed and walked out of the room. If she felt the charge of electricity when King Odin touched her, what was going to happen if she touched Loki? That would be on her own accords and may cause her more pain than when she was touched. Nope, too complicated to think about.
The two of them walked down the halls side by side not saying a word. It was not awkward, or at least not for Ditto. She just wanted to take it all in. Loki was walking on her left side and she was against the wall. Turning to look at everything to her left, she saw an archway.
Ditto stopped walking in the direction Loki was going and walked to the archway which appeared to lead to a garden with a large fountain. She put her hand on the wall and took a step outside, electricity surged in her body faster and hurting her more. She took a step back, and the current stopped. Her body tingled feeling the leftover shock in her arms. That was not cool.
"The others can eat ahead, and we can step out to the fountain if you desire," Loki said coming up behind her. Ditto shook her head.
"Maybe another time. I am ready to eat a small child," she said walking away from the arch. She rubbed her wrist and made sure that her sleeves where covering the cuffs. So, they get worse as they keep going. A list would have been great so this would not happen.
Loki caught up with her. "I'm sorry, but did you say that you eat small children?" he asked. Ditto stopped walking.
"It's a phrase. It means I am really hungry," she said quickening her pace. He led her to the dining hall.
"Lady Ditto, Brother! Come eat!" Thor yelled out. Ditto smiled. People, convocation, and food.
Thor would not stop talking. It was nothing against him, but it was all him. The battles he fought, the adventures he had, the people he had met. It was wordy but all boring. Ditto shifted the rest of her food around her plate with her fork. She looked up feeling she was being watched and saw Loki looking at her.
Damn, look at those green eyes. Shit! Stop it Ditto, you are kidnapped, remember, and have cuffs of doom on.
She did her best not to jump at the surge of power that shot through her body. The second time she swore, and it shocked her. Now she can't even think a swear word. Well, that was going to restrict things. It seemed like nothing happened. Well, that was going to change. Loki looked at her like he knew what she was thinking. Ditto grabbed her spoon and put it in the mashed potatoes. Pulling it out, she looked around and made sure no one else was looking at her. All clear.
Not really taking aim, she fired the food off her spoon into the air. She quickly and quietly put the spoon back in the food and began to eat. She looked up, and saw Loki had a grin on his face.
"Who struck me with the potatoes?" Thor boomed. "How dare they hit Thor." The table was in silence. No one answered. Then, he looked at the table of people. "All of you shall pay the price." He picks up food with his hands and started to throw it. People started throwing back hitting other people not knowing who hit whom. Ditto slid out of her chair and ducked under the table, only to find that Loki had already done so.
"Hi," she said. Loki smiled.
"I like it."
"You like what?" Ditto knew what he meant, but she was going to drag it out.
"Let the pranks begin." He pulled himself from under the table.
Prank Wars 2012! She pulled herself out from under the table and sat in the chair seeing that the food fight had died down, and the people at the table were laughing with Thor.
"Good sportsmen and Lady Ditto," he said while beginning to stand. Ditto nodded her head. Everyone else stood up from the table.
"I guess the meal is over," she said. She went to push her chair out but ended up grabbing hold of it for support when it started to move. Thor had pulled it out. "Thank you," she said.
"For the lady of honor," Thor said. Ditto got out of the chair before he could do anything else to the chair she was in.
"Please, it is Ditto, just Ditto" She said. She glanced around and saw that Loki had stiffened. Now the silence was hard. "Well, I should be going to my chamber," she said.
"I will walk you," Loki said. He did not give her a choice this time, and wrapped his arm around her waist. Her body screamed with pain, and again it seemed worse than before. Could he not feel it? Or did the cuffs restrict it to just her? When they left the dining hall, he let go, leaving the aftershock tingles in her body. They kept walking. She had seen jealousy before in her friends, and this was that. Loki was jealous of Thor. Time for damage control.
"I'm sure he was just trying to be nice," Ditto said. Loki scoffed.
"All he does is be nice."
"Well if he were to stop talking about himself for a moment it would be nicer," Ditto said. That was not supposed to come out; that was supposed to be in her head. Loki grinned.
"You may find tuning him out to be an option for you, Goddess of Tricks." Ditto rolled her eyes.
"I play pranks, I trick people, and I lie during the tricks and pranks. Ask my roommate at school; I do it all the time. How does that make me the Goddess of Tricks and Lies?" Ditto asked.
"You started a food fight in front of everyone, and no one saw it was you. I think you can do more than you think." Ditto shook her head.
"I can sneak around. I have a twin brother, so I had to from an early age." Loki smiled again getting closer to her. "All my best tricks were tried out on him."
"And what might those tricks be?" she asked.
"You will have to see. You did start the prank war." She smiled pulling herself back. She had to not touch Loki. Loki smiled and snapped his fingers.
"The games have started," he said and walked away with a bow.
"What did you just do?"
"Magic."
"Yeah but what?" Loki smiled
"You will have to wait and see." He said over his shoulder. Oh, that was not cool. She walked into her room, not knowing what awaited her.
The next few chapters are going to be longer, things are going to be happening and it is going to get good.
Till next time
