Chapter 7

Sigyn took a walk in the gardens to relax and get some fresh air hoping that that would keep her mind off Loki. She didn't want to forget completely for he was still her husband and she still did love him. She only hoped that the tension would wear off.

While walking in the gardens, she saw a patch of roses that were dying. She hated seeing dying flowers. This reminded her of her healing powers which she discovered she had when she was little. She hadn't used them in a very long time so she was out of practice. She was curious to see if she still had them. She walked up to the flower bed and knelt by it. She closed her eyes trying to concentrate. She then hovered her hand over the flower and put a little bit of pressure in her hand but not too much. Too much pressure probably would have caused the flower to experience the opposite affect it was suppose to experience.

She then let go of the pressure and opened her eyes to see what had become of the flower. It was alive again. A smile crept up onto her face because of her accomplishment.

The flower then decided to die again.

The smile from her face disappeared. When she was trying to save the flower, she did feel like there was something missing. She seemed to remember getting this feeling in her hand right before she healed the flower. It was like the feeling you get when you take a deep breath that lets you know that you are ready to exhale. She tried several more times and it took time to find that feeling. After about the seventh try, she decided to stop; it was taking all the energy from her. She felt so tired and night had already fallen so she decided to retire.

Sigyn layed in bed that night wearing a silky, white, low cut, revealing, nightgown that had lacey sleeves that were off her shoulders a little, she couldn't help but think of her family. What were they doing? Were they at all worried about her? Would they ever come looking for her? She hoped they wouldn't. She just wanted to live her new life with the people who she felt actually cared for her. Not the people who seemed to only want to control her life. What if her mother came to Asgard and tried to retrieve Sigyn. Sigyn assumed that her mother wouldn't try if she knew that Sigyn and Loki were married. Sigyn assumed that her mother probably understood that a husband and a wife must dwell with one another and to break them apart would be awful. But what if she didn't understand. What if her mother begged Odin to divorce them? What if Odin saw her side and thought it to be the right thing to do? That didn't matter. She and Loki would just run away in that situation. Of course they wouldn't want to but they would do anything to defend their bond of love. The thought of her bond with Loki never breaking brought her comfort and so she felt relaxed enough to fall asleep in her bed all by herself. She then sat up because she heard someone in the room. She gasped. "Is someone there?" she called quietly. She then heard the noise again but this time it was coming from the other side of the room. She started to crawl out of bed to check and see if anyone was there but then she felt arms wrap around her body and a strong chest push her back to where she was. She shrieked and look directly into the chest of the person who stopped her and placed both hands on the chest. She knew this embrace all too well.

"Did I frighten you?" asked Loki with a smirk on his face.

She threw her arms around his neck, "Loki!" she gasped.

His arms tightened around her waist. "You didn't worry did you?" he said as her nuzzled her hair a little.

She pulled away from him. "A little but not that much."

He placed a kiss on her forehead, "That's a start," he said smiling.

She placed a hand on his cheek and her other hand still rested on his chest. "After you kissed me like that...I knew that there was no way you couldn't return to me," she whispered.

He leaned his face towards her face and tilted his head to kiss her lips, "That's my little princess," he whispered before kissing her ever so tenderly like if he put too much force into it he could easily break her. It did feel that way for both of them in situations like these. Situations in which they held eachother while she was wearing something flimsy and he was wearing his armour. He felt that he had to be gentle towards his wife or else she might break.

She always enjoyed wearing a flimsy nightgown while he wore his armour and his cape. It made her feel even more like a princess who was in the arms of her prince and nothing could ever harm her. He then left her lips and grabbed a handful of her hair and pulled it over her shoulder so that he could smell it. He loved her scent. He then faced her again.

Sigyn looked into his eyes and she thought she saw tears forming in them. She placed a hand on his cheek, "Loki...whats the matter?"

He didn't answer and started to get up from the bed because he didn't like looking vulnerable infront of her.

She pulled him back to her, "Don't do that, love. Tell me what happened."

He looked back to her and a tear slid down his cheek.

She stared at him waiting for him to tell he what was wrong.

"Laufey was going to let us leave without a fight. I tried to get Thor to leave but he was too stubborn. We then faught and it wasn't going well at all. Then father came and got us out of Thor's mess. We came back to Asgard and Odin told Thor that what he just did was childish and he was not fit to be king. He then stripped him of his powers and then he..." Loki could not say what Odin did next.

Sigyn pushed herself closer to Loki at this point, "What happened?"

"...Father banished Thor."

Sigyn could not believe what she just heard, "How cruel," she said. "Do you think that Odin will ever let him come back?"

Loki took time to answer her question. "I don't know, love."

Seeing Loki cry only made her cry, "Everything's going to be okay, Loki...I know it will." She then stared at Loki for a moment longer. "I hate to see you so sad, my love...is there anything I can do?"

He then took her face in his hand and pulled it close to his face, "Let me kiss you like I did a moment ago," he whispered.

She sat there with her eyes closed waiting for him to do so.

He then pressed his lips to hers and his wish was granted. Her eyes fluttered as he kissed the corner of her mouth and then nuzzled her cheek. She then noticed something on the arm of the hand that was on her face. It looked like a really bad frost burn. Her eyes opened completely at this point. "Loki?" she said.

"Yes, my darling," he gasped expecting her to ask him to kiss her somwhere else.

"What's this?" she asked instead.

Once he realized what she was talking about, he stopped nuzzling her neck and slowly brought his face back to look at her. He was a little irritated at her discovering that. He didn't want her to know that he had gotten hurt somehow.

She didn't really care what happened or how he got it, she just wanted him to be healed. She turned herself around so that her back was up against his chest. She held his arm infront of her, closed her eyes, and hovered her hand above where his burn was. She thought back to the incident in the garden that day and tried to remember how she did it then. She felt a lot more pressure this time because it was the arm of a person and not just a flower. If she messed up, she could hurt him instead of heal him. "I can't," she said putting his arm down and feeling really bad.

Loki didn't know what was going on at first but then remembered that she did study a lot about healing when she was younger. He knew that she had to do it a certain way and if she didn't do it the right way, she would damage his arm further. He pulled her hair back behind her and whispered in her ear. "It's okay, Sigyn...I trust you." He then kissed her neck and nuzzled her hair hoping that that would relax her.

It really did relax her. She tried again. She built up enough pressure to heal his arm and then let that pressure out on his arm.

As she did all this, Loki sat there behind her trying to calm her by going back and forth kissing her neck and her shoulder.

She sat there for a moment longer with her eyes closed not wanting to see if she failed or not and enjoying the touch of his soft lips against he skin. She then opened her eyes and saw that she healed his arm. A wide smile graced her lips. "Loki," she said happily trying to get his attention.

He was then brought back to reality and he looked to see what his wife had done.

She then turned herself to face him again. "Thank you," she said softly.

He placed a hand back on her face again, "No...thank you. You have comforted me and healed me tonight. "

Everything he was saying made her smile very softly, "Anything for you, Loki."

"I let someone I love dearly slip through my grasp tonight...Sigyn...I promise you I won't ever do that to you," he said letting his fingers run through her soft hair. "I will never take back what I told you when I asked you to marry me...I love you, Sigyn."

She kissed him before saying, "I love you too," and then continued the kiss.