Chapter 10 – One act of stupidity

When he had calmed down a little, Loki went to find his wife, and he ended up in the room where they normally met the Warriors. Taking a deep breath, he pulled open the door and walked inside, his eyes quickly scanning the room for Eris as the Warriors and Thor looked at him. His eyes eventually found her, or at least her foot, which dangled from one of the wall seats.

"I wish to speak to my wife alone." He told them, his voice dark and cold.

When she heard his voice, Sif got up and walked to him. "If you even think of hurting her, I will throw you head first back into Jotenheim." She warned him, before she walked to Eris and hugged her.

"If he hurts you, then please tell me." Sif told her, moving some hair from her face, seeing her shade features coming to light.

"I will." Eris whispered, watching her leave, before she looked back at her lap.

Sif and Loki glared at each other, as they passed each other, and he waited for the others to leave, before he walked over to his wife, spelling the door so that no one but them two could open it. When that was done, he moved to sat down next to his wife, though he didn't sit really close to her, just enough to be close.

"There is a lady, sweet and kind, who's never fazed or pleased my mind. I did but see her passing by, and yet I love her, 'till I die." He suddenly said his voice soft and calming as he looked over at Eris, who had started to smile.

"Quoting poetry?" She looked at him, her shade eyes rimmed with red from her crying.

"Yes, I thought that it defined you." He told her, holding a hand out to her and when she took it, he pulled her close to him, kissing her forehead. "We can try again." He whispered.

Eris looked up at him. "We weren't really trying in the first place, it was just sex to show that we loved each other, wasn't it?"

"Well...Maybe it was for you." He laughed when Eris hit him. "I jest, I jest."

"The God of Mischief, indeed." Eris thought. "Please don't say things like that Loki."

"Okay, I'm sorry." He actually seemed sorry when he spoke.

"It's okay, I forgive you, and I'm sorry too."

"What are you sorry for?" He asked her.

"The baby being killed and well, not knowing about it really." She told him, moving to cuddle up close to him.

"This wasn't your fault Eris." He told her, forcing her to look up at him, and he kissed her gently.

Despite the kiss only being gentle, Eris fell into it, deepening it and adding more and more passion, which left them both gasping for breath afterwards.

"Let's take this somewhere more private." Loki whispered, and at her nod, he unlocked the door and made them appear in their room. He watched her walk over and lock the door, before strode over to her and her back to the door, his lips against hers in a fevering kiss, before he pulled her legs around his waist, pushing her dress up to ball up at the top of her hips. As she was positioned against the door, she put her arms around his neck, pulling herself closer against him.

"I love you." She whispered to him.

"I love you to." He told her, his voice no more than a breathless whisper, before he pulled off her dress, knowing that she wasn't wearing much but her underwear underneath. She had stopped wearing her corset, because she had 'put on weight' for a reason that neither of them had known about until now. He moved to kiss down her neck and chest, stopping at the nipple of her left breast, and he took her hardened nipple between his lips and sucked it gently, causing Eris to gasp out his name. Whilst his mouth continued his torture, one of his hands started to massage her right breast, eliciting delicious moans from her, and after a few minutes he swapped breasts.

"Loki..." She moaned.

"Yes, my love?" He asked, stopping his sucking and now gentle biting on her breast to look at the pleasure on his wife's face.

"My turn." She told him sweetly, before she moved a hand into his pants, finding his confined, yet erect member easily. As she gently stroked it, she smiled, hearing Loki give off a low hiss, and he pressed his face into her neck, moaning against her as her hand pumped up and down his member.

"Fuck, Eris!" He managed to get out, and honestly that was all that he could get out. Well, that and: "Fuck, I'm going to come."

At his words, she stopped, and this made him press against her, groaning for more attention.

"Not yet." She told him, forcing him to look at her. "What you've asked for, is going to hurt okay?" She asked him.

It took him a while to realise what she was actually telling him, and he nodded. "I still want to."

She then kissed him, and ripped her clothes from him freeing his member, which with his help aligned with her wet opening. Loki was now too impatient to go slow, so he bucked his hips, entering her in such a rough way, that his kiss swallowed a small scream. With their earlier stimulation, it didn't take either of them long to reach their peak.

"Eris, I'm going to come." Loki told her, between moans.

"Come for me." She told him, and as they both let go, she pressed her fingers to his forehead, causing him to curse in what she presumed to be pain – she didn't know how wrong she was.

Afterwards, Loki had managed to get them to the bed, before he collapsedbreathing heavily as he lay with his head on her breasts.

"God that was amazing." He told her.

"You probably could have done without the pain."

"What pain?" He asked her. "All I felt was pleasure."

"Really?" She looked down at him. "Think of something."

"Okay..." He took a few minutes to think of something. "I love you Eris."

She looked at him. "I love you to."

He smiled as he heard her. "So, that's what happens when you perform Koontah?"

She nodded. "But now it's established, it can't be broken until one of us dies."

"Excellent, because I don't feel like dying, anytime soon." He smiled, kissing her lips gently.

"Me neither." She agreed, kissing him back.

The next day, everyone was gathered in Odin's hall, their eyes on Thor who was pacing in front of the steps. Odin was sat in his throne with Frigga standing beside him, and the Warriors Three were standing in their usual spots on the stairs. The only people – besides Thor – who weren't in their usual places, were Loki, Eris and Sif, who were sat in a line on one of the steps, Eris sitting between them. Loki had put his helmet beside himself on the steps and when Eris leant against him, he rested his head on hers, and he used a thumb to stroke her hand as he whispered sweet calming things through their mental connection.

"How long does it take, to get from a piece of sand like Tartarus, to Asgard?" Thor thundered, as he paced, holding tightly onto his hammer.

"Hey, that's my home world Thor."

"Shut it Eris." Thor told her, catching the warning look that Loki gave him, but before Loki could do anymore, an announcement that the remaining royal family of Tartarus had arrived. At hearing the announcement, Loki kissed his wife's hand and they all stood and walked to where they usually stood.

Eris stood up as she her parents and younger sister walk in, they all met her eyes, well except for her sister.

"I command to know, Odin, why I and my family have been summoned at this time." Her father commanded.

Odin looked at Eris, who threw the sword that the man, who wanted to execute the family yesterday, had on him at her father's feet. "Care to explain?"

He didn't even glance at the sword, instead, he simply shrugged. "I don't see what this sword has to do with my family, and my kin."

"Am I not your kin?" Eris asked him. "Am I not your flesh and blood?"

"Speak when spoken to." Her father told her. "You are a pawn that is all."

"You're a terrible liar." Eris told him. "You felt something for me, just once in your life."

At being called a liar, her father suddenly slapped her. "You were meant to die when you were a child; your powers were never meant to come to you once you were born." He hissed at her, his own shade features coming into play, just as Eris' did. "You disgrace our family; I wish you were never mine."

"Enough!" Odin thundered, and the other king moved away from his daughter, though neither of them went back to their previous forms. "Your assassin failed, we are all alive and well."

"That's a good lie, Odin." The Tartian Queen, finally spoke, and she was suddenly in front of Eris, her nails almost embedded in the skin of Eris' stomach, since her armour didn't cover it. "Have you lost something, daughter?" She sneered.

Loki watched Eris and her mother. "Talk to me, Eris."

"You wouldn't want to know what I am thinking."

"Yes I do."

Eris glanced back at him, smiling softly, before she looked back at her mother, when she was spoken to.

"I sense a change in you, you seem whole and your mind isn't on just war and chaos anymore."

Eris let her eyes met hers. "I'm married now." She removed the woman's hand from her stomach. "I'm happily married now, which means that I would do so much for him. Much more than a whore like you would do for my father."

The woman glared at her, and suddenly slapped Eris across the face and then left, though Eris looked at her sister.

"Ezra..."

The girl looked at her sister when she spoke her name. "Eris..."

"Don't be a pawn to them, stand with me."

"I can't." The girl whimpered, and she shrank back when Eris walked to her, though Eris decided not to comment on this and she used a hand to lift her sister's face so that they were looking into each other's eyes.

"Don't let them break you." Eris whispered, before she watched her sister walk away.

Odin looked at Loki, as he was about to walk to his wife, but one glare from him told Loki to stop and he did. When he was stood still, Loki walked to Eris, stopping at her side.

"Was it him?"

"Yes, Ezra told me everything." Eris looked at him.

"Then we need to get our revenge." Thor told them as he walked over. "We must make them fear us."

"No...That's the worst thing to do." Eris told him.

"I don't listen to shades."

"Maybe you should." Eris told him, turning to look at him. "Thor, if you want to go and commit ritualistic suicide, then please, be my guest. But trust me, lighting and thunder won't save you in my realm."

"For Lord's sake Thor, listen to her." Loki told him.

"Marriage has made you soft brother, before her you would have gone to battle without a thought."

"Your love for a human has made you even more dim-witted than before." Loki shot back. "I am not going to follow you into an unnecessary battle, where I will be away from my wife and have to travel to the belly of hell itself."

"Stop it!" Eris and Frigga suddenly shouted over the two brothers, and Eris walked to where Loki and Thor had squared up to each other, and she pulled Loki away as all of the Warriors done the same with Thor.

"I expected more from the pair of you." Frigga told her sons, before she looked at Odin. "My King, what do we do?"

Odin, looked at her and then to Eris and the others. "We will follow Eris' plan, we won't do anything, let him hurt one of us four and then we strike." He looked at each of them. "Now leave us."

After being given permission to leave, Loki and Eris walked to the rose garden, where Eris sat on the bench.

"Your brother is warmongering, and it's going to get him into big trouble Loki."

"I know." Loki sighed as they both looked up at their moon. "Are you alright, you got slapped quite a bit."

"I'm fine; I sort of have to be remember." She sighed. "Anyway, don't worry about me, but I am going to bed now, will you be joining me?"

"I will soon, you go and keep our bed warm." He smiled, watching her go. He went to join her after a while, and he slid into bed with her, pulling her close to him as they both fell asleep. Their sleep didn't last long, before a fierce knocking started on the door, causing the couple to groan.

"This had better be good." Loki muttered.

"Go away!" They both shouted, just as the door opened and the Queen walked in.

"Both of you get up." The Queen ordered.

"Mother, it's still early." Loki groaned. "What could possibly be so important, that it can't wait until it is actually morning?"

"Thor and the Warriors went to Tartarus, your father is bringing them back, but he might need you two on this side to help."

"Why doesn't that surprise me?" Eris muttered. "What do we have to do exactly?"

"You need to go to the bifrost, and bring them back, Heimdall isn't strong enough."

"Alright my Queen, I will bring them back." When the Queen left, she got up and got dressed, looking at Loki. "Come on."

"I knew my brother would do something like this, he is that idiotic." Loki mumbled, as he got up and dressed.

"So did the rest of us, but surely the Warriors have more sense than this?" She sighed, strapping her swords to her belt. "Come on, let's get this done and then we can go back to bed."

Loki took her hand as Eris made them appear outside of the Bifrost, and they both went inside.

"Heimdall, Eris, Loki!" Odin's bodiless voice called out. "Bring us home, and hurry!"

Eris walked to Heimdall's usual pedestal and she let her shade take over as Dark lightning started to appear in the same way that Heimdall's white lightning done in order to power up the bifrost. When it was ready, Eris suddenly pushed down on Heimdall's sword, and the group were suddenly in front of them.

Odin dismissed the Warriors so that they could go and be healed, and he looked at Eris as Loki helped her off the pedestal. "Thank you Eris, I can only imagine how much that took from you."

"Thank the Queen, she told me to." Eris told him.

Odin nodded, before he looked at Thor. "You are a fool!" He suddenly shouted.

"Why, because I wish to make people fear us, so they dare not to cross us?" Thor shouted back. Eris looked between them, then up at her husband who stood there stone-faced.

"You would risk the lives of your friends, of your family?" Odin looked at him. "You knew that I would come for you, that Eris would have to bring us home. Were you hoping to see them fall?"

Thor looked at his father. "The other realms laugh at us when we don't fight back; they think of us as weak and simple fools!"

"You are a fool for listening!" Odin yelled. "You are not worthy of these realms, your title or of the loved ones that you have betrayed! So I hereby, take your powers from you." He told him, as he made Mjolnir appear in his own hand.

"Father..." Loki started but was stopped by a cry from Odin.

Odin glared at Loki, before he looked back at Thor. "Thor, Odinson by the power of my father before me, as punishment for your crimes, I hereby cast you out!" Odin suddenly hit him with a beam of light from his staff and Thor was thrown back into the bifrost. Once he had removed Mjolnir's power, he also threw the hammer into the vortex, letting it close as Eris and Loki looked on in disbelief.