I realize lately I've had a lot of grammar problems in my chapters. D:
I'll try harder to proof read, I promise!
When Loki awoke, Enya was sitting by the edge of the bed, concentrating on her hands as she repeatedly lit them with fire.
She started at Loki's voice. "What are you doing?"
Enya looked up at him, slowly sitting up. She held her hand out to him, as if he could see as she saw. "I'm watching the atoms in my skin change as they turn into fire."
Loki glanced at her hands, then back to her face. "You can see that?"
Enya snorted and let her hands fall into her lap, eyes not leaving Loki. "Of course I can."
Loki noticed her change of clothing, she wasn't wearing her dress anymore, but her slack leather pants. He frowned, "How long was I asleep?"
Enya didn't hesitate or look away from him. "Almost a full day."
"Where is Thor?"
"Not around you." Loki's brows furrowed at her words and Enya continued. "You attacked him Loki, the next king, that will not be taken lightly, when you awoke I was going to try to explain about your hallucinations, but-"
"How did you know about those?" Loki asked, voice hard as he assessed her. Enya waved off his question and rolled her eyes.
"I know everything." She stated with a small grin; now Loki rolled his eyes.
"Does Odin know?"
"I'm sure by now he does considering he ordered you brought to him as soon as you wake." Enya shook her head at the question in Loki's eyes. "This won't be another tribunal, this is just going to be Odin, Thor, and me. No council; they're trying to keep this as discreet as possible."
"Am I going mad?"
Enya sighed and stood. "We must go to Odin now, by his orders. You might want to change, you've been in those clothes for almost a full day." Loki didn't mention the fact she ignored his question and silently nodded to himself.
Enya waited in the far end of his room while Loki changed, into the exact same outfit she might add, minus some of the belts and straps and battle gear.
She managed to give him a smile as he turned toward her, peeling his long leather coat off. Folding it in half and throwing it on the bed Loki reached his arm out to her. Wordlessly Enya complied and went to him. Loki wrapped his arm around her shoulders, tangling in her hair as his other arm went around her waist. Enya's arms remained by her side.
Loki chuckled slightly. "I wonder if you will ever respond normally to my affections."
"I wonder if your affections will ever be given in normal ways." Enya retorted, which erupted another laugh from Loki.
"Is this not normal?"
Enya smiled a bit and wrapped her arms around Loki's waist, not saying anything as Loki rest his cheek against the top of her head.
Loki was the first to pull away. With a sigh, he spoke and let his hands fall away, stepping back. "We should really go now."
Enya nodded and stepped back, giving Loki space to change.
Once dressed, they walked side by side to the King's throne room. Enya had sent a guard to inform Thor and Odin and knew they would probably already be there.
Upon walking into the room, Loki felt himself shrivel up on the inside. He did not want to be here, and felt dread make it's way down his spine.
Enya reached over and laid her hand on Loki's upper arm in a brief reassuring gesture. The action did not go unnoticed by Odin.
"Loki, my son, explain yourself now that you are up and well."
Loki felt hi face grow sour and held back a retort about not being his son. Instead he just shook his head. "I don't know why."
"Do not lie brother." Thor said, voice carrying out cross the room. Loki said nothing, but managed not to glare; instead he just balled his hands into fists by his side.
"Your grace, if I may speak." Enya said, stepping forward with a bow. A grunt from Odin told her she could carry on. "Your son seems to be-"
"Mad, insane, crazy," Loki said the string of words, a smile on his face as he held his arms out, "Of course I am, but it is the people in this room I have to thank for that, is it not?"
Enya glared at Loki, who just smiled in return. That was a low blow.
"Suffering from hallucinations, a side effect of the emotional and mental trauma his mind went through. His mind is having a hard time separating reality from fiction." Enya went on, pretending like Loki wasn't even there or had interrupted her at all.
"And this is why you attacked me?" Thor asked, eyes boring into Loki. Odin said nothing.
Loki smiled harshly, "It wasn't you I thought I was attacking. " Loki said, words sarcastic. Enya frowned and glared sideways at Loki. "Believe me, I know better now not to attack the precious son of Odin."
"Silence!" Everyone's eyes went to Odin as he stood, sighing as he did so. "Loki, My son, you have gone through so much recently." He began, walking down the steps, Thor following. Loki's face was a mask, no emotions playing on it. Odin addressed Enya now. "Do you think there is anything that can be done for Loki?"
"I do, with proper therapy and guidance, I believe he can get better."
"Then you shall see to that."
"Me?" Enya said, voice breathy.
"You are the only one here who can tamper with minds and know them. You will help Loki." The room lapsed in silence for a moment as Odin regarded Enya up and down. "Thor tells me interesting things about you and my son; I believe you will take care of him well."
Now the roles switched as Enya's face became a emotionless mask and Loki snorted, mouth breaking out in a sarcastic smile which everyone in the room ignored.
"You are dismissed, do not speak to anyone of the things discussed here today. I expect daily check in's with you Enya, Lady Tesseract, on my son's mental status; you are now in charge of his actions." Odin turned from them all abruptly and left the room.
Enya watched him go before turning on her heel and walked out of the room, hair instantly starting to float around her head.
Loki met eyes with his brother before turning and following Enya out of the room, nothing being said.
Once the door shut behind the two, Enya turned around and slapped Loki across the face. Loki stood there, emotionless and looked back at her slowly.
She turned to the two guards standing by the door, as if noticing them for the first time. "Leave." The guards outside the doors left, leaving them be. Enya turned back to Loki.
"What is the matter with you?" She screamed.
She turned, breathing heavily and speaks again, voice lower. "I am here, trying to help you, and how do you repay me? You accuse me of making you insane?" Enya turned to Loki, the air around her crackling. "You have no respect! You leave the ones who care about you hanging by a thread!" She clenched her fists together, as she turned her back once more to Loki. "Maybe I should have just let Odin banish you! You would have had your memories erased, and not known the cruel creature you really are. "
For the first time since Enya began, Loki's face showed emotion. "I did not ask you to-" He started voice hard.
"YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO LOKI!" Enya turned once again, stepping forward till her nose was almost touching Loki's. "I DID WHAT I HAD TO DO!" Stepping back and lowering her voice she pointed towards the closed doors. "You are so lucky, you do not get it. Had any one else but you attacked Thor, they would have been executed immediately."
"Oh yes, I should be glad. Glad for what exactly?" Loki threw his arms out, glaring at Enya.
"Glad that you have people who love and care about you."
Loki spoke, overlapping her sentence as he did, "Love me? They wanted to use me! I am not even their kind!"
"And you hate them because, because what? You're different? WE ARE ALL DIFFERENT LOKI! There are people who love and care for you; Odin is trying his hardest to cover up what you did today, to protect you. And then as soon as you slip up, you act all hateful to what, to cover your weakness; for pride? You are making it very hard for us to care for you. "
"Oh, 'us' now?" Loki started, "Enya you don't even know what it's like to care for someone, you yourself have never loved nor been loved; you wouldn't know a single thing about family or love."
Enya let her arms fall to her side, staring at Loki as if he'd slapped her, astonished expression on her face.
"I really thought you were getting better..." Abruptly she turned, and walked down the hall. Loki stood there, watching her go, not moving to go after her at all.
Loki made his way to his room, eyes staring straight ahead, hands clasped behind his back. Normal.
He walked to his room, opened the door, shutting it behind him; normal.
Then he let out a wordless yell and kicked the nearest pile of books. Loki threw all the things off his desk and tipped it over.
Letting out another wordless yell, Loki let himself fall to his bed, putting his head in his hands.
He didn't leave once for the rest of the night, or the morning of the next. Enya never showed up that night.
She did, however, show up later that day. Loki stood abruptly as his door nearly burst open, Enya walking in with her head high.
"Sit." She said, motioning for him to sit down again. "Your therapy begins today."
Enya made Loki sit cross legged on the floor while she sat in his chair a few feet away watching him. She made him mediate, although he was bad at it when all he could think about was her. He was at a cross roads; was he to talk to her normally or play along with her formal I-don't-know-you act she was playing at.
It didn't matter, because just as he was going to open his mouth to speak she announced today's session was over.
"All we did was meditate." Loki protested. "How exactly is this going to help me?"
Enya said nothing as she left.
The next eight days went by like this, Enya making Loki meditate for six of those days. On the seventh, she announced in her newly taken on stiff voice that she was going to move on to step two.
Right after she said this, the world shifted abruptly to the left. Loki scrambled to stand, grabbing hold of the bed frame and Enya just sat in her chair like normal. The walls began to ooze, as if being melted. Loki closed his eyes till they hurt, not wanting to see the sickening tilt of the wall.
"I want you to concentrate on what is real Loki."
Out side the sunlight turned blood red, and the only thing Loki could hear was screams; the screams of his mother, Thor, Enya.
Loki opened his eyes to see Enya was gone, her chair empty.
"Enya?" He said, letting go of the bed frame, nearly falling as he did so. "Enya, where did you go?"
"Concentrate on what is real." Her voice whisper to him, tickling the hair by his ear. Loki turned around abruptly, loosing his footing on the awkward tilt of the floor. As soon as Loki fell, the breath getting knocked out of him is when he gasped, opening his eyes.
Loki was sitting cross legged on the floor, just like he usually was, and Enya was sitting in her chair, looking down at her.
"Again."
For the next three days after that that was all they did. Loki was slowly getting better, at least with his balance. All he had to do was think of not what his mind was thinking, but the actually feeling of the floor beneath feet.
Enya changed her scenes around, one point Loki was running through a forest trying to get away from the horrible pack of shadow monsters chasing him, snarling at his heels. Enya's voice whispered to him, telling him to stop; stop running and focus on what was real.
Loki tripped over a root form a nearby tree and was yanked back to reality, gasping. Loki shot forward instantly, wrapping his arms around Enya's waist. He was shaking and breathing heavily.
Enya just sat there, before hesitantly resting her hand on his hair, leaning her head down over his.
"None of it is real."
"I know." Loki muttered, angry. "I know."
Enya let him hold her for a moment longer before pulling away. "Again."
On the ninth day, they had no session. Enya had finished the Bifrost, and there was to be a grand ball that night in her honor.
She wasn't used to fancy events like this, and just wore a different type of dress. Short in the front, long in the back and bright fiery blue that shimmered as she moved. Her brown hair flowing freely, pushed to one side over her shoulder, and like always, no shoes.
Odin made a short speech about how great an honor it is to have her there, how grateful his people are, now they can once again visit their loved ones and other realms, and so on and so forth. After that there was a feast and dancing. Enya smiled as she watched the people dance about, walking over to the god of thunder.
"I can practically feel your agitation prince." She said with a smile.
Thor chuckled. "Father said it would be rude to leave right away."
"You wish to go to her."
Thor laughed again, down at Enya, who was barely an inch shorter then him; tall for a woman. "Do you not wish to go to him?"
Enya, startled, looked at Thor. "What do you mean?"
"Do you miss him?"
"I see him everyday." Enya said, knowing who they were talking about the second the conversation turned on this.
"He's complicated, sure, but I know there is good in him, and I think you bring that out in him my darling." Thor said, resting his hand on her shoulder. Enya frowned and Thor laughed once again. "You are good for him."
Before Enya could question him further about what he meant, Thor turned and only now did Enya noticed someone was walking towards them.
"Speaking of the devil!" Thor said with a boyish grin, "I was wondering where you've run off to!"
Enya looked at Loki as he walked towards them, eying Thor with a grin. "Spreading rumors I hear?"
Thor clapped his brother on the back and smiled, "You know how I love to gossip brother," Loki tensed a fraction at the word brother, although Enya only noticed because she was looking or it. She doubted Thor noticed. "In any case, I am going to be on my way now, Loki, Lady Enya."
Thor walked away, leaving Enya and Loki to stare at each other. "How are you today? I know we didn't get to have our daily session."
"I'm alright," Loki smiled slyly, "Haven't seen any scary monsters today." He said jokingly.
Just then the room filled with music, a long slow melody. Loki stood there for a moment before offering his hand to Enya. "Would you, Lady Enya, honor me with this dance?"
Enya leveled her gaze at him before he mouth twitched in a smile. "I'd love to."
As soon as she uttered that short sentence, Loki took her hand and whirled her on the the floor. Enya let out a laugh and wrapped her arms around his shoulder, his own hands lightly resting on her hips.
The dance was slow, the steps fluid like water. Many eyes were on them, although neither noticed. Halfway through the dance Loki and Enya completely stopped in the middle of the dance floor, not caring about the steps and just swaying. Enya's cheek pressed against Loki's shoulder and his face bent down in her neck, inhaling her scent. For a long while they just swayed together like that.
Loki spoke first. "I've been thinking about what you said to me the other week."
Enya didn't open her eyes but her grip tightened a small amount. "Have you?"
"I miss you." He said, voice a breathy whisper against her neck. Enya felt a slow smile spread across her lips.
They slowly leaned back again, looking into each others eyes. "Well I suppose I've missed you too."
Loki gave a short chuckle before leaning down and kissing her, just a slight pressure of the lips. Enya closed her eyes an leaned into him.
When Loki leaned away she felt cold radiate from his hands on her hips.
"You're hair is floating again Enya." He said. Said woman smiled as she welcomed the cooling sensation of Loki's hands on her. She laid her head back down on his shoulder, for the moment not caring at all the eyes on them at the moment, and that half the kingdom just saw her kiss Loki.
Heh heh heh... reactions in next chapter from every one about their little smooch. :3