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Loki found himself busy as the days passed. The wedding was quickly drawing closer and soon he found himself a month away. Adisa was slowly becoming overwhelmed with everything that was going on. Her family was becoming even more over bearing and controlling then before.
Loki knew that if she wasn't leaving to come home with him soon, that she probably wouldn't last that much longer. But this didn't make it easier on him; he missed her and was only allowed very small visits with her. He couldn't wait to hold her in his arms again and maybe one day parent children with her.
Never before had Loki even considered the idea of children.
But with the absence of his beloved, it gave him more time for mischief. He had figured out a small plan that would hopefully ensure the castor of Adisa's curse would show himself. Loki knew that Horril had a nephew, and surprisingly this nephew was the young man who had been bullying Adisa.
The man's name was Ake. Ake worked somewhere with in the castle walls, Loki didn't care for what he did, only that he knew the route Ake usually took home and as Loki silently waited in a dark corner for the man to show up he tried to contain the bubbling anger in his chest. Ake and his family were starting to become a problem. The darker side of him wanted to wipe out the entire family. The idea made him very happy, but he knew such actions would throw him back in the dungeons and he would never see Adisa again. That and he had very little magic to pull off such an elaborate plan. Like usual Ake, made his way home late at night. He walked down the hallway with a very disheaved appearance and dark circles under his eyes. His skin was dirtied from a long day's work and his clothing had small holes, where he had snagged them on something sharp.
Loki quickly stepped out of the shadows flicking his hand sending a cluster of sparks and magic towards Ake, and in a split second the man's limbs were rendered useless. His eyes rolled around in his skull as he looked around in fear. The man tried to quickly figure out what was happening, and wasn't at all surprised when Loki slowly stepped into his line of vision. Loki could have teased him, but he was way to impatient to play games.
"I believe you know someone I am looking for." Loki spoke in a darkly calm voice. If anyone else where to see him at this moment they wouldn't have believed that he was a man who paid for his crimes. They would have assumed that he was still crazy, and power hungry. These assumptions were of course true, but only when it involved his beloved Adisa.
Ake tried to struggle, he knew Loki's voice well and had quickly figured out that Loki was the only one who hated him enough to pin him to the ground. "Piss off, I'm not telling you anything." He spat, his heart racing. Loki knew that Ake was very well aware of how this scenario was going to work out. Ake had no choice but to tell him what he wanted to know, and with what little magic he did possess he could make the man's next moments hell.
Loki flexed his hands and shot purple sparks at Ake's chest. For a moment it seemed like nothing was going to happen until a horrible feeling ruptured through Ake's chest. If felt as if his rib cage was slowly collapsing in on itself even though it was clearly not. Loki was not stupid enough to kill anyone. Not with Heimdall watching.
As sudden as the pain ruptured through his chest, it quickly dissipated and he peered up to see Loki flexing his fingers again. Loki had made it very clear where this was going, and Ake clenched his jaw tightly. Loki had indeed won this round.
"FINE! What do you want?" He spat, his rage boiling in his stomach. He ignored the comment from Loki about being a coward carefully watching Loki step around him.
"Horril." Loki said simply, he didn't feel the need to go deeper into detail because it was clear that Ake understood what Loki wanted.
Twisting his face in distaste Ake snarled. "HA, you must be nuts to think he would reverse the spell for that dirty little b-"
"I would watch your tongue if I were you." Loki warned pressing his foot into the center of Ake's chest and pushing down in warning. Loki could easily break a bone or two and there was nothing he could do about it.
"I want Horril." Loki said firmly his eyes fixated on Ake's. Then without another word, Loki disappeared releasing Ake from his hold.
Adisa could feel the depression getting heavier and thicker as the days went on. As the days got closer and closer to her wedding her family became more and more unbearable. Her sister was the worst. Hallveig was trying to be supportive but she couldn't help but drop crude comments about Adisa and her husband to be. The words easily slipped out of her mouth. Most times Hallveig would comment on a decision Adisa had made about the wedding, or about character traits of her own husband. It was slowly becoming clearly evident that Adisa was slowly losing her patients.
Adisa spent most of her time sitting in her parent's gardens or in her room. She found that if she spent her time there her family was less likely to bother her. She would spend the entire time dreaming of her soon to be husband and new family. It seemed to be the only thing that kept her going. But as soon as the sun started to set, Adisa would make her way back into her family home and attempt to hide in her room.
Her bare feet curled on the wooden floor as she slowly made her way up the stairs to her room. She carefully counted each step only stopping when she got to the seventh step. There she shuffled herself to the opposite side of the stair and continued her way up. This way she avoided the creak the stairs made and the uneven flooring that often made her trip. She knew she was at the top when she counted the tenth stair and carefully pulled herself up onto the loft.
Once on the top floor she could expertly guide herself to her bed room at the very end of the hallway. Once in her room a smell of perfume wafted her senses and she knew at that moment her sister was sitting on her bed. Adisa wasn't entirely sure what she was doing, but something told her that her sister was waiting for her.
Adisa hoped that if she didn't acknowledge her sister that she would go away. But today she wasn't as lucky as she would have hoped. Placing her companion in a silver cage (a gift from Frigga) that now stood where her doll cradle once sat Adisa softly gave him one last stroke before slowly counting her steps towards her bed.
She had to stop halfway to her bed when she felt something beneath her feet, and she wasn't entirely sure what it was before kicking it off to the side. It was at this moment that her sister chose to speak to her.
"Why Loki?" Hallveig asked clearly upset by whatever she was thinking about. Adisa reached a hand out to feel the polished posts of her wooden bed guiding herself to the mattress just inches away from it. Her sister watched the clear frown on her face as she sat down.
"I do not wish to speak about this." Adisa said softly, she wasn't going to explain herself to anyone. For once in her life she was going to be happy and she believed that Loki would take good care of her. She couldn't understand why her sister couldn't be happy for her. She could remember feeling very happy for her sister when it was her turn to be married. Even if her heart ached at the time, because she then truly believed that no one would ever love her.
"But I wish to know. Why Loki?" Hallveig pressed, there was a shift in the floor as she stood up from her side of the room. Adisa was unsure if she was going to make her way over to her, or if she was going to stay where she was. Either way Adisa didn't care for her sister at the moment.
"You know he's a monster, right? He's sick, he's not….normal." The very words had stunned Adisa, and she quickly recovered from the malicious words coming from her sister. There was no way that she could have known of Loki's heritage, but her demeanor quickly changed. Her sister was trying to tell her that she thought Loki was a horrible person and in her attempt to slander her fiancée, she hoped that Adisa would call off the wedding.
"Stop." Adisa said firmly, turning her body away from her sister. She wanted to close off all conversation with her; she was done with the conversation and refused to take part in her sister's plan. Hallveig continued to press her sister.
"Honestly Adisa, do you really think he loves you?" Adisa felt something inside of her snap, blood rushed to her head. In one single motion Adisa stood from her bed and twisted her body to her sister's voice.
"You truly are an ugly soul Hallveig. After all of these years you would have thought you had learned your lesson. Your disgusting behavior blinded your sister, and crippled our family." Adisa's body started to burn, and if she could see herself she would have been horrified by what she saw. A black mass slowly started to consume her body, quickly swirling from her skin. Never in Hallvig's life had she seen such a thing. Adisa could not stop the words pouring from her mouth.
"So blinded by jealously that you couldn't even handle the thought of me being happy. I'm sick of living in the shadow you cast, I'm sick of paying the price for your sins and I will no longer stand by in silence. You are nothing Hellveig, when I marry Loki I will be of royalty. I will be daughter of Odin, and you will still be what you are now. Not….." The pressure in the air got thicker and thicker until a large explosion ripped through the air sending both sisters backward. The window shattered sending thousands of shards raining down into the garden and sent Bran into a frenzy.
Only Hellveig managed to stay conscious while her sister lay on the ground completely unconscious and convulsing. Her skin was tinted from swirling magic that made her almost indistinguishable. In a panic Hellveig crawled over to her sister her hands curling in pain as they touched shattered glass. By the time she reached Adisa their parents had already bolted into the room their eyes resting on one convulsing daughter and another with bloody hands.
It was their mother who called upon Loki. She had no idea how to explain the situation so she simply told the guard that they needed help, and it was possible Adisa had been attacked. Loki showed up dressed in armor, with a handful of guards and his mother. He was ready to smite whoever hurt Adisa.
Loki was the first by Adisa's side, she was breathing and appeared fine but his heart still fluttered madly. He knew the instant he saw her, what was wrong. Adisa's curse was meant to make her a more beautiful person but it would prevent her from becoming a more horrible person. He doubted anything had truly happened in her personality to actually change the woman he knew, but Loki had suspected for a long time that Adisa would finally snap. She had so much on her plate that it only took the right buttons to be pushed for her anger to explode into an uncontrollable rage. His eyes flickered over to his mother who kept her lips pressed together in a thin line.
"Please leave us." Frigga spoke, refusing to turn around and look at Adisa's family who all quickly shuffled out of the room and closing the door behind them without any argument. Loki turned away from his mother and rested a hand on Adisa's face. The dark swirls of magic pulsated when the new energy touched her skin.
Loki marveled at her soft skin, before setting to work. He needed to push the magic back and hopefully then she would wake up. If not, they would have to wait a few days for her rage and the magic to settle back on its own. He was pleased to see that the swirls of smoke slowly disappeared, and when they finally dissipated from her skin a soft sigh of relief came from her, but she remained asleep.
"I do not think it wise, or safe to keep Adisa here anymore." Frigga said, sitting down on the opposite side of the bed from Loki. Loki barely gave his mother a glance, he agreed with her but he was preoccupied with Adisa. His fingers gently ran across her brow slowly calming her scrunched up face. Slowly her face started to calm itself. An overwhelming sense of pride grasped his chest, because Adisa even in sleep knew it was him. Or that's at least what Loki thought.
"We will have to keep an eye on her, at least until we deal with her curse." Frigga said motioning to Adisa's eyes. Loki would have been annoyed if it was anyone else, talking about Adisa's condition. His mother was always an expert at calming him, she knew him better than anyone. He didn't have to imagine how she would be with his children, because he already knew she would be amazing.
"I have already dealt with it." He said softly, he didn't want her to know too much, she would be angry to discover that he had attacked Horril's nephew. He would admit it was not the best idea, but he wanted to send a message.
" Loki, Horril is a powerful man, and not a kind one. Not someone we want to mess with." She said sternly, Loki tried to hide his surprise. He had no idea that his mother knew who Horril was, but he was sure that she had been talking to the gatekeeper.
"What's done is done." He muttered, he ignored the look his mother was giving him. She was not happy that Loki had taken matters into his own hands. There were more serious complications to their situation then he seemed to understand. But there was nothing she could do, what every Loki had set in motion could not be stopped. They would simply have to wait, in the mean time she planned on sending Adisa away.
Loki would not be happy to hear where she had decided to send Adisa, but it was for the best. The couple would miss each other, but Adisa needed to spend some time on her own. Her family was too much for her to handle, and it was inappropriate for Adisa to be in the castle with them. People would talk and that's the last thing the royal family needed.
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