Word of Loki's illness was sent to Sigyn as Thor helped his brother to the healer's wing. The page boy ran through the palace looking for her, and finding her ultimately in the company of the King and Queen.
"Your Highness. Your presence is requested in the healing hall." The boy said.
"The healing hall?"
"Yes my lady, Prince Thor is helping your husband there. He appears to be injured." He said.
"Oh no!" Sigyn got up and hurried to meet them as Odin and Frigga followed in her wake. They reached the healer's hall right as Loki got onto the soul forge.
"It'll be alright brother." Thor said.
"Loki! What happened? Thor you big blundering idiot! If you hurt him…"
"Sigyn darling, Thor did not hurt me. I think I'm very sick."
"Highness please back away from the table so I can get a clear reading." Lady Eir said. The gold shimmering light of the soul forge grew overhead. Lady Eir stood there starring at it, looking confused. Slowly, understanding washed over her face. She looked to Odin and grew pale, knowing that what she had to report would be nothing less than devastating.
"What is it Lady Eir? Is it a tumor?" Loki asked. She looked down at Loki, searching his eyes.
"Everyone who is not a member of the royal family, leave now." Lady Eir said. Several healers gathered themselves and left the room. Lady Eir walked over to the door and locked it.
"Report Lady Eir. What have you found?" Odin asked.
"My King, My Queen, first I must ask have either of you ever discussed the nature of Loki's birth with him?" She asked. Odin and Frigga looked at one another. This was the day they had dreaded and hoped to avoid.
"No." Odin said.
"Very well. Then that is where I will begin." She said.
"I will." Frigga said. She moved to sit beside Loki and looked down into her son's eyes.
"Loki my heart. Your father and I have been keeping a secret from you." Frigga said.
"What secret?" Loki sat up to look her square in the eye. Odin cut in.
"At the end of the last great war with Jotunnheim, I was in their temple. I went there to collect their source of power. The Casket of Ancient Winters. But while I was there I also found something else. I found a baby." Odin paused. Loki took a deep breath, preparing for the next words his father would speak.
"It was small for a giant, too small to be a prince and was left to die in the temple. Laufey's son."
"Laufey's son?"
"Yes. You are a prince, not of Asgard, but Jotunnheim. Their rightful heir to the throne."
"I'm Jotunn? You are telling me, that I am Jotunn." Loki said. "What's happening to me?" Loki asked as he looked down at his belly.
"Yes, Lady Eir, what bearing did this secret have on Loki's current health?" Frigga asked. Seeing the blossoming heartache in her son's eyes, it had better be a damn good reason.
"As you all know Jotunns are of the single gender. We don't know much about their anatomy. What we do know is that they do not have females. Not as we understand them at least. All Jotunns are male in appearance, but also possess female internal organs. Long have we ponder how the Jotunns manage to give birth seeing as they lack a birth canal." Lady Eir stopped.
"Yes, but what is wrong with him?" Odin asked.
"Loki is pregnant." Lady Eir said. Odin's gaze shifted to Loki and it was as if all oxygen had left the room. Loki wanted to look at Thor but didn't dare.
"What?" Sigyn asked. "How? Did I impregnate him? Did we exchange seeds?" Sigyn's mind twisted as it tried to understand that which she did not wish to accept.
"No." Odin said. "Like the Aesir, Frost Giants must be penetrated by a cock in order to be impregnated." Odin's slow steps towards the soul forge echoed in the still room. "So, who put their cock in you?" Odin's one eye glared at him with malevolence.
"I'll never tell you." Loki said. Odin's gaze bore into his. For a brief moment, Thor entered Odin's mind. But just as quickly as he appeared, Odin dismissed it. He was not ready to entertain that his sons could be so depraved as to turn towards each other.
"You will tell me!" Odin yelled.
"Odin!" Frigga tried to intervene, but Odin put a hand up to stop her.
"You cheated on me?" Sigyn's eyes were filled with tears. "You let a man fuck you? Why?" She asked, but Loki shook his head. "Explain it to me! Why would you throw away our marriage, our love! Why would you let another man defile you? And for what?"
"It's in my nature." Loki said. Sigyn ran from the room. She was humiliated and betrayed. Frigga followed her to do damage control. In all of this, Thor stood silent as the grave.
"You will tell me boy. Who was it? One of your guards? One of the servants? Who dared to sodomize a prince of Asgard?"
"It doesn't matter. What's done is done. I'll not let you torture him to death like you do to the others."
"Why son? You were doing so well. You married Sigyn. You showed genuine interest in sharing her bed."
"You knew I might feel lust towards men. Of course you knew. Being from a race that is all male in outer appearance, how could I not lust for the form most natural to me?"
"Natural. Baugh!" Odin spat. "Frost Giants are ergi disgusting creatures that will fornicate with anything that has a hole!"
"Is that how you see me?"
"Enough! You will tell me who your lover is or spend your days in the dungeons!"
"Do what you will. I will never speak his name." Loki said.
"Father…" Thor tried to interject but Odin growled at him. Thor stood there, impotent. With a wave of his hand the doors to the healing hall unlocked and a squad of Einherjar entered the room.
"Take him away. No one is to see him." Odin ordered. The guards swarmed Loki, and like a criminal he was dragged down into the bowels of the palace, crying like a babe. Thor followed his father, trying to think of the right words to say to beg his father's mercy. Odin felt his son's eyes burrowing into his back and turned.
"You and your brother think you are so cleaver. Was that what you two were doing on your hunting trips? Meeting with your lovers to fornicate in an ergi orgy in the middle of the forest?"
"No father!"
"If I ever find out who the two of you have been fucking I will skin him alive and leave him in the wind to die the slowest painful death imaginable." Odin said and left Thor alone.
