After school, I drive home without any problems, except for the fact that I've had a pounding headache since after lunch. You'd think eating lunch would have me gain energy... but no, things don't seem to want to work out that way.
Once we get home, I immediately rush to my room, complaining about my headache. It is useful I suppose when you just want to doze off into another realm somewhere. I take some pain medicine and lie down. After a little while, the pain subsides a bit, allowing me enough room to concentrate and send my mind off to Asgard.
I wake up on the floor of the cell, yellow light shining directly into my eyes from the barrier. I groan and turn away. Unfortunately, the headache followed me here.
"Cameron, are you awake?" I hear a very familiar female voice ask. Immediately, I sit up, scanning my cell wildly. That was the queen.
"My queen?" I ask to the empty room.
She chuckles once, and I can't help but to hear how similar it is to Loki's. "Over here, dear." She responds.
I look over to the sound of the voice and I finally see her, standing outside of my cell! I smile and quickly get up, walking as close to the barrier as I dare. I sit down next to her so we're eye to eye, bowing as I do so. "I'm glad you're finally awake my queen!" I grin, despite still feeling rather death-like. The queen is awake!
She smiles slowly. "Yes, and it's all thanks to you, Cameron. You restored enough energy in Loki so he could wake up and revive me." Her eyes are bright, but I see a hint of warning in them.
My grin falters. "Is everything okay my queen?" Worry starts to clench at my gut. Is something wrong with Loki?
She shakes her head. "Not exactly. I'm just worried, that's all."
"Why is that?" I ask immediately, wanting to nothing else except if Loki is okay.
She laughs, somehow soothing my worries at once. "Loki is fine, he's talking to Odin." She meets my gaze. "What concerns me is you."
I sag in relief when she mentions Loki is fine, but straighten back up as soon as she mentions me. "Why me?" I ask.
She shakes her head again. "I told you mind links were dangerous." She closes her eyes, considering her next words. "Loki told me you know a bit more about how intricately you are connected. That intricacy is the exact reason why they are dangerous. Sometimes with mind links... the joiners begin to share characteristics, or even abilities with one another."
My head is starting to spin from this new information, connecting dots before I even knew the dots existed. "I have been feeling more mischievous lately.. is that because of the mind link?"
Frigga nods gravely. "Yes. The first sign is normally the sharing of a defining characteristic. Loki's mischievousness would definitely make sense."
I'm shaking my head now. "I don't understand; what did he get of mine?"
She chuckles. "Nothing. At least, not yet. You seem to be getting a lot however."
"A lot?" I echo. "What else is there besides the mischievousness?"
She gives me a knowing look. "Teleportation isn't exactly your thing, dear."
"Oh!" Of course, that makes so much more sense now. Even with Describing, I've only been able to Describe two things. I can't even think about how it's possible to Describe a different power onto yourself.
My head snaps up. If I woke up Loki through our mind link, did I wake up Dessa too through the same link that pulled her with me when teleporting? "How is Dessa?" I ask.
Frigga smiles. "She is awake, but resting. As soon as I was able, I revived her."
I blink, my mind once again spinning. Wait... if Loki had enough time to wake Frigga up, and then Frigga had enough time to wake Dessa up... "How long have I been unconscious?" I ask suddenly.
"About five days." A commanding voice echoes from down the hall. Frigga and I both look over, and Odin is walking towards us, Loki in tow.
My heart soars when I see Loki, but I school my features into a more neutral expression when Odin shows up, his one eye still glinting dangerously.
"My king." I stand up and bow to him.
"Thank you and sit down, Cameron." He says sharply. I quickly do as he says. He sighs, looking around at everyone around him, then finally back at me. "Do you know why you're in that cell right now?"
I nod. "It is because it is my fault Frigga got called to come rescue us, which led to her energy being badly drained, so much that she wasn't waking up."
Odin nods, a bit grudgingly. "It seems you have thought about it then."
"Of course!" I interject. "I feel absolutely terrible." I look down, feeling my pushed down guilt and sadness start to rise within me. "I'm so very sorry."
Odin watches me for a few moments silently. "Very well then. I'd say five days in enough time to learn your lesson." Suddenly, as if commanded by his words, the glowing barrier disappears. I look up and around in amazement.
Odin clears his throat, drawing my gaze to him again. "Of course, it helps that what you did helped revive her." He looks over at his wife, his face shining with happiness. "I don't know what I would have done without her."
Frigga smiled. "Oh, you would have managed." She responded. "You would have figured it out after the kingdom had collapsed a third time."
Loki and I exchange knowing smirks. Frigga sure does know how to roast people. Odin doesn't seem to bothered, however, and just sighs, shaking his head. "Just make sure you don't do it again, Cameron. There will be worse consequences."
"Of course, sir." I respond. "I'll do my best not to." His gaze meets mine, unimpressed. "I'll never do it again." I quickly remedy.
"Be sure that you don't." He tells me sternly. Then he turns, offering his arm to his wife. "Shall we go see our kingdom, my wife?"
She gladly takes it. "Of course, my husband. I will do anything with you." They exit the dungeons together.
Loki sighs. "Well I'm glad all that mushy gushy stuff is over now."
Cautiously, I slide out of the cell. Then I fake punch him in the arm. "What do you mean, that was adorable!" I croon.
He makes a disgusted face. "They're ancient, and it's gross. Not to mention I've had to see this my entire life."
I grin, enjoying having just a regular conversation with him again. "You're just jealous."
"Jealous?" Now amused, he turns to me, his dark gaze clashing with mine. "How so?"
I suddenly feel very nervous. "Well maybe you're worried you're never going to have that type of relationship."
He smirks. "Oh really? You don't think..." His gaze travels over my face, resting on my lips before meeting my eyes again. "That type of relationship is possible?"
Ok, now I'm really nervous. The way he's looking at me... it makes my heart pound just a little bit faster. I swallow. "Well I suppose it depends on the situation." I hedge.
He steps closer. "Like what?"
My heart's getting even faster now. "Like if there's even a chance for a stable enough relationship." I manage to stutter out, not able to pull myself away from his gaze. I seem to be falling into his eyes again.
"It seems you're right." He agrees, taking yet another step forward, close enough so that our bodies are almost touching now. "However, there is one thing I would say that defines a stable relationship."
"Oh? And what's that?" I pull myself away from his eyes.
He smiles. "Mutual feelings. " He states simply, before leaning in and kissing me.
Now I've been kissed before, by past boyfriends and such, but nothing was like this. This was like everything between us began to spark, creating a blaze of fire that burned so bright it was hard to look at. We were as our minds were, embraced in a long and passionate embrace.
It only lasted a few seconds, but it felt like eternity when we finally broke apart. I was more in shock, but Loki was grinning from ear to ear. "I've been wanting to do that for a while."
I smirk back at him. "Well you better wait to do it again."
He gives me a confused look.
I smile and point down the hall, where black smoke is beginning to curl towards us. "I think I accidentally Described a fire."
His eyes widen. "I see." He quickly takes my hand. "It seems we better get out of here then."
"I would have to agree." Then we run out of the dungeons, laughing as we go.
A/N: Wowwie wow wow! I totally did not mean for this to happen right now, but it seemed the perfect time to do that. Thank you so much for reading, I really appreciate it. :) Have a great day/night! Also sorry for taking FOREVER to update.
