Punishable by ... DROWNING
A LokixOC fanfic
Disclaimer: I don't own marvel, or Loki from the Avengers/Thor. But Annabell, Rose, and the Magics clan are mine, as are my theme/plot/story line.
Romance/dark angst/adventure/humor, everything! YAY!
Chapter two:
Annabell stood against the board, eyes on the children who attempted to finish the giant floor labrynth. She built it out of paper and made it large enough so that the kids could walk through it. When they would come to note cards, they would have to answer it correctly or be sent back to the beginning of the labyrinth and a new card would be put down in its place. So far, all of them were sent back once, but they were all determined to make it through, they split the class in half and were doing it as a team. A far better strategy she thought, then just doing it alone.
Only, that's when Thor stepped in. Annabell smiled and waved for him to join her up at the front. The students instantly went still and looked up to Thor with a mixture of admiration and fear.
"What are you doing?" Thor asked, puzzled by the children, hand in hand in a puzzle of a floor.
"Testing their knowledge and teaching team work." Annabell smiled at Thor who's face lit up.
"Teamwork is a grand theory, Lady Annabell. Children are good to learn it so young!" He patted a small boy on the back who tumbled into his partners. Annabell jumped to help them, but Thor had them gracefully in his arms in the blink of an eye. Before she could take a moment to blink, he had them safely back on their feet.
"Thank you, Thor." Annabell chuckled as the kids looked at the tall blond with amazement. Thor patted them, gently this time, on their heads before he turned back to the brunette. It was sweet how they looked up to Thor, and Annabell didn't feel hatred towards him, exactly. Thor did what he thought was best, he didn't mean to tear her heart like it had.
"I only came to invite you to a walk around the grounds, Lady Annabell." Thor offered his hand, "after dinner, tonight." Annabell eyed him, but as she put her hand in his hand, he only held it warmly and put his other over her, comparatively, tiny hand.
"Sounds very nice, I would love to." Annabell nodded to him. He smiled to her, and lightly dropped her hand before he turned to leave. He waved a large wave to the kids before he exited the school house they were in.
The moment he was out of their hair, all the children ripped around to look at her with big eyes.
"MISS ANNABELL!"
"Yes Mactyre?" Annabell looked to the girl at the back of her group on the other side of the room.
"Are you and King Thor in love?"
"WHAT!?" Annabell almost fell over laughing. She put her hand to her chest and stomach as she laughed. "Oh, dear no. Thor is a friend, children, just a friend."
"But only boyfriends ask girls to… you know… walk around!" Tosh pointed out.
"YEAH! That's what my mommy says!" Gwenivere piped up.
"Don't all of you have a labyrinth to finish?" Annabell interrupted and set them straight. She didn't need them thinking of her and Thor, especially in anything more than friends. Annabell didn't even see him as a friend, atleast not yet.
Annabell walked back to the front to grab her sheet with the answers to the questions on the notes infront of the children.
"Miss Annabell?" Mactyre asked again. Annabell looked up to her as the other team passed back their notecard, the first one in her group was still reading it.
"Yes, Mactyre?" Annabell felt afraid of what the child would want now.
"If you and King Thor aren't in love, who are you in love with?" The children looked up and nodded at her. Annabell smiled, tears ready to spill at just the thought. But she just blinked them out of her eyes and let out a small sigh.
"I love you all, and that's all you need to worry about. Promise, the moment I love a man, I'll bring him in for show and tell." With a wink, she had them back to what they were doing. But she could feel the pull on her heart strings already.
~X.X~
"So, oh King Thor, what business did you really bring a ruckus to my classroom for?" Annabell asked as she strut out into the beautiful gardens of Asgard. They glowed like gold in the desert sun, but it was only moonlight. Roses grew towards the stars in bushes shaped like lace; blue lilies covered the edges of the marble path. Waterfalls gave off different glows as they blew shapes into the air before the water splashed against lillypads and light pink flowers.
"You may call me Thor," He chuckled as Thor strode up beside the brunette and linked arms with the woman. "And I apologize for the ruckus in your classroom. A reason for the ruckus was to merely check your progress with the children. They seem smitten with you as a teacher."
Annabell rolled her eyes and leaned her head against his bicep for steadiness as the buzz of the night's wine rolled into her system. She could feel the difference in alcohol percentage in the drinks. She drank 2 glasses and already felt like a college sorority party goer. Maybe she should have taken smaller, slower sips.
"Yes, because your parents worry of my teaching skills." Annabell scoffed. "Your father sees all, and the queen gave me the job. Worrying of my skills should have come far earlier than 4 days into teaching them."
Thor sighed and nodded as Annabell attempted to balance on her own feet. Only, with the slightly heeled shoes she wore, she could feel herself becoming dizzy. So she removed them and stumbled lightly to the closet fountain to lean against the marble edge.
"I am sorry, for I have been lying to you." Thor stated with his head hung slightly.
"It's okay. Living with the God of Lies for a whole 2 months can change your view on liars!" Annabell chuckled, poking Thor on the nose. Thor laughed as he threw his head back into it.
"You, Lady Annabell, are not well adjusted to the wine of Asgard."
"Well, you are ten times smarter than Loki says you are." Annabell held onto the side of the fountain and looked down into the cool depths. Even the marble had designs down into the bottom of the clear, crystalline water.
"My brother is smarter than I, I know that for a fact, but he does not give me enough credit. I lived with him for all of my life, I learned much from just being by his side." Thor smiled as he put a hand to Annabell's shoulder. She looked to his large hand, and her giggles were gone, her smile gone, all that was left were her glowing eyes. "But what I learned with him gone, is he was important to me. Something I see in you."
Annabell shrugged off his hand and looked to her own.
"I have no one." She whimpered.
"You have me, Annabell, and the children…" but Thor trailed off as he saw they did nothing to lighten her eyes.
"Those are things you gave me. But my sister… Loki, they're things I got myself. They were mine… and now I can no longer see either. I know you can't do anything, and I do not blame you. But do not demand my happiness with something I was forced to deal with."
Thor looked to his feet.
"I may have an idea about possibly, a letter to your sister." Annabell looked up and grasped Thor by his arms.
"Really? Is there any way!" Her eyes lit up with curiosity and wonder.
"I may be able to allow you to talk to those you hold dearest. We will start with Lady Rose." Thor nodded and stood, leaving Annabell on the fountain, eyes watching him.
"And Loki?" She whispered, her voice almost silent.
"We shall see."
Author's Notes: Sorry this one is so short, but i had to get it out while i had the chance. Hope you like it, setting up for some cool stuff next chapter!