~ Chapter 2 ~

-2007-

"I think that I should get going home." Loki said as she stood up from the divan. "Thor should get home soon."

Victor Doom sipped at his vodka with a slightly bored expression. "Still a masochist." he stated more than asked. "You know nothing will happen even if you work for it. Your sister is so straight that a snowball in hell has more of a chance than you. Why don't you give up and go looking for someone else?"

"How about you?" Loki gave the man a dirty look over her shoulder. "Why don't you stop playing with that politician and go straight?"

Doom raised his glass to her in salute. "Because I love my lifestyle. And I love men. You can never tell if a woman is aroused or just playing."

"That wouldn't stop you from fucking women."

"Then we would be fucking right now."

Loki made a face. "Gross." she said flatly.

"Indeed." Victor agreed completely.

Ever since the party, Loki had found a friend in Victor Doom, he helped her when rumors about her started going around. All thanks to Balder's tongue. Thor short of castrated the man when she found out but to Loki it was her least problem. Her being friends with Doom didn't help kill the rumors and before long she had a reputation just as long and dirty as her friend's.

She stopped going to school just as faithfully, but thanks to her smarts her grades were still at the top of class. She started to dress like she wanted, something her parents didn't approve off. She started to see the small cracks in the facade everyone put around them. She even knew that their father were cheating with an intern and their mother knew about it and still didn't say anything.

What a perfect family.

The only perfect one in the family was Thor.

And that made it all so much painful for Loki. Since the party, she had watched Thor more closely and the more she learned about her sister, the more she loved her. It was an obsession doomed to kill her.

Many days had Loki and Doom spent talking, their dirty secrets and desires, because even if their taste ran in different directions, they were very much alike.

Lottie, or Loki as she wanted all to call her, was a disgrace to her family. She was a lesbian who was in love with her own sister.

Doom was an outcast. He was a homosexual who had been molested by his grandfather and there after devolved a taste for much older men.

They might be six years apart in age but they still enjoyed the others company. To Loki it was a haven where she didn't have to hide. They didn't need to take any bullshit from anyone and where Doom helped her ignore what others said, she gave him friendly companionship which he didn't have in his life.

"See you in two days." Loki said as she walked toward the door with her hand over her head. Her leather pants stretching over her slender legs, the high-heels clinking against the floor, her heavy belt holding her green tank-top down. Her long black hair pulled back in a tail and two silver chains around her neck. "Have fun tomorrow."

"You know I will." Victor smirked.

The door closed between them.

The ride back was uneventful like always. Loki had taken her drivers license when she turned 18 and had had no accidents yet. 'Unlike Thor.' she thought fondly.

When she came into view of her home she felt how her personality grew hard. She saw Thor's car outside but also Odin's. Which was a prophecy of what was waiting for her when she stepped inside.

This made it a dilemma for her since she wanted to be close to Thor but wanted to come back when Odin had left.

To Odin she was the disgrace to the family, and he didn't even know that she liked women. In turn, she had lost all respect she had since growing up ever since she learned all of Odin's secrets.

In a way it was a mutual disrespect.

Parking by the sidewalk, not in the last spot on the drive in, she got out and walked with light steps toward the front door to get the show over with.

As soon as she entered the house she heard a voice she didn't know. Frowning, she headed toward the source and the first thing she saw was the striking blond head of hair. Her heart skipped a beat when her sister turned around that she didn't even pay attention to the extra head.

Loki walked forward with a smile and kissed Thor on the cheek in their usual greeting. Thor in turn smiled and patted her on on the shoulder.

"Did I keep you waiting?" Loki asked as she sat down in one of the single chairs, close enough to Thor and far away enough from Odin.

"Where were you?" Odin's unapproved voice cut through the air and they all knew it was war.

"At Victor's place." Loki said it like it was a dumb question.

"Haven't I told you again and again to stay away from that man? Do you want to ruin our reputation even more?" he growled.

"Don't you mean my reputation? Not like it matters to you." Loki ignored Odin's rising temper, her mother's ignorance, and turned to Thor and the man beside her. "Are you going to introduce us?" she asked sweetly.

Any man who sat beside Thor and were straight went to her mental dislike list.

Thor looked at the man and smiled. "This is Eric Johnson." they clasped hands and for the first time Loki felt a part of her heart die. The light that was in Thor's eyes seemed to glow like the sun. "He's my boyfriend."

"Nice to meet you." Loki smiled like an expert, hiding her inner pain. She leaned forward to shake his hand. "I'm Lottie Odinson. Thor's sister."

He took her hand with a smile. "Eric. It's a pleasure, Lottie."

From the moment their hands touched a chill went through Loki. She couldn't trust this man.

"Loki. All my friends call me that." she replied without betraying how her mind screamed that this man was lying.

TBC