~ Chapter 6 ~

"How did you find out?" Eric asked in a hard voice as he watched her walk around the deserted parking plot. The night lighted by only the street lamps and the moon.

"Doesn't matter. I want you out of my sisters life." Loki ignored all the subtle threats he was sending and returned it with so much macho attitude that she could rival any man.

"What makes you think you can tell me what to do?" Eric's voice held no respect whatsoever for Loki. "Even if you say anything, no one will believe you. You are nothing but a liar and a whore in their eyes."

"What makes you think I don't have evidence?" she hissed, walking around Eric in a wide circle. Like a predator of the wild circling a prey. "I have more against you than just my word."

"Ah, your rich friend that I've heard so much about. Like that might make it a difference. Tell me, is it true that he's fucking grandpa's? Disgusting!" He spat on the concrete. "His words won't make a difference."

"Don't take him for granted." Loki crossed her arms over her chest. "He has hard evidence that will put you away for the rest of your life unless you leave now and never return."

The man looked Loki over before his sneer turned into a smirk. "You think you've got this, don't you? That all will play out like you want to." he stepped closer slowly, puffing out his chest. "But life isn't that easy. You better be careful of what you do."

She felt a tingle of fear but refused to back down or show it. If she did then everything she was fighting for would be lost. Thor would get hurt and she didn't want that no matter what.

"Say all you want, but you don't scare me. Get the hell out of our lives and stay out." she wasn't backing down as she said the words with finality.

"And if I don't?" he looked her straight into the eyes.

Taking it as a challenge to everything she had been forced to become, Loki didn't back down. Showing her teeth she spoke every word clear like a wind bell. "Then I will make you disappear."

There was no pain at first, but Loki felt the pressure in her stomach before a clot started to gather in her mouth. She tried to keep calm but she felt thick blood run down the side of her mouth. The hard eyes staring at her never left her face as her hand came up to feel the hard metal shaft of the knife that had been stuck into her body. Eric's fist still held onto the knife before he yanked it out.

The pain came instantly.

Blood spilled from her body as her hands tried to stop it. Her throat closed at the thick substance as it tried to force its way up. She took a few unsteady steps back before a hand on her chest pushed her backward so that she landed on her back on the concrete.

The blood caught in her throat and made her cough, staining her chin and nose with drops.

Overhead, Eric came into view and looked down at her. The blade red from her blood still held in his hand.

"Don't play games you can't win." he hissed before he left her sight and all she could hear was his feet disappearing further and further away before all she knew was the light from the street lamps as she stared up into the night sky.

Eric came back to his apartment to find his two companions there. Both sons of his father's former partners. Their lives had too taken a fall for the worse after Odin destroyed their lives.

"It's going off tonight." Eric said before any of the other two could say anything about the bloody knife he threw onto the table.

"What did you do man?" one of them asked, a big bulky man in his late twenties.

"Little sis caught on." Eric growled. "I took care of her, but she will be found tomorrow so we have to act tonight before we lose our chance."

They all stood up and pulled out a drawer with three guns and two knives.

"Hope ya ain't to comfy with ya skank, bro." the quiet one said with a heavy accent. "I ain't bellow puttin' one in ya if ya chang' ya mind fo' ya hussy." There was nothing but murder in his voice.

"Kill her. Kill them all." Eric said as he took one of the guns.

A knock on the door made Frigga open only to have a gun in her face and taken hostage. Two men swept by her as her husband came out to see what was happening only to get a blow to the face with the gun and caught too.

Thor came out from her room to see what was happening and saw her parents held hostage at gunpoint and her fiance standing in the middle of it all.

"What's going on?" she asked in a strained voice. Refusing to believe her eyes.

"You really are slow on everything." Eric spat before unlocking his gun and pointing it to her mother's head. "Don't do anything stupid or I will blow her head off."

It barely took two minutes before the whole family was completely under the fiends will. Held in the living room with the curtains pulled over the windows so no one outside could see what was going on inside.

"This can't be happening. Please tell me this isn't true. You wouldn't betray me. Never you. You love me."

"And who was it that turned me into this monster? Who was it that cursed my existence and condemned me to hell? You never saw anything but what you wanted, even when it stood screaming in your face, you stupid bitch." Eric growled. "I guess daddy dearest never told you where your money came from. From my family. From all our families. Your wealth is nothing but blood money of those your family walked over."

"It's not true."

"Shut up." Eric back handled Thor, making her head snap to the side painfully. "Start with him." Eric told the big man before Odin was subjected to hits and punches.

Frigga cried for them to stop as Thor fought to keep her tears in check.

"You really should listen to others, you know." Eric said as he stood behind Thor with his gun to her head. "There was only one in your family smart enough to realize the truth and you didn't believe her. One small lie from me and you condemned all she said." his voice twisted into laughter.

Thor didn't have to think before she knew full well who he was talking about. "Loki?" she whispered, making her mother's breath hitch.

"That's right. I don't understand how a smart girl like her had to be born into your family. The world is truly cruel. But then again, sacrifices had to be made."

"What did you do to her?" Frigga demanded through her fear and tears.

"Nothing much. Just bleeding to her death in some parking lot somewhere." Thor's world zoomed in before her eyes. Loki. "If she isn't already dead then she will be in a few minutes."

"You bastard." Thor hissed. "If you hurt her in any way I will-"

"I. STABED. HER." Eric spelled out. "It's too late to be a good big sister. You all treated her like she was a burden so don't talk like she mattered. She's a whore. A slut. That's what you called her."

Thor's head bowed forward as a sob passed her lips. "No."

Doom sat at the big window in his window, a glass of rum in his hand, and a sleeping sex partner in his bed. He watched the outside world from his seat as his cellphone began to vibrate next to him.

He flipped it open. "Hello?" No response. "Loki?"

TBC