Aaliyah woke up to the sound of her own screams, immediately pain flooded her senses. It honestly felt as if a few of her ribs were broken. She gritted her teeth and squeezed her eyes shut in a vain attempt to will the pain away.
"I wouldn't do that." A voice said breaking the silence as she tried to get up.
"What happened?" she croaked, her voice was hoarse from all the screaming.
"Let us say another family feud between my brother and I." Loki said with a slight chuckle "But if you are referring to the pain that is just a side effect of regaining your memories. It will subside soon. Though I wouldn't recommend-" He was cut off as Aaliyah did the very thing she was recommended not to do and struggled to sit up as another scream managed to tear itself from her throat. Loki quickly strode across the room and grabbed her pulling her closer to his body, she didn't quite know how it was possible but somehow he was making coldness seep into her body, numbing the pain."How did you...?" she started to ask.
"It doesn't matter" he said as she noticed his hands fade from blue to tan. "Get some rest, you'll need it." he said turning away. She laid back down and pretended to fall asleep when she heard the door open.
"What have you done to her?" a gruff voice asked angrily, filled with...was that concern?
"What have I done?" Loki asked his voice cold as ice, and bitter as black coffee.
"None of this would have happened if you had just let her be." the gruff voice added defensively. Aaliyah could picture the harsh looks that they shared, neither one willing to back down and admit their faults. Both insisting the other was to blame.
"You think I wanted this?" Loki argued spitting out the emphasis. "If you had let her keep her memories this would not have happened!" he insisted angrily, his voice cruel and sharp. " If you had not interfered…" His train of thought seemed to change as his voice softened to a dark almost growl. "Do you think me so thick as to only have one way of getting what I want, so weak as to have only one plan? Oh no dear brother had you let me be she would have remembered me." Aaliyah could hear steps coming toward her "she would have known me in the most...intimate of ways." He chuckled.
Aaliyah felt a hand brush her cheek, a slightly calloused thumb caressing the soft skin there,she fought hard to keep up this farce. Yet as soon as the warmth of his caress was there it was gone. Suddenly the air was bristling with anger and there was a thud against the wall.
"You will not touch her!" Thor bellowed.
"Oh won't I?" Loki asked and chuckled there was a sharp sound as Loki's footfalls echoed throughout the room as he drew nearer to his brother. The air was stagnant with all the anger in it. He was looking for a fight. "If you want her so badly. Then fight me." He growled, a sharp edge to his voice.
"Not here." Thor responded his voice holding a bitter edge that was not there before and the door slammed shut again. Aaliyah's mind replayed the conversation over and over until she finally drifted to sleep.