The Trickster and the Elf
Authors note – Hey guys, I 'm feeling pretty good with myself, I'm actually keeping to a semi regular upload schedule and I am so glad that you like the story. Seriously it means the world to me that you like the stuff that comes out of my imagination. Anyways enough of that, without further ado here's chapter 3.
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Chapter 3
Loki sat in his cell, heartbroken and defeated. He couldn't believe that his Bella had turned against him, that she was lying to him this whole time. He knew that he would be called soon for his trial, but he no longer saw a point to defending himself anymore.
"Why should I even bother? Everyone already assumes that conquering Midgard was my plan, so why should I tell them the truth? Why, when I have nothing waiting for me outside the prison walls." Loki thought as he sat there in his cell, all alone.
Loki looked up when he heard a commotion coming from the stairwell leading into the palace dungeons.
"Loki! Loki!" Arabella called as she ran into sight. "I have some excellent news."
"Leave." Was all Loki said in a monotonous voice.
"What, Loki, why would I leave you?"
"I do not want someone who pretends and lies to me here so I ask you again, leave." Loki was visibly getting angrier the more he spoke. The mere sight of Bella was causing so much heartache that he couldn't take it.
"Pretending, lying, Loki what are you talking about. I have never lied or pretended with you. How could you say that? I love you so much, why in all the nine realms would I lie to you?" Arabella was shocked by what Loki was saying. How could he ever think that she would lie to him?
"Do not lie to me, I know that you were pretending when you said that you loved me. I was just someone to pass the time with. I was just a fool for believing you!" Loki's voice grew louder as he spoke, the pain audible in his voice.
"How could you say that. You know me, you know I would never lie about loving someone, especially you. You are my world, the only man I have ever loved. What has happened to make you think that I was lying to you?" Loki's words were upsetting Bella, she couldn't believe that this was happening. Only moments ago she had been so happy to tell Loki the good news, now he was treating her like a stranger.
"Ha, do not make me laugh. I thought I knew you, but it turns out that you're an even better liar than I am, and I'm the god of lies. I heard what you told Odin. You said I was a monster, and that I didn't deserve to be loved." Loki's voice broke when he said that.
"Oh Loki, no I didn't mean that. I was trying to get a reaction from Odin, after all that is what the people are saying after all that has happened. My love I truly did not mean any of that, if you had been there to hear more you would have heard that I defended you and declared my love for you before everyone in the great hall." Bella now understood why Loki had been so upset. She hadn't realised that Loki was still in the room when she had begun speaking to Odin, she just wished he had been there to hear all of it then he wouldn't doubt her love for him.
"Stop lying to me! I can't believe anything you say to me anymore, all I hear when you speak is more lies, now this is the last time I will ask, leave me alone and never come back" With that Loki turned around and threw up a glamour so Bella could no longer see him.
"If that is what you wish" Bella turned to leave, unshed tears finally breaking free as she ascended the stairs back to the main floor of the palace.
'How did it all go so wrong?" Bella thought to herself as she walked towards the queens' private garden, needing a quiet place to think.
*In the cell*
'Was she telling me the truth, or was it just another lie. Urgh I can't think anymore, there's just so much pain when I think of Bella' Loki sat in his cell, looking like his whole world had just fallen apart.
