The story so far: Loki and Cephera have finally found themselves in bed together but after Loki angered her they got into a fight once more. Cephera left upon seeing Alleria enter Loki's room thinking he had invited her there to have sex and she left. She went to earth, got drunk while Loki watched her from and enchanted mirror and then out of nowhere she was mulled back to Asgard by some magic and bond to Loki by and invisible cord at their wrists. They argue before she finally becomes overwhelmed by emotion.

Loki's dreamer: this will not be as long as they others. I'd be lucky to make it through 10 more chapters.

Kat snowstorm: yes, indeed.

Frostfire613: sorry but I love cliffhangers though I don't always mean to place then that way.

Sidney loves fiction: I wanted it to be raw passion :p yeah Cephera turned to liquor. We all do silly things when we are angry.

Poodle warriors: I had the idea of having her tethered to Loki in a different story and switched it to this one. I like the idea :p

Doctor Loki love: I'm sorry for the confusion. Things will be explain though. Think of them as being handcuffed together only the hand cuffs are invisible.

Sorceress of the trees: She's stressing but she'll calm down. As for Loki...who knows what he will do...well aside form me. Hehe

Chapter 13

They sat on the edge of his bed fully dressed. Whatever bonded them together it seemed it only effected the two of them. Clothes went right between their arms. It seemed their wrists were the point of connection. They hadn't ventured from the room as it was still very early. They sat in complete silence for a good hour before Cephera finally looked up straight ahead at the far wall.

"I'm sorry. I should not have yelled at you. I'm hung over, cranky and who ever you wish to share your time with is none of my business." She said breaking the silence.

"It's true Alleria came to my room but it was not through an invitation. She took it upon herself to see me. I sent her away." Loki told her making her look at him.

"Why?" Her simple question held many unspoken ones.

"I am aware of your unfriendly relationship with her and I did not wish to widen the gap we seem to have keeping us from getting along." Loki moved his bound hand to move her hair from her face and moved to steal a kiss. Her hand stopped him covering his face.

"Don push it. I'm still slightly seething over the 'easy' comment." She warned. Loki groaned but backed off. "Looks like someone or something has tried forcing us to close that gap you speak of." She said looking down to their tethered wrists.

"It would seem so."

"You think your father will be able to break this spell?" Loki scowled.

"Odin is not my father. Please refrain from referring to him as such." He saw her roll her eyes and felt a little less inclined to listen to her warning. Loki seized her wrists and had her pinned to her back. She yelped in surprise looking back up at him wide eyed.

Loki kissed her before she could protest. Like always the sensation of the act took him over and he lost himself in the kiss. She too seemed to lose herself as she kissed back. He no longer had to hold her down and her arms willingly crossed round his neck.

"Brother!" Thor boomed as he entered the room. Their kiss ended abruptly and Loki lay his head next to her face in frustration. "Oh." Thor said stepping back. "Cephera's sister was under the impression she was missing. I came to inform you of such but I see there is no need. My apologizes." Thor looked baffled at the two of them while loki uttered curses near Cephera's ear about people not knocking.

When Thor left closing the Thor with a thud Loki knew he would not be so lucky to get to continue where he left off. He rocked back to stand pulling her with him. They would have to try and get used to doing things together until their bond was broke. "If Thor is awake then no doubt Odin is as well. Lets see what can be done about this." Loki said to her. She nodded and followed him out behind him.

"I'd prefer you keep your hands to yourself while we are so closely forced together." She said as they walked down the hall.

"You don't protest once your already in my arms." He said back teasingly. His anger with her forgotten after his lips had touched hers only moments ago.

"I will hit you." She warned. Loki only chuckled.

"So explain to me again how this came to be?" Odin said looking between them.

"I was on Midgard taking a bath, Loki was here doing the same and we both saw a white light and before I knew it I was whisked from Midgard to his bathroom and we were bond by some unseen magical force." Cephera said shortening it.

"And aside from your shared but separate morning activity is there anything else that may have caused this?" Odin asked raising a white brow.

"Perhaps I can offer assistance." Thor said arriving in time to overhear the last bits of the conversation. "Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that my brother has been courting the lady Cephera without anyone's knowledge." Thor had a sense of pride and happiness in his voice but Loki looked ready to kill him.

"I am not courting her." He hissed Thor's way.

"My apologize brother I was unaware the lady was the type to fornicate for fun." Cephera felt her face redden.

"I'm not." She agreed.

"What you saw when you entered my room, without invite I may add, was this bond making it impossible for us to move further then a few feet from one another." Loki said glaring.

"So then the enchantment started at your lips and moved to your wrists?" Thor actually looked confused which made Cephera want to face palm herself.

"This is getting ridiculous does whatever is going on between myself and Loki really have to be brought into this." She finally said.

"Do not get me wrong my lady, it's just I am happy for my brother. I had not thought he would find a strong woman such as yourself to love." Thor told her. Odin was saying nothing. He looked half amused at the entire argument.

"I do not love her. My relationship with her is complicated." Loki protested sharply.

"So you admit you have a relationship." Thor beamed.

"She is merely a girl I have fleeting interests in." Loki was half in Thor's face.

"Fleeting interests? I'll remember that later. I can add that to the list of things you've said about me." She crossed her arms hard causing Loki to stumble back her way and knock into her.

"Enough." Odin said his voice echoing in the vast room. "It is clear that complicated may be the best word used to describe everything happening here right now. I'm afraid I am unable to remove whatever spell it is that bounds you both. Perhaps you are meant to work out your differences for you both to be released from it." Odin stood and no one made a sound. "On to other, more pressing business. Thor returned late last night with the other girls. Currently they are all located in the dining hall. I suggest we continue in hast to help the Valkyries." He shoo'd them off.

Cephera was irritated but her ability to stay angry at Loki was beginning to become null and void. She was beginning to become used to his changing attitude toward her. He was like a child in some ways but then so was she. She too was still very confused on how she felt. One moment she hated him the next she thought she could love him.

They entered the dining hall and they had to ask Maria to move her seated spot next to Seraphina so Loki and her could sit next to one another. Neither of them supplied anyone with any kind of heads up about their current conditions. "After we eat you will return our marks." Avia asked. Cephera nodded.

"Once we all have them we will contact Brunhilda. She has an ancient inscription she's been translating. She suspects it's the spell to open the passage." Thor added looking to Loki.

"Why did she not send me this spell. I would have been the better option to do such a thing." Loki sounded annoyed.

"The object the spell is located on is of importance to the Valkyrie and they didn't trust you with it." Thor said a little hesitantly. Loki snorted.

"They are the ones who sought my help to begin with." Loki pointed out. "We shall see what she can come up with without me. I doubt she will get too far." Cephera couldn't help but noticed his self centered attitude and looked to him out of the corner of her eyes. She reached her right hand across the table to grab for the fruit in the center and caused Loki's hand to slap his fork off his plate and she jumped at the noise and knocked down her glass of water. She quickly pulled her hand back and reached with the other, muttering an apology.

"You're jumpy." Seraphina said. "Where were you yesterday...and last night?" She said in a hushed whisper.

"Long story short I was on earth with Tony and came back this morning." Cephera looked down at her lap. Their hands were hanging between them and Loki looked to still be fuming. "Ok you know what." Cephera stood awkwardly. "Everyone we had a slight mishap. Me and Loki were working on a spell and screwed it up now we are magically bound together by our wrists. So where I go he goes and vice versa." Cephera ended by sitting back down with a thump. Silence followed.

"That's going to suck when you need to go pee." Seraphina laughed making Cephera glare at her.

"Are when you need to bathe." Tanium added.

"Could be a good time if you ask me." Juno giggled. Cephera looked at Alleria and the annoyed look on that girls face suddenly made Cephera feel good and she licked out her tongue at her. Childish but it made the whore drop her glare for a shocked expression.

Loki stood at Cephera's side as she blessed the remaining girls. Thor rushed off to summon Brunhilda only to receive word she was not yet ready for them. "She will come to us when she is ready." Thor told them. Loki couldn't help but smirk. The annoying woman was having trouble deciphering the spell just as he thought she might.

"Lets go hang out with your friends." Alleria suggested now batting her eyes at Thor.

"I am sure they would enjoy the company." Thor said smiling and oblivious to her big eyes. Cephera moved to follow and Loki stood steadfast keeping her from going anywhere.

"We need to talk." He said to her. She looked to him and frowned. He forced her to follow him back to his room. How many times would they begin to become accustomed with one another only to have it fall part again. It was true he wasn't sure how he felt and he did not view his relationship with her to be anything more then sexual but it also didn't mean he hadn't been tempted to find a way to make her stay with him. Loki felt like he needed her by his side and then he'd have a mental argument with himself over how stupid he was to even think she could be.

Odin's lack of reaction to Thors outburst about their courting made Loki wonder if perhaps he had been wrong to think her humanity would haunt him. Odin didn't seemed to care and Loki wasn't sure if that was because he actually didn't care about Loki or what he did or if he didn't see a problem with the couple.

When they reached his room he opened the door and offered her entrance. She did just that and they sat back on the bed at the end with no chair currently big enough to hold them both and it was more comfortable. "We seem to keep getting our signals crossed" he told her. "I promise you I am not trying to insult you but I cannot help how I feel over all of this. The only things I know about you are slim and to put it bluntly I am not the kind of man who just falls in love with just anyone." He told her.

"I get that. But seeing as we have no choice but to follow each other around now I'm sure most people are going to think us lovers, or courting anyway, with or without Thor saying so. If we come across more people who think those things do you plan to stand their denying it to them to prove a point, because if so I might have to kill you." She said shaking her head.

"Point taken." He replied looking sullen. He did not like this forced upon him. It seemed fun at first but they had been privately in his room with no watchful eyes. "I think this is all part of someone's schemes." He said to her.

"I once used to think it was fate but now I'm with you there. Some one is controlling our future and that future seems to be for us to be together in some way." She shrugged.

"Perhaps the bond will break if we..." She cut him off.

"Really. You're going to use that line to gain sex." Her violet eyes seemed to pierce his green ones and he smirked.

"What do you propose then?" Loki watched her fall back to lie down.

"I don't know." She stared at the ceiling and then looked around the room. Loki lay beside her on his side and lightly placed his hand on the fabric of her dress covering her leg. She chanced a glance his way. "You like the colour green." She noted ignoring his hand.

"I do." He replied bunching her skirt in his hand slowly.

"Mine's pink." She said her eyes flicking down but she still did not move. "You realize once my dress gets up so far I'm just going to stop you." She warned. Loki grinned further.

"No you wont." He said and hiked the skirt up fast and sunk his hand between her legs. She gasped in surprise. He watched her face light up in a pretty shade of pink but her slightly parted lips told him he was right. Like himself he couldn't seem to say no.