The story so far: finally the ushers have made contact with the angel Seria, Cephera's daughter from another reality. They are given the information needed to stop a raging angel that has been the cause of all their problems. Cephera is kept behind to speak privately with Seria and is horrified to find out that it was her who was sending the dreams and her who bond Cephera to Loki. Cephera comes back distraught with the news that her and Loki's union was made out of lies and with the only purpose of attaining a child from their combined blood line.

Loki's dreamer: I thought so too!

Sidney loves fiction: right from chapter one I decided Seria would be an angel but I wasn't sure how I would integrate her at the time. Lol

Poodle warriors: happy your excited about the alternate ending. I am too. The roller coaster Loki and Cephera have been on was a little crazy but who knows where it will end.

Doctor Loki love: yeah this chapter the idea just kept rolling so a nice surprise long chapter. The angel was her daughter or at least in another reality. She's since died and became that angel. Very rude and mean yes but it's one of those needs of the many outweighing the few moments. She did what she needed to to try and make sure life moved of for all realities. Cephera is more currently more conflicted then Loki only because Loki was always unsure how he felt about her and hadn't felt any strong feelings for her.

Frostfire613: it does suck indeed.

Kat snowstorm: ohhhh. I get it now. It was also steak and blowjob day...it's true I didn't make that up. Lol

Sorceress of the trees: Loki did handle himself well. Now to see how they do after the fact.

whits light of DEATH: gotta love the angels manipulating the lesser beings. :p

I just want everyone to know that unless my brain takes a different turn there are two more chapters left. I love all you guys and thanks for your awesome support. :)

Chapter 16

Cephera said very little as Loki led her back inside. He was not sure if he liked the silence. He knew not what she was thinking. As they approached the room they had not so long ago fled he could hear arguing. He had to retain his itch to roll his eyes. Nothing ever went smoothly with these girls.

"You question the beings who are our eternal sovereigns." Brunhilda was gasping her face red. It looked as though they had been arguing for a while.

"Well according to this one angel, another has gone awol, psycho on the world. I'm just saying how do we know she's telling the truth and she's not the one we should be worrying about." Maria said sternly.

"Bringing this orb to her might be just a big part of her plan. What if Gabriel is the good guy trying to stop her." Alleria agreed.

"And if she's telling the truth and we don't bring it to her we are all but dead anyway." Tanium argued back.

"Her word is all we have to go on!" Shouted Juno. "She was the only angel there."

"Exactly. No other angels to stop her from getting what she wants." Avia interjected. No one seemed to notice Cephera and Loki come in aside from Thor and Seraphina. The two of them came to their side and kept their comments to themselves for the time being.

"Why don't we go back there and ask her to show us proof." Payten said her voice almost a whisper.

"She's just gonna make an excuse."

"Or she's actually telling truth and this argument is just a waste of time."

Loki watched Brunhilda rub her head in exasperation. "Stop everyone!" She said her voice ringing off the vaulted ceiling. "We have gone this long with very little answers. One more day should not make a difference. Why not go to Asgard, sleep on it and we'll meet back here tomorrow with a decision." She said clearly just trying to give everyone time to calm down. It took several more pushes to get everyone to agree to come back tomorrow. Still Cephera said nothing. Seraphina looked to Loki as they left and he shook his head to warn her now was not a good time. Seraphina nodded and she looked at him with more understanding then he ever saw.

Throughout the day the arguments continued. The same points being thrown back and forth as they all congregated in the throne room. Odin was present and was only listening. Both sides had good points but the fact remained that no matter the decision they had a fifty fifty chance of making the wrong one. Loki found himself with his hand on Cephera's lower back and absently rubbing it with his thumb. She had still not spoken a word. Her eyes on the floor at all times.

It wasn't until Alleria spotted her that the situation changed. "And what happened to you to have been gone so long?" She snapped stepping forward toward Cephera. Cephera looked up her eyes looking passively at the other girls tone.

"Yeah. What did happen?" Meriall said also training her eyes their way.

"She's not up for talking." Seraphina said sharply stepping in front of her sister.

"The worm can speak for herself." Alleria growled and Loki had to grabbed the elder twin before she ripped the other girl apart. Seraphina was seething and Loki had a hard time controlling her with one arm. Cephera had not moved.

"A child." Cephera finally said her eyes still cast down and her voice seemed void of emotion. She was emotionally drained and he knew it.

"Don't." Loki said to her in a hushed whisper but she didn't listen.

"She told me if the orb should fail that myself and Loki have it in our genes to create a child with the power to stop Gabriel." It was such a simple sentence yet everyone on the room had shut up. Everyone was staring at her. "Our bond was not created by a spell gone wrong. Seria bound us to force us together in hopes of creating this child."

"Wait a second. So all this arguing over the damn orb and weather this angel is a liar and under our noses she had a backup?" Alleria was red in the face. "ARE you pregnant?" She hissed.

"I don't know." Cephera said.

"So you have had intercourse." Avia said with no anger but more curiosity. Cephera nodded. Seraphina had stopped struggling when Cephera had begun to talk. She now had her arms wrapped around her sister holding her close.

"So either way. If we don't give her Ethereal's Light then she'll get her way unless we can break this stupid bond." It was Alleria who spoke again. Alleria was the only one in the room who didn't like Cephera and no one else seemed inclined to talk down at her for her problems.

"Unless they don't sleep together anymore." Payten whispered.

"The little whore would spread her legs again." It was Loki who had to refrain from killing her this time. "Or we could kill her." She added.

"Enough!" It was Odin. He had stood from his seated spot. "It's clear that we have only one choice. We will hand over the orb and let fate take over. If we are bound for the afterlife then we cannot escape it." He told them all. "Tomorrow you return to the holy mountains and we end this." His words rang final and his visage screamed to not dare defy him. Even though only Loki and Thor were from Asgard no one dared speak a word of defiance." He quickly dismiss everyone.

Cephera didn't wait for everyone to bombard her with questions or words of any kind. She transported herself and Loki away and sealed his room off from outsiders. She sat down with a heavy sigh. "If Seria is who she says. If she can stop Gabriel, tomorrow will be the end of this." She said holding her arm up indicating the bond.

"I feel as though you have been thinking about this quite a bit." Loki responded his hands on his knees bent forward slightly.

"I have." She sucked on her bottom lip a moment and then looked at him. "When this ends. When we no longer are forced by each others side I think we should part ways." Loki stared at her. He was surprised, yet not. "We have spent the past 200 years holding out for one another and now that we know the truth I think we need to start living a life where we get to choose. To live separately. I'm sure if we are meant to be together we will meet again someday...this time of our own choosing." She was trying not to get upset.

"Perhaps you're right." He said. "But if this is how it will be and tomorrow is our last time together may I request one more night in your arms." Cephera peered at him unsure if it was a good idea but she too wanted to feel him once more.

"Yes." She said and in one fluid motion he had a hold of her and was kissing her. 'I will not cry, I will not cry' she chanted to herself in her mind. The decision hadn't come easy but given Loki's reluctance to accept her fully she felt it had to be this way. She would move on and she was sure he would too. He would find a woman who would make him happier then she could. She wished deep down it could be her but she was also not sure if that was Seria's doing. She couldn't wait for the moment she could be sure of everything she felt. The moment she was free of all this emotional torment.

She sighed as Loki's mouth sought her neck and then her shoulder. He was being careful to not leave marks. She pulled the ties on her dress that where hidden at her sides. When it was loose enough he slipped it off her to hang at her waist. His hands were warm on her breasts and his lips making their way closer to join his hands. Cephera moaned when his mouth found her nipple and he pulled gently with his teeth. He treated the other in much the same way not caring what marks where left behind there.

When he tugged on her dress she stood to allow him to pulled it down. It pooled at her feet and she stepped back to kneel on the bed. Loki wrapped his good arm around her waist and spun her off her knees and down onto her back. It really was difficult using the one arm all the time while the other hung or followed each other around but they managed. He tasted the flesh of her abdomen and down her stomach and further until he was hovering just above her sex. He tore her underwear from her easily and she cried out with amusement. She gripped his hair in her hand, her lips parted and his tongue spread a few teasing licks over her clit.

She moaned and bucked her hips up for more. He kept her ass up off the bed and delved his tongue down to taste her entrance and back up to play with her clit once more. She moaned tugging his hair and his face closer. Gasping when he flicked it to bring her more pleasure and sighing in frustration when he'd stop and do something different. Just one more night...that was all she would have with the man who had haunted her thoughts since she was a teenager. Just one more night to allow herself the pleasure of taking everything he was willing to give.

She cried out her legs gripping his shoulders. She came and felt an urge to cry but she held it back. She would not ruin this with the feeling of empty that was threatening to overtake her. The thought of never having this again was hard to swallow the longer she felt his touch. Loki kissed her inner thigh and removed his own top and then his pants leaving himself naked for her to do with him as she liked. She didn't want to miss any opportunity she sat up straight and gripped his length in her hand moving her hand up and down his shaft and looking up at him to watch as he moaned and his eyes shut to the sensation. One last night was all she was going to get but she was determined to make it as memorial as possible.

She began her own work with her mouth just as she knew how. Started first with the head and sucking with light tongue strokes to get him started. Slowly she moved down taking as much as his cock in as possible and then working her lips and tongue back up. His moans of pleasure making her smile across his skin before she sucked him in once more. Bobbing with her head and stroking with her hand to a steady beat. Every so often breaking to loving suck the head on its own only to go back to her previous ministrations.

Loki found a handful of her hair as he always did and bucked his hips toward her as he took control. She didn't pull back and accepted his probing. Her mouth and tongue working together as one until he grunted and she tasted his seed once more. She relished the moment and swallowed before licking him one last time.

She continued to use her hand to caress his length until he was once again hard and eager. She moved back on the bed with him following. Her legs spread, she was more then ready when he slipped inside her. "Loki." She moaned his name like she always thought to do but had never actually done so with their real couplings. Her face flushed feeling it a little too intimate perhaps but he thrust a little harder at the sound of his name on her lips, whispered from pleasure. He held himself close to her body so she could feel his every move both within her and on top of her. Her breasts brushing his chest each time they gave a tiny bounce.

He kissed her face and her ears. Time seemed endless while he fucked her slowly but with hard jolts of his hips. He would pull his cock out almost exiting her agonizingly slow only to drive himself back in harshly. She was panting and moaning in a continuous stream. Her sounds mixing with his and she said his name again. Her arm snaked around his shoulders, clung to him tight.

She was unsure how long their lovemaking lasted but when he came again he whispered her own name and she almost didn't even catch it. He lay with her, holding her but neither fell asleep. By the time morning came they had not only stayed awake all night but they spent the entire night enjoying each others bodies again and again. She'd never felt so ravished, so sore, so completely fullfilled in her life and now it was all over.