8. Don't go where I can't follow
Oh dear me, my cold is getting worse by the minute, I'm glad you guys can't catch anything via computer. On a completely unrelated note (for the real tom hiddleston fans, do you get it? Unrelated huh? Get it? He he) I was playing Sims 3 pets and made a horse called Loki, and then halfway through the game realised it was in fact a girl. That's why it wouldn't have babies with my other horse Daya. I did sense a lesbian relationship between the two though, so I maintain the fact that Daya and Loki are meant to be no matter what. Anyway, enjoy chapter eight, it's a big one. Kind of heart-breaking as well. I own nothing but Daya.
Loki returned to his chambers that night, without Daya. He was almost afraid to enter them, dreading his own wife's reaction to his return. After everything that had happened down in the vault, Loki feared his wife would never even be able to look at him, let alone forgive him. The lights in the chambers were turned off and Loki closed the doors behind him quietly, guessing Daya had already gone to sleep. Only the torches from outside lit the bedroom area dimly, and Loki saw his wife already curled up in bed.
Loki removed his armour lightly, letting it fall to the floor and crawled into bed next to Daya. He reached over to stroke her back gently, but stopped himself, not wanting to disturb her or upset her any further. In truth Daya was still wide awake and alert. She didn't want to fall asleep without knowing Loki's next move. After that evening's argument she was determined to keep an eye on her husband, waiting to see if anything could convince him to change his mind.
She turned and stared up at him. He smiled at her, still lost for words. Daya reached over and took his hand in her own, wanting him to know that despite the dark place Loki was descending to, she still loved him. They lay there in silence, but it wasn't the silence that they were comfortable with, or used to. Not the kind of silence where they were so content they didn't need to speak words to each other. It was a silence that was louder than any contact they had experienced together before. Where neither one of them knew what to say to, or know what was going to happen next.
A loud bang from Odin's chambers alerted the married couple.
"Perhaps the all father is waking up Loki?"
"Let's take a look shall we?" Loki asked. His spirits fell at thought of the All father waking up, Odin would resume his duties as the King of Asgard, and Loki would once again be pushed back into the shadows.
Daya ran to Odin's chambers first as Loki went to gather his sceptre. He noticed out of the chamber windows the Bifrost had been made active. Heimdall had allowed somebody access into Asgard without Loki's permission. Loki could easily hazard a guess and say it was his idiot brother, come to meddle in his affairs again.
As Daya entered Odin's chambers she saw Odin still sleeping, but lady Frigga was sprawled out on the floor, she had been hurt. As she went to help her a freezing cold hand gripped Daya's throat and lifted her two feet into the air. Daya stared at her tormenter and saw it was Laufey as she gasped for air.
"Ah the famous princess of Asgard, or should I say queen now. I will enjoy draining the sweet life out of you" Laufey smirked as Daya struggled even more for breath. Laufey threw Daya across the room and she hit the wall hard before falling to the ground with great force.
As Laufey approached the young goddess to end her completely, Loki entered the room.
"How dare you hurt my wife. Despair in the knowledge that your death came from the son of Odin" Loki shouted at Laufey before using his sceptre to kill Laufey himself. Loki ran to Daya's side and cradled her in his arms as Frigga managed to stand up.
"Daya, Daya are you alright? Can you hear me my darling?"
Daya's eyes sprung open and she smiled up at Loki. "I'm ok, I am fine my love" she answered him.
"Go Loki, go to the Bifrost, and stop the frost giants. I will watch over Daya" Frigga told him. Unaware of Loki's true intentions, unaware he planned to go to Bifrost to stop Thor and destroy Jotunheim.
Loki stroked his wife's hair as he stared at her knowingly. "Go Loki" Daya said. "I know you will make the right decision in the end, and I love you regardless."
Loki paused, smiled at her and kissed her before going to the Bifrost. Thor had returned, and Loki told adoptive brother of his intentions. When Thor obviously expressed his protest at Loki's plans the youngest prince grew furious once more. If Thor stopped him now he would be forever known as the heroic prince that returned to Asgard just in time to stop the traitorous adopted Frost giant, the false king, the false son. Worst of all, he would shame Loki in-front of Daya, the one person he could run to after all this was over. Meanwhile Odin finally awoke from the Odinsleep and he made his way to the bridge, with Daya close behind.
After the "brothers" fought each other Thor realised the only way to stop Loki from exterminating the frost giants was to destroy the Bifrost. He used Mjonir to hammer away at the bridge, until finally it shattered, sending him and Loki flying.
Odin caught Thor as Loki held onto Mjonir in Thor's hand to keep himself from falling into the abyss.
"I could have done it father, for you, for all of us. I could have saved the world from the threat of monsters".
"No Loki" Odin said coldly in response to Loki's words.
Daya leant over the edge of the broken bridge and reached for Loki. When she couldn't reach him, she stared longingly into his eyes.
"Loki, Loki look at me, please, look at me" she cried.
Loki turned his gaze to his wife, there, at the end of it all. She had never seemed more beautiful, more perfect, more broken.
"Loki, please. I love you, I don't care about your mistakes. I love you, I always have and I always will. Please hold on, please don't let go, you said you would never let go, remember? You promised Loki. When you gave me the bracelet. You promised me to never let go" her pleas grew desperate as tears fell from her eyes. Her arms still stretched out to try and reach for her husband. She saw his grip on the hammer loosen and let out a loud gasp, reaching even further on the edge, wishing Loki would just reach out to and take her hand.
"No, no Loki, don't let go, please, please don't let go. Look at me, look at me, I'm here, I am here for you and I am begging you to take my hand please. Don't let me go Loki" she cried out.
He stared into her eyes, a single tear falling from his face and into the abyss below him. He never parted her gaze and realised, that after this, after all this, he could never be perfect for her. He could never be the man she so deserved. "I love you Daya, so much" he told her. She cried more furiously, knowing exactly what he was about to do.
"I know. I know you do Loki. I love you too, now take my hand, and I will pull you up. We can go back to the way things were, back to when it was just you and me, to when you and I were all that mattered" she said, allowing a small smile to creep onto her face, in a last attempt to make him see hope again.
Loki knew in his heart, it would never be the way it once was, so he let go and fell into the abyss.
Daya screamed and threw herself over the bridge. Thor caught her arm and stopped her from falling after Loki. Below her, as she looked, Loki had become just s tiny speck, seeming like he had already become her past, instead of present.
Odin pulled the both of them up back onto the bridge and Thor still held onto Daya. "No Thor" she begged him. "Let me go, let me go after him. You have to let me go. Please, you have no idea how much I need him".
"HE IS GONE DAYA!" Thor shook her, trying to get her to see it was too late for him.
She shook her head, crying out in protest.
"Daya, he is gone, there is nothing you can do" Thor said again.
Daya cried out in pure pain as they made their way back to the palace. Staring back at where Loki had fallen in disbelief. She couldn't believe he was gone. She looked to the side of her again and again, hoping Loki would be walking by her side. She prayed it was just a horrible dream and when she woke Loki would be by her side in bed, smiling at her and holding her close.
Back at the palace Frigga greeted them. "What happened?" she asked.
Odin explained and Frigga went to Daya who had fallen to her knees, rocking back and forth as she wept. "I am so sorry" Frigga told her as she wrapped an arm around her shoulders. "I am so sorry Daya".
After what seemed like hours of crying on the floor Daya ran out of tears to cry. She picked herself up from the ground and stared at Frigga, her eyes stained with wet tears.
"I am going to retire to my chambers. I need to be alone now" she said so quietly it was a wonder anyone had heard her.
"You are in no fit state to be alone right now Daya" Thor said as he touched her arm to pull her back.
She turned to face him, moving violently away from his touch. Daya glared at Thor with hatred. No tears had fallen from his eyes, no words of denial had left his mouth. He just stood there, a stony expression on his face.
"Don't you dare touch me. This is all your fault Thor. I will never see my husband again because of you. Because of your desire to step in and take control of every situation you come across, my Loki is lost to me. You let him fall, and what's worse, you stopped me from going after him, when you know there is nothing here for me if Loki is gone. He was right. Asgard will suffer under your idiotic rule, as will I, because of your foolish actions" Daya screamed at Thor before running to her chambers.
Thor demanded guards were stationed outside of Daya's chambers, even positioned on the balcony, to ensure Daya didn't do anything Thor felt she would regret. She was kept prisoner in her own home. She stared out of the window, out at the stars, desiring nothing more than to jump over the edge into the endless skies, hoping she would land where Loki himself had fallen.
The endless tears she had cried had made her tired, she crawled into bed, feeling her chest tighten at the sight before her. She had never gotten into that bed knowing that Loki would not be joining her that same night. She ran her hand over the place where he would lie next to her, the sheets were still crumpled, it was almost impossible to believe that only a few hours ago, he was lying there next to her, in the same spot. She felt more tears run down her face as she felt the cold emptiness next to her, realising there would be no peace, no solace, and no comfort to her anymore if Loki was not by her side.
Daya could not sleep, she spent the entire night tossing and turning, reliving the horrible memory of Loki letting go of the hammer and falling. She pictured his face, the disappointment that had hit him when Odin had told him no. After his own adoptive father had shot down Loki's idea saving Asgard. She stood up and paced the room, as Loki had done so many times when he was stressed and had no idea what to do next.
"How could Odin be so foolish?" she said to herself quietly. "He knew Loki was desperate, desperate for his father's approval, and Odin just refused him. Why didn't he lie? Why didn't he just lie in the moment, just until Loki wasn't at least hanging onto life by a thread? Why was he so stupid in Loki's time of need?"
Daya went over the questions over and over in her head, it was driving her mad. She questioned confronting Odin herself, seeing as she now had nothing left to lose. Really she already knew the answer, Odin would claim he loved Loki, but couldn't lie to him anymore, couldn't tell him what he was doing was right. Daya had never disliked Odin, but she was starting to feel his parenting skills left a lot to be desired. She stared at the stars outside, looking to see if anything seemed out of the ordinary.
"Come on Loki, if you are out there, give me a sign. Just let me know you are safe" she said as she stared at the skies intensely. She did so until finally her eyes hurt from trying to keep them open and she crawled back into bed, letting a broken sleep pass over her.
So there you go my beautiful readers, chapter eight! Don't panic Loki isn't gone, as we know from seeing avengers. Although Daya will not be seeing him face to face for a bit FEAR NOT, there will be plenty of appearances from him, whether they be dreams or flashbacks. I'm going to do plenty of flashbacks for you guys seeing as chapters four and six seemed to be very successful in showing you guys the background of their relationships. In fact, the next chapter will involve a flashback, stick with it guys, it's gonna be good :D anyway, as usual review, let me know what you think, even if you guys want to give suggestions I have a very open mind and will definitely consider them if I think they are good. (I will give you credit if I use anything don't worry). Stay tuned as next chapter definitely shows you a fierce side of Daya. Until next time lovelies :D