Loki's dreamer: its good right now. Wouldn't want the villain to know :p and Celo was the guy who attempted to take advantage of her on the beach years ago when she got drugged.

Doctor Loki love: ah Loki's reaction. Enjoy it!

Sorceress of the trees: you want more...here's more, you just had to wait for it. Lol

Max is a chick name: glad I can still keep people at the edge of their seats.

Poodle warriors: the baby did that yup. :p staying safe is a worry of course. I'm happy you didn't see it coming. I wouldn't want to be too predictable.

Sidney loves fiction: I made this idea for one reason only and I will reveal it later when it happens. Lol. Glad ffnet is working right now.

Kat snowstorm: normal? What's that?i am also very happy to have posting working properly.

Chapter 82: Jump?

Loki looked on astounded at the story his wife just told him. "What's a jump?" She had asked at the very end. Loki sat down. Only himself and Kat were currently with her still, sitting on the blanket over looking the water.

Loki considered where to start. Jumping was not just a simple thing to quickly explain. "Jumping is not much different from time travel only a jump is when you visit another reality that is completely separate from your own. They say every walk of life has many different outcomes. For instance the one you were in Thor never destroyed the Byfrost and I obviously had never met you. In fact there is a large chance you don't even exist there. You see not everyone exists in every reality." Cephera was listening to him intently.

"Ok so my meeting you there or anyone else there for that matter doesn't change anything here because they are not connected." She said making sure she understood. He nodded.

"But there are rules to Jumping." He warned her. "Cephera if this should happen again you need to find a way back as soon as possible. Whatever it takes you find a way home." He told her giving her a very serious look.

"How? It was the baby not me." She said rubbing her belly.

"I don't know but it's important. When someone makes a jump the magic emitted freezes time in their current reality once they land in another. But if you are gone from your reality for too long that magic disappears and life will continue on normally and you will not be allowed to return."

Cephera looked down. "How long does it take for the magic to vanish completely?"

"You have six month in that reality." He told her.

"That's a fairly long time!" She said smiling.

"Only if you're a seasoned pro. If you don't know how to control it you could jump from one reality to another never actually getting back to your own." She stopped smiling.

"So right now that other reality is frozen for six months?"

"I'm not sure. The angel pulled you from it so it may not be frozen. But had it been a jump then yes. Life will continue on like no time had passed once the magic from the jump dissipates." Loki put a hand to his temple. "This is dangerous Cephera." He said his voice strained.

"If it happens again I'm sure Vicerial will help. They seem very invested in this kid." She said.

"And this is another thing that worries me. What do they want with our child? What does a Herald do? Is it safe? Do they plan to take the baby from us?" Loki said each question with more and more discomfort. He was not fond of having people decide the fate of his children for him.

"This is my second encounter with an angel and she has never made me believe she would take our child or hurt us in anyway." Loki growled in frustration. To many questions. So much left unknown. And now what of their enemy. If they should find out about their child's calling what would they hold in store for them then. "I don't think we have a choice." She added.

This was also something Loki hated but couldn't agrue with. How can you fight ethereal beings you couldn't find? There was silence a moment when Kat finally spoke up.

"So 10'000 years since even the angels seen it. Must be pretty important and powerful that even you couldn't learn it." She looked to Loki who gave her a glare. "It's true."

"Being true doesn't mean I want to hear it." He said his voice low. "But still you're right. I was unable to even come close to tapping into it. And that's another thing. Reality jumping, and time traveling usually go hand in hand. If our child can do one even within the womb I've no doubt she will one day do both. Playing with such things is dangerous. The angels must trust the child a great deal to allow them to still live." Loki had reached over and touched Cephera's belly.

"She." Cephera said smiling.

"How do you know?" He asked the stress of everything being spoken of lifting a moment.

"Vicerial called them a she." Loki couldn't help but smile.

"Now you can finally decide on a name." Kat clapped.

"So what have you been doing on Asgard.?" Cephera said changing the subject. Loki noticed her change but decided that no more could be said on the other issue. He only hoped no more jumping occurred while the child was still inside her or too young to control it.

"I've been making some fruitless effort in trying to find Celo." Loki was prepared for the looks he got from both girls.

"That jerk? Why?" Kat responded first.

"I've been trying to think back to anything else that might have happened to Cephera since she came here that might have been caused by the person plaguing us now. Her encounter on the beach with him was the only thing I came up with. I wanted to check on his doings and whereabouts since I sent him away from Asgard." Loki laid back propping his head on Cephera's belly where she ran her fingers through his hair. He was feeling frustrated again and she could tell.

"And?" His wife asked peering down at him.

"I haven't found him. He seems to have just vanished. Heimdell has no recollection of him making it to the Byfrost. The guard I had escort him is missing as well. No one has seen or heard from him. His family thought he was still doing classes." Loki tried to enjoy the feeling of his wife's fingers.

"What about Cally?" Cephera looked to Kat after she asked that question.

"She has been ill since before our wedding and so far seems unable to leave her home." He informed them sounding annoyed. He was no closer to solving this mystery then he had been when it started.

"They could be working together." Kat offered.

"I don't think Cally would want to hurt me." Cephera finally piped up. Loki sat up and turned to look at her.

"Why's that?" He asked.

"Well she could have made an accident happen when she was training me in magic and she never hurt me then. We had an understanding in the end. I seen her face change when she was proud of something I would do even though she would never say it." Loki pondered the thought. It was true, Cally could have pulled a stunt like that but hadn't.

"Still Cally and Celo are still on my top of suspicious people. Together or separate." Loki told them both and stood.

All three kept their conversation to themselves. The less people who knew the better at this point but Loki knew Cephere would tell her sister the moment she got a chance. He didn't tell her not too. The only information they shared with everyone including the kids was that their child was indeed a girl.

Diana and Devian voiced that they knew it all along and decided to celebrate with a game of hide and seek. Loki tried to enjoy his day with his kids but the stress was weighing heavily.

But Cephera knew ways to take his mind off things, if only for a moment. Like what she was doing right now. Loki lay back against her soft white pillows with his eyes closed enjoying her mouth wrapped around his cock.

She knew what she was doing. Her small hand working the shaft and her tongue licking around the head. Sucking and fondling him, working him into a light pant. He never would tire of her. This he was sure of more then anything.

Loki wrapped his hand into her hair forcing her mouth down him further and he groaned loudly as he released his seed for her. She smiled when she pulled back. She was no longer able to lay on her belly. Sex was usually done on her knees or bent over. Tonight she didn't seem interested in sex but rather making him comfortable.

"What was he like?" He asked her. She had mentioned the angel saving her from another him and he was interested in their meeting.

"Who?" She asked being coy.

"My other self." Loki said toying with her breast forgetting that they were sore. She growled a warning and he backed off settling instead to caressing the skin of her back. No matter if they had sex or not he preferred her to sleep naked with him.

"He was a jerk." She said flatly. "He had me grabbed from my bed, practically dragged to his cell and threatened to kill me if I didn't jump him out of there." She huffed. "Nothing like you. He looked different to."

Loki chuckled. "Well lets be thankful you only have to put up with one of me." He kissed her forehead and then her lips. "Sleep." He said folding her into his arms so his hands lay across her stomach.