Loki's dreamer: thank I was worried the fight s end might be lacking even with the effort I put Into it.

Sidney loves fiction: so glad everyone seems to have liked the fight scene.

Doctor Loki love: I had actually had a hard time deciding to kill Kat or imprison her. I decided that she needed to die. I wanted it to Loki to kill her. Cephera doesn't have the heart to kill on purpose even though she thought she could if she needed too. On to the rest of the happy couples possibly unhappy fess ups. :p

Poodle warriors: that's a lot of wow.

Chapter 99: Nothing to Forgive

Cephera sat still shaking in the healing room. Diana was across from her being attended too while Devian was sitting unharmed with Thor. Shiaji was once more a small animal curled in Cephera's lap. Devian had yet to explain what he had done to bring some life back to him but whatever it was Devian seemed pretty wiped of magic. Loki was being seen to and all was quite. Loki had ordered Kat's body taken away and burned before they moved to the healing room. Seria was sat on the floor looking up at her father. Everyone was deemed fine but no one moved. The physician left and Loki looked to Cephera.

"I'm glad you're both ok." He said and stood to sit next to her and put his arm around her. Cephera wasn't sure what to do. Everything had been happening so fast it was hard to think of her last five months spent in the other reality. Now that she had time to think about it she felt her stomach knot and guilt run over her. She'd slept with another man. For five months she played sex pet to him. She had sold herself out to get back and save her family yet it didn't seem like it was a good enough reason. "How long?" He asked his hand on her stomach.

"At little longer then five month." She said.

"Daddy." Seria tugged on his clothes and he picked her up. "You trained me to come home." She told him. Cephera's stomach sunk.

"Really. And how was I?"

"You were nice. You gave me candy often." She smiled. "But I like you better daddy. You make mommy smile." Cephera tried not to look away. She was not smiling right now and didn't feel like it.

"I want to go to bed." Diana said stiffly. Cephera looked concerned to her daughter but Devian had gotten up and left with her.

"I can't believe it was Kat all this time." Cephera told Loki.

"Don't think about it. For now let's be grateful we all survived. She could have chosen so many opportunities to kill us all but she was a fool to wait so long. Her ego got in her way. Lets forget her tonight." Loki stood carrying Seria. "Lets go to bed." Cephera nodded and followed. They put Seria to bed and lay Shiaji in bed with her.

In their room Cephera's hands shook as she tried to remove her dress. Loki helped her noticing her distress. He followed her into a hot bath and he relaxed folding her against him. "What bothers you?" He asked into her ear.

Cephera wished he hadn't asked. She blinked back the tears of shame she could but they came unbidden all the same. "I'm a whore." She said her voice quiet. Loki stared at her perplexed by the strange admission. "In the other reality teaching our daughter to jump came with a price." She said through long ragged breaths.

"I expect so. You were dealing with me." He told her. His calm made it that much more difficult to come clean. Surely he could put two and two together.

"I became his toy in exchange for the training." Her breaths began coming in short, clipped sobs. She felt Loki's arms tighten around her and rub down over her belly.

"I once told you to do whatever it takes to come home. You did nothing less then what I told you to do. Five months is a long time and cutting it close. Had you not come home we might have not survived." His hand was hard on her belly. She put a hand over his.

"This child is yours. I was pregnant before I was jumped. I suspect the beach was to blame." Loki chuckled.

"I have to admit that is better news then the alternative." She broke down crying again covering her face in her hands. "Calm down." He tried to soothe her but she couldn't.

"How could you forgive me for such a thing." She said.

"You did nothing wrong. The only thing you did was do what you had to in order to protect your family. No one can blame you for that and therefore there is nothing to forgive." He had pulled her around to face him. "Nothing at all. Calm down before you bring stress to yourself and the baby." He pulled her close and held her stroking her hair.

"He was a jerk." She said once her tears stopped and her breathing evened out.

"Was I. Well at least I wasn't out to kill you this time." She laughed at that.

"You hit me a couple of times. Once to stop me using magic on you and once to knock me out."

"And how did I hold up in the bedroom." He asked teasingly.

Cephera wasn't sure how to answer that and wasn't sure she should. She tried to contain herself form breaking down again. "He was rough and took only his own pleasure with no concern for mine." She finally said.

"Greedy bastard." Loki laughed. "I've missed you, missed us." He said changing topic now that she was settled down.

"Me too. Maybe now we can live in peace." She replied. Loki kissed her.

"How would you like a man who completely shows you every pleasure you could ever want, while taking his own pleasure and erasing the touches of another." Cephera shivered and smiled and then shivered again when she felt a second body pressed to her back. She didn't have to look to know it was his copy.

She made no complaints. She belonged to him and him to her. Nothing could come between them and any danger that was once a mystery was now gone.

Loki woke pressed tightly to his wife and big green eyes staring at him. It took him a moment to realize it was Seria. "Seria you know your not suppose to be in here." He told her as kindly as possible happy for the blankets covering both of them.

"I have something for mommy. Vicerial gave it to me." She said her eyes wide and innocent. Loki sat up and woke his wife. "Come with me." She said taking her mothers hand leading her from the room.

Loki followed curiously. They entered the kids room where Devian and Diana were fast asleep and Shiaji was still curled weakly in Seria's bed. Seria let go her mothers hand and pressed her palm to Cephera's and pulled up. Loki was startled to see a light blaze between the palms.

"What is it?" She asked her daughter.

"Vicerial returned the rest of your mothers soul for Shiaji. She said for you to give it to him." She smiled. Loki watched Cephera with her awkward, unsure movements as she pushed the light against the cat. The light disappeared and Shiaji's core lit brightly a moment later. "For keeping me safe." Seria told her mother.

"Do you see them? Angels?" She asked her daughter.

"Every night in my dreams." Seria said back.

"Are they nice to you?" Cephera sounded concerned. Her and Loki were both in agreement how they hated the angels having a hold over their daughters future.

"Always." She assured her mother and hugged her. "Goodnight mommy." She said and crawled back into bed. Shiaji sat up and stretched long and yawned his claws extending. When he was done he jumped down and rubbed across Cephera's legs. Cephera couldn't deny she was grateful to the angels for their gift but still the unease of the plans they had for their daughter remained. She wondered what her new child would be like as well.