Jenny locked the door behind her and ran into the bathroom. She climbed into the large claw foot bathtub with a hand towel and sobbed into it. She'd completely humiliated herself in front of the entire town and outed Loki, her boss. Loki will fire her for sure. He'll have to. He can't keep her around, not after what she did. She sobbed for what seemed like an eternity, about 15 minutes. Thirsty and exhausted she got up to get a drink of water. Using a beautiful vintage crystal cup on the vanity she sipped down the cool tap water from the sink. She looked at her wrecked face in the mirror and noticed the large wall mirror behind her, creating an illusion of infinite Jennys. She turned to look at herself in the full length mirror. She really did look pretty tonight.

This bathroom was larger than all the other guest bathrooms and the only one that had one of the large mirrors in it. She always did find that odd. She wiped away the mascara smudges under her eyes and turned to leave, but she stopped in her tracks at the sound of a door hinge. She turned back and looked at the mirror to see Loki standing behind her. She turned, but he was not there. She turned again to the mirror and still saw him. Her hair stood up on the back of her neck. The Loki in the mirror reached for her reflection and nuzzled her neck. She watched as her reflection responded to his touch, blissful from the caress. Her mouth hung agape as she watched the mirror as though watching a television show of her most intimate fantasies.

She and Loki kissed. Their hands raked over each other's bodies in a way she always imagined. Loki looked at her with a fire in his eyes, forcing Jenny to recognize that the real Loki never looked at her like that. The lustful piercing gaze set her womanhood to throbbing as her reflection and Loki started disrobing before her. She gasped and panted as each article of clothing dropped to reveal a new patch of bare skin. Her breath hitched when she saw Loki in all his glorious beautiful nakedness. He gripped her reflection's hip possessively, like an animal and the two dropped to a bed…a bed? They began making love.

The background dissolved into some bedroom Jenny did not recognize. She watched as Loki's perfect cock slid into her near virginal opening. She could hear them now, moaning each other's names as skin lapped obscenely. They climaxed together and the real Jenny did too. Just the images and the desire alone made her wet with want.

The scene changed and she was pregnant. Loki hugged her from behind telling her how much he loved her. They walked in the field together, and then dined at some expensive restaurant together. They were on a beach as a five year old boy rode Loki's shoulders. He had Jenny's eyes. She had a ludicrously large diamond ring on her finger and she wore expensive designer gowns. She wanted for nothing.

The scene changed again and Jenny's reflection was gone, replaced by some blonde muscly man Jenny had never seen before. Golden and naked, he walked up behind a naked Loki and took him. Jenny watched as Loki moaned in pleasure at being fucked in the ass by this big beautiful bronzed man. Jenny's face twisted into horror. She watched as they walked on the beach together, and dined together, and wanted for nothing. It only got worse.

The images changed, showing Jenny destitute and haggard. She was scrubbing toilets and cleaning bedrooms for some large hotel chain during the day. At night she was sucking cock to help pay the rent. A man, presumably her pimp punched her in the face and knocked out a front tooth. It didn't get fixed. Her dead body was found stuffed under a hotel mattress, bloated and grey. The images flashed back and forth between a happy Loki and a miserably Jenny over and over again until something inside her snapped.

That was not going to happen to her. She was not going to end up like her mother! If her eyes could have possibly changed color in that moment, they would have been as green as Loki's. She ran from the room and looked down over the bannister. People were pouring out the front door. The party was over by the looks of it, or nearly. She sneaked her way to the library. She already knew what she was after. One of the books she helped Loki inventory appraised for over $50,000. With the right buyer it could go for more, especially at an auction focused on Civil War memorabilia. She climbed the ladder and snatched it off the shelf, grateful that there weren't any guests around to watch her. She hopped down off the last rung and almost left when she spotted the orb on the desk.

She walked to it as though floating on clouds. All her fears about being poor, abused, and unloved disappeared. This thing…this thing had the answer. It could give her what she needed, everything she'll ever need. She only needed to take it from this place. Her hand reached out for it when a familiar voice startled her.

"Jenny?" Julie spoke her name like a timid mouse. Jenny ran for it, leaving the orb in its cradle. She brushed past Julie and ran down the hall and out a side entrance seldom used by guests. A thin layer of snow crunched beneath her feet. It was the first snow of the year. Jenny ran for several dozen yards into the field behind the house until her lungs felt like they are on fire. She stopped to catch her breath. Out here, in the freezing night air and eerie quiet she had a moment of clarity.

"What the hell am I doing?" She looked at the book in her hands. Embarrassing Loki was one thing, but stealing? She'd never stolen anything in her life, and god knows she'd had her moments where she could have really benefited from a ham sandwich. She thought to turn back and put the book back on the shelf before Loki found out when she heard the sound of a dog growling behind her. She twisted her head back and looked down.

A big black dog of some unknown breed and green glowing eyes bore his teeth at her. Its saliva dripped like long shoe strings from its jowls. It snapped at her ankles and she fled, screaming as loud as she could. It chased her and nipped at her long skirts, tearing the fabric as she scrambled to get away. She ran, without thought or planning. She just ran straight ahead, with a vast expanse of clean white ground before her. She stepped onto something slippery and realized too late that she had run onto Maywood Pond and was now falling through the very thin ice.

The freezing cold felt like knives stabbing her all over every inch of her body. It took her breath away. She tried to swim back to the bank but the dog was there, keeping her from getting out of the water. The book slipped from her hand and sank to the bottom of the pond.

"Please! Please let me out! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" She screamed, but the dog kept snarling and barking. Her giant dress dragged her down and her heart slowed. She tried again to escape the pond and was gifted with a gnarly dog bite on her hand. Frozen, bleeding, and losing the ability to think she closed her eyes and made her peace with god.

"Jesus I'm sorry. Please forgive me."

BAM!

The dog whimpered as a gunshot hits it in its side. Loki lowered the barrel of the .22 and placed the rifle carefully on the ground. The dog ran away towards the tree line, leaving a trail of blood behind it.

"Jenny!" Loki yelled.

"Loki…" Jenny's weak voice whispered. Loki charged into the water and pulled her out. He ripped off her heavy soaked dress and carried her all the way back to the house, ignoring his own freezing skin and pain. He got back to the house and set her down on the couch in the library near the fire. The house was empty now. The guests had all gone home.

"LLLL…oooo…kkkk…iiii" She stuttered as her teeth chattered from the cold. Loki tossed a couple more logs onto the fire in the fireplace.

"I'm going to get a blanket. I'll be right back." Loki said and ran downstairs to his private apartment. He returned within seconds and wrapped Jenny in the thick wool cloth. He held her then, rubbing her arms to warm her up.

"I'm…sssorry."

"Shh. Shh. It's alright. I'm sorry too."

"I was so mad at you, and you didn't do anything wrong." She cried into his shoulder, savoring his scent and warmth.

"We all make mistakes."

"I stole one of your books. I don't even know why…I just…I just didn't want to end up homeless on the streets. It's at the bottom of the pond. I ruined it."

"I don't care about the book." Loki said. He did care about the book but in the grand scheme of things he could let that go. He'd been ignoring his better judgement and instincts and he endangered his friend and half of the people in town with this stupid party.

"I'm sorry." She cried again. "Am I fired?"

"No, no, no. Do not dwell on it. I forgive you."

"That dog! I was so scared. I've never seen it before. I don't know where it came from."

"I think I killed it, or at least maim it a great deal. It won't come back." Loki said, not altogether sure if he was lying. That dog didn't look like any dog Loki had ever seen before. He was pretty certain it was not of this world.

"I ran upstairs and cried in the bathroom and that's when I imagined the worst things Loki!"

"What did you imagine dear heart?"

"It was wonderful at first. I imagined a life with you. We even had a son together. You loved me and I loved you and we were married and we lived in this big beautiful house. I had everything I needed and I wasn't worried about money or being alone."

"You said at first, what came after?"

"Then for some reason I imagined some big blonde guy fucking you and the two of you were really happy and I was a prostitute that died in the street." Her voice cracked and she bawled into his shoulder.

"A blonde man? What did he look like?" Loki's voice turned frantic. He hadn't dreamt of Thor in weeks.

"He was big, gorgeous actually. He had these really blue eyes and a perfect tan and a short scruffy beard. He looked like a body builder model or something."

"Thor."

"Who? Do you know a guy like that?"

"I know THE guy like that. How is it that you were able to imagine a man you've never seen?"

"I…I don't know. I was upset and crying and…I couldn't stop staring at myself in the mirror."

"The mirror?"

"Yes. My mascara was a mess."

"Did anything else happen? Anything weird?"

"No. Just the dog." Jenny said as she clung to her employer. Loki didn't know how, but he knew that those damned mirrors were to blame for this.