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Post by Loki Odinsson on Sept 28, 2011 20:37:15 GMT -5
"What does she care?" he snapped.
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Post by Teja on Sept 28, 2011 20:42:29 GMT -5
"....on Earth it takes a few months for people to fall in love, and if someone falls in love too quickly it's probably only an infatuation. And...." she flushed. "I told her we talked about marriage a little, and - that - that generally takes years."
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Post by Loki Odinsson on Sept 28, 2011 21:01:07 GMT -5
"Where I came fr-"
He stopped himself.
"Where I lived..."
He trailed off, unable to finish. He hated having to make that correction, hated knowing that that had always been the case.
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Post by Teja on Sept 28, 2011 21:09:48 GMT -5
She recognized that it was painful but didn't know how to ease that for him.
"...come to bed."
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Post by Loki Odinsson on Sept 28, 2011 21:31:01 GMT -5
He lay beside her, looking a bit awkward and somehow more just sandwiched in between the sheets and mattress than actually in bed.
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Post by Teja on Sept 28, 2011 21:36:39 GMT -5
She leaned in to drape herself over his chest and gaze back at him mildly.
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Post by Loki Odinsson on Sept 28, 2011 22:08:48 GMT -5
Something nagged at the back of Loki's mind as he looked at Teja's pretty face, and he frowned as he tried to remember it.
Then he realized what it was, and felt sick.
So long had he spent associating the gaze of a beautiful woman with scorn and preference for his brother, it was difficult to look at one of them anymore without a whispering compulsion in his brain to do something about it. Ruin that beauty, if only temporarily. Make them feel what it was like to be unwanted.
And then, they hadn't even known what he was. They wouldn't laugh now, they'd scream, or try to strike his head from his shoulders. Or both.
The one time he'd actually acted on it failed anyway, and Loki had known it deep down even when he stepped back from Sif's bedside to examine the results of his work.
She was still pretty. That was the worst part. With her hair reduced to a patchy fair coating like gold dust on her head, it was obvious that burgeoning adulthood was being very kind to her, all the round softness of childhood fading into elegant sharpness. She looked like a swan in the lamplight.
He reached out and touched her soft shorn hair. It felt unpleasantly good, and as intimate as it would have if it were still long and he ran his fingers through it instead. Maybe moreso.
With a despairing little laugh, he trailed his fingertips over the delicate curve of her skull before he realized what he wanted more than anything was to wake and kiss her.
As though she'd ever want to kiss someone who had just spent several minutes painstakingly bringing her as close to utter baldness as he could because of a few unkind words on her part.
Loki blew out the lamp and stole back to his room, leaving Sif to awaken in a bed filled with her own severed hair surrounding her like heaps of spun gold.
Teja's beauty would be his to treasure. He embraced her, and lifted the hair from her forehead to kiss it, and his lips trailed down over her brow and nose until they met hers.
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Post by Teja on Sept 28, 2011 22:24:54 GMT -5
Her brow briefly furrowed as he kissed it, not fully understanding what was going on, and not fully fool enough in love to blindly trust him without an inkling of knowledge. She leaned upwards into the kiss, though, at this instant satisfied enough to pretend nothing seemed to be wrong so she could focus on the parts that felt so right.
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Post by Loki Odinsson on Sept 28, 2011 22:30:13 GMT -5
"I'm sorry-" he whispered when he realized she was frowning.
Did she know?
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Post by Teja on Sept 28, 2011 22:32:07 GMT -5
"I wish I could help you," she said unhappily. "Feel better, I mean."
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Post by Loki Odinsson on Sept 28, 2011 22:34:08 GMT -5
"You already have," he said softly. "It's as if... like the clouds are parting."
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Post by Teja on Sept 28, 2011 22:37:35 GMT -5
"But you still mistrust me - and you're still so hurt. I mean, I can tell....just from how you speak of things..."
She brushed her hand over his hair. It was amazing how well the blue seemed to suit him.... it didn't take her by surprise when she looked at him. She leaned in to kiss him again, parting his lips.
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Post by Loki Odinsson on Sept 28, 2011 22:46:33 GMT -5
"You will be the jewel of a new world, Teja," he spoke into the hollow of her mouth.
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Post by Teja on Sept 28, 2011 22:53:32 GMT -5
"You its leader," she responded in a bit of a moan, rolling to her back, pulling him over her. "And mine-"
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Post by Loki Odinsson on Sept 28, 2011 22:57:52 GMT -5
She was so small he feared he would crush her in this position. He abruptly slid downward to rest his head on her chest again, trembling and whispering over and,over how sorry he was.
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