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Chapter 35

Chapter 35
Cephera watched Loki as he mimicked the magic they'd been practicing for a month now. She found concentrating on learning anything with him, while their friendship seemed to be slowly drifting apart, hard. "Cephera," Loki said her name in an irritated manner. "I don't like wasting my time." He scolded.
Cephera could find it in her to feel bad for ignoring his teaching. Instead, she responded, "are you happy?" Loki's hard expression softened. The crease along his forehead smoothing out.
"I am." He replied with a smile. "You're worried about me?" He asked, amused.
"Of course. You're my best friend and teacher. Your happiness and well being mean as much to me as my family." She tried to smile, but she was somewhat hurt by his inability to realize how much she cared.
"There is no need to be worried. Amora is taking good care of me." He winked and Cephera struggled to keep her eyes from rolling.
"Even with her away so often?" Now into their second month of courting, Amora took to disappearing often, too often. Loki gave Cephera a hard look. She couldn't read the expression.
"She is a busy woman. Now that she no longer instructs me, she has other needs of her own pursuing other knowledges and crafts that I cannot provide. It's a conflict of interest for us to train together, to big a distraction. I've told you before that was why she'd often tease me during practice, because she was attracted to me, but she didn't want to cross the line between teacher and student. Her attraction was fierce enough that she couldn't contain it very well." Cephera turned away biting her lip.
She moved to the bookshelf and pretended to scan the books. "I'm sorry, I'm just making sure. Lately, we haven't had much time together and I just needed to know you're doing well. That's all." She could hear his annoyance and decided to drop the subject before she'd said something to anger him completely.
She heard him sigh. "I suppose I have been a little neglectful lately." He replied. "Well, Amora is not back until tomorrow, we have all day today to just hang out. Let's skip training and get out of this stuffy palace." He offered. Cephera faked her smile, turned and nodded.
(Seraphina)
It wasn't hard following the blonde, though Seraphina felt as though she knew she was there. As soon as Amora left the palace, Seraphina had said she was taking a quick trip back to Mechanova and followed the sorceress. She knew her sister was right, Amora was up to something more.
She'd been keeping a close eye on Amora inside the palace and so far she hadn't seen much, but she did notice the bored manner with which she treated Loki. Using her looks and quick caresses to keep him unaware of just how bored she was. Loki was a man being led around by his cock, too blind to see past the fake love affair he felt he had going.
Seraphina was worried about her sister. Cephera was being hurt through all of this, not just because she didn't get a chance to tell Loki how she felt before all this happened, but she'd developed a close relationship with him otherwise and he was passing her off to the side. She also worried that Cephera wouldn't keep her mouth shut about her own worries for Loki and would further alienate herself from him.
However, Seraphina could say what she liked to him. She wasn't afraid to be hated by the younger prince, even if they had come to a semi understanding over the past years. Today, she was doing this to try and see just what Cephera was dealing with. She wanted Cephera to come to as little emotional damage as possible and that meant understanding the 'competition'.
Amora had come to a stop deep inside the forest. Moving along a travellers path taken only by those who knew how to best the beasts located inside. Asgard was much larger than most visitors knew. It stretched across long acres of land and the forest separated another part of town, the outer ring, they called it. There was a road one could take, but this was the fastest way there.
"You can join me at my side." She called, hardly turning her head to look behind her. Seraphina could see the slight upturn of a smug look on the woman's side profile. Seraphina knew she was talking to her.
"About time, I thought you'd never ask." Seraphina replied smirking and removing herself from the tree she stood behind.
"You're bold to follow me here, in fact, you're bold to follow me at all." Amora's tone was amused. Amora reminded Seraphina of Katarina to a degree.
"What can I say, I'm curious." Seraphina stopped next to Amora. The girls were very similar in height, Seraphina coming up a hairs breadth higher.
"And how can I cure this curiosity so that I may continue my journey alone?" Amora asked placing a finger beneath Seraphina's chin and caressing it. Her charms wouldn't work on Seraphina. She'd totally sleep with this woman, but it would be for satisfaction not for affection.
"I'm curious what a powerful, beautiful woman like yourself --who could have just about any man she desired-- would want with an outcast like Loki." Seraphina cut to the point. She hated when people beat around the bush.
"He's handsome, a prince, powerful... what more could a woman want?" Amora shrugged.
"Please, those are horrid reasons to be with anyone, shallow reasons at best. You spent years training Loki in magic, years teasing him and then walking away. Suddenly, you return with the need to be with him? Don't think I'm a fool, we are much alike in our way of thinking only we both have different ways of getting what we want." Seraphina glowered at the blonde.
Amora analyzed the elder twin. "I've never known Loki to like you, so everything you think you know about my interactions with him must come from your sisters mouth from Loki telling her." Seraphina kept the same expression. She didn't like talking about Cephera to Amora, but she wouldn't let her irritance toward it show.
"What do you expect, the two of them have grown close and my sister keeps nothing from me." Seraphina shrugged.
"Close?" Amora raised an eyebrow.
"Yes, that's what I call it when two people become best friends, we both know Cephera isn't interested in romance... at least not yet. They've come to see they have quite a bit in common. She's the good half to his bad one." Amora's lips twitched into a wry smile.
"Of course." She replied.
"But back to my curiosity. What are you really after?" Amora studied her from head to toe.
"You must love your sister dearly," she said. "It would be a pity for her to be hurt." Seraphina narrowed her eyes dangerously.
"You won't touch my sister, I'll kill anyone who would." Seraphina warned.
"I would never physically harm her, but emotionally the little thing is a perfect target." Seraphina growled. "I could leave her out of this, if you helped me."
Seraphina took a moment to calm her anger. It always got the best of her in moments like this. It was the one thing she had the most trouble with. "I won't become a puppet to anyone, and Cephera would be disappointed in me for doing so."
"Bad choice little girl." Amora's smile disappeared and a frown replaced it, a fake and annoying frown that Seraphina wanted to slap off her face. She knew that unless she agreed to help, she wouldn't find out what Amora was really up to, but she at least knew that there was something she was after.
"No, bad for you. Watch your back Amora, I know I will be." Seraphina wouldn't waste her time on this woman, she turned and walked away as if from a casual conversation. All the while her mind was jumping around with ways to avoid letting Amora get her way.
***
"You what?" Cephera nearly cried but managed to contain herself last minute.
"I had to. You were worried and I had to know." Seraphina replied. She'd told Cephera all about her visit to Amora.
"Great, now I'm a target, like this couldn't get worse."
"She was trying to get under my skin. Just don't give her a reason to want to hurt you. She won't risk the chance Loki would find out. She knows you guys are close and whatever she wants, she needs him on her side not against her." Her sister sighed deeply and thumped her head back against the headboard.
"I want to tell him."
"No." Seraphina growled.
"I know, I know. I won't, but that doesn't stop me wanting to." Cephera crossed her arms across her chest in irritation.
"Don't let her bother you. Play indifferent. If she sees that all of this bothers you then she'll just try to find little ways to make you feel worse."
"You shouldn't have gone to her." Cephera chided.
"I'm notorious for doing stuff I shouldn't, why does that surprise you?" Cephera shook her head, closed her eyes and relaxed.
"I suppose it doesn't." She replied.
***
"Knock, knock." Seraphina announced, strolling into Fandral's private bedroom and interrupting his midnight cuddling with some red head.
"Seraphina!" He near jump off the bed. She just laughed at the incredulous look given to her by the woman. Fandral and Seraphina's affair ended 3 years back and even if it hadn't they weren't monograms and so something like this wouldn't have bothered her anyway.
"Do you mind, I'd like to speak with my friend here." Seraphina eyed the girl with a nod of her head toward the door.
"Rude." She muttered grabbing her gown and hauling it on before slamming the door behind her.
"That was rather rude." He frowned.
"Oh please, at least I waited patiently for you to finish before I intruded."
"You waited. Like outside my door?" He scratched his tousled hair.
"Yes, now shut up and sit down." He did as he was told, he knew better than to argue. "I what to know everything you know about Amora and if you know nothing I want you to use your talents to find stuff out."
"I didn't think you were the jealous type." He teased.
"I'm not." She replied punching him in the arm.
"Ow. Fine, what's up?"
"She's set her sights on Loki, as you know, and Cephera is to be collateral damage if I can't figure out what Amora is really after."
"Oh right, the overprotective sister thing." He rolled his eyes. "You know Cephera is capable of fending for herself, and she'll never learn to become stronger if you keep making life easier for her." He flinched when Seraphina lifted her hand to hit him again. "Don't hit me, I speak the truth and you know it." He warned her.
She did know it, but she couldn't help the way she was. "This will be the last time I interfere." Seraphina promised, though it was unlikely she'd keep it.
"Sure it will." He replied seeing right though her. His fingers touched her bare arm. "You know I always have one more in me." He winked and she pursed her lips, unimpressed by his offer.
"Fandral, I grew bored of you years ago, I told you it happens. Be happy I consider you a friend, I don't often take a lover who I befriend throughout."
Fandral didn't take offence. She'd been very open about her feelings, or lack thereof. Her lust for him died long ago.
"Well, I didn't bore of you." He told her.
"I know," she said kissing him on the cheek. "But you'll never ceased wanting me if I let you taste it again and again." He chuckled.
"I'll see what I can find out." He assured her.

Notes

A/N: I made a mistake, I got lost in my own timeline, had to fix a number in last chapter, nothing huge but still I gotta he more careful.
For those also lost it's been 14 years and 11 months since Loki first met Cephera. Reminder that this fic is currently like one huge flashback 601 years prior to the opening events so I still have lots of time to cover so expect time jumps. :P

Comments

@fraychan
Then I have done my job well. :p

Yasumi Yasumi
6/15/15

Your cliff hangers wound me D:

fraychan fraychan
6/12/15

@fraychan
Keep that adrenaline pumping, still a lot to come.

Yasumi Yasumi
5/14/15

Oh god I can't even describe how happy this chapter made me. I'm feeling a slight adrenaline rush haha

fraychan fraychan
5/12/15

@fraychan
I agree, things have could been so much different if things had just come to light sooner.

Yasumi Yasumi
5/7/15