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Chapter 96

Chapter 96
Rorik frowned at the water he'd drawn from the motels tap downstairs. It would seem this place lacked a lot of clean things. Luckily, they only needed it to wash up. Cephera hadn't wanted to leave Sigyn alone.
As Rorik passed the front desk, the TV behind it blared.
"After threatening the Madarin early yesterday morning, Tony Stark is now presumed dead after an attack on his home leaving it in ruins." The footage broke to show the ruins. "Tony Stark, also known as Iron Man, has been known for his fight for world peace, and his newest environmental campaign for green energy." Rorik stopped listening. His aunt was waiting for him.
He reached the upstairs room after a brief encounter with a perfume stenched whore who tried to pick him up on the stairs.
"Was there clean water downstairs?" Cephera asked as he walked in with the bowl. The manager had given him a peculiar look when he'd asked for a large bowl.
"No," Rorik laid the bowl down on the end table and frowned. "The news is saying your friend Tony Stark is dead." Rorik furrowed his eyebrows.
"People said that about my husband once, if you recall." Cephera smiled but it looked only hopeful. She had no way to be sure of her friends survival.
"True. So what now? How do you know this old Loki isn't going to come after you?" Rorik had been floored when Cephera told him what was going on.
"I highly doubt he's looking for a father of the year award. He simply wanted me and Loki separated so he could continue his efforts to corrupt him. I'm no longer useful to this Old Loki now that I'm permanently stuck on Earth. I doubts he's even taken one glance at my life since I left." Cephera shurgged.
Rorik certainly hoped his aunt was right. Old Loki could be listening to them, watching them now. He could know his wife was here to thwart his plans.
And of course Rorik knew this information came from Hela, Cephera's step-daughter. Rorik had heard things about her from both his mother and father and wasn't completely sure if she could be trusted.
"Well, what do we do for money?" Rorik asked sitting on the edge of the bed while Cephera washed her hands the best she could.
"You are going to go back to Mechanova to see your grandfather. We have gold coins we use for bartering in outer realms and they can be traded here for Earth currency. Get some and bring it back, but don't tell them what's going on." She added firmly.
"Why not?" Rorik had no idea why she wanted to stay so secretive. Shouldn't everyone know to stay on the looked out for this tyrant?
"Look Rorik, this Loki, he's smart, manipulative, powerful. Until we know where he's hiding I think it's best he doesn't get word he's been discovered. The less people know about him the chances are higher that he won't hear about it." Rorik nodded.
"Alright, I'll be back as soon as I can." His stomach rumbled. He'd need food. He'd have to bring back some for the women, although Sigyn was still slumbering, but she could wake any moment.
He left Cephera behind with the pretty blonde and found a safe place outside the city to call to Heimdall.
(Sigyn)
When she opened her eyes she found herself staring at a bleak cieling and dimly lit surroundings. The sound of an object moving made her turn her head and she lay her eyes on Cephera.
She smiled. She'd made it. After all her effort she'd finally gotten through to this universe.
"Hello," Sigyn said before Cephera could.
"Hello," Sigyn noted the awkward tone and shaped her eyes to a kind understanding look. From her place in her own universe, she'd watched her husband's mayham unfold. She'd seen the things he had done. "I'm Cephera,"
"I know who you are." Sigyn told her sitting up. "Do you know who I am?" Sigyn suspected she did by the was the other woman was acting.
"Yes," Cephera nodded and exhaled. "There is so much to discuss with you." She hurried to say.
"I already know it all." Sigyn frowned. "I just wish I had been able to stop it." Shame curled in her belly.
"What happened?" Cephera asked. Curiosity dawning on her face.
"Too much to tell. In fact, much of mine and Loki's story has been told in his written tales of Edda. From there his hatred for Thor grew and grew and that of Odin as well." She paused. "From what I have seen, your husband was never treated badly by Odin in the same manner as mine."
"Odin was sometimes unfair, and it was clear he favorited Thor, but he was never cruel to Loki..., until now." Cephera mirrored Sigyn's frown.
"My husband wanted to see them all suffer. I made efforts to stop him, but I was a foolish girl with hopes he might one day settle down and be a good husband." Signs eyes fell for only a moment to Cephera belly.
She knew about the child. She'd witness her husband's trickery that caused Cephera to be carrying it. "I'm sorry," an embaressing flush lit up across Cephera's cheeks as she noticed Sigyn's glance, her hand coming to cover her abdomen even though no bump was yet visible.
"Don't be," even though her own stomach churned at her husband's infidelity, it had not been the first and probably not his last. Cephera was an innocent in this. She could not blame the her. Cephera had not seduced him. "As you probably can tell he goes to great lengths to fill out his plans. He rocked my world with devastation and when he felt he had broken every last person he conjured the spell that brought him here."
"I am ashamed of my passive nature. Had I acted sooner, all this could have been avoided, but it is too late for that now. All I can do is help find my husband and...," she trailed off.
She knew that capturing him would one day lead to him finding a way out and the thought of killing him terrified her. She loved him. She was a fool to do so, but she did.
"I'm sure you did what you could," Cephera reached out and took Sigyn's hand and squeezed it.
Sigyn smiled at her kindness. "I am weak. On your end you had both yourself and Hela helping you weave the spell that brought me here. On my end it was only me. I'm weak, tired. I'm in no shape to confront my husband and even then I'm not sure where he is."
"But you can see him?" Cephera tilted her head.
"Yes, I can see HIM. No matter what form Loki takes I've always seen him for who he really is. Ever since he tricked me into marrying him by disguising himself as my once betrothed, Theoric, I countered it by making sure he can never do it again. So I'm unsure where he is or who he might be. I sometimes am unable to see him at all." She sighed and looked around.
She had expected something a little less gross to be staying in.
"Sorry about the room. I was in the midst of drowning when Hela pulled me from death and had me help summon you. The house I was staying in had been attacked..., it's a long story." Cephera blushed again.
"But you and the child are fine?" Cephera's face deepened to scarlet and she only nodded. There was silence in the room.
Sigyn remembered being pregnant for Loki. She remembered their first night after marriage.
Because she'd been tricked, she had been embarrassed and ashamed to allow him to remove her clothes, but she'd chosen to stay at his side and so she didn't fight him. He seemed to revel in making her moan, squirm and later scream in pleasure. Because he knew she hadn't wanted him, he had to make her body yearn for him, and it had.
He hadn't been a careless lover.
She'd bore him twins. Narfi and VĂ¡li. They both died young. They had been the only children she'd had for him. After their early years of marriage he lost interest in coming to her bed and he wasn't a good father.
His sole purpose in life seemed to take the kingdom and he cared for little else. Sigyn mourned her son's alone and he blamed her for their death.
"Don't be ashamed of your pregnancy. I know you were a victim of my husband's mischief. You are not the first woman to fall prey to him." Sigyn told Cephera.
"I'm ashamed I fell for it at all. I was so desperate to have my husband alive and home, I was blind." Cephera looked away. "Do you find this odd, two wives of the same but different man, conversing?"
"It's a little strange, yes." Sigyn smiled feeling a hint of amusement. Her Loki looked just like Cephera's Loki when she first met him with minimal differences such as hair and clothing.
It was difficult not to envy the life Cephera had with Loki. Sigyn wished her marriage had been that way. Happy, loving, respectful. She wouldn't resent Cephera for those things, however.
"I'm waiting for my nephew to come back with some currency we can use to find a better place." Cephera changed the subject.
"Yes, this place is very...," Sigyn couldn't find a proper word for it that didn't sound harsh coming from her lips.
"It's all we could find." Cephera looked around in distaste. "I wish Tony's home was still there." She paused and Sigyn could tell she was thinking. "We could go to New York, Tony had a building there."
"I'm not very familiar with Midgard. I'm afraid I don't know where New York is." Sigyn never ventured to Midgard often, but when she did it was for a brief trip and usually business. "I'll go with you where ever you take me. We are in this together," Sigyn said.
"I wish we had met on different circumstances." Cephera replied.
"Technically you have met my other self here." Cephera laughed with a nod.
"Very true." She admitted. Sigyn had been watching them all for as long as her husband had been in their universe. She watched them grow.
"Is she happy?" Sigyn asked, not really sure if she wanted the answer. Cephera chewed her lip.
"Last I saw of your counterpart, she was holding hers and Theoric's baby boy and she did look happy." Cephera seemed hesitant to answer and Sigyn felt regret for asking.
It was a life she could have had that was stolen from her. Still, she had come to love Loki, but she had never known happiness. Each universe had its own cast and drama to live through. She was one of many Sigyn's and Cephera was one of many Cephera's
Once Loki was finished with this world, he would jump to another and ruin that too. She couldn't allow him to get that far. Couldn't let him ruin this one. If he corrupted Cephera's husband, then she would experience her whole world come crashing down and sorrow like none she'd even known. Sigyn didn't want to see that happen to anyone else like it had her.
She wanted to save everyone that heartache. Wanted to see a kinder version of her husband prevail and stay on the path of love and loyalty. She wanted to make a difference.
She was done standing off to the side and being idle in hopes someone else would make her husband see reason. She was sick of being the dutiful wife to a disrepctful husband. It ended here and it would end on her terms, whether he survived at the end or not would be by his choices.

Notes

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