Chapter 4
I turned around to see none other than the godling of chaos and mischief himself standing directly behind me looking as though he'd been sucker punched in the stomach. He stared down at me with a look of almost longing on his face. "Well, I don't exactly know where I got that power, Loki. But I assure you that it wasn't my intention to bring you to your knees....but I will say that I'm quite enjoying the effect that I'm having on you." I purred the last bit in his ear as he wrapped his arms around me and Nat, Wanda, and Sif all tried like hell to mask the fact that they were giggling relentlessly behind me. Extracting myself from his arms I turned away from him and began walking towards Sif who was a few feet from me and just as I'd reached her I looked over my shoulder and threw a sly wink to Loki and said, "Behave and you might get a reward."
Loki's jaw dropped as he uttered a soft moan and Wanda, Nat, Sif and I all scurried away to the other side of the room and burst out into a fit of giggles once we got there. "You...have him...wrapped around...your little finger!" Sif gasped through her giggles. Wanda was laughing too hard to say anything so she simply nodded as she leaned against the wall and bent double. Nat threw her arm around me and said, "Oh sister, I knew that you'd be good at flirting simply because I taught you how but good Lord you almost broke the poor thing!"
We all laughed harder at this and didn't hear the boys come up behind us until Steve said, "Mind filling the rest of us in? We'd like a good laugh as well." I jumped about a foot in the air and the others laughed even harder. Finally after I managed to calm down a bit I filled the boys in on what was going on. Steve, Bucky, Tony and Thor were all bent double laughing just as hard as we were while Vision simply looked confused as usual and Clint looked as though he wanted to murder Loki on sight.
"Oh calm down Pops!" I said slinging my arm around his shoulders. "It's not like he actually likes me. I mean this is LOKI we're talking about. The day that he claims that he loves anyone or anything other than himself is the exact same day that Stark over here will admit the same and there will finally be peace on Earth." I said to peals of fresh laughter. We'd just calmed down when the doors opened a final time to reveal Odin and Frigga and the entire room gasped.
Odin was wearing a new set of armor that made him look decades younger and he knew it because he came bouncing into the room with Frigga on his arm and a boyish grin on his face. Frigga was wearing an absolutely stunning gown made of the purest white and gold material that was so beautiful it almost made me cry. Her hair was done up in a gorgeous braid that was wrapped several times around the crown of her head and then the rest of it was left to fall down her back. The entire room stood and I could hear the soft whispers and murmurs of the others as they passed by until they reached us and Frigga put a hand on Odin's and they walked over to us.
"Father, you look absolutely magnificent in your new armor." Thor said as soon as Odin was within earshot. Odin smiled bigger and said, "Why, thank you, Thor. Your mother had it made for me as an early birthday gift." The guys, Thor and Odin all began having a conversation about armor as Frigga stepped around Odin and began speaking to us girls. "Lady Frigga, you look beautiful as always." Sif said as she curtsied low. The rest of us did the same and Frigga laughed softly as we stood back up.
"My lovely ladies, it is all of you that look radiant. Wanda, that dress becomes you, my dear. Natasha, you are going to give the ladies of this court fits of jealous rage in yours. Sif, you always manage to surprise me with how stunning you look in dresses." She said to the three ladies on my right and then she turned to me. "Oh my dear, I was eager to see what you would look like in a dress and I must say, you look absolutely breathtaking. It's no surprise that Loki is enamored to distraction. Usually he's caused at least three fights by this point but he's too busy ravishing you with his eyes." She said blushing and giggling. I looked around to see what she was talking about and she giggled some more and said, "Look over my right shoulder my dear." Looking over her right shoulder I saw what she was talking about.
Loki was leaning up against the pillar that I'd left him at watching my every move with a look on his face that if it were any other female they would've already thrown themselves at him with not a stitch of clothing on. I opened my mouth to say something to Frigga but Odin cut me off by spinning around and shouting, "LET THE FEAST BEGIN!" A loud cheer rang through the hall and almost as soon as the words had left his mouth food instantly appeared on the long tables where there were none before.
"Come, ladies, Sif and I will show you the delights of Asgardian food!" Frigga said taking me by the hand and leading me to one of the tables that had every sort of meat I could imagine piled high on platters and some that I'd never seen before. Several hours went by and we ate and joked and drank and laughed. "I still can't believe my own eyes." Frigga said to me as she looked in the general direction of where Loki sat. "You see that flaxen haired maiden?" She asked pointing to a gorgeous blond girl that didn't look too much older than I but I knew that Asgardians aged slower than humans and that she was probably several hundred years my elder. "Yes, she's very pretty." I said smiling softly.
"That is Sigyn. Usually Loki will flirt relentlessly to the point where Odin has to cut the feast short by a few hours because the longer it goes on the more unabashed they become with said flirting. It had been this way every since Loki and Sigyn were both about thirteen years old." She said chuckling softly. "I don't mean to be rude but...how old are they?" I asked very shyly as I took a bite out of a pastry that was light as air and filled with the most delicious fluffy whipped cream and caramel sauce that I'd ever had on my tongue. "Well, Loki is only 1047 years old and Sigyn is 1021." I choked as she said this and hurriedly took a drink of mead. "Are you alright, my dear?" Frigga asked worriedly and I started laughing. "I'm fine, Lady Frigga. It's just you say that as if they are relatively young. On Midgard, that would be impossible to get that old. The longest we live to be is maybe 100 years old and that's if we're lucky and if we don't have anything slowing our aging." I said as I smiled at her.
"Really?" She asked with a look of wonder upon her face. For the next hour, Wanda, Nat and I explained to her and Sif that Midgardians were very fragile and that we didn't live long and all. We also explained that there are some Midgardians that have special powers or were experimented on that don't age like the rest of us do. It was nearing midnight when Odin finally stood up and called an end to the feast. There weren't many left as most of the party goers had mingled for a few hours and then left when they felt like it.
"My dears, this was most enjoyable. We'll have to get together later to have some more girl time." Frigga said as she stood as Odin walked toward her with a twinkle in his eye that we all knew meant that they weren't going back to their chambers to go to bed. "Have fun, Lady Frigga." Sif teased and dodged out of the way as Frigga went to smack her playfully on the arm causing the rest of us to giggle. "M'lady." Bucky and Vision said to Nat and Wanda causing them to blush to their very souls. I laughed and shook my head and chorused with Sif, "Have fun girls!" Laughing as Sif threw her arm around my shoulder we began to make our way back to our own rooms laughing and staggering a bit from the mead. Just as we made it from the feast hall out into the main hall a low, husky voice said in my ear, "M'lady." I squeaked and jumped out from under Sif's arm which caused her to burst out laughing so hard that she snorted and I started laughing as well. Turning every which way I couldn't see anyone so I decided, against my better judgement, to send Sif on to bed and that I'd be able to find my way on my own. "You ssssurrrrre?" She slurred the last word propping her arm on my shoulder. "Yesssss." I said and hugged her.
"O...tay." She said and threw me a mock salute and began walking to her room. As soon as she was out of sight I heard the voice say, "That wasn't a very smart idea, m'lady. Now I have you all to myself." I bit my lip and suddenly was extremely clear headed for some reason, although it really didn't bother me. What was bothering me was the heat pooling between my legs because of a voice that I had no idea where it was coming from but knew exactly who it belonged to.
"L...Loki." I whimpered biting down on my bottom lip to stop from moaning. "Yes, pet?" His voice said from behind me and I swore I could feel his breath on my neck. Shaking my head to try and clear it from the new haze that was gathering in it I whispered, "I want to see you." He didn't answer but I knew that he'd obliged my request because I felt his lips ghost over my neck and lightening erupted inside my veins lighting my very blood on fire and I turned and sure enough there he stood behind me in all his 6'2 black haired, blue eyed glory. "W...What are you doing to me, Loki?" I moaned as I slipped my arms around his neck. Before I could blink, I had been roughly shoved against the pillar several feet behind me with my wrists pinned above my head and him peppering ghostly soft kisses up and down my neck causing me to slowly lose what little wit I had left beneath him.
"What you want me to do to you, love. Oh, yes. I heard you and your sister talking and I know that she told you to tease me. But I warn you darling. I won't be gentle when I finally do take you as mine if you do decide to tease me. It will be rough." He said biting my neck after he said rough and causing me to gasp loudly. "It will be hard." He growled in my ear moving his hand down my arm ghosting his fingertips over my skin to my neck where he wrapped his long slender fingers around my neck and put just the slightest amount of pressure, not enough to actually scare me but just enough that it had me panting against him.
"And it will be...dirty." He growled the last word softly in my ear as he slowly ground his hips into mine and I reached up and without hesitation, kissed him. A low moan sounded in his throat and just as his hands were coming up to my waist, the fog in my head cleared just enough that I made a snap decision. One that had all of Asgard staring at me in absolute awe for the next few days. As soon as he went to deepen the kiss, I smiled into it...and then twirled out from underneath him and ran giggling down the hallway from him. I'd just turned the corner to the hallway where my room was when I heard a feral snarl from behind me and just barely managed to open my door and slide inside as Loki grabbed for me. I chuckled throatily and, knowing that he could hear me quite well through the door said, "Good night Loki, my pet."
Before I walked away from the door I heard him quietly say, "Do you really think you can keep evading me? Silly girl, it's only a matter of time, my sweet. You can't run from me forever. And when I find you, we are going to have a great deal of FUN!" A small moan escaped from my lips and I swore I heard him chuckle before he walked away leaving me to ease the ache in my core with only my fingers and the memories of his voice dirty and low in my ear.