Epilogue

1 year later…

Darcy was walking the gardens with Jane who was soon to marry Thor. After her wedding, Thor had proposed to Jane and she of course said yes.

"Darcy are you sure you will make it to the wedding?" Jane asked her very pregnant friend.

Darcy laid a hand on her extended stomach and smiled. "I hope so, Jane."

It was then that she felt water flowing down her legs soaking her dress. "Jane, I think it's time!" she gasped out as pain took her by surprise.

Jane called to the guard that was following them at a distance and he came closer to them. "What is it, Lady Jane?" he asked when he was upon them.

"Princess Sigyn's water just broke, she needs help getting inside." Jane instructed and the large guard lifted Darcy into his arms and they made their
way back into the palace.

Frigga was the first to spot the three who were heading towards the birthing chamber that had been set up for Darcy. She hurried over and asked if
something was wrong with the princess. Jane told her that Darcy's water had broken and that the baby was coming. Frigga immediately turned and
left them but said she would meet them in the chamber in a little bit. Jane thought that she was going to get the healer.

The guard laid Darcy on the bed and then left to inform Loki and the rest of the princess's family that the child was on its way.

"Darcy, are you alright?" Jane asked as she helped her friend get into a more comfortable position.

"As good as I can be, I guess," she answered as another pain hit.

Just as the pain died away Frigga returned with not only the healer but Keeren as well.

"Hey, Mom," she said in greeting.

"Darling are you okay?" Keeren asked in concern, mainly because Darcy had gone into labor a good two months early.

"Yes, Mom. I am fine. It seems that this one wants to join the world sooner rather than later," she joked.

"Princess, I need you to lay still while I examine you," the healer said as she began her examination of Darcy.

After the healer had finished she told the princess that she had indeed gone into labor and that the child would be born within the hour, which
surprised everyone in the room as they had expected it to be a long labor. Darcy though was relieved as she wouldn't had to deal with the
unbearable pain she was in at the moment. She wished that Loki was present as he always knew how to calm her.

"Please, can you let Loki in?" she asked the healer who was shocked by the request as it was unheard of to have the father present during the birth.

"Princess, you know that it goes against tradition and he would only be in the way."

"Please," she begged.

Frigga, who knew that they were dealing with a Jotun child, also knew that Loki would need to be present no matter what tradition stated and left to
find her son.

She found them in the garden talking. "Loki, I need you to come with me right now," she said without preamble.

"Mother what is it?"

"Darcy has gone into labor."

"I know the guard who brought her to the birthing room has already informed me of the fact," he stated calmly though he was anything but calm. He
was worried about his wife as he knew it was too soon for the babe to come.

"Yes, but there is something that you should know and I should have told you this sooner but she carries a Jotun child in her womb. She will need
you to help her in the birthing which I know is unheard of but….." She didn't finish as Loki, upon hearing her words, quickly made his way to his
wife's side.

He burst into the room and rushed to her side. "Darling, are you alright?"

"Yes, I am fine. Why does everyone keep asking me that?"

Her mother was the one to answer her. "Because dear, you are two months early."

She wanted to laugh at that. She knew that the gestation period for a Jotun was shorter than a humans and she knew that the child would take after
his or her father in that way at least. She had kept the fact that she was carrying a Jotun child to herself as not to worry Loki but she knew that it
was going to be a hard but fast birth. She had done extensive research after she had become pregnant and had had some strange symptoms like
feeling slightly chilled all the time. She had also begun to show after only a month which she knew was not normal in a human pregnancy.

About fifteen minutes after Loki entered the room her pains were coming at a faster rate and the healer examined her again and then told her that
it was time. She began to push and prayed that she had the strength to do this. As she pushed Loki laid his hand on her stomach and searched for
the child that lay within. He finally located the child and was surprised to find not one but two spirits fluttering within. He looked up at his wife and
gasped in surprise as he had not been able to sense them before now.

"Loki, what is it?" she gasped out between pains.

"You, my love, are giving birth to not one but two babies today."

Well that would explain her size, she mused to herself.

Half hour later she had almost given up when the healer told Loki to sit behind her to help her push as well as encourage her to continue pushing.
Just after he did as he was told the first of the two made its way into the world. As soon as the child left her body she sighed in relief though that
relief was short lived as the second child came a few minutes later.

"Princess Sigyn, you have given birth to a son and a daughter. Congratulations, my lady," the healer said as she finished cleaning both the babies
before handing them to the exhausted mother.

"Have you decided on what you will name them?" Keeren asked as she admired the babies in her daughter's arms.

"Yes, we have decided that of we were to have a girl her name would be Eydis and if we had a boy his name would be Halvard," she answered tiredly.

Noticing that the new mother was about to fall asleep, the healer took the children and laid them in the cradle at the foot of the bed that would be
moved to their chamber when they returned to it later. Everyone then left the new parents alone.

"Darcy, I love you so much, my darling. You have given me more than I deserve and more than I could ever repay."

"Hey, you helped create them you know," she whispered, fighting sleep.

"I know, but I still don't deserve them or you for that matter."

"Loki, stop being so hard on yourself, you deserve me and them, okay."

"What would I do without you? I mean before you came here I was lost. Sentenced to live out the rest of my days in the dungeon. Then you came and
freed me of my prison not only of the physical but the mental one as well. You accepted every part of me unlike my family who are only now coming
to know me the way you do. I found you and I swear I will never let you go."

"I love you too and you would probably be in that dungeon still and never know that happiness you now hold," she replied before sleep took hold.