My Love

Sif was still in her bath about three hours after Loki had left her. She took her loofa from beside the bath and took it over her bruising skin along with the marks from the whip. She winced a bit and sunk below the water to try and soak her wounded flesh. She was staring at her faucet when she suddenly felt her eyes well up with salty tears. She felt them slide down her face even though she made no noise. She ran her fingers through her hair gently and saw some blood still in it. She vaguely wondered how she had gotten blood in her hair. She looked at her wrists though and noticed it might have been from her bleeding wrists. The cuffs had dug into her and cut them pretty badly.

She dipped her wrists under the water as well and washed the blood from them. She finally sighed and stood from her bath. She didn't bother drying her body, she was too distracted, instead she reached beneath her sink for some healing cream. She took it from the container and rubbed it all the way around her wrist before wrapping it in bandages.

She then went into her room and looked around confused at what to do with herself. She sighed and shook her head, tears falling anew. She quickly went to her closet and grabbed some training clothes not caring how they looked. She grabbed her sword and shield and raced from her room. She arrived at the training grounds a bit out of breath and still dripping wet from her bath. She immediately impaled a dummy with her sword. She quickly moved to the next slicing it's head off. She continued moving throughout the course and screamed as she struck each dummy. She had soon created the entire course of fifty dummies. She struck the last in the heart before collapsing and sobbing on the floor.

"Sif," she heard a voice call from behind her. She knew it was Thor's voice. But she couldn't bring herself to stand instead she collapsed from where she was on her knees to her hands as well.

"Should we go over there?" that was Fandral's voice.

"Something is obviously wrong," Volstagg said sympathetically.

"Careful," Hogun warned in his quiet standoffish voice.

"Perhaps only one of us," Sif's eyes snapped open and her hands shook in slight fear. She clutched the hilt of her sword and turned on the group. She screamed and ran at Loki who had the nerve to show up among her concerned group. She sliced at him and the entire group jumped back.

"Sif!" Thor said concerned for his brother's safety.

"You!" she screamed at Loki while striking towards him again. "You bastard!" she swung catching a bit of his cape in her sword.

"Lady Sif," Thor stepped between them.

"My Lady," Fandral gently took her hand the clutched the sword to tightly.

"Why are you so barbarous towards the trickster tonight?"

"He raped me!" she screamed. "He came into my bath and he violated me!" she sobbed her sword dropping from her grasp. She collapsed forward and Thor caught her even in his stunned state.

"He what?" Thor's voice was low but filled with absolute loathing.

"He, he," she sobbed and her words couldn't escape from her sobbing throat.

Thor gently handed Sif to Hogun while he spun on his brother. His hammer nearly connected with Loki's jaw. Loki jumped back at the last second however and multiplied himself several time in order to avoid detection.

"Brother," Loki said in an innocent voice. "I would never do such a thing, the Lady Sif is one of our dearest friends. I would never violate her in such a primitive fashion. If I were ever to have such relations with the lady I would indeed have her consent."

"You chained me to my faucet! You used a whip on my stomach and punched my temple!" she screamed from Hogun's grip.

"Silence!" Thor bellowed looking between the two trusted friends. "We will seek audience with the All-Father. Now!" he said as Loki began to protest. He marched towards the throne chamber and his friends followed, Hogun supported Sif while Fandral and Volstagg flanked Loki to ensure he did not try and escape.

"Father!" Thor bellowed throwing both doors open to the throne room.

Odin stumbled from the passage leading to his room. "What is it my son?" he muttered still in his nightgown.

"A grave accusation has been made, you must settle it!"

"Thor lower your voice," Odin insisted.

"The Lady Sif says Loki hath entered her room and taken advantage of her! I shall not be calm until this is resolved."

Odin suddenly seemed much more awake. "Bring the Enchantress Kathleen to us," Odin said to a guard. "She will look and find the truth, she need not even speak."

"In the name of Asgard brother you had better hope Sif is delusional," Thor glared at Loki holding his hammer threateningly towards him.

"Thor you will not make threats against your brother," Odin's voice boomed.

"Sif would not lie! Not to me!" he insisted. He walked over to where Hogun still supported Sif in his arms. "Sif," Thor said pulling her into his own arms and pushing some hair away from her face. "My friend I do hope something has gone terribly wrong with the world and such a horror has not befallen you."

"Thor," she looked up at him. "I would not lie, Loki came into my room, into my bath, he chained my hands up and took advantage of me. Thor you must believe me."

"With every fiber of my being Sif I do not want you. I do not want my brother to be so horrid and I do not want you to have endured such a pain."

"I would not wish such a thing either Thor, but that does not stop it from being true."

He looked down at her with a pain in his eyes, trying to will away her pain which was so obviously drowning her. He lent his head down and kissed her lightly. "I wish to make my intentions very clear from this point on," he whispered, the rest of the chamber echoed his words but he whispered not because it was a secret but because he wished to soothe and calm her. "You are mine," he said. "I will never again allow someone to harm you or take advantage of you. You shall come to my chambers from this point on and sleep securely in my arms."

"My King, I am honored by your request to see me but I feel it necessary to point out that it is not even moon down."

"Yes I apologize Kathleen but I need you to settle a matter for me."

"He raped her, can I go back to bed now?"

Thor let out a murderous cry and lunged at Loki. Sif, suddenly without Thor's support, stumbled forward but caught herself.

"Stop!" Odin screamed.

Thor did not stop though, Mjolnir connected with Loki's chest and he went flying though the chamber doors. Thor's onslaught did not cease until his boot was crushing Loki's ribs, his hammer pointed dangerously at Loki's throat.

"You raped her!" he hollered.

"She merely doted on you! I have loved the Lady Sif since childhood," Loki screamed in defiance. "I have protected her, looked after her, ensured that she would always be safe on your idiotic missions, warned father of your stupid plans so that she alone may live!"

"You defiled her! You touched her against her wishes! You cannot truly love someone and do that to them!"

"You are wrong brother! It is easy to assume when you do not know how it is to feel ignored and overlooked by your beloved but it is possible!"

"You will never again touch the woman I love!" Thor bellowed as he brought Mjolnir down. Loki was quick to weigh his options he rolled from Thor's blow and right of the bridge, he fell into an abyss below the realm of Asgard.