[identity profile] bipolar-uriel.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] neutral_omens
Date: May 15, 2000
Setting: Manor Library
Status: Private (Uriel and Loki -- Complete)
Summary: Uriel runs into Loki in the library.


Thankfully she hadn't run into anyone on her way to the library -- not that it was a long way, what with her room being quite close. She had managed to avoid any awkward questions until then and hopefully would continue to avoid them until her pregnancy became impossible to hide anymore.

She held the stack of books under one arm while opening the door to the library. They had been quite helpful; she now knew a lot more about what exactly was happening in her body, and what would happen over the next eight months. Sure, she still had a lot to read and learn, but she now knew the basics.

Although her way to the library had indeed been uninterrupted, she hadn't expected anybody to be in the library itself. However, somebody was indeed there. A bit surprised, she watched the bald head bent over a book.

"Loki?" she asked. "I didn't take you as the type to read."

Date: 2006-05-23 03:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] leucemic-god.livejournal.com
"Why? Thought all Norse gods were illiterate idiots?" Loki glared at her. The last thing he needed was the damn not-god to catch him with the medicine lexicon. Hopefully she wouldn't look too closely. "The only one of us who really couldn't read was Thor for your information. And he's dead."

Not that Thor had actually been illiterate, but he'd had trouble with any word that had more than two syllables.

"You know, you shouldn't be carrying that many books." he noted with badly hidden concern. "Heavy lifting is bad for the baby. Not to mention what might happen to it, if you fall."

Date: 2006-05-23 03:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] leucemic-god.livejournal.com
"There's all sorts of things you can learn from books. They don't have to be peaceful ones." Loki pointed out. "I like to be prepared for all sorts of situations. You never know when some obscure bit of knowledge might come in handy."

"Good balance, eh? So why are you guys always so concerned about falling. Seems like that's all you talk about sometimes. And balance might not help you, if you overlook a fold in the carpet, or a child's toy on the ground." He smirked. "And who says I care about your little not-god bastard? I was just pointing out what might happen with a mother as careless as you."

Date: 2006-05-23 04:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] leucemic-god.livejournal.com
Loki stared at her eyes widening more and more as she spoke.

"So when you banish someone from your clan, they become a different person and part of another pantheon? That is the craziest thing I've ever heard and I've seen - and read - a lot. But then I shouldn't be surprised. Your religion is absolutely mad as every god with half a brain would tell you."

Date: 2006-05-23 04:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] leucemic-god.livejournal.com
"Your pantheon has two sides? With only one god in it?" Loki summed up. "I think now I've got it. Your god isn't just egocentric and intolerant, he's also completely mad and when his little slaves misbehave he makes them go mad as well. I don't know why they call you the Judeo-Christian pantheon. It should be the Mad pantheon."

"So now you intend to bring your little bastard into that same slavery? Poor little thing. I could almost feel sorry for it, if it weren't yours."

Date: 2006-05-23 04:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] leucemic-god.livejournal.com
"So what happens, if you're not willing to serve? No wait, don't tell me." Loki smirked. "Let me guess: You - what did you call it? - Fall. What brilliant freedom of choice!"

"You do realise that it takes just a little more qualification to be a Norse god than just not to be an angel. Can you present a Norse father for the brat? Oh wait, I forgot: You can't present a father at all. Well, tough luck, I guess."

Date: 2006-05-23 05:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] leucemic-god.livejournal.com
"Freedom of choice is for people. You want to say you're not a person? That you don't have a personality or feelings? Even animals do, you know."

Loki's eyes darkened. Was it with anger or pain? He couldn't have named the feeling himself at that moment.

"I was adopted by the Norse pantheon, yes, but do you know what that pantheon did with my children? Maybe you should read up on that while you're here. Here's a hint, though: Out of the lot of them Sleipnir has it best. He became Odin's horse. Do you know what happened to the other five? What Odin did with them?"

Date: 2006-05-23 05:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] leucemic-god.livejournal.com
"You want me to tell you?" Loki grinned. "Well, I guess I will then. The next best fate would be little Hel's, I suppose. She was just a toddler when I last saw her. Then Odin took her away and threw her into the underworld where she now rules over those dead who do not qualify for Valhalla. It's a dark and nasty place. Especially when you're a tiny little girl." The grin faltered and Loki moved on quickly.

"Then there's Jörmungand whom Odin threw into the sea. He's stuck there unless he wants to destroy the world unfortunately. My lively little Fenrir he had chained up so that he can hardly move. And then ..." he swallowed hard. This was the worst part. "Then there were Narfi and Vali. They changed Vali into a wolf and made him kill Narfi and then they used Narfi's intestines to tie me ..."

He paused and took several deep breaths.

"Are you sue you want us to raise your child?"

Date: 2006-05-23 06:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] leucemic-god.livejournal.com
Loki shivered and clutched his book tightly to his chest as he got up unaware that the title Pharmacology Condensed was now clearly visible.

"Because." he whispered hoarsely fighting back tears of his own. "Odin is the only family I have left. Because nobody else in the world cares for me and because he still has Sleipnir. Now please excuse me. I do not like to talk about this."

He fled from the room still clutching the book.

Date: 2006-05-23 06:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] leucemic-god.livejournal.com
Loki ran all the way back to the room he shared with Odin. Luckily his brother was working at the moment, so he had the room to himself.

He spent the next twenty minutes sobbing into Odin's pillow until he'd finally cried himself out.

Only once he had calmed down did he notice the book he'd dropped onto the bed beside him. It was an excellent source of information on the various medicines his doctor kept mentioning, but he shouldn't read it here, where Odin could see it. He didn't want to take it back right away either, so, after a frantic look around the room, he stuffed it into his couch. Unless Odin got the crazy idea to make his bed for him it should be quite safe there.

Profile

Angels and demons / most people wouldn't believe / how great the sex is.

July 2019

S M T W T F S
 123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
28293031   

Most Popular Tags

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags
Page generated Jul. 6th, 2025 08:26 pm
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios