Chapter Seventeen: We Fight From Within

I don't know which one of us spoke first. Me or the little girl. I think we did at the same time. Standing beside me is a beautiful ten year old girl. She's as pale as Thor and even has the same eyes. Her hair seems to be the same as mine and all the way to her waist. She's got pretty pink on that flows straight to the floor. It has that material that has a square neck to it and she's only 4'4".

The girl crumples onto the floor and starts to cry.

"Daddy?" the girl asks Thor. I stare in shock. Thor had a daughter? Why didn't I know this? I was his wife after all, I should know this. Shouldn't I?

"Wait. What? I didn't know Thor had a daughter." I say to the little girl, but then I remember what I was doing first and I looked over at the man staring down at me. He is my dad, but my dad's dead.

"You have grown so much Esmerelda." Dad says. He looks the same. 6'1" with black hair and blue eyes. The only difference is he seems to like the color black a lot and he's got lines on his face because of old age.

"You're supposed to be dead." I say matter of factly. He nods, staring down at me, but I stand up. I need my stregnth in this conversation. This is a sore spot for me.

"I know." He answers.

"King Oden murdered you in front of everyone." I say. Dad points and smiles.

"He murdered someone, not me." How can a person smile about something like this? He murdered someone.

"That wasn't you?" I ask. Dad shakes his head. "Silva? Avalion? Mother? What about them? Are they still alive?" It's a long shot, but I feel a little hope go through me. I wish they are alive. I wanna see them again. I would love to see how they look when they are so much older.

"No, I'm sorry but they actually died." Dad seems genuinely sad, but it kills me.

"Did you try to stop it from happening? Did you try to save them?" I ask. His face drops and he shakes his head. My heart feels like it's breaking. "You didn't even try? Avalion worshiped the ground you walked on! Silva was the one who woke up every morning to see you off to work! Mother loved you! They cared the world for you and you didn't go back for them?"

"I had to leave. If I didn't leave I would've been dead. You have to understand. The very fact that you are standing here alive says you didn't think of them either." He's trying to blame me. I feel anger stir inside me.

"I didn't leave. I was playing with Thor when your so called execution was called. I was walking home when I heard them scream for me, for you to help them. I ran there, but I couldn't help them. By the time I reached the house they were dead." My throat clogs and tears flow down my eyes but I keep on going. "I tried hard to reach them, but the flames wouldn't let me in. I burned my skin so many times to reach them with no results. Do you have any idea what I did at ten? I left the only home I knew to roam the streets of a mortal world until I was sixteen and got a job. I didn't give up on my family. They died and I'm sure it had nothing to do with Asgard, but with your pride."

"I-I didn't know." Dad says.

"Did you kill them?" I ask.

"What?" He looks shocked, but theres something too fake about it.

"Did you kill my family?" I ask again.

"Why would you ask such a question? They were my family too! Do you obviously think I would kill my own family?" He looks fake.

"Yes, please answer the question. Did you kill them?" I ask him.

"Oh for the love! We don't have time for this. Tell her Davarian." Sefrina says. I stare at her and she answers the question. "Of course he killed them. He killed them for me. I wanted them dead and I wanted him to myself. Yes he killed them." She smirks happily at the end of this. It seems she's relieved to tell me, but I seem to be having the opposite reaction. I have the urge to kill them both and the urge to keep Thor away from their slimey hands.

"Now that that's over. Gaurds remove the Queen away from Thor. It's about time we leave." Sefrina says to the men standing beside her.

"No! He's my daddy and he stays here." the litle girl says. Sefrina stares at her, seriously annoyed.

"Seriously kid who are you?" she asks the little girl. The little girl stands beside me and even here I can see the royalty shining out of her. She'd make the perfect Queen.

"My name is Lilyiana Esmerelda, daughter of King Thor and Queen Esmerelda, second heir to the throne. I am from the future and I am hear to make sure you don't rewrite history too much." The little girl says and my heart swells. I would have two kids! Oh yay! Thor didn't have children with anyone else, she was mine.

"Kill the girl." Dad says and my heart seems to break into pieces. I put myself between my daughter and Thor and the people around us.

"No! You are not taking away this family father. I'm sorry, but this is the end for you. You will have nothing else from me. I feel nothing for you and I owe you nothing. I hope you have a lovely life, but I'd rather die than see you touch my children and my husband." I tell him.

"Esmerelda please move, I don't wan to hurt you. You're the only daughter I have left from your mother." Dad says. I harden against these words everywhere, but my heart. It peirces straight through.

"You have no right to her. You are done for. I demand as Queen of Asgard and the Seven Realms that you leave." It's the first time I've demanded something from anyone with my title, but I know before I say it that this will hurt my dad and he will fight. He will fight to take this title away from me, even if he has to kill me.

"Then we fight. I call war on Asgard. You just may have to choose between the realm and the people you love. I hope for the sake of your people that you choose your people over your family." And he walks out with Sefrina by his side. I shake violently and demand that everyone leave us be. I turn to Lilyiana and pull her into my arms.

"Moma, it's ok." Lily says. I laugh and look down at her.

"You're my daughter?" I ask her. She nods, but looks sadly at me.

"I didn't know you were this beautiful moma." She says. I stare at her a little confused.

"What do you mean?" I ask her. She has tears in her eyes.

"Daddy and brother speak highly of you and you're beauty, but that's all I have to go by. I don't know what you look like or sound like because you were killed. I never got to know you. Daddy never moved on, he just starts everything with 'for the love of my Queen,' and he takes us to visit your grave. Moma when do you die? Is brother alive yet?" LIly says all this and it takes me a while to register this, but when I do I don't feel lost. I feel that I must have risked my life for my family because that's the only reason I would willingly get killed for.

"No sweetie. Your brother is not born yet." I say to her. She smiles and looks at Thor. The smile of a happy daughter.

"We should get him moved." she says. I nod, but I'm watching how precise and queenly she acts.

It takes many men to pull Thor into our room and lay him down on the bed. Lily is already tucked away in the bed in the other side of our chamber, the nursery room. I sit next to Thor in his sleep. He looks pieceful, but he's not going to wake up tomorrow. He may never wake up because of the pain he went through. I take his hand and hold it between my own.

"I met our daughter today. She beautiful like she should be. She says we have a son as well. She says many things Thor, but the one thing that is still stuck with me is the fact that I'll die. She says she does not know me Thor. I die and I'm pretty sure it's for her. I hope this is not true, deep deep down I hope this is not true. I want to know her, she's so beautiful and kind and everything that I love about her." I start to choke and cry. I didn't want to die, but if I had to I had to.

"Thor I want you to wake up. Please, for me. I need you now more than ever. I feel broken and lonely and you are the only stregnth I've ever had. What am I going to do without you? Please don't leave me." I cry. It's the broken cry that's filled with pain and desperation. I kiss his cheek and watch as my tears stain his face as well, but unlike mine his is smooth with no emotion. "I love you. Come back to me. Thor I wanted to tell you this when I saw you today. I'm pregnant. You're going to be a father, so please wake up for me and your child. Please."

I fell asleep still hoping he'd wake up. I felt broken and drained, but there was one battle that I had to face soon, and I didn't think I'd survive it.

AUTHOR'S NOTE:

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