Part 28: Prophesy take 2

I had been allowed out of bed for dinner and anything else I couldn't do in bed, we had everyone in the palace at the hall and it roared with conversation just as it once did, on that first dinner I even thought I saw Loki smile.

Five months later, 18 weeks pregnant something magical happened, we were eating dinner, well I was devouring it, Ake and I were laughing, we were trying to include Loki in some of the conversation but he was only about 10% back to normal since five months ago, he laughed with us a few times but then just stepped out of the conversation. Sometimes I felt like a servant he had knocked up, I didn't feel like we had the ceremony at all, it was like... Everything after the day we first met him was a dream.

But, anyway, we were sitting and eating when I felt a jolt, Ake wondered if I was okay when I dropped my bread roll, I turned around with the biggest smile ever and whispered "they kicked me"

Ake became ecstatic and stood up on the table, turning to the crowd of people "the Queen felt the babies kick!" He exclaimed and then the whole hall exploded with a wave of applause.

I looked down at my belly and spoke to them "hear that little ones? They're applauding you" I smiled and then looked up to Loki who was sitting on the other side of me, he hadn't moved, but his face was slightly saddened like he felt left out. Slowly I got up from my chair and the room went silent, all eyes fell on me, I stood by Loki's side and took his hand, placing it on my bump, we waited for a few seconds and felt the kick. I watched his face and eyes carefully as I grinned.

Loki's face lit up and smiled widely, his smile extended to his ears and he looked up at me, I saw my Loki then, breaking through the grey fog in his eyes. He stood up with both hands still on my bump, looked down at it and then back up at me, he moved his hands to my face and kissed me in front of everyone. He was about 70% my Loki again.

As we were preparing for bed, I turned to Loki with a small grin "how did it feel to you? To feel them kicking?"

"I've never felt anything like it..." My smile widened, I was so happy I can't even put it into words "Eerika I've taken so many lives in my lifetime"

"Loki..." I groaned.

"No, please just, listen. I've taken lives, I know that feeling that comes when I do that, it is this strange sensation of holding someone's life in your hands and it is an empowering feeling" this better be going somewhere I thought "but tonight when I felt the babies kick, it was so much better, it was exhilarating and exciting, you literally hold their lives in you, not to take but to give, when I felt them kick I felt life being made and it was amazing to know that I had a part in that"

I felt so warm after he said that, I wrapped my arms around his neck best I could and kissed him "I love you"

"And I love you" it had been so long since I heard him say that, it had been so long since we kissed, during the five past months he didn't even touch me, it was a notion that made me feel that he hated me for some reason, but I now felt the warmth of his love again and it meant I couldn't be happier "now you must rest, you're sleeping for three now"

I smiled and for once didn't completely hate doing as he said "what if Thor comes back?" I didn't know where that question came from, but I had been waiting to ask it for quite a while.

"Where did that come from?"

"I don't know... With the twins on the way I can't help but feel... That Thor might take them away, thinking we're not fit parents or something, he came back before he'll come back again, and I can't lose my babies"

"And you never will" he sat next to me on the bed and put one hand on my hair and the other on my knee, stroking my hair gently "Endre is forbidden to let Thor in, I have sealed the Bifrost against him, he's the only one who can't use it, do not fret my love, Thor can never return" I smiled happily and slid down into the bed, he got up and went around to his side and got in, I snuggled up to him and fell asleep almost instantly.

In the morning we went down to the healers so that I could lay on the soul forge and we could see how the babies were doing, this wasn't my first time but it was Loki's, the first time he didn't want to come, or the next couple of times after that. When the forge was up, we could see them, perfect little bundles of joy, the same expression came back to Loki's face as when he felt them kick, now that he could see them he almost exploded with joy.

Later in the week the Queen of Vanaheim came to see me "I wanted to check up on you, I haven't seen you in quite some time and I heard news that you felt them kick"

"Thank you, it's nice to see you again, strange to talk to you as a queen now though" it was rather strange, the last time we talked I was a princess talking to a queen, now I am a queen talking to a queen "how did you hear about the kick?"

"Gossip travels fast, even to separate realms, but I didn't come here just for that, I came here to tell you something about the twins, I'm not sure if you know already or not"

"What?"

Loki stepped forward and joined the conversation, a little to the queens dismay I thought "is something wrong?"

"No nothing like that, I just wondered if you knew their gender?"

"No, but how would you know?"

"Well I had another look into the future now that you're both back to the lighter side of things, I thought you should know what I saw"

"Okay, well tell us" Loki said impatiently.

The queen took in a breath "your children shall indeed be born into light, they will do great things, but there are dangers and threats, people who want them dead and people who want them corrupted, one male one female they shall be stronger as two and weaker as one, at the turn of twenty the twins will choose a side, this decision must be their own or destruction will follow"

"Wait a minute, you said if they were born into light they would be the universes salvation, you never said that they could still possibly destroy it" Loki said.

"Looking into the future is difficult work, before I was looking into two possible futures, I couldn't get as much detail, but now I have looked into one future I can see the path that has been set clearly, things could still go both ways for the twins, they are very powerful, once word gets out of that then they will be sought after by the worlds most vicious and ruthless beings, but the chances of them fighting for good are higher than them choosing evil"

Loki seemed unsatisfied with her warning, he wanted to hear good things and not a mix of the two, however I was more excited about another detail "a boy and a girl?" I whispered.

The queen smiled softly "yes, but they must never be separated, together they are more powerful than any power source or being in the universe, the hammer of Thor would be like... A baby toy for them, that's why it is important that they learn to control their powers and which side they are fighting for, can you imagine that power if it were in the hands of someone evil? Catastrophe would be the least of your worries"

"What if someone stole their power from them? Is that possible?" I asked.

"No, it would take every power source and every magical being in the universe to do that, other than that the only people who could take it from them would be the people who gave it, you two, and a clone or someone with your powers couldn't do it, even If you were under mind control, it's very specific that it has to be you two of your own free will"

Loki and I turned to each other, we shared a look and we both had the same idea "what if we took their magic when they were born, and gave it back to them on their eighteenth or nineteenth birthday?" I spoke quietly, I wasn't proud of the idea, but it had to be asked and considered.

"I'm not sure that would be the be..."

"But if we did that then only we would know about their powers, no one would know how powerful they are to try to hurt them"

"But if they found out they had powers all along and that you two took it from them they may learn to resent you and turn to the darkness, I don't advise that you go ahead with this plan, it would outweigh the chances of them becoming good"

"Forget we ever said anything, I was just wondering" the queen looked at me sceptically, probably wondering if I truly had given up the idea.

Loki and I talked it over later, we both decided that they should keep their powers, but Loki would cast a spell upon the Asgardians so that they would never see the twins powers if they used them, they would never know that they were even magical and that way could never tell another soul of what they have seen, no one would ever come after them.