Loki's weakness

Chapter 9

This chapter shorter cause I just wanted to focus on Eir and Loki's reunion loads of love, sweet words and next chapter I'll deal with her re-meeting everyone.

(Hi I have added a little more to this chapter just to let you know! Also I have the next chapter partly done so I'll get it out when I can. Thank you all for reading!)

Eir POV

I don't know how long I had been stuck in this void. I could hear my dear husband's voice finally after so long, but it was so far off in the distance it's almost like he was across a field. I couldn't see him or reach him; he felt too distant. I don't like it... why can't he be closer... Loki, where are you?

The darkness of this void feels like it could never end, but this darkness felt different from before when I was held by Hydra. This one felt warm, comforting. Almost like I was being embraced by it, no longer suffering in pain from the shots and beatings they would give me to see if their serum was working, though they would never tell me what they're plan was, they just laughed and mocked me.

At the thought of remembering what they did and said I couldn't help but stress, maybe this was them luring me into a false sense of security to catch me unguarded. I couldn't let that happen... that would kill me. All these thoughts made me want to wake up overthinking everything, making a feeling of dread to set in 'I need to wake up, I need to wake...'

Chanting this in my head I force my eyes to open they feel heavy like someone had taped them shut, but I managed to pry them open a bit letting lights into the darkness that had consumed me again feeling relief from my thoughts that were too loud, it took what felt like forever to open them fully blinking quickly to adjust them to the light.

"Eir finally... my love finally your awake" a voice whimpered out next to me sounding desperate like if he didn't speak now I would never hear. 'I know that voice' it has whispered sweet nothings to me for decades, a voice that for some time was silenced and distant but as of late had been so close, warm again like how it was when we were young. My dear husband Loki 'if he is here maybe I was safe' this thought made me start to sob, "Loki is that you?" I can't help but reply all though it sounded weak.

"Yes my darling, you are safe I'm here" he replies as I reach out for him needing to touch him to make sure I wasn't dreaming it had been so long I did not know how long, but it felt like an eternity. "Loki... Loki I was so scared they said I'd never see you again... they hurt me so much" I was whimpering out to him as fat tears wouldn't stop rolling out my eyes as I grabbed his hand pulling it towards my chest to hold it close.

"Shhh my dear I know... I know no matter what I won't let them near you again don't worry. I'm so sorry I wasn't there quicker to save you from them I promise... I promise this time I will protect you, nothing like this will ever happen again. I promise my love." He muttered softly leaning into me as I lay on the medical bed almost as if he said his promises any louder he would break me and I couldn't help but release the hand I was cradling to wrap my arms around him pulling in to me needing to get closer to him.

As soon as I embrace him we both cry our hearts out holding each other like our lives depended on it. In this moment I felt all the tension that I was holding in my body melt away. 'I never want to release him, I'm afraid if I did he would disappear.'

This moment meant everything to me. Our lives are so long I don't want to ever feel like this again, desperate, alone and scared. Scared that I won't see my husband again, that I won't live till tomorrow... frightening thoughts that had passed through too many times in recent times.

Hydra had done many things to me during my time there, they left me in what seemed like eternal darkness for hours, days even and caused unspeakable pain... I don't even remember everything they did. All I remember is a chair and faces of people I feel like I know but I can't place them. These faces for some reason send a chill down my spine, It scares me, they scare me.

'I don't want to meet them...'

"Eir my love, my beloved wife never leave my side again can you swear that to me" Loki says in my ear not leaving our embrace actually he pulls me in tighter breaking me away from my spiralling dive into despair.

He starts to reposition himself instead of kneeling. He climbs into the medical bed next to me making that warm comforting feeling double, a smile blooms on my face.

"That I can promise you my dear I never want to be parted from you again, every time I am nothing good seems to happen" I reply in a whisper but it seemed all too desperate to leave my mouth just as he settles next to me not once letting me go I couldn't help but breath in his scent as I nuzzle in to his neck 'cool mint and fresh morning dew.'

"I love you my beloved wife"

"I love you too my dear husband"

After my response he didn't need to reply. I know we both understand that every word spoken and unspoken is mutual, hundreds of year spent together and now the time we spent apart seem so insignificant in this moment and for the rest of our lives, we don't need anymore then to just lay by each other and embrace to heal from these terrible wounds we both now hold.