Right to the Night

Chapter Forty-Two

When the two awoke, it was the next day. As Loki stretched, a maid arrived with their measly breakfast and he rushed towards her.

"Please, I ask of you to do me a favor and get us a healer to look after my wife. She has bled badly for several minutes yesterday and she needs attention." Loki whispered.

The maid nodded her head and exited the cell, walking back down the hallway. As Loki sat down to eat his breakfast, a few guards entered the cell and his eyes widened as they came stalking towards him. Elisabete furrowed her brow at their entrance and cowered seeing the menacing look on their faces.

"You think asking a maid to get help will do you any good?" The first guard asked.

"My wife needs help. She was bleeding for a long time yesterday. She's pregnant." Loki explained.

"Why should we care what happens to your wife? She's just a prisoner...and maybe we should treat the disgraced queen of Asgard as a prisoner." The second told them, turning to face the first guard with a smirk on his face.

Loki quickly stood from his seat and went rushing towards Elisabete only to have the first guard wrap his arms around his body from behind. He struggled in the guard's grasp and watched as Elisabete cowered on the bed as the second guard advanced towards her.

"Leave her alone! Don't you dare touch her!" Loki yelled.

"Why should we do as you say? We don't take orders from you." The first guard whispered in his ear.

Loki panted heavily as he did his best to escape his grip. However, the tight hold he had on his body made his arms dig into his wounds and he was trying to hide the pain as he focused on Elisabete.

She moved back from the second guard and panicked as her back hit the wall. She froze in place as she kept her eyes on the man's. She knew she should have run, but where? She had nowhere else to go. She jumped as he climbed onto the bed and moved closer to her. She shut her eyes and held her breath as he placed his hands at either side of her. She wanted to vomit as she felt his breath on her neck, but it wasn't until he licked up the curve of her neck to her jaw that she allowed the tears to fall.

"Get off of her! You have no right to touch her like that!" Loki shouted.

The second guard then smacked Elisabete across the face and she cried out in pain.

"Stop it!" Loki yelled.

And again, the guard hit Elisabete. She wailed as she put her hands over her face.

"If you keep interrupting me, I'm going to do far worse to her!" The second guard exclaimed angrily.

Loki looked down at Elisabete and saw blood pool in the corner of her mouth. When she opened her eyes, she saw the guard unsheath his dagger from his hip and she panted heavily, not knowing what he was going to do. Loki wanted to scream at the man to stop but didn't want him to hurt Elisabete anymore. The guard placed the dagger right at her belly and she began to panic.

"To save you the trouble of getting a healer, why don't I take care of your problem for you?" The guard chuckled.

Elisabete shook her head as she stifled her cries. He then ran the tip of the dagger up her body and placed it underneath her chin, laying it flat against the skin to raise her head up to look at him. She kept her eyes on his and tried to steady her breathing as she watched Loki in the corner of her eye struggle against the other guard to get to her. He then put his dagger back into his belt and scoffed as he stood from the bed.

"She's no fun. I want to see the fear." The second guard huffed.

"Hold him down. I can get some fear out of her." The first one replied.