She gave a soft sigh, her fingers drumming lightly on the table. “Well it seems to me you only have two. Run or don’t run. I mean you could always hide but I don’t think that is the best idea, do you?”
“hiding delays the inevitable.” that much was clear already. running was the same. the only real option was to face it; something he dreaded. a reason to why he needed to find some better option then those two – three rather. “no option is decent enough.”
“ I thought you would be able to give me more options than the one’s I have already. “ She might not have been able to fix every single problem, but he was hoping that she could give a gesture in the right direction. Even that would suffice for the moment, “I can’t keep running forever and I can’t simply fight it either.”
She wanted to push him off the bifrost, or give him back to those who were looking for him. She was queen now, no longer part of a team. People could see her as weak, or Asgard as weak. Normally she would have accepted, given him a free reign, but now, it was her people and their safety that had to come first, she could not compromise with that.
“Three days,” she said after several long beats of silence. “I will give you three days, but then you will have to leave.” She would be steadfast in her choice, no wide eyes, no pleading. Now was the time for her to put aside her gentle heart.
“And if you cause any sort of trouble, for anyone, you will be asked to leave on the spot.” Asgard was not a place for strays. Despite how many she herself had fostered. “Do you understand?”
He wanted to say longer. It would have been ideal if he stayed a week to a month. That way, he could at least get a plan in motion. Three days, it wasn’t much. Not even though for him to start getting the basics together for what he needed to do.
“Understood.” He wanted to protest. To be demand that he be given at least a week. Yet, he knew that it wouldn’t have worked out well for him in the long run. This wasn’t his domain. He had no power here. “Three days and i’m gone. I won’t return.” As much as the words pained him, it was more than likely for the best. He couldn’t run forever. Not when his own time was clearly running out, “I swear it.”
She laughed, despite it all. She gave a shake of her head. “There are more than a fair share of people who are no fans of mine,” she replied, leaning back in her chair. “And a fair number of those wouldn’t mind me dead, but I have learned to stop caring.”
“Usually, I wouldn’t care, but when it starts affecting everyone around me? Well, sometimes, I do care enough to either run or stop them —- i usually resort to running until I know what i’m dealing with.”
Hellfirebound 