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You Did What?
Magne and Laurits talk about where Magne was earlier in the evening before he came back home and rescued Laurits after he was brutally beaten by the Jutuls.
Magne grabbed his hammer Mjollnir and quickly left Jutulheim after he knew that Saxa would be okay. He didn’t know what she would do next about her current situation of living in the house with Fjor and Ran after they had beaten her up. Not his problem, he didn’t care, she was his enemy. If Saxa was the enemy, why did they have passionate sex on her living room floor? Sex with Saxa was wrong on so many levels, but they had both enjoyed their time together. Enemy or not, he hoped that she would be okay, he told her if she needed him to call him and he would come and help her. She nodded and lowered her head as he walked out of the door.
Magne snapped his mind back into reality, Saxa had told him that Ran and Fjor were still mad at Laurits for giving Magne the key to the eternal flame so that he could forge Mjollnir. Saxa had given Laurits the key to Jutulheim so that he could come by the house whenever he wanted to. Saxa did not realize that that particular key was one of Vidar’s master keys, the key also unlocked the door to the old hall that Jutul Industries had been built on top of. No one knew about the existence of the old hall except Vidar, Ran, Saxa, Fjor and now Magne and his allies. Saxa and Laurits were accused of treason, the punishment for treason in the old world was death. Magne could only hope that Fjor and Ran would show Saxa some mercy after what she had done.
Magne ran the entire distance back to his street, he hoped that he could get to Laurits before Ran and Fjor did, the two giants would probably kill his brother. Magne got to his house and looked around. He looked down the street, he saw the Jutul’s SUV, he quickly hurled Mjollnir at the vehicle as the two giants escaped and ran down the street. The hammer made contact with the vehicle and it exploded on impact, the blast shook the entire neighborhood. Magne started walking toward the vehicle when he heard a moan. He turned around to see who was moaning. He looked in the alley, he realized that it was his brother Laurits.
“What happened to you?” asked Magne as he rushed over to Laurits who was barely conscious and bleeding from his nose and mouth. His eyes were almost swollen shut.
“The Jutuls. They know that I gave you the key. They beat me up.”
“I figured that they would do this, they beat Saxa up too, she looks about as bad as you do.”
“Wait, you went over there? Why did you go over there?” asked Laurits as he moaned.
“I went to Jutulheim to confront Fjor and Ran because I knew that they would try something like this. I hope that you realize that Ran and Fjor cannot be trusted no matter what they tell you.” Laurits weakly nodded his head. Magne did not tell Laurits what had went on between he and Saxa. Right now he wanted to get Laurits back inside of the house and get his wounds treated. Magne helped Laurits up and got him into the house.
“Thanks, I think that I got it from here, I just want to go upstairs and take a shower, I am so sore, I hurt everywhere.” Said Laurits as he slowly walked upstairs. Magne watched his brother as he took each painful step upstairs, a short time later he could hear the shower being turned on. Magne went into the kitchen and washed his hands. He thought about what had happened that evening as he made himself and his brother a cup of coffee and pulled some cookies out of the cabinet. What an evening, he had lost his virginity to Saxa Jutul of all people and then walked home and almost killed her brother and mother. What an atypical evening thought Magne as he sat the two mugs of coffee on the table. About twenty minutes later, Laurits came down stairs and sat on the sofa. He told Magne to join him in the living room which Magne did. He brought the coffee and cookies and sat them on the table in front of Laurits. Magne sat down in the recliner next to the sofa. He noticed Laurits looked better after his shower, except for a couple of red marks on his face and stiff movement, he seemed like he was okay. Jotunns and gods healed faster than humans did. Laurits was part Jotunn. Laurits took a drink of his coffee and sighed as he sat back on the sofa.
“Thanks for saving my ass this evening. I only wished that you had come and saved me before they beat me up.” Said Laurits.
“Hey, I got here as fast as I could. I went to Fjor’s house to confront him, I knew that he would try to hurt you once he found out what you and Saxa had done.”
“I figured that they knew about what Saxa did. What did they do to her?”
“They beat her up too, I think that you got the worst of the beatings, but they were not kind to her either.” Magne drank his coffee and ate several cookies. Laurits looked over at Magne, he sensed something was different about Magne, it had only been a couple of hours since he had seen Magne, but he could sense that he was different some kind of way.
“Why were you at Saxa’s so long? You left the house hours ago. You were gone before Mom left and went to Eric’s house, where else did you go?”
“I went to test Mjollnir and then I went to Jutulheim to confront Fjor, I had planned to kill him, if I had to, Ran too. I don’t want mom in the middle of what is going on with us and the Jutuls.” Magne avoided telling Laurits the rest of the story.” Laurits sat and listened to Magne’s story. Knowing Magne, he probably went down to the Edda Grille and hung out for a few hours. Laurits picked up the remote and turned the television on, the two brothers had watched television for almost an hour when Magne spoke.
“Guess what happened tonight Laurits?” Laurits looked over at Magne and gave him a half-hearted shoulder shrug.
“Earlier this evening, I had sex with Saxa Jutul.” Laurits mind went blank. He clicked off the television and turned to his brother.
“You did what?” asked Laurits as he turned around to look at his brother. He wanted to laugh, but his brother had just saved his life. Laurits needed to know more about what had led up to this particular action on the part of his brother.
“Yeah, I had sex with Saxa Jutul.” Said a smiling, self-assured Magne. So that was what was different about Magne thought Laurits.
“Wait—let me wrap my mind around this, you f---”
“Laurits, don’t put it like that!” said Magne shaking his head.
“Okay then, while I was out getting my head bashed in, you were at Jutulheim sexing Saxa up! Can I put it that way? What the hell were you thinking?” asked a slightly annoyed Laurits.
“Laurits, it just happened. I had went there to kill Fjor. Saxa was lying in the floor, they had beat her up. I went over to talk to her and we started talking. I didn’t realize that she was trying to get at Mjollnir until her hand was on the handle. I wrestled with her to keep the hammer away from her, some kind of way, I wound up on top of her. I had my hammer over her head, she thought that I was going to kill her, she leaned up and kissed me and all of that other stuff happened. I swear I don’t know what happened between us, I don’t know how it happened, but it did!”
“Magne, only you would get laid by the hottest girl at school and not know just what the hell happened! Just damn man! I thought mom had that discussion with you when you were around eight or nine.”
“I didn’t mean for that to happen, but it did!”
“Didn’t you like her before all of this stuff happened anyway Magne? I saw the way that the two of you looked at one another when you guys thought that no one was looking.”
“Yeah, I like Saxa because she is attractive and I didn’t mind going to bed with her, but she is not someone that I want to have a relationship with, she is sneaky, duplicitous and dishonest. For two people not to be related by blood, she is just like Ran and Vidar.” Said Magne.
“Sneaky, dishonest and duplicitous, you use those words to describe Saxa, but you could be accused of the same things after the stunt that you pulled Magne. Right now Saxa doesn’t can’t even come close to the things that you have done the past couple of days.” Said Laurits as he finished his cup of coffee while looking over the cup at Magne.
“I did what I did to save you, one day you will thank me for all of this.” Said Magne, a little unsure of himself.”
“Okay, I really want to believe you, but you lost me on how sleeping with a rich, Jotunn female factors into all of this. I really would have thought that Ran was more to your liking!” laughed Laurits who dodged the pillow that Magne had just thrown at him.
“I pity any man that would sleep with that pit viper! She is soulless.” Said Magne shaking his head. Laurits laughed.
I hope that you don’t tell Mom what went on between you and Saxa, she would probably have a fit.”
“Yeah, tell me about it. I can trust you to keep this a secret right?” inquired Magne.
“Of course I will keep it a secret, we are brothers and besides who would believe me if I told someone that you and Saxa Jutul had sex?” Magne thought about it and he had to agree with Laurits had just said because he could not believe what happened either. Laurits turned the television back on and he and Laurits watched television and talked about the Jutuls and what they planned to do next.
Turid came home and discussed her date with Eric with the two boys, she asked them what they did that evening, Magne and Laurits told her that they had drank coffee and watched television. They had both mutually agreed to never discuss what had happened that night to Turid, things would just work out better for everyone involved.