...Aboard the boat...

"Who taught you how to lie so well?" Loki asks.

"My bro, Lewis," I said.

Loki has a small smile.

"He should be proud of you," Loki said.

"Lewis doesn't remember teaching me," I said, with a sigh.

Loki raises his brows.

"...Why?" Loki asks.

"Remember what I told you about memories being taken away?" I said.

"Yes," Loki said, nodding.

"Lewis and I had our memories changed by Father," I said. "He hid our Rock Giant heritage by making us immortal people capable of not dying and unable to use it at will."

"So he used The Masking Spell," Loki said. "That usually is the preference for those who wish to live like a mortal with their other half only able to come up in dire moments."

"New to me," I said.

"And how did you find out?" Loki asks.

"The bomb in Boston," I said. "Something happened when the bomb went off and the spell was lifted...I called my mom about it and she told me everything."

"But that doesn't explain when Lewis taught you," Loki said.

"Lewis taught me before he went to Father," I said.

Loki glances over to my shoulders.

"Where did you get the scars from?" Loki asks, trailing his fingers on my exposed shoulder while we are in the bed.

"The suit," I said.

My scars are currently covered by make-up.

"The suit did this?" Loki said, raising a brow.

I nod.

"It did," I said.

"The man, from the bank, he acted like you knew him," Loki said.

"He was Mr Force," I said. "Mr Jrones had him killed. Back in September, Mr Force had been controlling a young girl. I called you about it."

"...So you were not joking," Loki said.

"Yes," I said, with a nod. "And you sir didn't want to help. So, that is why I didn't answer the phone."

Loki frowns.

"What happened that day?" Loki asks.

"I made the earthquake," I said. "I knocked him out, drove the faked van off the bridge, and didn't get wet because Mr Jrones's van has systems to block any hole in situations like that."

Loki laughs.

"What?" I ask.

Loki shook his head.

"I cannot imagine you driving a van into the ocean," Loki said.

"I did it," I said. "And I reunited a family."

Loki raises a brow.

"Wait, how long was he controlling her?" Loki asks.

"A week," I said.

"A week," Loki said. "And no one did a thing."

"She was a high school drop out, a eighteen year old, had planned to stay with her friend for half the week," I said. "And the police saw no reason to investigate what really is happening...That is until Mr Force crashed into the water chasing a van carrying the Follymayers to their death."

Loki has a look of disbelief.

"You faked the death of an entire family?" Loki asks.

"Yep," I said. "I took your idea and used it."

"I was being sarcastic," Loki said.

"You gave them a new life, Loki," I said. "And you are the one they should have thanked."

"...What happened afterwards that I do not know of?" Loki asks.

"I went to trial for the Force case as a eyewitness," I said. "And the Defense Attorney brought up a staged case...What happened in Bouvet Island was changed to it happening in Utah."

"Utah is not a freezing cold state for the setting," Loki said.

"I know," I said. "It was out of place to me. But you were not mentioned in the case. The only thing he focused on was Fred's death. Someone found his body with one of my old purses nearby."

"They buried a fake body," Loki said. "One in which the insides turn green after being buried.

"Ew," I said.

"And explosive when a lighter is put near the green blood," Loki said.

"Loki, that is disgusting-" I start to say but then stop myself. I remember the news segment. "You were there, weren't you, when the body exploded in the morgue."

Loki slowly nods.

"John insisted he do it," Loki said. "To prove he is operating on a fake body."

"And he lost his life because of that," I said.

"He proved it," Loki said. "Perhaps he won't be haunting any morgue's doing the same thing."

"Loki, that is horrible," I said.

"When John wants to know the truth; he will dig for answers," Loki said. "So perhaps John is at peace with knowing he operated on a fake body."

I can tell Loki found solace on that thought.

"Is Mr Jrones usually at the HQ first at 6:30?" Loki asks.

"Yes," I said.

A smile spreads across Loki's handsome face.

"Oh goody," Loki said, in a happy voice.

I raise my eyebrows.

"Loki, what did you do?" I ask.

Loki looks over towards the alarm clock and then back to me.

"Mr Jrones will be dead in five minutes," Loki said. "As of a 'explosion' inside the building."

I smile.

"You remind me how much I love you,Loki," I said.

"We both do," Loki said. "But there is one question bothering me...Why do you wear magical make up to cover your scars?"

"I look like a freaky rag doll," I said, lowering my head down. "I look like a freak."

"I do not see a freak in the bed with me," Loki said, tipping my head up towards him. "I see a pretty young woman covering up what makes her...her."

From the corner of my eyes; I see a blue figure appear at the front of our bed.

Loki looks over lowering his hand down. I pull up the blanket covering my bare exposed chest. My heart had raced, my mind had jumped, and I feel scared about what the blue figure may be. The blue figure takes on the shape of a human in a couple seconds within appearing.

"We got dah test results back from dah cable, Loki," Came a young woman's voice.

"Cindy!" Loki shouts as the figure takes on the form of a short woman wearing strange necklaces, a short sleeved shirt over a long dress, and she messy hair all over the place. "I told you not to use the holoform in the mornings."

"And you might not like it," Cindy goes on ignoring Loki's reply. "We recently found out it can connect to dah human brain and dah wires Joseph had been able to pull out seemingly go through the skull. We tested it on a rabbit and we found out dah thing needs a box to connect to."

"Poor rabbit," I said.

"Excuse me?" Cindy said, squinting her eyes. "Who are you?"

"This is Emily," Loki said. "My girlfriend."

It made me feel giddy inside hearing that from Loki.

"Glad to meet you alive, Miss Strange," Cindy said. "Poor guy had a tough time..."

"Cindy," Loki interrupts. "What is the point of interrupting on my privacy?"

"Joseph wanted me to tell you it is a body controlling thing," Cindy said. "We got a little further because Bryan thought of something we didn't try." Cindy has a pause. "And we are strangely missing dah bombs."

"Don't worry about them," Loki said. "They are being used for a much useful purpose."

Cindy raises a brow.

"But, you said you were never going to use them," Cindy said.

"I changed my mind," Loki said, wrapping his arm around my shoulder.

Cindy's face turns into a 'are you joking?' reaction.

"Changed your mind?" Cindy asks. "Excuse me, but who's dah one dat told me you would never change your mind about never using dah bombs!" She folds her arms. "You told me, on dah eve of twelve, you would never take them out without us knowing!"

"That was before," Loki said. "Before Emily came around."

I elbow punched Loki.

"What did I say about using me as an excuse?" I ask, in a whisper.

"That was different," Loki said, in a lower voice. "This is not school related."

"It is the same thing," I said.

"What was so important you had to go behind our backs and get dah bombs?" Cindy asks.

Loki sighs.

"The suit," Loki said.

Cindy furrows her eyebrows.

"Dah suit has nothing to do with dah bombs," Cindy said.

I can not very much tell what kind of accent Cindy has.

"Emily was in it," Loki said. "She was the one in the armor."

"So Emily faked her death and got into dah armor?" Cindy asks.

"Not willingly," I said. "I wasn't conscious for most of what the suit did. The suit is a living machine...with a cable, that is." I squeeze Loki's hand. "It is like a living Terminator except in armor and a shell with knock out gas."

"Does it still operate?" Cindy asks.

"It is never going to hurt anyone like it did to me," I said. "It won't send hurtful electronic shocks to anyone, again."

I lower my head recalling what pain the armor gave me while tearing up.

"Taking off the armor changed Emily physically," Loki said, as he let me lean against his chest crying. I hadn't reacted yet over what it did to me. "I believe it is not operational."

"I am so sorry for saying that about her," Cindy said.

"Now if you excuse me..." Loki said. "Emily and I have a lot of catching up to do."

"But dah bombs-" Cindy starts to say but Loki interrupts shaking his left hand.

"Cindy, trust me on this," Loki said. "The bombs will take care of business more dire and requiring of them."

"All right," Cindy said. "But if they come back to me; I am going to Egypt!"

Cindy's blue figure disappears.

"Emily," Loki said, turning his head towards me. The hand he had wrapped around my shoulder then begins patting on my back, reassuringly, as though he is trying to comfort me. "Let it go, let it all go, tell me what you remember."

So I told him what I remembered from my missing four months. For the first time in a really long time I opened up to some-one close to me yet the thing is I didn't him the whole truth. I didn't tell Loki why I had went forward taking him in as a child. But the reason behind that was discarded and very much 'I change my mind, I am only doing this for Loki until he is grown up'.

The people I killed stung my mind.

And when that was over, telling him about what I remembered, Loki flicked off a tear from my face.

"Now...where was I when Cindy intruded?" Loki asks.

"A pretty young woman in bed with you," I said.

Loki smiles.

"Oh yes, your scars," He trails his finger on a hidden scar. "Tell me; what else did the suit change about yourself?" Loki looks up towards me. "A suit is not just capable of changing who-ever wears it."

"This one hadn't been tested," I said.

"Yet it affected your appearance and voice box," Loki said. "I like to think it made you a little more unique than most women." My tears dried out. My mood had changed out of the teary mess. "Can I see that pretty Rock Giant face, again? No magical make up."

I feel hopeful that the future is brighter than what I have been through earlier.

I let down the magical make up and change my human appearance to Rock Giant.

"Ah," Loki said. "There is the pretty woman I met."

Now, I am interested to heard what he had done for four months.

I'll ask Loki later.