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Freya felt invigorated. She'd taken some time for herself - by herself! - for the first time in ages. And she's really started to think about things. She felt like she was ready to take on the world, and she didn't want to be alone. So her first stop after prom was to check up on her sister. She'd promised that once she'd been left alone for a while, Hel would let her in again. And she had given her far more than just the few days she'd promised! Hel was just lucky Freya had been so busy.. but now, it was time to make up for it! Physical scars may have healed, but the mental ones were likely still there, festering, right on the surface. Freya brought a bag of freshly dried beef jerky as an apology snack, and maybe a pick me up, when she headed over to her sister's room.

"Heeellloooooo, crumpet, is me! I finally comes teh collects yeh. Hope yehr decent, because I'm comings in one ways or another!"

When the door opened, Freya held both arms out and the bag of jerky hit her own wrist, as her look of excitement froze. Hel looked like.. well, like hell, if she was going to be honest with herself. But she'd lost her wings, and Freya wasn't surprised that the poor ghoul was still suffering over such a debilitating loss.

Still, when her sister flopped against her and held her tightly in a hug, every instinct in Freya's subconscious screamed in worry. She hadn't done something like this in so very long, and Freya had always tried to be there for her.. had she not been there for her now?!

Freya dropped the bag on the floor and wrapped her arms around her sister tight. "Oh, my little sweet little crumpet, I'm here, shhh. I'm here."

She picked Hel up an inch off the ground, took a few steps in, and then settled her feet back down on the floor so that she could close the door behind her.

The beef jerky stayed outside.

"Naa, naa, whats all this, yeh didn't mess up crumpet." Freya curled her arms around her sister and cuddled her close, pressing her lips against the ghoul's hair and kissing it over and over. "There is nothings yeh could ever do that yeh can't claw yehr way back from. Yehr the strongest of all of us, Hel." She turned her head slightly to look at her. "Yeh've always been the strongest, the most beautiful, the best of us all. Nothing has ever stood in yehr way, and that's not abouts teh change."

She shifted Hel gently, so she could get a good look at her sister's face. Her eyes were so full of turmoil, the dark circles underneath them told Freya stories. She leaned in and kissed each eye, willing the pain to leave her sister through her lips.

When she pulled away, she gave Hel a hopeful smile. "Yeh tells yehr sister everythings, and we'll finds a way teh makes it all right again. Okays?"

Freya listened to her sister, and heard her own words echoed in the younger ghoul's voice. It hurt her heart to think that she'd been the one to teach Hel those words, long ago. And Hel had never once truly believed her. She'd kept her faith that there were exceptions, just waiting..

..And now the tables had turned.

"Shhh, it's okay, crumpet." Freya whispered into Hel's hair, continuing to rock her gently. "I thinks I understand." Freya's mind had worked out a solution without anyone telling her the truth, and it made perfect sense, in her mind.

After all, she had done it, too. And Herryk had forgiven her. If Mot wasn't able to forgive Hel just for kissing another boil (which was clearly the issue), then..

"I don't believes there is anythings yeh could has done that would truly be unforgivable. But if Mot decided teh breaks up with yeh over whatever it is yeh did, then yeh knows what?" She pulled her sister away just to turn her, and hold her face in her hands. Freya's own face was an inch away, and her eyes were strong, and determined.

"Mot is teh one who is makings teh mistake, here. Not yeh, crumpet. And he doesn't deserves yeh. I knows it from the start. Yeh made a mistake. Yeh fessed up. And his answer was to run?" Freya's lips pursed angrily. "What kind of man yeh thinks that is, Hel? Is that really teh mans yeh wants teh marry? One who runs at teh first signs of danger?"

She let Hel's head go, and settled it back on her shoulder, rocking once more. "I tells yeh, he's the one who's the mistake here. Not yeh. And yeh knows what? Love does brings pain. Yehr right." She sighed, and nuzzled her face into Hel's hair. "But not always. And not forever."

She went back to rocking her sister gently. "Yeh gives it time. No pain lasts forever."

"Ach.. I knows those feels." Freya lifted her head just enough to stare vacantly at the wall, while continuing to rock her sister. "Like yeh mades the biggest mistake of yehr life, and nothing, or no one, will ever be enough anymores." She let a long, melancholy sigh, and shook her head. "I knows exactly how yeh feels right now, crumpet. And, I think.. I think yeh knows I do. Yeh remembers me in those days." She hesitated to even bring up the darker times in her life, right after she'd broken up with Thor, and her sister had begun to date him. She'd turned into a recluse, hating the world and everything in it. She thought the entire idea of love was out of the question, for her.

"And yeh knows I was wrong." Her eyes finally came back down to look at her sister, filled with promise, and hope. She hoped to infuse every bit of that promise into the broken heart she knew her sister now bore. "I can't makes it not hurts. Yeh has teh hurts.. because yeh loved. But it won't always feels this way." Her lips turned up in a sad smile. "I promise."

Her head leaned down, and her lips pressed gently against that of her sisters. "I loves yeh. And I will does anything I can teh helps yeh through this. But right now, all I wants is for yeh teh rest, and mourn, as yeh should. Only then, will yeh comes out of this with a stronger heart, ready teh loves again."

And if anyone knew that Hel had the right to be miserable right now.. it was Freya. So she didn't press, she simply accepted the love that was given to her, and squeezed her sister tightly in her arms.

"None of that matters now. I love yeh, and I'm here for yeh. And yeh knows what yeh really needs, right now?" Freya winked playfully. "Freya's cure for all of teh blues. Double mint chocolate chip cherry fudge pork ice cream. With bacon."

She shivered just thinking about it.

Freya let out a long, over-exaggerated sigh. "Fiiiine." She huffed, clearly teasing her sister. "I'll puts yehr meats on teh siiides. Party poopers." She kissed her sister and started to disentangle herself from the ghoul. "I'll go get that. And maybes I gets one of my movies, and I spends the nights." She paused, and gave her sister a sheepish look.

"If that is okays with yeh."