Halloween Hearts • Loki Odinson

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"Mrs Lovett
You're a bloody wonder
Eminently practical and yet
Appropriate as always
As you've said repeatedly
There's little point in dwelling on the past!

Do you mean it?
Everything I did
I swear I thought was only for the best
Believe me!
Can we
Still, be
Married?

Do come here, my love,
Nothing to fear, my love,
What's dead, is dead

The history of the world, my pet--

Oh, Mr Todd
Oh, Mr Todd
Leave it to me...

Is learn forgiveness and try to forget

By the sea, Mr Todd, we'll be comfy-cosy
By the sea, Mr Todd, where there's no one nosy

And life is for the alive, my dear
So let's keep living it--

Just keep living it!
Really living it--!"

Viv sighed as Lovett was thrown into the oven. She's seen this final scene multiple times but it hurt just a little bit more after being compared to Mrs Lovett and Loki being compared to Mr Todd.

She loved this movie. Despite the violence, gore, cannibalism, she loved it. She actually played Lovett in her school play in grade 7. She knew all the songs, loved every character (except for the fucking Beadle and Turpin).

Throughout November, Viv visited the Avengers, talked to Loki, went to a planetarium on Ria's last day of the holiday.

And eventually, they made it to December.

"It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas! Toys in every store!" She sang over excitedly, dancing into the Avengers compound in a fluffy red Christmas hat and a hand-stitched red sweater. Of course, this was the explicit and cursed one. The one that Ria isn't allowed to see. It had a smushed cake, a couple crying cats, a penis on each elbow. The Avengers stared at Viv in the sweater, not understanding what was going on.

"Viv, what are you wearing?" Tony asked.

"Marshall made this for me. And I wear it proudly. See, he spent Christmas making cursed sweaters for Kat and me because the day before he lost his virginity." Viv smiled.

"Why is one red and one green?" Natasha asked, clearly starting at her elbows.

"For gender equality. He was gonna go with pink and blue but those colours were too stereotypical. And yes, I'm aware that AFAB women don't have phalluses, generally speaking, but some do! But the thing is, I'm not sure if Marshall knows that. Not like he's ever been in a relationship long enough to find out. Except for him and Ophelia, they've been together for a while..." Viv paced around the room, continuing to rant about God knows what while the Avengers present listened intently, worried about why she was droning on so much. She wasn't usually this...erratic.

"Viv!" Tony interrupted her, and she snapped her head towards him mid-sentence.

"Yes?" She asked.

"What's wrong?" He asked. It took Viv a minute to answer. Like she was buffering. She opened her mouth to speak a few times but nothing came out until she settled on a response.