treason | loki laufeyson ✓

ii. tva

📍THE TVA

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"I'm gonna burn this place to the ground." Loki announces as he trails behind, refusing to walk with us.

"I'll show you where my desk is, you can start there."

Loki rolls his eyes, clearly not finding Mobius' teasing entertaining. He looks around the bare hallway, looking for something to focus on other than the floor. He looks out the window, his eyes going wide as he's met with a futuristic scene. He stops walking, his eyes glued to the window.

Mobius and I stop, noticing his curiosity.

"Have a look." Mobius gestures towards the window, allowing him to get closer.

"Home sweet home." I whisper, mostly to myself, leaning on the metal railing.

Loki continues to stare in awe, dumbfounded by all the advanced technology, "I thought there was no magic here."

"There isn't." Mobius states simply, looking back at the wide, city landscape.

We all watched as yellow vehicles flew past us and gazed at skyscrapers that hardly reached the never ending skyline. At the center of the city were pristine statues of the Time-Keepers, radiating an overseeing aura. They built the entirety of it, after all, it was only fitting for them to be in the middle.

"Between you and me? I'd really like to see you try to burn all this down." I whisper to Loki, chuckling a bit at myself. He ignores me, turning to Mobius.

"That's not real."

"It is, and, unfortunately, so is all the paperwork." Mobius puts a hand on Loki's back, guiding him down the hallway. "Good tinder for your fire, though. Come on."

"This place is a nightmare."

"That's another department. Now that department I'll help you burn down."

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Loki and Mobius stand on either side of me in the uncomfortably silent elevator, the only thing filling the air being jazz music softly playing through hidden speakers. I silently pray that the machine would go at least a fracture of a second faster.

"I'm Agent Mobius, by the way." Mobius breaks the silence, reaching across me to shake Loki's hand. He simply stares, not bothering to move even a muscle.

"And I'm Agent Juniper." I don't bother to try and shake his hand, I could already foresee my rejection.

"Are you taking me somewhere to kill me?"

"No. That's where you just were. I'm taking you some place to talk."

"I don't like to talk."

"But you do like to lie, which you just did. Cause we all know you like to talk." Mobius counters, gesturing how much he likes to talk with his hands, "Talkie-Talkie."

Loki scoffs, denying the accusations as he tries to change the subject, "How long have you been here?"

I jump into the conversation, answering his question. "We don't know. It's hard to say, honestly, time passes differently here in the TVA."

"What does that mean?"

The mechanical doors slide open with a ding, allowing us to exit. "You'll catch up." Mobius adds before exiting the elevator and into the monotone hallway, Loki and I on either side of him.

"So, you're part of the TVA's courageous and dedicated workforce?" Loki questions no one in particular in a tone that didn't feel entirely sincere.

Nonetheless, we answer confidently, "Yes."

"You were created by the Time-Keepers."

"Yep."

"To 'protect' the Sacred Timeline."

"Mhm." I confirm.

Loki let's out an amused chuckle as we take a left turn down a couple of stairs. He stays at the top, looking down at me.

"What? Is that funny?" I tilt my head, planting my hands on my waist in disdain.

He starts slowly taking the stairs down, refusing to break eye contact, "The idea that your little club decides the fate of trillions of people across all of existence at the behest of three space lizards? Yes, it's funny." He puts an accusing finger in my face, narrowing his eyes at me, "It's absurd."

"I thought you didn't like to talk." I grin, crossing my arms as I shifted my weight to my left leg. Loki lifts his chin, looking down on me with a judgmental stare.

Mobius turns around, taking a baton from the Minuteman guarding the door through which we were about to enter, "God, you guys fight like an old couple." The Minuteman pushes the door open, allowing us to enter, "After you."

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Ok! So we reached over 100 reads totaled! That's awesome, and I'm so so so thankful to all the people that vote and add my story to their public reading lists. I want to give all of you a big smooch 💍

Other than that! I'm enjoying writing Loki and Junipers bickering. And I hope you guys enjoy reading it! This chapter was actually short cause I didn't think you guys would want to read over 1300 words... so that will be in the next chapter! I'm hoping I'll be able to release it tomorrow or that day after, because ya'll... it's going to be in like 2-3 parts. And I also have to go through each of them and edit and reorganize and blah blah blah. I'm not sure how many there will be in the end, but their talk is so long! We'll have to see. So I hope you guys are as excited as I am! 💕

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