Looking Through New Eyes [Sequel to Better Than You]

Escape Attempt

           Holding onto Loki's arm, they ended up in what could be called the Lobby where they first ended up. Looking around, (Y/N) asked him, "I'm guessing what you want is the tesseract?" He looked over to where she pointed and smirked. It was the guy from behind the desk pushing a cart of stuff down the hall, if anyone had the tesseract it had to be him. They followed him down into a large office space with (Y/N) quickly finding him and walking up to him, "Hey!" "Oh, I know you. You're with that-" Loki quickly pushed him down while shushing him, both getting down on his level. "What's your name?" Loki asked him. "Casey..." "...Give me the tesseract, or I'll gut you like a fish, Casey!" He looked confused, "What's a fish?" He got shushed again. (Y/N) nudged Loki, "Do you really have to use threats for everything?" She whispered. Another thing caught her mind, turning to Casey, "Wait, how do you not know what a fish is?" "I've lived my entire life behind a desk. I wanna know exactly what I'm being threatened with before I comply." Loki glared at him with a harsh whispered, "Death, Casey. Violent, painful death!" She put a hand on his shoulder, mouthing the word please to him. "I comply.." He held his hands up a bit, going to open a compartment in the cart. 

         Casey soon took out the tesseract, but (Y/N) continued to look in it. Her eyes widened a bit, tapping Loki's arm, "Stones..." He looked down as well, same shocked expression as her. "How...How do you have these?" He asked. Casey answered, "Oh, we actually get a lot of these. Some of the guys use them as paper weights." Paper....weights? Just at the sound of that, (Y/N) eyes started to tear up. The thing that her love died for is now being used as someone else's paper weight. She would be angry, but there was only more depression to absorb it. She looked over at Loki slowly standing up and walking to the center of the room. (Y/N) followed slowly behind along with Casey. The silence and ambience soon stopped when an elevator opened to reveal the soldiers walking towards them fast. (Y/N) grabbed Loki hand with the control in it, and sent them back to the room they were just in to only fall either into a chair or flat on the floor. 

         They both panted, "What is this place?" (Y/N) questioned quietly. She got up, and saw Loki eyeing the machine that controlled the hologram in the front of the room. As he slowly walked towards it, (Y/N) decided to speak up, "Loki." He looked at her, straight in her eyes. "Are you sure you're ready to see your own life?" She asked. His eyes switched between the machine and her, finally deciding to sit in Mobius's chair. (Y/N) slowly walked behind him as he started to mess with the machine, going back to Frigga's death. She didn't have to look at him to hear his breath trembling from the sight, they both start to tear up once more. Next was Odin's death, more focused on the 'I love you, my sons' line.  Next with the conversation with Thor in Sakaar, and the both of them had tears streaming down their faces. She thought about comforting him with a simple touch on the shoulder, but she left him alone to simply process it on his own terms. Ragnarok, on the ship, it brought a sad smile to their faces seeing it. Then it finally came...the end.

           An explosion slowly turned (Y/N)'s smile into a traumatized look. "You are not going to face him, dove. I will not let you." "I'm not letting you face him alone, Loki! I'm going-" "Stay. Here....please, dove." He told her to hide from him, probably knowing that this would be both of their deaths if she stepped out of hiding. Then it showed the scene she never wanted to relive. As he tried to stab Thanos, (Y/N) turned away quickly and covered her mouth to make her sobs more quiet. Looking at the screen, Loki slowly started to frown and stood up. Thanos' voice came in, making (Y/N) cover her ears desperately. The scene played in her head either way, still being able to hear it through her hands. As Loki stepped closer to the screen, he got glimpses of (Y/N) crying as she tried to leave by his request. 

         Snap, then silence. Tears wouldn't stop for (Y/N), and Loki just chuckled to himself. The door opened, it was the woman who brought them here in the first place, "What's so funny?" He turned around to look at her, and glance at (Y/N). She glanced back, and they all started to walk up to each other. (Y/N) took the first swing at the soldier, she grabbed it and threw her to the side. When she tried to get up, the soldier kicked her in the chest to make her stay down for longer. Loki tried to punch her as well, but she caught it and hit him in the chest. She got him on one knee, twisting his arm around to put it behind his beck and bending over the table. (Y/N) ran up to her, and got her in a choke hold to pull her off of him. Loki quickly grabbed the control to their collars, deactivating them both and ripping his off. As she struggled to get out of (Y/N)'s grip, he slapped his on her. Letting her go, Loki quickly sent her away with the remote. "Thank you," (Y/N) slowly got up and took her collar off. After a minute or so, he brought her back to just take her back. He did it a few more times, making (Y/N) chuckle a bit until he threw it away. 

         "We have enough time now," He looked over to her. She looked confused, but then remembered what he was talking about. He sat down with the tesseract in his hand, she just kept standing to start pacing a bit. "Well," she started. "Let's start with the very beginning. One day, I found out that I am a descendant to the Greek goddess of Discord Eris from the goddess herself. Something happened where she had to find a replacement on her throne, so she gave me her power. With that, we did a lot together...some bad and some good. I discovered that I could jump different realities or timelines, so that's how I met you." They looked at each other when she said that. (Y/N) continued, "I must've somehow messed with the timeline enough to make her the victory of the Battle of New York, and come back later to see you as King. Since if I get into details, I might start crying again, I'll shorten everything. You took me in as a servant, we grew closer, we set to marrying, and Odin interrupts it to then end it with your death. You sent me away back to my original time, so I decided to go back and do it myself. I would give you the world...while making a deal with Thanos as well to give us both an army just in case the same thing happened. I failed, and then I stuck by you after I explain the whole thing. We went through everything together, and then you died again....as a trick." She started to get angry, but just sighed loudly. 

         "You faked your death in front of me and Thor to get the throne and let him be with Jane on Earth. I found out, and we soon started to rule together. Everything started to crumble, Ragnarok came, we met a lot of new people, and then....you already know the rest," Her voice got quiet. (Y/N) turned fully to him, tears welling up again, "This version of you doesn't, and probably will never know what I'm feeling, but I saw you die 3 times. I...I fell in love with you, but I couldn't keep you. On that 3rd time, I wanted to...get rid of the pain. But the TVA took me away, and when I saw you again all I wanted was to be by your side no matter what." He looked back at her with genuine sadness as she kept pouring her heart out, "I don't care if you don't love me like the other Loki's. As long as I can walk right by you without you dying in front of me, then I'll be happy." 

         (Y/N) ended up sitting in front of him, "You don't have to trust me right away, but just know...you can't get rid of me~" They both laughed sadly as that, sitting in silence. The door opened once more, but to a more gentle soul. "Loki...(Y/N)?" Mobius slowly walked towards them. "Nowhere left to run." "I can't go back, can I? Back to my timeline." Loki asked. No response. "I don't enjoy hurting people. I don't enjoy it. I do it because I have to, because I've had to," He went on. Mobius wanted more, and during this (Y/N) looked over at his hand with an urge to hold it like old times. Her hand went for it on it's own, but she pulled back when he looked at her. She simply smiled to him, "It's part of the illusion." (Y/N) turned to Mobius, wiping some tears. Loki finished it, "It's the cruel elaborate trick conjured by the weak to inspire fear." He went to grab the tesseract, "Even an Infinity stone is useless here. The TVA is formidable" "And used as paper weights..." (Y/N) said to herself. 

       "Listen, I can't offer you both salvation, but maybe I can offer you two something better." While he explained further, Loki stood up and held out a hand for (Y/N). She took it, "A fugitive Variant's been killing our Minutemen." "And you need the God of Mischief to help you stop him?" (Y/N) walked to them both, "And the Goddess of Discord." Mobius nodded, "Why us?" (Y/N) asked. "The Variant we're hunting is...you, Loki."

"I beg your pardon?"

"The hell?"