risky.

nightmares.

"Don't take her! No!-"
2:00 am
The clock tolls making you open your eyes, abruptly while exhaling. You sit up from the bed and rubbed your eyes.

You couldn't control the heavy breathing you were encountering. It felt like the aftermath of running a marathon.
The bad dream you witnessed happened multiple times before this too.
Again you heard the numerous amount of ticking from the alarm clock on your bedside.

From there on you got up, changed to some black pants and a simple white top, with a black jacket labeled with the TVA logo on the side and to cover me up, and got out of the cabin to do some defense training you taught yourself to clear your head off.

Headed out, passing by the corridors and that leaded you to the training room.

It was an indoor with harmless weapons placed on the sides of the room. The room was umber painted, with smooth dark grey floors that was made for training which was slip proof. The room itself was quite dark toned and plain, it's pretty much technologically advanced, also sophisticated.
The lights turns on by itself when someone enters the room. The opposite of the door to get in the room was a big glass window that showed the beauty of the TVA city, just like the one in the lunchroom.

An orange vapor quickly formed in the middle of the room

"Hey y'all!"

You gasped when miss minutes appeared, levitating.

"Oh I'm sorry if I scared ya, just wanted to say, that you're back here... for the 7305th time?"
"Oh boy you have a very messy sleeping schedule."

"Wow it's like you're counting my days."
You added

"Well I'm miss minutes!"
She said with a smile.

"Is it the nightmares again pal?"
"Yup."
"Oh alright I hope you don't stay here all night like you did last week, have fun training!"

She disappeared in thin air.

"Creepy as always"

You exhaled and walked to the weapons shelf to take a stick and a dummy-like punching bag to the center and started your practice.

3:30 am

The thoughts filled your head as I kept beating the shit out of the dummy (sorry I ran out of vocabulary🙄)
The nightmares been occupying your head for years like it owns you.

Next thing you heard something came in the training room. Usually it's just you since it's midnight so you pretended to not hear it. You began hitting the top of the dummy again and you heard footsteps slowly approaching.

You held the stick tightly and swing it quickly as a blink of an eye, while turning around and the stick landed right on Loki's chin. His hands were raised like he's surrendering. He wore the classic TVA uniform, a white long sleeved shirt and black tie.

"What are you doing here?"
"I was gonna ask you the exact same thing."
"It sounds as if you know this whole place."
"I'm quick, I know my way around here now."

You scoffed and dropped the stick to the ground as he slowly put his hands down.

"Okay Mr confident, answer my question."
"I just... went for a stroll."
You paused at his answer
"..at 3:30 am in the morning?"
"Y-yeah? What am I not allowed to do that??"

You gave him a confused look, and you turned around fixing the dummy then.

"You should go now, no one would want to see a variant walking around."
"You are very stubborn aren't you-"

You picked up the stick with your hands swiftly and tried to attack him but he was able to match your quick pace. He catches the stick you wield.

Loki took the stick and turned you around, The stick is now between your neck as he held the edges, making you slightly strangled, something like a chokehold position as he was behind you.

"I suppose we should talk"

You grunt and grab the stick, threw it to an edge and you shoulder throw loki to the ground, locking him by sitting on top of his crotch and you placed your arm on his neck, making him unable to move.

Loki was just inches away from your face. You could see his small scars from his past fights and his green, calm-glaring eyes looking directly at your brown eyes.
His heavy breathing matching yours.
You kept the glaring eye contact, trying to read him, but he looked at you like he wasn't trying to pick on a fight.

"I don't think we need to discuss on anything." You added, panting

After a slight pause you cut the eye contact and let your arm go of his neck, got off his crotch and sat beside him. Quite an awkward atmosphere was created,
Loki cleared his throat while touching his neck.

"What do you want." You told him and sighed

He looked at you and continued,

"Me and Mobius... he told me to tell you later-"
"And of course you're telling me now, god of mischief and betrayal indeed"
"Not to betray him or anything but we planned on something."

His voice slowly starts to get lower, near to a whisper.

"That sounds more like betraying me." You answered
"The TVA doesn't need to know this.. but-"

Before he finished his sentence, an orange light started to form again in front of us swiftly.

"Hey again! Oh? You're not alone this time y/n!"
"It's almost 4am, I think y'all should get going now."
Miss minutes looked at you, and glanced to Loki changing the awkward to an odd atmosphere instead.

"Right. We will go now." Loki answered.
"All right then! See y'all whenever."
Miss minutes disappeared into thin air again.

"What were you gonna say again?" You asked, tilting to him
"I'm not sure if this is a proper time to speak about it, you shouldn't have thrown me around it wasted our time."

He said while looking around, wondering if anything's watching over us.

"Okay but what did you mean when you said the TVA doesn't need to know this?" You asked, you were bewildered
"Let's talk over this tomorrow with Mobius."

You then nodded, stood up and placed the stick and Loki placed the dummy for you and left the training area as he follows you out.
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the next part will be the sequence of this part ! I had to stop here because I didn't want to write 1k + in one part.

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