The Nexus Event (Loki x reader)

Loki

A/N: send me some prompts if you have any ideas for this story! i hope you enjoy this chapter<3

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Mobius takes you into a room marked 'Time Theatre 16'. He sits down on one side of a small table, and gestures for you to sit down opposite him. You collapse into the chair which faces him across the table, suddenly exhausted.

"You've had quite a day, huh." Mobius says, leaning back in his chair to regard you.

You look up at him and imagine how you must look to him. A mess, probably. You can't remember the last time you slept. He looks as though he's waiting for you to say something.

"Yeah." you settle for. He gives you a sad smile.

"I'm Agent Mobius, by the way."

You just nod.

"Do you have any more questions?"

Only about a million, you think to yourself. You try to break through the film of indifference which has settled over you since you arrived here. There might be a tiny, tiny, shred of hope waiting to be found somewhere within this man's explanation.

"Who decides what makes up the sacred timeline?" you ask first.

"The Time Keepers." Mobius says, as though that's enough explanation.

"Right. And what gives them the right to dictate what is supposed to happen? To everyone, ever?" you ask, your tone making very clear what you think of this arrangement.

"Well, they prevented the multiversal war, so I would argue that that gives them to right, if nothing else." Mobius chuckles.

"The multiversal war?"

Mobius sighs.

"Before the Time Keepers created the sacred timeline, there were hundreds of millions of different timelines, all fighting for dominance. Every timeline thought that they had the right to rule all of the timelines."

"But... isn't that what the Time Keepers are doing? Ruling all of everything?" you ask.

"Well, yes. But they had to choose one timeline, there couldn't be multiple. That would entirely defeat the object of their endeavours." Mobius says.

"They sound like a bunch of hypocrites to me." you mutter, looking at the ceiling.

"Hey, you should be a bit more grateful. You turn out great in the sacred timeline, and so does Loki."

You look back to him so fast that something twinges in your neck.

"Loki survives?"

"Yes." Mobius says, smiling.

"So... there are multiple 'variants' of Loki?" you frown.

"And you. And everyone. But there are thousands of Y/N and Loki variants, far more than most other people. You two have caused the TVA quite a hassle over the past few millennia."

Your head all but explodes, questions bouncing around the inside of your skull like ping pong balls.

"Millennia?" you finally manage to sputter.

"I can only assume that's how long we've been around for. Time moves differently here, it's not very... linear." Mobius says casually, as though he's telling you the weather forecast.

"How many variants of us are there?"

"It's impossible to say. But for every Loki variant, there's a Y/N variant. And you always end up crossing paths, even if you hadn't yet met in the sacred timeline. I assume you know that the two of you are soulmates?"