Punished gods [ENG]

#23 Time Keepers

// Today's chapter is longer than usual and sometimes there is a problem loading complete content. I hope you see the whole story...

A few days later...

When Loki and Sylvie had their magic abilities back, it was much easier to hide from others. Thanks to the illusion, they could have a different look form in front of everyone around them, but them still saw each other in the same way all the time. It wasn't such a flawless cover, if someone could break their illusions, but they knew they had to be careful, that the danger didn't over... but they still didn't want to just run away and hide from the world. They tried to fit in with the others as much as possible.

Loki and Sylvie were sitting on a bench in the park and he hugged her. Sylvie watched the people around them, smiling thoughtfully, watching the little things as two good friends talked and laughed, the older couple walking hand in hand through the park or the mother playing with her two children. "You know what? Maybe it wasn't a mistake... everyone deserves free will, whether they decide right or wrong it's up to everyone... no one should tell anyone who they should be!" She said seriously and Loki just smiled at it, Sylvie looked at him and Loki after a moment's of thought reacted.

"It's a paradox... before I experienced when someone deciding my destiny, I was the one who wanted to decide the destiny of others," he shook his head.

"And do you know what you want now?"

Loki looked in her eyes and brushed a strand of hair from her face, "it's still the same... I want you to be okay."

Sylvie smiled and kissed him, "I'm okay, for the first time I'm really okay," she couldn't resist and hugged him. Loki pulled her in his arms, and after a short moment Sylvie asked a question what was in her head, "do you think that's really possible? That we will be able to be together, that we deserve a happy ending?" She pulled away and looked in his eyes.

"I'd like to say yes..."

"We've done a lot of bad things."

"I know..."

"But we've done some good things too... I just don't know if that'll be enough."

"Sometimes I think about how many things I would do differently, but if anything happened differently, I wouldn't have to be where I am, here and now... with you."

"Maybe we would never have met without the bad things."

"Maybe..."

"But maybe that bad things will divided us one day," she said sadly. "I see why you let them go, I mean Wanda and Strange... you wanted to give them a chance, despite the bad things they did... because we could get a chance one day too."

Loki nodded in agreement and grabbed her hand, "you know what? You're the only thing I don't have to regret... I don't care how weird we met... how weird circumstances unite us... I don't care who judges us, because no one has gone our way, no one can understand what is happening between us..."

"And what's happening between us?"

"Everything..."

Sylvie smiled and hugged him tightly, "you're my everything."

Later, they walked together through a street full of people, holding hands like nothing existed around them. They stopped for a moment in front of the shop window, and Sylvie saw in their reflection their current appearance, a woman with long brown hair and a man with short brown hair by her side.

"Do you think we can ever be just you and me in front of everyone? Without any masks?"

"You are in a very philosophical mood today," Loki said, smiling.