An Unlikely Love

Chapter 17: Loki's Pov

A little while later after I had showered, I went downstairs to the kitchen, on the table was a stack of cardboard boxes with a note from Stark.

"Next time you and reindeer games plan a pizza date don't leave me to get the pizza :)"

Rolling my eyes I went to sit on the couch to wait for Y/N. After about an hour I started to get worried but she appeared in the same clothes as before, looking like she had just showered, as usual her cat was at her heels following her every movement. I furrowed my brows at her,

"Do you not have clothes?" she looked up at me with a surprised look on her face

"I-uh Washed the clothes and dried them before I put them back on, I couldn't find a laundry room so I washed them in the tub and dried them with the hairdryer." as she looked down, whether she was looking at her feet or the cat next to them I didn't know.

I didn't know what to say to her explanation so instead I changed the subject.

"The pizza is here" I said rather awkwardly

She nodded and walked over to the boxes, the cat trailing after her. When she opened the lid to the cardboard box the scent of the food wafted up to my nose. It was sweet but also weird, I couldn't quite place what the underlying scent was under the overwhelming scent of what I assumed was the damned pineapple she had insisted on putting on top. After handing me a piece of Pizza and getting one for herself she started eating and closed her eyes as if she hadn't eaten anything so indulging. Looking down at my own piece I took a large bite, making sure to get some of the pineapple and immediately spit it into a napkin.

"What in all the nines are you trying to do? Poison me?!"

Marie just looked at me and started laughing, head thrown back in laughter and her hand coming to rest against her stomach. If I wasn't so disgusted with the pizza I might have noticed the way my heart stuttered in my chest or the way that my mind brightened at the sound of her laugh.

"Well I'm guessing you're one of the people who didn't like it then." she said inbetween laughs.

I just glared at her for laughing at my reaction to the pizza. Eventually she calmed down enough to finish her slice. As I used a summoning spell to conjure a meal for myself which consisted of one of Thors poptarts. After we finished eating Marie leaned back on the couch. With her loyal companion laying down on her lap and purring loudly when Marie started to pet the cat's soft fur. I got up and put the rest of the pizza away and to hide the evidence that I had eaten yet another one of Thors poptarts.

When I got back to the couch I saw that Marie had fallen asleep. I didn't want to move her and risk waking her and or the cat up so I sat down next to her and started reading a book that I had summoned from my room. After I had gotten through about three chapters Marie shifted so that Her head was in my lap and her cat was curled into her side. I paused in my reading and looked down at the girl. Was it possible i was what Tony calls "catching feelings"?
It was not to long ago that i was tourturing the girl and her cat, and now shes taking a nap on my lap. It just didnt sit right with me, how i was so cruel to her just a short time ago and now she was willing to trust me so completely. What scared me even more was how much relif i felt that she didnt seem to hold any of it against me. There had to be a way to make it up to her for her unnessicary kindness...

"I-uh Washed the clothes and dried them before I put them back on, I couldn't find a laundry room so I washed them in the tub and dried them with the hairdryer"