The Nexus Event (Loki x reader)

Lamentis

A/N: i'm sorry for the wait, but here's the next chapter! uni work takes precedence over fanfic for the time being, but hopefully i can find some spare time to get this finished in soon, i miss it! (it's almost 3am right now so rip my 9am lecture... oops). i hope you enjoy this chapter<3

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You stagger to a halt on the other side of the doorway, which closes almost instantly behind you. Loki drops your arm and spins around to check that it's closed, before looking both ways down the corridor. You realise that you're back in the TVA, and curse under your breath.

Your head is spinning. The Loki variant is a woman. She'd just bombed the sacred timeline. Loki cares about you; he'd brought you with him. You think about saying something about this fact, before quickly deciding against it.

Loki breaks into one of the lockers which line the wall behind you and produces two daggers, before starting up the corridor without so much as a glance in your direction. You quickly follow suit, taking only one dagger for yourself before hurrying after Loki, cursing the TVA and the way you can't use magic within the confines of its walls.

The sounds of a commotion echo down the corridor towards you, but instead of slowing down Loki's pace quickens. When you round the next corner the variant is there, surrounded by about five minutemen, all unconscious on the floor.

Loki clears his throat, and she looks up, annoyed.

'Few questions,' Loki says, pointing his daggers at her.

'Have you got nothing better to do?' the variant scowls, pointing her own weapon towards him. It looks like a short sword.

'Rude,' Loki replies. 'Are you sure you're a Loki?'

'You're in my way,' the variant says, her tone low.

'You are my way,' Loki retaliates, and she flies at him. You decide to stick to the side lines, for now at least. Loki can handle himself. Herself. Whatever.

'I thought perhaps we could work together,' Loki grunts, in between dodging blows from his variant. 'But now I see you lack vision.'

The variant yells and takes a wild swing at him, which he barely dodges. You wait, poised, ready to jump in if something goes wrong.

'So either you come willingly, or you won't. Either way, that's how we get to the Time Keepers,' Loki pants in between blows. We, you think to yourself.

'Oh God, shut up!' the variant yells, finally managing to shove Loki away from her.

'Hey!' a voice shouts from behind you, and you spin around to see Renslayer and two minutemen stood behind you, weapons at the ready. You stagger backwards towards Loki and the variant, who abruptly grabs Loki by the collar and yanks him back towards her, resting her short sword across his chest.

'Come any closer and I'll kill him,' she threatens.

'Go for it,' Renslayer shrugs.

You lunge for the variant, right as Loki grabs something from her other hand. She screams in frustration, and then all three of you are falling, a tangle of limbs and daggers and short swords. Not a good combination. You land hard, the breath knocked out of you.

You're in an unfamiliar space this time, in what looks like a bedroom inside a large tent. You'd landed on a mattress surrounded by personal belongings and clothes which looked like they'd been cast aside in a rush.

The variant throws herself across your legs, reaching for something on the floor, but Loki grabs her legs and pulls her backwards. They grapple for a moment, and you summon the object to your hand, if only to use your magic again.