The Nexus Event (Loki x reader)

The Void

a/n: okay i loved writing this chapter<3 does anyone want to tell me how they think this story should end? should y/n try and get her loki back or should she stick with 2012 loki? i'd love to say i plan my endings before i start writing but that would be a huge lie :/ happy reading! x

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You slowly regain consciousness, wondering as you do so how you're still thinking. You were pruned, does that not mean you're dead? Maybe this is life after death, and if it is, then Loki might be here.

The thought makes you scared to move. You're lying on your back and the air is cool; there's a breeze blowing across your cheeks. Your fingers inch across the ground, finding grass beneath you, and you can hear trees rustling.

You're scared, but you're more curious. Slowly, tentatively, you let your eyelids crack open. There's a woman stood over you, looking down at you with furrowed eyebrows. You don't move; for some reason this woman doesn't alarm you. She tilts her head, and smiles.

'Hi.'

She has short, dark hair with a fringe, behind which sits a faded yellow headband. She's wearing gear which doesn't look dissimilar to the gear Sylvie had been wearing, except hers is so faded that you can't make out what colour it once have must been.

'Hi,' you reply, and she holds out a hand for you to take. She pulls you to your feet, and you find yourself surprised at her strength. She looks as though she's in her mid-to-late forties, indicated by the lines on her forehead and around her eyes.

'You alright?' she asks, watching as you brush yourself off and touch the small of your back where you'd felt yourself get pruned. It feels normal; there's not even a tear in your gear.

'I – yeah,' you say, looking around in a mix of disbelief and fear. You're standing on flat, open terrain which stretches for miles around you, random objects strewn haphazardly around the place.

It's misty, and all of the colours seem to be strangely muted, as though there's a filter on your vision. The sky is an angry looking grey colour, and you can't see another living creature apart from the woman stood in front of you. You look back to her.

'Where are we?'

'This? This is The Void. The place where the TVA dumps all its rubbish, everything it prunes,' the woman tells you, already beginning to move off towards... nowhere. 'Come on.'

You follow her quickly, not wanting to be left behind in this strange environment.

'You know about the TVA?' you ask, almost tripping as you try to keep up with her strides.

'Course, it's where I came from. Where everything here came from,' she tells you, gesturing out across the never-ending misty plain.

'I need to get back there,' you say, and she chuckles.

'You can't get back there,' she laughs, and then looks upwards sharply as a loud rumbling, growling noise echoes across the sky.

'What was that?' you ask fearfully, following her gaze and seeing nothing.

'Alioth. That's your reason for not being able to escape from this place,' the woman says solemnly, quickening her pace.

'Where are we going?'

'Somewhere safe.'

'Are you alone here?'

For some reason, this makes her laugh again.

'No, not unless I want to be.'

'What does that mean?'

'Hey, I get that you have questions, but can we save them for when we're safe in the bunker?' she asks you, almost running now.