Maid or Princess [English]

Chapter 13

"Norns, this is all so confusing," Leila said, running her hands over her face as she took a deep breath. She and the two Loki variants sat down in a sitting room, the others waiting outside the room as she had asked to speak to them alone first.

"I know this is all pretty confusing; it was just as confusing for me at first," Loki said, trying to reassure her as best he could.

She looked up at him, but quickly averted her gaze from him. "I'm sorry, it's hard for me to talk to you or look at you because all I can ever see is my Loki in you," she said, "Why are you even chasing after him?"

"We're looking for him because he stole a TemPad from us and, as much as I hate to admit it, we don't need any more chaos in the multiverse," Sylvie explained to them, crossing her arms in front of her chest.

Leila looked at her and frowned in confusion. "But why now? It seems like he's had it for months."

"We didn't care where he was until he recently reinserted the TemPad," Loki said. She nodded, suddenly realizing that she was the reason. Leila agreed to play the princess, she fell in love with Loki and fooled everyone at the wedding. It was her fault that the TVA had appeared again.

"It's not his fault," she said, shaking her head. "It was all my fault, so if you were going to punish anyone for it, it should be me." Sylvie laughed at her words and Leila looked at her confused.

"We don't want to punish anyone for it; I wasn't any better then," she explained to her, smiling sympathetically. "We just want to have the stupid TemPad and go back to TVA."

"What does TVA even mean? And what are your roles in it?" she asked, confused.

"Time Variance Authority," Loki said. "We-"

"You," Sylvie quickly corrected him, and he rolled his eyes.

"I was sort of working for them when I met Sylvie. Anyway, we just want to give the TemPad to Mobius and then we're done doing what we want together," Loki explained, squeezing Sylvie's hand.

"Wait-" -she broke off for a moment, pointing at the two of them in confusion- "Are you a couple?" Loki and Sylvie shrugged their shoulders before he looked to her.

"Are we a couple?" he asked.

"I don't know; it could be, but we definitely need to talk about it," she replied. Leila watched the couple in amusement as they spoke so awkwardly to each other. Sylvie looked back at her and spoke again, "You wouldn't happen to know where your husband is, would you?"

She shook her head and pressed her lips together. "I was suddenly pushed through this portal by him and was here; before that I didn't even know about this multiverse thing"

"It seems to be a Loki thing to push someone through a portal, doesn't it Sylvie?" asked Loki, smiling mischievously at her. Leila frowned in confusion as she looked back and forth between them.

"I already apologized for that," she said, puffing. "We should stay on topic, do you think TVA might be able to figure out where she's from?"

"That's a good idea," Loki agreed and stood up before starting to type something on the TemPad. "We'd best get going right away."

Leila stood up from the sofa. "I can't just leave here, as much as I'd like to. What about the others?" Loki looked at her in disbelief before looking to Sylvie, who just shrugged her shoulders.

"What's your top priority? Seeing your husband again or being with these people?" he asked her. It wasn't a difficult decision for her as she stepped through the portal with them. Leila turned around as it closed behind them before looking around and seeing a man with light gray hair in front of them.

"Welcome to TVA, I'm Agent Mobius and who are you?" he asked Leila.

"Um...I'm Leila Jarldottir, wife of Loki Laufeyson," she explained to Mobius, who turned to Loki with a grin.

"Why didn't you invite me to the wedding? I thought we were friends!" -Sylvie laughed, but Loki just looked at him sternly. Mobius patted him on the shoulder amicably-"I was just kidding. Come on, let's finally settle this variant situation."