Somewhere Along the Way...To the TVA

Is It A Tablecloth...

President Loki moved to stand beside me, staring at the female in front of him. "Did I just hear you correctly?"

Sylvie's eyebrows knitted together, "Yes. What's the problem?"

He turned to look at us, "That's insane, right?"

"As insane as what? Paper-cutting a cloud to death?" Sylvie retorted.

"Listen, I've been down here longer than you-" President Loki began, only to be cut off.

"I'm going to enchant it." Sylvie told him again. 

"She's pretty confident." I said looking to Loki, who smirked at me.

"I know someone else like that."

"I must have hit my head pretty hard. Am I? Am I seeing an alligator?" Mobius asked, pointing at the alligator at Kid Loki's feet.

"You really don't remember him?" The older Loki asked.

Mobius scratched his head, "I mean, the TVA arrested a lot of Loki variants over the years. But, no. I-I don't remember an alligator. I mean, who's to say he's even a Loki Variant?"

"He is green, isn't he?" I laughed.

Mobius smirked, "I don't know, he could be lying. The long con. Of course. That just makes him more likely to be a Loki. It's always the game within the game with you guys, which I respect."

They all chuckled together at Mobius' remark and I couldn't help but glance around at them. This was all still so surreal. All these Loki's in the one place.

"So?" I looked to them all. "Where do we start?"

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Everyone was inside the lair making food for us after we worked out how we would take on Alioth. I however had sneaked out to sit on the brow of the hill to get some air because to be honest this still all felt surreal.

I looked out over the vast space of the void, letting out a laboured sigh as I watched Alioth in the distance. It prowled around the waste lands, swallowing things here and there as it moved.

Someone clearing their throat startled me slightly. I looked up to see Sylvie, who sat down beside me, fidgeting.

There was a tense moments silence between us, because to be quite honest I wasn't really sure what to say to her. She had taken Loki and endangered them both. Even if they were both here alive and well now.

"Mobius isn't so bad. Or so good." Sylvie smiled at me, in an attempt to break the ice.

"I think that's why we get along." I nodded, "all of us aren't exactly angels here."

Sylvie turned her head to look out over at Alioth. "He cares for you. A lot. You are very lucky."

I knew she wasn't talking about Mobius in this instance.

"I know." I said confidently. "That's why I risked everything to find him again. I can't live without him now."

She looked down at her hands. "Yeah. I know that feeling. That's how I felt all those years on the run looking for Theo. It just didn't make sense without him."

I shivered as a cold air blew in around us, out of the corner of my eye I spied a green glow. "Are you cold?" She asked.

"I'm fine." I lied, wrapping my arms around my torso for heat.