The Goddess Of What??? (Loki fanfic)

Chapter 24: "Um...the more, the merrier?"

Loki and Charlotte's POV

Loki wakes up, once again, in their bedroom in their house on Earth. Charlotte is sitting on the balcony reading a book. Loki feels very strange. He looks down at his hands and sees that his fingertips are black.

"What the fuck?" He mumbles, and Charlotte finally turns when she hears his voice.

"Loki!" she yells and runs to his side. She wraps her arms around him and gives him a very passionate kiss. Loki kisses her back and groans. Charlotte pulls away and looks at Loki's white eyes.

"What's happened?" She takes his face in her hands.

"You... feel different." She rubs her thumbs across sharp cheekbones.

"Charlotte. So much as happened." He says sadly and buries his face in her neck. When tears start coming out of his eyes, Charlotte hugs him harder.

"Loki, please talk to me." She rubs his back, trying to calm him down.

"I met her." He mumbles.

"Who?"

"You, from the future. She had a plan." He stops and takes a deep breath. "But it failed."

"What do you mean? What Plan? What did you do?"

"It doesn't matter. I failed. I was not strong enough."

"Loki, sweetheart, please tell me what's going on."

"I...my variants. We killed them. And now I'm afraid that whatever we did also might have killed me."

"But you're not dead! You're here with me!"

"Remember when you killed Sylvie? Her powers came to me? Well, imagine that but ten times stronger."

"Oh, shit." Charlotte whispers, remembering the intense pain she felt when she was helping Loki.

"Yeah, shit is the right word." Charlotte looks down at Loki's hands and sees the black fingertips.

"And are these side effects?" She takes his hands into hers.

"I'm afraid, two of many. I'm still not sure what happened, really. The pain was so intense."

"Loki, you have to go back." She says somberly.

"I don't know how."

"You do." Another voice says from the door to their room. A cloak figure approaches them.

"Who the fuck?" Charlotte says when the figure takes off their hood.

"Hi me." Future Charlotte waves.

"What? How?"

"I'm here to get him back. He has to finish what we started."

"How, by killing more of his variants?" Charlotte quips.

"No, we are done with that unpleasantness. He has to go back and defeat Thanos. This was the plan from the beginning."

"Oh yeah? Your great plan was for him to nearly kill himself?"

"Wow, never knew I was quite that annoying." Future Charlotte mumbles.

"Charlotte, please." Loki says to both of them. "Darling, what we did was unfortunately necessary."

"Yeah, but according to you, it didn't work."

"It did! His body shows the proof." Future Charlotte says while pointing at his black hands.

"Yeah, not doing a good job at convincing me. His hands are literally turning black. His eyes are fucking white! In my book, those are not good things."