Loki Laufeyson - Saviour {2}

Chapter Sixty Four - I'll Be Back Soon

WARNING: Some parts of this chapter include descriptions of gore/blood, which may be disturbing to some readers. 

Sleeping in Loki's room became almost like a nightly routine, one that I looked forward to every day. Not only did it help me sleep peacefully without the worry that he would be taken away from me, but it also helped me get used to being close to me. He still let me initiate all of the touches, and even though he was more than happy to wrap his arms around me and bundle me up against his chest, I could still feel his underlying worry in every muscle of his body.

While it sucked a lot that Loki and I couldn't go out together in the mornings, the girls tried their best to create a substitute from my stories. We baked almost every day, considering I didn't have much to do while confined to the compound. The treats ranged from 'probably could be sold in a café' to 'absolute disaster', and more than once we had accidentally set off the fire alarms.

The afternoons were the only times I got to myself because all of them would bundle into Tony's office and come up with plans to take down HYDRA. The only reason I wasn't included was because they didn't want me to be possibly triggered and become HYDRA's puppet again, revealing all of the plans to take them down. It stung a little because I knew that was highly unlikely, but I also didn't want to be the reason that we stuffed up taking them down once and for all. Bucky wasn't allowed in them either and I knew that he hated being redundant more than me.

To take my mind off what would no doubt be a dark spiral, I either tried baking on my own, reading in the library or just watching a movie. More than once when the meeting was finished, Tony would critique my movie choices, saying that they were way too graphic for me. It was like he thought I was a child or something just because I was that small, though he defended himself whenever I brought that up. The scolding normally ended when I reminded him that I had done much more horrific things in real life, which earned me a couple of concerned looks from the others.

"Hey Em, are you awake?" Loki's soft voice next to me broke me out of my thoughts and I rolled over in his loose arms to look up at him. "Hey darling. Stark's called me down to his office. I'll be back soon though."

"At this time?" My eyebrows furrowed as I looked over his shoulder at the clock on the wall. "It's like 10 o'clock at night."

"Yes, well he does tend to like irritating us with his insomniac tendencies." He smiled softly, slowly beginning to sit up and letting go of me. "I promise I'll be back soon. Will you be okay here yourself?"

"I'll be fine." I nodded, pulling some more blankets over myself to make up for the lost warmth. "Come back quickly."

"I will." He chuckled, gently pressing a kiss to my forehead before he slowly slipped out of the bed and before I could blink, the door was shut behind him.

I sighed and slowly sunk into the pillows more, drawing the sheets up to my chin in the suddenly big bed. I promised myself that I would stay up to wait for him, but my eyelids had different ideas and soon they were drooping and covering everything in darkness.

I was standing in the foyer of the compound, sunlight streaming in through the large panels of glass that made up the window. It faintly heated my skin and I closed my eyes to soak up its warmth, breathing out a soft sigh.

"It's much better outside, I can promise you that." A voice spoke up from behind me and I slowly turned around to see Loki standing there.

He was dressed in long black pants with a loose grey top and a green long-sleeve shirt slung over the top that really brought out the green of his eyes. He walked towards me with a soft smile on his face and reached out to gently wrap his arms behind me, pressing my body in close to him.