Fear

Warning for Loki

Notes:

Anyone up for some Loki feels?

Here to deliver them is....

*drum roll*

Chapter nine!

btw, wait till you get to chapter 13.

Just sayin'

#notatallteasingsinceI'monchapter18andboyistheresmut

Thank you, I love you, now:

Chapter nine, warming up the feels

"Do you want to go somewhere else?" Loki asked. He didn't sound like himself, with his mischievous tone; he sounded kind, caring. You felt like you were about to walk off a cliff, but nodded.

"Where to?" Loki asked and you shrugged since you didn't know the village very well.

"How about an inn not far from here? They've got great food, and I bet you're hungry," Loki proposed and you nodded again, unable to find your voice.

Loki slowly let go of you and turned to start walking. You shivered in the cold and walked after him, thinking that you should have brought something warm for the night's chilly hours. Loki, however, seemed to notice you were shaking.

"Are you okay?"

Somehow, you found yourself bewildered by the question. Were you okay? Could you call this "okay"? You were shivering from the cool air and your legs still felt like jelly after the earlier events.

"Yes, my prince," you managed to blurt out and immediately regretted your words. You hadn't spoken to any of the princes with those formal words in weeks. Loki didn't comment your choice of words.

"I think you're freezing."

"I'm not," you said through clattering teeth. "Maybe a little."

Loki chuckled, took his coat off, and moved to hang it over your shoulders but you shrugged it off.

"I said I'm okay!" you said, not quite managing to get the angry tone you wanted. It sounded more desperate, like "please, do that again, I'm freezing to death." Loki chuckled.

"Darling, you're obviously not okay. I'm not going to let you freeze to death in my company."

With that, he draped the coat around you and hugged you tightly. He only had a shirt on underneath it, which meant he was going to be freezing instead. You felt like giving him the coat back, but you knew it wasn't an option so you welcomed the warmth. Loki let go of you and tucked a strand of hair in behind your ear.

"Better?"

"Yes," you said with a smile. Even though you didn't want to think positively about this man, you couldn't help but admire how much of a gentleman he was.

That reminded you of the last time he had acted like a gentleman to you. He had helped you onto your horse, lent you his shirt, offered to send dinner to your room...

'He did something else as well,' a little voice in your head that you hadn't heard in three weeks told you. It seemed Loki made this voice appear.

Loki had, indeed, done something else. Something you both enjoyed and hated, something that shot a pang of guilt through your body every time you thought about it but still felt good. Something you had only done once, with him.

Loki stopped outside of a large wooden door. Windows on both sides of it informed you that the place was packed with people, despite the late hour. Loki held the door open for you—another check-off on the gentleman list—and you entered.