Multifandom Imagines

Something New || Loki

"You're late."
"I know Sir"
"Mariana if you are late once more-"
"I'll have to be let go. I know Sir." I reply.
"Well then why are you so late this morning?"
"Your head chef cornered me in the hallway for fifteen minutes Sir."
"Why on Asgard would he do that?" he questions.
"It seems he finds me attractive." I say timidly.
"Well then... I suppose he'll have to be dealt with" he states.
"Why Sir?"
"I can't have my best maid being late due to a hormonal Midgardian."
"I'm a Midgardian Sir."
"I know but you are far more tolerable than him."
"Thank you Sir."
"You're welcome Mariana. And please, as you are my finest maid and probably the closest thing I have to a companion, you may call me Loki."
"Thank you... Loki."
"I received a large number of books from a fellow Asgardian. I wish for them to be placed with all the others, of course fitting into the order that my current books are in."
"You don't want them separate from the others so that you know they're the ones you haven't read si- Loki." I ask.
"No, I can remember."
"Very well... Right away Sir"
"Mariana."
"Loki."
"Once you are done with that report back to me and we will go and deal with that cook." he tells me.
"Of course."

I walk briskly out of his chambers and directly across the long entrance hall towards the library. As I open the door I instantly see the towering pile of books that I have to order.

The pile of books began to decrease as I rush around the library, placing the books in their places. As the tower becomes a measly sandcastle, I come across a book that I have an interest in. 'Macbeth' by William Shakespeare. I glance around the room quickly and sit down in the middle of the cluster of books and begin to read the play. As I reach a monologue said by Lady Macbeth, I stand up and begin to speak aloud.

"Great Glamis! Worthy Cawdor! Greater than both, by the all-hail hereafter! Thy letters have transported me beyond this ignorant present and I feel now the future in the instant."
"My dearest love, Duncan comes here tonight." I hear a familiar voice join in.
"And when he goes hence?" I continue, with my back facing my employer.
"Tomorrow, as he purposes." he replies.
"O, never shall sun that morrow see! Your face, my Thane, is as a book where men may read strange matters. To beguile the time, look like the time: bear welcome in your eye, your hand, your tongue: look like th'innocent flower, but be the serpent under't. He's coming must be provided for; and you shall put this night's great business into my dispatch, which shall to all our nights and days to come, give solely sovereign sway and masterdom." I recount.
"We will speak further." he says as he steps closer.
"Only look up clear: to alter favour, ever is to fear. Leave all the rest to me."

Silence ensues and there is a slight tension as I close the book, walk towards the bookshelf and position it in its rightful place. I turn around and my eyes fall upon my fellow performer.

"You have exquisite taste."
"Thank you Loki."
"And you are a remarkable actress, how are you not on a stage?" he inquires.
"There is no room on a stage for a lowly maid Sir." I tell him.
"I believe there is room for you Mariana and I told you to call me Loki." he implores.
"I'm sorry Loki... What are you doing here? I thought you had business with one of your colleagues." I divert the subject.
"I did. But now I wish to have a conversation with you about how Shakespeare uses Lady Macbeth as a way to control Macbeth." he poses the question to me.
"Well... I believe that she brings something out in him that he doesn't realise is there and she defies the feminine stereotypes of the time by taking control of the situation while her husband panics." I answer.
"I agree completely." he smiles.
"Ok... well since I still have a few books to put away so you can leave me be and I shall finish the job."
"Very well, however I wish to learn more about your reading habits."
"Maybe after you deal with that chef." I joke.
"Well I shall talk to you later Mariana."
"Goodbye Loki." I wave as he leaves the library.