To the Stars Who Listen- Part 17
Author: hela-avenger
Word Count: 1155
Summary: When Loki desires to never fall in love, he casts a spell to prevent such a thing from happening. Except, well, in the matters of love and magic, you never know the result it may have in the end. Loki x Reader
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You’re thrown harshly onto the ground already feeling the bruises forming around your knees. The black bag over your head is taken off and your eyes instantly adjust to your surroundings. There’s not much to look at. The room was bare besides a few rotting boxes and dilapidated tables. The windows are all boarded up only letting a few rays of light in.
Loki is shortly dropped right in front of you. A permanent scowl on his face as they removed the bag off his head. It goes away when his eyes land on you.
“Are you ok?”
You nod and look around trying to make sense of what’s going on.
Yes, you were outnumbered but you were a highly trained Avenger and Loki’s an Asgardian god. It shouldn’t have been that easy for them to take both of you. Something felt off about the entire thing.
“We were just supposed to take the book,” you whisper to him as you try to break the seal around your wrists . “Not get taken ourselves.”
“I know,” Loki agrees. “Things aren’t adding up.”
“We need to find the book and get the hell out of here…”
You stop talking when the door creaks open and an elder man appears dragging a chair into the middle of the room. That’s not what renders you silent. It’s the familiar leather-bound book that he holds in his hands.
“My great-grandfather told me many stories about the glorious gods of Asgard and the relics they would gift humankind to bestow an ounce of their power,” the man begins as he takes a seat. “So imagine my great excitement when I heard rumors of a book of Asgardian descent that beheld the ancient power of Truth.”
Knowing where this was heading, you make yourself a bit comfortable trying desperately to get the ties off your wrists.
“I searched and I killed and I bled until I finally found it and the moment… the moment I was about to be gifted with the powers of the gods themselves, you steal it away from me.”
The threat is obvious and so Loki quickly took to the offensive. His hands begin to glow but the power sputters out. He scowls and so you try to bring forth your power but are met with the same results.
“What the hel?” he mutters.
“Oh, well… I was about to get to that actually,” the man answers. “Now, I expected the book to be useless without its main source of power but I was wrong. The Book of Veritas still works just with a few kinks of course but works nonetheless.”
He pries the book open and a glowing green light begins to emit from the pages.
“Ask a question and the book will decide to answer it with the truth,” he explains. “Wasn’t getting much from it until I started to ask about you.”
The man then flips the book towards the both of you revealing moving sigils and insignia. You can’t make sense of it but Loki tenses up at the sight of it.
“That can’t be…”
The old man chuckles and turns the book back to him.
“Seems like the Book of Veritas has a bone to pick with the God of Mischief and was willing to dispel many secrets in order to enact overdue revenge. The magic disabling circle is useful when dealing with matters that are completely out of my mortal hands.”
The old man points up and you frown when you realize the spray painted sigils on the ceiling.
“The book of Veritas gave me an incantation that will extract the power for me to take. I’ve been waiting for weeks to make use of this spell and you presented each other so easily,” he states. “All I need now is…”
The old man begins to cough and is quick to yell through the door for a glass of water. With him distracted, you glance over at Loki.
“We’ve got a few minutes,” you whisper to him. “He’s midway through his villain speech.”
“Villain speech?”
“Yeah, you know… The one where they tell you who they are, they’re tragic backstory, and every detail of their evil plan,” you explain. “Ultron, Pierce… even you made one.”
Loki scowls as he recalls it.
“I didn’t sound that pretentious when I tried to take over Midgard, did I?”
“I can’t really lie to you so let’s just focus on the problem at hand. We need to get out of here,” you answer. “He’ll tire himself out eventually and most likely in time for the team to find us or when we get out ourselves.”
“How often does this happen to you?”
“A lot more than you would think but it is a good way to get information,” you sigh as you finally twist your wrists into the right angle allowing you to snap them off with your newfound strength. “Huh, I guess we’ll be getting out of this one.”
Loki’s glad to hear that and is ready for your assistance but it never arrives. He notices too late that the old man finally received his glass of water alongside a dozen of his armed men.
“Now where was I?”
You and Loki settle down again knowing it was far from over and a thousand times worse.
“A name?” you offer up. “Maybe your plans once you take my powers?”
“Your powers?” he dryly laughs out. “Oh no, I have far exceeded whatever trivial powers the book had to offer. If I’m receiving anything it’s going to be from a god himself. Besides, having the power of Lies is more up my alley.”
“What-” you stammer out. This wasn’t what you were expecting at all. “What’s uh- What’s going to happen when you take his power?”
“I don’t know and I don’t care.”
Lie.
“You do know,” you state. “And you do care.”
You look over at Loki who’s oddly silent. His usual mask is up and you are aware then that the answer everyone is avoiding is the one that is the most obvious.
“If you take his powers, you both might die.”
The old man doesn’t bother with a response and instead he takes the book up again. He flips it open and searches for the incantation.
“All that matters is that the Book of Veritas will get it’s overdue revenge and I will receive what is rightfully mine.”
“Even at the cost of your life?”
“My life is already at its end,” he answers. “If I can be a god for even a second then I’m going to relish in it.”
“Loki?” you whisper in fear.
He glances at you and his mask slips away.
“I made a vow to you, remember?” he responds. “I would never allow you to come to any harm.”
“Loki!”
He ignores your shout and simply begins to kneel before the old man.
“Let’s begin, shall we?”
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