dahlia? (a loki fanfic)

chapter twentyone.

Dahlia and Loki stayed at the sanctum for a little while. Loki had calmed Dahl's stress from earlier, Dahlia had drank some more water, and her wounds had almost completely healed, she was lucky she had an Asgardian healing factor.

Dahlia had tried to bring up the subject of her memory loss, more specifically how she lost it, because she knew why. She knew why, and she knew telling Loki about it was...shaky.

Loki and Odin never had a good relationship, and well, Dahlia wasn't sure if she wanted to break her best friend's view of his father even further with the memories she had finally obtained.

Her main concern was wether or not Loki would tell Thor. As much as Dahl didn't like the other avengers, Thor hadn't exactly done her anything, and she could sense how much he cared for Loki, even after New York, and Thor didn't even know Thanos was behind New York yet.

Dahlia could also tell Loki cared a lot about Thor, probably more than he cared about Dahlia, at least those were the vibes she picked up on.

It was a bit nerve wracking, frankly. She knew he'd have to know at some point, she couldn't keep it from him forever, but it seemed the thought of her memory loss hadn't graced his mind during all the stress of Thanos killing them and the chance of Thor being dead, especially when Dahl had yelled at him on top of it all.

They had decided to stay at the sanctum until further notice, seeing as there was no sensible way for them to get anywhere, especially since they had no clue where to leave.

They had sat down in a room with different socerer things, Dahlia having no clue what any of them really were, but it didn't take Loki long to find a book that he personally found interesting. He handed one to Dahlia, and the second one he started reading himself.

They stayed there, reading for a little. Dahlia had no clue what Loki was reading, but Dahlia's book was specifically within telekinesis, which was...odd to her, considering she didn't have telekinesis. Loki, however, did.

Though Loki didn't possess telekinesis before Dahlia's disappearance to Earth, when Loki and Dahlia had been imprisoned on Asgard, Loki had displayed his telekinesis by wrecking the furniture in his cell after Frigga's death, during his breakdown.

"Why did you give me this one?" Dahlia asked after a while of Loki reading the book he'd taken in silence.

"Hm?"
"I don't possess telekinesis."

Loki looked over at Dahlia with a slightly confused expression. "Pardon?"

"I can't do telekinesis."
"What....What do you mean?"
"I can't move things with my powers, Loki."

Loki put his book down in his lap and looked over at Dahlia with a genuinely confused expression. "Yes, you can?" he said, very certain in his words but confused as to why she was disagreeing with him.

"...no? I can't. Where did you get the idea that I could?" Dahlia persisted, and before Loki could answer, a big circle portal opened next to them.

Loki stood up, the book falling onto the floor with a quiet thud, and looked into the portal. "It's a battle." he stated, factually before looking over at Dahlia and then taking two hesitant steps towards the portal.

Dahlia stood up to join him, but he looked at her with pleading eyes. "You shouldn't come." he said quietly, "You're already injured."

"If you're going, I'm going." Dahlia stated, with no room for arguments. Loki took a moment to think about it, before nodding his head.

"Fine."

They stepped out through the portal, now in front of the absolutely wrecked Avengers Mansion, seeing the battle.