Marvel imagines pt.4

Dagger 🌿 Loki (SPOILERS)

Song: Linus Johnsson - Nya Dagar

Imagine; Loki talks about his metaphor to Sylvie, with you in the back of his mind. (Lets pretend this is the Loki from this timeline so like he died in 2018)

•••

•Love is a dagger. •

Your face fills his mind. The smile you used to carry around like it weighed nothing. The love you had for the same things as he did. It brings a smile to his face.

'I love it Loki.. always so incredibly attentive...' your eyes light up when they glide over the dagger he gifted you moments ago.

'So you won't have to steal mine again... I even had it engraved...'

'No!' Your gasp makes a chuckle escape his throat. It bubbles up out of nowhere but that always seems the case when he's around you.

You turn to look at him. Your face oh so close to his. 'I love you...' you whisper.

'I love you even more...'

•It's a weapon to be wielded far away or up close •

'Show me some magic that I haven't seen Loki..' you laugh. 'Or are you out of tricks?'

'I am not giving in to you..' He sticks his nose further into the book.

'Oh come on... don't you love me?' You Nat your lashes at him which makes him look up from the pages.

'That is a dirty little mind game Y/n.. you're using my love for you as a bargaining chip...'

'And is that such a bad thing? I am the goddess of minds... I know how to twist them to my advantage.. did you not get that from the tears we've spend together?'

He smirks at you and lifts his hand to ask for yours. You place it in his and get pulled on his lap. He holds up his other hand. You turn your head and you see small sparks coming out of the palm.

'That's new... wow...' you marvel at the small fireworks in front of you. It's truly remarkable what Frigga taught him over the years.

He lets out a small chuckle before his mind goes the opposite direction, to the dark side of things. To the time they had used it as a weapon against him.

'Let her go...'

'She means something to you, doesn't she? Give us what we want in you can have her...'

'Don't... Loki don't give them access to Asgard.. don't do what he says.. I'm not worth it..' you breathe. 'Please...'

'Kill the girl...' it's said and done before Loki realises what they ordered the giant to do.

She drops down into the thick snow. The red creating a contrast against the white flakes. He rushes over and kneels beside you.

'Y/n... stay with me love...' he breathes. 'You have to stay with me!'

Although he didn't lose you that day, it's still one of the moments plastered in his brain. Simply because it was one of few times he was scared.

•You can see yourself in it. •

'What did you do now?' Loki casually speaks up when he hears you giggling to yourself, hiding behind a large book.

'I didn't do anything Loki, why do you always assume it is I, who did anything of mischief...' you nonchalantly reply to him.

'Well my love, it's as simple as this, if I didn't do it, you certainly did, you're just as mischievous as I, my dear...'

'Y/N!' Thors angry voice booms through the castle. He is certainly not happy.

You always hated to admit it, but deep down you were as much of a jokester as he is. That's why he fell in you love with, because you took him as he was. As he is right now still.

•It's beautiful. •

He becomes painfully aware almost, that he has earned the privilege of being the man you love when you dance with him in the way you always do. With love and tenderness.

That's how you treated him as well, with the love he deserved, according to you. It was the best feeling in the world.

He hasn't though much about it lately, with the whole TVA thing going on. But it's nice to finally think about those moments again, even if they sometimes hurt.

Because that's love, through the good and the bad, through sickness and health. Through light and darkness.

You were there.

• Until it makes you bleed. •

'Why did you do that?' He asks you as he puts pressure on the large gash in your side.

'Because he already did enough to harm you, harm that I could not prevent... so this time around I wanted to protect you for a change...' You cough the last sentence up.

Your shaking hand goes up to his cheek, Loki swallows the lump in his throat. He's about to lose one of few people that care about him.

'I love you.. don't... forget.. that...'

'I won't..' he cries into the palm of your hand.

'Go.. good..' your breathing gets heavy. 'You're a good person... don't let anyone tell you otherwise...'

That was the last thing you ever said to him alive. Loki again has to swallow the lump in his throat.

•But ultimately, when you reach for it... It isn't real•

Loki's hand goes right through you. And then he realises something. It's a manifestation of you, a hologram, a shadow of your true self. He's been using his magic without him even knowing.

Your figure slowly fades as he retrieves his magic, he can feel the disappointment and sorrow seep right into him. He needs you by his side to remain the person he is, a good person. Without you it seems like the whole universe is against him again, and it's not something he is able to go through. But he has to.

| Yeah. Love is an imaginary dagger. |

'That must've been one special woman..'

'She was..' he grins. 'She's the kind you never forget.. makes you feel loved... yeah, love is an imaginary dagger...'

And only you were able to wield it when it comes to him.