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Wanda Maximoff ([personal profile] seeingscarlet) wrote2024-08-16 08:11 am
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[personal profile] conceivedeceit 2018-01-03 04:02 am (UTC)(link)
[ Perhaps it is the combination of their current circumstances and the fact that she is the only person to offer him smiles that are neither forced nor malicious that causes something within him to stir. His eyes fall to the cup, then follow its path as he sets it down on his palm in his lap. ]

If you can bare a few minutes.

[ And if she doesn't reply, then he will lapse into a temporary silence, taking on a distant shade as he considers and ultimately decides to label that "something" as inconvenient and brush it aside for later (or possibly never). His index finger rubs against the porcelain all the while, betraying his unease. ]
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[personal profile] conceivedeceit 2018-01-05 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Suddenly, he feels betrayed. Not by Wanda, but himself -- to feel anything but vexation at the ordeal, and for it to be apparent enough that she reacts to it. He considers his response for all of a second before his wrist twists beneath her hand, fingers curling loosely around her own wrist.

How easy it is to do. Should he add disappointment to the list? No. No, he is merely playing the game. ]


See to it that you do. My concern does not come lightly.

[ He speaks with the haughtiness expected from him, yet weighed down by something more. Deceit spills far more easily than honesty, but there is nothing but truth in his statement. ]
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[personal profile] conceivedeceit 2018-01-06 02:25 am (UTC)(link)
[ Loki is conscious of inhaling.

He glances away, a look of carelessness crossing his features. Metaphorically brushing off the heaviness. ]


Nothing that I'm incapable of handling. Here. [ He's withdrawing his hand to offer her the cup of water again. Game or not (and he insists that this is only a game, a gamble), this... exchange is getting too close for comfort. ]
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[personal profile] conceivedeceit 2018-01-06 04:27 am (UTC)(link)
[ The question acts as the final thing necessary to break his discomfort.

Loki releases a breathy laugh and places the cup down. ]


Would you like it with or without jam? We have... ah, the ever reliable apple.

[ Spiced apple, to be exact. No bruschetta -- a conscious decision on his part, not knowing when she would wake and having no plausible reason why a servant who has never tended to her would specifically bring it. ]
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[personal profile] conceivedeceit 2018-01-06 03:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Is that so?

[ A conversational question meant to invite expansion on the matter (if she chooses to share it) as he prepares her little meal. ]
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[personal profile] conceivedeceit 2018-01-07 02:03 am (UTC)(link)
[ Following the established pattern of feeding her, Loki holds the bread to her mouth, positioning his other palm to catch the crumbs -- nearly a mirror image of the night she had fed him the bruschetta... were it not for his form being that of a woman in white robes and golden hair tied back with ribbon. ]

You'd enjoy koldskål, then -- cold soup of buttermilk, yogurt, and vanilla. Easily flavored. `Tis the wrong season, but your condition merits it.
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[personal profile] conceivedeceit 2018-01-08 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
[ He flicks a glance just as she takes her bite. The corners of his mouth curve in the tiniest of unbidden smiles as he catches the light in her eyes before she says anything. ]

It is, and a necessity during those dreadfully torrid months. [ So he would argue, anyway. ]

I'll bring you a bowl the next time you wake.
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[personal profile] conceivedeceit 2018-01-08 05:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[ To most Asgardians, yes, he is exaggerating. Most of them weren't actually jötunn. ]

I've never been fond of the heat, [ is what he says, carrying none of the weight of his ancestry in the response. ] Sweat and grime -- more my brother's style.
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[personal profile] conceivedeceit 2018-01-09 08:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Without thinking of it, he does lean forward to feed her the last bite of her bread. ]

Our foods are fresh or preserved. We've other dishes to soothe Summer's hand -- but the sentiment is appreciated.

[ The Asgardians have a way of being simultaneously advanced and old-fashioned.

He plucks the enchanted cloth from her head and gently places the back of his hand against her forehead, not daring to let the frost bleed through despite the persistent warmth of Muspelheim.

Frowning, he murmurs, ]
Still too warm. [ He withdraws and rises from his seat. ] Rest. I will replace this with something colder.
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[personal profile] conceivedeceit 2018-01-10 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
[ 'You'll be my hero' snags his thoughts like a thorn on a sweater. It simply isn't him -- never has been, not after he dropped the foolish dream of his childhood. Thor was the hero. Loki was merely the sidekick. Adviser. Soother.

All he does, however, is offer her a bland smile before leaving. It was and still is his intention to pour some of the jötunn chill into the cloth, which makes her 'hero' remark ever more ironic.

That and the koldskål returns with him, the latter seasoned with cinnamon, long enough for Wanda to have drifted into the in-between. Just stepping into her quarters ignites that dull ache in his chest that has waxed and waned since first appearing, and Loki isn't certain he'd like to know why now.

Perhaps it's the way he brushes aside her hair, allowing the frost to coat his fingertips just briefly before placing the colder cloth onto her forehead, or the small furrow to her brow indicating discomfort from Muspelheim's touch. He is technically capable of offering her relief, but...

The koldskål is certainly less damning. ]
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[personal profile] conceivedeceit 2018-01-10 05:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[ His breath hitches in his throat when she gasps, worse case scenarios flooding his sympathetics, but then she sighs and appreciates and Loki is momentarily stunned that anything of his cursed blood could bring gratitude.

Despite that, he follows the inclination to omit the truth. She probably already knows, he thinks bitterly, and if not, then it is easy information to gain. He doesn't consider her kindness in the context of knowing, though, always eager to think the worst of others -- especially when it comes to himself. 'Hope' has burned him one too many times (regardless of the immorality of his deeds).

He smiles wanly in return, bidding the coolness to fade beneath her touch, but doesn't pull away. ]


I've brought koldskål. Let us see if you are able to sit, hm?
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[personal profile] conceivedeceit 2018-01-11 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
[ The reassuring squeeze brings him conflict: troubled that he fails to conceal these deeper emotions, but hesitantly hopeful -- and he daren't even acknowledge it as anything but a knot in his chest -- that she seems to care enough to offer him comfort.

He merely shrugs his too delicate shoulders in response to the spoiling comment and gathers the small tray holding the soup, spoon and napkin as she steadies herself. ]


Alas, no cure-all, but a pinch of cinnamon. [ He sets the tray upon her lap and retakes his seat beside the bed, flattening his skirts beneath him like a natural. ] If you think yourself able to tolerate something more substantial, the bread and jam should compliment it nicely.
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[personal profile] conceivedeceit 2018-04-02 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
[ Playing handmaiden to the heat-stricken witch had demanded that Loki drop a certain amount of his defenses, but to contribute their current state of comfort wholly to the facade of caretaker would be a blatant lie. Unconsciously or not, with acknowledgement or denial, he allowed Wanda to chip away at his walls. There was a faint ache associated with the distant familiarity of being in a position of trust with someone in whom he held a certain degree of fondness -- but the balancing act of "Odin" versus "Lady Maximoff's handmaiden" takes its toll on him.

Asgardians and Jotuns alike resist fatigue far better than Midgardians, but even they have their limits. By the time Wanda has recovered enough to resume her studies, Loki is operating on fumes. Though adept at hiding it, he's grateful that Wanda hasn't been sharp enough to notice anything -- he assumes, anyway, otherwise she'd have said something, right? So when he feels the soft pressure of her head fall against his arm and turns his head to see her eyes closed and her breaths slower, he thinks, Just for a bit.

He'll take the opportunity to close his eyes just for a bit.

-

He is sitting on the throne of Asgard.

The throne room is bathed in the golden hue of the setting sun casting long shadows past its inhabitants. Gungnir rests comfortably in his slim hands, his hands. Familiar faces make up his audience of several, but it is Frigga's that clutches his heart with guilt. He leans forward to rise, but she and everyone else -- Thor, Sif, and the Warriors Three, equally part to reveal Odin -- Odin in his full-armored majesty, with Gungnir in his weathered hands.

Loki bites back a hiss, but the king needn't verbalize his disappointment. Odin ascends the steps to the throne, each footfall eerily silent, and Loki sits there like a little boy again, immobilized by the All-Father's sheer presence. As Odin lifts the spear, Loki cringes and furtively glances at the one in his own palm only to find that it is no longer Gungnir, but the scepter given to him by Thanos. Panic erupts in his throat. Why now? Where is he?

Gungnir slams down toward the golden steps as Loki looks wildly around the room. His eyes lock with those of a girl who surrounds herself in scarlet.

Oh no. No.

He knows where this is going.

Cracks erupt over Loki's armor as Gungnir hits the floor, its reverberations along the palace walls bone-shuddering. An ever increasingly large figure slowly makes its way toward the throne from the shadows, but Loki cannot tear his eyes from the growing disgust in Wanda's as each splintered piece of his armor caves into the damning blue of a Frost Giant. ]

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