Punishment
Inuyasha-Avengers
Kagome-Loki
Comedy, Romance
Series
For his misdeeds on Midgard, Loki was given only one punishment: Kagome.

Disclaimer: I don't own anything from the Avengers, Inuyasha, or Norse Mythology. Also, I'm sorry if there are lots of facts that are wrong and stuff.

Chapter 8: Prison Break

Loki took five days to plot and perfect his escape. He also took those five days to completely envelop himself in everything that had to do with Kagome. Loki memorized the smirking curve of her smile, the dusty pink in her cheeks when she blushed, the playful caress of her aura when they had conversation.

On his final evening with Kagome, he saw her settle into her small cot, blow out her candle, and fall asleep. Loki watched, feigning sleep himself, until he saw the rhythm he had been accustoming himself to for the last week. Carefully, Loki slid off of his bed. Loki knew that Kagome was a heavy sleeper, so what was worrisome for his escape plan was her absolutely inscrutable aura that would be able tell her if he used any bit of magic.

The first night he practiced his escape, he tested how far her magic spanned and found that it was absolutely everywhere. He expanded his magic—a tendril a hair's width and no longer than his pinky's cuticle—and immediately he felt the suffocation of her purification as it forcefully squeezed the magic right back into his body. What astonished him even further was that, upon looking over at Kagome, he found that she was still fast asleep!

It took him the last three nights to perfect the art of completely swallowing his magic deep into his gut, withholding it so deeply within his body that the cage of purification energy didn't even register him as a magic-using being. Apart from that, his plan was simple: he would slip out through the keyhole. By pressing the tip his finger into the small hole, he could send his energy to the outside of his cage, and use it to pull himself through.

Silently, he moved across the floor, until he reached the heavy, stone door that stood between Loki and his goals. With a last, longing look at Kagome, he reached out for the keyhole.

"Don't do it, Loki."

His head whipped back to look at her, "Kagome." She was sitting straight up in bed, and although he knew she couldn't see him in the blackness of night, he could see her as clearly as ever.

"You shouldn't do this, Loki."

"How did you know?" He watched her lay back down, and pull the covers up to her chin.

"Five nights ago, you used your magic. Every night after that, I felt you burying your magic deeper and deeper into yourself. But no aura can be wholly erased if you know what to search for, Loki."

He frowned, "I am not doing this for myself."

Her lips curved into a tired smile, and she turned her face away from him, "Nothing anyone does is completely altruistic."

Loki felt his stomach squeeze, "Just let me go—we will both be better for it in the end."

He heard her laugh, and the last thing he saw before her purification incapacitated him was a stony veil of indifference in her beautiful blue eyes that utterly broke his heart.

"I'm so sorry."

xxx

mb: Thanks for hanging in there with me, all. I really do appreciate the favorites, follows, and reviews! Hope this chapter didn't sound too forced. There were several directions I wanted to go in, but I ultimately decided on this one. Let me know your thoughts (if you feel like it) in the comments.

Also, I forgot to update yesterday (oopsie daisies) so I'll update twice today. Here's the first; the second will published before the end of today, I promise... unless I forget again.