This is being cross-posted from Ao3. It was originally posted on 23 October 2022.

Huge thank you to GaeilgeRua for allowing me the use of her Grammarly subscription to read this over. Any other mistakes are definitely my own.

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Prompt: #31DaysOfWriting Fall 2021 - October 4th: Dialogue Only
#MMFRollADrabble August 2021: Loki/Luna/Hurt/Comfort
#CastTheDice - Small Straight: Hurt/Comfort
#ExcelisorBingo21 Square B4: "I suppose I love my scars because they have stayed with me longer than most people." - Nikita Gill

"I've been looking everywhere for you."

"You always know where to find me on my darkest days."

"I wish you wouldn't come here alone, Luna."

"Sometimes I just need my space, Loki…."

"I understand that."

"There's a part of me that worries that I'm too much like her, you know? That someday, my carefree ways will lead me to ruin."

"Someone told you that being with me was a mistake again."

"They don't know you like I do, Loki. They do not understand… But, at the same time, I worry that they might be right."

"You are afraid that I will turn against you."

"No, that's not it at all."

"Then what is it?"

"I'm worried that I will eventually pull away from you, or worse, that something bad will happen, and I'll be forced from this world, leaving you all alone."

"I have vowed to keep you safe, and I will continue to do that every day."

"We're in the middle of a war, Loki. No one is safe… Not even you."

"Wars always have casualties; I am more than aware of that."

"I think we got a bit off-topic here."

"You were comparing yourself to your mother."

"I was…"

"Listen, Luna, you are so very much like your mother. At least from what I have been told about her from you and your father. That does not mean you are meant to have the same ending as she had."

"It was really quite horrible…."

"I understand that. You're eccentric and brilliant far more than anyone gives you credit for, but you are careful. Your mother's death taught you limits, and that is what will keep you safe."

"I thought you were keeping me safe?"

"I help, but you, love, keep a level head through everything. You ground even me during the direst of situations."

"Do you think we have a chance?"

"Do you mean defeating Thanos or staying together?"

"The latter mostly, but I would love to know what you think about both if I am honest."

"You're always honest."

"Then humour me, please?"

"Very well then… I think that defeating Thanos is going to take everything that we have, and even then, that may not be enough."

"And us?"

"Us? That is going to take understanding on both of our parts. You have stayed with me as I have stayed with you through the most brutal days of this war. Even when no one thought that I had 'changed my ways,' you were there by my side."

"I always want to be by your side, Loki. I love you."

"I love you as well, and I will do my best, like I have promised, to keep you safe from harm."

"Do we have to go back?"

"We always have to go back. We cannot stay here at her grave forever."

"I miss her."

"I miss my mother too. Take the time that you need. I will keep watch over you."

"Thank you, Loki."

"Anything for you."