Chapter three

Time

TVA

Interrogation room 023

2021

The picture on the wall froze with Loki on screen, Maxine whipped her head around to see why it had stopped. Agent Mobius was stood in the room once again with the control in his hand.

A wave of rage built up in her body when she made eye contact with the man. "What is the purpose of this?" Maxine shouted as a tear rolled down her cheek. Watching the tape of her and Loki grow up together has felt like a dagger stabbing her through the heart. She missed him more than anything.

He raised his hands in surrender "I was just coming to check on you" Mobius said in a soft tone. He'd watched the tape, he knew the story between them warm and beautiful and he also knew how much worse it would get from here.

Maxine lifted her shackled hand and wiped her tears from her eye attempting to look unbothered. "Why are you doing this to me?" she asked in a broken voice.

Mobius let out a small sigh "You need to see for yourself what messing with time travel achieves, it achieves nothing but broken timelines and a mess in the universe. For what?" He asked his brows knitted together in confusion of why she'd done it.

She blinked hard trying her best to control the water works. She shook her head, Lokis voice now stuck in her head, his smooth charismatic charm was all she could see when she shut her eyes. "So I can see him again" She answered in a gravely voice.

"The night of the ball, is that when you realized you loved him?" Mobius asked softly.

Something about what he said hit a nerve and the sadness was once again taken over by anger, she slammed her hands down on the table in front of her the metal clanging against the table echoed through the room. "Fuck off" she spat aggressively.

Mobius didn't even flinch "I think it was the moment he realized he loved you" He said honestly having seen the tape before. "Seeing you dressed in his all to famous colour, he couldn't take his eyes off you the whole night" He added trying his best to sound sincere.

She paused for a moment and turned to him slowly, her eyes where puffy and her breath shaky. "You have watched this?" she asked in a quite voice her voice cracking at the end of her sentence.

"It is my job" he answered.

Her shock turned into venom at the idea of someone poking through her most cherished memory's with him "These are my memory's and you have no right!" She shouted, she could feel her blood beginning to boil, she pulled at her restraints so much they'd began to cut her wrists slightly.

Mobius pointed at the woman "You had no right to take the time stone from Stephen Strange but here we are" He raised his voice slightly catching her off guard. He sighed in annoyance and composed himself before he carried on "You killed a very important man, important to the world and important to time" He lectured, she didn't care she wasn't even listening to him she continued to pull on the restraints. He shook his head "And you won't even admit it was for love" He said sounding astounded.

There was that word again. Love. She knew in her heart she'd loved Loki and she always felt he loved her too, he was something she wasn't willing to let go off. She stopped pulling at her shackles and sunk down in her chair, her tears began to fall slowly once again "He was my best friend I just want him back" She whispered, she felt as though there was no more fight left inside her, the light inside slowly dying of a broken heart.

Mobius shook his head trying his hardest not to feel bad for her. "That isn't how this works" he told her in a calm voice. "You're selfish, just like Loki" he added in a tone just as calm. Mobius needed her to understand what she did was wrong, and he knew he needed her help.

"Don't you dare speak of him that way" She warned in a low threatening voice that for a second made Mobius worry, he was glad they where in a controlled environment because he knew how unpredictable she could be.

She stood up from her chair and turned to face him fully, Mobius stood tall showing her he wasn't threatened "You don't know him, he is kind and loyal and would do anything for me. No one in the universe treated me better than he did" She ranted.

"He was a bad person" Mobius whispered with soft eyes, he was astounded how she could not see what Loki really was.

"Fuck you" She yelled.

"Loki is out there somewhere, just help us find him. He is messing with time and it is going to end badly. If they find him before me they will kill him, we have a chance of bringing him back to you" he tried to reason.

She smiled and let out a little laugh as the tears still fell from her eyes, she suddenly pressed her lips together tightly and wiped her face again. "He is dead" she rambled.

Mobius remained calm "That isn't true".

"If he wasn't he would of come back for me" She cried for once letting her true emotion come out, the idea he was alive and didn't return for her crushed her.

"He did. But you'd already messed with time" Mobius explained.

She looked up at him with blurry vision through her tears "What do you mean?" she asked in a shaky voice.

Mobius took a step forward, deep down he wanted to comfort her, he wasn't heartless but at the end of the day she was a murderer. "You going to earth and taking the time stone wasn't supposed to happen, everything else was" He explained in a quite voice trying to calm the atmosphere of the room. "You and Loki screwed yourselves. You had a story and it was going to be a good one. But you both managed to ruin in with your selfishness and need to be in control" He added sounding more fed up.

She shook her head refusing to believe him. She knew what happened, she'd lived it "You are a bloody mad man, let me out of these chains" She shouted hitting the chains against her own body.

Mobius backed up to the door and raised the control to the screen, he clicked a button and the reel of her memory's with Loki continued. "I'll be back in an hour or so" he said in an emotionless tone as he disappeared out of the room.

Max ran to the door and slammed herself against it "No!" she cried banging on the door. She began to sob as she rested her head on the door. She could here the audio of the tape and knew what was coming. She turned her head to see her and Loki in Jotunheim on the day of Thors' 'would be' coronation.

"No" she sobbed knowing what was coming.