He comes trotting down the hall and gives me a cheeky smile. I give him a really weird look, why is he so happy again all of a sudden?
He can almost read my mind, "I'm just so glad that you know now, I was worrying about it so much today, and I just needed to let it off my shoulders," he reassures.
"Are you okay, just tell me if you're not, it's all good," he says and puts his head on my shoulder.
"Yeah, I think I'm going to be okay, once I've, you know, gotten over the surprise."
We kiss again, and I feel almost like everything might be okay. We'll get through this, I know we can.
"Ellie you realise you're life isn't ever going to be the same after this, you won't be able to just return to your job and pretend nothing happened? They'll find out you know eventually, so, you'll have to stay with me," he whispers seriously.
"Always?" I ask, I don't mind having a life makeover, my life was boring as hell before Loki.
"Yes, always, well you can either choose to do all this with me or I'll find somewhere where you will be safe but you'll never be able to see your family or me," he says, pretty much persuading me to choose the first option straightaway.
I scoff at him, "Well what do you think I'm going to choose?!"
"Me?" he guesses, his eyes crinkling up with a smile.
I nod slightly. "Well we should probably go to sleep," I say checking my watch, its 3am, by the gods (oops, pun) a lot of time had passed. It had been 11pm when I had stopped talking to Bree.
I turn around at the doorway, thinking about Bree and ask Loki, "What about my sister?"
"You won't be able to see her again. Until this is all over, if it ever is," he states.
"But, uhm, she told me, she's dating… Loki. She went out on a date with your brother," my voice cracks from emotion at the end. What if I can never see her again? I hardly ever see her in person but just knowing that I can, that I can call her up at any time, it's enough for me.
He jumps up in surprise, "She is?! How do you know this? But Thor, he wouldn't..." he trails off at the end.
"I was on the phone to her before you came, she told me about this amazing guy she met, and then she told me his name, and well there isn't going to be any two people in the world called Thor. So it's gotta be him right?" I explain.
"Wow… I'd never have guessed this," he gets a distant look on his face and says quickly, "In that case I need to talk to him right now, sorry Ellie, are you going to come with me or stay here? I think you'd better come, just in case."
"Okay, why do you need to talk to him so badly though?" I ask, thoroughly confused.
"This changes things."
He didn't continue on the subject so I decided to let it be, trust him and just come along. I wanted to ask if this changes things for my sister and I but I decide to wait until later.
He brushes his dark hair across his head, takes my hand and we leave my apartment. Perhaps I'll never see it again.
I was guiltily happy about this though.
"So how exactly are we getting there?" I ask.
He smirks and replies, "You'll see."
About two blocks away from my apartment he stops. I wait a while, wondering what he's going to do when he mutters something really quietly, I almost can't hear him if I breathe loudly enough.
"It is I, Loki, let me speak to my brother." I would wonder how anyone could hear him when he's speaking like that but then I remember he's a god. And probably most of the people he's closely acquainted with are gods, or immortal beings. Selly, unless she's secretly one too, and I must be the only few normal humans he speaks to.
I realise that he's still holding my hand while he continues muttering things under his breath. Way too quickly for me to try and figure out what he's saying without my brain hurting. When he's done speaking he loosens his grip on my hand and turns around to face me. My throat goes to my heart, he looks so attractive right now. His dark hair is all tousled but it still manages to look great, so unlike my own in the morning, his blue eyes are gleaming with passion, not for me but it's making me head over heels anyhow and now that he's turned his attention to me he's smiling somewhat.
"Well? Is he coming, or did you just communicate with him somehow then?" I ask him.
"No, he's not coming here, definitely not at the moment," he states, telling me as if it's the most simple thing in the world.
"What did you talk to him about? My sister and I?" I ask, curious.
"I-I can't tell you sorry, but yes," he stammers.
I frown, "Why?"
"It wouldn't be safe, and most of it you wouldn't understand," he explains, looking at me tenderly.
"Where are we going to go now Loki?" I ask, scared.
"My place, not here in New York obviously but we're going abroad."
"Abroad?" I whispered, feeling a bit uneasy.
"To somewhere in Australia," he says, smiling.
"Australia? Why Australia?" I ask.
"Why not? It's the perfect place, near the bottom of the planet, well known but people don't generally think about it much. Especially where we're going to stay," he says sounding very knowledgeable about this country.
"I guess, I don't know anyone who's ever actually been to Australia before, but why do we have to go away somewhere?" I inquire.
"It's dangerous Ellie, th-they're after me, and you now, even though you're nothing like what they see me as, they won't think so, they'll just assume that you're the same."
I was uncomfortable with this talk, "W-what, but why does that matter? I don't understand, Loki, what's going on?" I end in a cry.
He hugs me for a few minutes before talking, "They know me for who I really am, The Avengers, and they're a group who are trying to protect the earth from bad things, from me at the moment. Now that you're here things are different, but they don't realise. They haven't seen me around you," he explains quietly.
"Why are you like you say you are when you're not around me, I don't get it, if there's this person standing in front of me, the attractive, kind, caring, considerate and amazing person, how come you aren't this person all the time? I just don't get it," I say, extremely confused.
"I don't get it either, but something just comes upon me when you're not around, or when I'm not dressed up in these human clothes," he mutters the word human in a sort of disgusted voice. The second time I'd seen something from him which scared me, made him less human.
"S-so, so you usually wear other clothes? Are you just wearing human clothes to fit in or something? But if you want to rule the Earth why are you trying to fit in, don't you want to stand out, as a figure of power or something?" I say, and his eyes light up at this comment.
"Ellie you're more intelligent than anyone gives you credit for you know, you're making a good point there, although this is exactly what I'm trying to avoid when I'm around you, reverting to who I actually am."
"This whole situation sucks, can we just forget about all this and just go and live in space together or something?!" I exclaim, frustrated.
He smiles, sort of sadly, "I wish Ellie but something is keeping me here," he says with a pained expression on his face.
"What's keeping you here Loki?" I ask hesitantly.
"Fate, passion, my nature, I don't know."
I screw my face up trying to understand what force could possibly be controlling him to be like that when I'm not around him. Yet scarily enough I come to the conclusion that it's just him that wants to control the world, and I know he doesn't mean it in a positive way, he wants to be the most powerful person on this Earth and he won't let anyone else stand in his way. I shiver, look up to him and wonder how on earth this could be true, if I didn't know I would swear he's just an immensely attractive human being.