Loki x Reader: Into the MCU

Chapter 27: The Library

"Well, had I come in throwing punches, I doubt you would have been. So we'll split the praise 50/50."

"Fair enough, Darling."

"Will you ever call me by my name?"

"When you stop liking Darling," he smirked.

"There you go again with your arrogant comments and damn smirk."

"Effective as usual?"

"It won't always be. Don't think I'll let you charm your way out of everything."

"Getting what I want from you has never been that simple," he agreed.

"You wouldn't like if I made it easy, would you?"

"A little submission now and then, a little willful subjugation, would be refreshing."

"Is not this simpler?" you asked in his voice, and he looked confused.

"Is this not your natural state?" you continued.

"No," Loki said hastily, understanding what you were doing and trying to cut you off, but you ignored him.

"It's the unspoken truth of humanity, that you crave subjugation. The bright lure of freedom diminishes your life's joy in a mad scramble for power. For identity. In the end, you will always kneel."

"Are you done?" Loki asked tiredly, though he looked mildly amused.

"Not to men like you," you continued as the old German man, ignoring Loki once again. He just sighed but didn't try to stop you. "There are no men like me." "There are always men like you." "Look to your elder, people. Let him be an example."

"You know, the last time I was in Germany, and saw a man standing above everybody else, we ended up disagreeing," Loki chimed in, though he had shifted to Cap's form, so it was literally Steve's voice saying the line, even though Loki said it blandly as an insult to Cap. Regardless, you were laughing now.

"The soldier. A man out of time," you replied.

"I'm not the one who's out of time," Loki said, his voice just like the 'On my way down to coordinate search and rescue' line in Endgame.

"I love Cap and all, but that's just priceless," you wheezed.

"Whatever do you mean," Loki continued in Cap's robotic voice, "I am Captain America, young lady, and I will not tolerate that disrespect."

"Ok, ok, change back," you said, practically unable to breathe from laughing so hard.

"Is he honestly your favorite?" Loki asked, back in his normal form once again.

"Yes, what's wrong with that?"

"How do you go from someone like me, to someone like him? I mean, I'm better than all of them, but if you had picked someone with at least any similar characteristics I'd get it. But the Soldier?"

"Alright, I admit there's a big gap between the two personalities that made it to the top of my list. But Cap is literally the best, so don't come at him."

"Your err in taste should be a crime."

"Says the one who almost blasted that cute old German man."

"That may have been a hasty decision on my part, I'll admit," Loki said, looking partially upset.

"Hey, I'm just messing with you. I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt that you're not the same person anymore, so I would never hold the past against you like that."

"You told me I owed the Avengers. Would that not count as holding the past against me?"

"I was just pointing out that your reasoning for why you gave me the tour is technically the same deal with the Avengers. I never continued to use it to force you to do anything. That's between you and them."