What If... Love is hate? • One-shots [ENG]

Sylvie's nightmare

The scene is inspired by a deleted scene from the first season of the series with Loki and Sylvie from the pinned video. Translated via DeepL from czech language.

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Far from everything and far from everyone. In their little world where it was just the two of them...

Sylvie stirred restlessly on the bed. Her face showed fear, worry and anxiety... The nightmare she had dreamt was so real that when she woke up, she wasn't sure if it was just a dream or a memory. She couldn't stop thinking about it. She pulled on her robe and went to the window, feeling quite uneasy and nervous. Loki woke up after a while, he noticed her and immediately knew how tense she was.

"What's wrong?" His voice echoed and Sylvie was a little startled at how lost she was in her thoughts. She gave him a look that surprised even him. She seemed angry with him.

"Nothing's wrong." She hissed and walked out of the bedroom and into the next room. Loki knew it wasn't and followed her.

He saw her standing in the middle of the room. Her back was to him, and he walked over and put his arm around her. He felt her instantly stiffen, he had hugged her like this many times before, but she immediately remembered him holding her in her dream. Before Loki could say anything, she was out of his arms.

"Don't touch me!" She breathed out in exasperation, pulling the robe she was wearing tighter to her. As if it would replace her armor and protect her from the world around her.

Loki was taken aback by this, not understanding what had changed since they had fallen asleep together until this unexpected awakening. Even when everything had been more than fine between them before sleep.

"Sylvie... what's wrong? Did I do something to you that I don't know about?"

Sylvie bristled at the question, "Please leave me alone!"

"I can't. I can't because I don't understand what happened and you look... well... I'm worried about you. Something happened..."

Sylvie didn't want to be angry with him. It was just a dream after all, but what she felt was so strong. She couldn't help it. Loki looked so confused and vulnerable at the same time, standing in front of her in nothing but the boxers he'd fallen asleep in. He certainly didn't look like he meant her any harm. She wasn't sure why she'd even thought of it, they were together. They were together in every sense of the word. "I dreamt something bad, let me absorb it..." she finally admitted.

"What was in the dream?" He moved closer to her. He couldn't handle being away from her. He was worried. She saw the concern in his expression and knew how stupid he was being to question her trust in him over a bad dream.

"It was a nightmare... about you... and me..."

"What happened in it?"

Sylvie was so uneasy, it was unusual for her to be so uncomfortable. "When we were on Lamentis together..." she began to tell, her eyes darting all over the place, but she didn't look directly at Loki, though he took another step closer to her. "When we became close, before our inevitable deaths... that's when the TVA came for us and took us both away..." Loki just nodded his head in response, he remembered it all too well. "But in that dream... once they showed up... you took me hostage... you acted... like you were just playing me to gain my trust... and you were just using me to make them think you were on their side... and to get them to let you go..." she looked angry as she spoke.

Loki was shocked. Now he understood her fear. "I wouldn't do that to you."

Sylvie didn't seem to hear him. "It was so real... holding me against my will, dagger in hand, convincing them how you got me... through your methods... " there had been nothing between them then, but a lot had happened between them since then, and now the thought of him playing her the whole time gave her goosebumps, "I escaped you, but they attacked me... again, everyone treated me like I was their prey..." her anger was replaced with a look of fear. "I don't ever want to experience that again!"