Not A Monster ● Loki × Reader ●

04 - Asshole Magic'd My Feet To The Floor!!

I wanted to know what he was thinking...

I tapped into his head, attempting to dig through his brain, but he was quick to put up his wall. He turned to me, holding up his index finger with his eyes shut and his chapped lips pursed.

"Do not."

"Do not what?" I ask, falsifying my innocence. 

He stared at me with a hard glare set in his gaze, not even a glimmer of mischief in sight. He grunted and turned back to the kettle, tapping the counter rather impatiently as he waits for the tea to steep.

"So... Can't sleep?" I ask, making an admittedly terrible attempt at conversation. He couldn't even blame me, though. I never really spoke anything above the length of a sentence.

"I don't sleep."

"Liar." I take a long, rather obnoxiously loud sip of my hot beverage. He let out what I wanted to call a growl, but I wasn't even sure myself. He was a very vague creature, that much he made sure was known.

He had just finished pouring his sippy drink when I laughed at him, knowing I called him out on his bullshit. The fingers on his free hand curled into a fist, digging into his palm while his other hand carefully set down the pot, clenching into a fist of its own.

He turned to me and glared, his eyes flashing green for a moment before turning back to normal. He then took a dangerous step toward me and I went to back up, but my feet were still, causing me to topple over painfully with my feet glued to the floor.

Why can't they move?

I went to move my feet, but they didn't budge. I tried again. Ending up fruitless.

Loki let out a dark chuckle as he watched me struggle. He knelt down and tapped my slippered foot. "Good luck with that." The god took his tea and left, the sound of his footsteps fading down the hall followed by the quiet click of his door sliding shut.

Great. Fantastic. Wonderful. I'm officially stuck here for the rest of the night.

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I was practically asleep on my feet when the elevator door opened, signaling Tony's arrival from his lab.

"JARVIS, activate everyone's alarm- oh, Bond, you're up early."

The AI's voice ran through some hidden speakers, followed by the noisy blare of everyone's alarms going off.

"Mmph," I grunt, "Not by choice."

"Choice, eh?"

Everyone filed out of their rooms, Thor groaning rather loudly about being woken up. Steve, Nat, and Bruce seemed to have absolutely no issue with waking up early. Everyone else voiced their displeasure except Loki, who, when he spotted me still glued to the floor, smirked.

Thor caught sight of me dead on my feet, looked at my feet, looked at Loki, then rolled his eyes. "Brother. Let lady Y/N walk freely, please." He looked at me. "How long have you been there for, Y/N?"

I looked at the time on the microwave. "Since 3:50-something."

Loki's smirk widened.

Thor looked dumbfounded. "Loki! It is Seven in the morning!"

Clint grumbled something along the lines of, "I wasn't built for this." Before taking out his hearing aids. I had been noticing small things about each Avenger as of late, and Clint's hearing aids were one of them. I had picked up a bit of sign language during my time here, but not much. Only enough for small-talk.

I stopped paying attention as Thor had a very one-sided argument with Loki, demanding he free me. Instead, my eyes went to my PL's. I wanted them gone. Desperately so. I had 25% of my power, which wasn't bad, but it certainly wasn't good either. 

Though, I shouldn't complain. Loki only got 15%. But then again, if he could conjure things, read minds, and manipulate matter with only a fifteenth of his power, then he must have been powerful...

I was drawn from my thoughts as I almost fell forward , my foot jutting forward and catching me.

So I was no longer attached to the floor. Lovely.

Loki walked past, putting his mug from last night into the sink. "I only let you go because Thor is annoying," He whispered.

"I heard that!" Thor said from the lounge space, eliciting an eye roll from Loki.

Oh boy...

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A/N - Nother day, nother chapter. Lesgooooo! Anyways. This one was kinda short, but it was just a filler, so... ye. I'm going to try to get out another chapter done for my Fred Weasley fic, hopefully out later today or sometime tomorrow.

As always, see you next time, my Darlings! <3