whose_son_am_i | Meme-shenanigans and Continuations.

The caress is welcomed, and now...now he projects some of his own emotions back. Confusion and a bit of fear, affection and worry, simmering rage--but not directed at her. Directed towards those who dared harm her, but also mixed with a healthy self-loathing. Because he hadn't been able to protect her. And for her sake, because he knew it would make her unhappy--he would not go after them. (Not directly, anyways.) Letting her past his shield enough to see just how vulnerable he felt, with this state that he knew not how to handle. Caring for someone else, loving them. Not as an extension of himself, but for their own sake.

She hugs him just a little tighter.

I've got you.

She plans to have him for as long as she's able. She mentally reassures him; she's scared too. He could hurt her terribly if he wanted, it goes in both directions.

She presses a little kiss to his chest.

It's a reminder that for all his years, relatively--he was still young in so many ways too. Kisses are pressed to her hair, soft nuzzles, as he wraps his arms around her possessively. "You are making me soft." It's sad with dry amusement.

"Soft to me, maybe. But you are still fierce."

After watching him fight and seeing that cunning strength in all it's glory, she would never call him soft.

"Maybe to you, yes. So long as it's not to others." Nuzzling her, mind wrapping around her as much as it could. "If you really want to go home, you can. But I know I'm not alone in hoping you stay for a few days still."

"Probably wouldn't hurt you to be a tiny bit nicer to people. If you wanted."

She embraces him back, cozy and safe.

"It doesn't feel like home without you."

"I'm not actually mean, on a regular basis." Loki protested. But her words got her a kiss against her hair. "I could come with you. I can work from there as easily as from here, for what I have to do."

But New Asgard, or at least the people in it, had started to regard itself as a home for her too.

"You're not mean, but you can be standoffish." She smiles, tilting her face up enough to kiss his lips.

"I'm not especially partially to my apartment. It might be good for a few days to be away though."

Loki could live with being standoffish, and even then he wasn't always. He was private. Part of why he had the same servants too, whom he did know the names of and treat, if not kindly, politely and professionally. For all that he was a prince, he also was fairly tidy and not that demanding in many ways.

"Whatever you want, Sweetling." Her comfort was his chief concern for now. Now that she was safe.

"Not just for me. We can steal away for a few days to be just us."

His servants are all very polite and they seem to have a good rapport with him, if just in passing.

"We should go somewhere new, if that's the case." Loki murmured. "Perhaps one of those beaches that Earth should be famous for."

"Like the one this is modeled on." The image she's painted in her mind that he cast to surround them.

"I love it when I get to steal you away for a little bit."

"You'd have to live with Eric's appearance for a bit, depending on how private or not we are." But his mind was already turning with ideas. Not least of which this might be advantageous in drawing out their enemies.

"I'm used to it now." She shrugs, Eric is familar enough that it still feels like Loki.

"Do you swim?"

"I can, although I've not do so often casually." Loki gave a soft little laugh. "Depending on how well known we become, I've plans to retire Eric. It means I'd have to have certain affairs put in your name though."

"What sort of affairs?" She's not saying no, she's just curious what he means.

"A bank account or two and some other financial interests."

She nods.

"Oh, that's fine. If you trust me with your sneaky money."

It's not as if anything about her is untrustworthy, especially where Loki is concerned.

"It's not so sneaky since it's in official accounts, Sweetling." Loki teased. "But yes, we can go on vacation whenever you want."

"And I save us so much money with portals." She laughs.

"But yes, you can add me to whatever accounts you need to."

"I suspect I'll be able to help you with that too." Nuzzling her hair. "More seriously, how are you feeling?"

"Much better. Still a little groggy from whatever they gave me, but I'm okay."

She kisses his chest.

"How are you feeling?"

"Calmer. Though I have ideas and plans. And you safe, which is....what is most important to me." He was still a tangled knot of emotions, but he was starting to unravel it.

She lets him feel the warmth that the sentiment gives her. He can take all the time he needs to figure out his feelings.

"Do you get sunburn? You are very pale." Probably goes with being a frost giant.

"I haven't yet." Loki pointed out. "I'm actually much hardier than I look." With a soft smile.

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