forum Hello Darling, (Loki one on one, closed, stalkers are always welcome)

Started January 25, 2019 by @Fenrir

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A tiny smile settled onto her face as she continued walking with him, her thumb absentmindedly running over the back of his hand. It was comforting to be around someone again, especially someone she knew.

They walked into lilian's cafe, immediatly greeted by the older woman "oh my stars! you're back! Are you alright dear?" Lilian asked, hugging both Loki and Avalin "you two have plenty of catching up to do, as we all do. I'll get you the drinks and send you off home."

“Lillian!” Avalin’s face brightened when she saw the cafe owner, happily hugging her back before nodding, “Drinks sound amazing, I don’t doubt you have catching up to do as well.”

She nodded, whiping away tears with a handkerchief, glancing back at a man with sandy blond hair and freckled across his nose who ebraced who seemed to be his child and wife "Yes, very much." She smiled happily and waved her son over "Oliver this is his magesty Prince Loki of Asgard and his queen, Her magesty, Avalin." Lilian introduced while Oliver bowed in respect and shook their hands "mom has told me a lot about you two."

Avalin flushed a little at the title, still not completely used to being called queen or her majesty. “Nice to meet you Oliver,” She replied, shaking his hand and smiling at him, “How much were you told?” For some reason, she was able to tell that he had been dusted as well, though neither his wife or kid had.

Oliver chuckled lightly "Basically all of it. How you two met, how much you've changed him, how in love you two are." Lilian smiled innocently while nodding "mhm, all of it." she turned to get the drinks from the counter

“Lillian,” She fake protested, her cheeks flushing even more as she glanced at her and smiled, “You really did tell him everything.” Glancing around, she leaned against Loki, murmuring softly, “This place has changed somehow, I can tell, but it looks the same.”

Lilian smiled brightly as she passed around drinks for another table.
"Changed Ina good way I hope." Loki muttered softly against her hair, folding her arms around her.
"Oh! I forgot to introduce yoy," Oliver chimed in, waving over his wife and kid. "This is my wife Holly and my son Braxton."

She nodded, murmuring quietly, “It’s changed in a good way, I just can’t pinpoint exactly how it changed.” Avalin smiled brightly when his wife and kids came over and she shook their hands, “Nice to meet you both. I’m Avalin, and this is my husband, Loki, Prince of Asgard.”

Holly smiled and shook their hands while Braxton looked at the in curiosity "you're not from here, are you?" The kid asked, tilting his head "where's Asgard?"

“It’s another planet of sorts,” She replied with a smile, “And no, we’re not from around here, we just know Lillian and wanted to stop in and say hi.”

Braxton smiled, seemingly happy with the response. Holy picked him up and smiled at the two "you've known Lilian for a bit now haven't you?"

She nodded, glancing up at Loki, “He’s known her for much longer than I have, but yeah, we’ve known her for quite a while.” She glanced at Oliver with a smile before looking at Braxton, “How old are you, bud?”

Loki nodded.
"I'm 4 and a half!" Braxton said excitedly "and my birthdayus in January!"

“Nice!” She replied with a smile, holding out a hand for him to high five, “That’s a good time of year to have a birthday.”

Braxton high fives her and nodded in agreement.
Lilian came back over and handed Loki and Avalin their chocolate. "We have to close up soon." She said

“That’s alright Lillian, thank you,” She said, gratefully taking the drink and giving her a small hug. A smile crossed her face and she glanced up at Loki, taking a sip of the drink.

He smiled down at her and kissed her head before taking a sip of the drink. "We are forever grateful to you," Loki said to Lilian, giving her a hug "we'll see you soon." He promised, nodding to Oliver and Holly as they headed to the door

“See you guys!” Avalin waved as well, smiling at little Oliver. Spot trotted over from wherever he had been sniffing around and his tail wagged, looking up at both of them.

The family waved back as they left.
"There you are," Loki said to the dog by their side.

Spots tail wagged faster and he took up a spot right next to Loki, causing Avalin to laugh softly, “Spot definitely likes you more than me now.” She took another sip of her hot chocolate and smiled, the warmth and taste familiar and nice.

"no, never more. Just have gotten more used to." He said, scratching spot behind the ear "queenie likes you better now. She looked about ready to attack Spot when he found you at the beach."

“That’s just because Spot was a full grown dog barreling towards us, not because of her liking me more,” She replied with a smile, glancing at the kitten. Avalin sighed and smiled, petting Spot and looking up to the sky, “How much did Asgard change with only half the people?”

He sighed softly "no better than here on Earth. The first half of the 5 years everyone wanted answers as the where half the population went. The other half was spent on arguing on how to best use our military resource."

She nodded, “It was terrifying not knowing what was happening when I was in gone, but it would’ve been terrifying here too..I would be wanting answers for the first years or so too. Though I would’ve taken matters into my own hands and gone searching instead of bickering about military.” With a glance up at him, she smiled, still not over the fact that she was back where she wanted to be. With him.

"that mostly what people did the last year. Took matters into their own hands." He kissed her free hand "but that's all behind us now. And we can assure that it doesn't happen again."

She didn’t know if he could assure that it wouldn’t happen again, but she nodded, believing that he would do anything in his power to stop it from happening once again. “Should we head back home?” She asked, still drinking her hot chocolate as she looked up at him, “Tell your brother that I’m back? Maybe talk a little while about the last few years and then get some well deserved sleep?”

"Thor and i aren't in the best relations at the moment, dear. I can send you back I you'd like but I won't be going back for a while. We both need time away from each other." He said, keeping his eyes away

Avalin looked over at him with a clearly confused look on her face, “Why? What happened between the two of you while I was gone?” She wanted to go back to Asgard, but she also didn’t want to leave Loki right after she had reappeared after five years. The only way she would be able to do both was did she figured out what happened and got them to settle their argument.

"we had a disagreement on how to use our military. I tried to take matters into my own hands and ended up in a cell. We said some things that may not have helped the situation. Afterwards I managed to get out."