Kindred Captives: Chapter 57 by Pericynthi-Beth17, literature
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Kindred Captives: Chapter 57
Chapter 57: A Song of Ice and Victory
Darcy felt herself actually throbbing; her entire form warping with the rise and fall of some distressed pulse at the presence of an impending fever. She could tell that she had landed after hurtling through the collective unconscious realms, or rather the synapse-like gaps betwixt them, and had landed forcefully onto a rock hard surface covered with ice and a thin layer of snow. She quickly stood and assessed her surroundings then waited a beat. Surely Loki would show up any moment, pouting and late, but still show up. She waited for several moments and then began to shiver as cold enveloped her. She ca
Kindred Captives: Chapter 56 by Pericynthi-Beth17, literature
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Kindred Captives: Chapter 56
Chapter 56: Under Lying Cause
Darcy and Loki began to walk back across the bridge, tossing ideas back and forth about how and what she could transform into to complete the task and truly infiltrate his defenses, proving herself capable enough. Loki wondered if he could somehow use this obviously fascinating and penetrative gift of hers to drive Thanos so mad that he hurled himself into the sun of some unsuspecting galaxy. He shook it away as he realized that for the past few moments, Darcy had simply been asking questions. He turned and glanced at her.
“There’s just too much that I don’t understand,” she said, shakin
Kindred Captives: Chapter 55 by Pericynthi-Beth17, literature
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Kindred Captives: Chapter 55
Chapter 55: Come Wander With Me
The child in front of him suddenly disappeared as the gathering darkness overhead became a snowy mountainous realm. Wind blew softly with whispers of the cold in the darkness that the trickster was expecting, but he hadn’t expected to lose Darcy so quickly. It was not likely she would survive on her own with him. Loki looked around the portion of Malekith’s cognitive realm that he had been thrust into and took in as many details as he could which were only total: firstly, he was definitely on some sort of imagined version of Svartalfheim proper; secondly, he was in the more mountainous regions; thi
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Chapter 54: Enter the Darkness
The two embraced tightly and a flash of awkward confusion moved through both of them. Loki felt a fleeting confusion about any attraction to a lesser creature and Darcy was fighting away complete confusion in following around an alien being that had not only kidnapped her and tried to dominate her world, but had also created a number of other complications for her. The more she thought about it, though, the more she felt overwhelmingly attracted to every part of this powerful and yet equally pitiful creature. You seriously, seriously need help, her internal voice chastised once again. But at least you’ve
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Chapter 52: Bold Bargaining
Darcy and Loki stared at one another in silence for several moments. Loki felt an uncomfortable recurring of that putrid guilt begin to rot in his stomach. Then suddenly Darcy smirked. She sighed and shook her head. “I don’t believe you,” she said. He narrowed his eyes at her confusedly as she moved past him, smacking his shoulder, and walking towards Sleipnir. “You’re a great big liar, Loki, you always will be. I can wait a little longer, but not much longer. I know you want to be with me for the rest of at least my natural life, I saw it. You are a liar.”
“Darcy, this
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Kindred Captives: Chapter 48
Chapter 48: In the Right Direction
Malekith found himself watching intently at the strange link the two seemed to share in the dream world, something that very few humans and even Asgardians possessed. Every few moments Dr. Banner would check the vital signs of both, and repeatedly there had been no negative changes.
With everything stable above, Loki felt everything within him sinking at the notion of such precious innocence being so terribly attacked and tormented. He knew to an extent what the loss of such innocence and what such harm felt like, but for a human girl, a child, to have borne such a burden for so long gave way to
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Chapter 49: Elements of The Mind
“What do you mean concentrate? I’ve been concentrating for the past three hours and if I concentrate any harder I’m going to pop a vessel in my trans-orbital vein like a grape!” Darcy exclaimed. She dropped her arms to her sides in exasperation, staring at the trickster harshly who stared back in frustration. “Why are you so intent on this right now, anyway? I thought you said it was safe here.”
“I said safe for now, if you recall,” Loki said, trying to keep his temper under control for the time being. He drew in a deep breath, not wanting to reveal the total
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Kindred Captives: Chapter 50
Chapter 50: Northern Lights
Thanos growled furiously, throwing one of the dark elves nearest him across the room, snapping his neck in the process. Malekith turned and sighed in frustration at the loss, shaking his head. “Please control yourself, titan, I just brought them all back from the brink of death only a few hours ago,” the elf said with irritation masked by a feigned lack of intimidation from the gesture. Thanos saw that it was false and heard through the elf’s words that he was now quite a bit more vulnerable than he had been when sending the shackles to him. Thanos stormed forward and, without warning, seized th