Moonlights-Fantasy wrote:{"Whatever helps you sleep at night, Loki." Ayra grinned teasingly. "Hmm, beyond fifty shades, I'd hope. Oh since when did you become the shade decider? You don't even know half the stuff that's happened. Just what's happened since I've been here, so if you ask me, I'm very much past shade 34." Tilting her head and giving him a smirk she gave a contemplative look. "Hmmm, sounds tempting, but I think I'll pass for now. I don't plan on joining any sides right now. I am my own side." She gave him a look of indifference. "Curiosity killed the cat, Loki. Why would I tell you my plan? Then it wouldn't be a secret and you'd know when it was coming. So I think I'll hold onto my idea for now and keep thinking of more ways to add pain into the equation." Tilting her head slightly she gave him a fake innocent smile. Falling off into another giggle-fit when he changed once again into Sherlock and used the phrase she gave him she had to look at her feet while laughing it was so funny. She couldn't look at him without bursting into another round of laughter until he changed back. "Romantical? In your dreams! You're starting to worry me Loki on how well you've got Sherlock down..." She finally looked back up at him with a straighter face. "Well if you must know..." She gave a dramatic sigh "...to earn such a title you'd have to make me your equal. Stop looking down your nose at me like I'm just another living, breathing, mortal. But I'm sure you'll deny such easy terms..." Ayra trailed off with a smile.
Her face darkened once again with a burning glare "Oh but that is where you are so very much wrong. I know that there is freezing water below my feet, and I intend to take a swim, whether or not you are about to drag me under, drown me like a merciless monster you are. What fears? You couldn't possibly track them down if you intend to pull me under and drown me. I don't get down on my knees and beg like a lowly beast. I don't care if you end my life with your bare hands, you don't scare me. I don't fear death, nor do I fear the pain like I've already said. Fine, go pay my family a visit. Because you'll have a hard time finding them. You'll have to take a nice little trip to heaven if you wish to speak to them!" Ayra grit her teeth and pulled her face away just enough to look him up and down with disgust before continuing. "The only family I have left are those that I deem close enough to me to be called family, and even they aren't biological. If you went for biological family, they could care less about me or I about them. They probably don't even know I exist. Just another human walking on the planet. Nothing more." She gave him a harsh look before standing back defensively with anger burning infernos in her green orbs. That was it. He just hit an extremely sore spot of hers. One she managed to build such a strong wall around. He was only seeing the entrance to such a place. "Well then have fun trying. You have years of my practice to perfection of walls to break down then." Her eyes readjusted back to a more calm and carefree atmosphere. "Oh trust me, I would sure as heck enjoy the sight. Nah, Danger has always been my middle name, but Sass could probably be passed for a second middle name." When she had returned to his side she cast him a smile. "Just nothing cheesy and romantic and I'll be good." Ayra chuckled and gave him a sideglance.}
(Yay, Misty can almost push Muninn now XD)
{"As I said, you might not dare to speculate about that." the god said with a low chuckle following his words. "Why should I not be the decider, the master of shades? I have some experience with red ledgers, you know. So we're at a hundred shades already, fifty aren't enough? Your ledger really must be dripping. And even further up the ladder already...or shall I say further
down? Why would I not be surprised if you told me that you happen to be a spy and assassine? Maybe even Russian." Loki smirked and watched her closely as she contemplated, then shrugged. "Alright, then don't join my side and miss out on the fun and don't reach the darkest shade of red. And don't tell me your plans. 'Whatever helps you sleep at night'. Normally I would now say don't come crying to me when the potential logic flaw kicks your butt, but when it does I fortunately won't be there to hear you mewl. If you manage to kill me, that is." He chuckled when she once again couldn't contain her amusement about his sherlocking. "Oh yes, you should be worried, very worried." When Ayra told him the condition, Loki looked at her for a while, head slightly cocked and eyes alert and rather serious. Not grim, but the teasing look had disappeared from his face so he looked a lot more honest. "Such terms can only be met by me if you meet my terms first. Prove to me that you are not just another living, breathing mortal. Prove to me that you are worthy of being my equal. Then I shall consider. My terms might not be easy, but neither are yours." The mortal started to counter his attack once more, but this time she wasn't mocking anymore but more or less ranting, so Loki was at least getting somewhere and his rage ceased a bit. He was still annoyed but at least didn't feel like strangling her anymore. "Well then do not say I didn't warn you until the very last moment. If you were unaware it wouldn't be half as foolish as it is this way. Plot twist, I can very well track down your fears and drown you. Because I will track them down as I drag you down and drown you in them. And they will be the iciest water you've ever felt." As she started to rant about her family, the god's remaining anger was pushed back by several other feelings and thoughts. Loki kept reading her, noting her reactions now even more carefully than before, highly alert. Her anger was building up, obviously he'd just managed to hit a sore spot. That wasn't surprising, most people reacted strongly when it came to threats against their family, whether it was mewling and begging -admittedly unlikely to happen in Ayra's case- or sassing. It were the details of her reaction that caught the god's attention. Family issues...how lovely. For a moment he thought how it was incredibly ironic that they were at each other's throats right now yet had this peculiar thing in common, and it happened to be the reason why they got both so worked up. The god quickly shoved this train of thought out of his head to keep a clear mind. While she was speaking, he soaked in the information she gave him, through her words and in between the lines. Combining her with what she said to him about the topic at earlier times, when she mentioned being so protective of her siblings, or the way she seemed particularly mad at him for destroying families in New York, which she'd made clear when they met. The dots got connected inside his head, like a puzzle. Pieces were still missing but still, there was some progress. Bottom line - biological family probably partially deceased, remaining individuals don't give a dang about her, substitute family in form of a few close people. The god was tempted to go on, he would've known how. '
Oh good to know, I shall go for those few close ones then and destroy every single one of them, thank you for the hint. How does it feel to be responsible for their cruel deaths? Maybe I should let you live to see how I kill them slowly and intimately. You will live all alone or die all alone, depending on where I go from there. Alone and with the guilt. The only ones who ever cared about you will be gone, and you gave the lethal hint. And nobody there to comfort you. Do you fear being alone, lost child?' Yes, he had every single word laid out, ready to be unleashed, to break further through the walls. But Loki decided to bite his tongue, after all he was not meaning to make her hate him forevermore. Unless of course Ayra pushed him over the edge with ongoing mockery, in which case he would now have a good basis to work from. Of course there would be the risk of her blabbering out their little secret from earlier, but now he had something to use for counter attack. More than just '
you wish' or, if all else failed, '
and you hugged me!'. But Loki hoped it wouldn't happen anyways. Don't go there. He liked the mortal, after all. If only she wasn't forcing him to be this cruel, with her mockery. If only she wasn't so foolish. The god took a deep breath. "Whatever, I am done with this for now. Unless you keep on mocking my heritage in which case we can continue if you wish. But either way, you shouldn't get this furious at me, staring at me as if this was all my fault. You decided to scoff, you decided to carry on when I made it clear it was enough. Don't mock the beast and complain when it bites you. Don't go swimming in icy water and complain about the frostbite." After they'd both calmed down he simply went for a smirk as she still doubted he could break through her walls. "Like I said, I like challenges." The trickster couldn't contain a chuckle when she admitted that she'd enjoy seeing him kneel. When she stood beside him and didn't have a specific song in mind he smiled. Very well, this meant he didn't need to talk her out of her idea, because he did have the perfect song in mind already. "I think I've got the right song. No worries, nothing slow or romantical. I think you'll like it." Loki stood to face her and used magic to alter his outfit, going for the smooth 'coat with scarf' look he'd shown in Stuttgart for he found it to be fit for what was to come. "Okay, a few things. Try to stop thinking, let go of any doubts or 'how shoud I move now' thoughts. Whatever happens, don't question it and try to go along with it, follow my steps. This is the best part about me being your dancing teacher. You get to learn it by doing it. Alright?" The trickster smirked and drew up a spell, and after a few seconds the music started playing.
Meep. Had to put a different link cause the YT video was removed. This is the only version I could find that is original and not blocked or removed. Ignore the lyrics - terrible german translation that makes me want to bang my head against the wall. x3}