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"Agent Loki! This is the best plan I swear! You have to trust me!"
The young recruit in front of Loki, was trying to convince him to let them handle the next routine mission, assuring him that he didn't need to supervise the newbies anymore. But Loki really took his responsibilities to heart, so he hesitated.
She had been pestering him for more than 24 hours, taking every opportunity to try to get Loki to agree and he was beginning to feel the irritation building. That's why he finally answered a little abruptly, "I don't trust anyone! I-"
A slight cough made him turn around. Mobius had entered Loki's office.
"I came for the report of your last mission, Loki, did you finish it?"
Not a hello, not a smile, Loki found this strange, Mobius was not the type to have mood swings at all. So to see him like this, it was really weird.
"No, I'll finish it and bring it to you," Loki replied with a smile that Mobius did not return.
"Do that." Mobius turned and left Loki's office without a word or a sign, nothing.
Loki wondered what was wrong. Clearly Mobius' bad mood was directed at him. But what had he done or said to have earned this coldness?
"Agent Loki? What are we doing then?" the young hunter was still in his office.
"Where were we?" Loki was having trouble concentrating because of Mobius' strange attitude.
"You said you didn't trust anyone-"
Shit! That was it! Mobius must have heard that!
"Go according to your plan, but I want a detailed report and at the slightest doubt, you stop everything, understood?"
"I promise, Agent Loki! Thank you! Thank you!"
"Yes, yes, go away!" Loki impatiently gestured toward the exit.
These were only words that had gone beyond his thoughts, said in anger, Mobius had to know that he trusted him, right?
He went to his lover's office, determined to make things clear.
Thinking about it, he could perfectly understand the reaction of Mobius, after having been deceived for so many years, it was clear that trust was an issue. For both of them. Loki thought he had convinced Mobius that he trusted him completely, but it is true that some things are always good to say. If that was all it took to reassure Mobius, then Loki was ready to profess his trust in him every day if necessary.
He entered Mobius' office and closed the door behind him.
To anyone else, Mobius would have seemed like any other day, but to Loki who could claim to know him very well, everything in his attitude betrayed his displeasure.
The drooping shoulders, the shifty gaze, the forced smile, the sparkle in his eyes that was completely absent, there was also that little habit that Loki found adorable, a little crooked pout that came back regularly, probably every time Mobius thought about why he was irritated. All these little things invisible to everyone else but not to Loki.
Mobius watched him approach without saying anything.
Loki stepped forward and approached Mobius' desk until he was in front of him. He leaned forward, then looking down, right into Mobius' eyes, he said firmly, "I don't trust anyone... but you're not just anyone."
Mobius protested and stood up, "Loki, you don't have to justify yourself."
Again, this selflessness. For some reason Loki didn't know, Mobius had a tendency to downplay when something about him didn't go well, he was sick with a 104 degree fever, "No no, it's just a little cold!", he got hurt on a mission, "It's nothing, just a little scratch. The examples were numerous. As if he didn't want to burden Loki and the others. As if his own sufferings were not as important as others', did not deserve attention. Loki was going to change that and not later than now.
He replied to Mobius, incisively, "You listen to me and for once, you don't interrupt me!"
As he said this he walked around the desk and backed Mobius up against his desk to the point that he was almost sitting on it.
He brought his face close to Mobius' so that he had no choice but to look Loki in the eye.
"I never let anyone tell me what to do, but I let you."
"I don't let anyone secure my back, and be armed behind my back, but I let you."
"I've never let my guard down with someone I've only known for a few hours, to the point of falling asleep in front of them, but with you I do."
Mobius smiled slightly at this last sentence as Loki continued, determined to make Mobius understand that he would never have to doubt Loki's trust in him.
"You are not anyone Mobius. Far from it. If I didn't trust you I couldn't love you. I've never said I love you to anyone before, because I've never found anyone I trusted completely before you. Don't you trust me?"
Mobius grabbed his shoulders and almost shook him, "Loki! Of course I trust you! Completely and absolutely! "
Loki grinned, "Then how can you trust me, who has betrayed you more than once, and doubt that I have the same trust in you? "
Mobius realized that he had been stupid to jump to conclusions. This was so contrary to his usual way of reacting.
It is true that he was rather composed, but when Loki was concerned, logic often seemed to leave him.
He looked sheepish.
"Oh no! Stop that right now! I don't want to hear "I'm sorry", I didn't come to tell you that you did something wrong, but just to make you understand that your doubts were unfounded. Do you understand? "
"Chief, yes, chief! " Mobius replied playfully.
"Technically, you're the boss, idiot!"
"But sometimes I like it when you boss me around."
Mobius winked and chuckled. Loki was relieved to see his lover back to his old self.
"So you want me to keep bossing you around?"
He moved his knee forward between Mobius' legs, which automatically spread open. Loki inserted himself, and pressing his pelvis against Mobius' which was at the perfect height, he murmured against his lips, "My body doesn't react like this with anyone, only with you. It's not just anyone who can turn me on like this, you're the only one."
He finished closing the distance between them by kissing Mobius, who responded with the same eagerness.
But just as he was about to close his arms around Loki, he slipped out of Mobius' arms, a playful smile on his lips.
He headed for the door, then as he passed through the door, he turned back to Mobius who had his mouth open and said in a seductive tone, "I never thought of forever, of eternity, of an official commitment with anyone... but with you..." with a last smile he added, "Let those who love me follow me..." then Loki closed the door behind him.