The moment that those words left Darcy's lips, Loki's mind began to run on overdrive. There had to be a way to salvage this situation. It was with a mild sense of shame at his own idiocy for getting attached, that Loki realised that contemplating an end to these comfortable weeks of kindness and work made cold knots form in his stomach.
"Is that what you believe?"
He could not tell her the truth.
He could not tell any of them the truth. They would turn on him at once, and justifiably so from their perspective, as he would be the monster who had attacked their town and tried to kill his own brother. They loved Thor, Jane much more literally than the others, and they would doubtlessly take his side. Everyone always took his side.
"SHIELD make a business from secrets and lies, why should they not deny me? They would not want a terminated employee working alongside their newest allies, so what better way than to discredit me?"
Loki made his expression sorrowful; a subtle downturn of his lips, a clench to his jaw, and widening of his eyes. All calculated to make this performance as convincing as he possibly could.
"I suppose I should not be surprised you believe them over me. I am, after all, still merely a stranger. Though I had hoped us to have become friends."
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The moment that those words left Darcy's lips, Loki's mind began to run on overdrive. There had to be a way to salvage this situation. It was with a mild sense of shame at his own idiocy for getting attached, that Loki realised that contemplating an end to these comfortable weeks of kindness and work made cold knots form in his stomach.
"Is that what you believe?"
He could not tell her the truth.
He could not tell any of them the truth. They would turn on him at once, and justifiably so from their perspective, as he would be the monster who had attacked their town and tried to kill his own brother. They loved Thor, Jane much more literally than the others, and they would doubtlessly take his side. Everyone always took his side.
"SHIELD make a business from secrets and lies, why should they not deny me? They would not want a terminated employee working alongside their newest allies, so what better way than to discredit me?"
Loki made his expression sorrowful; a subtle downturn of his lips, a clench to his jaw, and widening of his eyes. All calculated to make this performance as convincing as he possibly could.
"I suppose I should not be surprised you believe them over me. I am, after all, still merely a stranger. Though I had hoped us to have become friends."