Stallion - Chapter 13 [Loki X Reader]

You didn't know how much time had passed, because you seemed to have lost count of the hours in the day throughout this whole experience and your mental clock was confused and offered no help. You woke up to the sound of the voices of the other train passengers who were talking quietly to each other. Your eyes fluttered open, but were still half closed because you hadn't gotten enough sleep and tiredness still lingered. You saw that Thor was still asleep in the seat across from you. Surprisingly, he wasn't snoring this time. You then realized that your head was still laying on Loki's chest. You could feel it rising and falling as he breathed. You concluded that you must have drifted off while you were talking to him last night.

Being that you neither Loki or Thor were awake, you felt the need to get some more sleep, and you shut your eyes again. You must have moved around while you were sleeping, because you were in sort of an uncomfortable position. You moved slightly so you were not in that awkward position anymore.

"You awake, [name]?" You heard Loki wisper quietly to you.

"Oh, so he is awake." You thought to yourself. You then moved your head and looked up at him. "Yeah." You glaced out of the train window, seeing that the sky was just starting to lighten up, the darkness turning to various shades of blue and orange, and thin clouds scattered throughout the morning hue. "Morning."

"Good morning." Loki replied to you. "Did you sleep well?"

"Yeah... I'm still kind of tired though."

"Hmm, I would have assumed so." He said. "You looked like you were having a nightmare last night."

"I did?" You questioned. You didn't recall have any sort of dream while you slept, so Loki's statement caught you by surprise.

"Yes, you were mumbling and moving around. I heard you making frightened noises. What were you seeing?"

"I... I don't know... I usually don't remember my dreams." You told him.

"Really? That's sort of strange." He said.

"It's kind of sad too. When I wake up I have that feeling that I had a really awesome dream, but I can't remember anything about it." You answered him. "It's like, as soon as my eyes open, the dream just vanishes out of my mind."

"Oh, yes, I know what you mean." Loki responded. "But... In a way isn't it a good thing? That way you won't have to remember any nightmares."

You thought about this for a moment. "Heh... Yeah... I guess it is."

You and Loki continued talking. Mostly about mindless topics, anything to keep your minds off of the fact that you were stuck in the past, and honestly not knowing if your theory of how to get back was even going to work. The more that you thought about how bad of a situation you were in right now, the more you placed the blame on yourself. Even though Loki already told you that it wasn't you who was to blame, a part of your mind still yelled at you for letting those scientists get to Sliepnir in the first place. If they had never gotten to him, Loki would have retrieved him and went on his way. Sliepnir wouldn't have been killed... You three wouldn't have had to go back in time... You wouldn't have ended up in the wrong time period... You wouldn't have ran into the many problems that you have encountered while you were here... None of this would have happened if you just had stopped those white lab coat wearing scientists...

But... then you began thinking into it further... It's also true that if Sliepnir wasn't taken... You would have never actually gotten to know Loki. If he came and just took Sliepnir back, he would have simply returned to Asgard and you would have never had a second thought about him. You would have never knew him...

You liked Loki. You already admitted that. When you came to the conclusion that Sliepnirs capture was the reason why you two were with each other right now, you felt confused. You didn't know wheather to consider Sliepnirs death as a good thing or a bad thing. Of course it was a bad thing no matter what way you looked at. The death of any living being is never a happy occasion, but it had tiny hints of good. Though it made you feel like a bad person to even think of an animals death to be a good thing, you almost couldn't help but to do so. You really liked Loki, and Sleipnir was the reason why you two were...

Well...

"Loki..." You said quietly.

"Yes?"

"Um... uh" You started awkwardly. "C - Can I ask you something?"

"Of course."

"Okay. Uh... Well," You tried to ask your question, but you had trouble finding the correct words. You knew what you wanted to say, but it was as if your mind turned to mush and wouldn't let you utter even one syllable. You stoped for a second, and then attempted to speak again. "Okay, Just out of curiousity... Would you say that... you and I are..."

"Involved?" Loki finished your question for you.

"... Ye - Yeah." You replied, feeling a blush creep its way onto your cheeks. You looked away from him, embarresed by how red your face was.

"Hey," Loki said to you, making you face him again. "you don't have to act so shy. The answer would be yes, I do consider you and I to be involved."

"I'm glad to hear that." You said with a smile. "... Um... Do you think we should... tell Thor? He seems like he's been pretty oblivious."

Loki looked over to Thor, still sleeping soundly; He must be a heavy sleeper. Loki laughed before he spoke and then looked at you again. "Heh heh, I have a better idea... How about we don't tell him... And wait to see how long it takes him to figure it out?"

"You'd really leave him in the dark like that?"

"It's just a bit of fun, really." He replied, cracking a devious grin.

"Humm... Secretive... I Like it." You agreed.

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It was only a while later that Thor finally woke up. The three of you started talking about what you were going to do when you got off of the train in Nevada.

"I know one thing; This train is going to drop off near the mountains." You stated. "That's a good thing."

"How is that?" Thor asked you.

"Well, I've had time to think, and I might know where we need to go." You explained. "In my dream we were walking through a snow field. The only places that would have snow this time of year would be up in the mountain peaks."

"Sounds like we're going on a hiking trip." Loki stated.

"And even more specifically, the second highest peak. It's second in height due to it's top being almost totally flat." You added. "Which makes it the perfect place to hide a-"

The sound of a loud yell cut you off mid sentence. Someone obviously wasn't very happy because the shout sounded like it carried a sense of intense anger and frustration. It was a harsh, somewhat creepy, male voice that seemed very rough. Passengers on the train started quietly wispering to themselves, an air of confusion filling the whole train car.

"Who is -" Thor started to speak, but you quickly shushed him and listened.

"I know you're on this train!" You heard the man say. The passengers got quiet as the man started moving down through the aisle looking at each one of them with a sharp glare. "I'm here to talk about your friend mr. Marshall." He was talking so loudly that you were pretty sure the people in the next train car could probablly hear him. His words carried and entered the ears of anyone within range. "He told me a lot about you three, and you have something that belongs to me!"

'Wait a minute...' You thought to yourself. At that statement you started to realize... "Guys... I think he's talking about us." You wispered. You peeked out into the asile just enough to get a quick look at this strange man. And one look was all it took for you to begin almost panicing. You gasped and then retreated back into your seat.

"It's Sutter." You informed Loki and Thor.

"I thought he was in police custody?" Loki replied.

"Didn't he get put on trial for James's murder?" Thor added.

"He must have escaped..." You replied.

"What does he want with us?" Thor asked. "What do we have?"

"I don't know." You said, trying to wrap your head around why Sutter would be pursuing you. Looking into the asile again, you saw him coming closer. He hadn't noticed you yet, but you knew that if you stayed here then he would eventually find you. "Guys... We need to get out of here. Now!"

Sutter was still talking to the passengers, almost interigating them into spilling any information they had, but his efforts yeilded little results due to the fact that you were keeping a reletivly low profile and the added fact that news doesn't travel as fast back in the 1800's. You saw Sutter turn his back and face the passengers.

He laughed before he spoke, "Come on... Are y'all too stupid to speak?!" He said, obviously frustrated. "Are ya?!"

While Sutter was distracted and ranting on to the passengers, you quickly but quietly got out of your seat and started sneaking down the aisle towards the door in the front. You reached the door, and opened it, walking into the next train car that it was connected to. Once all three of you were in, you shut the door. You were now in another passenger car, but this one didn't have nearly as many people as the previous one did.

"I get the feeling that this Sutter character is smarter then he seems." Loki stated.

"Yes..." You replied, "Too smart. Even if Sutter escaped from the police he would have been so far behind us that he shouldn't have known where we went. I'm questioning how he even tracked us here."

"Still, why is he chasing us in the first place?" Said Thor.

"All I know," You began. "is that he is a murderer. He killed James and we could very well be next."

"How are we going to get away from him?" Loki said. "He obviously knows that we're here."

"We just have to stay out of his sight." You replied. "If we keep moving, he won't be able to find us." You went over to a window, seeing the lovely scenery rush by. "I can't tell exactly where we are, but we should be close to our destination."

"That's true, but we're limited to where we can go." Loki continued. "We are on a train after all."

"I know... But we have to try."

"If he does find us, I'm sure that Loki and I could easily take him if he trys anything." Thor said.

"No, we have to try and avoid him." You stated. "I'm not questioning your fighting abilities, but we can't risk changing any more of the past. We've already changed too much. we just wait for our cue to run."

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You three took to avoid Sutter at any and all costs. You kept moving from train car to train car; sometimes getting longer to rest before Sutter came in and continued his search, and then other times not even getting to catch your breath before you had to move again. Sutter wasn't backing down in his mission to find the three of you, and you expected nothing less.

The three of you came to a luggage car. It was filled with suit cases, and bags that were loaded here by the passengers. There was even a few animal cages with various types of birds inside. You all knew that you would be able to stay in this car. Sutter was took smart. This is exactly the place he'd expect you all to hid.

You walked through the luggage car, having to step over a few suitcases, and made your way to the door on the other side. When you tried to open the door, you quickly realized that the door was locked from the other side.

And as if matter couldn't get any worse... Moments laters, Sutter comes busting through the other door. You all looked towards him.

"You three were harder to find then I thought." He said. "But now you're trapped."

None of you said a word. You took notice of the shiny metal object that was in the holdster attached to Sutter's belt. You and Loki looked at each other, and then you moved your eyes, pointing to the weapon. Without even speaking a word, Loki understood what you were thinking.

"Now, Let's make this easy... Hand over what belongs to me... and I won't kill you." His hand was on his gun holdster, his fingers wrapping around the handle of the weapon.

Again, you all said nothing.

Which only engraged Sutter even more.

"Ha. Choosin' the hard way eh?" He said, pulling the weapon out, and pointing it at the three of you. "Fine, I'm perfectly content with killin' ya to get what I need."

Loki Slowly leaned closer to you, wispering to you, while Sutter tightened his fingers around the trigger. "I think this is our cue to run..."

A few seconds passed and then all three of you quickly ran forward, and then ducked down, making Sutter's gunshot miss you.

Thor moved quickly and tackled Sutter, all the while knocking the gun out of his hand. Sutter was obviously hurt from the sudden attack and fall to the floor, and even after Thor stood up he stayed there for a moment. He wasn't that easily beaten though and got back up. From behind, Loki grabbed a suit case from the floor, and then wacked Sutter in the back of the head, knocking him down again. He dropped the suitcase on top of the man, and then all three of you ran out the other door while he was down. You knew that you had to get off of the train. You just had to figure out how.

And fast.

Sutter's resiliance showed again when he started chasing you through the passenger cars.

He shot at you three with his gun a few more times, which scared all of the riders, and made women and children start to scream in terror.

In your mind, you knew you really only had one choice.

You had to jump.

You needed to get off the train, and the only way to do that was to jump.

You told this to Loki and Thor, and you all then went to the side door of the train car you were in, and pulled it open. The ground was rushing by and you could feel the air roaring past the train with the speed at which it was going. Even though this was your idea, seeing the actual speed of the train and rocky surface of the ground beneath you, you started to get scared. Sutter was still pursuing you, and Thor led you, being the first to jump. Loki must have noticed that you were afraid, so he grabbed your hand and then you both jumped from the train, just as Sutter was about to attack you.

You, Loki and Thor all went tumbling to the ground, rolling to try and avoid any injury. You all came to a rest in a large patch of grass. Being safely outside of the train, you took this moment to regain yourselves and catch your breath. for many momenys none of you said anything, and you could only hear each others heavy breathing.

"Well... That didn't go exactly as I thought it would." Loki said.

"But at least Sutter isn't chasing us anymore." Thor added, trying to lighten things us.

"Guys..." You said, sitting up in the grass. "I don't think that is the last we're going to see of him..."

"Neither do I." Loki agreed with you. "Something tells me that he's going to cause more problems for us."

"More then you know." You told him. "Did either of you see what was around his wrist?"

"No." Thor answered you.

"I was more paying attention to his movements so we didn't get shot." Loki continued, in almost a sarcastic tone.

"He has a watch." You started... "Watches weren't even invented until the end of this centery." You couldn't even belive this. You had a hard time comprehending it all. "And if you looked closely at his belt there was another watch-like object attatched to the opposite side of his gun." You grabbed your wrist and took off the time travel device, holding it up in front of your face, the light of the sun glinting off the shiny surface. "It looks exactly like this."

Loki caught on to what you were saying, and he sat up, looking at you. "He has the other half."