Old Habits Die Hard (Loki)

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By the time Liz reached her room, she felt dizzy. It took her three tries to open the door before she got it to work properly and when she was over the threshold, she suddenly sobbed loud. Back pressed against the door, her feet slid out from under her and she ended up on the ground, crying - the sort of cry that involved your whole body.

She didn't want Peter to have to break Annie's heart. It wasn't fair to either of them for them to be here and have to deal with complications, so clearly it would be better if Annie could just spend time with Peter and Peter wouldn't have to skirt around the issue with Annie.

This was for the best, even if she felt like her world had been hollowed out.

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Loki had opted to sleep in and not leave the room when his thrall left to go to breakfast. Even on day 4, he knew that under most circumstances if he didn't race out, the mortal girl would assume she was to bring some sort of food back for him.

The loud sob brought him out of his doze and pulled his head up to identify... his thrall having a grief-stricken weeping fit against the door. As though she hadn't had the fortitude to do more than enter the room before breaking down.

More curious than anything else, he jumped off the bed and crossed the room to investigate the crumpled mortal girl.