Interlude Owen/Mobius
Once a time he was just a man, quite a famous actor.
It still seemed unreal.
He constantly watched movies with himself to understand.
But now he wasn't human. He didn't know what Time Keepers had done to him. Super strength, enhanced intelligence, quick reflexes, improved metabolism, fast healing. It was the legacy of a bloody fascist organization that he had served billions of years! He was not a prisoner, he was an accomplice! He believed he was doing the right job! He killed, tortured and broke people on the orders of TVA. And it seemed right to him. He had to admit that he would have become alcoholic because of this, were it not for Loki's cruel spell to protect him from get too drunk. Bastard. Literally bastard. Rejected by Laufey and Odin. Broken by Thanos.
Mobius broke him too.
And Loki had the nerve to forgive him.
Owen tried to distance himself from the experience but couldn't. He lived in his big house overlooking the sea. He was rich. He was back to handsome blonde instead of the gray bureaucrat. Yet his mind kept returning to the words of the Bible that the sinners would be punished.
He was a sinner.
Funny, but if Loki were not a Norse god, he would be a great Christian. He would become a saint. Probably because of martyrdom.Owen kept trying to forget the gruesome picture of Loki's death. However, Loki was a Norse god. In the eyes of Christians, he was a devil.
This sacrificial creature was the devil!
Owen laughed bitterly as he stared at the beach from the terrace. The sun was going down. He hated the orange color. It's good that it will be night soon. His hands tightened on the railing. He almost ripped her off. He wishes Sylvie and Loki would come back. He knew Loki had unfinished business. They were talking about that The Revenge on Thanos, saving Frigga, saving Asgard. Mobius blamed himself for not telling Loki about Hela and the true history of Asgard.
How to do this to him when Loki was so happy because Odin loved him?
Damn theater of time! If it had gone as Mobius had intended, he would have blamed Loki for Odin's death. However, he failed to do so. Loki saw the video himself. He knew Loki hated being lied to, but the truth just didn't pass his throat. When Loki finds out, he'll be devastated.
Owen hopes she'll hate him enough. He would even let Loki kill himself. Then he saw that his new wife had come to him. Her name was Stella. But he knew her as the Hunter C-20. Margarita was in her hand. She wore a sensual red thigh-length dress.
"We can't blame ourselves forever. We're going to go crazy for it," Stella said.
"I can't forget it," Owen said.
"Neither did I! You were mostly an interrogation specialist! I was the one who caught these people! I murdered them!" Stella screamed.
"I was murdering too! When Loki ran away from the time theater I had this hell stick with me! I thought that maybe everything was lost and I wanted him ..." tears appeared in Owen's eyes.
Stella hugged him.
Then the messenger between realities spoke. Sylvie called.
Heatstroke. Loki had a heat stroke. Sylvie had great difficulty persuading him to use the casket.
Owen knew exactly who did it.
For a moment he was grateful that he was a murderer and tortured many.
He has already tortured Thanos variants.
Stella smiled.
"I'm going to get the outfit," she said.
Owen pulled a collar from a closed drawer.
Thanos will pay.