Freaky Friday (Loki x Reader)
One minute, you had been laying on the couch reading your book. The next, you were standing over by Loki’s collection of spell books. “What is going on?” you asked, but your voice was different than normal. It seemed deeper.
“I believe we may have switched bodies, my dear,” you responded calmly. Wait, if that was your body what were you in? You ran to a mirror running your hands along your face, and saw Loki in your reflection. “Why?” you gasped out. “I may have skipped a line in this certain spell,” Loki, in your body, responded, “I need to figure out how to fix this.”
You were in shock, and decided to go for a walk in a nearby park to clear your mind. As you made your way around a turn you knew well, a rag was thrust to your face and you were grabbed from behind. Before you passed out, you heard a far away voice, “Isn’t he powerful? That seemed too easy.”
You woke up in the back seat of a car, confused and dazed. Why was someone after you? Yeah, you worked for SHIELD, but as an analyst who occasionally dabbled in weapons logistics. You weren’t exactly someone who had a large target on your back. Then you remembered that you were still Loki, someone who did have a large target.
You shuddered. These people probably weren’t looking for a ransom or any information, they were probably looking to torture you to get revenge for friends and family members who perished in the attack on New York. You knew Loki kept a tracker in a ring he had gifted you, but he wouldn’t have any trackers on himself, would he?
You were starting to panic. You could feel the tears leaking from your eyes. One of the men in the front of the car noticed, “Hey, he’s awake, we need to dose him again. Also he’s crying?” The other two men quickly looked back at you to confirm that the sorcerer who had tried to make all mortals kneel to him, who had been “burdened with glorious purpose”, was tearing up in their back seat. They were taken aback, but not enough to spare you from the rag being lifted to your face again.
When you came around, you were tied to a chair with some strange handcuffs around your wrists. Initially, the men stood around trying to figure out what to do, they probably hadn’t thought too much in advance, just saw someone they hated, grabbed him and left. Then, they began to tell you about the people Loki had killed. They told you about their sisters, mothers, wives, uncles, and nephews who had died during the attack. They went into detail about the brutal ways each one met their fate. By the end, you were sobbing, barely able to gasp for breath.
That’s when they had began to torture you. They took out a knife and cut along your arms. They started to do your legs when you heard an explosion and suddenly the avengers as well as Loki, well actually yourself, were in the building. In seconds, the three men were out cold and you were untied. Loki instinctively reached out to pick you up, but immediately realized that your body wasn’t capable of doing that. He looked to his brother for help. Thor quickly picked you up bridal style, it looked awkward as you were still Loki, but everyone had been briefed so they did their best to ignore it.
You were rushed to the hospital where you slept for nearly 24 hours. Loki stayed by your side the whole time, frantically searching spell books for something to switch you back so he could suffer the pain instead of you. He felt that the whole incident was his fault. If you hadn’t been in his body you wouldn’t have been targeted, you wouldn’t have been harmed, and you wouldn’t be screaming out while experiencing terrible nightmares that you couldn’t wake up from.
When you awoke, you immediately started sobbing again thinking of all the stories the men told. You begged Loki and Tony to have some leniency which left them speechless. After whispering comforting words to you for an hour, Loki was finally able to calm you down.
He told you about how Wanda was able to track his magic energy so they could find you. You explained how you had been captured in the park and brought to an unknown place, how they had tortured you, and finally, you grazed over some of the stories before breaking into sobs again. Loki finally understood the pleas for leniency and when you had fallen asleep again, he paced around the hospital.
Eventually, he bumped into his brother, who had brought you some of your favorite flowers, “How’s she doing?” He asked in an unusually quiet tone. Loki looked up at his brother, unlike in his body, he was not as good at masking emotions, and it was clear that he was moments from a breakdown. Thor sat with him while he relayed the details, “And now she’ll see me as the monster I really am. She can’t even sleep without being burdened with the things I’ve done. I’m truly the most awful being to ever live.” He started to cry. Thor put a comforting arm on his back, “She knows that you were being controlled by another, that it wasn’t your fault. It is only natural for a kind hearted person like her to grieve for the fallen, but I’m sure she does not blame you. Go back to her.”
After a good cry, Loki headed back to his beloved. He still had time to flip through the spell book and soon, he found the spell which would return you to normal. As soon as you woke up, he told you this and insisted that he perform it right away to relieve you from your pain. You were worried, “Loki, what if your body isn’t strong enough yet? Even though these injuries sucked, they aren’t fatal so maybe we should give it a few days. You being a god means you heal fast, right?” He shook his head at your concern for his wellbeing, “Please, let me do this now,” he begged.
Eventually, you gave in. You held hands with Loki as a green mist enveloped the both of you. Instantly you felt much better, much lighter, and much shorter. You looked down at Loki and shook him to make sure he was okay. When he smiled at you, you couldn’t help but kiss him in relief.
He looked at you in disbelief, “you don’t think I’m a monster after that?” You laughed and shook your head, “I could never think of you as a monster. Thank you for saving me.”
Loki feel asleep relieved and resolved himself to do everything in his power to maybe become a man deserving of you.