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imagine-loki · 6 years ago

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The Sound of Silence

TITLE: The Sound of Silence CHAPTER NO./ONE SHOT: Chapter 44/47 AUTHOR: nekoamamori ORIGINAL IMAGINE: Imagine you are mute, and Loki comes to Avengers tower for the first time. Loki asks you a question and you answer through sign language. Loki looks at you crazy and thinks your making fun of him, he starts yelling saying that you should respect him since he’s a god and prince. RATING: T+ NOTES/WARNINGS: Also on AO3 Click here

Loki wouldn’t let you go down to breakfast without him the next morning. He went so far as to drag you back into the bed with him when you looked too impatient to leave Thor’s room. You weren’t comfortable here and now that you were awake you really wanted to get out of here before Thor got back and got mad at you for being in here in the first place.

“He won’t mind us being in here. He wants us safe and happy, and prefers when I am not homicidal,” Loki reminded you again as he hauled you back into the bed with him. “I mind you trying to go out there alone when there are strangers here. You don’t have your powers or useful combat training. I’m not letting you get stolen from me again,” he reminded you as he pulled you closer and tucked you safely back in his arms against his side. It was such a hardship. Such a hardship indeed. You kissed his cheek and contented yourself in cuddling with him for awhile longer.

[All my clothes are downstairs] you reminded him when you finally got out of bed. He kissed you and your clothes shimmered to jeans, a t-shirt with a picture of his helmet on it, and one of his hoodies. You were usually ok having your scars showing around the tower, even around town, especially with Loki at your side, but he knew you were uncomfortable with strangers in the tower too, or he was just being overprotective. It was hard to tell. You leaned up to kiss him in reply.

“No trouble, my darling wife,” he replied. “It’s a simple spell, I’ll teach it to you after breakfast,” he told you warmly. You lit up in excitement and he chuckled and bopped your nose. “But you have to eat something more than a milkshake,” he told you teasing, but firm. You grinned and nodded and took his hand to lead him from the room. He laughed and went with you, closing Thor’s bedroom door behind you.

You walked hand-in-hand with your Loki to the elevator and happily laid your head on his arm. He smiled warmly and kissed the top of your head. A perfectly content, happy Loki.

Until the elevator doors opened, not on the main floor, but on your floor. Loki snarled and shoved you backwards behind him when one of the sweaty workment moved to get on the elevator. It was the same one who nearly died yesterday.

“Why is it always me?” he asked himself as Loki drew two daggers out of thin air. The worker held up his hands, showing he was unarmed and took a step backwards. “I’ll catch the next elevator,” he told Loki.

You moved quickly, stepping between Loki and the worker and smacked the daggers out of his hands, glad he taught you that little trick. You raised a finger at him glaring up at him, scolding him for scaring the nice worker. He glared right back and you smashed the close elevator button.

[Stop trying to kill the workers] you signed at him quickly.

“But-”

[No buts. He didn’t do anything]

Loki glared. “He threatened what’s mine,” he snarled, frustrated that you weren’t understanding.

[He surrendered and backed away. Be reasonable, husband] Loki wrapped his arms around you and kissed the top of your head.

“I worry over you, darling. It’s my right as your husband,” he reminded you.

[Can you worry without killing innocent mortals?]

He huffed. “I’ll try,” he conceeded. You kissed his cheek and stepped off the elevator when it opened again.

Clint was making breakfast again this morning and Nat was looking over files on the dining room table. “Bout time you two got up,” Clint teased. “Tony was threatening to eat all of Loki’s french toast if you didn’t get up soon,” he added with a grin at Stark,

“I did no such thing. Don’t get me defenestrated. Even I’m not dumb enough to come between Loki and his dessert for breakfast foods,” Tony grumbled. He was at the dining room table working on a piece of tech with a screwdriver. “Kid, can you keep your husband from throwing me out the window?” Tony asked you. You nodded and took Loki’s hand to haul him into the kitchen so you could both get breakfast.

“You up to real food today?” Clint asked you as he handed Loki a plate piled with french toast. You nodded, suddenly starving now that you smelled food. Clint smiled and handed you a plate full of french toast too.

You took your usual place at the dining room table and started to devour your breakfast happily. “Y/N, Fury sent over all your medical records when he sent over the after care instructions,” Nat said, flipping through the file in front of her. You recognized it now as the same document you had shown Loki earlier. You jumped up from you place, grabbed a dagger from one of the many sheaths Loki had hidden on his person and rounded the table, holding it in Nat’s face while you yanked the files out of her hands.

“Whoa, Siren, what’s going on?” Stark demanded, standing from the table at your sudden, unusual behavior.

You tossed the medical file to Loki and it suddenly burst into flames. “Put down the blade, Y/N. I’m not going to spill the secret,” Nat told you calmly. You glared at her. “I’m a spy, my job is secrets. I’m not dumb enough to spill this one.” You set the dagger on the table, then gestured at Tony. “Yes, I’m also not dumb enough to tell Stark the secret. He’s hopeless with them.”

“Hey! I can keep a secret! Tell me the secret! I wanna know!” he whined. You glared at him, and then at Nat.

“Your secret is safe, but you don’t have to bear it alone. You did tell Loki, right?” she asked. You nodded, still unhappy. People weren’t supposed to know.

[It’s dangerous] you reminded her.

“I know. Fury wouldn’t have trusted me with it if he weren’t sure it was important. I won’t tell. Now go eat,” she scolded and shooed you back to your place at the table. You fretted over her safety for knowing the secret, but she was right. She could keep a secret.

“Tellmetellme!” Tony was bothering her.

“Can it, Stark. This secret can get us all killed, including Pepper. Just leave it alone,” Nat told him. He glared and pestered one more time, but finally gave up. For now.

Loki started teaching you magic after breakfast, starting with the very useful clothes changing spell. After a couple successful attempts to use it and the other simple spells he taught you that morning, you curled up with him on the couch to take a nap. He promised again that your stamina would increase the more you practiced as he wrapped the couch blanket around you and let you settle in for a nap as he summoned a book to read and entertain himself while you napped off your use of magic. At least you weren’t high on magic this time.

“After Thor comes back we’ll announce that she’s retired from the team due to losing her powers, and that she’s your wife. That should make her a lot safer,” Cap told Loki while you were dozing off.

“Are you sure that will not just put a different target on her back?” Loki replied.

“No one even not in their right mind wants to mess with you. Especially after what you did to those Hydra agents,” Tony replied dryly. “She’ll be safe, Reindeer Games,”

“Why are you two sleeping in my bed?” Thor asked a couple mornings later. Loki shot up and threw daggers before he realized who was in the room. Thor deflected them easily, and not at all surprised.

“There are men working on our rooms,” Loki replied dryly. “It was safer for the pathetic mortals if my lady was not around them.” Loki kissed your cheek.

“Father is letting the two of you stay on Midgard. Though he is pissed that he was tricked. He’s also going to be sending the ravens to spy, so I would highly recommend if your lack of powers are a trick that you be very careful in public,” Thor told you.

[Not a trick] you replied. Thor rolled his eyes.

“You have been spending too much time with my brother lady,” he told you, not believing you to be above trying to trick the Allfather. “So you can both stay, but Mother is requiring regular visits home. Including for her birthday next month,”

You sighed in relief. While you had seen that Odin wouldn’t chase you to Midgard, you hadn’t quite believed it. Not until Thor reported it. Thor was a shit liar, especially about something this big. You wrapped you arms around Loki’s neck and kissed him well. Excited over the fact that you were free. You could be happy together.

“If only it hadn’t cost your voice, love,” Loki told you, a sad edge to his tone, even though he was pleased with the ultimate outcome.

/I would have given up more to save you. To save us/

“I know, love. I am only sad you had to give up anything at all. I love you, my darling and hate that the Allfather hurt you,”

/I love you too/

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basswoodroofing · 2 years ago

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“Ideas can be works of art. In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work. When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair. The idea becomes a machine that makes the art. This kind of art is not theoretical or illustrative of theories; it is intuitive and it is purposeless. No matter what form the work of art may ﬁnally have, it must begin with an idea. What it looks like isn’t too important. It is the process of conceptionand realization with which the artist is concerned. Once given physical reality by the artist the work is open to the perception of all, including the artist. - Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. All current art is fake, not because it is copy, appropriation, simulacra or imitation, but because it lacks the crucial push of power, guts and passion. All of man is fake. All of man is false. Not only because he cheats and lies with charming ease and hates and kills with determined speed, but also because man’s new cyberform is Man as God. Speed is over time and place. Speed is power. Speed permits misinformation, disorients time and place, and is a ﬁerce and uncompromising ruler. Our obsession with high speed leaves no time or place for return. It is now already too late and today is yesterday with its memory already lost. Cate, how can we go forward, when action is to watch action? When the eyes are locked in a ﬁxed gaze. When knowledge becomes information. When words are stumbling blocks and have lost their representation. When discourse is opinion. When you don’t have to know anything, and you think you know everything. When to reﬂect is gazing in the mirror. When to contemplate is thinking about yourself. Cate? - Well, Cate, perhaps all this could be dealt with if man were not facing a black hole; the realization that his absolute function, his primary sense ofbeing has been snatched from him. Man was once original, held and contained a certain authenticity. But now all that is dead, ﬁnished .Man is disposable and dispensable. Cate? - And what about art? Can it hold up these harsh blows? Cate? - Certainly not, Cate, for art is what surrounds you. Art does not come from ‘nowhere’ or for that matter anywhere. Creativity does not pop into the head. There are grounds, forces, powers that create and make art a hazardous journey of leaps, crevasses, errors, daring and courage. Cate? - I see. And what about Conceptual Art? It is the objective of the conceptual artist to make his workmentally inter-esting to the spectator, and therefore usually he would want it to becomeemotionally dry. Cate, there is no reason to suppose, however, thatthe conceptual artist is out to bore the viewer? - Well, Cate, it is not only the expectation of an emotional kick that woulddeter the viewer from perceiving this art. Conceptual art also isn’t neces-sarily logical. Logic may be used to camouﬂage the real intent of the artist,to lull the viewer into the belief that he understands the work, or to infer aparadoxical situation – such as logic vs. illogic. Cate? - I see, so some ideas are logical in conception and illogical perceptually. And as far as I understood the ideas don’t need to be complex. On the contrary: most ideas that are successful are ludicrously simple. But you’re saying that it doesn’t really matter if the viewer understands the concept of the artist. - Cate, once it is out of his handthe artist has no controlover the way a viewer will perceive the work. Different people will understand the same thing in a different way. For instance, art critics use a secret language when communicating with each other through the medium of artmagazines: ‘primary structures’, ‘reductive’, ‘ejective’, ‘cool’, or ‘mini-art’. - ‘Mini-art’ sounds interesting. It must refer to very small works of art. Or maybe the mini-artist is a very small person…Thanks very much, Cate. - You’re welcome. Thank you. - So conceptual art is one way of making art; other ways suit other artists. Conceptual art is good only when the idea is good. Idea, form, context. Idea: The existence of an idea is necessary and sufﬁcient for the existence of art. Form: The existence of form is necessary but not sufﬁcient for realizing an idea. Context: The existence of context is necessary but not sufﬁcient for form through which an idea has been realized.“

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