Lokius Week Day 6: A Mobius By Any Other Name
@lokiusweek Prompts: S1 EP3 / tesseract / asgard / illusion
"Late for meetings… Asking too many questions… Possession of illicit timeline objects…" Loki read aloud from the file in his hands while his feet were kicked up on the desk beside where Mobius was hard at work. Shaking his head, he tutted in a teasingly performative way. It was obvious that he wanted attention.
Distracted by work though he was, Mobius tried to give him at least a little of what he wanted. "Sounds like a real troublemaker you've got there," he mumbled while continuing to jot down notes in their mission report.
Unseen by him, an amused grin curled the corners of Loki's lips. He let out a chuckle. "Oh, I should say so." He lifted the file closer to his face to read aloud yet another line. "Absconded unauthorized to Pompeii with a dangerous variant—"
"Whoa whoa whoa, hold on; how'd you get your hands on my file?" Mobius demanded, suddenly very interested in giving Loki as much attention as he wanted. Now sitting up straight, he leaned in closer to his partner to try to get a better look at the file and confirm his suspicions.
Unfortunately for him, Loki had longer arms and held it aloft, far out of his reach. "No no, you're not taking this away from me just yet," he laughed, craning his neck to continue reading the file.
"What're you expecting to find in there that you don't know or that I haven't already told you myself?" Mobius griped, still making swipes to try to grab the file, to no success.
"I'm sure there must be—" Loki started, but then cut himself off when he spotted something in the information listed out on the page. He released an incredulous laugh.
"What now?" Mobius groaned, giving up on taking the file but not bothering to sit back fully in his own chair.
Pulling the file closer, Loki pointed to the 'aliases' section of the personnel report. "You were once known as Mr. Tesseract?" he teased, laughing. He leaned in closer to Mobius so their shoulders brushed, and purred into his ear, "No wonder I've always found that cube completely irresistible."
After that, Mobius would have been shocked if Loki hadn't been able to feel the heat radiating off of his face.