Hello Knight

Knight arrives to her flat pretty scared. She came to the door fumbling with the keys in her hands trembling. Knight drops the keys to the blue rug beneath her shoes. She crouches down towards the floor then picks up the set of key and gets upright. She puts the key into the keyhole, unlocks the door, and enters the apartment quickly closing the door behind her. Knight locks the door in fear.  Why would a god be afraid of a metal man? Well, he had made quite the impression.

"You know," Knight heard Loki's formal Asgardian voice. "It has been a long time since I have seen you afraid."

Knight turns away from the door.

"I did not give you permission to enter my home!" Knight shouts.

Loki is sitting in a chair holding a small notebook.

"You didn't tell me why you went up and left fifty years ago," Loki said. "Fifty long years."

Knight rolls an eye.

"Fifty years ago?" Knight said. "You haven't gotten over that?"

"A man does not get over someone going against their word," Loki said.

Knight sighs.

"So you tracked me down for that?" Knight asks, angered.

"No," Loki said, in a low voice.

"I do not believe you," Knight said, in disbelief.

Loki rolls an eye.

"Knight, I was bored," Loki said. "And came across this...Tavern."

"The Dance Party," Knight corrects Loki.

"Yes, whatever you call it," Loki said. "And then I saw him, a authority figure this realm refers to, approaching but his arm changed." Loki puts the notebook down on the table. "It changed! Arms do not change so quickly for a mortal unless they were not. Once I saw what he had done, you frozen in fear, I decided to take a shot."

"So you apparently, and coincidentally, found your way to the Dance Party," Knight said. "Before the attack of a alien guy."

"Yes," Loki said.

Knight is skeptical.

"Is this one of your lies?" Knight asks.

"I do not expect you to believe me, at first," Loki said.

"Ah ha," Knight said, as a smirk grew. "So it was a trick!"

"No," Loki said, shaking his head. "I would never do that to you."

Knight puts her hands on her hips.

"Where is Elizabeth?" Knight asks, narrowing her eyes towards Loki.  "Is she hiding?'"

Loki sighs.

"Well, you just seem to have lost a 'friend' and was set a target by a liquid human," Loki said, putting the notebook on the table. "I have met a man who calls himself a Terminator," Loki stands up. "I come across a man who can repair himself with metal," Loki gestures over towards the book. "And now I see you are working on a product not of this era."

Knight takes her hands off her hips.

"I was caught off guard," Knight said, as her attitude changes to a 'So it wasn't a trick'. "I have my moments."

"I believe there is a connection between all of this," Loki said.

"Fifty years and still haven't changed," Knight said.

"Hey, I was there!" Loki said. "And you didn't keep your end of it."

"Did too," Knight said.

"Did not," Loki said.

"Loki, I kept it," Knight raises her voice.

"I was there,Knight," Loki said. "In the rain, searching, for that piece of the craft you crashed into Roswell. I did not find the lower half."

"I didn't crash the damn thing for the hundredth time, Loki," Knight said. "I found it."

"I know you better than that, Knight," Loki said. "Or do you call yourself a different name? Knight Cartel? You sound like a drug lord!"

"Cartel sounded pretty neat at the time," Knight said.

"Knight," Loki said. "What are you into now?"

"It is my business," Knight said. "I don't know. But I can't be certain this is all connect--"

"A man, of cyborg, implied to me I would get into a war because of you," Loki interjects, cutting her off. "Now, I am already curious about this war." He puts both hands on the table.  "You have to show me the legs."

"I cannot," Knight said.

"You can," Loki said.

"Can not," Knight said.

"You always showed me what you can't," Loki said. "Keyword; always."

Knight has a soft laugh.

"That was when I was a little girl and you were just a boy!" Knight said.

Loki frowns.

"But you kept that up after childhood," Loki said.  "Way up into my teenage years."

"Fifty years ago, I was a teenager back then," Knight said.

"And what made you leave?" Loki asks.

"I can't say," Knight said.

"Knight, I am the prince of Asgard, you can tell me anything," Loki said, exaggeratedly.

"This can't," Knight said.

"Why?" Loki asks, ever so innocently.

"Remember the time when we  shared our first kiss?" Knight asks, as her eyes gleam in hope.

"We...what?" Loki said.   Loki watches the flickering fame fade out of Knight's eyes. "I do not remember a kiss. If we had kissed then I surely would have remembered."

"I can't tell you why," Knight said. "When we kissed..."

Knight trails over never really finishing that surprising statement.

"What?" Loki asks. "What happened?"

"I made a promise," Knight said.

"To whom?" Loki asks.

"To the royal family," Knight said.

"But I am part of the royal family," Loki said.

"Family secrets are thicker than blood,"  Knight said. "Please...Go."

"Not unless I see that robot leg," Loki said. "I need to see what has made you a target in a war that has yet to happen!"

Knight really wanted to tell Loki why she left Asgard and didn't bother communicating for 50 years.

But Knight made a promise that she is bound to until Loki learns the truth behind the secret.

"Fine," Knight said. "If that gets you out of here."

Knight pulls open the basement door.

"...Basement?" Loki said.

"We all have basements," Knight said, being obvious.

"Not I," Loki said.

"The vault counts as one!" Knight said.

"Knight, that is Father's personal stash room," Loki reminds Knight.

Knight sighs.

"Whatever you say," Knight said, walking down the stairs. 

Knight came a stop at the last step seeing an endless darkness. Usually the lights would come on soon as she step foot. She steps forward hearing a glass crack under her shoes. Knight takes out a flashlight beaming it side to side. From the left Knight is able to see a large hole being perfectly rounded in shape.

"That is not possible," Knight said.

"What?" Loki asks.

"Some one broke in and stole the legs," Knight said.

There is silence.

Not a reply from Loki.

Knight turns around to see Loki had left.

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