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bi-bard · 3 years

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Day Off - Donald Ressler Imagine (The Blacklist)

Title: Day Off

Pairing: Donald Ressler X Reader

Requested: by @aprildecker-blog

Word Count: 850 words

Warning(s): none that I can think of

Summary: (Y/n) gets a day off... but that allows for too much time to think about parts of their life that (Y/n) doesn't want to face.

Author's Note: :)

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I had spent the whole day in my own thoughts.

It was a rare day off for the task force. A mission had gone really well but there were no moves to make so we all were instructed to take a day away from the office.

Ressler and I decided to hang out. Working with Raymond Reddington didn't offer a lot of downtime so we both wanted to take the opportunity to catch up on some of the television we've missed.

However, he was coming over until the evening. So I got most of the day dealing with my own thoughts.

Maybe this is a date, I thought.

No.

I could be.

No, he has Liz.

They aren't together.

But he would still pick her before you.

I shook my head, wanting to focus on literally anything else.

That night, I heard a soft knock on my door.

I opened the door and saw Ressler standing there with a smile and a bag of take-out. He wasn't in his usual suit. He was in a long-sleeved shirt- almost a sweater- and a pair of jeans.

"I come barring gifts," he joked. I chuckled, letting him walk in.

"I think you should allow your sense of humor to come out more at work," I said as I shut my front door.

We both sat on the couch.

"I'd be the John Mulaney of the F.B.I," he replied.

I laughed, "Giving yourself a lot of credit there."

He shrugged, "I think I deserve it."

We ate in pretty much silence as we watched our show.

Some time in the middle of the meal, Ressler balanced his container on his lap and placed his arm on the back of my couch. I felt my heart speed up as his thumb accidentally brushed my spine. I tried to keep myself from tensing when he didn't react.

He glanced over and smiled at me. I smiled back.

Soon, we were both done eating. Our take-out trays were on my coffee table and we were relaxed.

Then, I felt Ressler's hand move. It was gentle. Seriously, it was barely there. But it was there. His hand had turned and he was gently tracing part of my spine with the tips of his finger.

I tried not to react because he was still acting like this was completely normal.

Yeah... my attempt to keep from reacting only worked for so long. I felt myself shiver before I could stop it.

"You alright," Ressler asked. My heart dropped a little when he moved his hand away.

"Yeah, I'm fine," I nodded.

He looked at me for another moment, not quite believing me. Still, he just turned back to the TV and allowed me to deal with my internal crisis by myself.

I don't know when he had done it but by the end of the next episode, Ressler was sitting next to me. I was blushing and my heart was racing. I had officially stopped caring about the plot of the show.

In between episodes, Ressler looked at me with a fond smile. I looked back at him with a similar smile. I was going to turn back toward the screen but I was stopped by his hand touching my cheek.

I looked at his face. His eyes were already shut as he leaned in. I looked down at his lips for a moment before letting my eyes fall shut as he kissed me.

I should've pulled back and questioned what was happening but I didn't. I kissed him back slowly, ignoring the sounds of the TV as chills crawled through my body from head to toe.

Ressler slowly leaned back, giving my lips light pecks as he moved back. I opened my eyes to find his blue eyes still so close to me. Our breath was mixing in between us.

"What was that," I asked quietly.

"Most people call it a kiss," he said with a chuckle.

"But... why," I asked as his thumb traced my cheekbone. "What about you and Liz?"

"Me and Liz... what," his eyebrows furrowed as he leaned back a little further and let his hand drop from my face. "(Y/n), that's not a thing. It never has been."

I felt so stupid at that moment that I questioned how I ended up with a job at the F.B.I.

"Honestly, I kinda thought this was a date," he added. I looked down, now feeling especially stupid. "Unless you don't want it to be. Then we can just forget about all of that."

"No," I replied instantly. Probably a little too fast.

Ressler looked at me with an eyebrow raised.

I leaned back over and kissed him again. It was more passionate than the last kiss we shared. I put my hands on his shoulders and his hands grabbed my waist.

"I... I want this to be a date," I mumbled before kissing him again.

I didn't want to ever stop kissing him. It was such a perfect feeling.

"Good," he whispered against my lips.

What an amazing day off. What an amazing date.

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How Loki's finale sets up season 2 and the future of the MCU

Loki finale spoilers follow.

Just minutes into the season-one finale, Loki and Sylvie finally arrive at their destination following last week's big castle reveal. When the doors to their destiny swing open, Miss Minutes suddenly appears and congratulates the pair on completing this "awfully long journey."

Sure, season one was only six episodes long, but Loki's story started way before this. Combine all of his movie appearances with the wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey hijinks of this show, and it sure does feel like we've been on a long journey with the God of Mischief.

And now, following that post-credits reveal, Marvel has confirmed that Loki will indeed return for a second season. Thank the gods this journey is continuing, because there are more loose threads in that final episode than there are in all of Asgard's finest tailories combined.

Loki ending explained

Upon arriving at the Citadel at the End of Time, Loki and Sylvie are promised all of their greatest desires, including an infinity gauntlet, the Throne of Asgard and a win against those "self-righteous' Avengers. Christmas came early for our Lokis, but despite all that, they both end up turning Miss Minutes down.

And with that, the Big Bad of Loki (and now the MCU as a whole) is revealed to be Lovecraft Country's Jonathan Majors, AKA He Who Remains AKA Kang the Conquerer AKA "a jerk" (his words, not ours) AKA the villain that comic book fans predicted all along. What follows is a hefty amount of exposition that puts even the first episode to shame, so we'll do our best to summarise.

While He Who Remains bops around to avoid Sylvie's sword, he serves the pair tea and begins to explain his big origin story. Eons ago, in the 31st century, our guy (let's call him Kang, even if the show didn't) discovered the multiverse around the same time that other Kang variants did. At first, they shared knowledge and tech amongst themselves, but as time went on, those who were not "pure of heart" began to invade other realities, which erupted into all-out war.

This Kang was different from the rest, because he discovered Alioth, a creature born of the tears in reality that this war created. He Who Remains weaponised the creature, thereby ending the multiversal war. To preserve cosmic harmony, this variant then decided to isolate the "sacred" timeline, his own, and prune the rest to avoid another war. He then created the TVA to maintain this peace and thereby keep his other variants at bay.

According to He Who Remains, the only way Loki and Sylvie can move forward is if they either take over the TVA or kill this variant, which would unleash the multiversal war along with an "infinite amount of devils." So either "stifling order or cataclysmic chaos."

Pressure mounts once they cross the threshold, the point beyond the timeline that Kang knows. Everything from this point on is a surprise to him, so he's content to let his fate rest in the hands of two Lokis because… he's tired, he says.

Sylvie thinks that He Who Remains is also He Who Fibs A Bunch, so she tries to kill him. Loki isn't so sure though, and as you might expect, the pair try to settle this with a cheeky knife fight. This ends with a big kiss (cue the strings!) and then a double cross.

That's right. Sylvie chooses vengeance over love and shoves Loki through a portal, sending him back to the TVA. And with that, Lady Loki guts Kang like a fish. He seems pretty chill about it though, promising that she'll see him soon... Ominous much?

At that point, all of the timelines start branching out like crazy, creating the multiverse of madness that Kang tried to stop, until he got bored of it. We then cut back to Sad Loki at the TVA where he tries to tell Mobius that a terrifying new threat is on the way. But Mobius doesn't even know who he is anymore.

Does this mean that the timeline has been altered? Or has Loki been thrown into a new reality? Either way, it's not looking too good for the God of Mischief because a statue of Jonathan Majors has replaced the Time Keepers one we usually see in the TVA lobby.

How Loki's finale sets up season 2 and the MCU's future

Season two is going to throw plenty of new challenges at Loki, and hopefully a lot less exposition. First of all, our God of Mischief will need to figure out what the Hel's going on in this new version of the TVA. How will he get Mobius on side if Kang has always ruled this timeline or rewritten history in some way?

And it's not just one Kang he needs to worry about. He Who Remains has now become They Who Remain, which means that there are an infinite number of time-travelling villains to fight. And the worst thing of all is that Loki doesn't even have Sylvie on side now either following that savage betrayal.

Things could soon change in that regard though given the pair's connection. With Kang's tempad, Sylvie can go anywhere now, and we wouldn't be surprised if she ends up drawn back to Loki in some way.

Ravonna will almost certainly pop up again too. The TVA is all she's known, before the mindwipe anyway, and her quest to discover free will could end up transforming the Judge into an ally of sorts. And boy does Loki need all the help he can get.

Beyond the show itself, Loki's finale also just changed Marvel's entire trajectory. Not since we saw America's Ass has the MCU been left so shook by one event, but here we are, about to dive into the multiverse of madness.

The most obvious connection is between this and Doctor Strange's next film, which happens to be called The Multiverse of Madness. The good Doctor must be having heart palpitations after watching this episode, and rightly so, because he's perhaps the only one strong enough to fix this mess, aside from Wanda of course. In fact, the Scarlet Witch could turn out to be the key to everything going on here.

As a Nexus Being, Wanda can reshape reality itself, and that's going to come in handy given all of the Nexus shizz happening from this point on. Elizabeth Olsen's involvement in the film has already been confirmed, and at the end of WandaVision, it was strongly implied that Wanda will visit another reality to try and rescue some version of her now deceased children. Could this help fix things somehow or perhaps make them worse?

Doctor Strange and Wanda aren't the only ones caught up in all this. An animated show called What If...? will dive into some of Marvel's alternate realities firsthand, and the upcoming Spider-Man sequel will also tackle the multiverse with cameos from franchise stars who appeared pre-Marvel. Who knows? Maybe Spider-Ham will turn out be the one who saves everyone.

All this multiverse tomfoolery also opens the gates for X-Men and Fantastic Four characters to finally join the MCU. Marvel's First Family, as they're known in the comics, are already confirmed to star in their own film, and those Merry Mutants won't be far behind either. Whether those teams end up being recast or whether they ask the original actors to come back, one mutant whose return has already been confirmed is Deadpool.

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