Loki waffled between pronouns as he replied to her. Lynne was mostly certain he was talking to her...but at the same time, she thought perhaps he was talking about her and not realizing that she was the one to whom he was speaking. Was he too far gone to bring back? Had Thor's disappearance truly broken him as much? She knew that she'd been inconsolable when TJ had disappeared and she knew that she'd mostly spoken to no one, hadn't bothered to eat, and probably had sent Sebastian and what few friends she had into worry with her change in behavior, but nothing like this. The difference, she supposed, was that he'd loved Thor on a level far deeper than she could ever have felt for her brother. "You haven't lost me," she pointed out carefully, "I'm still right here, like I always am. Like I was before; like I always will be..." Her voice was quiet and pinched with hurt that it sounded like he felt she'd abandoned him when healing had only ever been her intention. She'd even since called a truce. She had started to try to rebuild the friendship that they'd had, ignoring the tiny tug at her heart she always felt when she talked to him because he hadn't ever been hers to lose and she'd allowed herself to move on, so that feeling had no place, anymore.
But then, he went on and Lynne's face fell. She wanted to be defiant and point out that Loki had no right to make those decisions for her, even if well-intentioned, but thought better of arguing with a mad, slightly empty shell of her friend. That, she thought, would only make things worse. He looked away, stating that it was best she didn't know the things he'd just said. "Feel what?" she asked, her brow creased with confusion and concentration. He'd made it very clear that he hadn't felt for her the way she had felt for him. It had been the only thing that had allowed her to move forward and let him go. For that, Lynne didn't understand what he was trying to say just then. She'd been forthcoming about the way she'd begun to feel about him and he had rejected her. What exactly, she wondered, was he trying to say now?
His voice lowered and he admitted to her that he was broken — which was not news to her before and most certainly was understood now — and that he wasn't what she needed. Once again, he was making decisions for her and she opened her mouth to protest only to close it again and bite the insides of her cheeks against it. Now was not the time. Instead, when he reached out and his hand met with hers, she took his and gave it a squeeze. "I just need you," she said. "I've only just needed you this whole time. I don't care if you're broken; I am, too. But you said it yourself," she pointed out, holding his hand tightly, "I made you stronger. ...you make me stronger, too. We make each other strong."
Looking away from him although refusing to release her grip on his hand, Lynne's voice dropped down to a near whisper. "That's why I fell in love with you in the first place..." she admitted and felt something akin to the stabbing pain that she'd felt when he'd rejected her in favor of Thor the first time. She could feel it again, bubbling dangerously near the surface in spite of her attempts to shut it out; to ignore it and to refuse it the chance to wrap itself tightly around her heart again. Lynne couldn't go through that pain again, not with TJ gone. Not without her brother to pick up the pieces like he always did. And still, her words betrayed her. "...that's what love is, Loki...making each other better...and that's what we do and that's why I thought you..."
At that, she regained herself and disallowed herself to finish the sentence, shaking her head and forcing herself to look back at him finally. "I don't need a savior. I don't need someone to try to fix me, I just need you, because you do it without even trying. So I don't care if you're not perfect or far from it or whatever you think you are because I can see deeper than that and..." her voice trailed off again and she took a deep breath, sniffling and using her free hand to wipe at her face again. "I just need you. That's all."