A/N: This fanfic comes from a role play that is on Tumblr
Lea Swann sat down at the usual table. "So, are you going to actually tell me anything this time?" She looked up from the files spread in front of her to Loki, who was smirking slightly. He remained silent for a moment as he watched his interrogator. Then he looked about the room. Metal walls, metal table, metal chairs. So much metal.
"Maybe" He replied simply, still a stupid smirk on his face.
"Alright. That's an improvement on last two weeks." Lea kicked her shoes off, the damn heels pinched, and drew her feet underneath her on the chair. "Tell me what you did yesterday." She demanded, no care if he didn't like her tone.
Loki's eyes fell upon the blue eyed girl once more. "Why do you want to know that, petty Midgardian?" He rubbed his feet together under the table, waiting for her response.
"I was trying to make pleasant conversation, the whole interrogation thing is getting kinda old, God of Mischief." She ran her hands through her brown hair and sighed. "I know you don't want to be here, Loki. Neither do I frankly, but Director Fury demands it and Mr Angry Pirate gets whatever he wants around here." Lea then seemed to realise what she'd said "Oh god, please don't tell Fury I call him that! He'll fire me again."
Loki laughed slightly. "I won't." He smiled. "On one condition," He leaned forward in his seat and clasped his hands together, "you stop pestering me with your stupid questions"
Lea grinned. "Well that's easy to agree to, they aren't my questions. Coulson gave me a bloody script to work with! If I was asking my own questions I'd be a lot more comfortable with this job." Lea leant forward, sliding her legs off the chair. "Although, out of genuine curiosity, what did you do yesterday? There was an evacuation on the 5th floor. Anything to do with you?"
"Hehe, maybe" He smirked. "But it's going to take a lot more than that to get something out me, Lea" His smile faded and he replaced it with cold stare he usually wore. "Yes, I did have something to do with that" He told her, bored of being secretive with this girl.
Lea bit her lip and blinked at his sudden change in demeanour. "I'm sorry if I offended you, Loki. Did I say something out of line?"
"No" He rested his head in his left hand and yawned. "I'm simply bored. And your curiosity is dull. Why be interested in such boring things? Why not something like magic?"
Lea tilted her head to make eye contact with him "Well let's do some magic then!"
He raised an eyebrow. "I'm afraid these handcuffs restrict me from using my magic. But if you would be so kind…" He trailed off, hoping he could get her to take them off. Maybe then he would be able to get out of there.
Lea raised an eyebrow. "I'm not falling for that, big guy. Surely there is something you can do with them on?"
"Fine" He said gruffly. He waved his hand and beside her appeared a duplicate of him. Still in handcuffs though because it was the only the god could do. He tried to conjure a multiple that could let him out of his cage a while back but that didn't work because the damn chains held the clone back.
Loki waved another hand and the multiple disappeared. Lea squealed and clapped her hands as the double disappeared. At his raised eyebrow she grinned "Are there any talents you have of your own?"
"You'd be awesome in bed with that little trick. And as for your other question, I can do this" She scrunched her face up and wiggled the end of her nose. "Impressive, huh?"
"Sure" His voice drooled with sarcasm. "Very impressive" He rolled his eyes and looked at the clock. "I believe our half hour is up. If you would be so kind as to escort me back to my cell" He sighed as he stood from his seat. "We shall continue this tomorrow"
Lea dropped her smile and stood up. "Fine." She slipped her black heels on again and walked straight past Loki, keys for the cuffs and the cell in hand.
"Thank you" He looked down at his cuffed hands. Did he honestly just say thank you? That's not what he wanted to say at all. He looked back up to find that Lea was no longer in front of him. She was waiting for him at the door.
Just before they reached his cell, they came across Tony. Lea rolled her eyes, waiting for the crude comments. "I see you're keeping Crazy here in line, well done girl." Tony patted her on the back and moved on. Loki watched the man with the iron suit as he touched Lea. It made her flinch, which made the god smirk. Lea stumbled forward slightly with the force of his movement, and slowly made eye contact with Loki. She knew he had seen her flinch when Tony raised his arm to her, she looked around before whispering "Common, we're going somewhere else."
He hesitated. "Where?" He asked, unsure if this girl was beginning to trust him and let him out of cell for a while or if she was taking him to a room in which she could torture him.
When they reached Lea's small office she closed the door quickly, turning to face Loki. "Right, bargaining time, Loki. I am going to let you out of those cuffs, and let you out of SHEILD, on one condition. You do something for me."
His eyes widened. "You're going to let me out?" So she trusted him. He was relieved to find that it was not torture. Lea nodded slightly. "Yes, I will do whatever you wish for me to do" He bowed his head slightly. "What is it that you require?"
She smiled softly at Loki's surprise. "SHEILD took me away from an abusive family, but refused to give me justice. I was hoping you could help me get it?" Lea had worked up the courage to ask Loki for this for a while, but the encounter with Tony had tipped her over the edge. Despite knowing her history, no one in SHEILD seemed to care about her fear of physical contact. Except maybe the Black Widow.
His smile dropped. Now he knew why Lea had flinched earlier. She didn't like physical contact "Are you looking for justice or revenge?" He leaned in a little closer. "Might I suggest revenge, it's much more fun" He teased her slightly by brushing his hand against hers but stopped when he realized it was mean to push her further.
Lea gasped quietly when his hand brushed against hers. Looking Loki in the eye she grinned "Oh yes, most definitely revenge. Now how about we get these cuffs off?" Loki noticed the gasp she had tried to hide and hid his malicious smile.
"I would like that very much" He held his hands out to her, ready for the cuffs to be taken off.
With slightly shaking hands she fumbled with the complicated lock. "I- thank you, Loki. Wh- um, what are we going to do?" Lea finally managed to get the cuffs off, but was suddenly very nervous. What if she had asked too much of Loki? She had never really given him anything, so why should he do this for her?
"Well, personally I like to take the torture approach but if you want to kill them straight away, I'd be very fine with that" He glanced at her. "But you don't want to be that extreme…..do you?" He asked when he saw her expression.
Sighing, Lea sat down on her desk. "No, not really. Never been one for killing." She ran a hand through her hair "I just want him to suffer Loki, he hurt me in ways even you couldn't imagine." She choked back a sob "I've never told anyone this before, but he raped me. My foster-father, that is." She brushed away her tears and stood up "That's not important anyway. Let's get you out of here, hm?"
"Uh….ok" He didn't really no what to say. Lea walked towards the door but he blocked her from leaving. "I….I…uh" He still fumbled for words. It was the first time Loki had let her see him like this. "I'll make him suffer, you have my word"
Lea reached up and cupped Loki's face with her hands. "Thank you, My Lord." She grinned at his dumbfounded expression. "Common, I think there's an all staff meeting on now, so if we're lucky we should just be able to walk right out the front door."
He was a little shocked that she was touching him. Not many people would touch him and he didn't expect Lea to, not with her anxiety of it. "Of course. You lead. I don't know the way through this place"
She grabbed her bag and pulled on her coat, buttoning it up against the cold weather awaiting her outside. "Alrighty, let's skadoodle!" At Loki's confused look Lea laughed "it means go," she explained as they left her office. As Lea predicted, they met no one on their way to the foyer. Once they were outside she turned to Loki "please keep in mind this isn't what Manhattan usually looks like, you kinda banged it up a bit last year."
"Ah…ok." He smiled at her, still very confused by the Midgardian term 'skadoodle'. He shook it off as they begun walking through the broken city. "Now, where are we going?"
Lea blushed when he smiled at her. "We can crash at my apartment for a bit, before we get things fully sorted. It's about five blocks from here." she looked him up and down "Actually before we go any further you might want to change your clothes to something a little more... inconspicuous." The leather and metal, while insanely attractive, wasn't exactly normal day-wear for the average New Yorker, and stood out quite a bit.
He looked down at his clothes then back at her. He used his magic to change him from what he wore into a black dress suit with a green scarf. He smiled further at her joyful expression. This Midgardian was easy to impress. And that made his grin grow wider.