Serenity watched from the shadows as some S.H.I.E.L.D agents ushered a chained Loki to Dr. Bruce Banner's room (which was actually a cell for holding him in case he went Hulk on everyone).
Why do I get the feeling that Bruce is seriously not going to like this, the rather small woman thought, a small smile playing on her lightly colored lips? She padded out from the dark corner she had been hiding in and silently fell into place behind the large group with tinier feet.
Serenity let out a slight gasp and pushed herself against the wall as the men who had been taking Loki to Bruce's room exited through the small doorway, leaving Nick Fury and Loki alone.
Fury went to work on explaining the ant/boot concept to the godly prisoner. Serenity couldn't help but give a small chiming giggle at the way that both men managed to keep a straight face. Fury spun around to face her, and for a second Serenity thought he was angry. Instead, Fury merely motioned her to come further into the large metal room. She quietly walked over to him, her steps nearly silent as usual. Her knee-high blue dress bounced happily up and down with each step she took.
Loki stared her down and ran a rather judgmental stare over her profile with narrow and accusing eyes.
"Loki," Fury stated, causing the other man to turn his attention back to him. "I would like you to meet Agent Lotus." Serenity offered Loki a small wave as Fury briefly glanced at her. "Agent, this is the man who claims that he wants to take over the world." Nick explained with a slightly amused look on his face.
"I did not know that you let children work for you, Director." Loki sneered from his place behind the thick glass. Serenity merely smiled at the black haired man who tried to look as if nothing in the universe could faze him. But Serenity wasn't stupid. She saw past his superior façade and could see a seriously lonely person.
"I'm twenty one, Loki." Serenity stated. "I already talked Director Fury out of having children working here. If he had hair, I'm sure there would be enough white and grey in it already." She told him in such a soft voice that Loki thought it was going to melt the glass he was standing behind. Nick glared at her with one eye.
"Are you informing me that I'm old, Agent Lotus." She turned away from looking at the Norse God in the giant container and gave the director a blank look with violet eyes.
"Yes, yes I am." She stated simply. Loki resisted the urge to double over in laughter. Instead, he glanced to the corner of the room with a small smirk played out on his pale lips. Fury looked like the big, bad wolf from the Three Little Pigs as his chest swelled angrily. His one eye glared back and forth between the smirking god and the softly smiling agent.
"Lotus," Fury grounded out. "You're in charge of watching over the prisoner while he is aboard this helicarrier." With that, he spun on his heels and quickly marched out of the room. Loki smirked at the Directors anger before shifting his eyes to study his glass cage. He could have easily broken out of the large prison, but what fun would that be? If he stayed here then he could draw out the sweet, thick, tension that the idiot "heroes" (if he could even call the dysfunctional group that) already created. And his plans with the green beast would help to set all of his plans of taking over Earth into motion.
The light sound of padding soles of feet drew him out of his intense thoughts. He turned to see the short woman sitting on the metal floor with her feet tucked underneath her electric blue dress. She glanced up at him with bright violet eyes and offered him another smile.
"Why must you have such an annoying smile?" Loki scoffed with a slight roll of his eyes. Serenity's all-too-nice demeanor vanished in seconds as she narrowed her at the prisoner.
"Me?" She snapped. "Have you looked at yourself in the mirror? Your face is just as annoying." She ignored the backfiring thought that she had just called her face annoying.
"I believe I was referring to your smile, not your face." Loki replied with an amused expression on his pale face. Serenity felt her frowning at his words and kept quiet as she tried to bite back the blush that was currently trying to take over her lightly tanned face. "Did I hit an old nerve, agent?"
"I don't know if I should take that as an insult or as a compliment." She stated. Loki noticed that she avoided his jab and reverted to her gentle expression.
"I would consider it to be a bit of both, actually. Not that you mortals can tell the difference of ideas and thoughts that are completely both. Honestly, you humans have the brains of very small creatures - another reason why I should rule over you." Loki sneered at the tiny woman. Serenity felt rage swell inside of her unnaturally small body. Within seconds she was up and standing in front of the thick glass that separated the two of them.
"Don't you dare go off and insult mortals you ignorant ass." Serenity seethed. "It was mortals that are keeping you locked up like an animal and don't you dare forget it. You may be a god, but that doesn't automatically mean you know how to rule over others." Loki gaped at her and he could have sworn that a growl followed her words.
Serenity turned away from him and breathed through her button/slightly upturned nose to calm her anger and slow the racing thoughts that were a whirlwind in her mind. Already she probably had gotten on his ever growing bad/evil side.
Loki watched as she stilled and heard the harsh breathes leaving her. He didn't mind that she cursed him and that she looked ready to tear him limb from limb, set it all on fire and scatter them in the wind. The thing that got him was the glow of her violet eyes and made them look like glittering jewels. It was very appealing to the Norse god and not much was appealing to him. Serenity turned back to, with a light flushes to her face still, him and placed a light smile on her lips. 'Another insane mortal,' Loki thought.
He broke the silence between them. "Will you tell me why you keep smiling even though you wish to do me harm?"
Serenity's smile faltered for a moment but set it to a smaller one then the last. "I… I don't like to be angry." She stated as she brushed a strand of blackish red hair out of her face. "I mean, who wants to live a life full of anger and hate?" Loki frowned.
"What do you mean by that?"
"So many things start out with angry word or actions. Then things get worse by time after. People regret what they say when the feel the anger rise in them and let it take control of them." Serenity stated. Loki raised an eyebrow at her with a bit of confusion.
"You speak as if you lived it little mortal."
"My family is very dysfunctional."
Loki walked to the self like bed/seat and gracefully sat down and studied the small girl again. She was small, dark red head, thin, lightly tan, with light violet eyes. The overall like a doll.
"What about yours Loki?" she questioned softly.
His emerald eyes snapped up to her violet ones. "Why should I tell you? You pathetic mortal." He sneered, covering up a few of the hurtful memories he had from his childhood. There were also the cameras all around the translucent cage, like he would ever spill his secrets to complete morons. Serenity knew he wouldn't open up to anyone; she had to show she was not going to betray him or embarrass him.
She walked over to the panel Fury was standing by earlier and typed in some codes to turn off the audio for the room of the cage. Turning towards the leather clad man, she smiled another soft smile.
"You smiling is starting to infuriate me little doll." Loki stated.
"You already said that."
"Merely rewording it."
Serenity made to retort again when someone called her on her com. He could here loud voices emitting from the device from her ear even through the thick glass. She's going to have hearing problems one day, Loki thought with a bit of sympathy. He froze; he was FEELING sympathy for a MORTAL! Loki shook his head, promptly shaking any sort of emotional thought from his head.
"Yes sir I know," Serenity spoke into the com. Link. "No sir, it was only- yes I understand, I'll turn if back on immediately." The small woman frowned at the fact that her plan to get Loki to say things about himself was thwarted. With a sigh, she returned to the control panel and pressed a few buttons to turn the audio for the cage back on.
"This chat has been... Nice." Serenity stated without looking up from the control panel. "But it seems I have some other matters to attend to." And by other matters she meant: go explain to Fury why she had turns off the audio receptors for the cage. Loki merely scoffed and turned away slightly, as if he could care less that she had to leave. Serenity smiled gently at him before spinning on her heels and stalking out of the door. Loki huffed in slight annoyance as he lied down on the white berth.
He tried to ignore the slight fluttering feeling in his chest.