Chapter 2
A/N: thank yall for all of your positivity I will try to update as frequently as possible but you know life happens. Hope everyone is doing well. Have a wonderful day! Also question of the day; how do you think Loki would react to Boba Tea? I think he would like the taste depending on the tea but I'm not sure he would like the texture of boba.
Also as a side note this is slightly AU-ish because while keeping with the timeline I'm mostly likely going to stretch and shrink time to how I see fit for story telling.
"You're staying in the hold with him, Miss. Murphy, considering you popped in out of nowhere. How do we know if you're not a threat, you already made it known that you know sensitive information," Fury threatened. Holy shit. His glare was freighting as he stepped aboard the helicopter. I felt like he could end me right there with a single eyed stare down and it was amazingly terrifying. Seeing no way out of it I hand my hands up in defeat.
"Steve take her to Banner first to have a small check-up, then escort her to the hold. Since you have been found to have no weapons on you we'll let you keep your bag and everything currently in it." Fury says coldly as i feel my pockets, and seeing that I still have my pocket knife decide to see if I can score some brownie points.
'Um.. Excuse me Mr. Fury but it seems like someone may have overlooked this," I say meekly as I pull out my closed but hefty pocket knife and hold it out for him to take it, "rather not get myself into anymore trouble." He froze for a second before taking it and walking off.
"I'm guessing Spandex Steve over there didn't check you over as well as he should have, what else are you hiding Missy?" Tony jeered with a classic Stark grin on his face.
"I believe her name is Lady Dahlia, not 'Missy'," Thor piped up, not quite understanding Tony. Loki made a face at his brother before catching my eye and giving me a sly smile. Before I ask him what's so funny, he's taken away while Steve retorts to Tony,
"I didn't think a kid like her would have a weapon on her like that." I feel myself leave my body in despair when Steve called me a kid. Not only does he think I'm a wuss but I'm a kid as well? There goes my chances of being taken seriously by him. I pipe up,
"Sorry to correct you but I'm indeed an adult, Captain" Steve stares at me for a second and grins a 'sure kid' grin when Tony grabs my attention again,
"Anyway, before you head out with Captain Smooth, take this and I'll keep you up to date on everything I can." My eyes bulge out of my head when he hands me one of the nicest smart phones I've ever seen as if it was some crummy burner phone.
"It's my own design but its like 6 months old and I don't really use it much," Tony continues as if he's talking about something outdated, "besides the one I finished last week is much better so I transferred everything off of that into my new phone." Eye's bugging out of my head I question,
"Thank you but why were you carrying it if you were using it anymore?" Tony cooley comes back with,
"Force of habit, anyway you two should get along before Fury gets a bug up his ass." With that Steve and I were silently on our way towards what I'm guessing is glass room where Bruce works.
This situation is extremely odd, I wonder if I'm going to wake up anytime soon from this? And who the hell just gives someone a custom smartphone? It's best not to keep too many secrets from Stark but I probably shouldn't do too much on the phone aside from talking to him and just use mine own phone for personal stuff. I gotta delete- I was so deep in thought that I ran into Steve.
"Ah! Sorry, I should have been looking where I was going," I squeak out. Smooth Dahlia. Steve just chuckled and said,
"No problem, also we're here." The door we stood in front of suddenly opened by itself in that cool sci-fi action movie way to reveal a stout man looking a bit worse for wear but was clearly Bruce Banner. I wonder if he would be happy knowing his actor counterpart does a lot for charities and awareness.
"So you're Dahlia… and you're from another world," Bruce askes without looking away from the screen he was messing with.
"Yeah… well I'm caught up on all my vaccinations and haven't ever traveled outside the U.S. until a few hours ago when I was dropped from Georgia to Germany. Also, and hopefully I'm not jinxing myself, don't think I caught the con crud," I babbled off, trying to be helpful. When hearing say 'con crud' Bruce actually looks up at me but his expression unclear until he spoke,
"'Con crud', like a cold from a convention?"
"Yeah! I don't know if it exists here but I was leaving Dragon-Con before I got plopped down in Germany!" I say excitedly, dorky smile on my face and see Bruce not quite matching but equally dorky grin. Steve just looked confused.
"Yeah I use to go every year back when I was in college, what a party," Bruce replied seemingly nostalgic.
"Well anyway it's best we get on with a quick check up" Bruce concluded and sent Steve out of the room. He did what any other doctor would do during a checkup but for some reason took a couple of vials of blood.
"You seem to be doing all right Miss. Murphy, but I won't know everything till your blood test comes back. I'll have someone come check up on you if I find anything odd but I doubt I will, there just measures to take you know?" Bruce rambles off then pauses,
"Dahlia? In your world I'm a character, correct?" Bruce questioned me, his face unclear in his emotions. I muster up my kindest smile to him,
"Yeah! You're a superhero in comic books and in the movies!" I tell him. Bruce's face softens into a small smile as he waves Steve in. Right answer I hope, he seems to be such a nice guy.
"Everything alright?" Steve asked.
"Just peachy!" I replied as Natasha, Thor, and Tony walked into the room. Natasha messed with a large screen and brought up the feed from Loki's cell as Fury was going through his rant. Glad I wasn't there for that.
Steve turned to me when Fury left Loki alone,
"I hate to leave you with that mad man but it hopefully won't be for too long."
"Yeah I hope so," I breathe out as I look around the room. Tony's messing with Bruce as Natasha left the room before us. Steve looks at me expectantly as I hop off the table. Bruce and Tony wave me off and like that I walked silently behind Steve through the ship.
It had this cold, machine like feeling throughout the walk with walls kind of like a hospitals, stark grey and metal. We passed several metal doors some open with people working some not. At one point we passed what I believed was the mess halls and whatever they were having smelled like heaven and I realized it has been awhile since I've last ate.
All too quickly we were there, the glass prison with my current 'roommate' already inside. Loki just stood there and I could feel his eyes boring into me sending a chill up my spine. Steve coughed then spoke up,
"Like I said sorry to leave ya here but it hopefully won't be for too long. I'll try to catch you around dinner later tonight and make sure your okay." I swallow the lump in my throat and nod but pause when he says dinner.
"What time is it now then? It looked to me to be like the evening when we arrived," I questioned as Steve stepped aside and prompted guards to be on high alert. Loki smartly backed away from the entrance to the opposite side of the glass prison. Just stay calm and hopefully no one gets shot.
"I'd say it's about…," Steve check his watch that I didn't notice him having before while continuing, "it's about 3:30 in the afternoon stateside. It looked different outside since we're cruising the globe." I got so distracted by Steve talking that I almost missed the door opening but a rather harsh nudge from one of the guards reminded me of my current digs. I made a small noise in pain be began moving forward into the prison.
"Hey man it not nice to be so rough with a girl like that," Steve snapped behind me to the guard who pushed me.
"For all I know she can be just as bad as him while your over here making dinner plans with a prisoner!" The man, short but sturdy man with a bald head, spat back as I tried not to look back as I step into the, the glass walls in closing me and Loki together. They think I'm the bad guy?
"We don't know that for sure, all we know is that she comes from another Earth, and you know, maybe they have more manners than you do soldier" Steve sounded off. The man backed down but not before giving me an angry sneer as everyone files out of the room.
Steve looks back and gives me a small wave and smile before leaving alone with Loki. I look over to said god to meet his eyes for a moment before the mischief in his eyes and grin cause me to look away. Shit he's hot like the actor but probably not as kind, just say out of his way.
I keep him in my prereferral vision as I take my bag and sit down on the right side of the cage from the door. I try to not give him the time of day as I search my bag and find my laptop. No reason not catch up on some shows I have downloaded.
"What's the matter, a little shy? You weren't so shy with the soldier but all I get is a glance," Loki suddenly teased as a chill runs down my spine as he walks just a tad closer. I reach for my bag to pull out some headphones still trying not to stare at him when it's suddenly snatched out of my reach.
"Not so fast, why don't you look at your future King first," Loki commanded. I wait a beat then meet his eyes with my own as he stood above me with my bag looking satisfied and intimidating.
"Much better, now from what I understand you know a great deal about me and those silly humans but you see I know nothing of you. So tell me what's your name," he said looking at me expectantly. If I wasn't so terrified this be hot. Nervously I reply,
"M-my name is Dahlia Murphy."
"Dahlia, mhmm like the flower," he asked and hearing my name roll off his silver tongue made my blood rush in more ways than one.
"Yes l-like the flower," I quietly replied while I tried breaking eye contact and look at my hands but Loki's cool hand quickly grabbed my chin and tilted my head to continue looking at him. He was very close now and bent down above me.
All this happened so fast that in my surprise I yanked my head back so hard I hit my head on the glass wall behind me.
"Oowww"
"Tsk you should still be looking at your King while he's giving you his time and attention. I still have questions for you little flower," Loki scolded me as I rubbed the back of my head.
"Tell me, what are their weaknesses? And of my clear victory! I want to crush them as thoroughly as possible and if you tell me maybe I'll let you have the honor of cleaning my throne room when this is all over," he asked excitedly, like a murderous puppy.
"What, no I can't tell you anything about that I'm sorry but you know I can't tell anyone about what happens until it happens. No spoilers. you know," I ramble out as his face noticeably fell from my words.
"I'm not anyone I'm going to be your King! Don't deny me," he said harshly as his green eye burned into me.
"You don't understand I can't tell you, I can't tell anyone! It's like a timeline that's got to hit certain beats and if I tell anyone something ahead of time and they don't hit that beat themselves something can go very wrong. Plus your stories have changed so many times over the year any information I might have come be wrong now!" I pleaded scared out of my wits as he glared at me.
He lets out an angry sigh after a while and drops my bag next to me and heads to the other side of the cage but not before saying,
"I'll make you speak, little flower. Even if I have to pluck your petals."