Loki escaped. Duncan had no idea how he got away but he did. And his kaiju side seemed weirdly alright with that. Duncan tried to chalk it up to his kaiju side wanting a hunt, but he had a feeling that wasn't the reason. Pushing that aside Duncan tried to think of other things. Like trying not to take the lizard comments Tony would make regarding his skin personally. The temptation to set the seat of Tony's pants on fire was very strong for Duncan but he held back mostly because Tony was being nice enough to give him a place to stay. However the subject of food had yet to come up and dinner time was closing in and Duncan was starting to get really hungry.
"Pizza?" Tony asked out of the blue.
"Huh?" Duncan blinking in confusion, he'd been trying to figure out how to explain his diet to those around him. If they thought him odd before, who knows what they'll think when they hear what he eats.
"Food. You do eat, don't you?" Tony teased.
Duncan rubbed the back of his head. "Yeah I do eat, but I don't eat pizza."
That seemed to surprise everyone. But then again Duncan knows how crazy that sounds.
"Okay? Then how bout Chinese? Know a nice place we can order from." Tony offered.
"Don't eat Chinese either." Duncan sighed.
"Okay then, rather than spend all night listing what we can eat, why don't you tell us what you DO eat." Tony said as he leaned against his bar.
"Charcoal." Duncan admitted with a sigh, figuring it would be better to just get that over and done with.
"Charcoal? As in charcoal charcoal?" Tony questioned with a raised brow.
"The stuff people barbecue with, yes." Duncan sighed.
"You actually eat that stuff?" Clint asked, clearly he found the idea weird.
"Nearly all my life." Duncan shrugged.
"This I got to see." Tony smiled.
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Though Duncan doesn't really like to have people watch him when he eats he happily tucked into the bag of charcoal offered to him while the Avengers watched him munch away on each piece he took from the bag.
"He actually eats charcoal." Tony said in amazement. "I thought you were shitting us with that but you actually do eat that stuff."
Duncan shrugged. "Yeah, was a shock to my mom when she found out but what do you expect when your father's a giant dragon like Kaiju."
"What else can you do?" Tony questioned.
Duncan smirked and blew a flame ring, he then made it fly over to Tony were it hovered over his head like a halo.
Clint snorted. "He should have horns not a halo."
"Haven't worked out how to do those yet. Though I do know one or two people who also need those too." Duncan joked. He then sighed heavily. "I really need to get home. Mom must be going mad." He mumbled to himself as he thought of home.
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~Back in Duncan's world~
Margaret was on the warpath. Her main target was Blitz for what he had done, for making her son disappear. She was mere moments from informing Belloc that Duncan was missing. It would be fitting for Blitz to have to face Belloc for losing his son the way he did.
"What happened to my son!?" Margaret demanded as she held Blitz against a wall.
"I've no idea what happened! The weapon should have just rendered him immobile at best, at worse the kid would've gotten a headache I swear." Blitz told her.
"If you don't get him back I am going to make MEGTAF short an agent." She growled in warning.
"We're looking into what happened. Once we have that information we can look into getting him back, in the mean time I have every agent looking for him." Blitz told her.
Margaret backed away from Blitz but kept her glare leveled at him. "I'm going to see Belloc and inform him his son is missing." She then turned and stormed off towards Belloc's cell. Blitz protest and pleas for her not to could be heard down the halls.
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~In the Marvel Universe~
Duncan sighed in annoyance as he peeled off some of his scales. The stress of finding himself in another world was sending him into an early shedding. But on the plus side the scales under what he was taking off seemed tougher then the old ones and had a nice shine to them.
'If this doesn't impress Loki I'll be shocked.' Duncan thought before shaking his head. "What the? Where'd that come from?" He was actually think about impressing Loki with his looks. Impressing the guy who'd tried to hold him hostage.
Thoughts of Loki started to cloud Duncan's mind. The way Loki smelled, Loki's look, his voice, even the way Loki's body had fitted against his and the feel of Loki's skin under Duncan's scales. Duncan had to force himself to stop thinking about Loki before his raging hormones got anymore out of control.
"You ok?" Clint asked, noticing the look of pure concentration on Duncan's face and the way the kid was now peeling off the old scales like it was his mission.
Duncan was about to lie and say he was fine but let out a huff, knowing he would never fool anyone with that lie. "You ever get someone, you know you shouldn't be thinking about in a," Duncan had to force himself to say the next word, "Sexual way stuck in your head?"
Clint chuckled. "You're a teen. I would be worried if you didn't have inappropriate thoughts every now and then. No one here is going to fault you for it." Clint assured him. "Besides, you are around some impressive looking people. I've read that there's a large number of straight men that would happily jump any of the male avengers."
Duncan sighed. "If it was one of you guys I was thinking about it might not be so bad. And I'm actually Bi."
Clint raised a brow. "Oh? Someone from your world then?"
Duncan shook his head and sighed. "It's Loki."
Clint frowned at that. "Loki? You're thinking about Loki like that?"
Duncan gave up on peeling off the old scales for now. "I can't explain it! Ever since I met the guy he's been all I can think about. Hell sitting here peeling off my dead scales all I can think about it how good I'll look for him the next time he sees me. And then there's this word dancing on the tip of my tongue every time I hear or say his name, a word that I can't for the life of me grasp and it's driving me crazy!"
Clint stared at Duncan for a while before shrugging. "Wow, sounds like you got it bad."
"Got what bad?" Tony questioned as he walked by.
"Our new friend here seems to be attracted to Loki." Clint answered.
Tony looked back at Duncan. "Oh yeah? Well I'd most likely bend over for Reindeer Games if he offered."
Duncan sighed, pushing away the anger that flared up at the thought of Tony with Loki. "For me it would be the other way around." He admitted.
Tony grinned. "Oh? So you're a topper?"
Duncan sighed. "Look I don't know what is going on with me when it comes to Loki. Maybe it's the whole Loki and I aren't human thing, or rather I'm half human. Whatever the case I highly doubt Loki's going to hook up with me." Duncan then left for the room he'd been given. He was going to take a shower to help get the rest of the scales off and to try to drive the thoughts from his mind.
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~With Loki~
Loki was confused by the recent events, going over everything that happened today as he paced and ran his fingers over the part of his neck that had been bitten, a shiver running down his spine at the action and reminder.
"That boy was far from normal, even for Thor's mortal friends." Loki's thoughts were on the orange, scaled male. The boy had appeared normal at first, but then he sprouted horns, wings, claws, and fangs." Loki had never seen anything like that before, and, to some degree of horror in Loki's opinion, some part of him felt a rush of excitement at that.
Loki pulled his hand from his neck and growled at himself.
He was trying very hard to banish the boy from his mind, but no matter what he did he found himself unable to get away from those thoughts. Of the boy's look, both before and after he changed, the feel of fangs on the back of his neck, the claw tipped hands that had roamed his body a little, and of the warm breath that had heated his skin. The whole of the boy's body seemed to radiate heat that had seeped into his very bones and even now, hours after the encounter, Loki could still feel the ghost of it.
"What sort of creature was he? I've never come across any like him before in my travels." Loki sighed as he took a seat.
He wondered if, maybe there had been something in the boy's bite that was effecting him. Yes he knew the bite hadn't broken his skin, but still, the level at which that boy was on his mind was far to high for his liking.
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~Duncan's room at Avengers Tower~
He couldn't sleep. He was tired from the events of today, but he couldn't sleep. He tossed and turned like crazy but couldn't sleep. He'd tried to wear himself out more by doing things, he finished peeling off his old scales and had showered to make sure he'd gotten off any flakes that had remained, Duncan had even tested his newer scales a little to see how much stronger they were.
Once that was done he looked around on the laptop he'd been given, watched random videos and shows. He at one point thought about watching some porn, which Tony had told him not to worry about paying for, but the thought of watching other people going at it was a turn off now.
Duncan groaned and placed his hands over his face. Seemed that, unless the people he was watching looked like near perfect clones of him and Loki he couldn't enjoy it.
"Loki's ruining the simple pleasures for me and he's not even here."
Wearing only a pair of pajama bottoms Duncan left the room he'd been given and headed for the kitchen, thinking a snack might help to take his mind off Loki and the nagging voice in his head that was trying to order him to go track Loki down. He didn't know why, but some part of him was tugging him in a certain direction and he had a good feeling that if he followed that tugging he would find Loki with only a little trouble.
Entering the kitchen Duncan's thought quickly stopped when he saw Thor looking around in the fridge. After Thor and the others had arrived to Duncan, pretty much feeling Loki up and word had gotten round the tower to Duncan's strange attraction to Loki, Thor had been giving him odd looks that Duncan just couldn't work out the meaning of.
Duncan thought about retreating, going back to his room and forgetting about eating, but that same part of him that was demanding he go find Loki, the part of him that wanted to show Loki that he could protect and provide for him, that same annoying part of him that had been acting up since he pretty much got here was screaming at him to stand his ground and not show weakness before Thor. It was almost enough to make Duncan groan, how a part of him wanted him to show himself as the dominate male in that room. Something he'd never felt the need to do before now and that he was totally blaming Belloc for.
While Duncan was busy hating his inner self Thor had closed the fridge door and spotted him. The two were now staring at each other, neither moving or saying anything for a long time.
Eventually Thor shut his eyes and sighed to himself. "I take it that you can not sleep?"
It threw Duncan off that Thor wasn't saying anything about Loki or Duncan's clear attraction to him, but if Thor was going to say nothing on the matter then Duncan wouldn't bring it up. "I want to sleep, but nothing I try is working." Duncan admitted.
Thor opened his eyes and smiled slightly. "You'll normally find some of us awake at night, for different reasons, so you won't be without some form of company when you can't sleep."
That was good. Back home Duncan would always be alone during sleepless nights as his mother would be sound asleep and his friends would also be asleep as well. At least back home he had all his games and even homework he could do to kill time until he finally crashes. "I just came looking for something to eat. Figured food would help." Duncan sighed heavily. "I think I might be home sick and that's what's keeping me up."
Thor nodded. "I can understand that. I spent some time banished to this world in the past and was unable to return home for some time. It is not a pleasant feeling."
Duncan opened up some of of the cupboards before finding one of the bags of charcoal that had been bought for him. Taking the smallest bag he could he opened it and started munching on them like he was a normal teen eating chips. "It's not something I'm use to. My whole life I have spent around my mother, it was only recently I gained friends, and a girlfriend but that didn't work out after I found out she hated my kaiju side and hoped to find a 'cure' for that side of me." He sighed.
"Are those like yourself rare?" Thor questioned.
Duncan shrugged. "Far as I know I'm the only hybrid. There could be others out there that are hiding or simply living some place where MEGTAF can't find them. But for the most part I've never heard or seen anyone else like me."
Thor appeared thoughtful on this and Duncan really wished he knew what it was that was going through Thor's head.
"I can not imagine what it must be like. To be so different from those around you, to be of a race that is hated by those around you." Thor said thoughtfully, his thoughts on Loki and how he must have felt after learning what he truly is, trying to live around people who he knew would demand his head if they learned he was a frost giant rather then one of them.
Looking Duncan over Thor took careful note of everything he could see regarding the young half breed before him. This was a young man who was half kaiju and had to hide it every day of his life before he had been forced to reveal that side of him, a young man who was half of a race that is hated greatly by the people of his world and yet while he had known full well what he was he still had to hide it from anyone who could have accepted him until events forced him to reveal his kaiju sigh to those around him. Could Loki have turned out like Duncan had their father not hidden what his brother truly was from them?
Duncan, while clearly scared of rejection and what others will think of his non human side is a strong young man who still has some hope for a better future. Someone not destroyed by the weight of racial differences and hate, unlike Thor's brother.
It was surprising the difference between Duncan and Loki, both bound by racial hate and secrets and yet so very different from one and other all because one knew what made him different since birth while the other had it hidden from him.
"The last few years I've learned a lot about myself that I didn't know before, and all because I found friends that could accept me for what I am and wanted to know more about me." Duncan said, trying to break the heavy silence that seemed to settle between the two of them.
Thor had use to think that Loki had friends in Asgard, but his eyes had been opened and he now knew that those friends he had thought were Loki's were just his friends and they merely put up with Loki for his sake.
"Yes, friends can change everything for you." Thor nodded, Duncan was proof that was true and Thor's time on Earth had caused him to change greatly for the better and all because of the people he'd met during his time banished.
"That they do. I'd be lost without Kenny and Isabel." Duncan smiled as he recalled when they found out about what he is. Kenny had been so relaxed about it and Isabel had been so excited, asking him a bunch of questions in an excited rush that had made him laugh in the end.
Thor knew he had to ask the question that was really on his mind regarding Duncan, but he wasn't sure just what he was hoping to hear. "And what of my brother? What is your interest in him?"
Duncan felt every muscle in his body tense up at that while his mind seemed to shoot to the gutter. "Uh, well, that's hard to say really. I've never felt my kaiju side react to anyone like this before. I've got that side of me demanding to find Loki, that's directing me in a certain direction and it's telling me I will find him there. While my human side is attracted to him, my kaiju side seems to have almost claimed him in my mind." Duncan sighed. "I've never had this happen before and I'm at a lost as to what to do. If my father was here as well I would ask him about this in hopes of dealing with this, but I'm on my own sadly."
"Are you close to your father?" Thor questioned. Clearly Duncan was unsure about his feelings towards Loki and really Thor wasn't the best person to help him figure that mess out.
"I don't really know him all that well. It was only a few years ago that I even met him and he is locked up in MEGTAF. Yeah I can go see him any time I want, but really, after all this time I don't like the thought of going to him for help, even with kaiju stuff. Hell mom doesn't even go to him for help unless shit's really bad." Duncan answered. "Think I've only been to see my dad of my own free will like twice in the couple years I've known him." Duncan admitted. He realized how bad that must sound to someone who has a close relationship with their father.
Thor gave a thoughtful nod. "Your father had to stay away because of what he is and his duty to his people. I can not begin to imagine what that must have been like for you."
Duncan shook his head. "Mom told me about him when I was old enough to understand why he needed to be kept a secret from those outside of MEGTAF. But for the most part I barely gave him any thought. Least until he came back into my life and things started to change." That was a small lie. After all growing up without a father, and seeing other kids with their fathers had hurt a little as a child. But he'd gotten over that before Belloc had shown up.
"I suppose growing up without a father would have made you stronger." Thor commented.
Duncan sighed. "Stronger? I don't know about that. After all I would have to see a version of myself that grew up with Belloc around before I could tell you which was better for me." Duncan turned from Thor, deciding he didn't want to talk about this anymore. "Anyway, think I'll go back to my room, maybe see if I can find a movie or something. See you Thor." Duncan then walked away, almost missing as Thor said goodnight to him.
Duncan knew it was kind of rude of him to just leave like that. But the subject of his father was a touchy one for him. After all what is he suppose to say about his father? The guy wasn't around any before a few years ago and now he was spending most of his days locked up in MEGTAF. Yeah he wanted to get to know his father, but the guy was a stranger to him, not to mention the reason Duncan had some rouge Kaiju coming after him from time to time. That wasn't to say he wasn't going to try, at least for his mother. But for now, at least while he's stuck in this world he doesn't want to think much about his father.