Chapter 2: The forgotten past.
《FEW DAYS LATER》
Ray walked down the car to enter the newly built Avengers Tower. Finally she was about to stay in her own home. The thrill that the Avengers would stay with them was also there not because they were superheros but more because for the first time in her life she would stay in a house with more than two people in it.
Ray was followed by Tony as he got down the car. "Long wait over." he said as his sister cheerfully smiled at him. "So what are your plans, cheeseball?" asked Tony as they walked in the house.
"Gonna rush to my room. Take a long shower and then I'm gonna join you in whatever you are doing in the lab." She said in one breath.
"Bruce is gonna join us today. So I'll be showing him the Avengers lab. That gonna take half an hour so I'll come to our personal lab after that." he informed as the elevator went up carrying them to Ray's floor.
"Wow! You did great homework!" commented Ray as she saw her personal floor. The furniture was set, one wall was made of glass that showed the view of the whole of New York and the glass could be made opaque when she wanted to.
"Yeah... Thought you might like this." Tony said, proud of his choice.
"Like? I love it!" she exclaimed.
"Ok, my floor is on the floor above. You can take the lift or take the stairs. Whichever you like. Avengers facility is from ground floor to the 4th, 5th to 10th is the private Avengers facility."
"Till 10th is the private facility and we are staying on the top floor, whats between?"
"Ooh those research wings, the labs, medic facility for Doctor Helen Cho, a theatre etc etc..." he went on.
"Ooh" Ray replied in short.
"Mr. Stark, Doctor Banner is here and is aaking for you." said JARVIS.
"Great, show him his way to the Avengers lab, I'll ne there." he said before he left.
Ray moved into her room. She was really impressed by her brothers choice plus he exactly knew what Ray would want in her room. The bed was huge. The walk in cupboard was larger than her previous one. She walked towards it to grab a dress. "Mr. Stark told me to inform you that he made your cupboard larger so that you do not complain about your not being able to keep your stuff properly." informed JARVIS.
"Bad ass, isn't he?" commented Ray.
"Should I inform him something?"
"Nah, I'll tell him myself." she replied.
Ray took a long shower when Tony was down showing Bruce around talking with him. When she came out she did her regual choars, straightened her hair and tied it into a high pony tail, put on a blue jeans and a comfortable baggy T-shirt. Suddenly her attention shifted to her bed. A parcel was lying down. She reached for it and took it out to find a CD labelled 'Howard Stark' on it. "What the hell is this?" she mumbled.
"Miss Stark, Mr. Stark is asking for you in the lab." JARVIS boomed.
"Tell him I'll be there in a minute", she said keeping the CD on her bedside table and made her way towards the elevator.
《SOMEWHERE IN THE FOOTHILLS OF THE ALPS》
"Father, look someone is lying down there!" said the little boy of age around eight.
"Oh God, he looks injured!" said the father approaching the slim figured guy lying down in the woods. "We should carry him home." he suggested and did so.
《AT THE MAN'S HOME》
"Who is that dad?" asked the boy looking at the unconscious body of Loki. After being banished from Asguard and beimg ripped off his powers he was not more than a human. So he couldn't take the immense pressure of pasing through a worm hole and lost consiousness.
"I don't know son." the middle aged man replied.
"What do we do with him?"
"Lets leave him to himself. I'm sure he'll be up by evening."
"Ok."
《HOURS LATER》
《AVENGERS TOWER》
It has been hours, Ray and Tony had been working on the compressor of a car. Though it was a new lab, it didn't take them long to feel homely. The presence of each other was what made them feel comfortable. The music was blazing. It was around 1o' clock at night when Pepper came in. "Tony! Ray! I am fed up of draging you both out of the labs." she exclaimed.
"You can forget that responsibility of yours." replied Ray.
"What do you mean? Ray its past one when are you going to sleep."
"Pepper we will go when we feel like." Tony said not even looking up from where he was working.
"Absolutely not!" Pepper exclaimed turning the music off.
"Hey!" exclaimed the siblings in unison looking up for the first time towards the woman. "Its past bedtime and I am not letting you both stay awake so late!"
"Pepper we are not kids!" said Tony
"He's right Peppy. We don't need you bugging around and telling us to do stuff." Ray said.
"Ray, you are a teenager and kids like you need to sleep and Tony, you are awake for I don't know how long. I am not listening to any of your nonsense. Just get out of here!" she scolded both of them. Tony was about to a say something but Pepper have him a stern look to quiten him up. "Yes, mom!" said Ray mockingly as she made her way to her room and Pepper draged Tony out.
《AT NIGHT》
《ALPS》
"Where am I?" asked Loki first after opening his eyes.
"You are in our house. We found you unconscious in our woods so dad brought you here." replied the little boy looking up at Loki.
"How dare you touch me you little think?" he asked weakly but angrily. But the kid giggled. "Why the duce are you laughing!"
"Why are you talking like an ancient man?" the kid asked still laughing.
"Do you know who I am? I am Loki of-" he stopped mid sentence remembering what happened. "Where's you father?"
"He is outside in the barn. Should I call him?"
"Yes."
《TIME JUMP》
《AVENGERD TOWER》
Tony laid down beside Pepper after her giving a lecture of how he should take care of himself. But the one thung she didn't know was that he wasn't sleeping because he was afraid. Evetynight after Pepper fell asleep, he would come down to his garage and work keeping his mind off everything that happened in the past few months. And talking about Ray, he didn't ask Ray to go to sleep because he was feeling really calm in her presence. Her being around somehow made him feel that things were normal and was helping him calm down from his current state of PTSD. But he knew he couldn't stay awake the time. So he sighed and fell asleep.
《TIME JUMP》
Pepper felt the bed jurk a few times. She slightly opened her eyes to realise that it was Tony moving while he was asleep. He was having a nightmare.
"Tony?" Pepper called but he gave no response. "Tony!" he she called a little louder. She tried to shake him when suddenly an Iron Man suit came and turned her around hovering over her. "Aah!" she exclaimed waking Tony up.
"Power down!" he said shutting the suit off and the hit it somewhere near its neck shattering it into pieces. "I must have triggered it in my sleep..." he said breathing heavily. "Oh my God!" Pepper exclaimed getting up. "This should not be happening... I ... I ...should check... Hey Pep, wait.. Let me catch my breath." he said breathing restlessly. "I'm going to sleep somewhere else. Tinker with that!" she said walking away as Tony sat there still trying to calm himself down.
《AT THE ALPS》
"Are you sure you should ne going. Its late night." said the man.
"Yes, I am burdened with a cause. I must leave." Loki said.
"You could have stayed up for the night."
"No. Thank you for your help. I'll be greatful." he said walking off. He had to go to New York to find his sister. He couldn't waste anymore time.
《ASGUARD》
"Mother! You must talk to father. Banishing Loki was not a good idea." Thor said walking into Fregga's chamber where she was presently sitting and looking out of the window.
"Everything your father does has a reason. We must not distrust his judgement." Fregga replied looking at her firstborn.
"What do you mean, mother? Is there any hope for Loki?" Thor asked eagerly sitting beside his mother.
"Nothing is impossible Thor. We must not forget, where there is will there is a way."
"If Loki finds Luna, will father let them both return to Asguard."
"There are fair chances Thor." she said caressing him on his cheek as he smiled at her.
《AT AVENGERS TOWER》
Ray felt enormous amount of energy flow through her body. "Father, don't. I didn't mean to cause any of these!" she pleaded her father didn't respond. "Please! Brother tell him!" she said. Suddenly she felt as if she was falling through an endless hole.
"Aah!" she woke up with a sudden jerk. She had been having these weird dreams ever since the confronted the maniac Loki. She would never see anything clearly but see three unclear figures to whom she would plea. She couldn't deny, Loki looked really familiar to her. But God knows if he was playing some kind of trick on her! She hated him, she almost lost her brother, her only family because of him. The next time she saw him, she would definitely smack him on his face, didn't matter if he could do magic!
She did her regular choars before going dowm to thedining room where both Pepper and Tony were.
When she reached she saw Tony sitting on the dining table with his head in his hands while Pepper was near the kitchen counter. "What happened?" she asked taking her seat beside Tony.
"Nothing." he said sitting up straight. "Just couldn't sleep last night."
"Ooh..." she said munching over her toast and Tony dod the sams.
"Good morning!" greeted Bruce as he walked in the room.
"Morning!" greeted Pepper
"Hey Bruce!" Ray greeted while Tony stayed silent. Ray noticed that. "Hey you sure its just the sleep?" she whispered to her brother while clutching his hand.
"Yeah, I'm fine." he said passing her a faint smile.
Ray contented with Tony's answer said, "Great, cause we have a job to do?"
"Job?" Tony asked taking another bite from his toast.
"Yeah, I found this in my room." said Ray showing him the CD she found out. "Its with those red tapes that dad used to mark his important CDs."
"How did it get there?"
"No idea."
"What is it?" asked Bruce.
"It looks like some of dad's important documents."
"Looks important." he commented.
"Well, if not now, it was ones when he was alive." Ray said.
Yay! So here is chappie 2. I'm sure you have guessed the plot by now. The next chapter is going to be an important one. Stick with me. And don't forget to follow and review this story cause they really do turn me on.
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