Two Years and Two Days

Ch 4

Midnight's Day Out

Author Notes – Yeah two updates in one day. I should get a cookie or maybe a review.

Also this will be Midnight heavy.

Feb 2nd

The day started out fine, a light drizzle and a gray sky but Midnight was happy to be in a nice large warm bed. The bed however wasn't big enough for Darcy, Loki and Midnight because Loki found himself in a tiny ball at the foot of the bed while Darcy took the whole bed with her wide spread arms and legs. Midnight had no problem with this since he crawled up close to her stomach listening to the sounds of digestion. Midnight was content until the alarm went off, not to the alarm clock but the overhead alarm that called all the Avengers to action. Loki jumped out of bed, rushed out of the room and back in to kiss Darcy on the cheek before disappearing. Darcy appeared to be okay with the situation, sighed and went back to sleep.

Midnight on the other hand was wide awake and started to explore the apartment, which was larger than some houses. He found that Loki and Darcy were fond of each other and their scent in several different locations left no question about how fond they were of each other. He looked at the huge wall of books, CD's and the huge movie collection. He noticed the kitchen smelled funny, maybe Darcy couldn't cook and he learned that the bathroom was huge with a swimming pool. It appears this Darcy liked water since her scent was the most common in the swimming pool area. Loki' scent was here and there but Darcy's was the one he found the most, which was fine since she was his mistress. Sighing he returned to the bed to wait for her to wake up and keep him company. He wouldn't wait long.

Darcy was waking up when he returned, she threw her arms around him and held him close, it seemed Loki's absence did bother her but she pushed the sadness away and suggested they go to the park.

A little while later Midnight found himself leashed on a long leather cord. A leash, really? But he understood that mortal laws required such a thing so he didn't fuss instead he walked out in front of Darcy growling at people who came too close expect for children who he let pet his smooth coat, it made Darcy happy otherwise the children would have made a great snack.

At the park Darcy pulled out a ball and motioned for him to play fetch. He gave her look but went along with the game. After some time he found he liked the game and kept playing for hours until Darcy was worn out and laid on the grass. She put her head down on the bag and went to sleep while he stood watch, if anybody got too close he growled at them. She was asleep for hours before the rain started and only after the thunder did she wake up and head home.

Midnight figured she wasn't so bad. She was a good mistress, she fed him and loved him but he did wish that she could hear him talk.

Later that night he crawled up on the sofa with her to watch a movie and again she fell asleep. He checked the apartment, making sure nothing was in the apartment that shouldn't be when he smelled something different. It was male and not Loki.

He moved low to the ground following the scent, there was metal in the scent. A metal man?

In the far distance he heard the metal man whispering about Darcy. This metal man is here to hurt Darcy was all Midnight could think about. Without a second thought Midnight ran towards the metal man and bit down on the arm growling the whole time. He forced the man onto the ground and tried to bite his head but the helmet prevented Midnight from getting his jaws around the head. The two creatures struggled for several moments altering Darcy to the commotion. She came running but before she could enter the room Midnight threw himself between her and the metal man and let out a loud terrifying bark.

The metal man stopped when he saw Darcy while Midnight kept distance between the two. When the commotion settled Darcy turned to Midnight and told him to sit. He did so with hesitation.

"Tony, take your helmet off so he can see you are a friend."

"I am not taking my helmet off; this monster might try to bite me again."

"I promise Midnight will not try to bite you again. Right Midnight?"

'Yay, sure whatever you say. I am going for his head.' Thought Midnight but he nodded.

Tony took his helmet off and Midnight could see that yes this person was Tony Stark and a friend of the Mistress Darcy but he wasn't happy about it.

"Tony, why are you here so late? Didn't you go on the mission with Loki and the others?"

"Yes, but Loki said I should come check on you and that I should go through the back door since the front door alarms weren't working properly."

"And really, you trusted Loki?"

"Well I didn't know you would have a psycho guard monster dog thing here. I feel like this was a setup by Loki."

"For being a genius you are so slow sometimes."

Tony motioned toward Midnight. "So this is Midnight, the famous guard dog? Heard he made an impression on Fury?"

"Yup, he is my guard dog. He is very well behaved."

"I am sure…well I am going to go now. Good night and Loki should be home soon." And with that Tony quickly ran out.

"Midnight, I think you made an impression on Tony. Normally he stays to flirt with me."

Midnight looked at Darcy and thought to himself…'well that explains a few things.'

Later that night around 3am

Loki surveyed the apartment and found nothing out of order. Darcy was resting in her nest pile again and Midnight was at her feet, kinda. Smiling he thought about pouncing her so they can have some play time. He readied himself and aimed to land at her side and not hit Midnight. He jumped and in mid-flight got knocked out of the air and then felt a huge weight on his chest.

Opening his eyes he came face to face with big green eyes that were very angry.

"Midnight – get off my chest, right now you huge beast."

But he stayed and then Loki heard a voice in his head.

"You do not scare the Mistress Darcy in her sleep. You be nice to the Mistress Darcy all the time or I will rip you limb from limb."

Loki thought this over for a moment; he did knowingly and willingly acquire an animal that could kill a god in order to protect Darcy and now this animal was a bit pissed at him.

"I promise to not hurt the Mistress Darcy but I cannot always be nice to her."

Midnight seemed to accept that and got off his chest. He motioned with his head that Loki could join him on the bed but before Loki could climb in he heard the voice repeat in his head.

"The Mistress and I are sleeping, if you don't wish to sleep leave the bed."

And then Midnight laid down, curling up along Darcy.

Loki sighed and climbed into bed seriously rethinking his choice in pets.