"Oh you have got to be kidding me" I grumbled as I stared into Loki's eyes. He only continued smirking.
"You know, these mortals wrote stories of the Goddess named Sigyn." He moved his face closer to mine, "The Goddess of Forgiveness and fidelity. My Wife." He said, and I instinctively shivered when he said wife. He drew back from me smirking.
I was getting really tired of that smirk.
"Would you stop smirking at me." I stated dryly.
"Ohh, but you like it so much." He said, staring into my eyes. Being so close to him, his hand on my neck and the other one grasping my hip as if it was going to run away. It was just too much to take. And to top that off, He's going to escape any minute with those followers of his. The tension in the air was so thick, I wouldn't be surprised if it could cut through the glass of this cage.
"No, Loki. I really don't." I said, emphasizing each syllable.
"There's no use lying to the God of Lies, Darling." He said, his smirk never faltering. His eyes were still staring into mine, as if he was trying to stare into my soul.
I didn't want to seem like jello in his arms, but I wasn't sure what to do. I knew there was no way I could stop him from escaping. I knew why he felt like he needed to do what he was going to do. I honestly didn't blame him. I had seen enough of when he found out he was a Frost Giant to know he felt like his whole life was a lie. I understood that feeling all too well, growing up with a family who had neglected to mention my own past to me for many years.
"So this is what we are going to do, Darling." He said, as the butter knife came out from the sleeve, too close to my hip for comfort. He then twirled me around quite quickly, and suddenly the butter knife was against my throat, and he was pushing me to the door. "Open it." He said calmly, and I pushed the code, allowing the door to open. I continued out, as he followed me, the distance between us never growing.
I felt him stop, and he pulled me closer to him. Our bodies almost seemed to melt together. I was about to question this when I felt us become invisible, and looked over to see a copy of him heading out of the cage. I whipped my head to see Thor at the door. He saw Loki's copy and yelled "NO." He ran and if that copy wasn't a copy, he would've successfully have body slammed Loki. Instead he just ended up locked in the cage. It reminded me vaguely of some of the strands of memories in which Thor had fallen for that before.
"Are you ever going to not fall for that?" Loki and I said in unison, both of us becoming visible to Thor. This made me awkwardly shift my footing and look at the ground, and I could feel Loki's face smirking in my hair. I wanted to tell him to stop smirking, but didn't really seem in the position to be calling the shots.
"Loki, Don't you dare hurt her." Thor said forcefully, then threw his hammer at the glass of the cage. I cringed immediately, knowing that wasn't a smart move to do to this cage.
"The humans think us immortal. Should we test it?" He said, pushing me near the console that controlled the Cage. The closer we got to the console the more I hoped he wouldn't make me press anymore buttons. I was not going to be responsible for his brothers death.
"Back away please" I heard from behind, and I cringed again. Loki whipped me around so I was facing Coulson, The butter knife starting to taunt my skin.
"Coulson please leave. You do not need to get dragged into this." I said, looking his weapon up and down confused.
"You like this? We started working on the prototype after you sent The Destroyer. Even I don't know what it does. Do you wanna find out?" Coulson said, looking between me and Loki.
Loki's face moved closer to my ear, and he whispered, "I'm so very sorry, Sigyn."
The next few minutes were a blur. I remember screaming as Loki headbutted me and I fell to my knees, and screaming louder when he stabbed Coulson in the back with his suddenly acquired staff. The combination of pain and shock radiating through my body caused me to not be able to get up, and I crumbled farther to the floor, my head landing on Coulson's knees. He stroked my hair, and I heard the cage plummet to the earth.
"You're going to lose." I heard Coulson say, and I looked up at him to see him bleeding from his mouth.
"Am I?" I heard Loki say, and I closed my eyes, trying to prevent the tears from falling down my face.
"It's in your nature." Coulson said, and I tried to get up, only to feel more pain radiate through my head and I fell back onto his knees. I looked back up at Coulson, the tears now falling freely as I saw more blood come from his mouth.
"Your heroes are scattered, your fortress falls from the sky. Where is my disadvantage?" I heard Loki say curiously, and I so desperately wanted to tell him to shut up, to go away. To leave me be while Coulson died. But I couldn't muster a single word.
"You lack conviction." I heard Coulson say, and I looked in Coulson's eyes, and I knew what he was going to do. With all the strength I could muster, I picked my head up and yelled at Loki.
"Loki, GO." I yelled. I felt faint, and even more so when I saw the light shoot out of Coulson's weapon and hit Loki. I closed my eyes and whipped my head back at Coulson, looking at him scared.
"So that's what it does." He said, and he took his hand from the weapon and wiped away my tears, and I for the first time knowing him, leaned into his touch.
"We need Fury, we need a medic-" I started saying, just about to hoist myself up, but he grabbed my arm, and I looked into his eyes.
"No, Sigyn. Just stay here." He said, and I threw the weapon from his body and hugged him for a moment before looking back into his eyes.
"So that's what it feels like to get a hug from a daughter." He said, and we both laughed for a moment before I started crying again. "Don't cry, Sigyn. Everything will be okay."
"Not if your not there Coulson. You are the only father I've cared for." I said, started to tremble. I could feel his heart giving out, and the emotions of love he was giving off to me. I looked at him and he smiled at me.
"Yes it will, Sigyn." He said, and kissed me on my forehead. For the brief moment his lips were on my forehead I saw the moments I knew he was thinking of at that moment. I knew that I was the only daughter he ever wanted. I tried to choke back tears, because I knew he was the only father I had ever wanted.
I heard footsteps, and looked up just as Agent Fury was kneeling down next to us. He immediately looked at Coulson.
"You're going to be okay, Coulson." Agent Fury said, and I tried to hold back my tears.
"I'm sorry boss, They got rabbited." Coulson said, and I looked at him confused. I then looked back at Agent Fury.
"Just stay awake, eyes on me." Agent Fury said, and I realized he didn't know Coulson was seconds away from death.
"No, I'm clocking out of here." He said, and chuckled a little at his own pun. I chuckled for a second too, before the tears I was holding spilled out of me.
"Not an option." I heard Fury say, but didn't bother looking at him. Coulson was going to die any moment now, and I wanted those last moments with him.
"It's okay boss. It was never going to work if they didn't have something to..." Coulson started, and I watched as the light behind his eyes turned off. I closed his eyes for him, and looked at Fury. He bowed, acknowledging that I knew Coulson was dead, and got up to talk on his ear piece.
I grasped my mouth and I tried not to scream. I rocked back and forth as I looked at Coulson. This can't be true. Coulson can't be dead.
