Stark Tower
"Ah you must be the Melanie Hansen that Steve has been telling me about. Excellent you're 15 minutes early!" Tony said, "care to see my genius inventions?"
"As long as it helps us on the field during missions, Anthony Stark." I said feeling a bit shy and scared as he yanked my hand as I felt as if my surprise with Jann the other day was going to repeat itself until my arms dislocated.
"Please call me Tony." He replied, as I pried my hand out of his iron grip, "Oh sorry he did tell me they just recovered you fro a Hydra facility masking as a school."
"Yeah and they were using me as a human shield after being beaten up too..." I grumbled then sighed, telling myself not to slap him silly. Arrogant, egotistic, and a typical Jock guy who was also a overconfident Ladies man, no wonder they told me I didn't quite describe him completely.
"Oh here's your phone." He said, as he draped his arm around my shoulders, as I moved them off, "As you can see everything here is at the top of the line of technology."
"Do you have anything that can help in the archaeology department? Besides GPS on my phone that is."
"Besides the Rosetta stone?" He said, "I heard you were dared to crack that by your classmates?"
"That's not entirely true, my teacher said she'd give anyone extra credits to whoever cracked the Rosetta stone. I practically did it from a photo that was as big as my hand."
He looked at me impressed, "You're pretty smart for a plain Jane."
"Most girls be offended by that but me well I used to be pretty shy around guys."
"What got you out of it?"
I looked at Tony, "Ehnn Long story... Any programs on my phone that could help me with detecting forgeries?"
"Hmm... JARVIS!"
"Yes Mr. Stark, Sir." said Jarvis over the PA.
"I want you to look up techniques and equipment that can detect forgeries."
"Researching..."
"Look Diane."
"Melanie!"
"Right, eh this might take a while to make a anti forgery app, and maybe an Artefact scanner app, if there's any other cool ideas you have let me know." He said, "You know you two might not be relatives by blood but I can see why he see's you as the extended family he's always wanted. I never had that."
"We can't choose our family, but we can choose our friends think of them as your extended Family."
"That's not going to be easy I don't do well working with people."
"Well you might have to suck it up princess."
He laughed, "What's the difference between Canadians and Comedians?"
"There is no difference Canadians are comedians." I replied.
He laughed again, "Not to many people can make me laugh like that."
"I must admit my jokes don't always have good timing most days."
"It's not bad, still needs some work."
"Yeah well I should hit the books at the Timeless Archives soon, I have to learn Ancient Norse or Asgardian soon."
"Have fun."
At the Timeless Archives
I saw Odin talking with Loki. Odin was scolding him for the something I wasn't aware of but I didn't quite care. I wasn't one to care about drama but I was thankful I enjoyed Shakespeare... And I still do.
"Excuse me Mr Odinson?" I asked, "I know I'm early for Asgardian class but there's something I'd like to talk to you about."
"Come here child, by what is thy matter on your mind?" Said Odin as he smiled at me.
"Why do I have memories of two different lives?"
"See father this is what I was talking about earlier. She possesses memories of both her current and an alternate future self, I haven't been able to see which is which."
"To make a fool Loki, that's a feat I have yet to see before my very eye."
"I am not a very good liar, I never have and I hope to never shall be one."
"Then perhaps you're pretty pendant? I feel protective magic in it." He said as he picked it up looking at it, "I have not seen anything quite like this."
"It was from a meteorite er... Falling star that crashed in my backyard as the stars danced in the night's sky before my family and I... I found it as my father make a pendant out of it, it's never left my neck since."
"Ah so the magic of Love influenced the pendant, admirable."
"Well maybe." I guessed, scratching my head, "But I can't help to think what happened to the world might be my own fault by accident."
"What makes you think that?"
"In my adult life I had been tricked to finding an artefact that could do harm to both the person and perhaps the whole world..."
"Ahh. And by what was it called?"
"The Idol of Fates."
"Hmm, and what age were you?"
"Early 20's."
"And the last artefact?"
"That's actually why I'm here I know where I found it but I can't remember what it looks like or what it was called."
"That is integrating perhaps you shouldn't rush your mind let it come when you're ready."
"You make it sound like it will unlock when I do something to trigger it."
"As you're people say on Midgard; 'That works too'."
During my studies I had found a book as I saw my favourite Shakespeare play "Twelfth Night".
"By what is this?" said Loki taking it from my fingers.
"It's a play written by a great man centuries ago, it's a tale comedic tale of Twins finding love in the most absurd way."
"How so?"
"I'm not telling you any spoilers dude." I snickered, "But I can tell you it's my favourite."
"Not this one?" He said as he took out Romeo and Juliet.
"It's good, don't get me wrong but I'm not one for tragedies."
"So why do you like this one?" He asked.
"I got twin brothers and I used to get jealous of them because of their bond, they got away with a lot of pranks that I could as I had to get a bit smarter with pranks... And sometimes I had to cover for them too, although they did get punished for it."
Loki looked at me, "You remind me of my relationship with my brother Thor."
"The bond between brothers is different compared what twin siblings has."
"How do you know?"
"Easy I'm their older sister I learned by observation." I replied. I knew better Loki was trying to get to know me better, but I felt I shouldn't trust him since he is the Norse god of Mischief and lies. Chances are for April Fools day I will have face him a lot for the Prank crown, and it might get pretty close. I'd better do my research right if I pull off the ultimate prank on him... And I'd might need a little help for that though.
