Loki
This Darcy was making quite an impression on me. She was fun loving and easy to talk to, I liked her.
Once she was situated properly, I went over to her book shelf and picked up that Harry Potter book again. It was okay, for a Midgardian book. I opened it onto my page and started reading.
After about five minutes, I glanced over at Darcy, who was on her IPod. She was scrolling down the screen, with a look of both determination and frustration spread across her pretty features. Then, she stopped dead and smiled.
"Hey, mischief!" She called.
"Yes?"
"Have you heard of Bruno Mars?" I shook my head. "Well, he's pretty fit. What I could do with a body like his..." She trailed off. I couldn't help but feel a strange pang of jealousy towards this Bruno fellow.
Darcy tapped her IPod and placed it into its apparent docking station. It blasted out music and Darcy stared to hum along. I went back to pretending to read my book and out of the corner of my eye, I watched Darcy work. After about half an hour, Darcy looked up at me.
"Loki, since you had such a fun time perving on me yesterday as I got my coffee, you can try and do it yourself! Two sugars and a milk please." She smiled and battered her eye lashes at me. I rolled my eyes and marched over to the coffee machine. Only, Thor was there.
"Ah, brother!" I inwardly rolled my eyes at him. "Come to get Miss Lewis a coffee, have you?"
"Yes, I have."
"Wow, she must be having quite an impression on you! Can you work the machine?"
"I can figure it out."
"What has happened Loki?"
"Happened to what?"
"What has happened to the two brothers who were inseparable?"
"We found out that I'm actually not your brother, but a Frost Giant."
"Either way, your still my brother, just like you're still mothers son and-"
"No! Don't say that I'm still Odin's son! He hates me."
"He doesn't hate you, he is just disappointed. Disappointed that you tried to rule Earth." Thor's tone of voice was playful, but I was in no mood to play.
"Please, I can work the coffee machine. Go back to Miss Foster." I pressed a few buttons and placed a paper cup under the roof of the machine. Thor placed a hand on my shoulder, but I showed no reaction. Eventually, he left me be and I carried on with Darcy's coffee.
Once the liquid was in the cup, I emptied two sugars and a milk into the cup and carried it back to Darcy's office.
"You where a while, the coffee machine isn't that hard to work."
"I ran into Thor."
"Oh." I placed her coffee onto her desk and she took a sip. "Mmm...lovely." I smiled and sat on the edge of her desk.
"So, what do you work on?"
"I'm an assistant, I just do stuff like structuring reports and checking stuff. What can I say, I hate it but it pays the bills."
"Why don't you do something you like, that still pays the bills?"
"Because in order to do that, I have to be as brainy as Jane, which is never gonna happen."
"You are smart, Darcy."
"Yeah? And how exactly do you know this?"
"Because you can have the patients to do what you do, you have the ability to become an assistant to a scientist working for S.H.I.E.L.D. and you are a lot smarter than any Asgardian women of your age, because you work for everything you want in life, it gets handed to them on a silver platter." She seemed touched by my words.
"Thanks, but how do I know you're not lying, oh God of mischief and lies."
"I only lie when I have to, this is not one of those times." There was a pause. Then Darcy shut her laptop and sprang out of her seat.
"C'mon, I wanna show you something." I followed her out of the door and down corridor after corridor, until we got to a big door at the end of the building. Darcy pushed it open to revile winding staircases. I followed her up them, until we got to the very top of the building, where Darcy pushed open a hatch. She climbed through it and I followed, a gust of wind hitting my face as I did.
"Welcome to the best view in New York." Darcy said signalling round SHIELD's rooftop. I looked around. You could see everything, past the statue of Liberty and right out to the ocean.
"Nice isn't it? I come up here all the time to think and relax." Darcy sat down on some sort of metal box that was in line with the perfect view point. She patted the space beside her and I sat down.
"This reminds me of the view from my chambers window in Asgard. You can see miles and miles of Asgard. My mother used to say that the princes of old used to fight over the view from my room, it was a prize to have a beautiful city to look upon every day, but then the princes married and they found out that love is a lot more beautiful that a view. My mother told me that when I married, I would know what it meant." Darcy looked at me with intrigued eyes, her hair lightly flowing in the wind.
"No kidding, your mom seems awesome! I have to meet her."
"Maybe one day, you will." Darcy pulled her knees up to her chest and sighed. "Is something bothering you Darcy?" She shook her head and a small smile crept onto her face.
"I loved my mother, so much. She died when I was eleven, that was when Ted joined the marines. I...I don't even know why I am telling you this! You'll just shove it into my face afterwards." She put her head into her hands and deeply sighed.
"If it makes you feel any better, I don't even know my real mother. She abandoned me the first chance she got. Not that I can blame her, it must have been horrifying to see that her child was one of a Frost Giants."
"Well, it wasn't your fault. You couldn't have controlled whether you were born or not."
"I suppose so. But it would have been better, for everyone, if I wasn't born at all." Darcy gasped and her hand shot to mine.
"There is a reason for everything, remember. You are here for a reason."
"Thank you. And, I will not shove it in your face." Darcy laughed, her smile brightening up her face. She then looked up and into the sky and squinted at the slowly setting sun.
"We should be heading back, Jane will get worried."
"And if Jane gets worried, Thor gets annoyed, and I don't think I could handle an annoyed Thor." She laughed again, and I joined her for a second. Once the laughter had died down, Darcy sprang up and skipped round to the back of me. She tapped my shoulder and said,
"C'mon, let's get going." She was about to move, when I gently clasped her hand.
"Never, in all my years have I ever met someone like you Miss Lewis. I cannot express how sorry I am about everything. I am a terrible being." Darcy laced her fingers through mine and smiled.
"You where terrible. Not anymore." She had such a big heart.
I couldn't hold back any longer, so I pulled her forwards, into my chest, and kissed her. At first she slightly struggled, but as the kiss deepened, she relaxed into me. Our joined hands stayed entwined.
As my free hand trailed down to her lower back, her own free hand moving up my chest and behind my neck, where she softly stroked the hairs there. I broke the kiss and sent a trail of fluttered kisses on her cheek and down her neck.
Her hand lightly stroked my cheek as my kisses travelled up and down her neck. As my lips skimmed her pulse, I could feel the fast beat of her heart.
"Loki..." She sighed into my ear. I groaned into her neck. "Um hmm?" I hummed as I kissed her jaw line.
"Loki...Jane-Jane will be wondering where we are." She slowly pushed me off her and she gazed at our embraced hands. Her thumb stroked the back of my hand as she lowered her hand out of my grasp.
"We really need to get going now." She said, a soft pink blush fresh on her pale cheeks.
"Lead the way." I said.