Loki woke up with a pounding headache and rolled over on his side. He rubbed his head and noticed the cool metal cuffs around his hands. More useless restraints, he mused. He didn't have time for this. Loki jerked his hands apart, thinking that he could easily break the chains, but they did not budge. He furrowed his brow in frustration as he yanked at the cuffs again. He let out an angry sigh and sat up on a carpeted floor.
This was not the same room he passed out in. He hands went to his neck as he remembered the girl stabbing him with a needle. Where was she?
He heard the same noisy barking that had greeted him upon his arrival. A furry creature jumped on Loki's lap and gnawed at the leather on his boots. Apparently the animal had been doing this for a while. Loki could see the fibers of the leather fraying; a hole in the making.
The girl rounded the corner and paused when she saw that Loki was awake.
"Oh good, you're up." she smiled. Her braids swayed as she walked and she was a lot taller than he remembered. She reminded Loki of Valkyrie.
"Will you release me?" he asked.
She scoffed.
"How does one ask for asylum?" Loki asked. The girl burst into laughter. Loki narrowed his eyes at her. He was serious.
"You?" she managed to say between fits of giggles "Why would anyone on Earth give you asylum?" she slapped a skillet on the stove.
"What are you doing?" he asked.
"I'm going to chop off your man parts and eat them." she replied.
Loki looked taken aback, which only made her laugh more.
"No stupid, I'm making breakfast."
"Will you share or just eat in front of me?"
"Don't worry, I'm not cruel." she said.
"Are you going to report me?" he asked.
"Who would I report you to?" the woman said.
"The man with the eyepatch?"
"What makes you think I know him." the woman said. Loki raised the handcuffs and the woman smirked. "What, you don't think all earthlings have these crazy cuffs?" she pointed to Loki's bound wrists with a spatula. He figured that she was joking due to the lack of inflection in her voice.
"No, you humans are painstakingly slow in the technological uptake." Loki said, "It's dull."
The woman didn't respond, she continued to cook eggs and toast, and from what Loki could see, bacon. He tried to stand but quickly realized that the handcuffs were also chained to the floor.
"What the hell." he said.
"I can't have you trying to choke me from behind." she said with her back turned to him. "Have a seat, Loki."
"You must work for the man with the eyepatch." he said.
"He has a name." she replied. Loki sank into the crunch and leaned back into it. He was as comfortable as he could be for someone chained to the floor.
"It's not worth my time to remember the names of humans with so little significance." he snapped.
"That's rude." the woman said. She sat down on a small table in front of the couch. She had a plate of bacon and toast in one hand and eggs in the other.
"Is that what you eat for your morning meal?" Loki raised an eyebrow.
"Oh I'm sorry did you want fruit or something?" she asked.
"Yes."
The woman shook her head. "I don't feel like getting it anymore."
"I can't get it." Loki said slowly, as if he were talking to a child.
"Sounds like a personal problem." the woman replied even slower and started munching on a piece of bacon.
"What is your name?" Loki said. "I've asked you before, but you don't answer."
"My name is Lilith." she said.
"Lilith," he smiled, "You're a cunt."
"I'm sorry, were you still expecting me to feed you?" Lilith asked. "Because on second thought, I think you look pretty plump." she said. The two started name calling, back and forth. Their voices getting louder and angrier by the second. Neither Loki nor Lilith heard the chime of the door when it opened.
"Well, shit, fuck, damn." said a deep and amused voice." Lilith stood immediately, almost knocking over the plates of eggs and bacon at her side.
"Sir" she said. Loki came face to face with Eyepatch again.
"Well if it isn't Thor's greasy little shit bag of a brother." Director Fury said. "Where you hoping for a platinum cage this time?" he mused. It took every fiber of Loki's being to not respond with an equally fierce retort.
"I actually came here with Banner." Loki said.
"Really, cause I don't see a big green monster." Director Fury said.
"It's a really long story, but we got separated." Loki shrugged. Lilith was watching Loki the whole time, she did not know whether she believed him. But it was very clear that Fury did not.
"So where is Banner now, Shakespeare?"
"Probably in New York." Loki said.
"You're lying, I would have heard about it." Fury said. Loki sighed, exasperated; he had had enough.
"Have you ever thought that for one minute that there was something out there bigger than yourselves!" Loki said. Fury paused. "Have you ever thought that something more terrible and more strong than your ape-bound minds could understand, is coming for you. You won't be ready when it hits and it is coming soon. Yes, so much sooner than you think, today probably." he nodded outside, towards the back porch. The woman, Lilith followed his gaze. It still looked like any regular, sunny day.
But she was so very wrong.