Yay new chapter. This one took me a little longer because I sliced my finger today, so you better like it. Read and enjoy.
Cora spent the rest of the day going around and bugging everyone else, the only person that shooed her out of the room was Fury, but only because she was going around to each person and asking what they were doing individually. Then she started popping out of people's computer screens, which gave one guy quite the scare, so she was sent away.
"Cora," Tony's voice said the lab as she walked by. Turning around swiftly she looked into the room with a questionable face.
"What?" She asked with a curious stare. Bruce was shaking his head as Tony was looking between the two of them.
"Try to make him angry," Tony said pointing at Bruce with a small grin. He'd been trying to get the man to 'unleash' for a while now.
"Why?" She questioned looked at him suspiciously.
"Because I want to see what happens," he said eating something from a shiny bag. Tony was very good at making people angry, just the way he acted provoked certain people and he was proud of that, for some reason. But Bruce wouldn't budge, laughing calmly at his attempts. So it was time to turn to a pro, someone who was great at annoying people, and she didn't even realize it most of the time, Cora was like his secret weapon.
"But he's nice," she said looking up at both of them. She was aware that sometimes she could be very aggravating, and sometimes it was fun to see people snap, and then make a mess of everything, but Natasha had warned her. She'd taken her aside and told her to be nice to Bruce, because if she made him angry, it would be like fourteen angry Furys smashed into one, but bigger and green. To put it simply Cora got the idea and was only ever nice to Bruce, not that she wasn't nice to everyone else as well, but she had a way of getting into people's heads.
"No, come on," Tony said taking Cora gently by the shoulders and leading her over to. "Look at him, those cold eyes, that mean looking face," he said trying to persuade the girl. She looked up at him with a small glare.
"What are you trying to do?" She asked with a bored voice. Bruce laughed at them, shaking his head lightly before turning away.
"You know what?" Tony said patting her shoulder and looking down at her as well. "You're not helping, get out of here," he gave her a small push towards the door.
"Fine then, meanyface" she stuck her tongue out at him before running off.
"Meany face?" Bruce questioned looking at Tony.
"I know, her insults are ancient, like a little kid," he said going back to his computer.
Cora sulked her way down the hallway until she caught sight of Thor, with a bright smile she ran down to him and got in front of him.
"Want to play a game with me?" She asked looking at him.
"Game? Like for children?" He looked at her with a curious stare.
"No everyone plays this game, its called rock, paper, scissors," she said looking at him with a grin.
"How is this played?" He questioned looking at her interested. So Cora explained how to play it, a relatively simple game, one that Cora usually sucked at, for some reason she always picked the one that the other person could beat. Maybe if she taught someone else to play it, a newbie rock, paper, scissors player might be easier to beat.
After five minutes of losing to Thor, Cora gave up. The only thing he kept choosing was hammer, because he said that his hammer was so powerful that no rock could break it, and when Cora challenged him he wanted to get it tested.
So Cora excused herself, saying that she had to go talk to someone, and Thor continued on his way down the hallway.
"Hammer is the best," he said with a cheerful tone that frowned sadly at.
Finally bored with herself, which took a while for her to get to, she decided that it was time to go back to bug Loki some more, he seemed to be the only person that surprised her and put her on edge, what was he going to do? It was a mystery, and Cora loved to solve mysteries.
"Hi!" She said walking into the room that held his chamber. Loki smirked at her, walking a little closer to the glass he looked down at her as she walked ever closer to the glass as well.
"Do you enjoy my company that much?" He asked in a calm voice.
"No one else wants me right now, I'm pretty annoying," she said looking down a little fake sadly.
"So you come to a man that tried to kill you," he said with a little bit of a question in his voice. Usually one wouldn't want to go hang out with a man that had tried to kill them. "Why are you here?" He asked with a little bit of venom in his voice. Just because he had decided that he was going to catch her, in a sense, it didn't mean that he was going to turn nice to her right away. She would suspect something, and he wasn't that nice.
"You did save me though," she said looking up at him with a smile. "That cleans the slate, starting over," she murmured. "I brought you an apple," she took a red apple out of her bag. He looked at her like a boy would with an old toy.
She looked at him with a smile, trying to figure out how to give it to him without having to go into the glass cage.
"Here, uhm," she murmured. "Put out your hand," she instructed. He looked down at her as if to say, don't you dare command me. "Please?" She added at the end.
With a small sigh he placed his hand out, palm up, waiting for his apple. A smile spread on her face taking the apple with her hand through the glass, she placed it in his hand, and looked up at him to see that he was smiling at her.
Suddenly he grabbed her wrist and pulled her through the glass to his side, dropping the apple and twisting her body around so that her back was to his chest. Crossing his arms over her chest he trapped her body in front of his. Cora stiffened, how could she have been se careless to think that he wouldn't try something with her?
"Cora?" Loki breathed down her neck experimentally. He wondered slightly if she had ever been with a guy like this before, probably not, but sometimes innocence can be deceiving, he just wanted to make sure that she would be all his. "Respond to me," he growled next to her ear.
"What?" She questioned softly. He was dangerous, certainly he was, there was a part of her that told her to relax, that nothing was going to happen. Then there was the other side of her that said to stay cautious, there was no telling what he might do next.
"Are you afraid of me?" He asked with a smirk.
"I am wary of you," she said with a shiver. Loki grinned and went to touch her face gently, but she shrunk away from him, not used to any of this at all, she hadn't even kissed a guy yet.
"Good," he said turning her around to face him. He then leaned towards her slowly, holding her shoulders so she couldn't get away, but she certainly did try, leaning back away from him he held her in place until their faces were right next to each other. She looked up at him with a shocked and embarrassed stare, almost like a deer in headlights, what was she supposed to do?
Since she'd never felt really close to anyone before Cora never had the urge to explore the livelihood of being in love, or the feelings of more than like before. So she'd never hugged someone longer than a friend would, or kissed someone like a couple in love, or like, if that were the case, everything was a complete mystery to her. Almost like an unknown language, she really is like a little kid, wouldn't you say?
"How innocent you are," he smirked at her. Giving her arms a quick yank he was back in his arms, with a little bit of protest from Cora, Loki started to move his hands down further, testing his boundaries.
Cora's eyes widened before she began to struggle in his grasp, which got a dark laugh from Loki.
"So that is where you draw the line then?" He questioned letting her go. She scampered to the other side of the cage, looking back at him with a frown, her cheeks red from shyness and embarrassment.
"With a big fat marker," she said holding her imaginary marker in her hands. Walking over to his bed Loki watched Cora the whole time, like a cat would circle a bird before lunging. Cora walked the opposite direction of him, making sure that he was no closer to her than when he was holding her.
"Just wait until I cross that line," he smirked at her, sitting down on his bed, his eyes never leaving hers.
"Why would you do that?" She questioned taking a step back towards the glass. He smiled at her and tilted his head up slightly. Cora didn't know what to think of Loki anymore, she'd just wanted to bring him an apple and see if he would talk to her a little, and then this whole thing had happened. What was she supposed to make of it? What was going on?
So many questions rattled through her head as she looked at the man that was causing all of them, and he was smiling at her, looking at her as if he did this all the time. There was a teeny tiny part of her that had wanted to stay in his arms, mostly because no one had ever hugged her like that before, or done any of that before. It was a little exciting, but then her mind switched back on, he was the bad guy!
"All is for me," he said with a very demeaning stare. She looked over at him with a confused glare, had he really just said that everything was for him?
What he meant was that after everything was done, his plans to rule the earth and all that, he would have her for himself. She could smile, and laugh and joke like she always did, but it would be for him, and he could toy with her as he had just did.
"And that means…?" She said with a hesitant voice.
""You'll find out soon," he said looking away from her. Did that mean she could leave now? With all this going on she kind of wondered why she hadn't just left right away, maybe because he was still dangerous. Or maybe it was that she didn't want a repeat of what had happened not moments before. When she was in his arms she felt totally and completely useless and powerless, as if she could do nothing to get away from him, she hated feeling vulnerable. It meant that someone found out how to get under her armor and now they had the right weapons to harm her with.
"Then, I'm going to leave," she murmured walked backwards out of the cage. Appearing right in front of her Loki stared at her. Leaning back away from him Cora tripped over the apple that was still on the ground and fell backwards out of the cage, also going through the floor she fell into the nothingness that was beneath the glass cage.
Loki went back to sitting down on his bed, watching as Cora flew up and out of the room, catching a red blush on her face as she disappeared from sight.
With a soft chuckle Loki glanced at the apple, thanking it silently for allowing such an opportunity as it did. Her small body seemed to fit almost perfectly against his, the way she shivered at his touch made him feel all the more in power over her.
There was one word that came into his head as she stared up at him with that nervous and yet curious stare.
'cute,' was what he'd thought. Not that he was going to say it. He wanted her to feel like she was at his mercy, which was how she'd looked at him when he had her in his arms. Like he was the big bad wolf, and she was little red riding hood, except that she was white more than anything else, and she had no hood.
Everything was going according to plan, and now he wasn't going to be bored waiting for some of it to play out.
Cora ran down the hall towards her room quickly, a blush dusted her cheeks. Why did she feel so embarrassed in front of him? There was no one that she recognized on the way to her room, so she didn't have to talk to anyone about why her face was red, good for her. Going into her room through the door, Thor had broken it quite badly so she still had to go right through it, she went to her small bathroom and splashed some cold water on her face.
"That was just too weird," she said looking at her reflection. Why would he do that? Why? There was that comment that he'd given her, all for him or something, but did it actually mean anything?
Flopping down on her bed Cora sighed unhappily as Loki clouded her thoughts, the man was poisoning her mind and stealing her soul, except that her soul was fine and her mind was definitely not stolen, just very preoccupied. She was just happy that he wasn't there to see her going crazy like that, she momentarily flashed to when Loki had first come out of the Tesseract, and how her first thought had been handsome.
Her brain reeled from everything that was going through it at such an alarming pace, and it immediately went into sleep mode. Cora was happy for sleep, it had been a long, interesting day that she would rather not repeat or think of ever again, tomorrow when she went to visit Loki, she wasn't going to go anywhere near the glass. Nope, it was a bad idea to do that, and it was not going to happen like it did today.
With a sudden lurch Cora's brain gave up and turned itself off, sending Cora into a welcoming black abyss of sleep, and possibly dreams or nightmares, what a thoughtful brain she had.
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