Taylor
„You're everything I have left. Come back to me, please. Stark says you're already getting better and I hope he's right. You know, he worries about you too, even if he doesn't say it. Steve sits next to you when I'm gone, and I think he feels guilty, but he's a nice guy. Don't you think it's wierd how old he actually is? Darcy would love to meet him she told me. I called her and asked how she and Jane are, but S.H.I.E.L.D is keeping them safe."
Taylor talked and talked and forgot about time, but he still hoped she would wake up.
Serena
If she had her body, she would cry. She felt like crying after hearing her brother talking to her like this. He couldn't hear nor feel her, and all she hoped for was that she would find her way back into her body soon.
Now that he was sleeping again, she just walked around, trying to find out where she was and what happened. „Commander Fury!" she waved, forgetting for a moment that no one could hear her. He watched angrily to something Serena couldn't see, so she followed him into a large, round room. In the middle of it, a prisoner was kept in a glass cell. Loki. He stood there, sneering at Fury. „Tell me if real power wants a magazine or something." Fury said as he walked away out of the room.
„Loki." Serena muttered as she saw him. For a moment, she didn't know how to feel and it was wierd especially when she was an expert about emotions.
„Serena. How nice to see you... alive?" his piercing blue-green eyes saw right through her and Serena shrieked in surprise, not expecting him to see her. She cleared her throat. „Not really alive, but clearly not dead."
Serena took a step closer and lay a hand on the cold glass. His stare was hostile, she noticed. „Tell me what happened since - "s z-„Since you betrayed me? Your precious soldier survived and your friend in the Iron suit took me as a prisoner with help of my stupid brother." He spat.
-„Betrayed you?" Serena asked incredibly. „You seriously think that saving Rogers was about betraying you?
Loki looked down without answering for a while.
Steve
-„Who the hell is he talking to?" Romanoff wondered. She, Thor, Steve, Tony and Bruce Banner looked on the monitors, observing Loki. It looked like he was talking to a person except there was none.
-„He said Serena. He said „nice to see you alive" Stark repeated.
-„Maybe he's hallucinating." Dr. Banner offered as explanation.
-„Or maybe she's really there and we just can't see her." Thor said quietly.
-„Thor, is that even possible?" Natasha asked, raising her eyebrow.
-„I came here with the help of a powerful goddess, able of magic. There had been complications and she mentioned something about her daughter dying on Midgard and I promised her to help." Thor thought hardly. „Loki said she was dead. Maybe he's talking to her spirit. It is possible I think, if she has magical powers."
Tony grimaced. „Thor, you're saying a girl with magical powers is mortally wounded on Midgard and somehow involved with Loki?"
Steve looked up. Of course. Why did it took Thor so long to put the pieces together? Well, he didn't take any interest of the red-haired girl laying in the hospital track of the Helicarrier, Steve, Stark and Agent Jones visited her all the time.
„Serena Jones. She could be the woman you're talking about!" he spoke up.
Stark rolled his eyes. „Of course she is. Fury didn't tell you much about Agent Jones, didn't he? She may saved your life, buddy, but you don't know anything about her."
He turned to Thor. „So, Conan, guess you have your answer."
Thor's eyes widened. „We have to save her from Loki."
Serena
-„You're kidding me. You want to know why I did that? Not because I wanted to betray you. Some things are not about you, Loki."
-„I released you, you should have been thankful." Serena didn't let herself intimidate by his hateful tone.
-„And I am. But maybe you should remember you imprisoned me in the first place. What did you expect me to do? To suddenly approve all your plans? You simply forgot that enslaving humanity is still a bad thing. I told you to stop it, but you didn't listen, and now you're blaming me for trying to help my people." she hissed back.
-„`Your people´ are not those insignificant Midgardians you keep caring about. You belong to us, you stupid child. I AM YOUR TRUE KING! You helped me, remember? You worked for my side." he yelled at her, but Serena didn't step back.
Like Ice. Even though Loki looked human (or godly, whatever), his Jotun-heritage had never been more distinct.
-„I did because you forced me to."
-„And now you betray me."
-„Damned, Loki! Listen to yourself! I didn't lie when I said you weren't a monster. You're not a bad person, but that doesn't make your actions any better. I was not stopping you, Loki. I didn't stand up against you as a person, but against that war and pain and death you're causing." Serena argued.
-„Don't you dare talking to me like this, girl. I could kill you within seconds, snap your neck before you know what's even happening to you." He said coldly, and he was truly the god of evil at this moment.
-„Oh really? How is that possible if I'm laying in a coma somewhere else and you are kept in a glass prison?" She took a deep breath, „What makes you that angry, Loki? The fact that Captain America lives and I screwed up your plan to kill him? Or that I almost died saving him?" Serena asked, suddenly understanding what he actually was angry about.
-„I don't care about your tiny human life at all."
-„First of all, I'm not completely human, you said it yourself. Secondly, if you don't care about me, then why do you feel so betrayed? Why do you even care?" she asked daringly.
She wished she could go through the glass, she wished she was in her body so that she could hit him or kiss him or just cry. And as she had her hand on the glass, she noticed she didn't actually feel it. With a swift movement, Serena stood in the glass cell, only a few inches away from Loki. „Guess this is one of the perks of being a ghost." Serena said bitterly. She looked up to him, she had almost forgotten how tall he was. „I am so sorry, Serena. You deserve better than this, better than me." Loki whispered. All the sudden, his hate and anger had turned into sadness and shame.
-„You don't have to be sorry. I'll be okay, Freya promised I'll wake up again." Serena wished she could sent his breath, feel him so near to her.
-„ If I hadn't take you as my prisoner..."
-„Then maybe I would be dead, Loki. Njörd killed my parents, and he wanted to kill me."
-„I took Freya' knife away. I took your protection away."
Serena sighed. „Stop blaming yourself for the wrong things. Blame yourself when your army destroyed the earth. Freya told me about your plans, and she said someone else was behind this. Please Loki, I beg you."
She watched as his expression got harder. „I don't have a choice."
-„Tell me, Loki. Even with this army, do you really think you ever going to win? All of this..." she paused and placed a hand on his cheek, „could end with your death. And I do not want that."
Loki closed his eyes, and tried to put his hand over hers but failed as he touched his cheek instead. Serena wasn't truly touching him. He couldn't feel her, as well as she couldn't feel him.
- „This is not some kind of trick your mother told you to manipulate me?" Serena was sad, knowing how hard it was for him to trust anyone.
-„No Loki. Some people out there just care for you, even if you don't let them. Why don't you trust those people?
He looked at her, showing no emotions anymore. „You're waking up." He whispered.
Finally the chapter you've all been waiting for! ;) I hope you liked it and you're not disappointed by Serena and Loki's first meeting!
Hi Liz, you're right, Steve is soo adorable, that's why I decided to include him more in Odin's son! Do you like Taylor as an OC? I wasn't so sure about making him a POV-Character...
Thank you again and look forward to much more Loki in the next chapters! ;)
xo & Liebe Grüße
