Chapter 8 - Save A God
Darcy was walking around the room in circles. She was thinking and her thoughts were about to kill her. Loki was a freaking villain; she shouldn't have felt sorry for him. 'Like you, Lewis' her inner voice betrayed her one more time. She couldn't believe herself.
She was the one who stabbed him in back. So why she was feeling like someone has just taken her heart and squeezed it?
"Darce, are you okay?"
Darcy looked at Colin's handsome face. She had had a crush on him since their first meeting, but he wasn't looking all "that" handsome anymore. He was just a…typical guy.
"Yeah, I'm okay." Darcy said, waved her hand. "I'm just tired."
"You should be. I mean he kidnapped you. I still can't believe you escaped from him. We've just caught him because of you" Colin said with pride. But Darcy wasn't even looking at him. She was looking at the door of the room they dragged Loki into.
Colin wrapped her shoulders and forced her to look at him.
"You did the right thing baby. Don't be the amateur they think you are." he said, jokingly. His face was coming closer. Darcy could sense that he was about to kiss her. She pulled herself from Colin, harshly. She didn't want him to kiss her or touch her.
"What's wrong with you? Don't tell me that you don't want to kiss me! You've dreamed about it, haven't you?" Colin said, angrily. His voice was cruel and his smile was insulting. Darcy couldn't believe his words. Before she could say something, Colin left the room. She was so angry at herself, Colin, and the rest of Hydra.
Hydra would probably do some sort of brain-washing and horrible experiments on Loki. If it didn't work, they'd kill him. Darcy couldn't fathom which one was the worst outcome. Loki wouldn't negotiate with them. So he would probably be dead and for the first time it wouldn't be a faked death. But Darcy wasn't sure if Hydra had a technology that could kill Loki but at least they had the scepter. Darcy knew what that scepter could do. She had to do something. She couldn't believe her thoughts; she had tried so hard to escape from him, but now all she could think of was saving him, 'Oh, great now I have Stockholm syndrome. What's next?"
She quickly went to her bedroom in Hydra's facility. Yes, she hadn't had a place to stay and they had given her a bedroom; it was small containing only a bed and a small wardrobe. She picked up her Taser and a gun from in her wardrobe. Then she quickly went back to the room where Loki's scepter was being stored. Thankfully there was nobody in the room. She was about to betray them. She was becoming a villain.
"I can't believe I'm doing this" she thought as she gazed at the scepter. She went towards the scepter and slowly took it out of the glass case. She had cautiously taken the scepter; however, she realized she didn't know how to use it. She walked back towards the door which opened into Loki's cell. Darcy was sure they threw him in a magic proof glass cell as Shield had. She took a deep breath and entered the room.
Quickly, looking around, she saw that there were four men in the room and Loki in a glass cell much like she assumed. He stood up when he saw her. Darcy could swear he was looking at her with a smile. He would probably expect a move like this from her. It pissed Darcy off. How he could be so sure? He wasn't even looking angered at her betrayal. He was looking…proud?
"Is something wrong Agent Lewis?" one of the men came to her and questioned. The man was looking at the scepter she was holding in her left hand.
"No, not at all," she answered quickly, as she tasered him on the neck. He fell to the ground with thump in crumpled heap.
The other men gave her their attention, their guns taking aim at her. Darcy in return pointed the scepter towards them.
"Put your guns on the ground, now!" She shouted at them. Loki raised his eyebrow with amusement. Darcy couldn't help but want to punch him in the face…repeatedly…with her Taser.
As the Hydra agents lowered their guns to the ground, Darcy started to walk towards Loki's cell.
"Did you change your plan Miss Lewis? Pity, I found your plan a little bit clever. I was impressed" he questioned her, smiling. Darcy rolled her eyes. 'Really?' she thought, Hydra was about to wash his brain and he could still smirk at her. The least he could do was be angry. Why he wasn't angry?
Darcy turned back and shouted orders to the agents.
"Open the cell, now!" she pointed the scepter one more time at them. One of the guards ran to a computer and entered the code. The glass suddenly opened, Darcy then threw the scepter to Loki.
"Seriously?" Loki questioned, raising his eyebrow as he caught the scepter. He walked out of the cell and came to stand next to her.
"You kidnapped me and I captured you, count that as a ceasefire" Darcy said quickly as she reached to her belt for her gun.
"Oh, I'm glad that you have a plan, because I cannot use the scepter" Loki said to her with his mocking smile.
"What?! Why the hell did you want it then? Why can't you use it" Darcy shouted with fear. She looked at the other agents. They were confused, hearing his statement they were thinking to grab their guns again.
"I want it for my protection. If I use it, someone will find me and I assure you, darling; He wants to see to my death, so badly" he said, quickly looking at the agents. He was waiting for them to make a move.
Darcy couldn't understand his words? Who the hell he was talking about? And did he just call her "darling"? 'Better than mortal at least' she thought.
"Someone? Just someone? Everyone wants to see you come to an excruciating end," she said angrily. She was still looking at the other agents while aiming her gun at them.
"And you were still asking me why I'm faking my death" he grinned. He wasn't taking his eyes off of the other agents.
The agents trained their guns to the pair suddenly as they came to understand Loki couldn't use his scepter. Now the three men were aiming against them.
"Put your gun on the ground, Agent Lewis. Now!"
Darcy was almost about to release her grip on her gun, ready for surrender, but Loki's whisper stopped her.
"You are disappointing me, darling." he whispered, his eyes flickering between the agents and Darcy.
Darcy wanted to punch him in the face, but instead she gripped her gun more tightly than ever. She was tired and stressed. She didn't want to harm anyone. But if she had to…
She had always regarded Hydra as her family, but today she had learned that she was nothing but a useless amateur for them. Even Loki, Earth's most hated villain, and her previous captor, granted her much more respect than they ever did.
"Do you have a plan, Mischief?" she whispered, breathing heavily.
"Not as brilliant as yours, but yes, I have," he grinned as he raised his empty hand. Suddenly with a burst of green light all of the agents passed out.
As their bodies fell to the ground, she put holstered her gun again.
"Why didn't you do that at first," she shouted and it was her anger that made Loki smile.
"I wanted to see whether you would ask for my help or not." He was still smiling. God, why he was smiling so much? Is there something funny?
"Darce, what are you doing my love?" she heard Colin's voice. Colin was standing in front of the door with two other agents.
She didn't answer him. She turned to Loki. His smile had vanished as he turned his gaze to look at Colin, his face displaying his desire to cut his neck.
"Can you teleport us?" she asked quickly.
"I'm afraid not. The drug they gave is still affecting me. My magic is weak'" he said, his jaw tense.
"Your magic is weak? Really? Three men have passed out because of your magic! There's no time to wait" she said desperately.
"We won't wait" Loki replied and pulled a dagger from nowhere.
He threw the dagger at one of the agents' legs. The agent suddenly fell to the ground.
Colin and the other agent fired at them, but Loki created a magical shield in front of them and the bullets fell to the ground.
Colin started to run at them. The other agent jumped over Loki. Loki pulled another dagger and started fighting with him. Meanwhile, Colin was attacking Darcy. His hands wrapped her neck and started to choke her. She tried to hit him with her leg and her attempt succeeded. Colin let her go and stepped back in pain. Darcy fell to the ground and gasping for breath. Hearing a click, she froze, because Colin grabbed his gun, released the sfety, and aimed at Darcy.
"I should have killed you when we first met, but I thought we could use you. Look at you now; like father like daughter," Colin grinned.
Darcy couldn't understand what he was talking about and didn't have time to question him about it. Her eyes flicked to Loki quickly, but he was too far from her. She was sure that he couldn't hear her even if she screamed, he was so busy with fighting with the other agent.
"Loki!" she screamed anyway, but her voice was so weak.
Surprisingly, Loki could hear her.
Not surprisingly, Loki was fast. Before Colin killed her, he teleported from in front of the other agent and appeared between Darcy and Colin. Colin shot his gun. Darcy screamed as she heard the sound of the gun fire. Well he couldn't be killed by a bullet obviously, but she was so scared and confused that Loki took a bullet for her of all people.
Loki just laughed as he walked towards a now frightened Colin.
"I hope that wasn't your best shot agent," he grinned. Loki didn't spend any effort when he reached Colin's neck gripping him and throwing him to the other side of the room. Colin's body slammed to the wall and fell to the ground. Six armed agents came into the room as Colin buckled to the ground; all guns were aimed at Loki. He turned to the other agents and put his hands up in the air as if he were surrendering. However, was still holding the scepter, the other agents were scared, Darcy could see that. But they still held their guns against the pair.
Darcy seemed to realize what Loki was planning.
"Loki, no..." she said, her voice was so weak, but it was too late. Loki did some kind of magic and all the agents were forced to turn their guns against one another. Darcy closed her eyes, when she heard their panicked voices. All agents fired at one another. When she opened her eyes, they were standing in a room full of dead people, her dead family and friends. Darcy was about to cry. That was it. Hydra's main operation center was finished and the other ones were kind of useless without it. She knew that Hydra would look for her in spite of the fact of what she did today.
Loki helped her to stand up. Her eyes were full of tears, but she forced herself to not cry.
"Why didn't you kill them at first? Why now?" she didn't look at Loki's face. She didn't want him or anybody to see her like that.
"My magic has just regained its strength," he said. Loki was doing the best thing he could; lying, his magic never actually gone completely. Yes, he couldn't teleport them but he could kill them all with one shot of his magic. He hadn't done it because of 'this stupid mortal'. He was angry with himself as he had endangered their life with fighting. He hadn't done it because this stupid mortal said 'this people are my family, I don't want them to get hurt'. But when he had seen the man -who called to Darcy as "my love"- had been about to kill her, Loki had understood that they weren't her family or the people who cared about her. She was just stupid enough to believe them. That's when he decided to kill them all.
Darcy wanted to get out of here. She left the room without looking at Loki. Loki followed her. She sat on a chair. She was looking thoughtful and broken. Loki sat in the chair next to her, after a couple of minutes he started to speak.
"What changed your plan?" Loki asked kindly. She looked up at his face for a minute.
"Does it matter?" she said, not wanting to answer his question.
Loki said nothing. They were both remaining silent.
"Colin…Before you saved me, he was talking about my father," Darcy said, thoughtful. Her eyes were still full of tears, but she resisted the urge to cry..
Loki didn't say anything. He was wondering if she found out.
"He said: 'Like father like daughter'. What's that mean?" Darcy looked at him.
Loki still didn't say anything, but from his eyes Darcy could see a spark of understanding. He knew something.
"Tell me," Darcy demanded, her voice was strong. Loki didn't look at her; he was looking at the ground and thinking. She didn't expect him to answer her, but he surprised her.
"I am not the one who should tell you about that." Loki said their eyes locked on to each other. Suddenly, he stood up and reached out to grab her wrist, helping her to get up.
"What are you doing?" Darcy was so confused when his arm wrapped around her waist. He was still holding his scepter in his other hand.
"I'm taking you to the person who should answer your question." he smiled, but it wasn't one of those mischievous smiles. It was quite sad. Then they vanished in a flash the light.
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A/N :
Thanks a lot to MercyRaine for beta reading!
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