I had to say when the Doctor said he knew a place; I figured it was a bit cleaner than where we made a small camp. We ended up settling at the old base in New Mexico, which was originally destroyed in the first 10 minutes of the Avengers movie. Though it wasn't completely rebuilt, we stayed in the most completed area of the construction which was going on around us. Fury though it was best for me and the Doctor to go alone but the Doctor demanded differently after what happened at the base. So now I sat on a wooden box that was set in the corner of the new conference room, which was waiting patiently to get its first coat of paint.
My mind drifted back to what we found out about 2 hours, and how it would completely change how the team would go about hiding me from Loki.
-Back at the base, two hours ago.-
"Fine, that looks like the most remote place we can keep her without doing too much harm." Fury said agreeing to the Doctor's option on the old base in New Mexico.
"Now, that we have agreed on a location; Dr. Banner, have you finished your scan on Samantha's internal system? " Fury asked as he turned to Bruce who stood at a desk fiddling with his glasses in his hands.
"Yes… and unfortunately it's not good. " He said looking at a chart he pulled up on a huge screen. "It looks like the "magic", has surrounded her heart incasing it. Meaning it will protect you from harm, but if Loki would want to he can…kill her instantly."
I looked at Bruce with a frown, biting my bottom lip, and stuffing my hands into my pockets to stop me from biting my nails out of pure fear.
"Then why hasn't he done it yet?" Natasha asked over in the corner, being the first time she spoke up in a while.
"It looks like as easy it might be to kill her; it wouldn't work out for Loki." Tony charmed in walking over to the chart and opening up an image of my heart which indeed was surrounded by a bluish energy. "If Loki were to kill her, the magic would simply vanish and go to the closest host, which could be anyone of us, but not him. It seems that Odin put in a duel lock on the magic, meaning nobody can release it but by physical contact between Loki and Sam."
"Physical contact was established earlier, he grabbed her arm at Asgard." The Doctor mentioned looking at Tony with a frown.
"Yeah so why didn't it worked earlier?" I asked watching them.
Bruce looked at Tony and whispered something to him, and Tony scowled as a reaction to whatever Bruce said, then sighed.
"It's seemed why it didn't work earlier from that contact, because that locket you had it was hiding the magic inside of you." Tony said stepping away from Bruce and walking over to stand in front of me and the Doctor, "Bruce mentioned that…" He sighed softly and looked at me with pained eyes, "You're dying the magic is slowing killing you."
I was dying and I haven't even done everything I wanted to do in life yet, I was only 20 and should be dreaming about college and what party I was going to this weekend, but the only thought was that I was dying. I knew I couldn't do anything to stop it but give Loki his full powers back, and that would screw the whole world over just to save my puny unimportant life.
Nobody has tried to talk to me since Tony broke the news, I even stayed away from the Doctor; I got caught up into my own thoughts and accepted reality. This wasn't a dream anymore, this was a nightmare I would never wake up from, I was going to die in an unpainted conference room without my family and my friends. I got pulled out of my thoughts when the first person to approach in two hours stood over me casting a huge shadow to fall upon my face.
"May I sit, Champion of the Doctor?" Thor's said breaking the silence around me.
I looked up and nodded at the looming figure of Thor; he smiled softly and sat on the box next to me surprisingly not destroying it with his sheer weight. It took a few seconds for the God of Thunder to get comfortable and then look up at me with a weak smile.
"I apologize about my brother's terrible behave and I am deeply apologetic about the fate that has become for you. " He spoke softly, "Loki has always been troubled even as a child."
"It's ok Thor. You don't need to explain that to me…I just guess I never would have believed that I would be here in the first place." I said looking at my hands sadly.
"What do you speak of?" Thor asked.
"I'm not supposed to talk about but since I'm going to dying …why not." I said shrugging, "I'm not from here I came here with the Doctor as you know, but he isn't the same as he is in my world."
This got me a weird look from Thor, so I continued, "I'm from a parallel universe, and it like this world but so different. Nobody is supposed to get between the worlds, but the Doctor did and I'm not surprised if I can never go back."
Thor just nodded and sighed, "I understand what it's like to be lost from your home." He spoke.
" I know you do… and thanks for relating to what I'm going through…do you think there is any way to remove Loki's magic before my condition worsen? " I asked looking at him.
"No Daughter of Moretti, only the All Father would of known, but he is now gone." He said sadly.
"I'm sorry for your lose Thor…I really am." I spoke softly looking at his sad blue eyes.
"Thank for your consideration." The god spoke as he stood up, "Excuse me, I have to speak to Dr. Banner."
I nodded and looked down as I heard his footsteps creep away and another set took his place and continued toward me.
"Hey Doctor." I said recognizing the footsteps, as I looked up.
"How you doing?" He asked sitting next to me with a sad look on his face.
"I'm doing great, you know, just relaxing here with a 945 year old Time lord." I said with a weak smile.
He chuckled and looked at me with a weak smile, "903. I'm not that old yet" He responded.
"…Sorry what I did…earlier." I spoke feeling the blush run into my cheeks.
"Don't be, I know why you did it." He said looking up at the ceiling, leaning back on his arms.
"You do?" I asked looking at him.
"Yes it's because I'm so attractive." He smiled with a chuckle.
I laughed throwing my head back with a huge smile, "Oh you are just such a looker."
He smiled softly, and for that moment I was happy and our minds drifted away from the terror that was going to behold us soon. Just then the ceiling rumbled and shouts came from down the hall, the terror arrived and it was right at our doorstep.
