Alright this kind of goes along with the comment from Ellize Avalon. I liked her idea and wanted to somewhat play with it. Once again I hope all of you enjoy. Disclaimer; I do not own MARVELS universe.
The spark that shone in her was stronger than the others, but still weaker than Thor's and his own. But it doesn't have to be. He instantly shoved the thought out of his mind and he tried to concentrate again. But her scent seemed powerful in his nostrils and he couldn't block her out. Such a delicate thing... He remembered his short time broken nose and her magic. With thorns. She was the lone rose in the winter that still bloomed blood red with thorns as sharp as daggers. The girl could probably be polished into something greater. His thoughts became infatuated with her as he watched her slowly close those storming eyes out of the corner of his eye. He forced himself not to tense up as he watched her head start to droop. He noticed with a smirk as the others instantly stiffened as her headed rested on Loki's shoulder.
Bruce coughed as a small sigh brushed past her lips and Loki strained not to put his hand on her left leg to draw her closer. She was very warm to him and he found it appealing. The heat of Asgard had always felt different to him because he had not been made to know of it. But her warmth was different. She would love Asgard. The magic that surrounded it would attract her like air to a drowning man. Yes, there was very little magic on Earth for her to discover compared to on Asgard. Loki turned his head after catching the look Thor gave Tony when he made a move to wake Katrina as she shifted. It angered Loki that Thor was still standing up for him, he had just stabbed him for Odin's sake! He turned to watch her as she subconsciously scooted her hips away from him and wrapped her arms around his to become more comfortable.
Captain America's breath whistled out of his teeth as the tension has ramped up. Loki mentally sighed, they all expected him to hurt her. They thought he would take advantage of her weakened state as she slept to make one final move on them. It would be possible... He could just grab her arm and teleport away... Oh the things that he could do to her with no interruptions from these mortal morons. Even if she used her magic she would get tired easily since she had just discovered it and didn't have practice. He reached into the deeper reserves of his magic to scape together what he had left. The magic flickered, it would barely be enough to get them both out. He adjusted himself into a position that would make it easy to get a better hold of her quickly. Barton watched every move and analyzed them efficiently. Everyone reacted at once when Loki's arm shot around Katrina and they exploded out of existence leaving behind silver and grey smoke.
Thor had reacted quickest, as he had more than triple the experience with war than the rest, his hands hand snatched at the smoke as Loki's cape vanished. Bruce stood dumbfounded as he fought for control to keep his human form.
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I groaned as the air warmed suddenly and the jet landed with a thud. I opened my eyes to wake up and lost all ability to move. I wasn't on the jet anymore. We weren't on the jet anymore. Loki had collapsed on his back with sweat beading over his brow. His helmet had rolled off in the sugary sand leading to a beach. (Beach look a like at the bottom). "Loki?" He didn't answer me."Loki?" Again, no answer. "Loki!" I didn't wait for an answer, I slapped him. He jerked and cracked his eyes open to glare at me. Exhaustion glistened in his blazing eyes. They reminded me of the Greek fire you would read about in the books. "Are you okay?" He huffed at me before rolling over. Well. I jabbed him in the side ZAP! Wow, I could use electricity too! He jerked from the bolt and sat up to glare at me again.
"Care to explain yourself?" He raised an ebony eyebrow.
"You didn't answer me."
"And so you had to electrocute me?" I just nodded. He scoffed before answering, "No, I'm not alright. Lay down." Not thinking much of it I did as he commanded. I was shocked when he rested his head on my tummy. So even gods do this? Won't somebody see this? Please let somebody catch us. A light snore alerted me that the Silver Tongue had fallen asleep. I turned my head to the side to try to see where we were with out waking him up. I didn't want to know what would happen when he woke up. This is the best chance I have to run. But where? I don't know where we are. I could get lost and die without him. He could kill me anyways if I pissed him off. A tear slid down the side of my face and into my hair as I closed my eyes as a fresh wave of exhaustion came over me as well.
I would deal with this when I woke up.
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"Katrina, hurry up!" Loki called over his shoulder from wear he stood on the sand dunes a quarter mile ahead of me. Several years had passed and nobody had came for us. Loki had effectively hid us away.
"Damn it, Loki. I'm still not as fast as you! I still have my human qualities you know!" I doubled over to breath. Living out here on the beach and in the woods surrounding it had indeed made me fitter. How could it not? No longer having the temptations of pop or chips or even cake. When I had first woke up I had tears streaking down my face and Loki had asked me what was wrong. I blew up at his and tried to attack. He was still tired but that did not make him weaker than me. It didn't by fare. The fight had ended with me soaking in the ocean. I laughed as he teleported back to where I was and dipped me backwards.
He placed a chaste kiss on my lips before taking off again, "Come on, we're going to miss it if you don't pick up your feet!" Giving into the chase, I sprinted after him. It took us a full thirty minutes to reach our destination, with the sky darkening consistently. Gasping for air I dropped to the ground at the tip of the cliff we had arrived at, Loki sat down beside me, his legs hanging off the cliff. The sun hit the edge of the water and painted it rose red while the sky had streaks of almost every color you could imagine. Indigo, blue, pink, purple, red, and lilac all having their own share of the sky.
"It's always worth the run." I breathed. Loki chuckled and nodded before standing up.
He cleared his throat beside me and I looked up to his extended hand, "May I have this dance?" Smiling, I took his hand and he pulled me up. He starting humming a beat as he slowly taught me a dance before we picked up the pace to the normal beat. The wind blew around us and lifted us an inch or so above the ground to where we were floating. I smiled and couldn't help laughing as he spun me out before pulling me back against his chest. And we froze. Electricity sparked the air between us as we just stared at the other. The same question visible in our eyes. He leaned down until our lips met in the same rhythm. I let him lower me to the ground, I was ready for this. No matter if a child was the result or not. Hunger took over me at the thought of a child. His child.
I gasped as he pulled my shirt over his head and brought his mouth onto my heated skin. Slowly I managed to get his shirt off as well as he kissed my neck and torso.
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Less then a year later I presented him with a son. He had hair as black as Loki's but his eyes changed color. Loki had been delighted that the pregnancy had been successful. The boy was beautiful in my eyes as was he in-
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"Katrina... Katrina..." Loki's voice broke through my haze as he squeezed my shoulder. I panicked and searched the dull gray room for my baby.
"Where is he!"
"Shh. Keep your voice down or they'll hear you."
"Where is he?" I struggled against Loki. Surely he wouldn't be this calm if he noticed his son was missing and we had arrived in a place that wasn't ours. How could he be so calm?
"Where is who? Katrina calm down, nothings going to get you. I just told you that they would have to deal with what ever issues they have with your blood samples. I twisted in his arms to find the same face I had just spent years with. His brows creased as he saw the terror in my eyes. "Who are you looking for, Katrina?"
"Where's the baby?! Where is he? I just had him, where did he go? Where are we, Loki? This isn't the beach." My breathing came as sobbing gasps.
He put his hands on either side of my face and touched foreheads as he looked into my panicked eyes. "Katrina. Katrina Vivian Frost. What ever baby you keep talking about, he isn't here. He's not from this world. You just fell asleep. We're still on the helicarrier. Thor is making his way here so you need to leave. You're alright, the baby wasn't real. What ever you dreamed about didn't happen, you're just fine. Calm down. You need to go back to your own bed. Go. Before Thor gets here." He picked me up and set me on my feet. No, a dream couldn't be that real. That would be impossible. It had to be.
He gave me a forceful kiss before trying to shove me out the door. "Wait, please. Just, just let me have a proper goodbye before you leave." He gave me an impatient look before tapping his toe. Gently I leaned up until I could press my lips against his. I doubted that I would see him for a long time after they left and I wouldn't be able to say goodbye in public. He seemed to get that I wasn't going for something that made me feel like I was on fire.
Inhaling deeply he guided me against the wall as he tipped my head back with his large hands so that he could have better reach. My mind still struggled to clarify the difference between now and the dream and the life I used to have. I let him slide his tongue into my mouth and he massaged mine. My hands scrunched to shirt that covered his chest as I inhaled his scent, trying to burn this into my mind. I broke away and gave him one last look before leaving. A sob racked my chest as I tried to figure out where I stood with Loki now. The dream didn't happen. I shuddered. I was practically throwing myself at Loki. I was making myself easy. Cheap.
I shook my head as I rounded another corner and ran into a metal wall and fell on my back, "Lady Katrina! I'm so sorry. Are you alright?" Thor reached down and picked me up before sitting me on my own to feet. Alarm flared in his eyes when he actually looked at me, "Lady Katrina, what is wrong? I have not seen you this distraught." Well, you haven't seen much of me to tell the truth.
I wrapped my arms around myself, trying to warm up as I was suddenly freezing. "Nothing, it was just a confusing dream."
"Would you care to tell me about it?" his bright blue eyes showed concern.
If I told anyone about the dream it would be him. It was about his brother anyways and I'm half of what he is. "It was about your brother, Thor."
"Oh. I am sorry if he caused you nightmares. I'm aware that the mortal mind can only take so much at once." He acted like he was uncertain if it was a nightmare. Probably because I had fallen asleep on Loki on the jet.
I shook my head, "It wasn't that kind of dream. It wasn't a nightmare." He looked at me curiously and I decided to let one more person into my secret. "Can I tell you something?"
"Of course!" He just stood there expectantly.
I cleared my throat nervously, "Could we go somewhere else? I'm afraid this isn't something to be heard by any person just walking by." His face was struck with a shocked expression but he nodded. "Do you know which room is empty?"
He nodded again, "Follow me." He pulled a locked door open before letting me in and shutting the door behind him. Dents were left in the frame. He turned to look at me, "Tell me of this dream."
I took a deep breath before letting it come gushing out. Humans wouldn't be able to help me with what I wanted. No, they would scorn me. This world is filling up with people that can't be matched. I've become one of them. I told him of how Loki had stole me again when we were on the helicarrier and how we had landed on a beach. I told him that after a few years I gave up on being rescued and indulged myself in the life Loki had dragged me into. I told him about Loki's son. "He had Loki's hair and sharp features but he smiled more than Loki does now. His eyes changed colors as the day went on." I told him of how I panicked when I woke up and found the child missing and that I had been on the helicarrier but it was foreign to me at the time.
Thor just watched me curiously as I told him about my dream, leaving out little bits and pieces that included my magic. When I finished he was silent until a huge grin split his face from ear to ear. I took a step back in bewilderment at his sudden joy. "I knew somebody here would see to the real him!" He grabbed me in a hug that knocked the breath out of my lungs from the force.
"Thor! Too tight." I gasped.
He loosened his grip with a sheepish look on his face, "Sorry, Lady Katrina. I shall go visit my brother now. That is the reason I was out after all."
"Wait! There's something else." He raised his eyebrows at me again. "Word will get out soon so I'd rather be honest with a few people so every doesn't drop dead simultaneously. Er, how do I say this?" Giving up on words I concentrated on fire and wind. Slowly flames flickered over my palm before shooting into the air (Anyone seen Sucker Punch with Emily Browning in it? The fire is like the dragon scene when she strikes the two crystals. Youtube if you haven't seen it Sucker Punch Dragon Scene 2.). The wind blew the flames into shapes of human beings. Tony, Fury, Natahsa, the fire depicting each one. Sweat trickled down my brow. I let the flames create another person, me, before they flickered away from the humans into other people. Thor, The Warrior Three and Sif, Frigga, Loki, and Odin before fire burst out behind them to show Asgard.
Thor's breath caught as he watched the display and his eyes widened. "You have not been to Asgard before. I do not remember seeing you on my previous visit to Earth. How do you know of such people and places? What does this mean? How is it you can do magic?"
"I had ways of knowing. I'm not completely human, Thor. I just wanted you to know before the blood test results came back."
"What do you mean you aren't completely human?" he took a thunderous step towards me.
"I'm half Aesir."
His face slackened before he picked his jaw up off the floor. "I-I do not understand."
"Neither do I, but that's all I know."
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"Katie, Katie, wake up." I groaned as somebody shook my shoulder. "Come on before I drag you out of here." I moaned and rolled over, closing my eyes against the light. I noticed that I was still wearing the clothes I wore when I had wandered around last night. Well, that just means I don't have to get dressed. Ouch, am I on the floor. I cracked my eyes open to find I was indeed laying on the floor. I had slept awful last night when I finally got back.
I heard muttering above me before I was pulled up and into the air. I squeaked as I found myself hanging from Tony's shoulder, staring at the ground behind him as he walked out of my room. "T-Tony! Put me down, I'm not a toddler, you can't carry me around like this. I'm too big for it. Damn it, I'm almost as tall as you!" We passed several agents that gave us a small but weary smile as the walked by. "Dang it, where are we going?"
"We have to drop Thor and Loki off at the park so I'm taking you up to the jet so that you don't miss the departure. We are all leaving afterwards anyways." He climbed the stairs until he reached deck level and he strode out the door. Captain America stood waiting for us and he smiled at the sight Tony presented him with me hanging over his shoulder.
"What about my things?"
"You didn't bring anything." Oh, right. "Come, come. We must hurry. The Thunder God misses his home and I hate being here in the first place." Tony walked into the jet and Steve followed behind us still smiling at the position I had gotten in. My tummy jerked as we walked past Loki and he had that thing on his mouth. Just for show, just for show. The dream wasn't real, either. Forget about it. After having fallen asleep again last night I had been able to sort out most of the dream out of reality. Barton kept a straight face when he looked at me but I could see he was laughing internally.
I huffed as Tony plopped me in a chair and sat beside me. Bruce came over and sat on my other side a seat over. I gave him a small smile of greeting. Nobody seemed nervous or different around me yet, so I don't think the results have come back in yet. If they had I don't really think Fury would be letting me go all too quickly. But I was glad I was able to escape before they came in. He would be busy with a conference with The Board this morning.
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While Thor said his goodbyes with the Dr. Selvig and the other I slipped past Loki and squeezed his arm. The only real goodbye I could give him without pushing myself to do something stupid, like hug him or some sort of nonsense like that. His eyes were particularly blue today and I had the feeling he would have a bit of trouble shedding all contact with the Tessaract. I hugged Thor as he pulled me up to him. "I shall see what I can do. We will be seeing you again, eventually. Good luck." I thanked him and kissed his cheek, thrilled that I was able to do so. I had been wanting to do that since the Thor movie and even more since I met him. Even though he didn't act too much like one, in the back of my mind I thought of him as an over sized teddy bear. Strange right?
The crazy thing was, I was so happy I was able to kiss Thor that caution had been blown to the wind. I turned on my heels and wrapped my arms around Loki's neck. I whispered in his ear, "Please get better. You're not a monster, you know. Even though you're a Frost Giant." I pulled away to see shock register in his eyes and I saw the question clearly marked in them. How do you know? While the others looked a bit shocked, Thor seemed to be brimming with happiness at my actions.
"Thank you." Thor breathed. Thor held the cylinder containing the Tessaract to Loki and he took it in his hands. Thor twisted it and they were gone in a flash of blew. We all stood still for a minute, thinking the same thing. The battle was over and we could go back to our normal lives now. Well, they could. I didn't know what the hell I was going to do. I was an orphan and I despised the thought of going to an Orphanage.
Tony tugged on my elbow to pull my gaze from the sky, "Time to go."
"Where?" We all said our good byes and I shook hands with the others, getting hugs if I could.
"You're coming with me." Tony walked me over to his car where Bruce was waiting.
"Erm, how am I going to fit? This is only for two people." I looked at it in confusion. I sure as hell wasn't going to ride in the trunk.
Tony patted the backs of the seats, "You can be a crazy teen and sit here. If we get pulled over, I'll bail us out." He pulled a sarcastic but strangely charming grin. Shrugging, I hopped in and grabbed Bruce to help me keep my balance. It was a nice car, I'll tell you what. Bruce draped his arm over my knees to help me out.
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"Was that the point of all of this? A statement?"
"A promise."
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"Pepper?" We entered Stark Tower and it was silent. I wandered a little behind the men as we made our way through the tower. We found her on about the 30th floor staring at all the shattered glass she had swept up. The pile was pretty impressive. "Pepper?" Her had snapped up and she sobbed as she threw herself across the room and into his arms.
He wrapped her up in a hug until she leaned back and slapped him. Bruce and I stood stock still, not wanting to draw attention to ourselves. "How dare you scare me like that! Tony, I thought you died! I-" she sobbed into his chest again and he just rubbed her back. I pulled Bruce out of the room to give them some space. Once we were out I said, "Let's go explore some more while they sort things out.
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"Pepper? Pepper, I'm sorry if you reacted badly. But I wasn't going to let that bomb blow up the city." She just nodded her head against his chest. "Pepper?"
"What?"
"There's a girl that's going to be living with me now."
"What?! I've been away for hardly three days and you've been busy fighting and yet you've found another person to pick up?"
"Pepper, it's not like that! She had gotten tangled up with this battle and I couldn't just leave her at S.H.E.I.L.D."
"She already knows about S.H.E.I.L.D?"
"Well, yeah, she fought along side us yesterday. Loki had kidnapped her before and during the battle so she came to some use in it. Fury seems to still be keeping an eye on her."
"Does she know she's going to live with you?"
"Not yet, I just made the arrangements last night and haven't gotten the time to yet. I was planning on telling her when we got here and got Bruce situated."
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"What?! I'm living with you?" I was bewildered when Tony told me.
Tony nodded, "I made the arrangements last night. Fury agreed that it would be a good idea to keep you in the loop, more or less. So I got a hold of some people last night to get the process worked out before it got too hairy. So you're legally my daughter. They found your grandmother." he said bluntly.
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When we started patching Stark Tower back up Tony added two more floors on top and a wrap around balcony on the second to the top floor. He let me have and design those two floors as my personal living space. The rebuilding process continued into my Junior year in high school and Tony showed me a side of him that I would have thought would be non existent. As soon as I arrived at the Stark Tower, given if he was there or not, we would sit down and he would help me with my homework. It had surprised me the first time it happened but I immediately found that having a genius master mind to help you with your homework was great. He could usually find a way for me to figure any problem out.
Bruce visited every now and then and we would always spend a bit of time together. He was great, really. We would hang out even when Tony wasn't around. It was a different experience than doing labs with Tony. Most of the time when Tony and I were in the lab and sometimes goofing off we would end up making something explode and Jarvis would activate the sprinklers that were closest to us, just to piss us off. After a few times of this happening, I actually started to see the humor in it and wore darker clothing when we went to the lab. Once, I had made a very stupid mistake and wore I white shirt that wasn't see through when it was dry and had on a red bra. Oh, I had been so embarrassed and humiliated when we set something on fire and Jarvis attempted to punish us again. But now I can look back on that memory and laugh my ass off. I've started playing pranks in school and on Tony.
He usually finds the humor in it and forgives me then helps me with my next prank on the student body. Natasha, Barton, and Steve have pushed me into being a fitness nut. Well, I didn't have much of a say in it either. Steve is somewhat sympathetic what the master assassins just help me push it off and go harder. I've started drawing every now and then. I had woke up one night, unable to sleep and had gone to the kitchen to keep a midnight snack. I had left some paper and pencils on the table and while I ate I doodles just to do something. When I actually looked at it I found a pair of dark eyes staring back at me out of a chubby face. It was the first time I had thought of the child from my dream in a long time. The sketch was far from perfect, as I hadn't really practiced sketching, but I was able to recognize the boy.
I had the nightmare when I went back to bed. The nightmare that haunts me every time I think I've escaped it.
Whitehaven Beach, Australia
Alrighty, this is not the last chapter even though the movie part has ended. Summer school finally ended today and since we weren't allowed to leave two hours in advance, my speech teacher let us watch Thor! What a treat that was. Please review my loves and don't be too disturbed about the next chapter.
