16 years later…
Rose walked in her high school with dread in her stomach. She hated it and always had, ever since she was small Rose had been called a 'freak' so she spent all her time alone. Well, almost, she had one friend called Jessika, or Jess as she was known to most and Jess was all she needed. Jess was a few months older than Rose and had chocolate brown eyes with the same colour hair. Her hair was short and just came down to her shoulders, just, Jess was a tall girl with a thin frame and a quiet personality. Quiet until Rose got to know her. Rose was similar in build, but she had pale skin and long hair which ran about four inches past her shoulders. Rose's appearance is one of the reasons people called her a freak, her hair was blond and black, it was mostly blond but with black running through it and it never changed. It had been that way all of her life so she never questioned it, obviously others did. Her eyes were another factor, they were blue and green and changed alternatively. Once she and Jess were sure they had gone a crimson red when she'd been mad.
"Rose!" Jess shouted down the corridor, pulling the girl out of her thoughts and daydreams.
"Hey," Rose smiled when her friend came to stand at her side.
"How are you? Any more strange dreams?" her friend teased which made Rose roll her eyes. Today they seemed to be a bluey-green colour, somewhere in the middle of the two which made a change.
"I should never have told you about them," Rose said with a shake of her head.
"Come on, indulge me," Jess teased, her brown eyes swimming with curiosity.
"No, I haven't had anymore." She sighed when they reached their lockers which were side by side.
"Shame." Jess said with disappointment in her face. She loved Rose's wild dreams of another realms and Jess had loved the idea that they could be real.
"Well, well, well, look who it is," Rose and Jess both sighed in exhaustion at the voice behind them. Since they'd all been in Kindergarten a girl named Elena had been a bully to them both and as they grew up, it never changed.
"Good morning, Elena, is there something we can do for you?" Rose asked turning to face her nemesis who was stood with her hands on her hips and her signature smirk.
"Well you could cease to exist, for one," she laughed and Rose faked a yawn.
"That never becomes less boring," A lot of things happened in quick succession. Firstly, Elena gripped Rose hair and slammed her back against the locker. The bully had spat a few insults in the pale girl's face until Rose snapped. She threw Elena off her and onto her back looking up at her.
"What the hell, you freak?!" the girl on the floor exclaimed when she looked into Rose's eyes to see a crimson colour looking back at her.
"Rose…" Jess gasped and she ripped her locker open so she could see. Her eyes had changed and everyone had seen, even other people and teachers stopped in the hall to see what the commotion was about.
"Rose," a teacher asked as she squeezed her eyes shut in horror at her own reflection. After a few calming breaths she opened her eyes to see everyone staring at her, Elena now on her feet stood next to the teacher in question.
"The little freak has red eyes, you all saw it! She is a monster!" Elena's friend screeched and Rose smashed her fist into the lockers beside her and in that moment her life changed. Upon impact her hand crushed the metal and cover the row in a layer of frost. She pulled her hand back, her eyes wide in shock when she saw the hand unhurt and blue. The colour disappeared after a moment, but it had definitely been there.
"She should be locked up!" the unmistakable voice of Elena echoed down the deathly silent corridor. Suddenly an eruption of the student body cheering in agreement waved through the air before they all began to chant 'freak' over and over. Rose turned around to see the teacher on the phone, presumably to the police or something so Rose took a chance and ran. She ran out of the double doors, out of the car park and down the road. She vaguely heard Jess shouting after her but she was too scared to turn and she her only friend scared of her.
Rose ran and ran and then carried on. She didn't come to a stop until her legs were threatening to give out and make her fall. There was a patch of woodland a few feet a head so Rose ran into it and sat down under a tree. Once she'd caught her breath she began to cry. Rose must've spent hours crying into her sleeve about the events of the day, she sobbed and sobbed until she eventually drifted the sleep, her back pressed against the trunk of the tree.
Jess was going out of her mind with worry about her friend and wasn't really paying attention until the teacher shouted her name.
"Sorry," she sighed but everyone continued to stare at her.
"There's someone in the principal's office who'd like to talk to you," Mr James told her motioning his head to the door. Jess gathered her things, still under the stare of her other classmates but no one said anything.
"Probably about your freaky friend," a jock in the back chuckled but Jess just turned to him and narrowed her eyes.
"None of this would've happened if you'd all just left her alone!" she snapped, grabbing her bag and leaving the room. Jess knocked on the door with a shaky hand, what was she supposed to say to them, she didn't even understand what had happened herself. She opened the door to find man in a suit and another man wearing an eye patch stood with the Principal.
"This is her, Jess, these men are from S.H.I.E.L.D and they wish to talk to you about Rose."
"I have no idea what happened either, how am I supposed to be any use?"
"Jess, we just want to know if Rose was troubled?" the man without the eye patch asked. Jess studied him for a moment before shrugging. "Jess, I'm Agent Coulson and this is Director Fury, we are on Rose's side. We want to help her,"
"She's always been strange, she often had dreams of this strange place with thrones and a hammer, lightning or something." At this information the two men shared a knowing look. "We just thought she'd be a great writer one day," Jess shrugged, tears coming into her eyes but she bit them back and took a deep breath.
"Agent Coulson, Rose has been in several foster homes in her life and had a troubled past-"
"You think you helped! You never stopped them calling her 'freak' or 'weirdo' so if she snapped then it's on you!" Jess shouted at her head teacher who stopped mid-sentence. This seemed to intrigue the man with the eye patch who stood from his seat.
"Is that so?"
"Well I, I uh… I can't stop all the bullying,"
"I think we're going to remove you from this position, Mr Davidson and you'll never work in a school again, if I have anything to do with it anyway." He said before standing and removing himself from the room. The other one identified as Agent Coulson turning to Jess and gave a small smile.
"Thank you, we'll make sure your friend is okay." Jess nodded and turned into a bathroom to splash her face, it was almost surreal what was happening.
"Do you think it's her?"
"I've met Thor and Selvig was pretty specific. This is her." Coulson nodded as they climbed into their car.
It was middle of the night when Rose woke up, she was awoken by something nudging at her. He first thought was that it was a sniffer dog that was sent out to find her but she looked up to see a large wolf in front of her. It was a dark brown colour and its yellow eyes looking into her green ones as if it was trying to look into her soul. She tried to shuffle back but she couldn't and the beast just seemed to come closer. Rose squeezed her eyes shut and waited for the bit, the searing pain but it never came. Gingerly, she opened her eyes to see it laid at her feet as if it were waiting for her to pet it. So she did. Rose gently laid her hand on its head and stroked, it nuzzled further into her palm which made her smile. Maybe they were both misunderstood and meant to find one another. Suddenly, it stood which made her flinch but it moved its mouth to her sleeve and tried to pull her. Its pulled her up on her feet and began walking deeper into the woods, what choice did she have but to follow. Rose followed the wolf until they came to what seemed to be a tear in the world. It was a bright white light which seemed just big enough to fit a person through. Rose trying to turn back but the wolf blocked her path and nudged her to the light.
"No, no, no!" she screamed as she fell through after one last shove from the beast.
"The search has to be stopped," Odin said from his chair to the left of his son, Thor, who was now kind of Asgard.
"Loki is still out there somewhere, with my child," Thor shouted and the council let out a chorus of groans.
"Your child will most likely to be dead," one of the council sighed but Thor shook his head.
"No, Loki will have taken care of him,"
"Sixteen years, it's been sixteen years and you have yet to father a child with your queen. We are becoming concerned," another old man attempted to speak but Thor was having none of it.
"Sif and I understand one another, she does not love me and I do not love her but she is a good queen. We are married for Asgard because if I were to have it my way Loki would be my consort, and I do not need an heir as I already have one! Also, Sif does not desire to bare children,"
"Thor you must see reason!-" Odin began but was cut of my the noise of something falling to the ground. They fifteen council members, including Thor and Odin stood and looked into the middle of the throne room to see a girl and a wolf. The girl was sat up staring right at them, in that moment the guards from the door went to her with caution and when one of them tried to grab her he dropped to the floor. She's gripped his arm in panic and burnt through his chain mail. Upon seeing this Thor called Mjornir to him and Odin called for more guards. Thor went to make a move but the guards had managed to get her. They'd clapped shackles onto her wrists to prevent her from doing any magic and the wolf was being held down by Odin. Thor dropped his hammer and approached the girl.
"Who are you and how did you get into Asgard?" he asked in a demanding voice but the girl still did not reply. "An easier one for you, what realm did you come from?" Still Rose said nothing.
"Your silence will do you no good," Odin said and she turned to face him. As soon as her eyes met his one, he knew who she was but he said nothing. Her eyes were the colour of his sons mixed together and her hair the same. How Thor had not noticed who she resembled was beyond the former king of Asgard. It was obvious.
"Lock them both away," Thor said with a flick of his head. Odin just watched as they dragged his granddaughter towards the dungeons.
