Darcy found herself waking up on the floor. She let out a hiss when she tried to move her arm, she found she couldn't. She tried to stretch it and she screamed in pain. Ok, no moving her left arm then. Lucky she was right handed. The right side of her face felt swollen but numb and she had a sharp pain in her chest.
After the Skype call ended, Morgan went crazy. His eyes went freakishly blue and he attacked her. He turned on the other people in the room as well. Not caring who he hurt. After people saw he had gone mad, they scattered and left. Eventually she must have blacked out.
She was still in the same position as she blacked out in, she thought. Her head felt funny, and she wanted to close her eyes and sleep. But she couldn't do that. She pulled herself up right; she bit the inside of her cheek to stop her screaming.
The bright side was that she wasn't torn limb from limb like he had promised her. Another bright star in this shit was that Loki knew not to give himself up. Not that he would anyway. No way would he give himself up for her. Would he? No, no, no he wouldn't. Don't be crazy Darcy.
Darcy rested her head against the wall and let out a slow breath, wincing a little as she did so.
Hours passed and no one came in her cell. She needed a drink desperately but she knew she wouldn't be getting any.
"Ok, no one strays from the plan" Fury repeated. Looking strangely not towards him. Fury was staring at Stark.
"Why are you looking at me" Stark protested. "Surely you should be saying that to him" he pointed a finger in his direction.
"Because Mr Stark, you are unpredictable when it comes to plans"
Stark didn't protest to this. He furrowed his brow then smiled and nodded. "True"
"Ok we leave in an hour. We have some things to prepare, protocols to go through" Fury stared at them all then swept out the room. Loki didn't understand why that had to wait an hour. He wanted, no he needed to go now. He had to get to Darcy. He had to. He wanted to hold her. He shouldn't care so much, but he loved her. He hated that word 'love'. But he did love her.
He had been through that same thought process over a million times, trying to come up with different explanation but he never could. He would sacrifice himself for her. Which was stupid, but he would. Damn these stupid, ugly feelings. Stupid, ugly but oddly wonderful feelings.
He felt a prod on his shoulder and Loki's head snapped up quickly. He was expecting Thor but instead he found Stark staring at him. "Listen" Stark said to him. "When this all works out, don't hurt Darcy ok? She is like the little sister I never had, so hurt her and I hurt you."
Loki was surprised. "Why would I hurt her?" he found himself saying.
Stark looked at him incredulously. "Look, just don't hurt her, and then we don't have a problem"
"I threw you out of a window, and we don't have a problem?" Loki stated.
"Yeah, but if you look at differently it was cool experience, so we're good, as long as you don't hurt her"
"I won't" he said strongly.
"Good." Stark looked like he was about to walk away but he didn't. Instead he looked conflicted about something he was thinking about saying. "You actually care for her don't you?"
"Is that any of your business" Loki snapped. He paused for a moment or two before he said finally. "Yes, yes I do"
"Shit" Stark breathed.
"Shit indeed, Stark"
"Call me Tony. So tell me about you and Darcy" Loki glared up at him, but he looked genuinely interested. "What? Gossip is fun"
They were on their way now, in a big jeep. They sat in silence, but despite Loki's calm demeanour. His mind was a whirl wind. Thoughts cascaded down on him, suffocating him. It was ridiculous but Tony had given him advice. It should be way beneath him, but recently mortals weren't too bad, except Jane, he could not stand that woman.
"How long?" Banner asked calmly.
"About another hour or so, these men have made themselves in the middle of nowhere."
Loki sighed and faced the floor. He took a breath and let it out slowly. It was taking too long. If he had his powers he couldn't try and transport them all there but he couldn't. He would kill Odin for this. Ignoring them. Odin would pay, dearly.
An hour passed and they stopped. "We get out now, Thor you fly in, Tony so do you. Banner no hulking until needed. Clint take out any men near the premises. Natasha, Steve, and Loki you go for Darcy. Loki, stay out of sight. We can't have them spotting you"
"We know, you have repeated the plan many times" Clint said, snapping his bow out.
"Plans always seem to go wrong with you people. If I repeat it enough maybe it won't" Fury said. "We ready?" everyone nodded "Go"
They were in action. Rogers lead the way for the three of them. There was a shack to the left of them. They went straight for that. Off in the distance they heard screaming, Rogers winced. As they approached the shack a gun was fired in their direction, it narrowly missed Natasha. She fired back and hit the man right in the chest.
"Good shot" Rogers said.
Natasha gave a winning smile, and then her face was back to business. They made their way to the shack. Loki kicked the door open himself. The door splintered off easily. All around the hinges was rotten wood. It was Dark inside but shadows were visible. Natasha went in, gun aimed. "Nothing" she snapped, coming out quickly.
"Damn" Rogers said. His eyes were worried. "Ok, this way" he said pointing to a building way off in the distance. "It's a way away from what I assume is the main building but it's worth a shot"
They nodded, but before they could take a step in that direction. A horde of bullets flashed there way. Natasha ducked and rolled and fired her own gun. Steve held up his shield and the bullets bounced of it. Seemingly hitting their original shooter by the sound of things. Loki fired his own gun. Smiling as he heard screams. The shower of bullets stopped and they waited. After a moment Loki had enough of standing there. He moved off towards the building.
There was a sound behind them; they all turned in time to see Banner hulking and smashing people into the dirt. He smiled grimly; he knew what it was like to get smashed around by the hulk. And that was when he was immortal. Before they turned away they saw the remaining people trying to run away. They had given up shooting and fighting, they were fleeing. But none of them were making it very far. Good.
Above them Stark flew in. He landed heavily on the ground in front of them. "You heading that way?"
"Yes" Rogers replied. "We think it could be that building where they're holding her"
"I'm coming with. Banner and Clint seem to be quite ahead of themselves up there."
"Good" Natasha commented. "These men aren't fighters; they are just idiots with guns"
"We are wasting time" Loki snapped. Beside him Thor landed.
"I am not needed up there. No one is left; Clint and Banner will be on their way in a second." Thor explained. "As soon as they realized what was happening all these men just ran. No sign of Morgan though"
Outside she could hear yelling and shots. Screaming and cries. Something was happening. Maybe it was her rescue, she hoped it was. By the door Morgan was stood, looking tense and afraid. She didn't get why he didn't just run. Was he an idiot, was he going to be a ship captain and go down with his ship.
"Why are you here" she asked suddenly. Curiosity killed the cat but she didn't care.
He turned to her, as if he forgot she was in there. His eyes were glowing blue. "I can't leave, I have to do this" his voice was no longer confident. It was scared and desperate. "If I escape he will find me. He will kill me"
"Who will?" Darcy said, a tremor running up her spine. This was worse than she thought. Who was in command of this thing? Morgan appeared just to be a pawn in someone else's game
"Shut up" Morgan snapped. Turning back to the door. Darcy started to stand up, trying to ignore the pain shooting throughout her body. Morgan whirled around and aimed the gun at her. "Stay where you are"
"Who is it?" She said bravely. He opened his mouth to reply when the door to the building flew inwards. Squinting against the oncoming light she saw Thor.
"Darcy" he cried.
"Shit" she said. Standing up fully. Morgan was backing away now, pressing himself up against the wall.
"Darcy" Another man said. Voice full of relief. That voice sent shivers up her spine, in a good way, in a very good way.
"Loki" she whispered.
"No, no this isn't how it's meant to be" Morgan cried, shooting in her direction. She jumped out the way, and screamed when she put out arm to stop her fall. "He promised me" Morgan whispered, turning the gun away from her. He put it to his own head. "Tell my family I'm sorry" he whispered before pulling the trigger on himself. The echo of a bang rang out through the room.
Loki stepped towards her and helped her up before smothering her. He kissed her fiercely. She didn't mind the pain of her broken bones. She kissed him back wrapping her good arm around him.
When they broke apart, she saw there were others in the room. "Hi" she said. "Took you guys a long time" she joked.
Fury stepped in the room, switching on the light. The dark room was bathed in yellow. They all stared wide eyed at her. Loki raised his hand and touched her face. "If that man wasn't already dead I would kill him" Then she understood, they were all gazing at her injuries. She wondered just how bad they actually were.
"Yeah we have bigger problems though." They all looked at her confused.
"Why?" Clint asked. "The others just ran and now he's dead." He said pointing toward the corpse on the floor.
"Didn't you hear what he said?" Some of them shook their heads, but Thor and Loki nodded.
"He was talking about someone else" Loki explained. "Someone who was controlling him"
"And before that" Darcy added. "He was saying how he would be killed if it didn't work out. And his eyes…" she trailed off.
They all looked at her in confusion this time.
"What about his eyes" Loki asked hurriedly.
"They were glowing. Glowing blue."
"That can't be good right?" Tony said, his face was visible now; he had flipped up his mask.
Loki and Thor shared a look. "No" they said in unison.
Loki turned to them all. "I will explain, we need to get out of here first. Quickly!"
And with that they all did. "Hey I get that all this is important and all but first can we stop off and get me a really fatty and greasy burger" she asked.
Tony started laughing and Fury nodded. "But quickly. We will check your injuries, and you can get cleaned up. Then we need to know what is going on." Beside her Loki nodded.
His arm snaked around her. Being careful of her injuries, and he held her tight, well as tight as he could. On the way back to the vehicle she leaned into him.
"Jane is hysterical to see you" Thor said patted her lightly on her shoulder. Darcy smiled; she couldn't wait to lie in her own bed. To eat greasy food and to watch some television. Although she knew it might be a few hours before she could do that.
In front of them Fury was talking on a phone. He was nodding along to whatever the person was saying. Then he said goodbye and snapped his phone shut. "Clean-up will be starting" Just then Bruce ran up to them.
He smiled sheepishly then said "Good to see you Darcy"
"You too, and I just want to say. Thank you so fucking much for the rescue"
She felt great. She had been checked over. Her arm had been placed in a cast. He wounds were bandaged and they had given her some amazing pain medication. Like so awesome. She felt happy and weird. It was a wonderful bliss. She had eaten a burger, it had made her feel sick, but did she care? No.
Loki hadn't left her side the whole time. Which was sweet, she felt cared for. Everyone had hugged her. And Jane had almost killed her. Both from the hug and he crying on her shoulder.
They were all sat down around a big table as she entered the room. She took a seat between Loki and Jane. Loki was about to explain about the ominous blue eyes. "I should just say, apologies about Miss Lewis. The medication she has been given may make her a bit… cuckoo" Fury explained.
Darcy giggled. "Sorry, it's not funny but it really is" she giggled again.
Fury sighed, but she saw the ghost of smile on his face. "Explain"
Loki sighed heavily. "When I tried to take control of the earth" Darcy vaguely noticed that he had used the word earth and not Midgard. "Thanos, was the one who gave me the power. He threatened if I failed he would make me pay, as you would say. The blue eyes are a conformation it's him. He must have used that man as a pawn in his game to 'get' me. I should have seen this sooner, but I didn't"
"Who is this Thanos" Steve asked calmly from the opposite side of the table. Loki was about to answer but Thor got there first.
"From what I have heard, he is more dangerous than you can imagine."
"So he wants you?" Clint asked Loki.
"He does, and after he has me he may come after the earth. I am not sure of his intentions. I never truly was. He was a timely ally."
"Well shit" Tony muttered. "I think we are all doomed."
"If it is an otherworldly ally, maybe father would help" Thor said looking at Loki.
Loki eyes flashed dangerously. "He is not my father." The room went tense. "And he will not help. He enjoys the suffering of others. Including you. Did he help when Darcy was taken? No"
The room was silent. "That is when it was believed it was a man of this world." Thor protested. Loki opened his mouth but fury interrupted.
"Enough, quarrel at home. For now, you can all go home. We meet tomorrow at one o'clock sharp. Cars will be waiting for the ones who need them"
A burst of happiness flowed through Darcy, she got to go home. To her bed, and books and just … perfect.
.
When they got back home. She carefully collapsed onto the sofa and let out a sigh. Loki sat beside her and pulled her to him. Jane put on the kettle and Thor sat on the other sofa. Despite the threat that was looming over them, everyone seemed to content and happy at that moment. Than-whatever could wait till morning.
Chapter done!
So it's Thanos
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