Disclaimer: I own nothing, nada, not a thing. I just like pulling the strings while the real owners are not looking ^_^
A/N: Okay so we need to partially wrap up Thor, and start on Avengers, right? So without further a due I give you the next chapter. Also two chapters in one night? I'm trying to make up for lost time, even if they are a little short.
Harriet Coulson: Avenger
Chapter 20
Upon Thor's arrival back on Asgard he ordered for Heimdall to be taken to the healing room and then headed straight for the palace, for whatever had stopped Heimdall from responding earlier was sure to be heading to his father, Odin All-Father.
Within Odin's chambers Frigga stopped her vigil of Odin as the temperature began to drop, ice cracked and froze the walls surrounding the doorway as well as the ornate golden doors themselves. Rising from her seat she grabbed Odin's sword and held it in both her hands as she swung for the first Frost Giant who dared to enter, preparing for the next she was thrown to the side by a hit across her face, the sword falling from her grasp.
Laufey smirked viciously as he moved over Odin, "It's said that you can still hear and see what transpires around you. I hope it's true, so that you may know your death came at the hand of Laufey." He raised his dagger of ice high before a blast of magical energy slammed into his back and shoulder knocking him to the side.
"And your death came by the son of Odin." Laufey looked up to see his runt of a child, Loki, blast him once more until Laufey was just a mess of sparks that dwindles and died.
Frigga rushed to Loki, a smile on her face, "You saved him." The hug was short lived and whatever Loki had been planning to say cut short as Thor entered the room, Loki could feel his emotions and cursed himself and not making sure that he had been distracted long enough, and after blasting the thunder God from the room he quickly made his way to the stables and then onto the Bifrost.
~~^v^~~
Jane stared up at the sky as the dark clouds kept building and building, praying that Thor would be safe and come back to her, she kept her silent vigil on the skies, ignoring both Darcy and Eric's attempts at talking to her. Circling the markings on the ground she kept her eyes on the sky, please be safe Thor.
~~^v^~~
Agent Coulson watched as the Quinjet took off, taking both his frozen daughter and Hawkeye, as the ice had enclosed their hands together slowly over the time that the other Agent had kept watch over his underling. Coulson has failed to debrief 'Dr. Blake', but did have Agents at a safe distance keeping watch over the two scientists and university student, looking into the distance he could see the storm that was raging and was glad he wasn't anywhere near it.
There was a loud clap of thunder as he watched and then the sky cleared rapidly, his eyes narrowed before shouting orders down his Comm. Link and heading towards the nearest car, he also found he still had to contact the Director, but that could wait until later. He hoped.
~~^v^~~
Jane, Darcy and Eric stared up at the sky, the clouds clearing rapidly now after the thunder had rolled away.
"It's gone." The words that had meant to be silent filling the air and both Darcy and Eric walked back to the van, Jane continued to stare at the sky knowing within her that Thor had succeeded but at the cost of probably never seeing her again, at least not in this lifetime.
~~^v^~~
"Why is she not waking up? Why is the ice not melting?" Natasha spoke calm and collectively which was more than Clint could do especially as he had a heat blanket around him, it seemed the ice was affecting him more that it was Harriet. The medical crew were baffled, everything that they had tried so far worked for a while and then it stopped. It was as if the ice was adapting, growing and evolving with everything that was thrown at it, the scientists were baffled, mainly because it had stopped spreading as soon as it had arrived on the helicarrier and also because it seemed to be in a dormant state at the moment.
"We do not know, all vitals are fine, we're using the same technology that freed Captain Rodgers and yet it seems to be evolving, adapting. "The medical scientist paused, it wasn't until Natasha raised an eyebrow that he continued, "and it's evolving like a living thing would, almost as if it were alive somehow."
Natasha hummed at him before she turned to her two friends, managing to keep the smirk of her face at Clint's unfortunate situation, "How are you holding up?" She asked as she took one of the vacant seats (probably one that Phil had sat in at one point).
"J-j-j-j-just p-p-p-peachy." Clint replied, shivering violently as the ice seemed to slowly move up his arm a bit before stopping, at the moment it had reached his elbow and he was sure it was going to fully cover him in a few days, or hours. He wasn't very optimistic.
"They are doing the best that they can, at least until they know what they are dealing with properly." She paused and her blue eyes narrowed, "Did the ice just move?"
Clint shuddered as he stared at Natasha without comprehension, what the spider mad? Of course the ice wasn't bloody melting, it's one of the reasons he was turning into an Agent-cicle too, "N-N-N-Nat?" She shushed him as she leaned forward and stared at his arm intently, he followed her gaze and realised that yes the ice was receding, and yes he was getting feeling back in his fingers. He flexed them against Harriet's hand and there was a flurry of ice particles as the ice disappeared from both his arm and hand. Without jostling Harriet too much he pulled his hand away and blew on it, only to stop and watch as the ice covered the now exposed hand of the witch and move to fully encase her in ice, almost like it was protecting her.
"What the?" Clint and Natasha shared a look before they both stood and rushed out of the room for the scientists; they needed to know about this before they had to report to Fury that one of their best assets had just turned into an ice sculpture, a living ice sculpture.
~~^v^~~
"You have all been re-assigned."
"What?"
"Why?"
"No."
"What about Harriet?" Three voices spoke in unison and Fury resisted the urge to rub his temples, where he could feel a headache the size of a tsunami inducing earthquake was making itself known.
"Agent Coulson will be fine in the medical care that we have here on the Helicarrier. As for the reassignments it seems that we cannot have you all idle while there seems to be a war coming." The three Agents stayed silent, and for that Fury was grateful, sliding three manila folders across his desk to the three he waited as they picked them up and read the first page.
"Barton, Coulson you are to head to the Mojave Desert and keep an eye on Project Pegasus. Dismissed" He paused, "Romanoff, Stay." He waited for the men to leave before giving his second best field Agent her proper debriefing.