A/N: Sorry for lateness between chapters. I know it has been a while so I have thought I'd give 3 chapters at once as an apology! All reviews welcome. First fanfic and everything so it''s not brilliant but I love all reviews. Enjoy! (Don't own the avengers, just Enya and the girls.)
Enya turned sharply and noticed us. She was up and running to us before Lisa took a step. She launched herself at me, wrapping her arms around my neck. She buried her face in my neck and it felt good. I wrapped my arms around her, letting her hair sweep over my face as I breathed her in. The faint smell of peaches and soot. I murmured her name. She was okay and alive.
She was alive. She was ok. She was really ok. She slapped me around the head, holding me at arms lengths frowning at me. "Look," I said snappily, "I didn't stay away on purpose. I didn't have a choice." She continued to frown at me. "I'm not apologising." Her eyes continued to bore into me, the green piercing my very sanity. Her eyes always made me feel like she could see right through me. It was almost like she could see everything I had thought, was thinking and going to think. It disarmed me. "Fine. Fine. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to get us in this mess. I didn't mean to worry you." She pulled me into another hug holding me tight. I felt every curve of her body against mine. I tried to keep my thoughts pure. Being this close to her always made them impure. She was a poisonous flower. Creeping close to her when she'd work made keeping my thoughts pure a struggle. She always smelled fresh. Fresh peaches. Her skin was just as soft despite her scars and sweet smelling. Her hair wild and ruby red. The colour hypnotising. Just like a poisonous flower. Hypnotising all the senses; waiting until you are enraptured and then striking you down.
"Well, I bet you never saw this coming hey Thor." Tony mocked Thor and I didn't want to blush so I focused on my thoughts pure. Instead of the mortal who had enraptured a God. She let go of me and then looked to them suspiciously. "Do we get hugs too?" Stark asked opening his arms. She turned to look at Lisa who shook her head.
"I know what you want. But we agreed that when you next saw them no beating anyone up until we saved earth. We also agreed frying them doesn't count either." She frowned at her. "I don't care if you didn't actually want to hurt them. We don't have time to waste on fighting with the imbeciles when I want to live in particular." She spun back round to them casing them. She was always a little fiery and hostile to new faces. It took ages for her to let Neil be near her and the others. Warren trotted up to us sitting by her feet watching the others. Enya stroked his head and his tail wagged but he kept his eyes on them. "Enya, we do not have time for you to kill them. Do it later." Lisa warned. Enya nodded and then I saw Neil appear.
"You'll have to remove your weapons and leave them in the containment room." Neil spoke, with some of the others following him. The men and some of Enya's women. "We have a no weapon out and about policy."
"What happens if someone attacks you?"
"Then usually they take Loki and Enya." He said starkly. They all looked to one another realising what he referred to. Maybe they weren't damaged. "Policy stands. You are not billionaires, hero's, spies, gods, or monsters here. You are no better than us. And as we rule this place, in fact you're lower than us. And I say no out and about weapons. So containment room or you leave. Without Loki this time." Enya put herself directly in line of fire if one decided to grab me. Her loyalty to me had no bounds. She kept putting herself in the line for me. This couldn't go on anymore.
"No." Thor said. "I understand that your mortals have rules in place to keep people safe. I will follow this rule."
"If we get under attack, we will be vulnerable." Romanoff reasoned.
"If others attack, not from Earth, that's when we will be vulnerable." I could see their reluctance, but they agreed. Handing Neil all their weapons. She dragged me over to the screen and expanded the picture pulling it apart and sticking it back together.
"Enya, you know I have no idea what you mean." She sighed at me, always exasperated I never did understand the true value of her genius.
"She's saying she's put a containment field together that should hold the power intact. It's going good." Tony stared at the picture before playing with it himself.
"Tell that to the fourth time she blew up." Lisa rolled her eyes. "The containment keeps exploding when too much power gets bottled inside." Enya jerked and then huffed. She jumped forwards grabbing a laser and clambered on the desk. To look at the top of the unit. She made small holes in the top, twelve, in a perfect circle. Then she hopped down and took off the entrance panel.
"It's not got good enough conductors. But if you put superconductors in too much power builds up and it explodes." She jumped up, ignoring her column. She tore the electronic projected image apart and showed Tony it. "That's supposed to protect the superconductors? That isn't going to hold anything. It's flimsy at the best and brittle all the time." She shook her head disagreeing with him. "You are supposed to be a genius."
"No, Tony, it's got rubber filamants on the bottom." The monster pointed them out and then bent down to look. Enya got back on to her knees and was pointing to various things. "That may work, but if the power is earthed, it'll not go anywhere but down."
"If we use a power block at the bottom, it'll force the power to move elsewhere."
"That could be anywhere. It needs to be directed." Enya, from the floor took her diagram and made some complicated intricate design, and put it in the place, shuffling it all about until it all fit. I realised then that the two men were nodding, awed. "Can you make such device?" Enya nodded and scrambled to the bigger bench, climbing on and crossing her legs. All benches were wide because she worked better cross legged surrounding by everything. She picked up pieces and instruments and the billionaire and monster watched with interest. Minutes passed and she held it up to them. "No, no, it needs to connect there, in case it short wires." Tony advised and then she added more things to it, the device becoming so intricate with fine wires and small pieces I was surprised she held it so tightly.
"That's it." The doctor nodded. "That'll be able to contain this power and direct it." She bounded off the table in one jump and landed next to it. She crammed herself into the hole and started changing things. I couldn't see what she was changing, but she was in there for longer than most times. Lisa handed various devices and objects to her knowing exactly what she wanted without a word being said. Everyone watched her with interest. Then Enya stepped back and shut the door on it. Lisa staggered backwards, away from the machine and Enya turned it on. Something says that although Enya had blown up her device four times, they were big explosions.
The column hummed and an orange light shot out from the top and bursting sideward a few meters. She smiled happy but then the light stuttered and the machine died.
"There isn't enough power."
"That's enough tonight. Enya you're running on empty." Enya ignored them as she started designing something else. "Enya." She paused and frowned. Then she turned the projection off and gave Faye a look. "You can play tomorrow. Now it's time we all got some rest. The next few days are obviously going to get taxing." Faye looked to the others. "Are you staying here, or at a hotel?"
"My home isn't far. We can stay there." Tony said looking at the column. He was in close proximity to Enya but Enya didn't seem to see him as a threat.
"Okay." Enya burst up, pulling off a glass tablet off the bench. She rapidly typed as it floated in front of her. Then she held it flat in front of Thor. He looked at her like she was some strange animal.
"Put your hand against it. She wants your handprint, for access." I said to him. He did as he was asked and it beeped. She then moved to Romanoff and held it up after typing. Romanoff did the same. She continued this until each was scanned. "Now you can get into our building anytime you require."
"The word to notice is require. Not like. You can't just wander in here when you like." Faye argued.
"What if we want to stop by for a chat?"
"For what reason?" Neil asked Tony.
"I think I misjudged the level of technology being placed in this system." He looked at the bench picking things up. Enya slapped his hand so he dropped it. She shook her head.
"She doesn't like it when you play with her toys." I said.
"How do you get others to help?"
"Nobody helps her." I said confused. "Enya does everything on her own."
"Why?" He asked.
"It goes quicker that way." I said. She was taking off the entrance panel and removing the power ball.
"Enya." She removed the glass orb and held it in her hands. "Come on now."
"You know she has to charge it beforehand." Pauline said to Miah. "She'll be fine." Miah looked worried, as did Faye, but the others looked like they saw this enough that they knew it was going to happen.
"Fine, but off you all go." They didn't move as they watched the power ball start to glow orange.
"She's putting the power into the orb." Tony said in awe. He bent down opposite her watching it intently. Enya had her tongue stuck between her teeth as she focused entirely on the glowing. It's dim orange glow brightening up. "Is she making the power?"
"I don't know." Lisa answered. "None of us know what Enya does. Sometimes she doesn't even know." They concentrated on her as the ball started filling, the intensity electrifying.
"I've never seen her do this." Neil looked at Enya.
"You'll see why she doesn't do this in front of anyone but us." I didn't for a minute, until I saw the bruises spread from her feet up her calves, up her thighs, across her stomach. It stretched slowly like spiderink creeping slowly throughout the land. It crossed her breasts and dipped at her collarbone. Down her arms it went and across her face. She was turning a deep purple almost black. As it crept down her arms around her wrists two of the girls moved forwards. One bent down next to Tony with her arms stretched under her palms, and the other was behind her, knelt down, arms stretched. The bruising touched her fingers and as the bruising met the surface of the orb a spark shot through the air and Enya slumped. Pat caught the orb, and Pauline caught Enya.
"That is incredible. She created energy."
"Is that possible?"
"Apparently so." The monster bent down, gently looking Enya over. I was stood horrified. I had asked for those power balls constantly. I liked them. So I asked for lots to be made. And she'd been making them by hurting herself. "She bruised, but that's not what has made her collapse."
"She doesn't always collapse. After the sixth or seven one maybe. But she's exhausted. She'll be fine by tomorrow."
"What is the longest Enya has been out for?" The doctor asked.
"Before you all turned up three days. She was trying to rewire the electricity in our safe house. She'd been trying to connect it from a neighbouring business. But something went wrong. She blew herself up, as usual, and knocked herself unconscious for three days. She woke us all up growling at the thing that morning. She couldn't touch it because it wasn't set up properly. Luckily she was standing on our stolen rubber mat. She may have needed a wire change before that."
"That didn't worry you?"
"Enya had an affinity with technology. But that didn't mean to say it was happy being played with. Sometimes she'd be out for minutes, others hours. Depends on what she was attacking it with at the time." Enya made a groaning sound. It was a frustrated groan. A tired and frustrated groan. And something about it turned all thoughts to impure. They switched and that lever broke. I couldn't bring them back to the pureness they were for this whole year. I chastised myself. She was mortal. A mortal. She'd die. I have had much prettier; livelier, experienced ladies compared to this red headed mortal horizontal on the ground. Those that would live much longer; for eternity if wished.
But those ladies of the court just wished to progress further in reputation; and catch the eye of my brother. He was to be King, and everyone wanted the God who was to be King. Who didn't want the God who looked perfect and was of Asgard. The one who could control thunder and was more beloved by everyone who came in contact with him. He was much larger and stronger than I. More liked and was a King; he had a Kingdom with soldiers. Those ladies much preferred Thor over me.
"It sounds as though Enya is a conductor herself." Tony spoke.
"What does that mean?" I asked, finding my voice.
"It means she may store energy. And the energy collides when she gets too close to the raw side."
"What are the symptoms of that?" Miah asked.
"Nobody knows." He admitted.
At this point in time Enya opened her eyes. She glanced up at me and I saw the smile in her eyes; the shine that illuminated from them.
She didn't. She didn't want Thor. Nor did she want me because of him.
She rolled from Pauline. She rubbed her head pushing off from the floor to stand up. She gave us all a quick look before seeing the ball and taking it from Pat. She stared at it, holding it up into the light. Her eyebrows furrowed, they were just as red as her hair in this light.
"When did you realise you could do that?" Tony asked her, standing upright. The monster followed. She shrugged and wandered to a far bench. She slipped it inside a small lined box and fastened it securely. "You've created energy into a glass orb."
"I stored energy in a glass orb." She said roughly. "You don't create energy. You find it, and put it somewhere."
"So where did you find this energy?" He asked. She stared at him like he was an idiot. Then her green eyes found me. She seemed disbelieving.
"The bruises." My mouth worked. "The energy from your body." I realised it myself. She then saw that it wasn't as obvious as she had previously thought.
"As fascinating as this is, Enya is probably tired. And we all need to rest." Romanoff made sense. "We need to go." Tony took one look at Enya and didn't want to leave. He wanted to stay and play. I saw the same look in Enya when Miah moved her off.