"What the hell is this?" The security footage of her and Loki kissing in the bedroom was playing on a large screen in SHIELD's interogation room as Fury glared down at Candy, his arms crossed angerly in front of him. She watched the video of Loki pushing her back onto the bed, never once removing those amazing lips. Her shirt was pushed up slightly as he ran his hand up her torso, trailing kisses down her neck as he took hold of a small breast beneath the shirt. Fury stoped the tape and raised an eyebrow, waiting for her responce.
She shruged and looked him dead in the eye, "Skydiving?" He huffed in anoyance before slamming his hands against the table, "I'm not playing games with you!" "You don't want a sarcastic answer, then don't ask a stupid question. I mean, what the hell does it look like we were doing?" She cut him off, trying to keep her temper in check.
"I'd watch my tone if I were you, Ms." His voice was low and threatening. She just smiled, "Then don't flip the bitch switch. I've got a major case of PMS right now. You would be wise not to push me, Sir." "Are you threatening me?" He leaned in close to her, trying to intimidate the small girl. She held her ground, "No, sir. I was simply warning you." They held a short staring contest, neither backing down before she decided to just get this shit over with. "What do you want from me? Or was I simply brought here to be annoyed?"
He walked back to the other side of the room as he spoke, "Why would you let a psychopath like that so damn close to you?" She rolled her eyes, "He's not a psycho.. High functioning sociopath would be more accurate." "He's a murderer! Do you know how many people he's killed?-" "Do you know how many people he saved?" She cut him off, her tone mimicing the others before droping back down to her normal irritated shout as he gave her a funny look.
"He killed people when he first arrived to appear as a threat. He was only directly responsible for two deaths in Germany and he timed the attack in New York so that most people would be at work and not on the streets. He would have attacked at night where fewer people would be in the way, but the Avengers wouldn't be able to see their targets as well in the dark. Also, he had to attack somewhere that he knew they'd jump in without thinking to protect. Yes there were casualties, but far fewer than there could have been.
"You think you know what happend that day, but you don't know jack shit. You don't know the hours of research we put in to figure up exactly when and where for this shit to go down to minimize casualties. The hours we spent trying to think of an alternate solution." He held up a hand to stop her for a moment before asking calmly, "And both of you thought it would be better to kill innocent people than to suck it up and ask for help?"
Candy laughed, "I tried to convince him to simply ask for help, but he would rather be tortured for the rest of eternity than ask his Brother and a bunch of Mortals for help." "But he asked you for help." "He didn't ask me to, I offered." Furry just rolled his eye before she continued. "There's nothing that we can do to change the past, but he's trying to make up for it by helping destroy the Chitauri as am I."
"I thought you were just trying to protect yourself from them?" She shruged and relaxed back into the chair, "That too. But I also feel partially responsible for not being able to come up with a better solution." He shook his head in disbelief, "He's manipulating you, you know that? Making you sympathetic to his plight so you'll stand up and lie for him."
Now she was pissed and the only one who could truly tell was Loki as he watched with the Avengers in the observation room. When she was severely pissed, she looked calm. Too calm. "Have you ever spent several months or more with someone, for eight hours a day every day- or night in our case. You can't keep up a consistant act that long, and I'll tell you right now, it's even harder to act inside a dream. Don't even say that he might be able to hold out and continue to act because he's had over a thousand years to practice. No one can act for fourteen years straight. Not even the 'God of Lies' is that good.
"He doesn't manipulate me. If anything, I manipulate him." Loki smiled in the next room. It was true. She would manipulate him into teaching her stuff he didn't think she was ready to learn or that he simply didn't want to teach her, get him to tell her things about his past, and so much more. He let her. She'd never manipulated him for reasons he wouldn't forgive. She just wasn't like that. She was a good girl with a good heart.
Fury couldn't really argue with her logic. It was hard to believe someone could hold an act for that long. "What would you do if he decided to turn on us? Would you do the right thing or let your feelings for him cloud your judgment?" She smiled sweetly, "Loki and my family can attest, I don't let my emotions cloud my judgement very often. If I did, there'd be very little of this facility left for as badly as you've pissed me off."
"When did she get pissed that bad?" Clint asked quietly. Everyone shrugged and Loki smiled. "When he suggested that I'd manipulated her." Tony raised an eyebrow at him, "Um.. that's actually when she calmed down." Loki laughed, "To anyone that doesn't truly know her, it does look like she calms, however.. What is it you Midgardians say? It's the calm before the storm?"
She spoke up again before Fury could get pissed at her again for 'threatening' him. "If he decided to turn on you, it would be for a very good reason and, yes, I would be behind him on it as would the Avengers. I don't know you. I don't care to know you."
A/N: YES! I just finished the last chapter! Thus my updating with a second chapter today! I swear this is the fastest I've ever finished a big project like this! So AWESOME! 71 chapters! There will be 71 chapters when I finish uploading them all.. Y'all's choice though: Continue with one chapter a day or bump it up to 2 or 3? Same as before, 2 or more requests for a bump up and it shall happen! Just be sure to tell me if you want the 2, 3 or just screw it and upload them all.
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