Chapter 3: So you're the one this fuss is about
As Tony and Bruce was walking down the corridor to the science lab, Alex was walking behind them looking Tony up and down, liking what she saw "so boys… how long do you think it will take to find this cube of yours then" she says walking up to them and hooking her arms around theirs. Bruce shuffles uncomfortably whilst taking off his glasses and rubbing his eyes "I um….um" he stammers looking to the floor avoiding eye contact. Alex looks sympathetically at him but turns her attention to Tony who seems to be already looking at her "It could take a couple of hours to a couple of days, depending on how many spectrometers there are, I'm hoping for the latter" Tony explains with a smirk "sounds boring with all that waiting… I can think of better, more fun things to do" Alex whispers the last part huskily whilst rubbing her fingers up and down his bicep. Tony looks down with a wider smile "I bet you do" he then looks up straight into her eyes, Alex, who starts to have a hot flush, lets out a wavered breath that she didn't know she was holding. All three of them stop in front of a door "well fella's this is me" she announces hoarsely, letting go of their arms and stepping up to the door and presses the open button "I'll take a rain check on that fun though" she winks at Tony as the door slides open stepping through and hearing the back end of Bruce whispering to Tony "she really grows on you doesn't she" and Tony's answers under his breath "yea she does".
Facing forward: Alex comes face to face with the giant glass cage in which the mischievous god is standing and looking at her with a wicked grin. She walks along the gantry to the bottom of the steps to go up to the door of the cage, all the while not breaking eye contact with the fine specimen of a god. Finally she breaks eye contact and turns to the guard near the controls "piss off out of here would you Nigel" she asks turning back round to face Loki "mam, director Fury says I can't leave till my shift is over" Alex huffs out annoyed "and as assisting director I'm telling you to piss off out of it… go and get a cup of coffee or whatever you kids are drinking nowadays" she rambles on walking up the steps to the door, Loki moving towards the door in sync with her as the guard scampers out the room sheepishly.
It must have been at least 5 minutes of looking each other in the eye before Alex decides to break the silence "so you're the one all this fuss is about" moving her eyes around the handsome gods face "I believe I've not the pleasure of knowing who you are… Barton sure hasn't mentioned you; otherwise I would remember him telling me of such exquisite creature such as yourself" Loki replies looking Alex up and down "yea well I've been in deep undercover for the last half decade… and the fact there are no files on me, paper nor electronic, I erased them all… I'm quite the enigma" she arrogantly says. They both fall in silence whilst Alex looks further into Loki's eyes "who's Thanos?" she asks, for anyone watching them on the cameras they would think Loki gave no reaction, but up close Alex saw a little twitch on Loki's right eyebrow, so minute it could be over looked. "I know no of who you mean" he replies coolly, she kisses her teeth "right of course not" there was a long pause before she starts talking again "I read that you have magic and can so easily get out of this abysmal cage… so why don't you" she interrogates, but before Loki has a word in edge ways she continues "unless that's what your whole plan was, to get captured and with the staff so they can get a reading as it contains the same energy as the cube to locate it… but there's something about the staff that can get into peoples minds even without being touched" another long pause so Alex can figure more out. Loki looks at her with interest "so you're the brains and beauty" he mutters with lust.
Alex continues to look at Loki before she decides to speak "let's just say you're not the only one with certain… abilities" she flicks her eyes, then a click and a whirring down noise sounds into the air. Loki looks over to the controls and sees the screens that connect to the cameras are full of static and white noise "the cameras are down… no one can hear or see anything that we do" "that's merely a party trick, don't think you can second-rate me" he say through gritted teeth. The agent closes her eyes and concentrates "what are you doing" the god asks confused "why don't you turn around and see" he hears from behind him. Loki slowly turns and finds that she is in the cage with him; he doubles back and looks to the form out side the door then back again "illusions… Childs play" he arrogantly says with a smirk "not an illusion, astro-projection, I can project my form anywhere, pretty handy really" she smiles back genuinely then disappears back into her solid form.
Loki turns back round to face her solemnly "there's certainly more to you then meets the eye" looking down her form and notices that she's gone from her lavish green dress to the iconic shield bodysuit "as are you" she replies with earnest, that's when Loki feels the familiar coldness that his Jothun form has, he looks down and notices that he has changed forms without his will. The surprised god looks up alarmed and sees that the agent has turned into the same form as his but her eyes have remained green instead of the Jothun red "you shouldn't be afraid of your natural form…" she says sympathetically lifting and placing a hand on the cage glass "beautiful" she describes him in one word. He pensively reaches up and places his hand on the glass in the same place. Alex looks deep into the gods eyes and saw that they had flickered from blue to green then back to blue 'someone must be controlling him the same way he is controlling others' she thought. 2 minutes passed by when the silver tongued god came to his senses and reset his illusion back to his Asgardian like form
"How did you do that" he seethed "I'm a person of many talents" she grinned back smugly "and how did you come of these… talents" Loki asked quizzically pacing back and forth a few steps slowly.
Alex turned away from the godly man starring off into space thinking 'I've not told my story for millennia, perhaps its time', turning back "I wasn't always like this. I was human once, dating back all the way to the Vikings, living in a little town called Kattegat in Norway". Stepping back to the cage and looking into Loki's eyes "I had family just like you and any other, mother, father and sister. All my life I had lived in the shadow of my sister, slaving away whilst she pranced about the village being better than anyone else. I wasn't bitter, I kept to myself, shy, invisible" she continued gazing past him reliving the memories "she went off one day travelling, gone for weeks and in that time my father arranged for me to marry the son of the villages Earl. I came of age years beforehand but they never bothered with me until that day of the announcement. I was scared, who wouldn't having your life dictated for you, see my father was a farmer but after one raid over seas he got to lust for power and riches and because my sister wasn't there I was the next in line to do a women's duty" she gaze flicked back to Loki's and she saw understanding relation recognition, she continued further "the night before the wedding was due my sister returned and was shocked to find her sister about to marry the man she loved, of course I never knew this as we grew apart when people started to take more notice of her than me, but she convinced the earl's son to do a sacrificial ritual to celebrate the Norse gods for granting permission of the union" she chuckle looking to Loki seeing as she was standing in front of one "the whole village turned up all in good spirits, and being the dutiful fiancé I sat next to my husband to be empty chair, before I knew what was happening all the friends of the earls son took a hold of me and strung me upside down from a tree, arms behind me back" Alex let a few tears go gazing back off behind Loki not wanting to see the pitiful look in his eyes "my sister managed to convince the son to make me the offering to the gods as she wanted to be with her love, to this day I can never forget the looks on the villagers faces" looking into Loki's eyes wanting to see what his reaction be "they all looked like I was a complete stranger, that they had no knowledge of who I am, and with the acceptance of my fate my sister slit my throat with a look of victory on her face and the words 'see you in Valhalla, sister' from her lips" more tears run down her face reliving the painful time in her mind "I cannot recall the amount of time in between, but I woke with dirt in my eyes and mouth, I had to dig my way out of a shallow grave in the woods" reaching up to her neck and rubbing along the place where her sister slit her throat "I had no scarring, I had no idea how I was able to be". Bring her hand up to her eyes and wiping away the tears she concludes her story "all through time I discovered ability after ability, never aging, but that night changed my life. You see, I don't even know how I got these gifts, but I am grateful to whoever thought I was worth a second chance, when I was beginning to think my live wasn't worth living anymore". She walked away from the cage after seeing a mournful look in his eyes as if he recognises the story from old, but as he catches her looking he banishes the thought and sympathy away.
Turning back round after walking to the door of the room "so enough of the sob stories I'm sure that we'll be talking again soon enough…thank you for you cooperation I'm sure I'll pass on my findings" she said nodding her head in thanks "what are you talking about you… I didn't tell you anything" Loki gritted out walking with haste to the glass "whilst I was telling you my story, you let your guard down allowing me to root through your mind gathering the information I needed plus more" now it was her time to smile smugly. Loki thumped the glass hard but not hard enough to activate the drop "I'm going gut you slowly and painfully and only when u cant take anymore that's when I will end your suffering you puny little human" he seethed profusely. Alex smiled genuinely knowing he wasn't kidding "you know if these were different circumstances we could've been friends" she added "piss off back in her Nigel" Alex called back to the guard who were just walking back down the corridor. With one last look to Loki she moved out of the room.
Loki must have stood there for a good ten minutes starring at the door the exotic beauty went through thinking on what he would do to her and nothing of the thoughts were exactly like ones he told her earlier. With those thoughts in mind he smiled ruefully.