I am finally done! Damn this chapter took me forever to write. I felt like the time was never enough. I tried to get it done sooner but I couldn't. But I hope it was worth the waiting at least. And I will let you know that I am very happy about it.
The story is happening over a longer time, then normally, a month. But I hope it's still feels okay. But the good news is that we are closer to the fight against Odin. Only two months away. But I am sorry, you will get some other things in between. I do not wish to rush things. It never feels good to.
So I hope you will think the chapter is alright, and that I made you feel something. And I know that Loki changes in the end, it's the plan. Hope it's alright, and that you like it. Or that you at least understands him.
Jizabel and Cassian (and Cassandra, may that man burn in hell), is from a manga called Godchild. I think I have mentioned it before. And Jizabel getting raped by Cassandra is canon, but it isn't that well described. But it isn't something that I just made up.
Anyway, I don't think I have much more to say actually. Not more then that I love everyone of you that reads, and reviews the story, thank you.
That and, as always, enjoy :)
Suddenly Tony blinked and he could move again. He wasn't sure why he hadn't been able to do that before, but something stopped him. It was like the time had stopped, but at the same time not. He had heard Cara and Loki laugh before he saw them walk past him, but he couldn't move to talk to them. He didn't know why, or what was going on. Because as fast as it happened, it was over. Tony looked at the others, Bruce and Clint looked as surprised as him.
"What happened?" Bruce asked.
"I don't know," Tony admitted. It wasn't he often admitted that, but this time he did.
"Did I see Loki and Cara walk by?" Clint asked and Tony nodded. "Do you think Loki did something?"
Tony hadn't thought about that. Was it a prank Loki played them? Maybe it was, but something told him it wasn't. The feeling wasn't a strong proof, but he was alive because he trusted his instinct.
"I don't think so."
"I think what happened, happened before Loki walked out from the building," Bruce said and Tony nodded, he had a the same feeling.
"I think we need to ask him," Clint said and started looking around. It was dark outside, but they had seen him walk towards the park. "They went that way."
The three of them walked towards the park, looking for the pair.
"Maybe they wanted some alone time," Bruce said and Tony thought about it and smiled.
"Maybe they are doing it on the grass."
"I don't think Cara are the type that does it on the ground," Bruce answered and Tony laughed.
"She has done it with two people at the same time. So I don't think she is as innocent as you think," Bruce just gave Tony a look. "Fine. So where do you think they are?"
"Not here," Clint said as he studied the ground.
"What do you mean, not here?" Tony said. He didn't like the sound of that, not at all.
"Look at the ground," Clint said and Tony did. He wasn't sure what he was looking at, the ground looked, messy, he guessed. "It was a struggle."
Clint stood up.
"Someone attacked them. They were ambushed and there was a fight," Clint told them.
"Abjorn?" Tony asked.
"Most likely," Clint answered. None of them had any proof for it, but it was the best guess. It would be a to big of a coincident if it was someone else.
"Did he take both of them?" Bruce asked, not sure if he hopped for that or not. If both of them was gone, it was a chance they both were alive.
"Since none of them are here, that would be my guess," Clint said.
"How do we tell Thor this?" Tony asked, knowing that the other God would be furious, to say at least.
Tony had been right. Thor was furious, and the weather showed it. A violent thunderstorm was raging over New York, none of the other Avengers had seen something like that before, an not even Jane or Frigga managed to calm Thor. The twins weren't sure what happened, all they knew was that their parents were gone.
Pepper, Peggy and Frigga had offered to take care of them, hoping to calm them down, and spare them from the worst. And Frigga didn't want to know what happened to her youngest, not being able to handle it. The didn't know what to do, they had told the others what happened or rather what they thought happened to Loki and Cara. And now they all tried to grasp the situation, and calm down Thor.
"Any idea of where they can be?" Steve asked.
"Everywhere. They can even have returned to Asgard," Clint said. "Their tracks just disappeared in thin air, so my guess is that they have some sort of magic."
"Would they return to Asgard?" Natasha asked and looked at Thor who stopped for a moment.
"My guess would be that they wouldn't, not until they are done with Loki," Thor said and looked at Volstagg and Hogun. "Can you return to Asgard, just in case, and let us know if they return there?"
"Of course," Volstagg said and Hogun nodded and both of them left to return to Asgard.
"And now?" Bruce asked.
"We need to find them somehow," Tony said, and it was the truth, they needed to find them, not wishing to know what may happen to the other two if they didn't.
"Can we trace their magic?" Steve asked and Tony thought about it and looked up at Jarvis.
"I can try Sir. But, as it is now, I can't find them. My guess is that something is blocking it," Jarvis answered and the Avengers just nodded, disappointed.
"Any other ideas?" Tony asked but no one answered, none of them know what to do, how did you trace someone who disappeared in mid-air?.
"I will look for them," Thor said, and before someone could stop him, he walked out onto the balcony and flew away. Tony understood his frustration, if something happened to someone he cared about, he would try anything to find them, even if it was a hopeless way.
"Let's think of some way to help them," Steve said and the others nodded and tried to find a way.
Cara felt as the air left her lungs, when she hit the ground, and she avoided moaning as she hit the dirty floor. She watched Loki who was at her side. He had tears in his eyes, and Cara saw the fear. She had pushed her own away, but she could still imagine all too well what this people would do to them. But she wouldn't leave Loki. She would always be there for him; she had meant it. And she would protect Loki in anyway she could. Not caring what would happen to her. Cara meet Loki's gaze, and it told her that he was sorry, but she just smiled towards him. This wasn't his fault, not at all, and she didn't want him to believe that. She took his hand and he gave her a weak smile.
"Isn't this to sweet. The lover's final moment," Abjorn said and Cara turned around to face him. Loki didn't move, he didn't do anything. "What do you think Odin will do to you when he gets you back Loki?"
"He will not get him back," Cara answered and Abjorn looked at her and laughed.
"I don't know what fantasy you are living in lady, but he will get him back," Abjorn said and stepped closer to her. "But you, I can keep for myself."
"You aren't going to share her?" A man said and Cara gave him and Abjorn a look.
"One can always dream," she said and Abjorn laughed again.
"That it is," Abjorn walked closer to Loki, but Cara kicked him.
"She really is wild," a man said and Abjorn looked at her.
"The little lady wants to save the princess," he said and Cara just smiled.
"He doesn't need to be saved."
"Doesn't look like it. Or do you think he is going to save you? Do you have any idea what you have gotten yourself into?" Abjorn asked and Cara stood up.
"Oh I know. You aren't the first man I have met that thinks that they are something, and that they can take what ever they want," she said with a cold smile.
Soon she felt the pain on her cheek and she looked at Abjorn's open hand, he had just smacked her. But she stood there with fire in her eyes as she spit him in the face.
"Cara don't," Loki said and pulled her down to the floor, just as Abjorn was about to hit her again.
"He really cares for you," Abjorn said and looked at Loki, who looked away. Cara just placed her hand on Loki's cheek and smiled towards him. She tried to tell him that she knew what she was doing, that he should trust her.
"Do you want me to hurt you instead? Or are you too much of a covered, prince Loki," Abjorn mocked him, but Loki didn't answer him.
"You are a brave man Abjorn. Breaking someone, before you mock them. Did you know that you could never catch Loki's interest? So instead you waited until someone handed him over, so you could take him by force," Cara said and Abjorn looked at her.
"Catch his interest? What do you think this is? A fairy tale. I just wanted someone to fuck, someone to torture," Abjorn said and Cara gave him a cold gaze, as she stood up again.
"Is that because you are too ugly to get someone else?"
"Cara stop," Loki begged and Abjorn looked at them both before he laughed.
"This is really going to be fun, to break you too," Abjorn said and walked closer towards Cara, but she didn't move. She knew that if she did, it would all be over. She knew that if she backed down, they would go to Loki, they would touch him, and she didn't want that to happen. This was better, better her, then him.
"Hold him, I want him to watch," Abjorn said and a man walked out, pulled Loki up on his knees and forced him to look at them. "And if you try to do anything Loki, I will kill her!"
Abjorn walked over to Cara with a smile that sent shiver down her spine. But she was prepared for it, it wasn't her first time, and in all honesty Abjorn wasn't the scariest man she had met. She had been through this many times before, and she could almost tell what he was going to do before it did. But even so, she had to fight her instincts, because she wasn't in a state where her mind was numb, and didn't react to it all. However, she reminded herself that she was doing this for Loki, so he shouldn't need to be through this again.
"Maybe this will remove that smile from your face," Abjorn said as he grabbed her by her wrists and pushed her up against the wall.
"You aren't the first man to say that," Cara mocked him, knowing that he would get angry, keeping his focus on her, and he didn't disappoint.
"But I will be the man that make it true," Abjorn said before he leaned forward and pressed his lips against hers. Cara felt his beard against her skin, she felt his dry lips against hers, and soon she felt how he forced his tongue in her mouth. She felt like he wanted to suffocate her. Nonetheless, when he parted from her she still smiled towards him.
"This is the slowest anyone has done it, I think," Cara said with a mocking voice. "Maybe I should show you how you undress someone."
Abjorn gave her a cold look and was about to say something when Loki interrupted him.
"Cara don't," Loki begged of her again, but she didn't look at Loki. She wanted to, she wanted to tell him that it was going to be alright. That she knew what she was doing, but she knew that if she let Abjorn know that Loki's word affected her, he would take advantage of it. He would go after Loki and she couldn't take it.
"Oh I am tempted to take this really slow, to torture Loki with it. But taking it to slow, is just boring. Don't you agree, princess," Abjorn said and used a mocking voice, clearly remembering the name the one chasing her had used.
"Slow, fast, a new way, an old way. Do it however you want, you are still going to bore me," Cara just said and Abjorn laughed.
"This is going to be far from boring," Abjorn pulled on her belt, and it soon dropped to the floor, he looked at the dress and smiled. "You made it easy for me."
Cara just raised an eyebrow, but she didn't answer. She knew that people liked to taunt her for what she was wearing, like it was her fault. But after so many times, she didn't listen to that anymore., it wouldn't have matter what she wore, they would remove it anyway. Abjorn started to slowly undress her, watching her face, as he did. The smile never left her lips, something that seemed to irritate him for a second before he smiled again.
"I am starting to understand why Loki keeps you around," Abjorn said when he made the dress fall to the floor.
"Wow," the man holding Loki said, but Cara didn't look in his direction, she only looked at Abjorn.
"I am going to enjoy this!" He said and walked behind her. "And I am sure the both of you will!"
"You are sure of a lot of things," Cara said as Abjorn grabbed her hair and pulled her head back, forcing her to face him.
"I am. And when I am done, you will too!" He forced their lips together once more, as he opened her bra and threw it over to the man holding Loki, who laughed.
"I am going to keep this."
Abjorn parted with her and looked at Loki. Cara saw how the tears in his eyes and how much this hurt him, but she knew that this was better, she just hoped that she could explain it to him.
"Look here Loki, as I take your woman. What I do to her, things you can only dream off!" Abjorn said, and Cara felt how his hands pulled down her trousers. It took all of her willpower not to flinch. She knew that this moment was coming, but she also knew the pain that would follow, but it was nothing new.
"I think I want to take you like the bitch you are," Abjorn said and forced her down on all four, before he kneeled behind her. It didn't take long until she felt how he forced himself into her. She had to bit her lip not to scream.
"I think she likes it," the man holding Loki said.
"Yeah I think she does," Abjorn said as he almost pulled out completely, before he pushed in hard. Cara had to brace herself, not to fall.
"I think Loki is jealous, you having a go with her," the man said, and Cara looked at Loki, seeing him cry. She wanted to kick Abjorn, grab Loki and run. But she couldn't. Abjorn had made sure of that. He had put a collar on her, the type that made it imposable for her to use magic, the same type Loki had when they found him. They hadn't dared to put one on Loki, but Abjorn knew that Loki wouldn't leave her here.
Cara looked Loki in the eyes, wanting to only see him, not caring about the other. She wanted to tell him to be strong, to tell him that she could take it. That he shouldn't do anything stupid, she knew how easy it was to do when someone you cared about was in danger. But she wanted him to know that she had it under control.
"Hoping he will save you?" Abjorn whispered from behind her, as his hand grabbed her right breast.
"You really don't know me," Cara answered.
"I will get to know you," Abjorn said as he squished her breast, obviously wanting to get a reaction from her, but she didn't give him one. "You truly are an interesting woman."
Abjorn increased the pace, and Cara felt the pain inside, but instead she focused on bracing herself, so she wouldn't fall. She focused on that her hands scrape against the cold, uneven floor, she and Jezebel had often talked about how they both used to focus on other things during situations such as these. He had even helped her with some tricks that could help her focus better. And it worked, she almost forget about the man behind her, wanting to inflict pain up on her. How he was sweating behind her, how he was now panting and how much he was enjoying this.
"You are too good for me," Abjorn said as he came and pulled out. Cara could feel the sperm on her legs, slowly dropping as Abjorn pushed her down on the floor, before he stood up. "And Loki, such a good dog, sitting there and waiting,"
Abjorn laughed, before he got dressed, nodded to his man and they both left the room and locked the door. Cara lied on the floor as she let the pain wash over her, taking deep breaths to control it. She had done this before, she knew how to do it, and in all honest, the pain Abjorn inflected wasn't as bad as some others.
"Cara?" She heard Loki whisper and she lifted her head to meet his gaze.
"Yeah," she answered and Loki crawled over at once, removing his cape and covering her, and Cara couldn't do anything else then smile. Slowly she sat up, wrapped in the mantle, mostly because she had a feeling Loki didn't want to see her like this. She herself was used not to have anything to wear after something like this.
"You…You…You" Loki started, and Cara saw his tears streaming down his face and she knew how hard this was for him. She hated being in his position, not be able to do anything. But she also knew that if they took their turn with him, he would break, so it was better this way.
Cara positioned herself in front of Loki and placed her hands on his cheeks and started to wipe away the tears, letting him know that she was there.
"I am so sorry," he whispered and Cara smiled, letting her forehead rest on his.
"This isn't your fault," she started, wanting him to know. "I made them go after me. I wanted to keep them away from you."
"That makes it even worse," Loki said and Cara shook her head.
"No it isn't. I am doing this without any doubt. Better me, then you!" She told him. "Loki I have been through this before, so many times, you know that, and I can take it. I know how to handle it, I am not proud to say this, but this is a game I am good at. I have learned over the years, and I know what to do."
"I am sorry," Loki said once more and Cara kissed his forehead before she smiled at him.
"Thank you, but don't be. As long as I keep them away from you, I don't care. And right now Abjorn will try to break me, and I intend to keep it like that. But I need you to stay strong. I know that it's hard. I know that it pains you to see me like this., but remember that I know what I am doing, it's just a game. Try to think of something else."
"I can't!" Loki whispered.
"You must. I can't do this if I know that there is a risk of you getting hurt. I can only do this if I know that you are there with me, playing my game," Cara almost begged him.
"I don't know if I can. Seeing you like that, treated like an animal, I don't know if I can see that ever again. Not being able to help you, feeling powerless. It's my fault that you are here," Loki told her. And Cara heard how emotional he was, and she understood him, she really did. But right now she wanted him to understand her.
"Oh Loki, I am sorry but you have too," Cara said. "I know that it's hard. But you can't let them get to you, think of something else. Try to think of a way to get out, and what we will do when we get out of here."
"Marrying you, as long as you still want me." Loki said and Cara smiled, happy that he still wanted her.
"I will marry you, I am very much looking forward to that," Cara said, and this time Loki leaned forward, wanting to kiss her forehead but stopped before he did, and Cara smiled, Loki always thought of her before he did something.
"It's okay."
Loki nodded and kissed her forehead and she smiled. She was glad that this wasn't her first time. If it had been, she hadn't been able to have Loki this close. But she had gotten used to it, and she did this for him, which made it easier to let him touch her.
"Loki?" Cara almost whispered.
"Yes?"
"Can you hold me?" she asked and Loki gave her a wondering look. "I am tired and I need to sleep before they get back. But I don't want to feel alone."
Loki didn't even hesitated before he took her into his arms. Cara leaned against his chest and smiled.
"Thank you. Please wake me up if you hear them coming," she said and Loki nodded, and she closed her eyes, as she heard how Loki started singing.
"Little girl, little girl, don't lie to me…"
Cara had lost track of the days, time, and who took her, how many times and what they did. This wasn't anything unusual, it always happened. In the beginning she always tried to remember their name and faces, knowing how to play them, that was the most important part. But their faces and names always disappeared. She lost count of how many times they raped her. Not that it was important, not at all. But for some reason she always tried to remember, that more than the days. She had done that since she met Rahl for the first time, maybe because it was all she could do than. But the only thing she remembered now was the pain. And with the collar on her, she didn't heal like she normally did, so the pain didn't disappear, however, she hid it well, not wanting to make Loki feel any worse.
Cara saw how much it hurt him, and how much it haunted him, seeing her like that. Hearing her scream, because after cuts, burn marks and every blow, she couldn't stop the screaming. It had taken Abjorn days to make her scream, but when he did, he was very proud. Loki had tried to fight them when she screamed for the first time, but he had stopped when he saw her pleading look. Cara knew how much effort it took for him to do that, but she was happy that he did. She could take anything for his sake.
Afterwards he had tried to stop her bleeding, and he did as well as he could, and she had thanked him. That was all they could do. She took the blows, rapes and everything else for him, and he tried to take care of her afterwards. She reminded him that it was okay, and that it would be fine somehow. She tried to be hopeful, mostly for Loki's sake. Seeing how he was slowly losing hope, how everything affected him. She just hoped that they would get out of here, before he they broke him. She didn't know how they would get out of here, so at this moment her only hope was that the others would find them.
"It has been almost a month!" Tony said, as he slammed his fist in the table, actually making the others jump in surprise. "Can you imagine what that scum Abjorn are doing to them? If they even are alive."
"I prefer not to think about it," Steve said, more than capable to think off what Abjorn was doing.
"How can we not find them?" Thor asked, and they all looked over to the tired God.
He was tired from worrying about his brother and Cara, and from taking care of the twins. The twins didn't handle the situation all too well. They thought that their parents had left them, that they didn't want them anymore. And none of the others knew how to explain anything. Not wanting to tell them what happened to Loki before, and most likely happened now. So Thor and Jane did their best to take care of them, hoping that Loki and Cara would return soon and that they were alive.
"They are well hidden, that's my guess, and they haven't used any magic," Tony answered. They had tried to find them; they had searched in any way they could think off. They had tried all of Tony's devices. They had used Wanda's and Strange's magic, they had walked around the town, just hoping to stumble up on them. They even used S.H.I.L.E.D's network, but they had found nothing. not even Heimdall had been able to find them, to their surprise, but Frigga had explained that there was magic that could shield one from his gaze.
"Do you know that it's Cara's birthday today?" Thor asked as he closed his eyes, and drank from his glass.
"No we didn't know that," Natasha said.
"Not a surprise, she wasn't to open about it. I just remember since Loki went on a reckless mission to get a perfect present for her. A lot or roses and a fallen star," Thor told them and the others smiled, they wasn't surprised that Loki would do something like that for Cara.
"I can't stand the thought of her spending her birthday like this," Thor said and the others nodded.
"What are we going to do then?" Bruce asked, and no one had an answer.
"Let's start over, we can try to search for them again with the network and devices we have. It's all that we can do," Tony said, very frustrated. He hated that they couldn't do anything. This wasn't fair. He would end Abjorn for going after his friends, he would end him, then ask Hel to bring him back, so he could end him once more. And he was sure that when he was done, the others would like to have a go too.
"Happy Birthday," Loki whispered in her ear, and Cara looked up at him, she was in his arms, leaning against him.
"It is?" She asked surprised. She didn't know what day it was, but apparently Loki had counted them. "It is already November."
Cara couldn't believe that they had been here almost a month, but she wasn't surprised by it.
"It is. And I am sorry that I can't give you something," he told her, but Cara just smiled towards him, and kissed him on the cheek.
"Seeing you safe and unharmed is enough."
"It isn't. I wish you didn't have to celebrate your birthday here; I can't even give you your freedom," Loki said towards her, and she was about to answer when Abjorn walked up to them.
"So it's the hounds birthday," he said and smiled. "Then I will give you some extra attention."
"And my guess is that you have an extra special present for me," she said and Abjorn looked a bit surprised at her. "You aren't the first man to celebrate my birthday this way."
"Well then the surprise is ruin," Abjorn said and pulled her away from Loki's arm. Loki tried to keep her in his arms, but Cara saw how one of the men, Mark, she thought his name was, pulled Loki up on his knees, holding him still.
"So what will we do today?" Abjorn said as he smiled towards her. He walked around her, like a lion walks around a prey, until he stopped behind her. "Maybe I shall let my men have a go with you first, let them fuck you until you can't stand, and then I will have a go. Or maybe I shall cut you first. I do love having your blood over me. Or why not force you to so suck my dick."
Abjorn smiled at every word he said, looking at Loki, who didn't want any of those things happening to her.
"Maybe I shall take you from behind, I know how much you like that," Abjorn said. And Cara didn't answer him. She had learned that taking her from behind was what Abjorn preferred, especially if she was down on all four.
Abjorn let his hand ran down her back, down to her arse.
"This is something we haven't tried yet," Abjorn said and Cara saw the horror in Loki's eyes, and her guess was that it reminded him of what was done to him.
"I would say that it's messy and so boring. But you are a boring man Abjorn."
"You know what? I am going to miss your bantering," He said as his hand wondered around her waste.
"What are you going to do? Force me not to talk?" Cara asked.
"That would actually spoil the fun. You talking back to me, makes it more enjoyable."
"I can tell," Cara said as he felt his cock at her back.
"You know what, I think I prefer to end this as we started it. Down on all four," Abjorn said and Cara was about to say, here we go again, but stopped. It was something about Abjorn's words that made her worried. He hadn't talked like that before, and it could be a new tactic, but he didn't feel like that kind of man. No she feared that he would do something that really hurt her.
"You belong down here," Abjorn said as he forced himself on her, and soon find the rhythm he preferred, not caring that he hurt her.
"I can see why you think so," Cara answered, but she screamed when Abjorn dragged his fingers in one of her open wounds on her back.
Soon she felt the blood start flowing, and she concentrated on that. Seeing the blood on the floor, she couldn't stop herself from thinking of Jezebel again, how often he was in this situation with Cassandra. He had told her, that blood was the best thing to concentrate on, he had even hurt himself from time to time, just to be able to concentrate on the blood. She had never done that, but she was grateful for everything he taught her. She just wished that she could have saved him in the end, not being forced to see him die in Cassians arms, before she saw the other man die too. She missed them both, she really did, none of them had deserved to die.
"You see," Abjorn started between his panting. "Odin has gotten bored."
As soon as he mentioned Odin's name, Cara got cold. She looked over towards Loki, who seemed empty instead.
"He thought it was funny when I said that I had got a hold of you, surprised to hear that you were here. But he said I could have my fun for a while, and I have. But now Odin is bored, so he wants Loki back," Abjorn said and leaned forward, and whispered in his ears. "But you see, he wants you dead, wanting to break Loki again, and killing you would be perfect. It's a shame that I can't keep you, but a order is a order."
Cara felt how saying this words made Abjorn more excited and he increased the pace.
"You have…been…so good…to me. And this…have been really fun," Abjorn said before he finished and laughed. "But everything good comes to an end!"
He urned her over, andCara felt the pain on her back, and if she hadn't met the gold crazy eyes that wanted to kill her, she had reacted more to the pain.
"You can tell Odin, that he will never have Loki!" Cara said and tried to break free. But she knew that her body was weaker then normally, and she was in pain. But she wouldn't give up without a fight. And she didn't want Odin to have Loki again.
"You are too sweet girl," Abjorn said and pulled a knife. "But I am not a big fan of dragging this part out."
Cara saw the knife getting closer to her, when she managed to kick Abjorn in the side, hoping to break free, to get away from him. And then? She didn't know. All she knew was that she needed to break free, in order not to die. Everything else would be a problem later.
"Whore," Abjorn screamed at her in pain. He grabbed her arm, and Cara felt the pain as he broke it. "You are going to pay for that. I was going to go easy on you. But not anymore."
Cara felt the pain in the arm, and soon she felt more pain as he stabbed her in the leg. She couldn't stop herself from screaming. He pulled her closer to her and looked at the knife.
"You know what? Just because it's you, and you hurt me, I am going to do this with my hands," Abjorn whispered as he climbed on top of her, holding her down. And soon she felt his hands around her throat.
Cara straggled to get air, to fight him off. She scratched him with her nails, on his hands and arms, not caring about her broken arm. She tried to reach his face, but couldn't. She tried to hit him, kick him, anything, but he didn't move. She felt how she become light headed. How her vision become blurry, and how her heart raised, trying to make the body work.
Cara knew that it wasn't as easy as one may think to strangle someone with your hands. But that wasn't something that would help her. It only told her that it would take time for her to die. And she didn't want to die, she couldn't die. However as she got weaker, she started to accept it, at least she could meet everyone she loved in the afterlife. Yet, she looked around to find Loki, wanting to at least see him, not sure why she wanted to see him, maybe to tell him that it wasn't his fault.
She saw something lying on the floor, not moving and she wondered for a second if they had ended Loki too. Didn't they just told her that he would live? She saw something red, streaming towards her on the floor. Soon she felt the warm blood around her body. Was this how she would die? In Loki's blood? She felt like crying, but her body didn't focus on that, it focused on trying to survive.
Suddenly the hands disappeared from her throat, and for a second she thought that she had died, she didn't felt anything more. But then she felt how her body acted on its own and took a deep breath. She felt the air fill her lungs once more, and she opened her eyes. She didn't know that she had closed them. Tears was streaming down her cheeks and Cara tried to understand what happened. She was in pain, she was scared and she was confused.
When she heard a sound, to her left she turned, she saw Abjorn lying there, bloody, slit throat. She didn't understand how? However, it didn't matter, she looked at him and she smiled, he was dead. She didn't know how yet, but he was dead, and soon the smiled turned into a laugh. He couldn't touch her anymore. She was free from him. She wouldn't need to worry that he was coming after her.
She stopped laughing when the pain become too strong. Her throat still hurt and she needed to rest. But she also knew that she couldn't rest here, but she was too tired to move. So maybe she should rest only for a second, before she thought of something to do.
Her eyes closed and she was almost falling asleep when she heard the door open. Her brain told her to move, that this wasn't good. They would try to kill her again, she knew that. But she couldn't get her body to move. And she almost cursed herself for not moving, she didn't survive Abjorn to die.
"Get them!" a voice said, and Cara was puzzled. Them? Who was them? She understood her, but was there someone else alive in the room? Was it Mark? But that felt unrealistic, why would Mark kill Loki, and then save her? Did he want her?
Cara looked towards Loki's body, and when her view got better she saw that it was Mark, who laid there, dead. Then it meant that it was Loki who was fighting. She could almost laugh, for not getting that faster. She tried to move again, to help Loki, but her body didn't listen. She wanted to kick herself, why wouldn't her body listen? Why did it fail her now? It was an obvious answer, but she still hated it, she was to weak.
She almost jumped when she heard screams and how people hit the floor. From where she was laid, she couldn't see what was happening. She wanted to know, she needed to know, was Loki alright? And when everything become quiet, she didn't know if it was good or not. Then she heard steps walking towards her and she tried to see who it was. What was going to happen to her?
"Cara?" Loki asked and she relaxed, Loki was alive, that was the important part. When he knelled beside her, she saw how bloody he was, his face, hands and clothes was covered in blood.
"Loki," she cried of joy and managed to raise a hand to touch his cheek.
"Careful, you will get bloody, and you are still weak," he said and Cara smiled towards him.
"I don't care about the blood, I am just glad to see you, alive," she said and was about to drop her hand when Loki grabbed it. They looked at each other, and they didn't need to say anything, both of them knew that they was alive only because of luck.
"Are they all dead?"
"They are all dead," he answered her and she sighed in relief.
"Thank you," Cara said and Loki kissed her hand, thanking her for everything. Loki reached over and grabbed his cape and helped her cover herself. He helped her sit and Cara looked around the bloody room. The walls, floor and ceiling was covered in blood, the bodies of the men using her, was all over the floor, dead, just like Loki had said.
"Don't look," Loki said and Cara laughed.
"I have seen worse, I have even done worse," She said in a tired voice and Loki just kissed her forehead.
"Let me remove the collar," he said and Cara smiled.
"Yes please," she wasn't whole without her magic, she missed the warm feeling in her heart.
"This will hurt," Loki said and she smiled again, she knew it would hurt, but it was worth it.
When Loki had gotten rid of the collar, and addressed her wounds as well as he could, he had took her into his arms. She had leaned tiredly against him, just glad to be alive, feeling safe, and having Loki by her side. Seeing him safe and alive, made everything worth it. She didn't care what had happened to her, she just never wanted to let go of Loki, afraid of losing him again, possibly forever. Cara closed her eyes, exhausted, as she felt the familiar feeling of teleportation.
"THOR!" Tony screamed and Thor got running towards the other man's voice. Thor didn't know what the other man wanted but he normally didn't call him like that, so it had to be something. Thor almost tripped as he entered the common room, seeing his brother standing there. Thor had almost thought that they would never get to see Loki, or Cara again. But as his brother stood there, bloody and with a hurt and weak Cara in his arms, all he could do was stare at him. Like the rest of the people in the room.
Natasha was the one that acted first.
"Jarvis, keep the twins away, make Jane keep them occupied," Natasha said and Thor almost thanked the woman for thinking about that. But he couldn't move or say something. He just stared, imagine all the horrors both of them had gone through.
"As you wish miss Romanoff", Jarvis answered.
"Loki…what happened?" Clint finally asked, it was the question everyone thought, but didn't dare to ask.
"I need to get her to bed," Loki only answered and took a step forward, but no one moved.
"Loki?" Tony asked, but only got a cold look from the God.
"Let me take Cara to bed and I will tell you," his voice was cold, but they did hear the concern for Cara. Thor looked at the blond woman, she almost looked as bad as Loki had when they found him. And Thor knew that this wouldn't be a story he wanted to hear. But all of them moved and Loki walked past them.
"I will kill him!" Loki said as he returned. The others had placed some food on the table if Loki wanted something to eat.
"Who? Abjorn?" Tony asked. They all felt the anger and hate coming from Loki, not something that surprised them, but they were a bit careful, not sure what would make it worse. Furthermore, none of them wanted to fight Loki like this.
"He is already dead, believe me," Loki launched out at Tony, walking over to the bar. No one tried to stop him as he took a bottle and poured it into a glass.
"Well I do believe you," Clint said with a light tone, as he looked at Loki's cloths, but the god didn't seem amused.
"Then who brother?" Thor asked before Clint got into trouble.
"Odin!" Loki said and all of them looked at each other. Before Loki hadn't wanted to take part in throwing down Odin.
"What happened?" Steve asked and Loki took drank from the glass and didn't answer at first, and they were unsure if he would.
"It's my fault," Loki said and they all felt the guilt.
"I am sure Cara doesn't sees it like that," Bruce assured him.
"Of course she doesn't," Loki said and took another sip from the drink.
"Then what's the problem?" Tony asked and Loki just glared at him. "She isn't mad at you. And she would tell you to stop blaming yourself, and you know that!"
"That she would, and it's because she is too good for me," Loki only said. Thor looked at his brother, and he understood what he came from. If he did something to endanger Jane, and she did tell him it wasn't his fault, he would still feel guilty.
"Feel like telling us what happened?" Tony asked after an uncomfortable silence. Loki didn't look at them, all he did was to empty his glass, before he took another one.
"What do you think happened?" Loki asked in an angry voice, and no one answered him, they didn't want to tell Loki what they thought happened. They just wished to be there for their friend, but they didn't know how. "Abjorn fucking found us."
Loki threw the bottle across the room, and hit shattered as it hit the wall. They looked at the god, they had seen him afraid, broken, mocking, calm, lovely and happy. But they had never seen him this angry, or this destroyed either.
"He…he touched you?" Steve asked, very carefully, not wanting to make Loki angrier. But instead of angry, Loki laughed a cold laugh.
"I actually wish. If he did I would be… I don't know what I would be, but less upset," Loki said and the others looked over towards Cara's room. They had thought that she had saved Loki and therefore getting hurt. None of them had thought that Abjorn had touched her.
"So he touched Cara…" Bruce said in a sad voice and Loki just nodded.
"I thought it was you he was interested in?" Tony said, very carefully.
"She made him go after her instead. She played a game, she took it all, and I just let her do it…" Loki almost whispered the words. "Some fucking guy I am."
They all stared at him, they didn't know what to say. They were surprised to hear that Cara sacrificed herself, and they understood that she really would do anything for Loki!
"She did it because she loves your brother," Thor tried and Loki gave him an cold look.
"I know why she did it! I am not stupid. But I should have stopped her! Who let someone that you love, go through something like that?" Loki shouted at Thor, who was about to say that Cara most likely thought the same, but he didn't. "He almost killed her."
"Abjorn?" Natasha asked and Loki nodded. "So you killed him?"
"I did. Him and the rest," Loki just said and the others looked at him, they would never preach for someone to kill, but in this case they all knew that they would have acted the same. Tony still wished to kill Abjorn, even if he was dead!
"And Odin?" Steve asked.
"He was behind it, like he always is! He said Abjorn could have his fun with her, something Abjorn did…" Loki stopped there, and the others could imagine what fun Abjorn had been doing with Cara, more than well. "But then Odin got bored, as Abjorn putted it. Wanted me back and Cara dead, and almost managed."
Thor looked at his brother when he looked down his glass, and Thor understood that he was about to relive the moment.
"But he didn't, you stopped him, and that's the important part. You saved her Loki!" Thor said and Loki laughed, a cold laugh.
"Saved her? Thor if it wasn't for me, it would never have happened. I saved her from dying, but I couldn't save her from anything else."
"I remember her saying that her life is one of the thing she value the most, because it's the only thing she can't do twice," Thor said and Loki looked at him.
"Even if she is alive, how can I even touch her after this? How can I be near her? I have no right to do that!" Loki said and the others was about to answer, but Loki continued talking. "But I will kill Odin! Stop him from ever get near her again! Stop him from plotting to kill her ever again! I will end him forever, no matter what it cost. I will do that for her that!"
"No matter what it cost?" Cara said from behind them, none of them had heard her entering. "I do not like the sound of that!"
"Cara we thought you was asleep" Tony said.
"You should be asleep, resting!" Bruce said, and Cara smiled towards him, he was using his doctor voice.
"I was asleep, but the yelling woke me up, and I will rest soon," she said and walked towards Loki, who didn't look at her.
"Loki?" She asked but he didn't meet her eyes and she sighed. "I know how you feel…"
"You…" Loki started and actually looked at her, and she smiled before she stopped him from talking.
"I do know how you feel. I have been where you have been, People have done what I did to you, to me too. And I wanted to end the person behind it all, trust me! I wanted to end them so much! I wanted to make them suffer as much as the person I cared about I didn't, because the person who saved me was more important than the one behind it all, and she asked me not to," she started, giving him a soft smile
"I can't forbid you from doing anything. If you want to run off and kill Odin, I can't stop you, but I would not support you. I didn't do what I did to see risking to get captured again. I did it because I wanted to save you, I wanted to see you free and happy, and I wanted to have a chance of marrying you. If you do this, I am afraid that I won't get that chance."
"Marrying?" Clint said and Natasha hit him in the head, feeling that it wasn't the moment to ask.
"I would do it for you!" Loki said and Cara smiled.
"I don't want you to do it for me! If you want to do it for yourself, I can't stop you, but don't do it for me! I want you to stay here for me! I want you to make me feel safe and hold me when I get scared, because I will be,I want you to be by my side. That is what I want!" Cara said and Loki looked at her, not sure what to answer.
"I…" Loki started and Cara took his hands and smiled. "Why do you want me there? This is my fault."
Loki looked at her and her wounds.
"Don't blame yourself for this. You weren't the one doing this to me. Instead you killed the men doing it, you saved me," Cara told him.
"Men?" Steve asked and Cara looked at him and nodded.
"They took turns, like they often do," she only said and then turned towards Loki again.
"Do you really want me next to you?"
"You and no one else," Cara said and Loki looked at her, and she felt how he tried to see if she was lying, but after a short moment he slowly nodded.
"Then I will be there for you," he answered and kissed her forehead.
"Good, then I can go to bed, knowing that you will not be captured when I wake up."
Cara looked at the others and gave them a weak smile before she left the room.
"You are still going after him, aren't you?" Thor asked.
"I am," Loki only answered, and they all saw the cold in his eyes.
"You lied to her?" Steve asked in surprise, thinking that Cara was the only person Loki was honest with.
"I did," Loki said.
"She is right you know. He may capture you, and possibly kill you brother," Thor said and Loki looked at his brother.
"As much as he may kill anyone of you. I will not let him touch my family again!"
The others didn't say anything. They understood how Loki felt, because they didn't want Odin to touch Loki ever again.
"Well we will not stop you. But please think this over, when you are less angry, so you won't do anything rash. I don't know what O would tell Cara if you died." Tony said.
"Yes please, don't let me deal with that again. Last time she thought you died, it didn't end pretty," Thor said and Loki only nodded, but he didn't say anything.
Thor just hopped that Loki would think about it. He knew that Loki was angry, wanting revenge, and it was natural, but Loki didn't act like himself now. Loki was always calm and collective, planning every move, rushing into things, wasn't his style, and Thor feared it may go very wrong if he did. But Thor knew that if Loki would rush into the battle, Thor would be by his side and help him anyway he could. He would be there for his brother this time. Like he knew all his friends would.
"So marriage?" Clint asked again, this time hoping to get an answer. The others had almost forgotten about that, so they now turned towards Loki. But Loki didn't look amused or like he wanted to share the information with them.
"I don't want to talk about that now," Loki said, and Clint looked really disappointed.
"But I wanted to know," he said and Natasha hit him in the head, again.
"Maybe tomorrow," Loki only said as he putted down the glass. "I need to go to Cara."
"Let us know if you need anything," Tony said and Loki nodded.
"I will do. But right now I think she needs to sleep, and I need to be left alone," Loki said as he left the room.
"This will not go well," Natasha said and the other nodded.
"Shall we tell her?" Bruce asked.
"I think she knows, or she will know. I just hope she can talk to him," Steve said, and looked at the others.
"I am glad to see that Loki want's to fight Odin now. But not like this," Tony said.
"I do not wish to see my brother hurt because of this. But I will not stop him, I will protect him, in any way I can," Thor informed the others.
"Always the good brother," Tony teased and Thor smiled.
"I am trying at least," Thor said "But I need to tell mother that Loki has return."
They could all feel the sorrow Thor felt, needing to tell his mother once again what happened to Loki. They hoped that Frigga could take it, not wanting the queen become heartbroken once more.
"Keep the twins away from Loki and Cara for now. I think they need it, and the twins shouldn't see Loki like this," Thor said and the other agreed, looking at the direction Loki and Cara had disappeared.
"We should all get some rest now. We need to be prepared for what may happen tomorrow. And if Cara is weak, we may need to deal with Loki, because she need the rest!" Bruce said and the others agreed.
"Let's do whatever we can, and be there for them," Steve said.
"As long as I get to know more about this wedding!" Clint said, resulting in the others hitting him.