Luna slipped out of the cupboard and brushed down the front of her outfit.
Hopefully she could draw the attention of whoever was coming away from the cupboard.
Moments later, two chitauri strode into the hallway. She took a deep breath and came into view.
Walking forward with her eyes straight and her expression what she hoped was emotionless, she acted as normal as she could.
She thought she was doing a good job of keeping her cool, or at least until one of them started running towards her.
She flinched and took a step back, "Uh, I... I'm just."
The chitauri leapt forward and hugged her. Luna fell to the floor from the impact with a 'oof'. But strangely it's arms felt unlike the normal scaly skin, but smoother, and softer.
She was so surprised that she forgot to be scared, "Who are you?"
The chitauri looked at her as if disappointed, which added to her confusion.
The other chitauri snapped its fingers, and instantly the glamor fell apart. Luna felt her vision getting blurry again, something she wasn't proud of.
But she didn't dare trust her eyes. "Max?"
Her brother grinned back at her, "Tori! I knew you'd remember me!"
"OK... But why are you here? Aren't you supposed to be in your cell?"
"The idiot brought me here."
She looked up, "Idiot?" Her eyes met Loki's. "Oh, idiot."
Loki snorted, "Yes, it's very nice too see you again."
Max smiled proudly, "I hit him on the head successfully. He said I reacted like you. Did I do well?"
Luna patted him on the head, "You'll be better than me one day. Did you miss me?"
"Yep."
There was a shuffling noise from the cupboard. Luna walked over and opened it, "Uh, sorry."
Thor tumbled out, "You forgot I was in there, didn't you. I swear I keep getting stuck in cupboards." He muttered to himself before he spotted Loki.
"Loki, did you know that..."
He nodded, "I know," he walked over to Luna.
"I wanted to say..." Both of them started at the same time. "I've been thinking." Again. Awkward silence filled the atmosphere.
After a while, they said, "You go first." Luna blushed and looked away and Loki laughed.
"Anyway, I just wanted to say that maybe, you aren't so bad after all. And that I'm sorry for getting you caught."
"And I'm kind of sorry for, you'll know...your mother, and all of this. I know you were threatened."
"I didn't tell you that. How'd you know?"
"The chitauri in charge of me told me so. He didn't exactly have the tightest mouth. A few prompts, and he spilt everything. He probably thought he was taunting me." Loki confessed.
Luna didn't know where to start, so she jus just hugged him, "I'm glad you're not dead yet."
He hugged her back, "Yeah, same, Luna... Or do you want me to call you Victoria?"
"Luna. I like you calling me Luna," She lifted Max and smiled, "So, let's get going before they figure out that you and Thor are missing."
Thor piped up, "How are we getting out? Do you know how to get out?"
"I know, but I can't bring you out," She shook her head, "I can't leave." She lifted up a hand to stop anyone from complaining, "I'll get all of you out first. Since they think I won't betray them, I'll show them how wrong they are."
Max frowned in her arms, "Then how will we get out? And what about you?"
"I'll get out one day. But I have a friend. He'll get you out, I'll bring you to him, till where I can."
"You're staying here? But you'll get killed." Thor said.
"Actually, she won't die that easily." Max said, "They told me."
"Told you what?"
Max whimpered and grabbed into Luna, "Please come with us."
She looked at him sadly, "What will I do with you? While I was on Midgard, I did research. And face it, you won't survive here any longer, it's too cold. I couldn't put it off any longer. I thought they would keep their promise, but they didn't."
"It's not fair, we didn't do anything wrong, yet we can't have a normal family." Max cried.
"You should know by now that the world is never fair."
"Well then," She clapped her hands together like an over enthusiastic camp leader, "Let's go."
They walked along the way without speaking, each aware what would happen soon.
Luna stood at the back, shuffling along. Loki joined her, and asked, "Hey, why don't you want to come with us?"
"I already said, I'll get you out first."
"I don't know why I couldn't see through your lies before, but I'm still the god of mischief and I know you're lying."
Luna laughed, "That inconvenient. Can't lie to you anymore then."
"That good actually. But you're stalling..." Loki stared at her.
"I have no where to go."
"What do you mean?"
"As far as anyone will be concerned, I betrayed the two Princes of Asgard and managed to lie to the god of mischief. I'm dangerous, even more so than you. I have no where to go."
He grabbed her by the shoulders, "So that's what you're worried about?!" She almost wanted to laugh at his bewildered face, "I thought you had something important to do."
"Come with us. You and your brother can stay in the palace until you have somewhere to go." He suggested.
Luna hesitated, "Really?"
"Yeah. Really."
"I don't really know, cause I want to come, but, I can't think of a way to make this work." Luna said.
"Then just come with me," he held a hand out for her, "I'll take care of you."
"I..." Luna started blushing at how that sounded and stammering, "Ok. I'll come. B...but only to take care of my brother."
Loki smiled, "Not too bad."
Just then, there was a rumbling sound. Luna was thrown off her feet and onto the wall.
"We have to move. NOW! The ship is going to go somewhere else, and the portal I found will be gone if we move. We'll never leave!" Luna yelled.
Ooh so now they will never leave if they don't get out in time? Time for me to cause trouble then ;)It's so fun writing about Luna, but hard sometimes. I'd like to imagine her as a strong female who cares deeply for her brother that kind of heroine stuff.Not too mention, she's tough, sure, but she flustered around a certain someone quite easily.I chose silver hair cause I thought it would be like easier to imagine as long and wavy and very silky(only to me) or stuff but someone told me she was reminded of an old lady when I described Luna.Well there goes that fantasy.