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Chapter 5
There's a place in your heart where nobody's been.
Take me there.
Things nobody knows, not even your friends.
Take me there.
Tell me about your momma, your daddy, your home town, show me around.
I wanna see it all, don't leave anything out.
Take me There by Rascal Flatts
Rose sat there on Steve's couch, Loki sat beside on her right. He showed up next to her after Steve and the Avengers were called out for some important thing with SHIELD. "Sometimes, the past hurts, but you can either run from it or learn from it." The words from the God of Mischief, Magic, and Chaos were soft and encouraging instead of teasing for once in the month that she had been there her and Loki barely spoke nicely to each other and often ended with her trying to hex him.
"You have been watching way too many Disney Movies." She retorted getting up to go cook the two of them something to eat for dinner. Pepper was on a business trip and Jane was in New Mexico trying something with a Rainbow Bridge out, so it left the two magical beings an a couple of SHEILD Agents, or "Babysitters" as Tony so affectionately called them, alone in the tower.
"But they teach you several things. Like this." He said as he sent a stunner at her and she quickly blocked it. "The last time I did that you were hit by it. I'm not saying forget your family, but instead accept it."
"Since when did you become inspirational?"
"I've always been inspirational, My Dear, how else would some have become Mutants and others simply normal?"
"You caused the X-Gene?"
"I believed there had to be a race stronger than others to help protect the people of Earth from the dragons that once roamed. They now use their own powers against each other which is not what I intended."
"What about Witches and Wizards?"
"I created Witches and Wizards when the mutants decided to avoid helping. But the normal people burned the witches and wizards at the stake, killing all of them in this world. Did you love him?"
"Who are you taking about?" She asked as she put a pot of water on the stove and started peeling the potatoes.
"Your friend. Did you love him?"
She hesitated before answering, "Yes. But he was in love with another."
"Did you ever show him?"
"Show him what, Loki?"
"That you loved him?"
"No."
"Then he fell in love with another because he thought you didn't love him."
"No. He fell in love with her because she wasn't a Weasley. He fell for her because she wasn't someone who his family would kill him if he married. He fell in love with her because she was... perfect." Rose replied angrily glaring at Loki. "Besides they got married right after Hogwarts."
"No. He fell in love with her because you never returned his love. You never once told him you care for him more than a friend. You never once showed him that you loved him, and in return he fell for another because he grew tired of you leading him on just to shut him down."
"ENOUGH!" She screamed, spinning around and sending a powerful hex at Loki, who quickly deflected it.
"He fell for her because you are brash. You let every emotion show except love." She sent hex after hex at the God, who easily deflected them. "You will do the same thing with Steve Rogers because you can't show love. And when you do, maybe then you might learn from your own mistakes."
At this she froze in her spot, staring at the God before she narrowed her eyes. "Unlike you, I don't have mistakes as bad as yours."
"I only tell what your mind already told me."
"Stay out of my head!" She screamed at him as she shot another hex at the Norse God dressed in black pants and a button down t-shirt. Loki easily deflected the hex and smirked at her.
"Don't let your temper get the best of you, Red." She froze at the nickname, simply staring at him.
"How-"
Loki only shrugged as sat happily on the island of the Kitchen. A smirk clearly playing on his lips.
"Stay out of my head." She growled as she felt him probing her mind again. She locked everything down as fast as she could, she had to lock him out of her mind, she set every trap she could think of. She wasn't skilled at occulumency on others but she could defend her mind, guard it with everything she had. Her mother taught her how to defend her mind and she became rather good at it. The whole reading other's mind she was still learning, she knew the basics that she had to be careful for traps but she was no where near as good as her Uncle Harry or her Mother.
Rose tensed as she watched him start to circle her, her wand in her hand was ready for anything. He stopped in front of her and said quietly, "I accept your strength, smarts, and cunningness. But I don't accept you. You are too much of a wild card, but know this Miss Weasley. Nothing has changed about me but the side I fight for. Harm anyone on my side and I will make you can't escape the thicket of thorns you lock yourself behind in that brilliant head of yours." With that Loki was gone. Not a sound of apparation, just gone. She knew he didn't leave the tower, so she would call for him when she had dinner ready but his words rattled her.
It was another month of living in the Tower before Steve asked her out on a date and she agreed. Another moth and the two were happily dating. Rose knew he was the one for her. The two had quickly bonded over her time in the Tower, but Rose still never told them anything much about her past. To her it was much more difficult than simply telling them. She had used an old trick to suppress many of the memories, mainly the bad ones, while she allowed the good ones to be remembered. "Can I know?" His blue eyes looked into her's and she wasn't sure what he was talking about. They were sitting at the table playing a game of Rummy when he asked.
"Know what?"
"Everything about you?"
"Everything?" He nodded and she took a deep breath, "Where do I begin?" She had no idea. Her family was huge and they were such a large part of her past.
"How about with your parents? Your Hometown? Tell me so much about them you could practically show me."
Rose looked at him and then said, "My father had red hair along with all of his siblings, he had blue eyes like mine. He had more of a brawny build when he was in Hogwarts but then it kind of ended up him looking like Granddad Weasley, a little on the heavier side. My Mother had brown hair and brown eyes, she had the curls when she was younger... I guess I never grew out of mine while her's became more of waves." Rose smiled as she remembered her parents, "They were best friends through School with my Godfather, Harry. My parents often fought when they were younger being complete opposites you can imagine. It's like... Thor and Loki. Complete opposites but they work well together when they aren't bickering."
Steve chuckled as he pointed out, "Loki only ever works well with anyone if there is something in it for him."
"True... but he reminds me of my Uncle George, he ran a Joke Shop. He used to have a twin, Fred, but he was killed in the Battle of Hogwarts long before I was even a thought. But my cousin Harry's son, James, and Geroge's son, Freddie, are always causing trouble. I can remember when Mum and Aunt Ginny decided that if Uncle George ever gave either of them another product for 'home testing' he would get the bat boogie hex. It helped with all the pranks in the house but those two devils were something." Rose grinned. "Anyway, my parents had Hugo and I and we were happy... until I got into Ravenclaw and quite honestly you should have seen that explosion. Dad wanted me in Gryffindor and Mum didn't really mind too much as long I was happy where I was sorted. But Ravenclaw was nothing compared to Slytherin where my best friend at the time who was also my cousin, Albus, got sorted into. I think the whole family went crazy when they found out." Rose laughed.
"What do you mean?" Steve asked.
Rose had forgotten that he knew nothing about Hogwarts and quickly dove in the History of Hogwarts and how each House got its reputation. She then explain the first Wizarding War and what happened, in a very quick summary, but then explained the Second War like her father had explained it to her. At the end she said, "So in my time, Slytherin had changed its views but many of the Adults in my family still believed Slytherin was the house of Evil which is why they threw a royal tantrum when Albus Severus Potter got into Slytherin. I think the Malfoys almost had a coronary when Scorpius Hyperion Malfoy ended up in Ravenclaw along with me. I mean really who would have thought a Malfoy, whose family had been in Slytherin probably from the start, would have ended up in any other House?"
Steve grinned and said, "The Castle sounds amazing... I have a question..."
"Ask away." She grinned.
"How did they defeat the Dark Lord?"
"My Uncle Harry was unknowingly a Horcrux, which means a piece of Voldemort's soul was inside him as well. So when he killed my Uncle he really only killed his piece of Uncle Harry, causing my Uncle to come back and kill him. Kind of complicated an it took my cousins and I years to really understand it." Rose said.
"So... what was Hogwarts like for you?" Steve asked.
"Well, Hogwarts was as magnificent as when my Parents had gone. Of course, I saw Ravenclaw Tower instead of Gryffindor but that was still awesome. There were 'inter-house parties' every month courtesy of my family in the Room of Requirement. Most times the House Elves would provide the food and beverages but my cousins Fred and James always spiked the punch and juice so we could only allow third years and up in because no one wanted a drunken first year to deal with. In Hogwarts I played for Ravenclaw Quidditch Team as Beater, and I became Captain in my fifth year. My cousin Al was Captain of the Slytherin Team and played as a Chaser. Al's little Sister was on Hufflepuff's Team along with my Brother and man they were really good at being Chasers. Gryffindor was always the hardest to play. My entire family was on that team so it was a battle to see who was better. Everyone always showed up to the Quidditch Matches."
"What positions are there?"
"Well there is two beaters, one seeker, one keeper, and three chasers." Rose grinned. "I was a Beater for the Ravenclaw Team and the other was always Scorpius Malfoy, the two of us were always trouble on the field, and my cousins said we never played fair but honestly we never got called out for it so it was fair."
Steve chuckled before asking, "Who was on the Gryffindor Team?"
"Well Seeker was James Sirius Potter, Both Beaters were Roxanne and Fred, Chasers were Molly, Louis, and Lucy. My family dominated the Gryffindor Quidditch Team and most times they did win but not without a good fight from the other houses." Rose beamed.
"What is it like to Fly?"
Rose thought for a long hard moment. She tried to think of just word to describe it, but so many came to mind. She felt safe in the sky, like her enemies couldn't touch her. She had used her broom often while at Hogwarts to fly to the rooftop and just sit there to stare at the stars. "Free. It makes me feel free." She replied with a soft smile.
"Why?"
"Well... I don't know. It just does."
Steve nodded, "We should head to bed, Rose. It's awfully late." He led the way to her room, which Tony added recently on Steve's floor. She entered her room and Steve left her be. "Goodnight, Rose." He said as she entered.
"Goodnight, Steve." She smiled as she closed her bedroom door.
She turned her lights on and looked around. She sighed as if a great burden had been lifted off her shoulders. It felt great to talk to someone about her world. She had watched his face rise and fall at all the right times, and she had watched him laugh and smile at the good parts. She felt as if the burden of her being alone was lifted.
