THANK YOU GUYS FOR THE REVIEWS AND VIEWS. I WANTED TO TRY SOMETHING DIFFERENT WITH THIS STORY SO I HOPE YOU GUYS LIKE IT. SORRY IT TOOK SO LONG TO FINISH THIS CHAPTER. I SHOULD HAVE ANOTHER ONE UP TOMORROW. AGAIN I OWN NONE OF THESE MARVEL CHARACTERS!
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Austin scoffs. "You know you could say something,"
"A-Austin how? H-how did you even get here? H-how did you fin-," cut off by his very angry daughter.
"YOU DO NOT GET TO ASK THE QUESTIONS!," she yelled. Her eyes soften. "Why..why did you leave me? I-I needed you. Like every daughter needs her dad.. What is this place? You left your own family to ride around in a giant flying boat with a ton of random people in black?," Fury doesn't say a word. "TELL ME! YOU AT LEAST OWE ME THAT!,"
"WHAT DO YOU WANT TO HEAR AUSTIN?!,"
"I WANT TO HEAR WHY YOU COULDN'T VISIT FROM TIME TO TIME! WHY YOU COULDN'T CALL ME OR TAKE ME TO A MOVIE ON THE WEEKEND?," tears fill her eyes as she lowers her voice "Is that to much to ask dad?,"
"I understand that you're upset. But there's nothing I can take back. Do I regret my actions? Everyday of my life I regret leaving you and your mother. I love you more than anyth-,"
"Anything in the world? I get it! Okay? You can't change anything in the past, but I know damn well you didn't plan on trying to find me or mom anytime soon. You say you cant change anything in the past but you had no plans of changing the future..," Austin wipes her tears away and turns around. "Let me know when you find someone to take me home, Nick." she walks off the platform and through the large doorway.
Fury realized that he was no longer Dad to his daughter. Even after all the years when he wasn't there for her she still called him Dad, but when she finally found him he disappointed her so much, he lost the title altogether. Part of him wants to go after her and just hug his little girl, but the rest of him knows he has a job to do.
"Sir?," says Agent Hill with concern in her voice. Fury turns to his fellow agent.
"Find Loki,"
"We got a hit. Sixty seven percent match. Weight, cross match, seventy nine percent," Coulson, Hill, and Fury surround the monitor of Agent Sitwell.
"Location?," asks Coulson.
"Stuggart, Germany. 28, Konigstrasse. He's not exactly hiding," At the moment Steve walks onto the platform and Fury looks to him.
"Captain, you're up," Steve nods and leaves.
This was an awful idea. You are truly an idiot Austin. Why would you come to find him? What were the answers you were expecting? If he wasn't coming for you after 10 years what makes you think he was ever coming for you at all? And now you are stuck on this damn boat! Great plan!
Austin miserably walked through the hallway with tear filled eyes looking for a place away from the pain that everything around her inflicted. Finding a small dark room, the gloomy girl runs inside and collapses on the floor and leans against the wall where she lets the tears fall.
"Hey! That's enough!," Steve comes down and looks at Thor, "Now, I don't know what you plan on doing here,"
"I've come here to put an end to Loki's schemes!,"
"Then prove it! Put the hammer down,"
"Um, yeah, no! Bad call! He loves his hammer," Thor backhands Iron Man like a pimp with Mjolnir and loses all tolerance with this sentential of liberty and raises his hammer.
"You want me to put the hammer down?," Thor leaps high into the air, raising the hammer. Captain America crouches down and holds up his shield. Thor then brings the hammer down onto the shield and a massive implosion of light reacts with the vibranium shield creating a massive shockwave that blows up anything standing within a mile. Iron Man stands up and looks around. Lying right next to him is Cap, who never takes his eyes off Thor. Thor looks at them both.
"Are we done here?," Cap, asks.
"Sir?,"
"Can I help you Agent Hill?," Hill looks at the floor not wanting to intrude on his personal business.
"Sir I can't help but feel you should go and find your daughter and talk to her,"
"I can't help but feel that you are intruding on my personal business Agent Hill," Hill continues to look at the floor, "but you are right. This is the last thing I was wanting to worry about right now-," an agent hurriedly runs onto the platform.
"Director, he's here,"
Fury stands quickly and follows the agent out of the main deck.
"How did you even get here?….What do you want to hear Austin?!….Every day of my life I regret leaving you and your mother…"
Austin flinches out of sleep. The daylight that once seeped through the slit under the door was consumed by darkness. As she stands drowsily she remembers where she is and begins her quest to get off the flying boat. She steps out into the dark hallway and sees most of the rooms' doors were shut with light flowing out at the floors. Making her way back to the main deck silently, a familiar voice is heard down the hall behind her.
"How desperate am I? You threaten my world with war. You steal a force you can't hope to control. You talk about peace and you kill cause it's fun. You have made me very desperate. You might not be glad that you did," Austin heads towards the sound of her fathers voice wondering who he was talking to. As a second voice becomes clearer, she halts at the doorway the sound is escaping from.
"Ooh. It burns you to come so close. To have the Tesseract, to have power, unlimited power. And for what? A warm light for all mankind to share, and then to be reminded what real power is," Austin realizes her father is talking to a murderer "You kill because it's fun" suddenly her father speaks again.
"Well, you let me know if Real Power wants a magazine or something," the girl smiles at his joke as Fury walks out of the second exit of the room leaving Loki in his glass cell.
Austin begins to stand up straight and walks directly into the doorway of the cell room longing to see the face of this murderer. When she thinks of people who kill for fun, she imagines old creepy guys covered in hair and dirty clothes. With his back to her, Austin sees his green and gold suit which makes him appear taller. His medium frame is topped with a head full of glistening jet black hair. The creaking of the floor catches the criminal's attention.
"And who might you be?," the prisoner slowly turns around facing his new visitor. The second she sees his face, she understands. She now comprehends how this man is a killer. Everything about him is cold. His skin. His smirk. His voice. And above all, his eyes. When she sees him, she sees him killing anyone without remorse, "I do believe I asked you a question," the prisoner says posing his head slightly to the side. Again, Austin says or does nothing but looks at him with an expressionless face. She knows not what to say. She cannot take it any longer and begins walking towards the second exit, his icy stare following her around the room with his signature sneer fixed to his face.
As she leaves the room, his face becomes expressionless.
Weird. Okay Austin just stay focused. Find Nick.
When she reaches the other side of the second exit she meets another hallway and hears her father's voice along with others at the very end.
"Last night. The packet, Selvig's notes, the Extraction Theory papers. Am I the only one who did the reading?,"
"Does Loki need any particular kind of power source?," asked Cap. Quit hiding! Austin steps out onto the platform quietly thinking to herself. Is that the Iron Man guy? Hmm, well there's him, a guy in a red and blue costume, the same red head and quiet dude from earlier this afternoon, and a large man with a red cape and huge arms. Quite the room of people huh?
"Who's Loki?," says Austin as she makes herself known in the room. Well it works as everyone in the room looks directly at her. With confidence, she continues, "I'm done hiding and I want in," Tony starts giggling and points at her as if she's joking. Everyone else joins in by smiling at his outburst. Except her father.
"Absolutely not," she gives him a cold glare and crosses her arms.
"And who are you to tell me what I can do? Don't think that now that I'm here you get to start being the parent," the room goes silent. Tony points from Austin to Fury then back to Austin then looks down at his feet.
"I'm not telling you no as your father Austin. I'm telling you as Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. that you are not welcome in this mission. This is much bigger than you alright?," Austin steps closer to her father but is intervened by Agent Romanoff when she places her arm in front of her.
"Back off. You heard the Director. I think it's time for you to go," Austin simply pushes arm down.
"And I think you should back away from me," The girls make harsh eye contact both exchanging cold glares.
"That's it, I've had enough," says Romanoff as she swings for Austin's face but not quick enough. As the Widow misses her opponents face, Austin ducks quickly and elbows her in the gut jolting her away.
"Told you to back away," Romanoff merely scoffs at her comment and strikes again while everyone watches. As the Widow throws every punch, each one is either deflected or dodged with ease, "That's it, now I've had enough," says Austin as she swings three times, the first grazing Romanoff's cheek, but the last two hitting their mark, the right eye and left cheek bone, once again jolting the Widow rearward. To finish the so-called "fight" and make her statement, Austin finishes with a strong round-house kick sending Romanoff to the floor with a busted lip and tiny beads of blood dropping out of her nose. The entire room silent. Austin looks around the room at the people staring at her. Even her father is looking at her like she's some abnormal creature with unnatural abilities, "Fine. You don't want my help? Get me off this boat," The confident but slightly angry young woman turns around and slips through another exit in the room trying to find a bathroom.
"She's definitely your daughter," says Tony to break the awkward silence.
"Clearly that midgardian knows what she is doing," Thor scoffs to himself at the fact that a tiny little mortal could pack that hard of a punch.
"Agent Romanoff," Fury is not happy with the series of events.
"Yes sir," Natasha comes to her feet wiping the blood off of her face.
"Listen here. You are one of my best qualified and strongest agents on this boat. You wanna tell me why you just got your butt handed to you on a silver platter?,"
"I cannot answer that sir,"
"Hmm. I see. Go get cleaned up and get some rest. I don't want this stunt happening again," Natasha nods and leaves the room, "You all should be getting rest we don't know what Loki has planned so be ready for anything tomorrow," Everyone disperses and goes to their own rooms.
The nerve of that woman. She doesn't even know you! Thinking she was hot stuff cause she's all buddy-buddy with your padre. She needs to take a seat.
After calming down and making her way back to "her" room, the new victor passes through the now empty platform and into the holding cell room. Trying her best to keep her eyes off of the prisoner, Austin continued towards the first exit of the room.
"Look who it is. It's the mute," she didn't even have to look at him to know that that damn smirk was plastered to his face. Hearing too many snarky comments to last the next week in one day, Austin turns towards the convict who sits quietly on the cell bench with his feet propped up on the other end.
"No need to be bitter to me, it's the criminal who get's himself behind bars, or glass in your case," she glared at him intently.
"Ooh. So I'm a criminal now-,"
"Who else kills for fun?," Austin strikes back. The felon, with the same look of mischief on his face, takes three steps forward becoming larger than she expected.
"If I am a so-called criminal, why acknowledge me?," after hearing him, she then asks herself the question. Why are you giving him attention?
"I face my issues. I don't ignore them. Pretending something, or someone, isn't there doesn't solve the problem," the convict scoffs as Austin crosses her arms.
"So it is not easier to cover up the truth-,"
"It is not as simple as "covering up the truth", -"
"Then what would you call it-,"
"It's called lying to yourself," Loki smiles jokingly at her choice of words leaning on the glass.
"Now you know what they say about lying. Once you tell a lie over and over again, it eventually becomes truth," he backs away from the window and turns around to head back to his cell bench, believing he has won this debate.
"You're wrong" he stops, "A mask of lies can hide you from others, but it can't hide you from yourself," Austin slowly turns around and walks towards the doorway then stops to look back to see Loki still standing in the same spot. She shakes her head and continues to her room for the night.
Loki slowly moves again and sits down with a soft grin on his face.