They went to the kitchen.
"What type of cake would you like?" asked Len while she was going to the kitchen.
"I don't care" answered Loki following her
"You MUST have a favorite"
"I do not"
Len took out a recipe book from a cupboard and opened it on the index. She started reading all recipes of cake.
"Apple pie?"
"No"
"Cheese cake?"
"No"
"Strawberry cake?"
"No"
"Chocolate cake? And don't tell me no because everyone likes it"
"No"
"Are you going to answer yes? Don's answer that." She turned around and started tying her apron. "You keep telling me no because you don't like them or just because you enjoy annoying me"
Loki could not conceal the smirk that was forming on his lips. It wasn't like in the beginning he did it because he wanted to annoy her but after he told her no to the first suggestions he observed she was becoming annoyed and he wanted to know how much he could push her around.
Len turned around with a wooden spoon in her hand pointing at him. "You know what we are going to do muffins. Everyone loves muffins" She said as she was waving the spoon. "And don't try to deny it"
Loki didn't say anything because he didn't know what a muffin was.
"We need flour, and four eggs, …, what are you doing standing there? C'mon bring the ingredients, make yourself useful if you want to try them"
Loki was enraged. Until now their time together had gone smoothly but how did she dare to order around a prince of Asgaard, an Odin's son. He was powerful. People kneeled before him, bowed at him. A lot of people feared him, his power, his magic, his status
How could she even think to give him orders. He snaped out of his thinking when he heard Len calling him
"Darling flour we need flour"
He walked up to her with a murderous look, looking very imposing. When the people saw him this way they tried to run or beg for forgiveness. They weren't scared, they were terrified.
"Do NOT order me mortal" he said with a grave tone. His lips were brushing her ear.
Len slowly raised her head and looked up to him. She didn't even flinch when she met his glare.
"I said FLOUR" she said very slowly and only raising her voice to name the ingredient. She looked very scary.
Loki felt something. He felt magic surrounding her. An invisible aura that you could not see but feel was involving her. Her hair had even risen giving her even a more terrifying look.
"Who are you?" asked Loki breathless.
"I'm Len and you are now in MY house, and I'm feeding you, letting you stay, I'm giving you a roof and a bed so the least you can do is to show me some respect. Now, can you give me the fucking flour and don't even dare to put another stunt like before because next time I will kick you out"
Loki didn't move. He was shocked of her reaction. He didn't expect it, he expected her to cover in fear but no she stood up against him.
He grabbed the flour and gave it to her.
"Thanks. Now I'm not in the mood of cooking so if you want to make muffins you will have to do it by yourself"
She left the kitchen and after a few seconds he heard a door slamming and knew she had left the house
Len started walking around the city not caring where her feet brought her. She was internally fuming about what Loki did. How did he dare to behave like he was a prince, like she had to serve him and do what he pleased.
Her feet took her to Mark's apartment.
Now that I'm here I might pay him a visit, she thought.
After ringing the bell for what it felt half an hour, Mark opened the door. He was sweating; pearls of sweat were falling down his sculpted body. He was only wearing a pair of jogging pants. He had in his hand an earbud that he had taken out of his ear while the other one still remained in the other ear.
"Len! What a surprise! Come in" exclaimed Mark in a loud voice.
"I've been ringing your bell like half an hour" said Len a little bit annoyed.
"I'm sorry I was jogging and you know with the music and all I haven't heard you"
"If you didn't listen to music in such a loud volume you would have heard" she said helping herself with a beer from the fridge "You know one day you are gonna end up deaf"
"But I will have a sexy nurse to take care of me" He said referring to her because her medical work but she decided to play obvious and flirt a little bit
"And who is going to do that horrible job? I've already suffered it and I must admit you are one of the worst patients I've ever had"
"You obviously." He answered cheekily "and I wasn't such a bad patient I was just in love with my beautiful doctor"
They both recalled the day they got together.
Mark had been hurt during a battle and he had been rushed up to the medical building. An old woman had been appointed to watch over him. One day he saw a young doctor taking care of the patient beside him and he tried to catch her attention but she didn't acknowledge him. The days passed and he still tried and she still ignored him. Desperate times called for desperate measures. So one day when she was taking care of her patient, he threw to the ground the book he had been reading. He knew that she would pay any attention. He started to extend his arm reaching for the fallen book. He had half of his body dangling out of the bed when she left. He didn't have any reason to grab the book so he decided to go back to bed and try a different technique next time but when he tried to he lost his balance and fell from the bed. Len who luckily for him had been standing outside adding some notes to her patient medical history heard the crash coming from the room caused by Mark's impact with the ground. A chuckle escaped from her lips when she saw in the awkward position he had fallen.
She rushed to help him and get him in the bed. She checked him up and found that some of his wounds had opened again and were bleeding, he had dislocated a shoulder, and some of his broken bones had to start their healing process again.
She made an nurse to call his doctor but it seem that the old woman had to many patients to attend so she was appointed as his new doctor. She treated his wounds. While she had done it they had maintained a small conversation in which he explained how did he got hurt.
During his checks up, which were very frequent, they talked more and more. Mark made all sort of thing to have her attention, refused to eat or take his meds, fell out of the bed, tried to stand up, demanded to be released (knowing that he would not be released, one time Len accepted and he had been scared that she was serious but she was joking) At some point Len went to his ward to talk with him after her shift ended. Slowly she started to fall in love with him but like always didn't realize.
One day Mark was restless and decided to walk around the hospital. He grabbed the wheeled stick with the serum and started wandering around.
In reception he stopped when he saw Len with a guy clearly flirting with her. She wasn't interested she was just being polite but Mark didn't know that. Mark stood in the sidelines watching the scene. He was terribly jealous but he could not go there and tell the guy to cut his crap because she wasn't his girlfriend.
The guy tried to grab her but she stopped him. When he tried again, Mark walked up to him using his stick like a horse and making hove sounds. He stood in front of the guy using his stick like a spear pointing at the guy.
"This fair lady doesn't want you. I recommend you to forfeit this impossible quest and run while you still have your honor intact. Try to make any more advances, now she has made clear she doesn't want anything with you, and you'll have to deal with this humble server, this knight without armor, Sir Mark"
Len could not stop laughing the scene was so surrealist. She had to lean on a counter because if she didn't she would be rolling on the floor laughing. The guy who tried flirting with her didn't know how to react. After a few minutes he decided it would be the best to leave this crazy place.
"Don't come again you are welcome no longer. Now, my fair lady, how are you fairing?"
She took him to his ward without stopping laughing. That night was when she realized she liked him
A week after the scene it was his release day. During the previous week they had been inseparable, she tried to make time to meet him and spent all her free time with him, even one day she slept in the hospital.
"C'mon you must be happy you are leaving finally today. It's what you have been waiting. I just hope to never see you again around here"
He gave her a hurt look.
"It's not I don't want to see you I just meant that if you come here again it means that you are hurt and I don't want that"
He was happy with the answer.
Now or never. He had to make his feelings clear before he left. If he didn't he might never see her again.
He softly put a hand behind her head. She was surprised but didn't move away she wanted to know where it would lead. She was obvious to his clear affection to her; she was a little bit blind when it comes about love and all.
Slowly their heads came closer and closer until their lips touched. At first the kiss was sweet but then it grew more and more passionate. His tongue asked for entrance and she opened her mouth. Their tongues roamed all over each others mouth. They had been so absorbed in the kiss that didn't realize that she was now straddling him.
"Cheese" they heard coming from the door. When they turned to look a soft click was heard. One of her coworkers had taken a picture.
Unconsciously they had turned to look at the three pictures which stood on the shelf on top the fireplace.
The first one was taken during Mark's scene at the hospital; Len could be seen laughing in the corner of the picture
The second one they didn't know it was taken, until one of her fellow workers gave it to them, along with the picture of her straddling him and both looking at the camera. The picture was taken while they were kissing for the first time.
I'm sorry it had been so long since I've last posted but I've been busy
I've recently seen batman so once I finish the two stories I'm going to write one about it along with an other project I have in mind
I hope you like how the story is going. There is no much Loki in this chapter but I promise in next will be.