Penny's eyes slowly opened, weary and tired from being shut for 3 days, they were taking their time to readjust. Everything was blurry, just a mass of colour. Penny couldn't tell whether she'd been put on some kind of pain relieving drug or she just felt so real again to be awake that everything looked so beautiful; just as a mass of colours. Blobs started to gain angles, and splodges morphed into objects.

Feeling exhausted, she slowly moved her eyes to look down at herself; she was in a hospital style gown, covered in a few thick looking blankets. She looked normal…But she knew better than anyone that after being injected with the Extremis Virus you were no longer normal. But even that doesn't last very long, not with the past trials anyway.

There was always one part of the Extremis Experiment that she never told anyone, not even her partner, not even the Avengers. She'd kept it safe and locked in her mind, out of her published work she felt that it was safe. After all, if someone had all the information then they could do some serious harm. When she first discovered that the key to activating the Extremis Virus successfully was human DNA, she was delighted to say the least. She had a number of applications from hopefuls who wanted to have it tested out on them, but she chose carefully and wisely. She chose 4, and only 4.

2 men, and 2 women. All had varying blood types, all were different and diverse. She tested the men first, the first man didn't make it through the process; but the second one did. The second man lived for 3 days after he emerged from the cocoon of scabs, leaving a pregnant wife behind after he died from his body failing; but not before his sanity was lost along with him.

The women were more successful, although both never made it past a week. The first woman died on the sixth day, whilst training to use her new found powers with Penny. The memory still haunts her at times, how one minute they were talking. Just talking. And how the next, she began to bleed. From everywhere. She never did like the colour red, but after it stained everything that day, she's never hated it more.

The second died peacefully in her sleep; both of them left young children behind. But she never understood why, she never grasped why it killed them. Why it didn't work…and that itself killed her more than anything.

Penny couldn't help but think about it all as she waited to wake from her sleep, her brain was still functioning as if she was awake but her body was completely shut off. After the initial experiments she vowed to never let the Extremis Virus to be used again, not after taking mothers and fathers away from their children and families. Not after seeing the pain those people went through. She couldn't help but feel that this was her way of paying a debt for all the hurt that she's caused people because of this, because of an idea. The mothers, the fathers, the husbands and wives, the children and families, friends, Bruce, Tony, Steve, Thor…All of them.

She mentally cringed as her concentration was broken by another wave of pain. Her body felt like a million tiny knifes were fighting to burst from inside her, and a reoccurring force pushing its way in…Her debt was being paid.

Loki sat in what he had started to call his 'office'. The humans knew to never enter without permission, and to never disturb him when the door was shut; they'd learnt that the hard way. Her body was starting to emerge from the mass of scabs that she had been caged in for the past 3 days, it wouldn't be long before she would be waking up and discovering herself once again.

Thanos was growing more and more weary by the day, as is the army…But Loki grinned as he thought about his plan and how perfectly things were going, and it's only the beginning.

Standing up abruptly as an image pulled him from his thoughts, he glanced at the screen before marching down to meet the shiny new Penny.

"Hello, sleeping beauty." Penny flung her eyes open and tried to run, her arms and legs flailed about as she remained still. Looking down quickly she saw her wrists and ankles had been strapped to the table. Her tired eyes scanned for the owner of the voice, for Loki.

He stepped towards the bed and sat down on an old Eames chair, "You've been asleep for a while now, 3 days as a matter of fact. And I do have to say," His eyes raked across her face and skin, Penny could feel her skin crawl. "you do look radiant."

Her face contorted in disgust, which earned a smirk from the Demi God, "Well, I'm sure you're just dying to know what we have in store for you, am I right?" He smiled in mock politeness at her as he stood up and snatched a folder from a table. Penny narrowed her eyes at his figure as he paced, her throat felt dry and sore like sandpaper and her body ached with every breath she took.

His eyes read a piece of paper lazily, before smiling over at a tired Penny every now and then. "You are going to be a special one, aren't you?" Loki placed the booklet back down, before stalking over to sit on the side of her bed. They stared at each other, malice and hate written in her features while joy and humour was written on his.

Loki's hand moved a piece of hair from Penny's face, before it reached down to stroke her cheek. He smiled gently, "You'll discover it all in time, it would take the fun out of it if I just told you, wouldn't it?" His head cocked to the side in question as she stared him down. Penny didn't respond, she simply glared at him.

His hand fell from her cheek as his smile drifted from his face. Standing up he walked to the door, "I will tell you this now human, this will not be easy for you. You will not have an easy ride. And you are definitely not going back to your precious Avengers!" And with that, Loki slammed the door and stormed down the hall.

Penny didn't make a sound. She didn't speak. She didn't even sigh. She just let the silent, salty tears fall from her worn green eyes as her heart broke in despair.

…I know, its such a filler. But I don't want you guys to miss out on the whole process, so I thought I'd wack it in there anyway. I know it's not the best, but bear with me. I haven't wrote in months! Hope to hear what you guys think soon, and your ideas for what Loki's plan is :) Remember, review!

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