Loki was not sure what to do when Emerald left the room after hearing about her father. He thought about going after her but the way she just ignored him as he set his hand on her arm trying to comfort her in some small way made him hesitate. He didn't understand why he even tried, why should he try to comfort some mortal woman? But there was something different about her at least that is what he told himself when he looked at her. The moment he met her something had stirred in him, he felt as though he knew her, he wanted to be with her and learn about her. Loki thought back to when they had escaped, Emerald didn't need to let him out, she could have just left him but she didn't and he didn't understand why. Loki also didn't understand why he had stayed other than that he found this girl interesting.
When he and Emerald had been searching for food he had enjoyed her company, just the two of them chatting about nothing in particular, she had told him about her life, what she did. Loki had been surprised about how she lived, that a fragile mortal like her had managed to fight off such monsters. Emerald also told him of the 'Loki' of her dimension and how she had liked him and missed him now that he was dead. Something in Loki became troubled at hearing this, he didn't like that she missed this angel and when she talked about the other one, this Castiel that was here with them and the way she looked at him, it made Loki sick.
Loki shook his head and looked down at his hands "Should I go after her?" He thought to himself, after another couple of moments he stood up ignoring the looks coming from Sam and Dean then walked out to find Emerald. Loki soon found her near the jet curled into a ball on the floor, her body jerking as she wept silently. Loki paused for a second a couple of meters away from her thinking of what he could say or do to make her feel better, finally, he moved towards her and knelt down beside Emerald. Loki put his hand on her back and started rubbing it in circles slowly, Emerald's sobs began to lessen and she finally sat up and looked up at Loki, her face red and tear stained. "He wasn't supposed to die…" She sniffed and then Emerald did something most unexpected, she launched herself at Loki and buried her head in his shoulder then began crying again. Loki was stunned and didn't know what to do at first but after a moment he wrapped his arms around her and just held her as she cried loudly into his shoulder. Loki began to stroke her hair to try and calm her, he felt her shiver under his touch and that is when he noticed that she was frozen. In one fluid movement Loki removed his coat and wrapped it around Emerald to warm her up, a few minutes later her sobs died down but she never moved from her position on Loki's lap.
"My dad… I never imagined that he could ever die, he was always so strong and seemed completely invincible to me." She sniffed and looked up at Loki, he didn't know what to do he couldn't even imagine how she felt he hated his father, both of them. "I… I wish I could make the pain go away…" Loki finally said, "I can't even imagine how you are feeling and I won't pretend to. You seem to have been very close to your father… something else I am unable to relate to father wise at least, though the thought of losing my Mother scares me more than anything. Maybe if you tell me more about him it will make you feel better, tell me about some of the good times." Emerald nodded and began to tell Loki about her father and of some of the hunting trips they had taken together, after a couple of hours she fell asleep in Loki's arms. Loki then picked her up and carried her through to the room that the others were in; he noticed that they were all asleep. Emerald shifted slightly in his arms as he sat down again in a corner and fell asleep himself, Emerald still sleeping in his arms.
With Fury (in the morning)
It was the morning after Emerald had stolen the jet and escaped, Fury was pacing furiously in his office as there was still no sign of Loki, that Emerald girl or her friends, he was sure that Stark was stopping his Agents from locating them via their database. "Damn him!" he shouted in frustration, "Uhm… Sir… we have the results of the tests back from that girl." A young Agent in a lab coat said quietly as she stood in the doorway, Fury looked at the papers she held out to him then took them from her giving a small nod. Fury looked at the papers full of reading and graphs, "What does this all mean?" he said rather annoyed. "Oh… well uh… basically there is trace particles of a substance that we believe is created during inter-dimensional transportation, the girl seems to be telling the truth but we need some more information regarding it all." The Agent said, "Okay… You can go now." Fury sighed as he looked over to his computer screen; he picked up his phone and called the head of his technical Agents. "I need that girl yesterday! "He boomed down the phone, "Sir we are trying our best but whatever is blocking us is really good we are having problems getting through the database." The agent replied, "Try harder!" Fury shouted and hung up, he was getting very impatient.
With The Avengers
Tony chuckled a little as Thor had begun pacing around the room. Thor was beginning to think that letting Loki get away was a bad idea, the more and more he thought about it the more he thought that Loki had probably killed the girl and her friends and left to cause more trouble. "Hey big guy just calm down, if Loki was causing trouble we would know about it by now." Tony said as Thor smashed his fist down onto the table in front of him. Thor set both hands on the table as he leaned on it looking down at his hands, hair covering his face, he sighed and shook his head then looked up at Tony "I believe you are right my friend." Thor said and gave a small smile. As Dr Banner walked into the room one of Tony's computers started making a rapid bleeping noise. Tony immediately went over to it and read the warning message on screen "They are just about through my systems." He said typing quickly trying to block the agents out again but despite his best efforts they were able to get through and were beginning to search for Emerald, her friends and Loki. This did not please Tony at all. "They will find her soon; there is nothing more I can do to help her." Tony said as he sat back in his chair. All three of them watched as the files etc. that the agents were looking up popped up on the screen finally landing on a picture of the jet that Emerald had taken half way through a building, their eyes widened hoping that the girl they had just met was alright. "We need to go and see if she is okay…" Banner said standing from the chair he had sat down in. "Agreed." Thor and Tony said together and headed to get the rest of The Avengers so they could see if their friend was okay.
Back with Emerald, Sam, Dean, Castiel and Loki
I woke up with a feeling of warmth and protection surrounding me; I smiled slightly as I opened my eyes to see a sleeping Loki holding me tightly. When I turned my head to see if the others were awake I saw Sam and Dean watching me, Sam was smirking slightly and Dean was glaring at Loki and giving me a disapproving look. It was that look that made me remember the events of last night, the smile I had disappeared quickly. I nudged Loki slightly to wake him as I was unable to get out from his grip. Loki woke up slowly obviously not remembering where he was as he looked at me with confusion and then after a few moments realization hit him, "Are you okay?" he asked me tenderly, I took in a small breath of air and nodded slowly. "I will be."
As I looked into his eyes I felt my pocket vibrate and I blushed furiously as he looked at me with confusion. "Uh… just a second…" I mumbled and stood up clumsily, "Where did you get that?" Dean asked noticing that it was not my own mobile. I ignored Dean and answered the phone, it was Banner. "You are okay!" he said down the phone sounding relieved at the sound of my voice. "Of course I am, why wouldn't I be?" I asked a little confused, "Well we know you crashed the jet…" he explained "Fury got through Tony's defences and they know where you are now, you need to get out of there now." It took a moment for the words to sink in but when they did my heart began to pump a little faster, "Okay… Thanks for letting me know, please… hold them off as long as you can." I pleaded, Banner agreeing to do what he could to help us get away.
When I hung up I looked at the others "We have to pack up and go Fury knows where we are, that was Banner on the phone warning us." I explained to my friends. I could see Dean was about to start on me, "He is going to keep Fury from coming after us for as long as he can so please do not shout at me now, wait until we get away." I said and began picking up my stuff, Sam and Dean did the same and Loki just stood watching next to Castiel who seemed to be looking a bit better, at least he could stand by himself now. "Okay have we got everything?" Sam asked as he looked around at us all. After being completely certain that we had not left anything important we all headed out of the airbase, leaving the jet as we would not be able to use it anymore.
There was a forest right next door to the airbase so we headed in there hoping that we may be able to outrun Fury and his agents in there. After an hour of running through the forest we heard the helicopters flying overhead, we hid as best we could, Loki even used his magic to help hid us as S.H.I.E.L.D. flew above us. When we were sure they had all gone past we began running again but soon had to stop to let us breathe and rest, of course Loki and Castiel were alright but us humans were completely out of breath.
Loki walked over to me as I stood with my hands on my knees trying to catch my breath, "Here…" he said handing me a bottle of water. I smiled and thanked him as I took the bottle and took a few large mouthfuls. "Oh that is amazing." I breathed feeling a little better "I think we are out of immediate danger so we can probably slow down a bit now." I continued looking around at Sam and Dean who were red I the face. "Emerald… We need to talk." Dean said as he walked towards me and took my arm, Loki did not take kindly to this and grabbed Dean by his collar. "I think you should ask a lady before dragging her off…" he growled menacingly. I was completely in shock at this, I placed my hands on Loki's arm to try and calm him, "Loki, please let him go Dean didn't mean any harm." I said. When Loki looked down at me his expression softened and he released Dean, I could see that Dean was ready to punch Loki in the face and that was a fairly bad idea so I grabbed Dean's arm and pulled him away before he did anything stupid.
"What is it Dean?" I asked when we were far enough away, "What the hell are you doing getting cosy with that psychopath?!" he asked in a frantic whisper, I rolled my eyes "Does that really matter Dean?" I retorted "How is it any of your business who I spend time with?" Dean glared at me "You realise that he is the bad guy! And even if he is 'misunderstood' we will be going home and you will have to leave him here right?!" Dean answered then sighed taking my shoulders in his arms and looking straight into my eyes. "You are like my sister and I don't want you to get hurt that is all." My breath caught in my throat when he said this and tears began to well up in my eyes, I fell into his chest and let them roll down my face as Dean held me close. All of it was just too much for me, my Dad, arriving in this dimension, the thought of losing Loki. I don't even know why the thought of losing Loki bothered me so much, it's not like we have known each other very long, hell I only met him yesterday, but somehow I felt as if I knew him and understood him.
After my little episode me and Dean returned to the others, Loki didn't look happy and was glaring daggers at Dean. I sighed and shook my head, men… what are they like? When I turned to see where I was walking I walked right into Castiel who was standing facing me, he immediately pulled me into a hug which startled me a bit. "I believe this is what humans do when a friend experiences the loss of a loved one." He said as he looked down at me, my look of confusion turned into a smile and I hugged him back. "Thanks Cas…" I mumbled into his coat. I looked back up at him "You seem to be looking a bit better." I said and Castiel nodded, "Yes, but I am not sure what happened, I have all my powers back after the apocalypse happened so I should not have been affected like that." I was concerned about him but gave one last squeeze and let him go. "We should keep moving, no rest for the wicked." I laughed a little, trying to keep things upbeat.
We all kept going until night was beginning to creep in so began looking for fire wood and getting ready to eat. I sat with Loki to my left and Castiel to my right, neither of them seemed to be happy about this arrangement I could feel them both watching the other and it was making me feel uneasy. "Would you two cut it out!" I said suddenly when they looked at me their expressions softened and I sighed. They were almost competing and I don't understand why. It was almost like a 'who's got the biggest dick' competition and I had half a mind to tell them to get on with it but at the same time I am pretty sure neither of them, or at least Castiel, would understand what I meant. I laughed at this and the others all looked at me strange. "Sorry." I mumbled looking down with a slight blush on my cheeks.
I watched the flames of the fire dance and crackle slightly; I could feel my eyes becoming heavy and my body trying to fall backwards for some well-deserved sleep. "Loki… could I please use your coat again?" I asked him, Loki looked up from the can of peaches he was eating and gave a slight smirk as he handed me the coat which was lying on the ground next to him. "Thank you." I said sleepily. I lay down with the coat covering me and it was not long before I was fast asleep. The others, except Castiel, soon followed and were fast asleep.
With Castiel
Castiel sat watching over the others as he did not need sleep, being an angel. He did not like how close Emerald and Loki had become and he had a feeling he was not the only one. "Why am I so protective of her?" He asked himself as he looked up at the sky. He felt the sooner he got her home, the sooner she was away from Loki, "Maybe I will be able to bring Bobby back and she would be happy." Castiel thought to himself. He shook his head and looked over at Emerald and smiled slightly, he enjoyed her company; he enjoyed Sam and Deans company too, like a family, a real family.
A rustling in the bushes near by broke Castiels train of thought as his head snapped in the direction of the bushes. Castiel got up and moved silently towards the bush, as he got closer the rustling stopped then suddenly a rabbit jumped out at him and ran off. The muscles in Castiels body relaxed when he realised it was just a rabbit and he went back to his spot next to Emerald not even noticing the menacing green eyes that glowed in the darkness behind him.