It was funny really, how that steady beeping of the heart monitor could both drive her insane and comfort her. In the past there were no fancy machines to know if somebody was doing good or bad, you just had to see if they were alive and try anyway. Looking at her husband lying on a cot in the darkness was strange, his hair blended in too well with the darkness. He should be standing out like a lightbulb, his blindingly white hair redirecting ambient light. But no, glancing out the window she saw that they were half an hour away from sunrise and it was time to face up the mess in the other room waiting for her.
After they had gotten the situation diffused at the warehouse she agreed to return to their headquarters in return for medical attention for Inuyasha. The trip here had been a tense one, she rode in the back of their small jet and answered any questions with one word responses, preferring to focus all her attention on Inuyasha as he had yet to wake up since he passed out. His human body wasn't handling the infection well, Kagome chalked it up to a weak human immune system as his demon blood normally kept him healthy except on nights like tonight. He was currently laying on a bed in a small room hooked up to an I.V. providing him with fluids.
Casting one last glance at his sleeping form she stood up and headed for the door.
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"…and there she was, trapped for eternity, her foe defeated at the cost of her soul" Thor paused here to wink at Kagome as she entered the room before continuing. "Then she made the one wish which would cause the cursed jewel to disappear forever, her along with it. Until Inuyasha finally broke through the wall of enemies separating them and reached her freeing her and sending her home with no way back. A year later she returned to the well again and it granted her one last trip and sent her to her missing half in the past."
"And the rest is history, at least until it wasn't" Kagome interrupted picking up the story from there.
The group turned to face her, minus the woman and the archer whose eyes had been focused on her from the second she entered, alert and observant.
"If you were trapped in the past the obvious question is, how did you survive without indoor plumbing?" Tony asked, dead serious. At least until he made eye contact with her and he cracked a smile, "But really, ignoring all the laws of the universe that you ignored with 'the magic jewel', since it was broken how did you get here?"
"We were living happily in the past when we got reports of strange objects, People assumed the local demon tribe was planning an attack and sent for us, when I got there I saw cars, lamp posts, and mailboxes. All things from my time, we were walking back from the field they were in when the ground fell from underneath us and Inuyasha lunged for me. Our other friends were grabbed by our cat but I was already too far in so he went after me. Again" She finished with a small smile.
"I assumed somebody from this time was messing with something they didn't completely understand" at this statement everyone turned to Tony and Bruce who didn't even look slightly insulted before shaking their heads no.
"We contacted S.H.I.E.L.D. after you reached the tower, I'll ask them to check for possible experiments in the city that could have caused this when the agent they sent arrives." Natasha, she'd said her name was, informed her.
Kagome grimaced, it wasn't ideal to allow more people to know of their arrival and circumstances, but when you arrive in a flash of light and a crash riding a giant white demon dog, I suppose discretion goes out the window. Looking out the window she saw the sun peak its golden head above the skyscrapers. It's not the end of the world, the sun's rising, Inuyasha should be waking up soon, and we can deal with whatever we have to together.
Not a second later the elevator beeped, letting the room know somebody was coming.
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It was the light that woke him up, something was wrong, he could smell it but he couldn't place it. Kagome was nearby but not next to him so he couldn't help her if something went wrong, as it often did around her. It was all he could focus on, ignoring the strange machines around him he leapt from the bed falling and tearing something out of his arm and off his hand, as the machines went crazy. Crap, I'm still healing. Vaguely he remembered Kagome removing the arrow and telling him it was infected he could feel his blood working on the infection faster and faster, he would be fine in a few minutes. He had to be. He wobbled towards the door, smelling Kagome on the other side surrounded by the people who attacked him before. Something must have happened, I can hear her talking calmly to them, they aren't the danger I smell. It's still coming.
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I can't believe that moron Sitwell thought he could take this assignment from me. Fool. I've been waiting for this moment since before his grandparents were an idea in their parent's head. Inwardly he smiled to himself, he been waiting for this moment for centuries, carefully placing himself in this organization protecting his interests from their views. This is going to be fun.