DO NOT READ THIS CHAPTER IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN THE MOVIE, CONTAINS A VITAL PLOT POINT FOR THE MOVIE!
I tried to wait to post this until everyone got the chance to watch the movie, but I just couldn't help myself xD! So for those who read this chapter and have seen the movie, enjoy. For those that still have to wait, forgive me and please enjoy after you have seen the movie!
Callie was on her way back to the lab when she spotted Steve walking towards her holding something that looked like a gun in his hands. Instantly she froze and watched as he stalked past her and in to the laboratory.
"Has Tony pissed them off that much?" She thought, rushing in after him, only to be blocked by her father as he stalked in to the room in anger. Monuvering herself in to the room her arm was quickly caught by Dr Banner who pulled her alongside him, making her look up at him questioning.
"When were you going to tell us?" Steve demanded, dropping the gun on the table and staring at her father. "Or did you just think we wouldn't realise something was wrong? Your whole background story didn't make sense as it left out an important player."
"This is all Loki's doing!" Nick Fury said, looking around at the Avengers as Thor walked in to the room as well after hearing the commotion from the hallway. "He wants to split the team up by making you not trust each other."
"The only person we don't trust is you! And now we have good reason for it!" Steve shot back, motioning to the gun on the table once more. "Weapons, you guys were designing weapons to be run on the Tesseract's power! A power that you claimed would be for a cleaner future!"
Callie stopped dead as Steve's words washed over her, they were designing weapons? She tried to move from where Dr Banner had her, but his grip tightened on her wrist and he pulled her back to his side.
"But we were the good guys..." She thought, trying to over come her shock to be able to speak.
"You see, Callie Laufeyson. You see that your father is just like the rest of them. He promises peace, a brighter future, a cleaner future and yet he creates a weapon that will call higher planets to war. Planets that leave you alone because you are so weak and defenseless." Loki's voice spoke in her head, his silken words making her shiver and move closer to Dr Banner.
"Shut up or I will surround your prison with Iron Pyrite!" Callie shot back, glaring at her shoes before lifting her eyes to watch her father as Thor spoke the same words that Loki had said earlier.
"Other planets will attack you now because you have higher technology! This is just an open invitation to war!"
"It's for protection!" Nick shot back, glaring at the other god.
"Just like a nuclear deterrent, cause that totally worked out fine!" Tony stated, glaring at Nick as he looked down at the gun. "Do you even know how powerful this is going to be? This could cause damage ten times worse then a nuclear bomb, and you want it so badly you are willing to kill your men to get the cube back!"
"Loki will bring an army if we do not get the cube back! It has nothing to do with stage two!"
"Stage one, stage two... Stage three?" Callie spoke up, moving away from Dr Banner, as far as she could with him clutching her wrist. "How far will you go with this, dad? Loki can't call the army, we have him in prison! Thor is happy to take him back to Asgard to be tried as a war criminal! You know that, you know this world is safe with Loki locked up. You want that cube to power these weapons! This... This abomination!" She gestured to the gun before turning her eyes to her father. "You promised me peace after the last time Loki attacked, and instead you deliver nothing but a weapon! Maybe Loki is right, maybe humans shouldn't have free will... Because look how we abuse it!"
Wrenching her hand out of Dr Banners grip Callie stormed out of the room, ignoring her father's insistent calls that she come back at this instant, which were soon drowned out by a bickering team. She had almost made it to her room when her arm was snagged by a soft grip and she was stopped in her tracks.
She knew who it was without even turning around, only one person from that room would come after her. "Were they even going to let you free?" She asked, her voice barely a whisper. "Or were they going to keep you? Was this just a ploy to get you all here and keep you captive?"
"Welcome to how I feel..." Loki's voice rang through her head, but she ignored it as she turned in to Dr Banner's embrace. She felt his arms snake around her waist to hold her against his chest.
"Ooh, a cuddle. We must be getting close..." Loki stated, his voice filled with annoyance.
"GET OUT OF MY HEAD, LAUFEYSON!"
"They said that they were going to let me go once they found the cube..." Dr Banner whispered against her hair, making her close her eyes slowly and relax in to his cuddle. It was a nice change from his normally nervous and distant behavior, she knew he had a reason for it, but it was still nice to be cuddled. "But right now, I just don't believe them. What if they tried to turn me in to a weapon?"
"Are they really that stupid?" Callie let her nose gently brush against his neck as she turned her face towards him, trying to slow her frantic heart. If Loki could see what she was doing, how much more could he see? Or worse, what else did he know about her that he wasn't saying?
"Oh I know about you two... I have for a few days now. You leave yourself so open as you sleep, Callie Laufeyson. Your dreams spill out from your feeble mind and your heart. Yes I know your weakness, but why should I risk hurting you?" Loki's silken voice filled her head once more, making her snuggle closer to Dr Banner as she scrunched her eyes up.
"It's ok, it's ok." He whispered, running his fingers through her hair. "They don't have the cube, they can't power the weapons without it. And they wouldn't dare try and harness what I created, I would not tell them the formula."
"Does daddy know that you and the man-beast are together? Ooh, I touched a nerve did I? Wondering how I am doing this? I am a lot more powerful then what yo-"
Loki's voice was cut out as Dr Banner pressed a small stone in to Callie's hand, smiling as he interlaced their fingers, the stone pressed between their palms. "You left this next to the marshmallows, which Thor finished off." He whispered, before pulling away and letting his hands drop to his side.
"I better go check on the search." He added quickly as they both heard footsteps. Before Callie could say anything else he had walked away down the corridor and her father had rounded the corner.
"Callie please listen..." Director Fury started, but Callie raised her hand to stop him before he launched in to a full out lecture on 'The Good of The Planet'.
"You lied. You fooled people here under a false pretense. You are no better then Loki!" She said, looking in to her fathers eyes before turning on her heel and walking the same way Dr Banner had gone.
"And you have not lied to me, Callie? You are lying to me even as we speak! I know that Loki is speaking to you in your head, shall I just lock you up with him?" Director Fury smiled as his daughter froze and turned around to face him, but the smile slid from his face at the glare on her face.
"If anyone should be locked up with Loki, it should be you!" Without another word and before he could respond, Callie walked away to her room.
A/N:
The reason Iron Pyrite shut Loki up is because the gemstone is known in the psychic circles and such to help people see through a facade and a lie. You could imagine why that would be problematic for Loki lol.
The other thing is I write Bruce as Dr Banner because most people know the Hulk's alter ego as Dr Banner and not by his first name, which is Bruce. Secondly it is because every time I write Bruce I picture the Great White Shark from Finding Nemo. :/
Thank you all so much for your reviews and for alerting this story, it's great to hear what people have to say about my story and to know that people like it.
