Ok guys, i've only adjusted this chapter a little bit, but I find it makes the story flow a lot better now that i've added just a few lines. Amazing how a story can go from slightly choppy to flowing better once you add or take out a few lines here and there.
Sorry for doing this to you all, but it had to be done. :D
"I can not believe you, Tony! This is the most preposterous thing I have ever head, since the last preposterous thing you stated ten minutes ago!" Callie said, throwing her hands up before throwing herself back on to the couch and glaring at the older man.
Tony grinned happily as he sat down in the arm chair and rested the tumbler of scotch on his knee as he watched the Directors daughter place her hands behind her head to release the sunstone necklace and dropped it to the ground, instantly relaxing as the feeling of other minds came back to her. She had worn it all day while she was at S.H.I.E.L.D, not wanting to give Loki a bigger upper hand then what he had already gotten. But now that she was with Tony back at his penthouse, she knew that it was safe to take it off. If Loki looked in to her mind he would see nor hear anything that would be a security risk.
"Come on Callie." Tony stated, pulling her from her thoughts. "We go to war soon and I don't know anything about you, and this is the best way to do it! First person to refuse to answer a question or lies is out and has to buy the next round of drinks when we all go out. We start off with simple questions and then move further in to the dangerous territory!"
"How does Pepper manage you?"
"Wouldn't you like to know, Fury?" Tony asked with a suggestive smirk and a wink, making Callie groan and put the pillow over her head. Taking it that she was happy to start the game he asked his first question. "What is your favourite colour?"
Callie glared in to the pillow, feeling the slight pressure of Loki's mind coming in to hers but ignoring him, knowing that he wanted the answers. He hand hovered over the sunstone in case she needed to grab it and hide an answer to a question from him, but her favourite colour couldn't do much damage. Apart from probably changing her bunny's fur once more. "It's lime green."
"Hmm, I would picture you more for a purple kinda girl." Tony said, laughing softly as he sipped his scotch.
"Favourite car?"
"Ooh! Right now? It's gotta be the Acura NSX Roadster! God that thing is my baby!" Tony laughed softy as he saw Callie roll her eyes at him, he knew that in her heart her car would always be the Dodge Viper SRT10 Roadster. "You know I am really sorry I smashed your car, right?" He asked, making her turn her face from the pillow and glare daggers at him. "Ok... Moving on! When did you first discover your power?"
"I was five..." Callie stated, moving to hug the pillow to her chest and wrapping her arms around it. "I read my fathers mind about what was behind his back. He freaked out and nearly had me locked up. Mum stopped him of course, but from then on I was always under some ones watch and gemstones became my daily fashion..."
"Oh I would love to see you naked with gem stones across your skin..." Loki's voice broke in to her head, making her blush brilliantly before calming down and ignoring him.
"Uncut Emeralds would glisten over your skin perfectly, imagine them gently cutting the skin as they tumbled from my hands... You chained to the bed completely under my po-"
Callie's hand grasped the sunstone to shut Loki's voice up before her face melted from the heat of her blush. Quickly clearing her throat and glaring at Tony's knowing look, she chose her question carefully. "When will you get married to Pepper?"
"Come on! That is so not fair!" Tony cried out, blushing and quickly shaking his head. "I refuse to answer that!" He stated, downing the rest of the Scotch in one gulp and glaring at her for making him lose.
"And now you know why people don't play games with me." Callie stated, blowing him a cheeky kiss before standing from the couch. "Goodnight, Tony."
"Farewell Callie." Tony said, waving her off in annoyance that she managed to beat him. "Wait, before you go!" He said, standing up and staring at her. "When did you fall in love with Bruce?"
Callie's eyes dropped to the ground as she let out a small sigh, before looking back up at Tony, letting the sunstone drop to the ground so Loki could hear her answer. "I fell in love with Bruce many years ago, I met him when he came to my fathers attention and in fear fled from his girlfriend. I travelled with him for a little bit, he helped me keep under the radar and away from S.H.I.E.L.D, my father was worried my powers were getting to strong... They found me three months before they found Bruce. They only found me because Bruce pushed me away, fearing we were getting to close..."
"So... Did you and the Doc ever do the dirty?" Tony asked, his trademark smirk back on his face as he wriggled his eyebrows. He got his answer when she threw a book at him and stormed in to her room with a blush on her cheeks. "Go doc!"
"So you love him..."
Callie shot up in bed and instantly threw a knife at the voice, making Loki grunt as the knife embedded itself in to his thigh. He let out a hiss as he drew the knife out and healed the wound up, glaring at the rip in his trousers. He had only just brought them that day as he had destroyed his last pair a few hours ago from falling off the roof of a building.
"That wasn't very nice, Callie Laufeyson. My, my you do live up to your name, don't you?" He asked, flicking his finger as the room filled with a soft green light. Moving towards the bed he bent down and captured her lips in a heated kiss, instantly his mind was swamped with hers once more, proving to him once again just how powerful the mortal was. He smirked as Callie finally realised what she was doing and shoved him away. "What's wrong, Callie Laufeyson?" He taunted, his eyes turning a darker shade. "Not used to a man who wants to kiss you?"
Callie snarled, her anger rising at the fact he was once again attacking her feelings so brazenly. "You know that I love him, you know everything about me, Loki." She pushed the blankets back and moved her legs, only to stop when he put one cool hand against her thigh, pushing her legs back in to bed.
Without a word Loki sat down on the bed next to her, watching as she raised an eyebrow in question. "I wanted to know what weapons you are going to fight with, no doubt you favour knives which makes me wonder if you will use swords in the battle as well." He pushed her to make her move over before laying down in the bed, making his clothes vanish to nothing but his sleep pants.
Callie sighed as she watched him make himself comfortable, resolving to the fact that it seemed the god was not going to move any time soon. Placing her hands behind her head she laid back down on her pillows, staring up at the dark roof as she wondered where the heck this conversation had come from, before realising this was his way of making sure that she would be safe in the battle, meaning that the day was coming closer.
"Yes, I fight with swords and knives, but I can also use guns, a bow and arrow and my body to fight. Natasha and Clint have both trained with me, as well as my own personal trainer." She said, her voice soft as sleep tried to claim her again. "I'll be fine, Loki. I worry about you, though." She mumbled, turning so that she could wrap an arm around his cooler waist, nuzzling her face against his shoulder.
"I am a warrior, Callie Laufeyson." Loki moved his arm to lay it under her body, bringing her closer to him as she cuddled to him, resting her cheek against his chest as she listened to his heart beat. "You are not cut out to be a warrior, you've been thrown in to this by a father who thinks you can control me."
"I have to do what's right Loki. No matter what the price is... I am not ignorant nor am I naive to think this will not fuck with me. But it must be done." Moving to straddle his hips, Callie looked down at him as she placed her hands next to his head, bringing her face down she captured his lips with hers in a searing kiss.
His hands ran up her sides and then back down to cling to her hips, he knew he was holding her hard enough that it will leave bruises, and half of him wanted to leave as many marks as he could, to show the world that she belonged to him. Pulling away from the kiss he rolled them over so that he was on top of her, before sinking his teeth in to her neck, making her cry out in shock. She shook under him as he soothed the mark with his tongue, tasting the copper taste of her blood, smirking as he lazily pressed a kiss on her pulse point. "If I could I would claim you as mine, right here and right now." He whispered, moving to kiss her earlobe as she shuddered again.
"Then why don't you? The great God of Mischief to scared to take what he wants!" She snarled, sick of being played with by people. "Do it, Loki!" She hissed, digging her fingers in to his scalp as she gripped his hair and stared in to his eyes. "I'm sick of being played with, I'm sick of being lied to. I'm sick of being pushed away by the one I love!"
"If I tie you to me, if one of us dies, the other will die as well..." Loki whispered, running a finger gently down her cheek as he continued to stare in to her eyes, trying to ignore the last part of what she had said.
"Then I'll make sure not to die." She hissed, nipping at his finger as he ran it along her bottom lip.
Loki stared down in to her eyes, searching for any sliver of doubt before he began the bonding process. "This is going to hurt." He whispered, moving to straddle her hips and placing his fingertips on her temples. "Once it is done, I will feel everything, I will hear every thought and know where you are, and you will be able to do the same with me. There are no barriers in this bond, and know that I only give this to you so that you will be mine, even when you are not."
"What do you mean?"
"If I go to Asgard, you will go with the man-beast, will you not?" Loki asked, watching as her expression changed to one of sadness. "It will be safest for you to go with the man-beast if I do go. It is what is expected, but with this bond I will know if your father tries anything, like imprisonment. After I am done I must go, Thor will no doubt feel the magic once the bond finishes, it is old Asgardian magic. And he will come for me."
"Then you best get it done..." Callie said, watching as he closed his eyes, soon her eyelids dropped as pain raced through her head. She could feel him in every inch of her body, surrounding her, drowning her, she heard his voice, his life played out in her mind, the thousand of years he had lived and the trials he had been through from fear of the Asgardians. She screamed out as the snake venom dripped on her face when the bowl that Sigyn was holding had to be taken away because it was full, she thrashed against the bounds that held her to the rock, screaming out in anguish as she remembered where the bonds had come from. Finally she had been freed from the serpent, her face contorted from the pain which would take months to heal.
She watched as her children and mistress were taken from the court, watched as they sent Hel off to the underworld and bound Fenrir to the boulder as he struggled, howling for his release. She watched as the world serpent shrunk back and she saw him for the young boy that he had been before being cast in to Earth's ocean. She watched as Odin lied and deceived Loki his whole life, before spitting out the truth as if everything would be better now that he knew.
She screamed once more as she fell from the bridge, her last sight of Asgard was the sombre expression of her brother, the brother whose shadow she had lived in for so long.
Loki's hands shook as Callie's short life played in his head, watching as she first learnt to ride a bicycle, laughing as she almost ran over the puppy that ran beside her in pure excitement. He watched as his father's eyes slowly grew mistrusting as he took in his child, the child who could read minds.
He hurled himself against the bedroom door after the key had turned in the lock, locking him in for another night without supper after he had read his fathers mind once more. He banged against the wood as much as his small fists could, screaming that he was sorry and his stomach rumbled. "PAPA I'M SO SORRY! I WON'T DO IT AGAIN!" He cried, slowly sinking down to his knees and weeping.
He listened to his parents scream at one another, his father wanting to send him to S.H.I.E.L.D to be analysed and neutralised as his mother screamed that she would never let them do that to her child. He heard the door slam before his mother screamed out in annoyance and threw something at the wall, quietly he crept in to bed and huddled under his blanket.
He trained with Natasha and Clint, the sunstone always around his neck and the other gems in his bedroom, no matter where he went he was surrounded by S.H.I.E.L.D and gemstones, making sure that his mind was always blank and empty. He watched the S.H.I.E.L.D agents going crazy as Iron Man came to light as they fought to keep Tony Stark alive and his weaponry a secret.
He felt and watched himself fall in love with the shy doctor that took him away, hiding from S.H.I.E.L.D's radar. Living in small dumps whilst the man battled with his inner demons to keep him safe from himself. He witnessed soft kisses and some other intimate details that if Callie knew he could see would blush. He watched as the doctor slid a ring on his finger, then watched again as his father snatched the ring away and thew it away from him, yelling that he would never be loved due to his gift.
His world went blank for a few minutes, before he came to in the S.H.I.E.L.D room that would soon be called his own, his memories of the past few months gone. He had woken up to the aftermath of The Destroyer's destruction on Earth and the excitement that surrounded the Tesseract. But all he could think of was, what had they done in those three months he couldn't remember?
Instantly both of them screamed as the bond was finished, making Loki fall sideways on the bed and pant loudly, sweat covered his body, he knew if he looked over at Callie she would look the same. His mind burned as it got used to sharing itself with another person, a mortal none the less. The same species that he had always hated, and he had just shared his mind and soul with one.
"Loki..." Callie's voice whispered, weakened from the experience and pain she was feeling. "Go. He will be here soon, please go." She gulped down a few lung fulls of air before turning to face him.
With a bruising kiss to her lips Loki vanished, just in time as a lightening bolt struck down in Tony's living room, through the open window and Thor appeared. Storming in to Callie's room he took one look at her before shaking his head and sighing at the sight of the Directors Daughter.
"Loki, what have you done?" He mumbled, watching as Callie thrashed in agony as an aftershock of the magic rippled through her body. "Did he even tell her she will never die now?" He thought, wringing his hands as he set to watch her to make sure the magic didn't burn her mind up.