Ok, now that it's all fixed up and back to where it was before, my muse will finally let me sleep xD! I am still having trouble with the fighting scene, so it might be a little bit until you get that. If you have any ideas on how you wish me to write it, drop me a PM and tell me them. My muse is good, but she fails in fighting scenes. :D
And I'm sure you don't want me to skip all the good bits xD!
Callie braced her hands against the wall of the shower as the hot water cascaded down on to her back, loosening the tight muscles and making her posture slowly relax as she let out her breath softly in a sigh. It had taken her twenty minutes of fighting with Thor to make him leave her alone for two hours to bath Hella and then have a shower herself. At the moment Hella was asleep in the cot that Loki had made for her, clutching on to a very old Captain America doll that Coulsen had given Callie ages ago.
She had started to hate how much computerisation had taken over Tony's house, it had taken her nearly half an hour to work out how to use the shower. She didn't dare text Tony to ask him because lord knows what crude/degrading comments he would come up with before he actually told her how to do it. She had managed to get JARVIS to turn off the bathroom cameras more easily then she would have thought, until JARVIS told her that Tony had asked him to turn the cameras off if she asked him to.
Her connection to Loki had strengthened so much that he had yelled at her at three am in the morning for having a sex dream about Bruce. She had only gotten back to sleep at four am after she had shoved the sunstones around her neck and piled three other protection stones in her bed. How was she meant to know he would see her dreams?
Rolling her shoulders in the hot spray she let out a small moan of delight as the knot in the middle of her back finally gave way and vanished. "oh thank god." She mumbled, standing up straight and letting the water fall down her hair. She honestly didn't want to get out of the shower, she knew if she got out of the shower she would have to face the world once more, and that included getting ready for when Loki finally tried to take over the world.
She pressed her forehead against the wall once more as she tried to figure out just why the hell she had let him bond with her? She had acted like a horny teenager taking the captain of the football team in the sports shed! She let out a growl and hit her fist against the wall, letting the tears fall down her cheeks.
He had been the first person she had ever met that could do the same thing she could, he could feel minds, he could hear minds and he did it without having gemstones shoved on him as if he was a danger to the world. He was the freedom that she desperately craved and he was going to throw that away on a hopeless dream of ruling the world. She had jumped at the chance to never feel alone again, but not in her wildest dreams could she ever imagine what she had gotten herself in to.
The feeling of the god's mind in hers was almost over baring, his thoughts were constant as he schemed and planned more attacks, gathered more things that he needed and worked towards getting the army through the portal. But there were times, mostly when he was about to go to sleep, that his mind wandered to the darker parts that his life had seen, the sadness and shame seeped in to her being as he fought with what he really was.
She had heard him spit the words out like venom on many occasions when he was in S.H.I.E.L.D's prison, his fists clenched in his lap as his eyes scrunched up in a pain that was never going to be physical.
Frost Giant!
His heritage tore at him, as well as the shame his father had brought on to him. A prince of Asgard finding out he was nothing more then a pawn in a decade long war between two races. He had been stolen from his planet, but his father did not care, he was to weak to be a proper Frost Giant and to weak to become a proper Asgardian.
He had no home or place where he fit in, no where he had been accepted during his life. His brother, Thor, tried so hard to get him accepted in to his group of friends, but Loki had only been sneered at and laughed at. Sliding down the wall of the shower, Callie curled up on the floor, waving her hand at the sensor she turned the water off and let the steam settle around the room.
"We were both alone..." She whispered, blinking as water droplets fell in to her eyes. "I grasped at a string as if it would break in a second. I didn't want to be alone any more, I didn't want to be hated and shunned." Pulling her knees up to her chest she wrapped her arms around her legs and rested her chin gently on her knee. "He lied to me, it was never about the energy, it was about the weapons. He brought me on the ship not to help, but to keep me under wraps once more. My mind, my mind is more powerful now..."
Standing up Callie moved out of the shower and looked at her reflection in the mirror, counting each scar and mark on her body, running her fingers over the small tattoo on her hip, a butterfly with her mothers name in its left wing. "I'm more powerful now..." She gripped the sink edge with both her hands and stared in to her reflections eyes. "What has Loki done to me?"
She let out a loud sob and crumbled to the ground, ignoring the fact that she was still naked from her shower and that JARVIS may have turned the cameras on. "I've betrayed him!" She cried out, slamming her fists in to the floor. "FUCK!" The word vibrated off the walls of the empty and silent bathroom as it escaped her lips in a scream. "He kept pushing me away to protect me and this is how I repay him? TO STAB HIM IN THE BACK?" She let her hands grasp her hair as she rocked back and forth a little as her mind finally came to terms with what she had done.
She had betrayed the man that she loved more then anything on a whim and a smile full of lies! Loki had gotten under her skin and in to her heart faster then what she had thought possible, after being pushed away by Bruce so many times, to have a man initiate any kind of passion had overwhelmed her. His kisses were poison but they seemed to be the only thing that cured the burn she had for him, he made her body tingle more then Bruce ever did and she feared, ever would.
The danger that clung to the air around Loki was ten times that of the danger that clung to Bruce, and at least Loki accepted the danger. He relished in the fact that he could destroy her with so easily, yet he only took her breath away in heart stopping kisses. "God I feel like a hormonal teenager!" She snarled, standing up and looking at herself in the mirror again. "Maybe Stark is right, mindless sex could be good for the soul! Dear god I need therapy if I'm thinking of taking Stark'sadvice!"
Dominance.
Possession.
Protection.
Loneliness.
Desperation.
Loki snarled in anger as the feelings swam around his mind, making him get off the bed and pace around the room once more. He had gone back to the hotel room after his confrontation with Director Fury he had retreated to the silence that his room brought, but sadly that silence had been penetrated by his thoughts.
In an act of desperation he had bonded himself with Callie Fury, a mortal whose mind could match his own if he gave her the knowledge. A child who had been locked away from the world by a father who feared her, a child who reminded him of his own life. She had been a prisoner in S.H.I.E.L.D just as he had been a prisoner in Asgard, feared by everyone who knew of the power held in their bodies and minds, but no one was able to pull the trigger and deliver the bullet.
As soon as he had felt her mind press against his, he knew that he had to have her. But she was mortal, what made her so special to him? Spinning around on the spot in annoyance he found himself standing on a beach, no one else in sight as the waves crashed in to the sand and pulled back out to the sea.
He never realised how fragile humans were until he had found Callie's mind, the things that she worried about were the most trivial they made him laugh in the prison cell, as the others glared at him and questioned him. She worried that he was getting enough food to keep his strength up, worried if he liked her cooking, she poured over science books that she had borrowed off the man-beast to make sure she could understand his conversations with Stark, even going behind her dads back to learn more and more about Gamma radiation.
He had listened as she wondered if the man-beast would like her hair curled in a particular way, before settling on just shoving it up in a pony tail and bounding in to the lab with her head full of knowledge that would never serve her well in life. He could focus on the other members minds, which were filled with finding the cube and what to do with him, but one mind was always on a different matter then what worried the others, the mind of Callie Fury.
"You wear those stones around your neck like a priest wears a crucifix." Loki said, watching as Callie placed the tray down in front of him, along with a thick fiction novel to make sure that he would not get bored.
"Maybe these are my crucifix." She said, standing up and looking at him. She was the only one on board the ship that dared enter his 'chambers', even her father spoke to him through the glass.
"Why does your father not care you are here with me?" He asked, reaching forward to gather the tray and book up to himself and starting to eat, smiling when he realised it was another of her cooked meals instead of the normal slop they fed him.
"Some prisoners are not confined to the one room, Loki Laufeyson." She replied, smoothing the front of her shirt down before moving towards the door, the artificial light catching off the sunstones around her wrist.
Loki smirked softly as he realised the stones were fake, so she was learning how to get past the rules that bound her to a life in darkness and silence. I see you took my advice. He thought, the spoon hanging out of his mouth as he savoured the taste of the soup.
Sometimes it is nice not to feel so alone in the world, Loki. Even if it's just for a few hours. She had replied in his head as she left the room, she was beginning to become stronger in her abilities as she spoke to him, but her voice still sounded weak and soft.
"If you be my queen, you will never be alone in the world again, Callie Laufeyson." He called, knowing that the others would be hearing what he said on the monitors, he honestly only said that out loud to stir them up. Director Fury hadn't been in to 'shake him up' in a few days, and the boredom was sinking in. And I prefer your hair naturally curly, stop straightening it for the man-beast. He doesn't deserve it.
He knew she was wearing the sunstones once more from the way there was nothing but blackness on her end of the connection, how he wanted to destroy those stones and always feel her. Even in Asgard he had never felt another mind as strongly as he felt hers, magic was not to be spoken about to a prince of Asgard who could one day be king.
But they would never allow a Frost Giant to rule them, and so he would take this planet under his ruling. He would bring this planet in to a new dawn, a dawn without war and filled with peace. The humans needed to be ruled, otherwise their minds caved from the presser of trying to find their identity and path in the world, trying desperately to climb up the ladder of society.
When he ruled there would be no social ladder, all humans would be equal under his rule, and anyone who opposed that would be dealt with. "If I asked her to, would Callie kneel in front of me?" He wondered out loud, before vanishing from the peaceful beach back to his house. "Or would she fight me with everything she has, even if it is futile?"
Damn these feelings, how dare she evoke them from him?
With a silent curse, he promised himself that when she called, he would not go to her, let her precious man-beast save her!
"Miss Fury." JARVIS's voice called, snapping Callie out of her self evaluation. "There are three S.H.I.E.L.D agents on there way here, Master Stark has said that you have three minutes to hide Hella before they arrive to take her away. Sadly Master Stark will not get here in time to protect the child."
"WHAT?" Callie yelled as she quickly wrapped a fluffy, black towel around her body and tried to think about what to do. "How long until they get here, JARVIS?"
"Approximately two minutes, Miss Fury. Would you like me to stall them at the gate?"
"No, let them in. I have nothing to hide."
"But the chi..."
"Mute."
Running in to Hella's room Callie quickly grabbed a small bag and started to shove clothes, blankets, books and toys in to it. "LOKI GET HERE NOW! THEY ARE COMING TO TAKE HELLA AWAY! LOKI I NEED YOUR HELP NOW!" She screamed in her head, she had thrown the sunstones across the room in to the wall as she ran in to the room.
"LOKI FOR THE LOVE OF GOD PLEASE! THEY WANT TO TAKE HELLA AWAY, IT'S S.H.I-"
"Stop yelling, I am right here!" Loki said, instantly silencing Callie's scream for help as she turned to see him already scooping the sleeping toddler from the bed. Some promises need to be broken, and I am the god of lies! He thought, keeping them guarded from Callie so she would not hear them. "I know someone who will look after her, and who isn't under S.H.I.E.L.D." He stated, taking the bag from Callie's hands and putting the strap over one of his shoulders. "She's friends with the woman who has my brothers heart. She's a mortal but I know I can depend on her, she hates S.H.I.E.L.D for stealing stuff from her when Thor came here last."
"And you've met her?" Callie asked, gathering a few more things and handing them to Loki. "Can you promise me she will not hand Hella over?"
"I give you my word." Loki said, cupping Callie's cheek and pressing his lips against hers. "She will not defy me, she is in debt to me for something I did for her."
"What the hell did you do?"
"Revenge on an ex boyfriend." Loki stated, before taking the other things Callie shoved at him and kissing her on the lips once more. "Hella will be safe, I promise." He whispered against her lips, quickly adding "No matter what happens, I'll always want to kiss you, Callie Laufeyson." Before vanishing in to thin air, just as the S.H.I.E.L.D agents arrived.
Damn these human emotions to the very depths of Hel!
Darcy was curled up on the garden seat in her backyard reading a book as she heard the rustle of clothing, her hand slipped from the book and went down to grab the taser that was sitting under the seat. When she grabbed it she found the taser was nothing more then a flower, frowning she looked up to see the god of lies standing in front of her with a sleeping toddler in his arms.
"What the hell?" She demanded, standing up and letting the book fall to the ground. "You are stealing children now?" She gathered Hella up in to her arms and took the offered bag and blanket. The child looked like she was on deaths doors, and it made Darcy hold her closer to her chest, staring up as Loki looked around the back yard with a worried expression.
Not something you want to see on the gods face.
"S.H.I.E.L.D is trying to take this child." Loki stated, ignoring the look of pure panic on Darcy's face. "Don't worry, they don't know she is here and they won't know if you just stay inside with her." He added quickly, before Darcy had a chance to throw Hella back at him and run for the hills.
"Do this and your debt will be repaid."
"Why is S.H.I.E.L.D trying to take a child?" Darcy asked as they made their way in to her house. She watched as Loki cast a spell around to make sure her house wasn't bugged and sighed in relief when it showed it wasn't. "Actually no, I don't want to know. I really don't want to know." She placed Hella down on the floor and watched as the child stood up and made her (wobbly) way over to Loki.
"She means something to someone who S.H.I.E.L.D sees as a threat, also they know the child means something to me, thus meaning that they will use her as a weapon against the person and I." Loki said, stroking his finger against Hella's head gently before she wobbled away to explore. "She can't talk, so don't think she will. She communicates with looks, believe me you'll know what she wants. If she gets to upset she has the doll, she also likes to bang on pots. And her name is Hella."
"Why can't she talk?"
"Tumour in the brain, it's in the part that controls speech." Loki stated, his voice quick and to the point as he tried to control his anger.
"Loki they have me! Don't come for me, but please close the connection, I don't want you to feel the pain."
Callie's voice in his head made him flinch, he could already feel the building pain from where they had hit her across the face. He looked at Darcy and then to Hella, before changing his clothing in to his battle gear. The time for attack was now!
"Keep her safe and don't tell anyone you have her." He waved his hand to make a taser appear on the table, as well as a pistol. "Do anything you have to in order to keep her safe. Do that, and I will let you meet that human you think is amazing."
Darcy went bright red and glared at him, before scooping Hella up and holding her. She had gotten drunk last time Loki had spent the night at her house to ask questions about Jane, and to raid the coffee, and spilt her crush on Clint to him. Before she could have a go at him he had vanished from her living room, leaving her with the child.
"So, you are Loki's daughter...?" She asked, looking the child over to see if she looked like the god of lies, earning her a glare from Hella. "Woah, with that look you totally are!" She walked towards the kitchen to collect the pots and pans, her quiet afternoon had now turned in to a noisy one.