Quinn's eyes started to open, groaning at the bright light. She heard someone calling her name but they seemed far away. It sounded like Gage. "Quinn! Your awake. Thank God." Then arms were around her and now she felt the breath leave her and tense up because she was still there. Floating in space alone. Her breathing got faster as she tried to back herself into the bed, trembling and eyes watering. Gage frowned, now too scared to hold her. "Quinn?" Kim watched, knowing what was happening. "It's an anxiety attack." The monitors were starting to go wild, beeping so loudly with her heart. Gage gently held her face. "Quinn, it's Gage. Just listen to my voice, your safe. Ok? I got you. Your alive and I'm not gonna let anything happen to you." Kim watched as her daughter trembled, looking so frightened until her eyes focused on Gage and tears started falling and her breathing became even. Gage smiled softly, wiping the tears away. "There's my princess." She breathed out. "I'm...I'm alive?" Kim nodded, coming to stand by her side, holding her hand. Her eyes welling up as she smiled. "Yes, you are. "
Quinn's lip trembled and tears continued to fall but she refused to break down. She spoke, willing her voice to clear but it wobbled. "TJ?.." She felt her mothers hand over top of hers. "He's fine. Recovering but fine. You saved his life." Quinn let out a breath she didn't know she was holding before melting into Gage's hold,hiding in his chest. The world was saved along with her brother. Everything was gonna be ok. Kim gently pet her daughters hair with watery eyes. "I'll leave you two alone. I'm going to check on your brother." She left before Quinn or Gage could say something about her departure.
Once Kim left, Gage pulled away enough to hold Quinn's face, his own eyes watery and threatening to spill over. "Don't ever do that to me again. You were lucky we even got you breathing." She didn't say anything and it worried Gage as she stared at him, disbelieving. He wasn't sure what she wasn't believing. "Your heart stopped shortly after we brought you back. It was damaged from the lack of oxygen. You have any idea how scared I was?" His thumb gently wiped away tears from her face as they fell silently. She opened her mouth to speak but hesitated.
He could see the anxiety in her eyes, feel it in how tense she was. "I...I had to do something." "Your dad-" She shook her head. "His thrusters were damaged. Only one was working and I was not gonna make him go thru that again. He already still suffers from taking that nu...nu..." Her face started to crumble, remembering the weight of the bomb on her back. How the air literately was vacuumed out of her suit, even from her own lungs it was sucked out. And it was cold. She took in a shaky breath, breathing getting faster as tears fell. Gage held her face. "Shh baby it' ok...just breath...in and out..."
Kim walked down the hall, wiping her eyes. She felt so helpless to her family but she knew Quinn at least was in good hands. She continued walking down the hall when she saw Clint standing some distance away down the hall. Then she realized that was were Loki was being held. She swallowed, walking over. "Clint..." He looked up, about to speak but suddenly the door opened, TJ walking out in a huff, wiping away tears furiously. She stopped him, standing in front of him, hand on his shoulder. "TJ..whats wrong? What did he do?" She frowned wanting nothing more then to hug her son close. He looked up, lip trembling. He shook his head. "Nothing. Nothing happened." He shrugged her hand off his shoulder and huffed off to his own quarters. She then suddenly felt a hand on her shoulder. She turned, seeing Tony. She turned. "What happened? Is he ok?" Tony sighed. "We have to talk." She swallowed, fearing the worst.
Once TJ got to his quarters he locked his door before punching it,ignoring the lump in his throat and tears steadily falling. He kept punching until the metal of the door dented and then his hand slipped, just slightly making him break one of his fingers. The sharp pain bringing him back to the present and away form his breaking heart, even for a little. He sat on his bed, inspecting his hand but his mind wasn't all there. He thought back to the tesseract, how it took him over but he remembers nothing. Nothing but the intimate time with Loki. It was like he wasn't under the tesseract, it was like he was himself if only for a moment. He remembers all of it. Then...nothing. Was it some kind of fail-safe with the tesseract? Whatever it was it was strange and he hated how he felt. Even after Loki told him off he wanted nothing more then to hold him, now knowing of the pain the other held underneath.
Kim was so happy to hear her son was fine and healthy aside from a few bruises and burns. But to hear what Loki and he did, it was...strange. She wasn't sure what to think about it. She had no problem if her son was Bi or Gay. She just wants him to be happy. Her problem was that it was Loki of all people in the universe he could have slept with. But she felt horrible for thinking that,it may have not even been of his own control, being controlled by the tesseract. After her cup of coffee she marched down to Loki's cell while Tony went to check on Quinn and Clint checking on TJ after his breakdown. She was able to just walk in. She walked in, quietly. She nearly gasped as she saw Loki, sitting by the bench inside the cell, knees up to his chin as he cried, hand gripping his hair as he cried. She was pissed off, she wanted nothing more then to yell and scream for what he has done to her family. But seeing him so powerless, so vulnerable and in so much pain, she thought differently. She walked closer to where he was so he couldn't have to walk all the way over to the front of the cell. She spoke quietly. "Loki..." He jumped, looking at her before glaring but it was weak. "Starks whore, what do you want?"
"To talk." She spoke calmly, ignoring the name he called her. She could feel the pain coming off of him in awful waves. The burden, the feeling of failure. He spoke. "Why would you of all people want to speak with me? After what I have done to your family over the years." She took in a breath. "You slept with my son." She saw him tense and saw his eyes soften, just a little. "And what do you care about that?" "Because he was under your control. And I want to know...was it him or the tesseract that slept with you." She saw him soften, unable to put up a fight, even if it was emotional. "It was him. Mostly. I put a fail-safe on the tesseract. That intimate encounter is all he remembers of being under my control."
She nodded. "You wanted to protect him. You wanted to protect his mind his conscious from killing innocents." Loki stayed silent, looking at the floor. She nearly gasped in realization "You love him." Loki glared but she saw the tears threatening to spill. She was about to speak when suddenly there was a large jerk of the ship making her grip the cell, making Loki look around in fear and curiosity. She looked around as well. Then Loki swallowed. "He is here." Kim frowned. "Who's here?" "Odin. He has come to take me back there." She hated how utterly terrified Loki looked and felt the need to protect him. "I'll be back." She jogged out of the room hearing the thundering voice of Thor first in the main debrief room. "Father, please reconsider."
"Son, I have grown weary of Loki and his tricks. The world has grown weary and and he needs to pay for so many innocents he has slain." Coulson walked right up to him as Tony and Clint and Steve looked on in awe. "I assume your Odin, Loki and Thors father." Odin nodded. "I am. I am sorry for the crimes my son has brought upon your world-" Thor was looking scared, more scared then Kim had ever seen. "Please father, he can change-" "He will not nor ever change Thor. I will not give him a third chance. Where is my son?" Coulson nodded, leading him down the hall. Kim took this chance to go to Thor. "What is Odin planning?" Thor looked down at her with watery eyes. "He plans to execute my brother."
Coulson opened the door to Loki's cell, letting Odin inside. Loki stood, ignoring the aches in his joints from being curled up. "father-" Odin held up a hand, stopping his speech. "I am weary of your schemes Loki, of your tricks, your lies." Kim followed to the cell, along with everyone else. TJ heard the commotion, going down to Loki's cell, watching from the doorway. Odin continued to speak. "By this time tomorrow, you life will be gone and the universe will be happy to finally be rid of you." Loki shook his head, tears welling up. "No...no...I must be punished..." Odin sighed. "No more." TJ tensed. Loki? Executed? Odin continued. "I will leave you to stew in your thoughts, to think about the lives you have taken, have ruined then we will be on our way."Odin started to walk outside, everyone else following as well. Kim couldn't help but watch as tears started falling down Loki's face. Tony gently took her around her shoulders, leading her out. TJ was the only one staying inside,out of sight.
Loki started to cry, hard, kneeling on the floor,gripping the glass. TJ took a cautious step forward, wanting nothing more then to run to him and hold him. "Loki..." Loki looked up, glaring weakly. "What do you want?" TJ sat on the outside of the cell. "Honestly, I'm not sure myself." Loki glared. "Then leave. Let me live my horrible existence in peace, of what I have left of it." TJ let out a breath. "I don't regret it. What we had...did." Loki raised an eyebrow. "Why do you not regret it?I am your enemy, I have caused so much pain in the world, to your family." "Maybe but that's not you." Loki glared. "You do not know me." TJ smirked weakly. "Oh I think I do. I mean, I was inside you." Loki blushed, looking away. TJ's face softened. "I think that was the one happy moment you've had in your life." Loki looked up, tears welling up. Loki spoke quietly. "I've never had a happy memory. Until you." TJ frowned. "No happy memories, not even on Asguard?" Loki shook his head.
Kim frowned as they walked down the hall. She hated this. She hated how Loki was just going to be slaughtered like an animal. Thinking he cannot change. She saw the potential for change in him when they spoke. While she followed Odin down the hall with Coulson and everyone else she run out in front of him, stopping him. "What if we took him in?" Tony stopped, going to her. '"angel, what the hell are you doing?" She ignored her husband, looking straight at Odin, not caring if he was at least 8 feet tall. "What if we took him in? Away from you? Away from the world?" Odin nodded. "After the things he had done to the world, to your family? He will not change, not for you and not for me."
Kim glared. "Maybe because you don't let him. You just throw him away like he's some evil being when in reality...he's just a child. A terrified child." Odin glared. "That has killed hundreds, maybe thousands." She swallowed. "He may have done horrible things but I promise if he is kept with us he wont ever break like that ever again." Odin nodded before sighing. "Fine. He is yours." Odin started to turn to go into the cell room before. Tony went to Kim, almost glaring. "What the hell are you thinking? Letting Loki into our home." Kim held his hand. "Trust me, ok. I saw something in him. He can change, for the better. He just needs the right home." Tony sighed, holding her hand, following into the cell room.
TJ had actually gotten Loki to smile, even a little bit, before Odin walked in, making Loki shrink but stand up. TJ stood, glaring at Odin. Odin spoke."Does this cell open?" Coulson had followed, opening the cell. Loki backed away as Odin stepped in. Thor nearly ran into the cell room. "Father please-" "Hush boy. You know not what I plan. Loki, there has been a change of plans. You be left here, on earth for the remainder of your life. Your magic and immortality taken from you so you cannot hurt anyone." Odin lifted his staff before the words could even sink in to Loki's head, his magic being stripped out of him. He tried so hard not to scream out in pain. It hurt so much.
Then it was gone and he was too weak to stand. TJ saw this, running inside the cell and catching Loki before he could faint. Odin nodded goodbye to all of them before pounding his staff on the ground then disappearing. TJ was shocked, to say the least. He looked down at Loki who was looking pale. Coulson sighed, sounding more annoyed then he ever has. "Get him to a room. , a word." Kim tensed, following Coulson to his office, Tony and Clint following as well.
"Do you realize the implications of what you have done? Inviting not only your families greatest enemy into your home, to live there but the worlds most famous war criminal? Our military have a warrant out for him, to arrest him with extreme prejudice. If it wasn't for S.H.I.E.L.D he would be in a bunker getting cut up and experimented on." Kim wallowed. "What exactly are you saying?" " I'm saying you've made yourself a target." Tony gave him a look. Coulson sighed. "Even more of a target. If they know he's there." Kim shrugged. "They won't know. Director Coulson, I'm sorry I didn't have time to discuss this but I spoke with Loki and I sensed something in him. Something good. A potential for good." Coulson took in a breath. "I hope your right. He will be living with you and if he does anything out of the ordinary, S.H.I.E.L.D will be there to take him in." Kim nodded. "Understood." Coulson. "Your dismissed...Barton?" Kim and Tony had left, Clint turned. "Yes sir?" Coulson's voice softened. "How you are you dealing with this? I'm sure having him in the place you live is...difficult." Clint nodded. "I'll be fine." He walked out, not letting Coulson or anyone, for a second see how scared this made him.
AN: Ooh what gonna happen now? Reviews are welcome :)