-Darcy POV
I woke up to the sun streaming through my bedroom windows, where I must have forgotten to close the blinds last night after sneaking back in through said windows.
I look over to my alarm clock to see that it's only 7 in the morning.
"It's way to early to be awake now." I said into the air. I looked over to my windows again, but this time used my awesome magical abilities, I closed the blinds with a snap. Basking in the newfound darkness, I tried to fall asleep once again, but failed miserably. Once I am awake, I don't usually fall asleep again, but I was hoping that maybe it would be different this time.
"Ugh, why can't the world just let me sleep in?" I groaned to nobody.
Using my magic again, I snapped the blinds back up, letting the sun into my room once again.
"Fuck you world." I mumbled. Getting up I got dressed into my usual get up; beanie, shirt, sweat pants, cardigans and vans. Truthfully, I think that they're okay, but I still refer my black skin tight suits, and not because they make me look great but because I was trained, practically raised for the 3rd time, in suits like that, though I can fight in anything, from Asgardian dresses to skin tight S.H.I.E.L.D special agent suits like mine. I still am not overly fond of the outfit, but I'll survive till the end of the mission.
"Hello cruel people of this world. How can you be awake and functioning at this time of day?" I greeted everyone as I entered into the area of which everyone is populated.
"Coffee?" I asked some one when I noticed that no one was listening to me. And yet again they ignore me. Rude much.
"It's okay, I'll make it myself, no need to do anything" I grumbled. Walking up to the coffee machine, I set everything up and waited for my coffee to be made for me. The only reason why I actually like the coffee machine, the thing doesn't even make reasonable tasting coffee. When my coffee was finished I took it and sat at the table, staring at the space behind Eric's head, which had just sat down across from me.
"Arcy. Darcy?"
"Hmm, what?" I asked as looked around the room to see Jane calling my name, slowly getting annoyed with my lack of response.
"I was asking if you wanted some egg on toast. You should really listen more carefully instead of just staring off into nothingness, it's really rude to ignore people." Jane chided me.
'says the one who was just ignoring me only a few minutes ago' I thought to myself.
"Um, yeah, I'll have some, if that's okay" I replied, choosing not to voice my inner thoughts.
"Geez, that's all I needed to know. Some people can be really annoying."
'Grrrr. You think that I'm annoying and rude, has she looked in a mirror recently.' I thought to myself.
I sat at the table, listening to Thor and Jane cook while Eric was putting a dissolvable Advil in his glass of water sitting in front of him and watched as it dissolved into a cloud of murky water. Eric picked it up and stirred it around to make sure that it had all gone, but as he did that, Thor came over to us and set our plates of food down on the table in front us.
"Thank you." I said to Thor, as he was about to walk back.
"You're very welcome."
Thank the lord, I didn't know Jane knew how to cook, but she apparently can and I am forever grateful. Because this is like the best egg on toast I have had in ages. Well, considering that the last time was S.H.I.E.L.D. cafeteria food, yeah, this is probably just average or even bland to most people, but to me, it's food. I have lived with races where even a bread crumb is a luxury.
After I had finished eating, Thor was washing up the dishes, which, by the way, I am quite surprised he knew how to do that, as Jane and Eric were talking about something astrophysical when I heard knocking on the glass doors. Turning around, I heard Jane, Eric and I drop our coffee mugs as we all look out the glass doors to the faces of the four people Thor spends most of his time with.
"Found you" Volstagg exclaims to Thor through the door as he and the other three standing there with their hands up and smiling.
"My friends. This is good, this is good" Thor shouts back as the he makes his way to the group of Asgardian worriers. Hugging each of them as he greets them.
"I don't believe it" Eric mumbled to himself. And truthfully, neither do I, except for an entirely different reason.
'What are they doing here? I thought Thor was banished, that's what father had told me.' I thought to myself as I watched them converse.
"… But you should not have come." Thor said in great sadness.
"We're here to take you home." Fandral said in a state of confusion.
"You-you know I can't go home. My father is …. dead because of me…" and that's all I heard for a while. 'How could father be dead, he said he was fine. Heimdall said he would look after him.' If I still had my coffee mug in my hand I probably would have dropped it again.
"Thor, your father still lives" Sif informed Thor, snapping me out of my internal freak out about my not so dead father.
Just as Sif had finished talking, the Bi-Frost re-opened, and I could just tell that it was the destroyer.
"Was somebody else coming" I asked in my fake concerned voice. I mean, don't get me wrong, I am concerned because if the Destroyer comes here for Thor then it's going to destroy the town, but I just don't like talking like that. I mean, I am the sass and sarcasm queen but I just hate having to be this bubbly useless damsel in distress when I can quite happily kick everyone's asses.
As we walked out the door, I saw smaller clouds of smoke out where the Bi-Frost had formed. 'SHIT', I thought, 'that was probably Coulson. Please let him be okay.'
"Jane you have to leave." Thor told her after realizing what had just come through the portal.
"What are you going to do?" Jane responded.
"I'm going to stay here."
"Thor's going to fight with us" Volstagg exclaimed.
"My friends, I am just a man. I'll only get in the way, or worse, get one of you killed, but I can help get these people to safety."
"Well if your staying then so am I" Jane said moving around so that she was standing all most in his face to get the point the across.
"We need some time." Thor told the others as we started to disburse.
"You'll have it" Fandral responded running off.
"Okay move it people." I said to absolutely no one as I walked down the street moving people and pushing them into cars that they can flee in.
As the Destroyer came walking into the town and started shooting at random things and people, I could see the others fighting from where I had hidden myself. I was only hiding so that I could talk to Heimdall about what is going on.
"Heimdall, what is happening?" I asked in my mind, considering the fact that I can only speak to those that are protectors and guardians of the space between the nine realms.
"Princess, Prince Loki has frozen me, he has sent the destroyer to kill Prince Thor and has Frost Giants in Asgard. Unfortunately, I can not move to help and neither can you. You must let Prince Thor fight this battle alone, at any cost, do not interfere."
"But what if he can't continue, what he is dying, I can't just let him die while that thing I still going around destroying everything."
"I am sorry Princess, but you must not. Your brother is the only one who cans save him. You must not give yourself away to the other mortals, you know the rules that you had signed yourself to."
"Yes I do, but it may be for the good of everyone if I were to just help even the tiniest-"
"No. You must not, under any circumstance reveal yourself or your power to those who must not know."
"Yes Heimdall, I understand. I will not interfere with anything other than what any other mortal could do." I swore to him.
"Thank you, now you must return otherwise you won't exist any longer." He responded, mentally blocking me, and bringing me back into the real human world.
"SHIT" I exclaimed as I saw the Destroyer look at me, preparing to shoot. I ran away from where I was hiding and out into the open street, where everyone else was standing, watching as Thor dropped the shield and walked over to the giant metal monster. As he conversed, we all saw as it turned away, as if it were going to walk away, but I knew better, the positioning of the entire body just screamed, 'Going to Back Hand You'. And just as I was thinking this, the Destroyer did indeed backhand Thor.
Watching his body fly though the air, it was like watching a movie in slow mode. As much as I didn't know or see him all that much, I still loved him very much.
Jane, as soon as Thor hit the ground, was racing down the street, hoping, praying that he would be okay and not dead, but I wasn't focused on them, no, I was staring at the Destroyer was walking away, as if it's job was done and may now go back to its place in Asgard, but as I heard in the distance, Mjolnir was flying over towards the two people still on the ground.
"Jane!" I heard Eric shout as he raced towards them. Watching as he wrangled Jane from Thor's side, as the raced back towards us, Mjolnir had already gotten close enough to see what it actually was. And as it got closer to Thor, we all watched as he caught it in his hand, and suddenly stood up, his armor back and his cape still there.
He stood there for a little, getting used to the felling of having his armor back, while the giant metal fire shooting Destroyer had started to turn around. Thor, snapping back to attention, started doing his whole, swing the hammer and flying in the sky thing. But as he was flying, he started swinging the hammer over his head, creating a small tornado to pull the Destroyer up, even as it was trying to shoot at a flying and moving object.
Truthfully, I think that it all happened way to fast for anyone to see clearly, but one minute they're here, and the next their gone, and vice versa. But after it all happened, everything that was sucked up in the tornado, came crashing back down to the ground.
Once Thor had reached the ground and was walking towards us, I felt a wave of relief wash over me at the fact that he is now back into his god like state, where smaller things that could kill a human, would only scratch him. I wasn't really listening but when I saw the cars pull up and Uncle Phil hopped out.
"Excuse me, Donald, I don't think you are being entirely honest with us." He said to Thor.
"Listen here Son of Coul, you and I, we fight for the same cause, the protection of this Earth, from this day forward you can count me as your ally. If, you return the items you have taken from Jane."
"Stolen" Jane tried correcting.
"Borrowed and of course she can have equipment back. She will need it to continue researching it." Coulson replied. As he finished talking though, Thor had already turned to Jane asking if she wanted to see the Bi-Frost, of course she had said yes before Phil could even think about saying something else, but as the two flew off.
"Wait, I need to debrief you…." He exclaimed to them as they flew off into the horizon. No, not really, but they did fly off in the general direction of the Bi-Frost sight.
I walked over to Uncle Phil and all the other secret government agency people.
"So, Son of Coul." I said as son as I was in front of him, "Are you really going to be giving all of the stuff that you took?" I questioned. Phil just nodded his head in conformation.
"So that includes all of the electronics that might not of even been of importance?" I questioned again, obviously hinting towards the fact that I want that IPod back. Some how, such an inferior piece of technology has become like a small token of which I can keep to remember my absolutely horrible mission in which I met my brother who didn't know who I was, and saw him almost die in my missions arms, and then come back and destroy the Destroyer of Asgard. This could quite possibly be one of the worst missions out there. Next to being stuck in a basement for 4 months being tortured by electrocution, whipping, starvation, dehydration and continuous rape. That the worst mission I ever went on, it was also my first. I mucked up one little detail and the while thing went down hill, I still don't let people touch me in certain places because of that mission, the scars are also pretty ugly, hence the reason I only ever wear long sleeved shirts, and long pants. The only place that they didn't touch was my face, upper chest, the front of my neck and the top of my feet. Hence everything I have ever worn, I don't like to show my scars. I believe them to be marks of my failure, and I think that my family thinks of them as marks of their failure of me, that they had taken so long to come and retrieve me from my captors. Even though, they hadn't actually saved me from them, I had killed them all as I was escaping, it had taken me an entire week of hiding and killing to be able to make it out, it was not pretty.
"Yes, you will get all your equipment that we had taken from either you, Dr Foster or Dr Selvic. It is necessary for you all to continue with the research."
"Well, you better make sure that everything is there, or I will personally kill you all." Okay, so that was a bit of an exaggeration, but I still have to make it believable.
"You will make a fine warrior one day Lady Darcy." I heard from behind me, and I just knew that it was Volstagg, by the way he said it, and Volstagg just has that kind of voice that you know just instantly who it was.
"Why thank you. But now, we have to get you lot, in the van and to where ever we are going…." I said, purposely leaving the statement hanging as to ask where we were actually going, even though I already know where we had to go.
"We have to go to the Bi-Frost, Lady Darcy." Fandral said, while doing what I think is called 'Putting-on-his-charm'. EWW, I thought.
"Ookay, well you can all get in the back. Sif, you can have the front seat, and you might want to hold onto something, I am a bit of a crazy driver." I told each of them starting up the van. As we shot off, I could see in the rear view mirror that Uncle Phil was on the phone, probably talking to Papa Nick.
After driving for a few minutes we finally made it to the Bi-Frost sight. And even though I said that it was only a few minutes, it was the few minutes I have ever had in my life. Fandral kept on trying to flirt with me in between him and Sif arguing over my annoyance over said actions.
After some minor complications, in which Hiemdal was a little bit late in opening the Bi-Frost, all 4 of the worriers were off, with a promise from Thor to Jane that he would be back, even though I know that there is a big battle ahead of him. As the Bi-Frost snapped back up into the sky, I could see the look of absolute happiness at the promise of return. Though, after a few minutes, I think that it finally sank in that the guy that she totally has one of the worlds biggest crushes on the god of thunder, and that, said god, just left her with a promise but is now probably on the other side of the universe. And when that thought settled in, she started to get upset.
"Come on Jane, we have to get back and get our stuff back from the 'Son of Coul'." I said to, trying to cheer her up a bit, and it kind of worked. Kind of.
The drive back was really, really awkward. With me in the back and Eric driving, and then we have a brooding Jane in the passenger seat. Until of course we got back to see that Coulson was already with a handful of other S.H.I.E.L.D agents and or scientists trying to put all of Jane's stuff back the way they found it, unfortunately for them, they were failing epically. And that in itself was all it took to get Jane out of her brooding mood and into the extra-ordinarily angry woman whose stuff you are touching in all the wrong ways.
Truthfully it was quite a funny sight to see the what mosyt would believe to be scared of nothing, be scared shitless of this astrophysicist who was not in the mood for any of their bull shit.
"Darcy, can you please go through these and check to see if they have done anything to the data. Thank you." She asked me after seeing me just standing there watching. But with a hint of pleading in her voice, especially in the please.
"Sure boss lady" I replied automatically as I went and sat down at the main computer that they had -finally- finished setting up.
Checking through the data took a lot less time then I was expecting but I know for sure that they hadn't messed up anything with it. As I was wondering around the room looking for boxes to check if they had given all of her stuff back, I had started to notice that I hadn't seen my iPod anywhere in the room, not even in the smallest boxes that they had put stuff in.
"Pleasure working with you Miss Foster, I will be seeing you some time again soon hopefully." I heard in the background.
"Excuse me, but you can't leave just yet" I started, just now realizing that they were about to leave with out giving me back my stuff. "I can't see my iPod anywhere and you promised that you hand it back. Where is it?" I continued to seethe in his face.
"I assure you that I have no clue that they did not put your iPod in, I will ask about it later for you, but now we must leave you and Miss Foster to it. Good luck with all your stuff." He replied while walking towards his car.
"Yeah, thanks." I replied sarcastically.
"Oh, and, I'll see you later tonight, I want some time to catch up with you and papa Nick." I whispered just before he closed the door and drove off into the horizon where the base is being set up.