Finally chapter 5 is here! I am really sorry for not posting it earlier like I said I would, I had it all set up and ready to post but then I re-read the ending and I hated it. I even had some writers block with it but it's done and ready to be read! Thank you for being so patient for it and I hope you love it! Follow, favorite and review, Happy Reading!
Pressing the penthouse floor, Jay sighed and the button chimed. "Wait hold the elevator please!" Jay looked up and pushed her hand through the elevator doors preventing them from closing. "Sorry, this is a private elevator reserved for the Stark family." she told the two men, they nodded. She nodded and let them in and smiled as they gave her one too. The two gentlemen stood on one side of the elevator while Jay stood to the other side.
The elevator jolted up and Jay leaned against the wall and watched the number floors go up. Taking out the jewel from her pocket it still glowed frantically, this time it vibrated softly "Still here huh?" she mumbled softly after a sweet giggle. "So, Ms. Stark. You must be the new family member." the two men glanced at her, Jay rubbed her neck and smiled "Yep, I'm Jay Stark. Pleasure to meet you mister..?" she trailed off, closing her left palm tightly which held the emerald.
"Bruce Banner, its a pleasure too."
"Steve Rogers ma'am."
They both shook her small hand and smiled at her, Jay smiled back an awkward silence flowed through the elevator. Then confusion smacked her in the face. Literally, because she smacked herself without the two men noticing, she turned to them and asked "Wait, uh you are friends of my fathers, right?" they nodded as the elevator dinged and the penthouse came into view, by the window Pepper and another women conversed with each other giggling. Shoving the gem back in her pants, Jay felt her pupils dilate in happiness as she saw her mother and father again.
"Bruce! Steve!" Tony came in his hands in the air Jay smiled and ran to him hugging him tightly, he was warm an smelled of cinnamon. She loved it! "Daddy! I can't wait to tell you about my new friend!" she looked up and smiled sweetly wanting his attention only on her. She hardly ever got any before, and now having attention and love she was protective of it. Tony looked down and hugged her back "And you will after you have met my friends. By the way Luke is a girl right?" Pepper scoffed in the background with the other lady she was with.
Jay giggled and shook her head, she realized that she didn't know whether or not to tell him that he was a man, from earlier Loki didn't even want him knowing his name so did that mean he didn't want Tony to know that he was a grown man but instead a young boy? Humming she smiled brightly "Dad, Luke's a boy!" Pepper walked over and patted Jay's head. "Jay come on and lets get you warm, you look cold!" Pepper peeled her away from Tony and took her out the room, wrapping a warm arm around her daughters thin shoulders. Pepper taking a look at her realized that a piece of clothing was missing "Wait..where's your scarf?"
Jay looked down at her neck, she'd forgot that she had given it to Loki. "I gave it to my friend, Luke mom. He was wearing the wrong clothes for this cold weather. I wasn't going to let him freeze." Jay said rubbing her numb fingers together, Pepper smiled and lead her to her room, giving her a peck on her forehead leaving the men and lady to themselves. "My friend, did you not tell us she was only of 14 years?" a man spoke, his blonde hair tied up in the messiest of ponytails, Tony turned and scratched his haired chin and chuckled "I did, she's just small and very young looking for her age. I was surprised too, thinking she was only 11 or 10." the crackling of fire burning against wood echoed after him. It sounded nice to the ears and it felt nice.
Steve scratched his head and tried to find words to say, after a while of gaping like a fish he finally had the right words to say "My god Tony, I'm glad for you and all but why now of all times would you get a child? What if someth-" giggling cut Steve's sentence short and in came Jay and fresh new warm clothes. The other woman looked over to finally greet her, seeing as she wasn't able to before. Her brown hair draped over her clothed shoulders her lipped gloss lips gleamed slightly. Jay looked at her and stopped walking. Her face, Jay could have sworn she saw it before. After a moment she remembered, the two lights! The hospital and the little story. It came rushing back to her.
"Jane Foster!"
She froze and so did everyone but the blue eyed blond man next to her looked just plain blank. Like a white thin piece of paper, waiting to be written or drawn on. "How..how did you know my name?" the brunette asked her, eyebrow quirking up in confusion and interest. Jay smiled she was right after all! "Remember? You're the one that took me to the hospital. The one who came to see me after I woke up!" Tony, Pepper, Steve and Bruce including the blonde looked at everyone. The elevator dinged and opened revealing a redhead and another dark blonde man. "Sorry we're late. We had to drive back to get the gift." the man spoke a grin on his face. Jay turned and made eye contact with the redhead, her glare never faltering. "What's going on?" Tony cleared his throat and spoke up. Ignoring the mans question.
"So anyone else you know sweetheart?"
Shaking her head she walked off to the new guests taking the box away from the man. "Thank you for the present, you really shouldn't have brought it but I'm still keeping it." he smiled at her, it was expected of a child, sure it sounded greedy but it was a present. Why would you not take it? "I'm Clint Barton and this is Natasha Romanoff. Pleasure to meet you." Jay giggled she was always so chirpy, it was cute. Before turning she also greeted herself to the pair, then set the present elsewhere, she looked at everyone else face bank.
"Ok. All of you need to relax. I just know her because she was the one who put me in a coma. Which is ok by the way." the man who she still didn't know the name of walked in front of her and hugged her tightly in an almost 'I missed you so much' way. But before he did she caught his beautiful eyes the emotion that was held behind them looked familiar.
"Funny..Loki looked at me just like you did." she spoke so low and soft that the man didn't even hear her. "Thor? Buddy you alright?" Steve asked right behind Jay who was being squeezed to death. Popping out a hand out of the tangle of muscles she patted his back "Ok, your kinda destroying my air supply, Blue Eyes." Thor finally tore away from her she inhaled deeply finally having oxygen back in her lungs. "Does he do that to everyone? Or am I just new?" they all laughed at her and spent the rest of day talking and laughing. Almost like a family game night just not so many games. Half of the time Jay would be talking to Bruce, but of course Natasha would watch them closely which made Tony and Pepper breathe properly again. Natasha ended up telling her that Bruce had anger issues which Jay laughed at, saying that she also had anger issues but they were so bad that she needed to control took note as she glanced over at Thor and noticed that his eyes grew wide in a way that said 'It's true!'
Night time came quickly and Tony pretty much let everyone stay in the guest rooms. Jay finally in her room plopped on the plush navy blue bed it's warmth circling her small thin body. "Finally! I'm in heaven." she spoke to herself and looked around her room, she had left the door open and there in the doorway stood Thor, arms crossed and a grin on that handsome face of his. "You got any bedtime stories to tell, Blue Eyes?" she called him, snuggling up in her covers like a kid. He laughed and walked up to her "What kind of stories do you want to know?" he asked sitting beside her at the desk chair that was beside her. "Well I read a book not to long ago about mythology but I wanted to know if there was more?" he hummed and ruffled his now loose hair "Would you like to hear one of a Frost Giant Prince?" Jay perked up she loved stories like that! Stories with unknown creatures or mythical ones. But a Frost Giant was new! Mrs. Hesher would always tell her stories like those. "Is the Frost Giant a god?" Jay smiled her stuffed teddy bear now in her small arms, snuggled up tightly against her small chest, Thor, his shaved face showing the wrinkles as his mouth stretched to a perfect smile. "He's a god, yes." she grew comfortable on her plush bed, the soft sheets hugging her body messily.
Now telling her the story she clapped when he would act out the battle scenes, she giggled when he would fall and Thor would look up to only smile to see her laughing. He loved it. He missed it. But when the story started to progress Thor would catch Jay with tears in her eyes, but whenever he asked if she was alright she would end up bawling like a baby and yell out that she is very emotional. He smiled and shook his head, ruffling her hair she ended up calming down to just little sniffles. "Are your 'feels' better?" Thor asked with a grin and she smirked whenever he used that term. "Shut up Blue Eyes."
As he continued on with his story, Jay was asking questions. She asked questions about why this certain thing happened and why the other thing happened. 'Why didn't Theo want to be king?' Was one of them and he answered all of her questions truthfully. She was happy with the answers she received. Or so he thought.
"Why is Odin so mean to his son?" Thor heard her say during the middle of his story, her voice low filled with sleepiness, her eyes teary and droopy. She touched Thor's hand, not looking at Thor, she rubbed her small thumb against his smooth skin "I mean, Luka is adopted, yes but Odin is mean to him. He lied to him and Luka acted rashly. Now Odin doesn't love him anymore, sure he killed innocent people, but excuse me for saying this..but people die anyway."
Thor watched her with wide eyes he couldn't believe what he was hearing! "Even though Luka isn't Odin's actual son he should love him no matter what. Love is a strong bond, that is very, very hard to break. A..and I don't t..th..think that Luka's actions could have broken it. If his mother and brother could still love him even...af..after what he..did. Then why..why not his dad?" she asked and finally her eyes closed her movements on Thor's hand stopped. Thor thought long and hard on her little comment, if he still had that scratchy beard that's what he would be scratching at this moment. He looked at her and smiled at her, she was right like always, he tucked her in quietly and left the room with the lights off and the door now closed. He remembered that she would do the same thing to him and Loki when she served them in the palace. Felt different now having to do it to her.
"Wow, for a 14 year old she's pretty wise." Jane said next to the doorway watching Thor with his back against the wooden door. Jane smiled and handed him a book from behind her back "Jay let me see her sketchbook and I wanted you to see it. She has little notes on some pictures and scratches. Like frustration kind of scratches." Thor looked down at the leather sketchbook. It was new. He ran his fingers across it remembering old long days of paintings and sketches of paper everywhere in her room. In Khu's room. Finally grasping the book in his hands he opened it and once he did he almost dropped the book after seeing the first picture. Notes and little doodles were all over this page. The same face structure but with different faces. He read the notes "Reminder: next time REMEMBER the damn face." Thor mumbled under his breath scratches of pencil markings covered the doodles of the models face but the middle which held the models full body was perfect. But his face was missing.
"Jay can't seem to find his face. She has the body and hair and face structure just not the face. That's why those doodles around this picture are being used as 'practice.'..Thor, she's trying to draw Loki." Jane said her eyebrows knitted together in worry as she looked at Thor. Flipping the pages he felt the smooth paper under his fingertips, the smell of fresh paper and pencil lead fluttered out as he flipped rather quickly, he almost looked furious. He flipped and flipped and could immediately put faces on the pictures Jay left blank, as he flipped he saw a picture that tore his heart.
Just like paper. His heart ripped easily.
"It's your family. Together, hugging." Jane said a bit speechless, a little note was in the corner of the page, it was written lightly. "Note: Practice on your hands, stupid! But this one came out well. I actually was able to do half of their faces today! Hopefully next time I can draw the top half of their faces." Jane read it out, she looked at Thor through her lashes he was in shock "My family has never done anything like this, and now that Loki and mother are gone. I don't think it'll ever happen. I..I need to tell her." he mumbled that low, Jane quirking an eyebrow trying to catch what he said.
A door lock echoed through the hall then a click of the door opening sounded and out came Tony, toothpaste surrounding his lips and a red toothbrush with an Iron Man design on it between his lips. Jane raised her eyebrows "What? Its me on a toothbrush! Its amazing." Tony scoffed out taking the toothbrush out of his mouth and pointed it at the couple, Jane took the sketchbook and told Thor that she would put it back in her room, she entered quietly into the room and left the two men to speak. "Now Thor, buddy, I got a question for ya. Why does it seem that you know my daughter in a way?" Tony watched him in suspicion, they may have been friends but that didn't mean he could fully trust Thor, being related to the god of mischief, some of that 'trickery' could have been rubbed off on him. Plus, Tony doesn't just trust anyone, nor is he easily tricked. Unless if you're Pepper. That's a different story.
"My friend, I know you've just now adopted her and you haven't had her for long but she needs to kn-!" he sighed and Tony had disposed of his toothbrush already, his face was clean, he probably finished up his brushing while Thor was explaining. "You know Thor, Pepper was taken away from me once and the guy who took her didn't end up so good." a light whirring sound came from behind Tony's back and his hand came right in front of Thor's face, his Iron Man glove lighting up. Just because he had given up being Iron Man didn't mean he was going to throweverything away! "Now, don't make me have to blast you Thor. How do you know her? Why do you need her? And why do you want her?"
Before Thor could explain anything a thud came from Jay's closed room, both men looked over, Tony rushed over quickly opening the door, the room was dark not even the light of the moon was peeped in, Thor looked inside and noticed Jane on the floor unconscious "Jane!" he ran in the room holding Jane close, Tony switched the lights on to see his trembling child looking at her hands in fright, shiny tears dripping down from her eyes. She was huddled in the corner her face glowing a bright green. "Jay?" she jolted in fear, "Don't g-get n-n-near me!" she protested her knees were drawn up, Tony ignored her and walked towards her "DAD STOP! I SA-" he picked her up, she was cradled in his arms, her sobbing lowered down to sniffs. "What makes you think I'm going to listen?" he said soothing out her hair.
Thor looked up "What happened?" Jay trembled more at his voice, a hint of anger in it. Or so she thought. Looking down she covered the gem tightly in her palms "Lie." it spoke to her as if it were a whisper next to her ear, she shook her head and looked at Thor 'sorry' splashing out on her dark orbs "I don't know! I was asleep and I heard some rummaging near my closet and I woke up. But right when I did she took out something from my pants which sent me 'throwing' her to the wall! I don't know how it happened, it happened so quickly that I must have fallen to the floor or something!" she said crying more than before "I d-don't even k-now how I thr-ew her!" she hiccuped and stuttered through her sobs a display almost of a child, innocent and scared. Thor looked down in regret, for he did not mean to sound harsh, looking around the room he noticed that her pants were left on the floor looking back up he asked "What did Jane take out from your pants?" Tony looked at his daughter as he sat her on the bed, "Tell and Loki won't be happy." the voice spoke next to her ear in a sing-song voice, it annoyed her. The children back at the orphanage would do the same exact voice whenever they bothered her, those annoying little brats.
She hesitated, if Loki grew angry at her then that wouldn't be ok but if she didn't tell Thor what caused all of this then he might get angry too or worried and she wasn't just going to do that to someone. She opened her hands and the emerald glowed brightly. Tony took it from her and held it to his eye examining it closely "A jewel?" he asked confused. Jay fidgeted "Where did you get this?" Tony asked her, she bit her lip and looked down "I don't know, I found it in my chest. The one I brought back from the orphanage, remember?" Tony nodded and sat on the bed next to her. The man looked over at Thor "What can you make out of this?" he threw the jewel at Thor.
"Careful!"
Then it turned black. And it scared her again having to go back to that burning dark abyss.
But there was light. A torch against the wall. A blonde boy was visible in the distance, he looked like he was fighting. She was in some sort of training ground, well above it. Looking to her left she saw the torches again and saw another boy, he had black hair it bounced slightly as he walked up to stand with her. "Khu, are you doing well?" he asked and looked down at her, he of course being a little taller. Jay watched from a distance as this 'Khu' nodded and smiled. She was in a room with those one sided mirrors, she was confused but she couldn't see there faces and it really angered her. What were these dreams and what the hell did they mean? More importantly why is she even having these dreams?!
Slamming against the mirror to look better she noticed the boy who fought down in the training grounds, he watched them as the other two spoke and laughed, looking back at the boy Jay noticed he looked almost...
Jealous..?
Raising an eyebrow she calculated all the information into it's solution. "Is this some sort of love triangle?" she mumbled. Looking up it was no longer the 'training grounds' scene it was the two boys sick. Khu, was warming them up and singing to them until the door was open abruptly, two guards stood and one of them entered the room grabbing the servant girl roughly. Jay saw her struggle, everything was blurry so it hardly looked like she was struggling. She was dragged out of the room and now Jay could see how roughly they handled her but the girl, Khu grabbed a pole torch, she lunged at the guards and blocked there swords from it cutting her skin.
Jay watched, eyes wide Khu smacked a guard in the face which sent him flying to the other one and that's when she dropped the torch and ran. Her hair was flowing our from it's neat little braids. She ran into a long hall and more guards were there and they all practically pounced on her, Jay yelped as she heard her scream, she could hear her dress rip as they tried desperately to hold the girl still.
And she screamed again.
And again.
And Jay couldn't handle it.
But finally Khu sprung out free from the guards, Jay noticed the cut on her knee and arm and Jay flinched as she felt a bolt of pain run up on those spots of her body.
She didn't understand anything, what was happening? After she saw that it followed scene by scene. But the voices were muted and Jay punched at the mirror cracking it and yelled. She was angry. She was scared and she didn't know why. Watching made no sense she couldn't see anymore, well she couldn't even see before so it didn't matter.
Sliding down the broken cracked mirror she wept, certain parts of her body hurt and she didn't know why she wasn't waking up. Usually when you pinch yourself in dream it hurts enough to bolt you up awake right? So why wasn't she waking up herself? She was in pain and she could feel it.
"Thor! Loki!"
Her eyes widened and the lights went out.