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Chapter 12: A Burden With Glorious Purpose
Darcy went to her room for a moment, she was hurt more than she ever imagined. The one person always thought would back her up, scolded her like a child and left her hanging out to dry. She couldn't believe Jane, she never said one bad thing about her and Thor's relationship, but let her start dating the black sheep of the family and all hell breaks loose in Jane's mind. Darcy let a few tears escape her eyes, using her hands to wipe them away. She had a earpiece in her ear from Fury and she heard him call out to her.
"Agent Lewis sir, you called?"
"Where are you? They will be arriving at battle zone in 5 minutes"
"On my way sir"
She made sure her face was clear and made her way to the control room which was in another building of sorts. There was a building right behind Starks that was vacant, Shield bought it, built an underground tunnel to connect it to Stark towers and it was now home base since the first was destroyed in the tesseract blast. They still did most of its testing and top-secret things at an outside base not far the first, but held a lot of business here in New York. She changed into her SHIELD body suit and tied her hair back into a ponytail, already missing the softness of her tee-shirt and jeans.
The room was abuzz with people, all eager to see these elves. Darcy on the other hand was pissed and since she was heading up this operation she took no prisoners when it came to keeping people in line to keep her Avengers safe...
Meanwhile...
The Avengers stepped into chaos and confusion. Most were relieved to see the earth's mightiest, while the ones none of them hoped see again were screeching at them, zooming down from a large opening in the sky.
"How in hell did the videos not capture that?!"
Said Tony, who had gotten over the instant panic attack at the mere mention of a wormhole, but seeing a large one gave him the willies.
"Better yet how did the governments think this was human terrorism is a better question"
Said Clint, who was readying his arrows.
"Never mind that, we need to get that hole closed up again, and until we figure out how we have to fight them!"
Steve said then he launched them into battle positions. He called to Darcy.
"Darcy are you there?"
"Yes, tell me what you need?"
"I need you to try and figure out how to close that giant hole in the sky. We have no clue how its open or what's keeping it that way seeing as the tesseract is on Asgard, but we've got to get it closed and fast."
"Copy that Captain. Just be careful, I'll work on it on my end"
She watched bits and pieces of the fight and tried to figure out what was keeping the portal open. To her view nothing was, and that was a major problem, plus it looked like Mr. Scarface himself had shown up do battle. She watched as Steve took on the elf. She knew it wasn't something on this side keeping the vortex open, she could only hope to reverse it from dumping things into our realm into taking things back out hopefully the polarity will close the portal. Darcy was hoping the polarity could force the energy back to whatever realm it was coming from.
"Somebody make Thor use the electricity, have him turn the lighting after he's got it, until it turns into a vortex. It's the only way to close the portal.
"I'll get to him"
Natasha said. On screen I watched her fight her way thru Chitari to get to Thor. She told him the plan while Darcy looked for Loki on-screen. He was destroying Chitari, who had recognized him as their failed leader from the last time they invaded this planet. Makekith grinned, his piercing blue eyes sparkle with the delight of his plan coming together. All he had to do was his last part and then Migard was finished. Malekith enjoyed the carnage with another race, and wanted to keep going, but that was not apart of the plan. He was almost to Loki when the sky turned dark, and his perfect portal began to suck all of his minions back up into the universe.
"No!"
He growled out, Loki turning around just as he was walking up on him.
"Malekith, I see you still look rather beastly."
Loki taunted, Darcy watched on the screen, her heart pounding in her ear.
"I see you still have your silver tongue little warrior, but it will not save you this time."
They battled, everything flying up around them. When the Dark Elf conjured a blast of magic, knocking Loki down. Being quick on his feet he was back up, but Malekith rapided behind him, stabbing him in the lower abdomen.
"Help Him!"
Darcy shouted, hoping somebody could hear her scream and subsequent crying"
Malekith smirked at the wounded man.
"You are needed elsewhere Asgardian prince!"
Malekith grabbed Loki by the neck and they disappeared just as Thor dropped to where there were. He cried out painfully as he saw his brother evaporate right before his eyes.
"BROTHER!"
"LOKI!"
Darcy yelled, in brain knowing the action was futile, but was hoping he would reappear in front of her, she needed him to hold her in his arms, and make her see reason.
She wasn't sure how to process what she just saw. Nick was worried when she didn't say anything else, even after the team had dragged Thor away from the spot where Loki had gone from. The portal was gone, and they needed to get back. Darcy righted herself, and started walking to her room, wanting nothing but to be alone. Once she made it there, she crawled into bed, still messy from last nights encounter, because the cleaning crew of Stark tower hadn't dropped any new sheets off for the day yet. Slow tears fell as she touched the pillow where he laid before. Life was so fucking unfair to her! For once in her life she had found somebody that she could relate to, somebody that didn't mind her quirks, and could handle her smart mouth because he had a wicked one of his own. How could somebody just take that away like that?
Ignoring Fury's calls for her location, she yanked the little device out her ear and slammed it down on her nightstand. It felt like her whole body wanted to shut down, she wondered if she stared at the wall long enough, would it change anything, anything of her fate?
Someone knocked on her door 20 minutes later, but she didn't answer, someone else had and about 10 minutes ago too, but of course she didn't make a move to answer it. This knock was subtler and lead to keys jingling and her door opening. She heard feet enter her room, but she still didn't have the energy to move, to look to see who it was. It could have been somebody there to kill her, but she didn't care. Then Pepper appeared in front of her, with tears in her eyes, followed by Jane. As big of a fight as they had earlier, she still came, and none of mattered right now. At the sight of the two women, her heart broke. The wails she had been holding in broke free and she cried out. Tears busted free from her brown eyes, and a few fell down Peppers face at the heart breaking sight. They rubbed her back but for the most part they let her cry. No matter what the tears could stop, it felt like her heart had been ripped out and trodden on like grass. After 10 minutes Jane spoke.
"I know it hurts now, but I promise it will get better."
" I don't want it to get better. I want him back. I...I need him back!"
Darcy cried out, tears muffling the clarity of the words.
"Time heals all things Dar, and things happen for a reason, maybe this was just to help you get to what was best for you."
Darcy's head snapped up, her eyes widening at her best friend. She couldn't believe Jane. Was she still on that bullshit? Even now while Loki was dead?
"What's best for me?"
Darcy said standing, Pepper had hissed when she heard Jane's words, that was so not the right time for Jane to say anything like that to Darcy and the unmitigated fury in Darcy's eyes told her so. Trying to avoid a fight she yanked the astrophysicist up by the arm, so that they could make their way to the door, but the blonde stuck her foot in her mouth again.
" Yes Dar, maybe this had to happen so that you can find true love. In time you will find somebody else, and that somebody will love you unconditionally. I'm not sure you would have had that clinging to Loki like you were"
Darcy had stalked Jane to the front door, Pepper was pulling at Jane, trying to make her move through the open door, because she knew blood was a hard thing trying to get out of fabric and that was exactly what she'd end up having to do if she didn't get these two out of the same room.
The Avengers had landed and were now all walking toward Darcy's room, after being told where she was, knowing she'd need friends, but the sight they found was puzzling. Darcy was glaring at Jane looking like she was ready to kill her in the hallway and Pepper looked like she needed help, Jane realizing she may have said the wrong thing, just stood there. Natasha was about to speak, when suddenly Darcy started yelling.
"WHAT DO YOU SUGGEST I DO JANE?! WHAT DO YOU THINK, I SHOULD CALL UP JACE AND FIGURE OUT WHEN HE's AVAILABLE FOR A DATE!
"Darcy I wasn't saying right this instant..."
"AND WHAT IN THE FUCK DID YOU MEAN THEN! LOKI JUST FUCKING DIED RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME AND YOUR SAYING THAT MAYBE IT WAS FOR A FUCKING REASON!"
Everyone took a collective hiss, expect for Thor. They all knew that was a messed up thing to say in the moment.
"MAYBE I DON'T WANT TO MOVE ON DAMN IT! MAYBE THIS WAS TO SHOW ME THAT HE LOVED ME. HE JUST DIED TO PROTECT ALL OF US INCLUDING YOUR SELFISH ASS, AND YOU WANT ME TO SAY ITS OK AND MOVE ON WITH MY LIFE!
Darcy advanced on Jane, everyone moved forward a bit.
"Darcy I didn't mean to hurt..."
"SAVE IT! NEWSFLASH JANE, I ALREADY FOUND TRUE LOVE! I LOVE HIM AND THAT'S NOT GOING TO GO AWAY BECAUSE YOU WISH IT HARD ENOUGH! LEAVE ME THE HELL ALONE!"
Darcy was flooded with so many emotions, anger being the most clear. She wanted to strangle Jane, but she knew in her heart that was her friend, and she couldn't hurt her. Everyone looked between the two, but only Tony could see the pain in her eyes and because he was looking noticed them flash over to gray and change back to the brown. Nobody else did they were too focused on waiting for her to attack Jane. Instead Darcy let her broken heart cry out, and spill hot fresh tears on to her face, then she turned running into the room, the door closing behind her, even though she hadn't touched it. Tony being the only witness to that anomaly as well...
Darcy went back to her place on the bed and curled into a ball. Nobody dared to enter her room again, but she could hear somebody come back and sit in her living room watching the T.V. after what she guessed was a quick shower, or if it was Pepper who was out there, then she was going to check on Tony and make sure he got any medical attention he needed, she didn't care though, she knew none of them were Loki. It was silly to think Love so early in a relationship, but for the pain in her heart she had no other explanation. She loved Loki Laufeyson like she had never loved anyone else, and now he was gone to her...
*Evil Cliffy!*
Like I SAID don't throw any rotten fruit at me please...
*Hopefully tomorrow I will have a chance to update this story, and it only gets juicier from here my friends!*
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