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So, I've got a shock coming up in this chapter, everybody hold on to your seats. I am excited, because this is the chapter I have been waiting on since I started writing this story. I do have so great stuff planned, for the future of Darcy and Loki!
Chapter 19: A Burden With Glorious Purpose
Previously:
"Janey my dear, I think you and I need to have a talk..."
Currently:
Jane followed Darcy from the room and up into Darcy's old room. Darcy didn't come in here often after Tony moved her upstairs, but she still had the key and when she was ready she could move back into it. She walked over to the couch and sat down and Jane followed suit on the chair next to the couch. The room was silent for a few moments before Darcy opened her mouth.
"So Jane isn't been a long month hasn't it?"
Jane looked at her and nodded.
"Yeah, it has been."
"Jane you know me well enough to know I'm not the chick who beats around the bush. So I'll get to it, because we don't have time to waste."
"Feel like telling me what the problem is or are we going to snipe at each other for the rest of our lives?"
"I don't want to snipe with you Darcy, but I just feel like you are making a huge mistake by falling for Loki."
Jane said sitting forward, Darcy did the same in her seat.
"The last I checked Jane, you cannot help who you fall in love with. Do you think I just woke up one day and said hey I think me and Loki could work, I'll screw him and see if it works out?"
"No, I...I don't think that... I just don't want to see you hurt..."
Darcy rolled her eyes.
"Jane I love you and you love me, so lets be honest and cut the bullshit line your trying to give. Why do you want me away from Loki?"
Jane shuffled in her seat. She had some insecurities about herself and Thor. You see she always felt like she didn't deserve him no matter how big her brain was, she wasn't good enough for him (Odin had all but made clear he preferred Sif as Queen) and she just knew that one day she would wake up and he'd see that for himself, but Darcy it seemed to have it easier than she ever did. She was jealous, at least somewhat, of Darcy.
"Darcy, it's not that I'm trying to keep you away, I just..."
Jane trailed off her sentence almost ashamed to say it out loud.
"You just what Jane?"
"I'm Jealous Okay! There I said it!
Darcy sat back against the couch, confused why would Jane be jealous of her?
"Why would you need to be jealous of me? I don't have anything but Loki."
"Oh No, you have so much more than that Darcy. You have it easy, being able to walk into a room and demand attention, you can talk to anybody and feel comfortable enough to joke with them after only five minutes. You are worthy to have the love of a god and I'm sure Odin would love you as a queen rather than me, I guess what I'm trying to say is you could have it all if you wanted to and I'm jealous of that."
Darcy looked for a moment before talking.
"Jane I don't have it easy, not by a long shot. Things that were given to you, I worked for. I have never stood out to anyone, not even my own family. So I decided a long time ago not to fade into the background unless I wanted to, and most of the time I want to, it's my sarcasm that gets me in trouble half the time. People usually notice me because I'm the oddball that's not supposed to be there."
" No it's different, I mean you have a connection to everyone, well before you had a connection to everyone but Loki and now you even have that. I just... I feel so inadequate. Thor could decide he like you more, and like I said Odin would prefer anyone for a queen but me..."
"Eww... Me and Thor? Honestly... He is so far from my type, I'd probably attempt to jump out the bathroom from 7th floor restaurant before I'd ever consider that. He is like a brother to me, we bond over strawberry poptarts, the Avengers and you, Jane, nothing more, nothing less. Jane he loves you unconditionally and undoubtedly, the man will fight a million wars just keep you alive for one day with him. His love for you would not be upstaged by any woman, much like my love for Loki could be replaced by any hot, black leather wearing bad boy. I've already got the perfect one, and I'm sure nobody's ass could pull off a pair of leather pants like him anyway.
Jane cracked a smile, but said nothing.
"And as far as Odin liking me more. He has yet to even meet me, and while I would hope that he would at least like me even a tiny bit, the likelihood of that happening is slim to none."
"Why?"
Jane asked her.
"Because I am Darcy the girlfriend of Loki of Asgard and I am not burdened with him at all. Like Odin finds himself being, when he shouldn't be. I'm not sure if he has a wish to see Loki unhappy, but with me around cracking jokes and trying to get into Loki's pants whenever I have the chance, is not going to make us the best of friends. Trust me, he will love you once he meets me."
"He like that's Sif girl way more than me, if he could he'd just switch our bodies."
" Look I'll say this, because you need to hear it. But tell daddy dearest to jump into a lake. You love Thor right?"
"Yes of course."
"And Thor loves you right?"
"Yes."
"Then nobody else matters but you two. Anybody else can just kick rocks, because you two are the ones in the relationship. Not Odin, not Frigga, Not Sif, not Loki, and certainly not me. You have to love Thor beyond all of that bullshit, and trust that he is going to be by your side."
"I understand. I just don't know, I get this weird, like feeling whenever you are around him, I mean I don't know how Pepper does it, I mean you are much closer to Tony than Thor. How does she deal with knowing Tony wouldn't leave your room after Loki died, and he took care of you."
Darcy was a bit hurt, did Jane not trust her. Did she believe that she would take all the Avengers and host one big orgy or something?
"Jane, I'm I... I can't believe you would say that. You wanna know why Pepper doesn't act like that with Tony and Me, is because she understands that I do not want not will I ever want her Avenger. He loves her and she lives him and they work together well. She understands that he and I are just friends. I couldn't thank him enough for saving my life, when I felt like I was being shattered. Her as well, she helped me, and stood by me, but you know when I needed my best friend, she couldn't see past herself enough to be there for me like I was for her. That hurt worse than if Pepper had flipped out on me about Tony."
Jane got defensive.
"Darcy, I tried you went off on me and asked everybody to leave you alone."
"Jane you DON'T say anything you said to the person who's boyfriend just died! You shut up and be there. I never once question your judgment on waiting for Thor to come back. I just help you pull yourself by your bra straps and helped you get on with life."
" I'm sorry Darcy, I wasn't thinking rationally, and your right I shouldn't have brought that up at the time. That was selfish of me. As for Loki I don't want him or anything, as your friend I don't want you broken by him, I don't want to be the one to have to pick you back up and put you back together. We've all seen the damage Loki has done, he could break you."
Jane said really wanting to get her point across to Darcy.
" And I'm a big girl I can take care of myself. Yea, he caused some chaos, but he has changed, and he is a good guy despite what you think. He treats me how I want to be treated, and I honestly think I would be dead without him, because SHIELD certainly would have gotten me killed with all that crappy training they gave me, which is why we need to talk to Fury. We have to go upstairs now."
Darcy got up from the couch and started walking toward the door.
" Darcy, look I know I've been not a good best friend to you, and I can understand why you are upset with me. But I really need you in my life, and you are still my best friend. I owe it to you to try to get over my issues and accept that Loki is in your life. I owe you that much, so I will make a concerned effort to at least be civil. I can't say it will be all roses, but I will be there."
Darcy looked at Jane.
"Okay we will see, but you should do it for Thor too, he's going to be your husband and Thor loves his brother. I suggest you lay off on dumping on Loki before you lose two important people..."
*Penthouse*
Darcy walked in and as soon as she did, Loki had her pinned on the wall, kissing her in front of everybody. When he pulled away, Darcy started laughing at the look everyone's faces, and started speaking,
"Hey Loki, I'm all for leaving our curtains open every now and again when we go at it, but blatant exhibitionism is not my thing."
He laughed and pulled her into her arms.
"I wanted to thank you for your comments."
"What comments?"
"About me to Lady Jane. I don't deserve them, yet you defend me anyway. Thank you."
"You guys listened in?"
Tony stepped forward, in his clean black sabbath tee-shirt and jeans.
"We had to make sure you didn't kill her or anything. It was purely a safety thing..."
He said trying to BS her. She walked over to the living room and pushed him on her way. Steve spoke up next, wanting to get down to business and figure out the truth.
" We need to get Fury up here and isolated so that we can talk to him. I say that Darcy lay down on the couch with your force field. Natasha you call Fury in, saying that Darcy has something odd going on with her. He should appear as quickly as possible"
They agreed and Darcy did her best to put on her shield, and after a little instruction from Loki she was laying with her body completely on the couch, and Loki had changed her back into that gross suit from before. Natasha made her page and as predicted Fury was in Tony's penthouse in seconds.
"Dr. Banner how is her condition? And why isn't he in detention?"
Darcy opened her eyes and dropped the gold protection she had.
"I'm fine director. And as for Loki he wasn't responsible like I told you. His kind was being controlled by Malekith and Thanos."
"How odd that he is never responsible."
Fury said moving toward Darcy. Loki snapped again, changing Darcy to her clean suit.
"Nothing odd about it. But there is something odd about me though, and I think you know what it is."
Maria, who had come up with him stepped forward.
"Agent Lewis, that is not how you talk to your superior"
" Agent Hill, this is much bigger than you think. I suggest you can it!"
Darcy said looking at her, then forcing her eyes to flash gray long enough to scare her and twitching her hand toward her gun.
"Back to you director. Do you want to tell me, or are we going to behave like school children until you do?"
" I don't know why you..."
"Please Director Fury, don't lie. It's my specialty, and I think it will only serve to piss Ms. Lewis and myself off further."
Loki said moving forward to stand behind his lover.
" It's classified."
Loki, waved his hand and Nick and Maria found themselves bound tightly to dining room chairs.
" Let me go this instant!"
Maria screeched.
" So you can alert SHIELD agents and they can disturb us? I think not. You will just have to stay for the party."
"All of you, this is treason! Release me immediately."
"Sorry, but until you tell me what I need to know I can't do that."
Tony moved forward.
"So Fury, what can you tell us, about what Darcy is? The only reason we have you tied up is because you won't tell us the truth otherwise. We have no intention on hurting either of you. Darcy just deserves to know."
" We can't tell you, we were swore by council."
"Since when do you listen to the council?"
Asked Bruce, who sat down in a chair that matched the living room furniture.
" Look, it's high level issue, telling you could mean destruction of the world as we know it."
" I know I'm an Elemental, I just need to know why, because if my parents are somewhere, they need to be safe from Thanos."
" They are safe. Trust me."
Everybody (even Jane) scoffed at that.
" How can we trust you if you always lie to us Fury?"
"Jarvis, have you finished decrypting SHIELD's files again?"
Tony asked his AI, moving to pour himself a glass of water.
" Almost sir, process should take less than a minute to complete."
Fury's eye got big, and he shifted in his seat.
"Anything you wanna admit to before we find out."
" I swore to him, I'd never tell and I'll won't unless I don't have choice. Darcy know that I only kept it from you to keep you safe."
Fury said cryptically.
"Files done Sir, what would you like me to do with them."
" Great open me a projection on the wall"
A large view of the computer screen appeared.
" Now search those files to anything pertaining to Darcy Lewis."
Jarvis did as asked, then a whole list if files appeared.
" Pull birth certificates out of these files only."
Two files appeared, Tony opened the first, it was her fake one, that stated her adoptive parents as parents.
"Jarvis open the second file."
Darcy read down the large projection... "No way."
Said Clint and Natasha
" I knew it."
Said Bruce
" Holy smokes"
Said Steve.
"Jarvis I think my eye sight is going or I have finally lost my mind. Read the birth certificate."
"Darcy Isabella Stark-Lewis
born May 5th 1993 at SHIELD location New York.
Parents, Howard and Maria Stark"
"That's what I thought it said..."
And with that Anthony Edward Stark, 31 year old genius, playboy, billionaire, philanthropist passed out cold on the floor...
OKAY! WHO SAW THAT ONE COMING? It's an honest question :)
More coming soon...I hope you enjoyed this chapter...