Author's note:Hello again! I managed to translate another chapter without much problem, I think... XDDD I hope everyone understands my poor english and everything I wanna transmit with my fic. Thank you very much for you reviews Jabberwocky92, Fira Jones and Grievousorvenom. ;)
I woke up in bed, don't know how long after, the beep of an annoying machine that measures unsaturation, pulse and heart rate was what got me out of my lethargy. I was rather confused and disoriented, did not recognize the room where I was. I sat up a little in bed, I reviewed with the sight my party dress and my bandaged leg.
I was still getting out of my state of numbness when, in front of one of the windows of the room, I saw a squad escorting that dark Norse God with pale skin, which followed me with his cold emerald eyes while he smiled.
I started to notice his mental tickling and I raised my walls quickly, which made him release a small laugh, scaring a couple of men that were escorting him.
When they disappeared from my view I disconnected the cables, got out of bed, grabbed my purse and left the room. I turned down the hallway in the opposite direction which they had carried Loki.
After a couple of rounds I found a man in his thirties, wearing a lab coat. He looked at me puzzled through the 5 meters of corridor between us.
- ''Who are you? You're not from S.H.I.E.L.D!'' .– he asked me, I noticed that he was suspecting that I might be Loki, but disguised.
The man in the lab coat was going to give the alarm without giving me a chance to explain, so I turned around and went limping through a couple of corridors, I listened as the man shout calling to me and calling the guards. I looked up and the ceiling and I saw a pair of large tubes, leaning on my good leg I jumped and got to hold onto one of them, I hid just as the man in the coat passed under me.
I waited in that position a couple of minutes without passing anyone and started to walk in another corridor. Turning a corner I was confronted by a black man, tall and with a patch on his left eye (c'mon, commanding respect).
- ''Doing mischief, Miss Invers?''.- He asked huskily raising an eyebrow.- ''I'm Nick Fury, director of S.H.I.E.L.D, a government organization dedicated to protecting the earth from all threats''.
- ''Eeeemmmm''.- I said very eloquently.- ''I just looked for the exit''.- I shrugged, smiling weakly.
Nick Fury smiled and opened a door behind him.
- ''Go''.- He said, but seeing my doubts, he went first and I followed him.
I was in a spacious room with a window through which I could see the clouds passing and... 'CLOUDS?'.- yelled my mind. I went running through the window and saw that we were muuuuch above the ground. My head hit the glass in a gesture of defeat.
- ''I guess you're not giving me a parachute, right?''.- I asked Nick, looking at him.
Nick burst out laughing and shook his head a few times as he approached me. He put a friendly hand on my shoulder and said:
- ''First I need you to help me with the task of saving the Earth''.- Winked his good eye.
Suddenly, the man in the lab coat rushed into the room and, when he saw me, he froze.
- ''Well, I see you're already aware that there was a strange girl around the Helicarrier''. - He said to Nick, removing his glasses and cleaning them.
- ''Miss Invers''.- Nick said.- ''This is Dr. Banner. I think you already know each other''.
I nodded my head slightly and the doctor came over to shake my hand.
- ''I'm sorry about before''. - He said with an apologizing look.- ''I really thought you could be some trickery of Loki, I do not trust him''.
- ''Take it easy''. - I took his hand, smiling. - ''It's okay, by the way, my name is Yami''.
- ''Nice to meet you, I'm Bruce''. - He said, smiling widely. Without meaning I thought of Bruce from Finding Nemo and let out a small chuckle.
- ''Miss Invers, why do you think Loki tried to kill you in Stuttgart?''. - Nick asked me.
- ''Don't know, maybe just because I was in the middle, but you should ask him''. - I replied with a shrug.
Nick Fury looked at me seriously, nodded and left the room with me behind him. We went through many corridors to reach the restriction area.
He pointed to a small window on one side and he came through a gate with security code. I looked through the window and saw Loki in the middle of a round glass cage which seemed much reinforced. Nick was placed in front of some controls that I suppose were to control the cage, and threatened Loki with what he could do if he occurred trying escape, a free fall within that prison would be lethal to anyone, God or not.
- ''It's an impressive cage. Not built, I think, for me''.- Loki said smiling in the middle of the cage.
- ''Built for something a lot stronger then you''.- Nick replied seriously.
- ''Oh, I've heard''.- Loki said facing one of the cameras.- ''The mindless beast, makes play to be the man''.- he looked at Nick again and smiled.- ''How desperate are you? You call on these lost creatures to defend you''.
- ''How desperate am I?''.- Nick repeated.- ''You threaten my world with war. You steal a force you can't hope to control. You talk about peace and you kill 'cause it's fun. You have made me very desperate. What was your plan in Stuttgart?''
Loki said nothing to Nick, just smiled at him and shrugged.
- ''Did you thought that we would not intervene?''.- Nick Fury asked approaching the glass.- ''Did you thought that we were not going to stop you from killing all those people, including the girl?''
- ''Aaahhh, Yami''. - Loki said with his voice dangerously soft. Hearing my name on his lips made my heart race up.- ''I didn't mean to kill her''.- And he looked straight at me.- 'Not at all'.- he completed mentally. I quickly turned from the window, I was almost hyperventilating.
- ''Yeah, right! Targeting someone with your scepter is not trying to kill it, right?''.- I heard Nick answering him with some sarcasm.- ''Anyway you will not get out of the cage and, when done all this, you will regret''.
Then I returned to approach the window.
- ''Ooh. It burns you to become so close''.- Loki answered with a mocking face.- ''To have the Tesseract, to have power, unlimited power''.- remarked smiling.- ''And for what? A warm light for all mankind to share, and then to be reminded what real power is''.
- ''Well, let me know if real power will want some magazine or something''.- Nick Fury said away from the cage and leaving.
Loki was approaching the glass as he watched Nick Fury move away, I noticed his cold mental tendrils and closed my mind as best I could by focusing, he smiled at me and I felt like a lot of my walls broke only with that. Was it so easy for him to get into my head? Was I that feeble?
- 'I am a God, delicate creature'.- he said very softly, like a lullaby.- 'And you're a fragile, simple and small human'.
- 'Thank you,you know how to raise a girl ego'.- I said sarcastically.- 'You really didn't wanted to kill me in Stuttgart or you simply lied to Fury?'
I felt a hand on my shoulder and I jumped out of my skin, I broke eye contact with Loki and I saw that Nick Fury was at my side.
- ''This bastard is not going to release the stash''.- he said pissed , looking at the window.- ''I don't know what he is waiting, but he has a plan''.
I heard Loki's laugh at that comment in my head and tried to back up my mental walls until his laughter disappeared. I nodded slightly and we left.
Walking I noticed that the knee was no longer hurting all that much, so I asked Nick if they had any kind of gym and if I could use it. He took me there, showed me my room and gave me a black shirt with the crest of S.H.I.E.L.D and black sport trousers.
- ''You have your uniform in your bedroom, okay?''. He said as he walked away.
I didn't answer, I went to the changing rooms and I started jogging on the treadmill. I had a good time jogging and the leg just bothered me a bit I smiled, glad for recovering so soon. Suddenly I felt a blow so mentally strong that fell off the machine and Loki's voice filled my head up such a way that I felt sick.
- 'Sorry to interrupt your earthly idleness'. - Loki said, his voice cold and somewhat angry.- 'But I need to feed of that you humans call food'.
- 'And why the fuck are you telling me? Say it out loud and someone will bring it to you'. - I replied breathlessly.
- 'No way, my dear'. - he said more gently. - 'You'll bring it to me'.
- 'WHAT? Yeah, like I'm your personal slave, fucker'.
- 'Haven't you decided to come to this floating circus because you were not afraid of me?'. -Loki replied with playful voice. - 'Prove it!'
I closed my fists at the challenge and began to sit up, when Steve Rogers / Captain America entered without his uniform.
- ''Are you all right?''.- he asked worriedly, crouching next to me.
- ''Sorry, my knee is not fully recovered and I fell''.- I lied.
- 'What a deceitful!'.– I heard Loki, laughing in my head.- 'And I'm the liar on this ship!'
- ''Let me take a look''.– Steve put his hand on my ankle, ready to get up the sport trousers and looked into my eyes.- ''Excuse me''.
- ''No, really I'm fine''.- I turned away quickly, rising to my feet.- ''It was just an accident''.- I smiled trying to reassure him.
He looked at me with some resentment in his blue eyes, I quickly turned around and headed towards my room.
- 'Well, well'. - Loki sounded fun. - 'This is fascinating. Did you know that Mr. Rogers has certain ... desires?'.- Loki asked me very pleased.- 'Guess who provokes those desires?'
- 'Shut the fuck up, will you? Now I'll get your food'.- I answered reluctantly.- 'But first I'll take a shower and, for that, I need a certain meddlesome god out of my head, capice?'
I heard one last laugh before Loki got out of my head but, anyway, I went back to concentrate and raised my mental barriers, just in case.
I showered quickly and pulled on a uniform same as Natasha's, it even had a 9mm Beretta for me and the belt had several little things that I would check for what were later. I went to the control room but Fury wasn't there, so he should be in his private office. Once there, I entered without knocking and saw Fury reading some documents while smoking a cigarette, he hid the documents once I had entered. I stared at him for a second and I knew that these documents contain something related to me.
- ''I'm going to feed Loki''.- I said without delay.
- 'You talk as if you were to give food to one of those pets called dogs'.- Loki replied with angry tone, that caused a smile playing on my lips.
- ''Feed him?''.- Nick asked curious.- ''He has not asked for anything, in fact, he has not opened his big mouth since I spoke with him this afternoon''.
- ''That does not mean he doesn't have the need to eat or will you deny him that right?''.- I replied sharply and I turned to leave.
- ''YAMI!''.- he yelled, getting up.
I didn't turned, I noticed that he held my arm and put in my hand a strange device with a small red button, the device was about the size of an mp3.
- ''This is a safety device when you get in, if you see something strange or Loki attempts something, click it''.- Nick told me very seriously.- ''It will give him good shock that will leave him stunned long enough for you to be able to escape''.
He put his hand on the communicator of the ear and said: "Prepare food for the prisoner, leave the cart in front of the restriction room."
I nodded and turned to leave. I walked through the halls, corridors and galleries to reach the restriction room, right before the door was a typical food cart. 'At least this is not modern or technological'. The restriction door opened and I saw that there was a worker at the controls of the cage, I went with the food cart and walked to the door of Loki's cell, which was lying quietly with eyes closed and a smile playing on his lips. Suddenly It came to my mind the scene of The Silence of the Lambs when Clarice begins to speak with Hannibal Lecter. 'This is worse'.
- 'Who is Hannibal Lecter?'.- Loki asked opening those beautiful emerald eyes. I pretty much had gotten used to having him in my head. It was weird.
I ignored him, I took the device in my right hand while the operator watched and I nodded to him. The operator nodded back and pressed a button, there was a hiss and the glass door opened. I put the food cart in front of me and entered the cage, I was almos finished moving, and the door closed behind me hurriedly. I took a quick glance of hatred to the operator. 'Prick, you almost amputate my ass'.
- 'And that would be a shame'.- Loki said with a hidden smile in his voice.
- ''Don't move from there''. - I said aloud pointing at him, he looked at me and raised his hands in false surrender.
I went to the far corner of the door with the cart, in a bench, he was on my left at a couple of meters from me, and I was pretty nervous because I felt like he was analyzing everything I did. I took his food tray, unscrewed the top and caught him staring at my ass. I rolled my eyes and I thought that all men were equal.
I took the cart with my left hand and I turned around only to find that Loki was less than an inch from me. I gave a small gasp and my first instinct was to try to step back but he put his hand on my hip, which stopped my movement, immediately afterwards he put his other hand on the hand where I had the device which prevented me from clicking the button.
- 'I am no man, I am a God'.- Loki told me mentally as his head bent a little so our noses were touching slightly. My heart began to beat frenetically for its proximity but I was firm.
- 'I've seen worse than you Loki,you don't freak me out'.- I replied trying to get my mental voice defiant but I think it actually sounded quite flabby.
- 'In that case'. – he told while approaching even further, he brushed my neck with his lips bringing a slight tingling, he whispered. - 'I'll show you all my divine power when I get released'.
- 'Is it a threat?'.- Even my mental voice sounded shaky and weak. Loki chuckled lightly .
- 'A promise...'
I blinked and he was back sitting on his bed half smiling. I took the cart quickly and I left the cage with my heart racing. 'What the hell was all that about? Damn it! Was he referring to what I'm thinking with divine powers? NO! Shut up and get out'.
- 'I can hear you'.- Loki sang mentally to me, it almost gave me a heart attack of nerves.
I built my mental barriers again as I headed to my room. Once there, I was so mentally exhausted that, without realizing it, I fell into bed and fell asleep.
Author's: chan, chan... Is it interesting? are you liking it? or you hate it? I have two more chapters to translate if you (non-spanish readers) like it. :)
Greetings humans! See you next time space cowboy!