15. Change isn't all that
Hello readers, so finally Loki and Daya meet once more, ah it has been too long hasn't it. I wanted also, to say sorry for any spelling mistakes I may make in my story, I'm just kind of too busy to really proof read my stuff in detail, so apologies. I own nothing but Daya. So, without any more painful waiting here is chapter fifteen. Enjoy!
Daya ran to the cell door.
"Let me in Fury please, I need to see Loki, I need him" Daya asked Furyfrantically as she hit the glass.
"We need Loki's promise that he won't try to escape if we open the door to let you in" Fury said as calmly as ever.
Loki hit the glass and glared at Fury. "You foolish mortal. She is my wife, I don't care about any of you and your futile attempts to stop me, and I just need to see Daya"Loki spat.
Fury reluctantly opened the cell door and Daya ran in. She ran into Loki's arms with such force that they sank to their knees together. They held on to each other as if for dear life and Daya felt for once, after so long, she was safe in the arms of her husband.
"It's really you? You're real and you're here, by the god's I have missed you so much Loki" Daya told him, her voice muffled as she cuddled against his chest. She let the tears fall down her face, but this time they weren't tears of mourning from missing Loki, they were tears of joy, finally she had all she needed.
Daya moved back to run her hands through his longer black hair and he kissed her gently. "I am here Daya, I'm here and I will never let you go again. I promise, I'll never let go again" Loki whispered, resting his forehead against her own.
The avengers watched on from the monitors, Steve filling with anger as he listened to Loki. "How can he have the nerve to promise her anything else when he already broke his promise to her about holding on forever" Steve thought. "Daya has been broken mind, body and soul for the past few months because of what he did, and he's there, making huge promises to her again like nothing bad ever happened between them".
"I love you so much Loki" Daya grinned. "I love you too Daya, you don't know just how much" Loki said to her.
Daya traced her fingertips over his slightly sunken face and shook her head gently. "So pale, you look so pale, and ill my love, where have you been? Are you alright?"
He kissed her again and stared up, out of the cell. "Can the mortals give us no privacy? I would tell you everything if I didn't think the very walls were in listening".
"I don't think so. You are far too dangerous to just be left unguarded I'm afraid" Fury answered from outside the cell.
Loki's heart beat faster, as the rage inside of him grew. Daya could feel his racing heartbeat as she rest her hands on his chest. She nestled against him once more. "Ease yourself my love. Everything is ok now, everything will be fine, now that we are together again. We can return to Asgard together. We can have the life we once had, we can go home" she smiled up at him.
Loki's eyes filled with tears, but he battled them back from falling. "I don't have it" he whispered.
"Yes, you do Loki. Odin and Frigga love you, and so does Thor. Frigga misses you almost as much as I have. Your home is in Asgard, with me."
Loki clenched his fists and filled with anger again. "I am your husband, you belong to me and go where I go and I am telling you that I am not going back to Asgard. I am not welcome there, I don't belong there".
Steve was using all the strength he could to stop himself from punching Loki's lights out. How could he talk to Daya in such a way?
"Lost, you are so lost Loki. You just need to find the light again, and we can, together" Daya whispered, placing her hand on his cheek.
"I have found my light Daya. It is mine now, my own, my new found power, and with you, my wife, I will have everything I could ever want for in my life. We could do anything together. I just need you." Loki smirked. Daya fell further into his embrace almost falling for his words, she couldn't see the poisonous plans laced in with his words.
"Daya, we need to speak with you alone, please" Fury said.
Loki continued to hold Daya close as he looked over at Fury. "Agent Fury yes? It has been a while since I have seen my wife and I have no intentions of letting her leave my side again. So anything you have to say to her, you say it now, here, with me by her side."
Fury sighed. "You are going to regret that but fine. Daya we were going to tell you Loki's true intentions for Midgard. He plans to enslave the entire human race by using the power of the tesseract to conjure an army and he's gonna hurt a lot of people. He already has" Fury frowned.
"No, No my Loki wouldn't hurt innocent Midgardians. Frost giant's maybe but not humans" she argued, holding Loki's hand.
"He has killed eighty people in two days" Fury said. Daya looked at Loki in disbelief and all he could do was stare back at her. He stroked his hand and she shook her head at him but didn't pull away.
"Stark, show the footage please" Fury demanded.
Stark played the CCTV footage of Loki grabbing hold of an elderly Midgardian man and using an odd and very brutal device to gouge out the man's eye to allow Hawkeye access to the building. Daya let go of Loki to move closer to the monitor. To see the footage closer up. She watched on in horror as the man she loved perform things only a monster could. Her heart would not allow her to believe that same man doing those unspeakable things was Loki.
She turned to face him, her eyes misty with tears. "Please, tell me that wasn't you Loki".
He hesitated, his mouth open yet no words came out. "Daya, please understand that once this..."
"TELL ME THAT WASN'T YOU!" Daya allowed the tears to finally fall and Loki flinched at his wife's scream, he had never seen her so angry, not even with Thor. He was utterly heartbroken seeing his wife that upset. It was entirely his doing and he had no words to comfort her, it was just like before, when he tried to destroy Jotunheim.
Finally, after a very long awkward pause, Loki nodded.
Daya stepped back, further away from him. "No, no, No Loki, not my husband. How? An innocent man Loki, he was an innocent man, how could you have done that? You didn't even pause, you just took his life, just like that. How many more? How many more innocents did you just slaughter? Why?"
"If we could only be alone, I could tell you everything, I could tell you all that has happened since I left you, I could explain, if we just had privacy?"
Daya went to the cell door. "You want privacy, fine. That's fine, I need to be away from you right now Loki, just for a few minutes. I need to think. Fury, let me out, I can talk now" she frowned.
Loki let her go, knowing he had done wrong. Fury let Daya out of the cell and she went with him to where the avengers had gathered in the room above Loki's cell. Steve was the first to greet her when she walked in. "I'm so sorry Daya. I'm sorry you had to see that" he said. She went to his side and he wrapped an arm around her shoulder gently. She leaned into him, resting the side of her head against his chest.
"I don't know what to do. I don't know what to do with him, I don't know what to say. I just don't know anymore" she frowned. Steve kissed the top of her head as a close friend would when they had no real words of wisdom for a friend in need.
"Daya, listen. You need to talk Loki into going back home to Asgard, before he causes any more trouble than he already has. You need to get him to talk, to tell us where the tesseract is" Fury asked.
Daya nodded and then noticed someone who had so far done well to keep himself hidden for the past hour. Thor.
"You!" Daya cried out as she lunged at Thor. Steve held her back before she could reach the God. "He is the reason why Loki is the way he is now. He let Loki fall, he tried to stop Loki's plans, made him feel weak and foolish. It's all his fault" Daya cried.
"Whoa! Daya calm down, it's ok. Calm down" Steve whispered in her ear, trying to ease her temper slowly.
She reluctantly calmed down and resumed leaning back against Steve. Her breath was ragged and she glared at Thor hatefully.
"Steve, Thor is the reason why Loki was lost to me in the first place. He kept me prisoner in Asgard, he wouldn't let me go after my own husband" Daya told the captain. Steve held her close.
"He was lost before that Daya, and you know it. This should no longer be about our problems with each other, it's about bringing Loki back to Asgard, back home" Thor said.
"Fine. I will talk to Loki, but not for you Thor. I will do it because I want him home safe and I don't want any more Midgardians to be hurt. I don't know how useful I will be though. Loki hasn't been listening to me all that well since he started trouble back home in Asgard" Daya told everyone. Steve let her go once he thought she was calm enough.
"Just try for us Daya, if it doesn't work, we will need to step in, and we don't want it to get to that" Steve said.
Daya nodded and made her way back to the cell. Inside, she leant against the glass, far away from Loki who was standing with his hands by his sides, like a boy who was just about to receive punishment for breaking a vase in his parents' house. He looked up at her with puppy dog eyes, and even Daya found it hard to stop herself from running into his arms and forgive every wrong deed he had ever committed.
"Loki, where have you hidden the tesseract?"
He looked at her longingly. "I cannot tell you that my love" he replied.
She made a desperate noise and lowered her gaze to the ground. "Please Loki. We need to go home, Midgard is not ours to take. As lovely as my stay here has been, with the people I have met" Daya spoke as she looked up at the cameras, hoping that Steve knew she was referring to him. "I have realised that you and I do not belong here Loki. We are gods, we belong in Asgard. If you try to rule Midgard, it will all end badly, for all of us. If you love me, you would listen to me".
Loki looked at her as if he had been slapped, he seemed so hurt by her words. "Of course I love you. Do not try to manipulate our love to try and change things. You are still the most important thing in my life, and I know that you fully aware of that."
"So show me, show me it's true. Choose me over this vision of the earth you have, choose me Loki" she pleaded.
"I would choose you, always. I love you Daya, but I, I cannot give this up, I can't, I just can't. It's already begun" he frowned.
"So stop it! Whatever you have done, whatever mistakes you have made, erase them. I would forgive you for them, we can fix all this together. So we can go back to Asgard, go back home" she cried out to him.
"Asgard is not my home anymore Daya".
"Then go somewhere else with me. We can go anywhere, live anywhere, just like we promised each other we would do if your parents hadn't have accepted our marriage. I don't care where we go, I just want to be with you, no more chaos, no more destruction. Just you and I" Daya smiled.
"I can't. I can't stop all of this. I'm sorry Daya, I am so sorry, please forgive me, I do love you" Loki whispered.
"You love me? You love me but you would not return to Asgard with me? You love me but you would not go elsewhere with me? You love me but you won't tell me the whole truth? And you left me for months, with no signs, no messages, nothing? How do I even know you were searching for me as I was for you?"
Loki watched as a tear fell from her eye, he felt awful. Daya recently seemed to cry a lot when he was there, he had brought on the tears so many times. He had never seen her so hurt, and could swear he could feel his own heart literally break beneath his skin and bones.
"I was kept prisoner by Thor, I couldn't leave, but still, finally I managed to get out, to jump into a place that could have been by death to find you. Where were you? Had you just given up on me Loki? Have you given up on me?"
Loki wanted nothing more than to hold Daya close to him, to wipe her tears away, to go to a new home with her. One free from judgement and a past. A new life, but he couldn't, he had made a deal that he couldn't afford to call off, or Daya would be hurt, perhaps even killed.
"No, no Daya. No my darling I never gave up on you. I have thought of you every minute of every day. I could not escape from the place I was kept, my freedom from there has come at a price, believe me. I have missed you so very much, there is no lie in that" Loki said.
Daya went to him and knelt in front of him.
"What are you doing?" he asked.
"You want people to kneel to you, so here I am, kneeling. You want something to be yours, completely, well here I am, completely and entirely yours. You want somebody to own, own me, but spare Midgard" Daya pleaded further, staring up at him from her position on the ground.
Loki knelt to her height and held her close, cradling her in his arms as they both cried silently. He sat against the glass, Daya practically lying between his legs, her head against his chest as Loki stroked her hair softly. She grabbed hold of one of his hands and held it close, he felt cold, colder than usual. Colder than she remembered him, in more ways than one.
"I do love you Daya, I know you deserve better than me. I just hope you can hold on to us, to see what I can become, to see me become worthy of you" Loki whispered to her.
"I will never let go of us Loki. Never. Perhaps that is my curse" she replied. He kissed the top of her head as she fell asleep, finally the long hours of waiting up for her husband's long awaited return had caught up to her.
Well that was chapter fifteen, I hope you guys enjoyed it. Loki sure has changed, well, he needed to seem different, even to Daya, as we all know from watching the avengers, his personality is waaaaay different in avengers, to his in Thor. However, Loki will redeem himself, he will create a whole lot more trouble too but he will redeem himself and show Daya and all you lovely readers, why we love him in the first place. As for Daya and Steve, I have had mixed reviews, some say they want Daya and Steve to get together, and others say a big NO to that. So, I am thinking that once I know exactly where this story is heading, I will do a story involving a romance with Steve and another OC. I promise to keep you guys clearly updating on that. As for this story, I just think Daya and Loki are too cute and loved up for her to go and cheat on him, and I don't want to go and Kill Loki off, obviously. So I don't think a romance will happen between those two, but they are so very important to each other, they will always be friends.
Until next time lovelies.