17. Escape to the City
Hello readers, sorry for the slightly later update, I was so busy with my girls last weekend I could only manage to update today. I hope this chapter makes up for it, Loki and Daya finally break free. I would like also say that I am writing up the first few chapters of my other story at the same time. The one that involves a badass OC, a romance with Steve, and a whole array of cameos from marvel characters, as well a mini romance with Loki. I have mapped out the rest of this story which is good and bad news. The good news is there will be no crappy storyline that I made up last minute, the bad news I guess, is that I now have everything in my mind figured out, including the end. HOWEVER, there will be a sequel, but I think that will be all ready, written and published by the time I know what Thor 2 is all about. I will be working on the other story in the meantime, AND I will probably do another story involving an OC and Loki but it will be very different from this one. So, with all that said, here is chapter seventeen, I own nothing but Daya and I hope you enjoy.
"You know, you could tell me anything now, anything at all and I would listen, accept it, and forgive it. Lying here in your arms, knowing that we have so much love for one another, I would just accept you" Daya whispered to Loki as he held her close in the cell.
"What is it darling? What do you want to tell me?" Loki brushed her hair back gently, staring into her eyes lovingly.
"Nothing" Daya paused. "I have nothing to hide, I thought perhaps you might want to tell me, what happened, after you fell. The cameras are off, nobody can hear us, it's just you and I" Daya whispered to him, smiling faintly as she looked up at his face, trying to keep him calm.
"I would prefer, to tell you when we really are alone, and not held captive by some mortals that could never hope to understand us" Loki replied.
Daya sighed, she knew that as dangerous as it may be, the only way Loki would reveal his secrets to her, the only way she would understand his motives for his most recent actions, would be to escape the helicarrier and get the privacy they so desired. Perhaps then, after the truth was revealed, Daya really could convince Loki to go home to Asgard with her, and everything would be as it was.
"You can escape this place if you really want to can't you?" She asked.
He nodded slowly.
"So, why haven't you?" Loki ran his hands through her hair.
"I didn't want to upset you more, you seem, happy here" Loki said.
She smiled at him, again seeing a side of Loki that was so very caring and considerate, only she had the luxury of ever seeing that part of him.
"It's just, different here, and after you left, different didn't seem all that bad. Because I had nothing else left to lose. Steve really is a wonderful friend Loki. He has been there for me, but if we must go, then I will go willingly. If the only way I am going to get the truth from you is elsewhere, I suppose I will have to leave. Try not to hurt anyone in the process my love" Daya answered him.
"I don't need to, the avengers little bubble is just waiting to be popped. With Stark's arrogance and Shield's plans to use the tesseract to build weapons, along with Banner's temper only just on the brink of his control, they will hurt themselves. I have an agent, on the way now, he plans to bring down the helicarrier, we will have our chance to escape. Together" Loki said.
Daya stared at him with wide eyes full of panic.
"Everyone will be fine my love. The avengers can certainly take care of themselves in a crisis and the workers, the insignificant mortals surely have technology that can aid them" Loki assured her.
She hesitated, but their moment was cut short when the sounds of the avengers shouting at each other upstairs interrupted them.
"Looks like it has already begun my love" Loki smirked.
Loki used his magic to clothe them both once more and they stood up, Daya desperately trying to listen in on what they were arguing about. She heard Steve focusing most of his anger on Tony. A huge jolt from an explosion in the side of the helicarrier sent Daya flying back into Loki's arms.
She looked up at him, knowing that the explosion had been all part of his plan.
"That's Barton, Just promise me you will stay close to me? I don't want you to get hurt at all" Loki asked.
She nodded and Loki used his sorcery to open the cell door. She followed him close behind and Loki looked up at the connecting hallways and glass rooms above them and frowned. "Thor is on his way down now, Just, go and hide in the corner, just for now I promise" he urged her to hide near the control panels for Hulk's cell.
As she did, Loki used a clone of himself to stand in the cell's doorway. So as Thor came racing down to the room, he ran towards Loki's clone and the real Loki locked the door behind him.
Daya watched on as Loki stepped towards the control panel and stood next to Loki, staring over at Thor. For the first time in a while, she felt sorry for him, almost guilty that she had to stand by and watch Loki punish Thor, which, no doubt, he was about to. Thor looked over at Daya.
"Daya let me free, you don't know what Loki is capable of, you don't know the trouble he is about to cause. People will die Daya, I know you don't want that" Thor begged her.
Daya moved closer to the cell but Loki's warning stopped her in her tracks. "Don't move any closer to him my wife. Remember what he did to you, locking you up in Asgard? She did tell me Thor. How you kept her prisoner in her own home. Look Daya, now he has a taste of his own medicine."
Daya stared apologetically at Thor again, moving back one step.
"Daya, he will ruin everything, he will kill whatever hopes there were of having things the way they once were, back in Asgard. You have to stop him, you have to let me stop him too" the God of Thunder frowned.
"Step back please."
Daya and Loki turned to see Agent Coulson stood there with a rather vicious looking gun in his hands. Loki moved Daya out of the way, pushing her back into hiding, and out of harm's way. The Goddess watched on as Loki suddenly teleported behind Coulson and stabbed him with his staff.
"NO LOKI!" She screamed as she went to Coulson's side.
"Daya, save him!" Thor shouted.
"I can't Thor, you know I only have powers to protect people, not save them once they have been injured". She applied pressure to the wound as the blood poured from the mortal agent.
"Ah how sweet it is, that my wife has developed sympathy for the mortals" Loki smirked over at Thor as he pressed the button that released the cell with Thor in it, Daya could do nothing to help as Thor plummeted to the ground and agent Coulson bled rapidly. A tear fell down her cheek as she felt utterly helpless.
"You said nobody would get hurt Loki" she whispered, as Coulson fell silent, weak from blood loss.
"Nobody that would get in my way will get hurt. Sadly, this man did, he will serve as an example to everyone else, now, let's leave" Loki said.
"Ma'am, I am sorry to say this but, your husband's an asshole" Coulson whispered.
Daya shrugged, unsure of how to answer the dying man. Coulson aimed the gun at Loki and then fired it, sending Loki flying back against the wall. Daya was confused about whom to aid. She tore Coulson's shirt sleeve and pressed it into his hand.
"Here, use this against the wound, stop the blood" she told him before going to Loki's side. Loki recovered quickly, brushing himself off like it was nothing and they ran to the upper deck of the helicarrier, towards the roof. On the way, Daya caught sight of Steve. As she turned to check if he had been injured Loki noticed and filled with jealousy. She had defied him by going to Coulson's side, and by even contemplating helping Thor. Now she was still interested in her precious captain just as they were about to escape. Loki stood behind her and gripped her throat with one hand, while holding one of her wrists tightly in the other. Steve turned and saw as Daya struggled in Loki's hold on her slightly.
"You get your god damn hands off of her, you're hurting her!" Steve shouted over at Loki as he moved closer to them. Loki held Daya tighter, warning Steve not to come any closer.
"It's alright Steve, I'm alright" she answered.
"How sweet, the captain comes to rescue his lady love. The lady love that belongs to another, or does she? Do you love him Daya, are you as much his as he is yours?" Loki snarled, loud enough for Steve to hear.
Daya knew what she was about to say would hurt Steve, but she had to, it would be the brutal truth and it was needed to protect him.
"I love you Loki, not Steve, not in the same way. I'm sorry Steve" she said, tears forming in her eyes. Loki loosened his grip around her neck but held her closer to him. "Don't apologise for what you are Daya, a goddess, you are above his love, tell him the truth" Loki whispered in her ear.
"He's right Steve, you are a mortal, your love would be so very short lived, I couldn't say goodbye to you that soon, I couldn't be left without you" Daya told him, and once more Loki held her tightly, hurting her slightly, filling with jealousy at the thought of her caring for Steve so deeply.
Steve shook his head, he could see Loki was hurting Daya, he knew Daya was only saying those things so Loki wouldn't hurt either of them.
"Daya, I know you think you have to go with him but you don't. Come with me, we can stop him together, we don't have to kill him, we just need to stop him. For the record Loki, my love might be short lived, as would my life, but I would never hurt her, or make her do something she doesn't want to do" Steve said, holding his hand out gently for Daya.
"Tell him the truth Daya, tell him how your loyalty and love for me is too strong to leave now" Loki whispered.
"Steve, I can't go with you. I'm sorry, I'm so sorry. I love Loki, I will always love him, and I, could never truly belong to your world. I'm sorry" Daya said as the tears fell.
Steve knew in his heart those words couldn't be true, Daya cared for him, he knew it. He also knew he had to cooperate for Daya's safety, as well as his own. He nodded, which only made it harder for Daya, knowing she had hurt him, but he was still letting her go, and staying strong.
She mouthed sorry to Steve one more time as Loki led her to the helicopter flown by Barton's men. As they flew away from the helicarrier Daya pulled away from Loki's embrace. "Where are we going?"
"To the tesseract, and then, on with the show my darling" Loki smiled.
"No, no Loki, you take me somewhere private, to explain everything to me. No destruction, no more unnecessary deaths, you owe me at least that after that little display with Steve" she cried out at him.
"Fine, hold on" Loki said as he wrapped an arm around Daya's waist and teleported.
Daya looked around as she saw Loki had teleported them to a bedroom. "Where are we now?"
She asked.
"I'm not entirely sure, I just know it's a vacant Mortal home and it's in New York. You wanted privacy, you got it" Loki said, running a smooth hand over the rails of the bed.
Daya went to him and hit his arm. "What the hell is wrong with you? Killing Coulson, showing me up in-front of Steve, making me say those awful things to him?"
Loki stared in disbelief at her, he never thought Daya would ever have hit him before. "My darling, those things you said to Steve, it was only the truth, and he never would have let you go otherwise".
"Yes, he would have. If he loves me as much I think he does, he would have let me do what I wanted to do, which was leave with you. I would have chosen you no matter what Loki, you didn't have to show me up like that, and you didn't need to hurt Steve" Daya frowned.
Loki paced the room before moving to the corner of the bedroom, Daya saw his shoulders shake and she realised that Loki, God of mischief, was crying. She stood behind him and rest her head against his back, holding him gently. She knew his actions were torturing him, what she couldn't understand is why he wouldn't just abandon the plans that were causing him such distress.
"I'm here you know. Sometimes I don't think you believe I am but I am here for you Loki, there is nobody else but you for me. I wish there was a way for me to make you believe that, and for me to stop the pain you're feeling" Daya whispered.
Loki shook his head furiously. "No, every time I try to make a decision I believe will make you love me more or give us both a better life it ends up hurting you. I just keep hurting you, and you stay, despite it all you stay. Now I have made a decision that I cannot escape from, or I lose everything, including you. I just won't let that happen" Loki said.
Daya stood in-front of him, tilting his chin up so he faced her and stroked his face. "Will you tell me what happened now? Before you found Midgard, what happened?"
Loki paused, giving Daya another one of his puppy dog looks, before nodding in agreement.
"When I fell that day, into the abyss I landed in a dismal place. A wasteland, I'm not even sure it was a realm, it felt like a fallen star, but I wasn't alone. There was another, not a man, not an Asgardian, but a titan. Thanos.
I told him everything, he disguised himself as a friend, told me he could help me if I told him my story, so I did. He found out every mistake I made, every weakness I had, about Thor, my family, Laufey. You.
He promised me vengeance on Thor, said I could have true power if I did everything he asked. He twisted my mind, made me so much more hateful towards my enemies than I ever was before. He changed me, but let me watch you from afar, using a charmed mirror, so I stayed longer than I should have. I was too scared to see you again, to find you, I thought I wasn't worthy enough yet so I stayed, just to watch you. He wanted power more than I did, he wants Midgard under his control, so he asked me to do it for him.
When I tried to refuse, when I said it had gone on for too long and that I needed to leave to see you, he said he would kill you if I didn't do what he ordered. I knew he wasn't bluffing, and because of the mirror, he knew exactly where you were and I couldn't risk your safety being in jeopardy. I just wanted you, and to show you how powerful I could be, to prove to you I really could be a good ruler. I'm so sorry Daya, but now you know why I can't stop what I have stupidly started".
Daya kissed Loki suddenly, unable to hold back from him. Finally she knew why he couldn't go back to Asgard and give up his poisonous plans for Midgard, he was working for another. "I understand now Loki. Even still, too many innocent people will get hurt, we can refuse Thanos' orders and take him on together" Daya smiled.
"No my love, you don't understand, he is a titan. He is even stronger than Thor and I put together, even Odin would have trouble defeating him. We can't get out of this, we must do as he says and only hope he will leave us to live our lives once his plans are carried out".
Daya wanted to tell him that if her sacrifice was needed to stop Thanos' hold over Loki then she was willing to make it, but she knew Loki would never agree to it.
"I love you Loki, and somehow, we will work this out" Daya smiled.
Loki kissed her again, capturing her mouth with his own, his tongue weaving in and out of her parted lips softly. He picked her up and turned her around, holding her around the waist, biting her neck softly, he seemed a little too forceful for Daya's liking. She just wanted him, gently, lovingly, this time anyway.
"Loki, calm down, it's just you and I now, it's just you and I. We don't need to rush anything" Daya whispered.
"Can I try something new?" Loki asked.
She reluctantly nodded, scared and excited at the same time. Loki hoisted her up and placed her on the bed, kneeling down. She faced away from him. He knelt behind her and she already began to tingle with desire for him. Loki breathed in her ear, his breath already as raspy as hers. She turned her head to the side so she could kiss him again.
Loki teased her, removed her clothing slowly rather than using magic. A small moan escaped her as he ran a hand along her body slowly before cupping her breasts in his large hands. Her nipples hardened under his touch and he couldn't supress a small giggle at her body's reaction to him.
She reached her hands to touch him but he laughed and took hold of her hands, placing them on the rails on the bed. "Keep hold of that my darling, I want you entirely at my mercy" he whispered in her ear before sucking on her earlobe gently.
He moved his hands to focus on himself, removing his clothes, this time, with his sorcery. She felt one of her favourite parts of him against her and she found herself leaning back against him, desperate to get closer to him.
"I know you want it my love, I do too, I really have missed you so much" Loki whispered as he moved to kiss her neck, nipping at it only very gently this time.
He positioned himself at her entrance and she moaned gently. Once more he was teasing her, prolonging this sweet torture until finally, he himself couldn't hold himself back from her and entered her from behind. They moaned in unison and Loki ran his hands over her breasts once more. His hand travelled down to her sacred place and moved his thumb down over her clit. She rolled her head back in ecstasy, leaning on Loki's shoulder.
He smiled and kissed her again, he loved seeing her excited, being the one that was responsible to bring her this much pleasure. He carried on thrusting into her slowly, knowing that she wanted this time to be tender. As he moved his fingers over her clit again and again, she placed one hand on top of his, following his movements as she moaned loudly.
With Loki's skilled hands, it didn't take long for her to be driven over the edge and Loki followed soon after and she leant back against his shoulder again. "I liked that, a lot. That was good" she whispered. He smiled before kissing her softly again.
"I'm glad my love. I have wanted to try that for a while" he replied as he placed his arms around her waist, holding her close. She stroked his arms as they sat there, truly content and unaware of the world outside of that bedroom for just a few minutes. Loki took in a deep breath.
"Now you know the truth, we must get back to the tesseract, to carry out Thanos' plans before he finds out we stalled, and before those damn avengers get involved once more" Loki said.
Daya sighed, knowing that their private time together could never have lasted for long. She filled with panic at the realisation she had no idea what to do next. How to stop Loki, or Thanos?
She put her robes on again, as she tried to think up a plan and fast, but nothing formed in her mind and she had no choice but to take Loki's hand, as he got ready to teleport them to the location of the tesseract.
So, that was chapter seventeen, I hope you guys liked it. It was pretty angst ridden and I know Loki seemed like a bit of a bitch up until the end, but at least now we can put down his bitterness and violent tendencies to jealousy and Thanos' influence. He will redeem himself in the end, I want his and Daya's relationship to eventually return to the way it once was, like how it was back in Asgard. I might do a flashback soon as well, it's been too long since I included one. Next chapter is all to do with the big fight scene in New York, when Loki releases the army, and just a little fact for you guys, Thanos will be making an appearance to wreak havoc in a future chapter. Sorry for any mistakes, as you can tell I wanted to update quickly, I don't like keeping you lovely readers waiting too long. Until next time