And the insanity continues...
Thanks to HeroInTraining for betaing this!
Jane groaned as a low thumping noise began to echo through her room, drawing her into consciousness. The noise grew in volume, becoming louder and louder until the whole space seemed to echo with it. It took a moment for the rhythmic sound to materialize into a pattern her mind could recognize. When it did, she moaned slightly and rolled out of her bed.
"Damnit Loki," growled Jane under her breath as she stepped into the hall. All around, the walls were starting to ooze blood and a mewing sound had joined the thumping. Jane ignored it all as she stormed down the hall to pound on Loki's bedroom door.
"LOKI! Knock it off and go to sleep!" she shouted through the door. "NOW!"
Loki cracked open the door to his room, also ignoring everything happening in the hallway to raise an eyebrow at Jane. "And why should I do that?"
"Because if you don't, I'll have S.H.I.E.L.D confine you to a magic-proof box again," growled Jane. "Its night. Go to sleep."
"Make me," replied Loki as he shut the door with solid click.
Jane groaned and banged her head against the door once before stomping back to her room and putting in the headphones she kept beside her bed. This was going to be a long night.
When Darcy came stumbling into the kitchen at 5 am, she found Jane already up. And looking like a zombie. The intern just shook her head and made a bee-line for the coffee pot. She hadn't been in that night, having been out with a few of her classmates at a bar almost all night. However, if Jane was any indication, she should be grateful she was out.
"Bad night?" asked Darcy curiously. She knew sometimes weird things happened at the lab late at night. Between Jane's work and Loki's presence, anything could literally happen.
"Take Poe off the list," groaned Jane in response as she lifted her head to look blearily at Darcy.
Darcy sighed and turned to a piece of paper duct-taped to the fridge. It was three pieces of computer paper on and provided a list of various authors. Tracking down Poe, Darcy quickly blacked the name out. "So what'd he do?"
"'Tell Tale Heart' and 'The Black Cat'," moaned Jane.
Darcy winced. "Ouch. There, there. Look at it this way. You could have woken up cuddling Cthulu like Thor did that one time."
Jane just moaned.