Punishment

Inuyasha-Avengers

Kagome-Loki

Comedy, Romance

Series

For his misdeeds on Midgard, Loki was given only one punishment: Kagome.

Disclaimer: I don't own anything from the Avengers, Inuyasha, or Norse Mythology. Also, I'm sorry if there are lots of facts that are wrong and stuff.

Chapter 12: Reflection

Kagome was escorted to a room, which she was notified was hers. She thanked the two Asgardian soldiers escorting her, and went to lay down on her bed. She couldn't care less that she was still dressed in her fancy guard's uniform. Kagome let her eyes close as she sank deep into the softest mattress she had ever laid on. "My God. It's like I'm laying on a cloud!"

She giggled to herself as she nuzzled deeper into the sheets, but sighed as her mind drifted back to Loki. "He's just an idiot." She told herself, but the troubled stirring in her stomach didn't subside. "I really don't know why I'm so disappointed." She curled onto her side, "I knew that, if I let him get to me, he would try to escape. He was just so damn persistent."

Staring at the pearly white walls, Kagome felt lonelier than she ever had before. "I can't go home," she said. "If I do, SHIELD will find me again, and nothing will be able to protect me this time." Agent Coulson had made her nervous; he didn't seem like a bad person, but he had looked at her as demons had the Shikon.

"I'm simply interested in what you can do, Miss Kagome." He had said to her with that unyielding and uncanny smile plastered on his face. "No harm will come to you or your family; surely you understand." Kagome had never felt more fear than she had in that moment. Naraku was scary, sure, but this man managed to terrify every last molecule in her body in a way that the evil Spider had never been able to.

When Thor had come to proposition her to be Loki's guard, Kagome was tempted to weep with relief and thankfulness. Thor had kept her with him for the remainder of the week on Earth to teach her about Asgardian culture, and what her job would be, and Kagome will admit she fell for him a bit. He was so much kinder and gentler in handling her than Inuyasha had been, and although Kagome knew that Inuyasha was being kind in his own way, she couldn't help but be taken by Thor's bright personality. On their last day on Earth, however, Thor had visited Jane, and Kagome understood that she would play second fiddle again if she tried anything, so she accepted that nothing would ever happen between the two of them.

When they finally arrived in Asgard, Kagome mourned the loss of her home and family; she presumed they would be told that she was dead by the SHIELD agents, and that she would never be able to see them again regardless of whether or not she was ever able to return to Earth.

Loki had truly been a breath of fresh air for her. She had that feeling in her gut the moment she saw him—that they would get along well. He was truly the physical opposite of his brother, but Kagome felt that, somehow, Loki would be more of a threat to her heart than Thor had been. So she told herself that she would never speak to him, because how can a friendship grow if she was determined to hate him?

And yet he managed to best her will time and time again, and she found that she wasn't quite so lonely. Kagome wondered if he would grow to hate her as his jailor, but happily went along with their friendly chats. She would never forget the way he absolutely lit up like a little child when he sincerely laughed. After only a few weeks, surely enough, Kagome had found herself stuck deep in a trap, which she had no intention of trying to get out of.

She knew she was being stupid for encouraging her own affections, but she swore she saw reciprocation in his eyes; that day he had gotten so angry for her at SHIELD he had looked at her with such a desperate rage in his eyes, his beautiful emerald-green eyes. But Kagome hardly let herself hope for a second, it seemed, before he tried to break out.

"I am not doing this for myself," and, "We will both be better for it in the end," Loki had told her, but Kagome knew better than to trust his words. In spite of good intentions, there could be no absolutely altruistic act. Kagome understood this better than most—having been beaten over and over by the concept in the Feudal Era—and had not let anyone wish on the Shikon when it had finally been completed. She embedded the jewel back in its original resting place—her scarred hip—and found that her priestess powers had increased many times over, leading her to be in this unhappy situation. She would have thought that Loki would have understood this as well; due to his own experiences with the concept due to his dealings with the Frost Giants that started his whole attempt at tyranny on Earth.

Kagome saw that Loki had grown, but not quite enough, but she couldn't bring herself to leave Asgard, no matter how much she wanted to. She sighed, and closed her eyes, unable and unwilling to keep them open any longer as the full weight of her feelings for the last month-and-a-half came crashing down on her chest. She felt heavy and tired, and tears ran softly down her cheeks.

Kagome counted her breaths until she calmed down, and buried herself underneath the silken sheets. "I'll sleep now and talk to Thor in the morning," she murmured to herself resolutely. "Maybe I don't have to leave yet."

She let her body fall deeper into sleep, hardly noticing when she mumbled to the darkness, "Goodnight, Loki. Sleep well."