The Other One(STOPPED WRITING)

Chapter 50: Untrustable...

(Just incase you didn't know, the word "Sputnik" was used on Bucky Barnes in one of the comics. It caused him to immediately fall unconscious.)
This is also no longer Sarah's POV until she wakes up.

Sarah and Loki appear in an alleyway, next to Stark's tower.
"We're here, we must hurry." Loki says, but Sarah just collapses.
Loki catches her, confused.
She wasn't even shot.
Yet she wasn't responding to anything.
"Sarah?" Loki asks, worried.
Loki slowly places her on the ground, bending down.
He tries to shake her awake, but she won't respond.
He checks her pulse and, luckily, she's still breathing.
But why wouldn't she wake?
Before he even realized it, his eyes began to water, and a single tear dropped down his face.
He continues to shake her, desperate for her to wake up.
He'd almost forgotten he'd been shot.
And his arm was bleeding much more than an arm should bleed.
He winces as he picks her up in his arms.
He scurried over to Stark's tower, and burst inside.
Nobody was ever in the lobby, it seemed.
And he couldn't exactly hold the tesseract, since he was holding Sarah.
So, he rushed over to the elevator instead.
He didn't even know how it worked.
He lifted his leg up to the button, and hit it.
The elevator door opened, and he stood inside.
There were so many floors to the tower, he didn't know which one the Avengers stayed most of the time.
He pressed a random button, and hoped for the best.
In less than 10 second, the elevator door opened once again.
And with some sort of luck, all six of the Avengers, including Bucky and Peter, were sitting at a table.
They all, quickly, turned their heads to face the elevator.
"Well, this is a surprise." Tony mutters under his breath.
Bucky immediately sits up, the chair falling behind him.
Bucky rushes over to the elevator, and Loki walks out.
Now, he stands in front of all the Avengers.
He'd never expected to be coming to the Avengers for help.
"What the hell did you do to her?" Bucky asks, scared.
"You think I would do such a thing?" Loki asks, a bit offended.
"Well, you're not exactly known for cuddling and comfort, are you now?" Bucky says, getting defensive.
He cared about Sarah.
For the longest time, he'd thought he was the only one too.
Because he'd never been too cared about here, either.
"And you are?" Loki questions, already knowing the answer.
Bucky holds out his fist, but Loki was still holding Sarah, so he wouldn't try anything.
"If you two are done, would you mind explaining what the hell you're doing here?" Tony asks.
"Isn't it a bit obvious?" Loki retorts.
"Everybody calm down and help the girl already!" Natasha exclaims.
Peter looks down at the floor, where a pool of blood was sitting.
"Was she shot?" Peter asks, panicked.
Sarah didn't know, yet, that Tony approached Peter one day, telling him to stay away from Sarah.
He thought it'd be the best thing to do, considering Tony was bit overprotective when it came to Peter.
But it backfired when Peter had no idea on how to subtly avoid her.
"No, that would be me." Loki explains.
"You were shot?" Thor asks, not that concerned.
"Clearly." Loki says.
"For crying out loud, someone take the girl." Natasha shouts, since nobody listened to her the first time.
"Give her to me." Bucky tells Loki.
Bucky tries to, gently, take Sarah from Loki.
But he holds her back for a moment.
He looked down at her, unconscious.
He didn't want to let go of her, for some reason.
"Give her to me. Please." He says, more softly this time.
Hesitantly, Loki places Sarah in Bucky's arms.
Bucky brings her into a room, with Natasha, Bruce, Clint, and Peter behind him.
"And as for you," Thor begins, "You're going back to that cage."
Loki's eyebrows narrow, confused.
He had came here to get her help, and this is what he gets in thanks.
"What?" Loki asks.
"You heard Point Break over here, you're coming with us." Tony says, walking over to Loki.
Steve gets up from his seat, going to grab something.
And just as Loki thought, it was some sort of handcuffs.
They were different, though.
Steve walked over to where Tony stood, handing him the cuffs.
He put them on Loki, and led him to the same cage he was in before.
"Why must I go back?" Loki asks.
"You really thing we can trust you just because you brought her back?" Tony chuckles.
"We may have been looking for the both of you, but she doesn't need to be in a cage right now." Steve claims.
"And I do?" Loki questions.
"Loki, I wanted to believe you can some how change, but you're not trustworthy anymore." Thor tells him.
Loki doesn't put up more of an argument, and he stays silent.

They lock him into the same cage he had already been in twice.
He'd escaped before, and he'd have to do it again.
Steve and Tony leave as soon as they put him in the cage, but Thor stays behind.
"Loki I want to trust you, I do." Thor claims.
"Then why do you not?" Loki asks.
"It isn't that simple, brother. You've done too much bad that it outweighs the good."
Loki scoffs, and sits against the walls of the cage.
He couldn't even use any sort of magic with these cuffs.
"I promise you, as soon as she wakes up, I'll inform you."
"Will I be let out?"
"It depends." Thor says, before turning around to leave.
And for the first time, in a while, Loki was all alone again.
The only thing he can do is overthink, as he always did.
He felt helpless.
Hurt.
Alone.
He wished he'd had something to keep himself occupied, like the books Sarah gave him when he was hidden in her closet.
He'd never finished one of them.
But he wanted to.
Loki often wondered why she sacrificed the Avenger's trust with her, just to secretly deal with her father.
She could have easily turned down the offer, he supposed.
But she didn't.
And he believed everything was his fault.
Her ending up unconscious, that is.
And he couldn't even see if she was okay.
...

Back in the room Bucky has brought Sarah, she now lay on a bed.
"J.A.R.V.I.S! Do some sort of scan, see what's up with her." Tony exclaims.
Everybody was now in the same room.
Some huddled around her, others standing back.
J.A.R.V.I.S does some sort of scan on her, but nothing turns up that they could easily detect.
"Sir, she appears to be unconscious." J.A.R.V.I.S announced.
"Yeah, well, no shit." Tony mutters.
He sighs and takes a seat.
"What do we do now?" Clint asks.
Tony shrugs, unsure.
He didn't know when she'd wake up.

Bucky holds her hand, as she lay still.
He wanted her to wake up.
But it could take a while.
"Do you think Loki could know something?" Bruce asks.
"He might." Natasha answers.
"Well, then. Go ask him." Bucky says.
He didn't mean to sound cold, but he wasn't exactly happy.
"Kid, you wanna ask him?" Tony asks Peter.
"Me?" Peter questions.
"Well, who else would I call kid?"
Peter nods and leaves the room.
He didn't know why he wanted him to talk to Loki.
...
Everybody, except Bucky and Nat, had soon piled out of the room.
There wasn't much they could do but wait.
"She'll be okay, you know?" Nat assured Bucky.
Bucky nods, not really in the mood to speak.
Nat grabs a chair, and sits next to Bucky.
"You're going to have to talk. You've dealt with Hydra, is there anything you know?"
"I don't wanna talk about it." He answers, coldly.
He never liked talking about his past with Hydra, even if it was for the better.
But in this case, he didn't remember anyways.
But if he did know something, he hoped it would com back to him soon.
"Okay, then." Nat says, slowly getting up to leave.
...

Back in the room where Loki was held, Peter appeared.
"What do you want?" Loki asks, knowing he was there.
He was clenching his arm, as nobody cared to fix his wound.
"Oh, h-hi. Um, well, I was kind of wondering if anything was said or done before she fell, well, unconscious." Peter asks.
"I was shot, and I brought her to an alley." Loki answers.
"Was there anything else?"
"Nothing but a man saying some strange word."
"What was it?"
"Sputnik?" He answers, unsure, "Why do you ask?"
Peter shrugs, and just leaves.
He knew of these 'trigger words' that Bucky and Sarah had.
Well, Bucky didn't have them anymore.
But he didn't remember this word ever being said.

He walks up to the Avengers.
The only person who wasn't with them was Bucky.
He wanted to stay with her until she woke.
"You find anything out, kid?" Clint asks.
"Mr. Loki said-.." Peter begins, but gets cut off.
"Kid, you don't have to put 'Mr' in front of his name." Tony says.
"Oh, yeah, sorry."
"So, what was it?" Natasha asks.
"He mentioned this weird sounding word, 'Sputnik.'" Peter answers.
The Avengers turn to face each other.
"You think it could be like one of those words Hydra used on Bucky?" Steve asks.
"It's possible." Tony says.
Thor had no idea what was going on, considering he knew nothing of these words.
"Why wasn't it in the book?" Nat asks.
"Maybe they didn't want it there for this exact reason." Tony says.

To be continued...