Frost & Fire

Chapter 33 (Loki)

I was glad that Abby, Pepper and the children were safely away from the confrontation. When Lucas swung and hit me it felt so good. Not the pain necessarily, but the fact that it gave me a justifiable reason to beat his ass like his mother should have.

Okay, maybe, just maybe that was leftover ideology from the summer I spent as a southern black grandmother giving headfucks to an entire group of "Christians" --they were a cult, there was no doubting that-- but still. He deserved it and so much worse.

"Calm down Loki, just calm down." Bucky was saying as he pushed us away from one another. But then as Mia swung her purse at him and it connected with his head we heard the smack of something hard hitting bone.

Bucky was stunned for a second and she just laughed. "Here hit them with this." she said, pulling a brick from her purse and handing it to Lucas.

As Bucky shook his head to dust out the cobwebs he glared at them both, pinning them in place with the anger and evil in that look. I tried to reach for him but he had Lucas's arm pinned in a split second and he snapped it at the middle of the forearm, a compound fracture as both the radius and the ulna were sticking out of the skin.

"Okay that's taught them their lesson." Tony tried saying, hoping he could get through to the guy as he held his hands out in front of him in a non threatening gesture. "Just back off and we can go back to the house and get something to drink to calm your nerves."

"Oh you think that you can just walk away from this? Really? He assaulted my husband! He broke his arm, that means I should be able to get not just charges pressed but if he's living with you then I will get those kids taken for having a dangerous person around them."

"First off you are really as stupid as you look aren't you? Do you have no idea who this man is? This one standing before you that scares the shit out of me? No? Okay so he's the Winter Soldier, or he was before we fixed his brain."

She looked at Bucky with true fear in her eyes and said. "I heard that the Winter Soldier was dead, how can he still be alive?"

"Because the programming that made me that monster is gone, but I am not. And I still have all of those wonderful reflexes and all of that amazing training to create one of if not the most dangerous killer of all time."

"Yeah, what he said." Tony told them as he pointed to the trees nearby and said, "There's also the fact that this park is wired for pretty much everything since I offer free security services to the city. Which means we have you on tape trying to take my granddaughter, kidnapping is a serious crime, didn't you know that?" he put his hands on his hips and said "So which will it be? Do you want to file a complaint that will lead to them seeing that tape and knowing that you did everything to deserve what happened?"

Lucas was in shock now, blood pooling on his jeans as his arm bled, but he was quiet from the shock as he just rocked back and forth. Mia leaned down and began trying to help him back to his vehicle while muttering to herself about how unfair it was.

Reaching out I touched her mind with my powers and put a memory there, one of the abuse that Abby had suffered at the hands of that step father. And just left it on repeat for her to watch in her mind for at least the next few years. Did that mean I was a vengeful bastard? Yes, but this was also much more tame compared to what I wanted to do to them both.

I helped Tony get Bucky back to the house and we went to the basement to Banner's lab so he could get a check up. We explained what had happened as Abby came rushing down the stairs asking. "Is he okay?" her concern was like that of a niece, not like that of someone who'd just had her brains fucked out less than twenty-four hours before by him. I had to chuckle inwardly as I imagined what would happen when Tony found out about it.