My feet hang over the edge of the agronomy tower in Hogwarts as I lean my cheek against the cool metal fence. Hours have passed since Stephen lost my memories and each second I've spent sat up here, watching as the sunsets upon the horizon.
"Mind if we join you Abi?" asks a voice behind me as I sit up straight, turning around to find Tony and Loki at the door. Shrugging my shoulders, I turn back to the sunset without saying a word as the two of them take a seat either side of me.
"How are you feeling?" Loki asks gently, his face soft and sympathetic as he looks me in the eyes. When I don't answer, he leans backwards slightly and looks over my head towards Tony as they exchange a worrisome glance. Tony just shrugs his shoulders as Loki rolls his eyes at him.
"Like my hearts been ripped from my chest." I finally admit after several seconds of silence. Tony and Loki look away from each other and back towards me, their faces once again softening as they prepare themselves to be gentle. After all, I'm a fragile one aren't I?
"I'm sorry Abi." Tony whispers as he places a gentle hand in my shoulder and looks out at the sunset in front of me. For the first time since they arrived, I take my eyes off the sunset and glance at Tony.
"There was nothing you could have done." I assure him as I smile weakly at him in an attempt to make him feel a little better. He opens his mouth to say something only for me to interrupt him before he can even make a sound. "You just saw the reality of things whilst I was blinded by pain."
"You were right though." argues Tony as he shuffles about, spinning his body around to face me as he removes his hand from my shoulder and looks me in the eyes. "Brothers should help you no matter what."
"And you did. You helped me realize that i couldn't fix it, no matter how hard I tried." I promise him, my voice calm and collected compared to the storm that brews inside, the monster I've caged away for the past few months threatening to come out roaring. "If it wasn't for you and Remus I dread to think what I'd have done."
"What are you going to do now?" It's Loki who breaks the silence as he turns to face me, his long hair falling into his face as he smiles at me for a second before it's quickly wiped away. How long are they going to treat me like I'm fragile? Forever?
"I really need to take my mind off everything. Have a fun evening and forget everything for a while." I whisper as I turn back to the sunset in front of me, my mind wandering to the parties I used to go to back home. They were so much fun. All the lights and the dancing.
"So what do you have in mind?" Tony asks as he smiles to himself, the idea of fun setting off the party animal in him. I pause for a moment before pulling my phone out my pocket and checking the date before placing it back in my pocket, a smile now plastered on my face.
"The Yule ball." I suggest firmly or rather demand as I smile at the two of them. After exchanging a glance, they both stare at me blankly as I frown at them, confused as to how they haven't heard about it over the last few hours. It's all everyone's been talking about. "It's a dance to celebrate the start of the triwizard tournaments. And it's tomorrow night."
"Oh so you want to dance away your problems?" Tony asks as he blinks twice and fights his hardest to keep his smile hidden even as it creeps it's way onto his face. Nodding, I smile back at them and wait for them to realize that I'm not the only one going.
"Absolutely not." Loki demands as he shakes his head as and looks away from me.
"Yeah I agree with reindeer games. I don't dance." Tony argues as he too looks away from me and shakes his head. Sighing audibly do they can hear my disappointment, I cross my arms over my chest and silk like a little child who's just been told she can't by the doll she wants from a store.
"Do you want to make me feel better or not?" I ask them, my voice taunting as I pout slightly and narrow my eyes at the two of them. Loki's head whips around as he stares at me, his mouth opening twice but no sound coming out before he finally pieces together the words he wanted to say.
"Are you trying to guilt trip us?" Loki asks, frowning slightly as he looks at me blankly, his eyes narrowing as he stares into my soul. Slightly creeped out by his gaze, I pull myself up off the floor and move away from him but this only makes it worse.
"No. I would never do such a thing." I sent as I turn my back to them, fighting my hardest to keep my laughter to myself as I find a small smile growing on my face.
"She totally is." Tony agrees as he pulls himself to his feet and walks across to where I am. When he notices my small smile, his own grows a bit bigger as he shakes his head at me in disbelief.
"I just want to do something normal as a team for once, away from all the superhero, saving the world thing." I lie, blurting out the first excuse that comes to my mind and hoping it's a good enough lie to stop them asking more questions. "Please just give me one night." I beg, pouting slightly as I make my eyes as big as I can and giving Tony, as he used to call it, puppy dog eyes.
"I know what you're doing." Tony admits, pointing a finger at me as he smiles to himself. Clearly he's proud to have figured out my plan. Well, part of it anyway. My eyes quickly narrow as my face becomes emotionless again and I stare as blankly as possible at Tony. Maybe, just maybe if I act like I'm not up to something I can convince him to just trust me.
"I'm not doing anything." I deny, turning away from the two of them to avoid making eye contact. Loki drags himself up off the floor and steps in front of me, blocking me from moving as he raises his eyebrows warning my at me.
"You're hoping that by spending more time with Stephen and doing things together he'll fall back in love with you." Tony concludes as I turn back around to face him, my face completely emotionless as I just stare blankly at him. His left eyebrow arches upwards as the smirk plastered on his face only grows larger and larger.
"So what if I am?" I grunt, finally giving in and admitting not only to myself but to Tony that that is in fact what I'm trying to make happen. I've made Stephen fall in live with me once, who's saying I can't do it again?
"I don't want you to be disappointed if it doesn't work. I know you can't handle that pain again." Tony warns me as he places his hand on my shoulder, looking me in the eyes as he smiles weakly at me. And we're right back to them treating me as through in fragile. Fabulous. Just fabulous.
"And since when do you care?" I hiss at Tony, my voice bitter as I narrow my eyes at him. Slightly taken aback by my sudden change in tone, Tony steps backwards slightly as the smile drops completely from his face. After a few moments, Tony clears his throat and blinks a few times, looking away from me before he looks back.
"You're my sister." Tony reminds me as he raises his eyebrows at me causing me to just roll my eyes back at him. "You may be crazy and you may have betrayed us once but I still care about you." Smirking to myself, I turn around and walk out the door and head down the stairs but stop at the bottom and shout up.
"Then I'll see you at the Yule ball tomorrow night."
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Chasing the tesseract
Fiksi Penggemar"𝓟𝓻𝓸𝓶𝓲𝓼𝓮𝓼 𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓼𝔀𝓮𝓮𝓽𝓮𝓼𝓽 𝓵𝓲𝓮𝓼." • • Abigail Laufeyson has always had a chaotic life but it became even more chaotic when she met Stephen Strange. After the tesseract is stolen by none other than Hela Odinson, the two ne...
