Loki Laufeyson Fanfiction (Marvel)

Chapter 2

"That necklace will help keep us updated on what's going on with your body. It should deviate some of the energy" You look down at the crystal jewelry, taking it from his palm. It looks pretty normal.

"So you aren't an alien." 

You shake your head. After an introduction and brief history on the team and it's members, you were sitting in the med bay as Bruce checked your vitals. When Loki walked into the room, your body tensed, and you tried your best to avoid eye contact, but you could feel his eyes on you the entire time.

"When did the blackouts start?" Bruce is marking everything down.

"The first time it happened I was being mugged. I finally came too and the guys were knocked out cold. No defensive wounds or marks. I just ran. I didn't know what to do, where to go. After that it just kept happening. If I'm scared, or cornered, everything just goes blank. It's terrifying."

"Then why did you just pass out back at the apartment?" Tony inquires.

"I-I don't know. Usually I wake up after the danger is gone." Bruce's eyes move to the monitor.

"Right now you're alright. No raised temperature or pulse. Could it be that subconsciously you sensed no threat, so the energy retracted?"

"That is a possibility."

"It's obvious she gained this through the power of the cube. It doesn't take a genius." Loki's input makes you shift.

At this point you were ready to believe just about anything.

"We scanned your body, and your genetic make-up, it's well..in simple terms, your body has been infected with energy from the tesseract." Bruce's evaluation was meant to help, but from the look on your face, he could tell it just added more questions to your list.

"What the hell's a tesseract!!"

"This is gonna take a while. " Tony sighed, taking a seat.

"Listen, that thing that happened back at your place, it wasn't just a blackout. We've been reading your charts. In a control setting, your body is just like everyone else, but when your stress levels increase, or you feel like you're in danger or even pain, it triggers those particles bouncing around in your cells. "

"B-But how.." Surely you would have known about this sooner.

"Where were you when the tower collapsed?" your eyes lift at Bruce's question, and you clutch your right arm. Tony's eyes drift to your elbow. There's a peak of a scar there, something you'd get after you'd been stitched up. He can't tell just how long it extends, because it disappears under your sleeves. 

"I...I was buried alive for a week. The attack took out the last three floors of my building. Most of my coworkers, my friends..they didn't make it out. I wasn't supposed to either. Everyone thought I was dead. When they finally found me I couldn't remember much, just blue lights, then I woke up in the hospital with a wrecked arm and gratitude that I'd even survived. "

For the first time since he stepped in you finally look Loki's way.

"Why did you think I wasn't human?"

"Because you aren't."

"You said it yourself, the tesseract gave me these abilities. I wasn't born like this. "

"The tesseract may have altered your DNA, but it fed on what was already there. You aren't a regular midgardian. You're something more, something dangerous. Maybe a bigger threat than me."

You scowl, and just as you're about to say something else, you press a hand to your head with a groan. The machines start beeping in the background and Bruce fumbles, dropping his notepad. Your other hand drops to keep you upright, and Tony moves to your side.

"I-It's..him.." you force out. Whenever Loki is close, you feel as if you're suffocating. Something about him, it's reacting to you.

"Please just...stay away from me." Loki doesn't look like his usual peppey self when he's taunting or terrorizing. The look on your face isn't a general annoyance like he expects. It's anxiety, or more specifically..

"Fear."

"You're afraid of me." It's not a question. You swallow. You knew full well who he was, all that he was capable of. It would be stupid not to feel threatened. 

Whenever he was near, it was just a reminder of how helpless you felt when your building first went down. The moment you got trapped, cried for help for hours, then ultimately gave up not just on screaming, but surviving. You didn't want to feel that way ever again. His presence was a reminder of that. He was the reason you were now messed up, a walking trigger waiting to go off. Tony's tech was advanced, but who's to say this little necklace he gave you would contain whatever you had inside of you. Nothing was guaranteed. Not your present and certainly not your future.

"I understand." He walks past you, right before you see the ray of green. Just like that he's gone. The pounding in your brain disappears instantly.

"It stopped.." Bruce muttered.

What was really going on here.

"What do I do now?"

Neither Tony nor Bruce have a proper answer to that question.