[1] Just A Normal Girl | Avallone the Avenger

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

I screamed as I felt the air rush past me. Looking up at the tower, I could only see Loki's shrinking face. I turned and faced the ground. I wasn't that far away now.
Come to think about it, I had thought so much about committing suicide, and here I am. Falling from 'cloud nine' and crashing from the high. I thought, quoting a Katy Perry song.
'This is what you think about, as you fall to your death?' Loki said, in my head. I laughed out loud. I guess that I'm just so attached to music, that it's one of my last dying thoughts. I thought in return.
I watched the ground come closer and closer. I closed my eyes and waited to be splattered across the New York street.

Tony's P.O.V.
I rubbed the back of my head where Pepper hit me repeatedly. "That wasn't so hard, was it Anthony?" She asked, rubbing her hands together like she was going to deal to me.
I shook my head and said, "Yeah but-" I stopped and turned my head towards the lounge. Pepper looked at me weirdly and opened her mouth. I shoved my finger in her face and told her to 'shush'.
Walking over to the door, I kicked it open and saw Loki standing next to a shattered window. I gasped and ran up to him. "Reindeer games! WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY WINDOW?!" I started shaking him but he didn't move or look at me. He flickered and I stepped back.
"Tony." Pepper breathed, looking out through the broken window. I shoved the Loki clone out of the way and grabbed hold of Pepper, forcing her back. "No! Tony, LOOK!" She screamed at me, pointing out the window.
I edged closer and looked out. Seeing Avallone falling, I passed out.

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I woke up later to find myself on the couch in the lounge. I looked around, trying to find where the breeze was coming from. My eyes rested on the broken window and it all came flooding back to me.
I sat bolt up right and shouted Pepper's name. I heard hurried footsteps and she ran in and sat next to me on the couch, tears streaming down her face.
"Where is she? Where is Avallone?!" I asked her. She shook her head and buried her face in my chest, right above my heart. I swallowed and stared at the empty space where glass should be.
The other Avengers came pouring in, but my head blocked out their noises. Kind of like what happens when you get this high pitched noise in your ear and you can't hear anything other than that.
All of a sudden I was snapped out of my dazed state. I looked up to see Rogers shaking me, tears pouring down his face. "Where is she?" He asked me over and over again. I shook my head and looked at Pepper who was talking to the others.
"I was talking with Tony when he suddenly stopped and told me to shush. I could hear a faint noise and we ran to the lounge. But by then it was too late, and Avallone was crashing down to the ground." She said, tears streaming down her freckled face.
I sat there, on the couch, unable to feel emotions. The kid was gone.
Captain collapsed onto the couch next to me and buried his face in his hands. "Not again." I heard him say quietly to himself. I draped my arm across his back.
Despite our differences, and the arguments we have had, I felt a connection with him. I know he really like Avallone and I felt so sorry for him. They would have been great together.

An hour later everyone had left to go mourn in their rooms. I had told Pepper I would stay here and she nodded, escaping, probably, to Avallone's room to have a good cry.
And I just sat there, on the same couch I woke up on, unable to move. I couldn't cry. It just didn't seem like I was able to. I sighed and stood up, going to the kitchen to make myself a drink.
Suddenly Thor burst in and ran over to me. "I cannot find my brother." He said in a big rush. I stared at him, my mind slowly processing the words.
I looked over to where I had shoved his clone. It was gone. I turned back to Thor and asked, "What's the deal with his clones? How far away can they be from the real Loki?" Thor thought for a minute and said, "Not very far. But why do you ask, man of iron?"
I stared out the broken window, contemplating how to make this dramatic statement.
Finally I got it and said, "He has Avallone."