My time with Mischief

The assignment

I can hear faint knocking at my bedroom door, as I begin to wake up. As I rub my eyes and check the time on my phone, I see it's 8:30am. Which is way later than I usually wake up, I guess Nat is letting me have the day off from training? I don't know. There's a bunch of texts from Peter, as usual.

7am: Hey Safie! Good morning! I hope you're sleeping well, can't wait to hang out with you later!
He's so sweet... the world just doesn't deserve Parker.
8am: Hey sleepy head! Thought you might wanna know that Mr. Stark said he has something he wants to talk to us all about but he said he'll wait until you're up! I'm kinda excited!! Hope you're sleeping well xxx
8:01: Sorry I totally didn't mean to put the kisses!!!
He's actually such a dork.
8:10: OMG SAFIE !!! THORS HERE! THIS IS AMAZING!!
8:12: Wait. He's brought someone with him, he has some weird metal muzzle? Gag? I don't know. Either way he can't talk and I'm kinda glad, he looks mean...
8:15: Safie, the mean guys staring at me.
8:16: Apparently it's Thor's brother? I'm not buying it, they look nothing alike.
8:20: Um, can you wake up now? Mr. Stark won't start without you, he wants you to sleep in. And so do I!! But he's really starting to scare me he's just been staring at me the whole time :/
8:22: Jeez I thought James was good at death glares.
8:25: PLEASE WAKE UPPPP
8:27: Okay I'm gonna make you a coffee then come up because I can't sit here anymore with this guy he's scaring me.
8:29: I'm coming up now! Please don't hate meee!!

Oh is it Peter at my door?
"Hello?" I call out.
"Hey Safie, it's Peter, I have coffee! Can I come in?"
"Sure!"
"Hey! I made you an iced hazelnut latte just how you like it! I'm sorry for waking you up but you really gotta come downstairs!" He rambled at the speed of light.

"I just saw your texts, something about some scary guy?" I say, raising my eyebrow at him, amused.
"YES! It's Thor's brother. Pretty much everyone else here knows him already, I don't. And he keeps glaring at me and it's making me so uneasy so please please come down because I can't do it anymore." He pleads, still talking way too fast considering I've just woken up.
"Okay, yeah sure I'll just brush my teeth and I'll be down, you can wait in here if you don't wanna go down."
"Yep. Cool. Imma just... Can I sit on the bed? It's cool if not I can just stand. I don't mind standing!" I roll my eyes at him.
"Peter it's fine, just sit down I'll be out in two minutes."

I walk into my en suite and brush my teeth, I debate getting changed but I honestly couldn't care less about being in my pyjamas. These are my favourite ones anyway. They're dark green satin shorts and a matching cami top with black lace. I like them. They're cute.

"Okay Peter, let's go see the scary man shall we?" I say, mocking him.

We both head down the glass stairs and into the open plan kitchen / living room where I see Tony sitting on one of the white leather sofas, James is in the armchair to the left of him just reading as usual. Who I assume is Thor's brother is sat opposite Tony, with his back to me so I can't see his face yet.
Thor spots me from the other side of the room and comes bounding up to me, wrapping me in a big bear hug.

"Lady Safie! Oh I've missed you!" He says whilst squeezing the life out of me.
"Hey sparkles!! I've missed you too!!" I gasp.
He laughs, releases me, kisses me on the hand and goes to sit next to Tony.
James looks up from his book and smiles at me.
"Morning, how was your sleep?"
"Morning James, it wasn't too bad thank you, you?"
"Not bad." His expression was stoic as usual.

Okay I guess that's all I'm gonna get from him for a while...
I make my way over to where they're all sitting and sit next to Thor. Peter stays by the breakfast bar and perches on a stool, out of sight of Thor's brother.
Thor's brother...

I lock eyes with him and I feel my heart flip in my chest and my breathing catch in the back of my throat. Peter wasn't wrong, they look nothing alike. Thor's tall, very muscular with shoulder length blonde hair, blue eyes, a light brown short beard, sun kissed tanned skin and a warm smile. His brother on the other hand, also looks tall, but he's slender, he has shoulder length raven black hair that's slicked back, contrasting his pale skin and icy blue eyes and well, I can't speak for his smile since I can't see his mouth but I doubt it'd be friendly. Despite his unfriendly appearance I smile at him, a genuine smile too, not one of my sarcastic ones.
For a brief second, his whole body language changes, his face softens and he raises one eyebrow at me, as if confused. Just as quickly as it changed, it changed back to defensive and angry. Part of me wants to read his mind but the other part of me figures that there's a good reason for the muzzle and I decide against it, for now.

Thor clears his throat "Lady Safie, I'd like for you to meet my brother, Loki."
"Oh so he is actually your brother?" I say, nearly choking on my coffee. "I thought Peter was joking. And Thor, it's just Safie. Please" I smile at him and look back to Loki and catch him rolling his eyes.
Tony takes over from Thor.
"Yes Safie, Loki is actually Thor's brother. We became acquainted with him a few years ago when he decided to destroy half of New York." He says dramatically.
"Oh my god! I remember reading about that! That was him? Really?" I look at Loki again, not believing he'd be capable of so much chaos.
"Yes. It was. And he has once again gotten himself into trouble. This time on Asgard, but Thor managed to convince their father to not kill him if he can bring him here to be kept under a careful watch until someone can figure out just what to do with Reindeer games over there."
"What did he do?" I ask, intrigued, sipping on my coffee.
Thor laughs and speaks with a patronising tone, clearly aimed at Loki.
"He managed to briefly get me exiled, sent our father into a deep sleep, told me he was dead then proceeded to impersonate our father on Asgard until I came back, found out and I managed to wake our father up and yes long story short that's why we're here."
"Okay, makes sense. I think? But why is he sitting in chains, with a muzzle, on the sofa, instead of downstairs in the cell?" I ask, trying to make sense of it all.

Tony gets up and puts his hands into his jeans pockets, which usually means he's gonna make some sort of speech.
"Well, Safie, we were waiting for you. Because well, I want you to be the one to guard reindeer games."
"No. You mean you want me to babysit. Why can't his brother do that? Why me?" I ask, pissed.
"You're a smarter choice, you're not his family so you're less likely to be manipulated. No offence Thor. And your abilities could come in handy. You'll be paid for this and since it'll be pretty much 24/7 I'd say you'll bleed me dry pretty fast."
"Fucking wait a second. 24/7?! You want me to stand in front of this guy's cell 24/7?"
"No. Not standing anyway. We've equipped it all downstairs so you have a bed, some books, and your laptop."
"Okay well I also want a TV down there, with access to Netflix and Amazon prime. I want my speakers down there too and snacks. Lots of snacks. What's in Loki's cell?"
"Fine. Done. And nothing's in his cell." He states with slight confusion in his voice as to why I'd care.
"Okay well no that's not fair, you either give him a bed, some pillows and blankets, books and whatever else it takes to make him comfortable or I'm not doing it." I demand and I look over at Loki and smile again, he looks at me utterly bewildered and I crack and read his mind.

*Why is this mortal being nice to me? She doesn't know me. She should be afraid of me.*

I turn back around rolling my eyes at his arrogance. Why would I be afraid of him? After everything I've been through there's no way he could scare me.

Tony stands thinking for a second before finally agreeing to everything I asked for and gets Vision to sort it out. A few minutes later Clint and Sam appear to take Loki to his cell and Tony goes back to his lab to work on whatever project he and Bruce are working on now.
Thor comes over and gives me a hug.
"Thank you Lady Safie for showing my brother kindness. It is not often that someone does. And I appreciate you agreeing to keep watch over him. I need to go back to Asgard to try and fix things with our father on his behalf but I'll be back within a couple of days to see how you're both doing. Thank you again." He says kissing my head and beaming at me.
"It's okay Thor, you owe me a drink though. This is bullshit."
"Deal. I will see you soon."

Thor walks out onto the yard and the Bifrost appears. I don't think I'll ever not be amazed by it. As I'm watching him disappear, James comes to stand next to me.
"Hey doll, sorry you've been stuck with this job. I tried to get Stark to let me do it instead, I've heard from Steve that Loki is a really nasty piece of work and I don't like the idea of you down there with him by yourself." His expression is almost unreadable but I've spent enough time with him these last few months to detect the caring look in his eyes.
"James, that's really sweet of you but I'll be alright. I think we both know I'm tougher than I look." I say patting him on the arm.
"I know, you're so strong and I admire you for it. And Safie? You - you can call me Bucky."
The biggest smile spreads across my face, he only lets Steve call him that. I guess we were closer than I thought.
"Thank you, Bucky... I admire you too, you know."
He smiles at me and I give him a hug, catching him off guard, before going upstairs to get dressed. Unable to stop smiling the entire time.

I get to my room, and put on a pair of black ripped jeans, black fluffy socks and my favourite top, which is a dark green satin corset-like crop top with gold chains for straps. I brush my hair, put on a little bit of concealer, eyeliner and mascara and head down to where Loki is.

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