Finally Found You (Loki x Gender Neutral Reader)

Chapter 5 - The Explosion

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Y/n pov

Images flash before my eyes of swords and arrows, shouting and screaming rip my ears apart, the smell of blood spreads through my nose.

"Y/an!"

What is going on, who is that, how do they know that name?

I yelp in pain and see myself in the distance, in a strangly beautiful otherworldly landscape, but that has a certain tension I can't place. My body falls to the ground as a blur shifts away, then a raven haired person has run to my side. 

"Y/an, please stay with me, please don't go. I need you"

They weep and pull my body close with their shaking hands. Why can I see myself? What is going on? My mind is swimming. Why is this person so deeply attached to me?

"You have to stay, please don't go, please"

I see my hand go up to their face and gently stroke it with my thumb, I seem to smile with tears in my eyes. I whisper something inaudible then my hand slowly drops and I breathe my last breath. Did I just die? Is this how I die? I don't look much older...

"No, y/an..." The stranger brushes their fingers through my still hair, I hear them choke out a sob before, "NOOO, COME ON, WAKE UP!" they pulled me in and bawled into my chest "Please."

As I watch my heart broke, a knot building in my stomach, this is horrible, this grieving person is so broken, it hurts to see them like this. I don't want to die, not like that. A bubbling ache builds up in my body and explods with pain. Suddenly I hear some more people scream and swear, then blackness fills my eyes and a ringing resonates in my ears.

I slowly start to hear a buzz of chatter as I flutter my eyes open, everything is a blur. As I blink some more to focus, I see that I am in what looks like a hospital bed, but in a room full of weird big metal machines with wires and liquids in flasks and beakers propped up on a table. What the fuck, this isn't my room. There is a big computer set-up in the corner to my right and my bag is on the floor to my left, the room looks like a laboratory. Why am I here, the last thing I remember is... hearing the truth. The pain in my head starts to throb and I realise I have a bandage over my head, from what? All the walls but the one behind me are glass, including the door. In the bed I am fastened by a thick metal strip by my waist and my hands are cuffed to the bed also, it is incredibly difficult to move. Have I actually been kidnapped? There are 4 people chatting in the corner, as they see me one of them turns on an earpiece and says that I had woken up, then they leave the room.

Why am I sweating? It's not even hot in here. My head throbs faster so I sink back into the pillow. What is going on? Why can't I move? Sh*t I shouldn't have followed those hot guys.

Three people crash through the doors and rush towards me with stern faces, except for one who looked quite frightened.

"Who are you and why are you on earth?" Asked one of the guys, he had brown hair and was wearing a weird red and gold metal suit. His palms were aimed at me like some weapon.

"What? What do you-"

"Answer the question please." said the one who looked more calm and wore a long red cape which seemed to be moving of its own accord. He waves his hands forming an orange glowing sigil that releases the restraints

I was breathing fast and tried to move out of the bed, but it was impossible.

"Come on, tell us! Are you here to conquer the world or some sh*t? Cause too bad, reindeer games already tried that and it didn't work out for him." shouted the man in the metal suit.

"What are you talking about? Can you please tell me what, what is going on? First second I'm walking, in a forest, in my socks. Then I'm, I'm running away.
Because, I was.... Um, from these... bickering, tall dudes! And now I'm here!"

The frightened one bumped in, he was wearing a blue button up shirt over a plain navy shirt, "I mean, they did hit their head Tony, they are showing signs of delerium. Maybe we should be a bit less-".

"I know that Bruce, but incase you hadn't noticed this, child, caused a huge hole to appear in my new carpet". The metal guy spat near me and inches his glowing palm closer, making me sit up, noticing an ache ripple through my body and my mind go hazy.

"Child? I'm an adult thanks! I'm not a- wait, did I pass out?" I lift my shaky hand to the bandage and take it off, rubbing where a scab has formed.  What the f*ck is going on, are they going to kill me? I'm just a normal person, I'm not a threat to them, his better be a dream.

"Yes you did" said the calm one, "and the 'bickering tall dudes' brought you here after you hit your head on a rock. They wanted to make sure you would be ok and then you blew a hole in Tony's stupid carpet."

"It went right through my floor Stephen! If it weren't for Jarvis we'd be dead! They are dangerous, we need to investigate" he said angrily. They are gonna kill me, they are gonna kill me!

"Tony," said the calm one with exasperation, "we didn't find anything of importance in their bag, now I'm not disagreeing that we need to get to the bottom of this, after all they did explode."

Explode? That's not even fucking close to possible... I'm in one piece, though. Hold on... did I have a bomb?! Am I already dead?!

"I DID WHAT?" I screamed. 

"What do you mean, 'I did what?', you ex - ploded" the angry one shouted.

"What? How? You are barking!" A few tears were running down my cheeks.

"Tony, they obviously are confused, I don't believe it was their intention to cause damage." Said the calmer one, gently holding up his palms as if to try and calm the metal guy down.

"Intention? I wasn't conscious until now!" I try to take in some air with difficulty. A familiar overwhelming urge for escape returns, along with the adrenaline, briefly numbing the pain. I look through the door and see the hot guys, looking really tense, only the broad one looking in.

"You were moving before it happened, I even saw you glow for a second, we thought you were just pretending to be unconscious so you could kill us or something" said the frightened one.

"Kill? Please just get me out of this nightmare!"

The angry one looked at the calm one who shrugged.

"Come on, let's discuss this in the meeting room, Thor and Loki can keep watch" said the angry one.

The cloaked one told me I was safe, but told me to stay in the bed, then they all went back outside to chat more. Now what are they going to do to me? Wait are the hot guys Thor and Loki?

The two tall, brothers were talking to the three men outside, they both nodded and headed for the door to the room.

I wiped my face and tried to catch my breath, but the tears won't stop. The intensity of stress I've been put through make my body tremble.

Sh*t, this nightmare is too realistic.