Finally Found You (Loki x Gender Neutral Reader)

Chapter 9 - The Dream

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Y/n's pov

I have been laying in the bed in the lab for what feels like a couple of hours. I have never been so bored in my life, but I remember that my bag is in the room. So I jump out of bed, almost falling flat on my face again, still not used to being conscious. How could I forget my bag? Let's see what's in here.

I crawl up to my bag, open it and rummage around. I have brought some spare clothes, sweets and crisps. Nice, I'm starving af. Let's have some doritos.

So I sit on the floor, rip the packet open and start stuffing my face with doritos. From here I can see a but further down the corridor outside, the most interesting thing I spot is a plant... wow, some variety I see. That's when I hear a clucking of boots coming nearer. I look up and a woman throws the glass door open. Oh my god, why does everyone have to kill the door as they come in?

"Ah, so this is why Tony is angry." She smirks, crossing here arms and tilting her head with interest.

I pause, then lick the crumbs off of my fingers. It's impossible for me to be scared anymore, I'm just numb and want my doritos.

Stephen follows in, face turned to the woman and points at the bed, "Yes, this is-" he stops, realising that I'm on the floor. He quickly steps towards me with eyes wide in concern, but his eyebrows furrow, his expression turning to shock then suspiscion. I sigh and shove another handful of doritos in my gob, but he doesn't stop staring.

"What are you looking at?" I spit crumbs out accidently. 

He huffs and walks to the clip board clipped to the bed. He scans it, fingers tapping the edge until he glares back at me shaking his head  and saying, "Nothing, I just wasn't expecting you to be up so soon." 

"I was hungry."

He raises one eyebrow, "Right... Nat, meet Y/n, Y/n meet Nat."

"Hi Na'." I said with my mouth still half full.

"Y/n, we have a room for you. I guess since you prematurely capable of moving about, if you would like to follow us." Stephen gestures with his head and starts walking.

"Ok, hold on" I swallow down the doritos still in my mouth, shove the packet back in the bag. I Then push myself up, yanking my it over my shoulder. I pad out of the room with my bare feet, looking around the area. For all I know I could actually be in a spaceship.

They lead me down a corridor decorated with various awards. I scan them and see them addressed to Tony Stark and the Avengers. 

"What are the Avengers?"

"Well, thats what we call our... group" Stephen keeps his eyes forward.

"What do you do?"

"We are a team of 'superheros' you could say" Nat rolls her eyes at Stephen as he winces at the cheesiness of the truth.

"What? Are these your super suits or something?"

"Yes, essentially, some of us have just got back from missions." Stephen directs me into a small-ish room of light-gray which only has a bed and a tray of equipment inside.

Superheros huh? How come I've never heard of them? I guess I do live in the middle of nowhere.

"Um, is there anything else in this room?"

"Not for now, we still don't know if you will explode again."

"Right." Gulp. So I'm a ticking time bomb, nice to know.

"I'm afraid you are going to have to stay in here for the day, we have an inspection from the S.I.S and S.H.I.E.L.D don't want them to know that you exist."

S.I.S? Shield? This is illuminati territory. 

"Several questions, I've heard of the S.I.S, but who are 'shield'? Why are the S.I.S inspecting this place and why am I to hide here?"

"It is just an annual check up, S.H.I.E.L.D. is an espionage and security organization that defends Earth and its people from groups that pose advanced technological—and sometimes supernatural or extraterrestrial—threats. S.H.I.E.L.D. is shorthand for the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division." 

"Bloody hell." That's a mouthfull.

"Ever since the S.I.S learned of S.H.I.E.L.D's existence, they also started to do check-ups since they don't want them to steal their thunder, a classic UK versus US intelligence war."

Why am I to be kept a secret? I'm just a boring human, right? "Wait, am I a threat?"

"There is a bathroom through that door and we will bring up some clothes later, is that ok?"

"Yes, thank you, but-"

"Can you sit down on the bed for a second?"

He made me put a weird glowing wristband and some weird glowing circles on my back and chest. So I am gonna be tested like a lab rat afterall.

"Ok, there we go, don't take these off, they are various monitors, we will use the data to check for abnormalities when you sleep or explode, we haven't scanned you yet, since our scanner is broken, but we will do a full body as soon as it's fixed, you can shower with the monitors on, so don't worry. I need to go and do some research before you start hurting others, intentional or not. Nat can answer the other million questions you have, goodbye."

"Thank you, but why-" But Stephen has already left the room, "bye!"

Nat makes her way over to my bed, sitting down. She leans back on her elbows and flicks the hair out of her eyes with a quick jerk of her head.

"So, Y/n, tell me how you got here, no-one has told me yet." Her posture is abrubtly casual, but I can't help but lean back on my elbows too.

"Ok, well I guess I'll start from the start. Basically I was walking down the street and I saw some foot prints leading into the forest, I was curious so I followed them and then I saw Thor and Loki arguing."

"Well that's a first." Nat says sarcastically.

"And then when they spotted me, I ran, scared and then I tripped and apparently I hit my head and passed out. I woke up three days later in that bed and I was told that I blew a hole in a floor while I was passed out."

"Ah, I see. And have you blown up before?"

"Not to my knowledge. I doubt it." Why does that feel like a lie? I mean I have been near a bomb attack once...

Nat raises her eyebrow, can she read my thoughts? I sure hope not! I gulp and then give in and say, "Well there was this one time where we moved houses. Someone tried to bomb us while we were sleeping, but that couldn't have been me, right?"

"So it happened while you were unconscious as well?"

"Um, yeah, I was having a nightmare too."

"I see, do you mind me asking what it was about?" she said in a gentle voice.

"I don't want to talk about it, even if I did, I wouldn't know what to tell you, they are always confusing." I sigh in frustration and look down at my lap.

Nat puts a hand on my shoulder and shakes it gently.

"Ok, I'll stop asking about the explosion now, I'm sure you have been interrogated enough by everyone else, tell me, what is your favourite movie?"

"Ok, well, there are so many good ones, I don't even know how to choose!"

I'm glad that Nat isn't only interrogating me about the explosion, it is rather overwhelming. So we chatted about our favourite movies and series. She was great to talk to and I could relax for the first time since I woke up here.