Earned Trust

chapter 27

"This is something new."
"I'm shocked."
"But look how cute they are together."
"No it's just weird."
"I wish Nat could see this."
"Oh she will, I took a picture already."

You slowly woke up to an intensive conversation what was happening right in front of you. You were still in your wolf form and you noticed that you had fallen asleep on Loki's lap and apparently he had fallen asleep as well. And now you saw the whole team except Nat and Bruce, standing right in front of you and taking pictures as much as they could before you two would wake up.
But now you and Loki were both awake and wondering what the hell was going on.

"Oh look, our lovebirds are finally awake. I got lot of cute pics of you two." Tony teased and others laughed, except you and Loki.
"What the hell is this?" Loki grumbled as he stood up after you had sat back up.
"Don't be so grumpy Reindeer Games. Clint just happened to find you two like this and of course we needed to see this for ourselves too." Tony replied and others agreed.
"We were just little surprised Y/N." Clint said and shrugged. But you didn't find this as funny as others may have. So you just huffed angrily and stormed out the room to back to yours.
"Come on Y/N." you heard Tony's frustrated whining after you had left the room. But you just wanted to ignore him completely.

"Great job guys." Loki snarled to them after you had vanished from their sight. And then he ran after you.

You rushed into your room. Your body had luckily healed back during the night, so you didn't have any pains any longer. You quickly shifted back into your human form and went to get some new clothes without any blood or dirt on them.

And after you had dressed up, you heard your door opening and someone stepping in.

You growled aggressively as you stormed out of your bedroom.
"Y/N relax, it's me." Loki said and lifted his hands up.
"Go away." you said firmly. You felt attacked and threatened and you wanted to be alone.
"Y/N-"
"Just leave, please." you murmured.
There was something new in his eyes and in the way he looked at you. You haven't seen it before.
And then he just nodded quietly, turned around and closed your door behind him.

*

Later on the evening, after being in your room the whole day, you had decided to visit Nat. You knew there wouldn't be others at this time of the evening so it was more than perfect time to sneak out.

You were just about to open your door as you heard footsteps of two people coming from the direction of the elevator. You focused your hearing and leaned closer to your door.
"I wonder if Y/N is fine." you heard Thor's voice.
"You should've thought about that before teasing us with those ridiculous pictures." Loki grumbled at his brother.
"Come on brother, don't be so naive. We were just playing a little." Thor protested.
"Naive? I wonder who really here is the naive one. All of you screwed up everything." Loki huffed.
"What do you mean screwed up? We did nothing wrong." Thor said innocently. He really seemed like he didn't realize the problem here.
"It had literally taken me an eternity to try to earn even little bit of her trust. Especially since none of you had seemed to succeed with that. And now because you all screwed up, she might never trust me again." Loki grumbled.
"You truly think that? Why is that so important anyways?" Thor asked then, seeming to be a bit confused (like always).
"You wouldn't understand brother." Loki replied angrily. Then you heard him grabbing the door handle, but Thor obviously stopped him.
"You care about her. Don't you?" Thor said then after the realization had kicked in.
"It's not just that.." you heard Loki's hesitating voice.
"What is it?" Thor asked, and you pressed your ear against your door to hear better what Loki was about to say.
"As I said before, you wouldn't understand." Loki repeated himself and you heard how frustrated he already had gotten. And then he tried to get into his room again but apparently Thor was still blocking his way.
"I won't let you leave before you tell me." Thor said firmly.
"Thor come on. Let me go!" Loki grumbled at him.
"Tell me!" Thor raised his voice a bit and you heard Loki's heavy sigh following it.
"Okay fine." Loki grumbled. "Y/N is... the only one who didn't.." he hesitated again.
"Didn't what?" Thor repeated.
"Who didn't judge me by my past or what I really am!" Loki raised his voice too. He sounded like he was embarrassed to admit it. Your jaw dropped a little and great silence landed above them. You hadn't expected him to say anything like that and it seemed like Thor hadn't either.

"She.. knows?" Thor said then after few minutes of silence.
"Yes.. Y/N knows that I am a frost giant." Loki sighed.
"Isn't it a good thing then? She accepted you." Thor said.
"Yes of course it is. I just.." he struggled again and you felt his frustration through the hallway all the way into your room.
"Just what?" Thor asked gently.
"I just hope it wasn't all wasted." Loki replied and then his footsteps disappeared into his room.

You walked away from the door. Loki's words had affected harder than you had ever expected. It was weird how deeply you already seemed to care about..

him.

Then you waited for Thor to leave before you finally opened your door. You glanced at Loki's room but you kept walking and ignored the urge to knock.
Then you went down the stairs, all the way down to the medical and luckily you didn't run into anyone.

You opened the door quietly and peeked in. No one except Nat was there and you walked in, closing the door behind you.
Then you went over to her bed and for your surprise, she was awake.
"I'm absolutely disappointed that you hadn't come to see me earlier." Nat said with slight smile on her lips. She was still weak and tired, but she was going to heal. It just was going to take a few more days.
"I'm sorry Nat, I really wanted to, but-"
"I know." she replied softly. She supported her weight with her arms as she sat up. Then she signed you to sat down too and you did.
"They told you already.. of course they did." you said with slight of anger in your voice. Nat nodded and sighed heavily.
"I'm sorry Y/N, they shouldn't have done that. They just don't understand, as you should have known already, they all are still acting like bunch of children." Nat tried to comfort you but she couldn't change the past, nothing could. "Anyways, I told them to delete those pictures and I tried-"
"It's okay Nat. Thank you." you interrupted her. "And I'm glad that you're getting better." you added and Nat smiled in return. But then her smile disappeared as she looked deeply into your eyes.
"You didn't came here just to have a fun chat with me, didn't you?" she said then. You knew she would have realized it sooner or later.
"Well, yes, I would like to know if-"
"No, they didn't say anything when they attacked. They had already shifted by then anyways." she replied to your question before you had even managed to finish it.

"Okay, thank you Nat. I will let you rest now." you sighed then and stood up, but she grabbed your hand before you managed to left.
"Is something going on? I can see you're worried." she asked. You glanced at the floor. You really felt like you should tell her, it was your fault after all that she's in that condition. But it was also too risky. You didn't even know for yourself what was actually going on. You shouldn't let her worry about something that was nothing. Not until you figure out what was happening.
"Everything is perfectly fine, I was just wondering. That's all." you replied with a smile on your face. Nat frowned a bit in disbelief but she let it go.
"Okay then, if that's what you say. Good night, Y/N." she replied. She was tired and she needed to rest and you knew it.
"Good night, Natasha." you said and then disappeared back into the corridor.