The Avenger's Soul

New Life - Take 4

Lexi's POV

I rolled over in bed and groaned as I blinked the sleep out of my eyes and stretched my arms over my head. I frowned as I felt the satin sheets on my skin, as this was not what I had expected. I shot up in bed and stared around me in confusion, but as I became aware of my surroundings I recognized the view of the living room as Lucifer's suite above Lux. I frowned as my brain caught up on recent events as I swung my legs off the bed and stood up, pleased to find that I was fully healed, but sorrowful as I remembered clearly the reason why I had needed healing in the first place. The image of Tony's repulser blasting me across the room and the feel of Steve's shield slamming into my body filled my mind and I shook my head trying to focus on something more positive.

"Glad to see you are awake, my little dove," I heard Lucifer say as I walked into the living room. I stared at him and Loki, who was chilling on the couch.

"Hey! I'm not little!" I complained as I threw myself down next to Loki.

"You're 5"2," Lucifer replied as he smirked and stalked over to join us. I stuck my tongue out at him but it only caused him to chuckle. I rolled my eyes and turned to stare at Loki.

"Um...you aren't planning to try and take over the world again, are you?" I asked nervously. I really didn't think I had it in me to jump straight into another battle.

"No, kitten, one of the conditions of you helping me escape was that I promise to help keep the peace on midguard like my brother does," Loki answered.

"What are you talking about? I didn't help you escape!" I exclaimed, tilting my head in confusion.

"Well it was you, but not you. A version of yourself from another universe," he tried to explain. I stared at the two men before me as they tried to explain to me the multiverse theory and told me about how the doppelgänger version of me had come to them and told them to rescue me from Stark Tower.

"So, so you're saying there is multiple universes out there and therefore multiple versions of me walking around?" I clarified after they had finished their explanations.

"Yes, and no," Loki said glancing over at Lucifer.

"What do you mean by that?" I said tilting my head.

"Well, the other version of you said that you and her were the last two in existence. The other doppelgängers have all been killed off by now or merged together until there was only you and her left," Lucifer said as he stared at me.

"Wait, what do you mean 'merged'?" I asked, not liking the sound of that.

"Well, she said that the multiverse can only handle one version of you existing in the end so at some point the two of you will merge into one person, she didn't really go into specifics since we were in a rush to come save you but she did make a point to say that you and her would be crossing paths sometime soon and that when you did, there would only be one left by the end..." Loki said, looking at me with worry. I mulled this over, not liking the news one bit.

We all sat on the couch for half an hour before I finally decided to change the subject.

"So what do you suggest I do with my life now?" I asked, not really sure of what to do with myself.

"Well what is it that you desire?" Lucifer asked.

"Don't start that up again!" I said rolling my eyes at him. "I don't know I guess I could go with my original plan of working at Lux as a bartender and try to keep a low profile?" I didn't want Hydra finding me and what with Ward and Garrett on the lookout as well, I didn't want to make a scene.

"That works for me, dove. In fact you can start tonight, but first, can you play a song for both of us? I missed hearing your voice these past few months," Lucifer asked, batting his eyes at me with a puppy dog look on his face that I just couldn't say no to.