Destiny - Thor Odinson

07

         Eira fought.

         Vines of every color of green sprouted out of the ground in front of her to shield her against her enemies that were only digital images. Then she had them cascade outwards like a tsunami to knock the enemies away.

          But it left her defenseless from behind and an air blast hit her which sent her flying before she landed on her back on the ground.

             She groaned as the digital scenery faded. She got up and huffed, disappointed with herself.

                ___

             She was now sitting in Fury's office at the Triskelion with a busted lip and a growing bruise on her cheek. It was safe to say that fury described him perfectly.

            He was replaying a clip of her in New Mexico, burning down the Destroyer. She turned her eyes away from it; she didn't like how violent or out of control she was. He spoke when it was finished.

             "That was you," Fury said. "Yet you haven't been able to do anything like that after months of training."

              "I-I was angry then," she explained. It was hard to be angry when the things she were fighting weren't even real but, truthfully, she didn't want to be angry.

             "And you shouldn't have to rely on anger to get the job done," Fury stated before asking a rhetorical question. "Are you angry when you create storms out of thin air?"

              "No," she muttered.

             "Then what is the problem?"

             Fury wanted an answer she couldn't give. But, deep down, she knew the truth: she was afraid of herself. Because the limits of her abilities might be in the stars and maybe the stars were too far.

               ____

              It was movie night.

              She and Steve got together every Friday and watched a movie neither of them had seen (which was quite a lot). But she was quite distracted by her thoughts and why she let Steve eat all the popcorn.

                She told Fury she was done with training for now and that she was taking a break. She couldn't focus on the movie at all.

               "Okay, what's wrong?" Steve asked as he paused the movie.

               "Nothing," she brushed off.

                "Eira," he warned.

               She was silent for a moment before responding, "After you got the serum, were you ever scared about it? Like...scared that you had too much power...that you'd abuse it?"

               "I was scared that I had too much at first. Suddenly, if I hit someone too hard, I could kill them. I had to learn to pull my punches," Steve answered. "But I wasn't scared I'd abuse it. I knew what I wanted to do and it wasn't to kill people."

                "But you did kill people," she stated.

                Memories flashed through his head, "I crossed that line because my enemy didn't care about it. I did and not a day goes by that I don't carry that with me."

              She had frowned deeply and placed her hand on his arm like he somehow needed comfort.

                 "Eira..." he called with a small smile to get her to look at him and her eyes gazed up at him. She looked at him like his smile held all her relief. "I'm convinced you could break the world if you wanted to and maybe your afraid of that but it's not in your nature to break things."