Eternals Oneshots

[REQUEST] Druig - Pushover

(Thank you to @hesmindcontroll for this request! I hope you like it!)

READER PRONOUNS: SHE/HER

"I just think we should-" You try.

"No, Y/N." Ikaris cuts you off, jaw set.

"But I have a really good idea-" you weakly try to convince him.

"I said no. Go scout ahead and take care of some deviants or something." He snaps, tone final.

Your shoulders sag. You don't have it in you to argue. You never do. A 'pushover' as Thena had called you. You just didn't want to offend. Why is it so hard to fight back?

You walk quietly out of the room of the Domo, trying desperately not to cry.

("Scout ahead.")

Your emotion builds up in your heart as his words replay in your head. Why couldn't they all just listen?

("Take care of some deviants.")

All they did was send you in to kill deviants and then you were useless to them. What was so wrong with you? Did you only exist to be used?

"Arishem, send me a sign there is more to me than this." You whisper out loud to yourself.

The hulking red statue of Arishem does not answer.

"Y/N!" Kingo's cheery voice echoes around the room.

You turn, putting on a smile. "Kingo!" You greet.

"How's my favourite bomb?" He jokes, the nickname coming from your powers.

You use the cosmic energy Arishem gifted you to create explosions, which you can use to knock back deviants, blow them to pieces and even to crack the earth beneath you.

"I'm fine." You answer, lying through your teeth. Kingo nods.

"Didn't Ikaris give you a job?" He asks out of the blue. Your heart sinks. He'd only come to check you were leaving.

"Yeah, sorry, I'll go now." You quickly apologise, feeling the tears threaten to spill once again.

Kingo looks a bit guilty, but you know it's only because he saw your tears. You continue to apologise as you get into your suit, and apologise once more as you leave the room.

You step out into the grass, breathing in the crisp air of the night. Finally, peace.

No one to prove yourself to. No one to apologise to. No one to lie to.

You set out on your task, trudging along the marshy land.

Around a half an hour later...

You make it to a thick forest, trees so tall you can almost imagine they're grazing the stars themselves. You knew there was at least two deviants in the area, so you just needed to find them.

As soon as the thought enters your head, you feel a heavy paw on your back, and jagged claws ripping the skin of your back away.

Your scream of agony echoes through the forest, and the cosmic energy builds in a ball around you.

When the deviant tears it's claws out of your back, the ball explodes and sends everything around you flying backwards, including the deviant.

You turn, running on adrenaline and high levels of cosmic energy, therefore not fully feeling the pain of the wound on your back.

"Motherfucker!" You yell, and the deviant rises up on its haunches.

Slamming your foot to the ground, you send a shockwave through the soil that knocks the deviant back again.

The deviant roars, and lashes it's spiked tail out at you, catching your shoulder.

You glance at the red soaking your skin and you get angry. Angrier than you ever have before.

"They all use me!" You scream, throwing an explosion that exposes the flesh in the deviants shoulder.

"They don't care!" You exclaim, sending another that blasts off the deviants foot.

"I try and try but nothing I ever do is enough!" You bellow, your voice straining at the sheer amount of emotion running through it.

Tears are blurring your vision, but your final explosion lands directly in the deviants mouth, blowing its head off.

A snap of a twig behind you, and a ball of cosmic energy surrounds your fist, ready to blow. You spin around, only to see Druig.

"Careful there, I like having a head." He jokes, and you drop your hand, the cosmic energy disappearing.

"Come to check if I'm doing my task?" You ask, a bitter tone under your words that surprises both of you.

"No?" He says, "Makkari mentioned she saw you leaving earlier and I wanted to make sure you were ok."

You bite your lip. Was he lying? No, Druig never lied to you.

At this, you break down. Tears slip down your cheeks, and you can feel your cheeks flush.

You crouch down, curling your arms around your knees as you sob. You feel Druig's arms wrap around you, and you lean your head into his chest.

"'S ok, darlin'. You're ok." He comforts, rubbing your back.

You couldn't manage any words, so you just let out a sob, shaking your head.

"I can't do this! I can't take it anymore, Druig!" You cry, voice raw. Druig takes a breath in, and he doesn't speak for a few seconds.

"Then let's get away, yeah? Jus' me and you, gorgeous. How does that sound?" He suggests and you nod.

You both sit in the forest for a few more minutes, enjoying the closeness, before he leads you back to the Domo to get your things.

Your life with Druig was beginning, and you swore that you wouldn't be a pushover any longer.