The Scientist 2: The Blue Princess (Loki x OC)

Pt. 6: What's in a Name

A/N: got weird on my motivation here and there and also the summer class I'm finishing up is so hard but I found time to write here and there so here it is!

The Blue Princess Soundtrack: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7t5e9bhN9c25YEj1UCzwGk

You Look So Good In Blue: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3Q0fUqZM9G5XcefGCh30uo?si=KFOt-B1GT7SPCNEp6Zz9yQ

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Luna yawned as she carefully watched her step down the stairs. Once at the bottom, she checked the clock again out of nervous habit. In her mind, it was a packed day. First on her agenda was to conduct her first personal experiment concerning her newfound abilities. 'The Guinea Pig Project,' she so lovingly titled it in her notebook, but events much more profound were occurring. It was the beginning of her Becoming.

Second on the agenda was a call from her and Loki's appointed lawyers. Tony's message about them was vague, stating that they'd introduce themselves when the time came. They'd gracious volunteered their services, so Tony respected their decision and left them in temporary anonymity. Finding lawyers for two of the country's most wanted was hard enough, let alone having respectable ones that sought him out on purpose.

Luna set her things down on the kitchen island and wiped everything down with disinfectant: her knife, phone, notebook, counters, etc. She set the used towel aside, washed her hands for good measure, and opened her notebook. The page was already set up to start, so she loaded up the timer on her phone and held up her left arm. She rotated her forearm, deciding where to start, and cleaned the area just below the crook of her elbow.

Luna's heart pounded as she held the knife to the light. It made no sense why she would be nervous. She'd done this countless times before. Perhaps it was because the place wasn't private. With that in mind, she had to be quick. She pressed the blade to her skin and swiftly swiped it across, creating a two-inch cut, and started the timer the moment the knife left her arm.

Finger hovering over 'pause,' Luna's gaze remained locked on her new wound. It barely had a chance to bleed before the surrounding skin tingled and flushed blue. She watched as the cut clotted, dried, and filled in with a new sliver of skin. She stopped the timer and rinsed off any excess dried blood. The water revealed only smooth skin holding no evidence of ever being injured.

Feeling triumphant, Luna checked the timer and wrote down the time and additional observations. Complete healing took a little over two minutes. She flipped back to a similar experiment from a few weeks prior and checked the time. A similar cut had taken nearly five minutes to heal. This was an incredible advancement in ongoing events. Now, all she needed was Loki to complete the second half of her experiment.

Luna thought about how to approach him. She'd left him while he was reading, only giving him the excuse that she would hang out downstairs. He'd hummed an affirmation, barely taking his eyes off the page. Touching her forearm, she decided to wait until he was ready to come down himself. He couldn't be in the room all day, at least not until the mysterious lawyers were calling.

Luna staked her supplies and searched for a sensible snack to pass the time. Fruit was appealing as always, but she felt like indulging, so she picked the half-empty Lays chip bag and poured some into a bowl.

Snack in hand, she sashayed to the living room to pass the rest of the time away. The channel names flipped by as she clicked the remote arrows down one way and then the other. Her eye caught the title of a news program, and she backed up a few channels. It was one click away, and her thumb rested on the select button, but she decided against it. She didn't need to hear whatever was being said.

As Luna crunched away on her chips, she stumbled across an old favorite and cracked a wide smile.

"Oh hell yeah, 'Evil Dead'!" she said and set down the remote to get cozy.