ALTHEA✓AVENGERS

Chapter 19

"I will not marry the king of Niflheim!" Althea raised her voice at her father in the throne room. "You will marry him and you do not have a choice in that matter." Her father said to her.

"I do not wish to marry father why can't you understand that?" She asked her father raising her voice. "Enough!" Her father's voice echoed through the halls of the throne room. "I will not have you disrespect me this way. You're marrying him!" Her father said to her and walked away.

Tears were pooling in her eyes as she saw her father's retreating figure. She knew she couldn't do anything about this. Althea suddenly felt a hand on her shoulder she turned to see it was Loki who looked at her with pity.

She hugged him as tight as she could. "I do not wish to marry brother. Talk to father for me please brother. I beg of you." Althea pleaded  to Loki who wiped her tears away using his thumb and nodded his head.

"What if he tries to kill us?" Gary asked her as they made their way in to a cafe in Brusav. Althea rolled her eyes for the hundredth time. "Gary you do know that I have powers that can kill him while he's just a guy with a metal arm right?" She turned and asked Gary who looked at her sheepishly.

"He's also managed to shot you twice so I m not really counting on you." Gary mumbled under his breath but she heard it. She shot him a glare which made Gary look around nervously. "Gary he won't. Trust me." She assured Gary as she walked up to the counter to order the coffee.

"pot să iau două cești de cafea?"(can I get two cup of coffee?) Althea said to the women working there gave her the money for it. Sheoffered her a smile which she returned with her own. "mulțumesc." (Thank you) she said when the waitress came back with a tray with two cup of coffees in it.

She brought the tray towards the table where Gary was sitting. She could see that he was extremely nervous with the way he's been looking around him anxiously. Althea realized she should've come alone. She regretted bringing him because maybe Bucky's not Bucky. Maybe he's still The Winter soldier.

She was scared that she would get him killed. She let out a sigh and dropped the tray slowly on the table and took both of their coffee's out and returned the tray back to the waitress.

"How do you know Romanian?" Gary asked her as he took a sip of the coffee which was hot and immediately spitted it out which earned dirty  looks from the people around them. Althea quickly sent an apologetic smile to them  and took a tissue from her hand bag and handed it to Gary who accepted it.

"That was hot as hell!" Gary exclaimed as he wiped his mouth. She rolled her eyes at his antics and channeled the air around her to make it warm instead of hot. "Drink it now." Althea said to him and gestured him to drink. Gary gave her a skeptical look as he took a sip carefully but realized it was not as hot as it was. He let out a sigh in relief.

"Thank you." He said to her which made her nod at him. Shelooked around looking for Bucky's face. According to Jarvis he visits this cafe everyday with the same jacket but yesterday was the first time the camera could capture him.

"Ma'am how did you know Romanian?" Gary asked her again. "What do you think I was reading on the jet?" Althea asked him as she took a sip of her coffee and looked at the door. Gary gave her a confused look.

"How did you..." Gary started but got interrupted. "I have an eidetic memory Gary. How do you think a girl from a place with not that much technology get to design and make weapons for superheroes. She reads." She explained to Gary who nodded.

Althea and Gary waited for another 10 minutes before deciding to leave that was when she saw Bucky entering the cafe which made her sit down immediately. Gary shot her a confused look. "I thought we were leaving." Gary said as he sat back on his seat.