His Rose (Loki x Reader)

Chapter 1

The battlefield was riddled with downed agents and several bodies lying either lifeless, or handcuffed to the ground. Weeks upon weeks of planning had come down to an execution of what had been thought to be a well laid out plan, but it turned into a massacre. Shield had thought they could take down one of Hydra's main bases without the assistance of the Avengers, and were proven to be very wrong.
Fury had approved the mission, but the higher ups were supposed to bring in the Avengers the moment things started to look bad. You had been on the battlefield for two days, and had yet to see any form of backup show up. Not even secondary Shield teams. You had resigned yourself to the fact that you were either going to die on the battlefield, or get taken. With your ice abilities, you would likely get taken if you were discovered. So far you had maintained your position with a small squad at the back of the building, watching the other teams get taken or shot by snipers.
"Don't do it," Gabby said from beside you, her French accent more prominent with the adrenaline pumping.. She was studying you with her bright blue eyes, her blond hair pulled back in a strict bun that was marred with dirt and blood. She was your best friend on the team and she had seen the gleam in your eye as you spotted where the sniper was taking out the other team. One solid launch of your ice spears, if executed properly, could take them out. It would give both teams some breathing room. The only problem was, it would be giving up your position and your ability at the same time, making you a target. The way things were looking, it was only a matter of time. You heard and saw another jet coming in for a landing and felt like you were being sucker punched. Hydra must have brought in more backup, because Shield had all but abandoned your team.
"Fuck it and fuck them. I'm not going down without a fight" you shook your head.
"Fine, but I'm going with you" Gabby grabbed her gun and took the safety off. She counted her bullets to make sure she had enough. "If you get taken or killed, I'm kicking your ass" she said as she looked over her shoulder to get sights on the field. "We will probably get experimented on, sold into slavery. Maybe live out our days in a cell again," she was waiting for you to get the balls to do exactly what you were thinking of doing. Her petite frame looked like it was vibrating and you gave a half smile.
"Sangria's after this?" you asked lightheartedly.
"Oui, on your left" she nodded with a wink before you jumped out of the fox hole you had been with your team. You jumped over some of the prisoners with Gabby at your flank. She was shooting any agents that were making their way towards you. You sucked in a breath and forced out your ice spear, collectively using as much energy as possible before releasing it into the air at the sniper. He didn't have time to react, but fell forward off the top of the three story building and speared himself on one of the fences that surrounded the back. Bullets were flying and Gabby was trying to take on as many agents as possible, but you both knew it was a losing battle unless Shield sent more back up.
"Gun" you called as you saw Gabby starting to morph her body into that of a small fox and her clothes fell uselessly to the ground. You shot the last of Gabby's bullets as she raced past you in her fox form and went for an agent's throat with her teeth. You looked out at the rest of the specialized team of enhanced individuals that were left alive on the battlefield and at that precise moment you felt a bullet rip through the flesh right above your hip and out the other side. Blood started pouring down the side of your uniform as Gabby yipped at you as if to remind you to get your ass in gear. You felt the burning sensation and summoned your powers again. You dropped the gun to the ground and screamed as you pushed yourself to move forward into a safer location. The rest of the team seemed to be taking notes, and came out of their fox holes and started to storm the base. The mission wasn't over and you all had one unified plan, and that was to take out this base and make it home alive. Besides, you had to pay for the sangria that you promised to your best friend, who turned into a furry fox when the need arose.
"I don't want to hear about this later" you groaned as you saw her stop to sniff at the blood pouring down your hip. She yipped at you, and you both heard feet falling at the same time. You turned to see three Hydra agents coming at you with their guns raised and aimed directly at you. A shot rang out before you had the opportunity to move and you felt the burn of the bullet before it registered that you had been shot again, this time through the collar bone. You made an ice shield around yourself and Gabby, and forced out another spear of ice to go through the soldier's body while you waited for the rest of the team to make their way across the field. Gabby managed to dig a small hole that was big enough for her to slip out from under the ice shield and growled menacingly at the body that fell forward, lifelessly to the ground. The other two agents came closer and she took out one by the throat while you found the energy to give one last spear a toss and a second body fell to the ground.
"Gabby, Y/N, what were you thinking?" your commanding officer demanded as they got close and you groaned. They had stopped to grab Gabby's clothes on their way on the battlefield thankfully, and Gabby shifted back to her human form. You were used to seeing her naked by this point, and she was proud of her barely scarred self, clearly comfortable in her own skin.
"Sangria's?" you asked with a grimace. "You see, we were talking if we got out of this alive we were going for sangria's. That's what was on my mind."
"You two are going to be the death of me" they sighed dramatically.
"I think this mission was intended to be the fucking death of us" Gabby said, her accent coming out thickly in aggravation. "Where is the backup?" she demanded as she finished putting on her clothes. The sound of bullets ripped through the air as the group of twenty of you huddled in your small safe spot.
"They jammed our signals. I can't call out to anyone." the leader admitted softly. "We are on our own," they whispered, suddenly frozen in defeat. "The pilot sent an SOS the day we got here before they were killed" they got down on one knee to survey the grounds.
"Surely Fury fucking knows by now" you snarled with rage. You were bleeding out quickly and if you didn't get to a safer zone, you were going to be in trouble to say the least. You were already starting to feel faint and could hear the shallow thump of your heartbeat in your ears, and your powers would be no good to the team if you passed out. You heard the sound of jet propulsions and suddenly you saw a red and gold figure come flying out of the woods at an unspeakable speed towards the building. The bullets were no longer aimed at your now small group, however aimed at the oncoming threat. You looked over hopefully only to see the Avengers coming out of the woods towards the building ready to infiltrate the base.
"Thank God" the team leader breathed a sigh of relief. A young man in his mid twenties came zipping out of the woods, and within a flash he was there beside your team with his white hair ruffling in the wind.
"We are here to get you out," Pietro Maximoff said in his thick Slavokian accent.
"There's our people on the field still alive, them first" the team leader gestured to where the bodies lay, some of them precariously still. Others, obviously dead. Pietro nodded and suddenly the bodies started disappearing one by one, minute after minute like nothing you had ever seen before. Gabby was holding her hand on your bullet wound on your collar bone, a stern look on her face as she watched the oncoming Avengers with a glare. You knew she was being cautious. The two of you had been roommates for over ten years now, and previous to that prisoners together in an AIM facility where they were doing experiments on the unwilling. You were both intimate with each other's screams and tears. When Fury had headed a base infiltration and discovered you were a few of the only survivors after three years of experiments and torture he took you all under his wing. He made sure the two of you especially were taken care of, and when you were ready to come into the real world again without fear, he signed you onto SHIELD. Over ten years had passed, and you both still received emails or phone calls from Fury once in a while to check in to make sure that you had fully adjusted to life. He had personally made sure you both got to be roommates instead of separate rooms when getting you apartment housing at SHIELD headquarters.
Bodies from the field and from your group continued to disappear quickly as the Avengers essentially took down the base, taking the onslaught of bullets and agents coming out to assault them. They passed your small team with a clear focus in mind. Take down the base, rescue the hostages. A man in green Asgardian armor stopped as he got close, and you knew him to be Loki. He looked concerned, but Gabby bared her bloodied teeth menacingly. Even in her human form, you knew she was dangerous. You used your powers to summon the head of a rose made of ice, and held it in the palm of your hand and his eyebrows went up. You had his full attention, and he stopped his progress towards the base. Within moments, you felt yourself lifted up and you dropped your rose on the ground in your wake. You didn't see Loki come over and pick it up to study it curiously before Thor bellowed to him to focus on the mission at hand.
Time seemed to stand still for you. One moment you were on the field, then suddenly the world was a blur, and the next you were in a jet with a concerned Clint Barton and Bruce Banner who were looking over the wounded. You screamed in pain as you were set down unceremoniously and you looked around for Gabby. You saw them both look up in alarm. The sight of needles and bodies everywhere gave you a flashback to when you were in AIM and you backed up until your back hit the cool metal wall of the jet.
"It's okay. You're alright" Clint said to you soothingly, but you were out of your mind in worry. You used your powers to summon another ice shield to put in front of your body in fear and he paused. "Hey, it's okay. We aren't going to hurt you. We are saving you" he came over and put his hand against the ice. You were lost in your own world, hyperventilating. Unable to breathe and only feel pain and regret.
"Just wait for her partner" your team leader said softly as Clint continued to try to get you to come out from behind your shield of ice. "They are both enhanced. Just a warning, the other one bites" they added, knowing from experience.
"Bites?" Clint asked, a little concerned. Pietro suddenly stopped running and set Gabby down on the floor beside the team leader. Gabby turned into a fox immediately and ran behind the ice shield, her fur still mottled with blood. "Oh, well that's new," he said in surprise. Gabby let her nose come out from behind the shield and gave a warning growl. The team leader got up and grabbed her clothes and brought them over to be closer for when she decided to change back.
"Fascinating!" Bruce breathed in surprise. "We didn't know SHIELD had enhanced" he looked to the team leader.
"Fury hides a lot from you," they shrugged and looked away to focus on mending their own wounds.