Dog Days

Chapter 42

The following morning, I sit up to find Hela places a tray of food next to the couch as she holds a large manilla envelope under her arm. She looks it over for a long moment, before I ask "What is it?"

She gives me a startled look, as she turns to me "You know I'm Hela, right?"

I sigh "Yeah." She nods and I motion towards the envelope "What's that?"

She shrugs, before handing it over "Military dropped it off about an hour ago. I was making your breakfast."

I take in a deep breath and she motions out the door "Mom, dad, and I are having breakfast out in the dining room. I didn't think you would be awake."

I look outside to find the morning sun casting light into the windows "Can I have my next dose?"

She takes a minute, before she furrows her brow and points back at the food "Hungry?"

I shrug with my one good shoulder "Sure."

She walks over to the food tray as I hold up the envelope and ask "Did you open it yet?"

She furrows her brow and remarks "Not after yesterday."

As she brings over the food tray, I sigh "I might have slightly overacted."

She scoffs and I give her a soft smile "Seriously, I'm sorry. I was just having an intimate moment, and I didn't want to admit that it wasn't real."

She gives me a tired smile, before turning towards the bathroom "It's fine, Thor. Just don't do it, again."

As I hear the faucet turning on, I turn the envelope over and open up the gold prong. When I open it, I find a file and a letter.

As I pull them out, a thumb drive falls out. In confusion, I sit the papers down and look over the thumb drive.

Hela walks out with my meds and asks "What's that?"

I motion towards the laptop and ask "Laptop?"

As she grabs it, I open the file and immediately see o photo of Loki's gorgeous face "Oh my fucking god." I whisper as I take the laptop and pull it up.

As I plug in the thumb drive, she repeats "What is it?"

I look back at the file and state "He said something about me being listed as an assistant for the case he was working."

I look through to see his psychological evaluations on all of my people, even on me. It's his mind to paper. I read his voice in my head as I read his dictation. I also see see my operative notes by Natalia Romanova. A log sheet says the the thumb drive just contains videos and recorded audios with everyone.

I look towards her to state "You may not want to watch this."

I take a drink of water and down my pills, before turning towards the laptop and opening the thumb drive to find audio taped interviews, as well as video clips that aren't labeled, one is labeled "Interrogation". The last one is labeled "Invasion."

She scoffs "I can handle myself." As I click on the video labeled invasion, I find a video recording of the middle of our little camp. It's before Loki approached me, and I see the cargo truck parked in the background "What is this?"

I stare at the screen in shock as I watch Loki walk by, only to come right back and get in my face. We talk only inches away from each other.

Then, he turns to leave and he isn't even fully out of frame before I turn to my men, and then the cargo truck blows.

It was from the cab of the truck and I can only watch as I go flying back. And Loki was right, you can see my eye bounce off as I land fifteen feet back from where I was. Hela gasps "What the fuck?"