Dog Days

Chapter 78

As we step back inside, a short guy with salt and pepper hair and a mustache walks around me, only to say "Wow, I would expect nothing less from Loki. Picking the sexiest hippie he could find in The Middle East."

I look to Natasha and she smiles "Mobius, I don't think Thor likes you looking him over like livestock."

He smiles at me, before declaring "You're just so muscular. I can't seem to wrap my brain around it." He looks over my shoulders and asks "Didn't you just have surgery on your shoulder?"

I nod and he just looks at me in amazement "Wow."

A tall black woman with short hair gives me a heartfelt smile "Excuse Mobius. He's sarcastic as hell, but easily amused."

He narrows his gaze at her and reminds "I'm charming."

She gives him a snotty look, before she remarks "That mustache isn't. It looks like you have a chalkboard eraser under your nose."

He looks crushed for a moment, before he just states "That hurt."

She scoffs, before looking to me "I'm B15, but Bee is fine."

I give her a soft smile, before declaring "I'm way out of my league here. This place is insane."

They give me a confused look and I explain "I have not been able to process anything in the last week. I'm still catching up. Part of me still thinks Loki is dead in a dirt basement in Panama, and the other part is still in denial about everything."

Natasha looks at me, with a since of understanding, before she look to Mobius and orders "Find whatever room Loki is going to be transferred to and go ahead and get a bed ready." She looks to Bee and smiles, weakly "Can you help him?"

They give her a short nod and walk off to get onto the elevator as Natasha asks me "What are you having issues with?"

I take a deep breath as she steps over to the couch to grab a blanket. As she looks at me, I sigh "Last week, I thought he was dead, and then he was alive, and then he died, but he's really alive-" I look to the ground and state "So everything that happened to him, he'll carry with him-"

She grabs the blanket and wraps it around my shoulders as I continue "And he was so far away, for so long. He's in the same building as me, now, being cut open, and explored, as exposed as he was on that video, and I still can't even see him."

She rubs my back through the blanket as I begin to cry. She speaks softly, only to ask "What's wrong?"

I look at her and declare "I watched him die, last night. I watched the hopes and dreams of a family with him burn to the ground, just like I have since he disappeared. I thought my life was over. I thought he was dead, and I was paralyzed in fear." Tears stream down my face as I sob "And now I'm standing in a technologically advanced super lab, and I fear that I'll wake up on my bedroom floor."

She looks to Rogers and orders "Grab his bag."

He grabs my bag off the floor and she looks to me with a soft smile "You're still in shock. That isn't surprising considering the amount of pain you've endured in the past week. We're going to take you to the room Loki will be taken to and let you take a rest, okay?"

I nod and she walks to the elevator as she asks "Jarvis, what room are we going to?"

Jarvis responds "39B."

As we step onto the elevator, she asks "How are you doing with the sleep medicine?"

I furrow my brow and declare "It keeps me from dreaming, so it's good. I can actually sleep, and I don't hurt anyone."