marvel one-shots

17. loki ; hospital

Loki

I woke with a start and felt the sharp pull from restraints; one on my chest, two on my ankles, two on my wrists, and one on my neck. They were all too tight.

"How dare you trap a god!" I yell at the white ceiling. I look around and see a matching white room. There's glass on the far side with people in lab coats and scrubs behind it.

"How dare you!" I yell again, just to say something to release this anger.

A door opens behind me and I struggle to see, and fail. I rest my head against the headrest.

"Release me mortal!" I yell without seeing the intruder. The body walks forward to my left and sits in a swivel stool. It's a girl, barely at her twentieth year. "Release me." I hiss again. She looks past her clipboard at me. She has thick-framed glasses.

"Welcome to SHIELD's infirmary. I'm a nurse here, my name's Grace." She says calmly. She's in pink washed out scrubs and has a lab coat on.

"I've been studying you over your stay here and by the way it looks, and sounds, you haven't progressed."

"What progress would I have made?"

"You don't remember do you?"

"Remember what?" I ask tightly, against the neck strap. She stands and walks toward my head. There're uneasy murmurs from behind the glass but she continues to loosen the neck strap.

She pulls it off me and I continue to lay my head back. She sits back down.

"Remember your little bursts of insanity? Loki you wake in the middle of the night and scream so loudly, you thrash, you moan. We had to move you to a sound proof room. You make the lights blow out. You yell at us from behind the glass. You're insane and you can't remember it." I raise my head.

"Lady Grace, I apologize. Please release me."

"You say that everyday..." She trails off.

"Please release me, I am fine now."

"You say that too..." She pauses. "You're clinically insane."

"Bring me my brother." I demand. "I want to see him!" She stands and nods.

"I'll go get him." She leaves. I relax and feel perspiration on my forehead and back. Within minutes the door behind me opens again. I twist and see him.

He's alone. I look at the glass and the people are gone.

"Brother." He smiles.

"Brother Thor get me out of here, I beg you."

"Loki, are you back this time?" He asks.

"I haven't been aware of my terrors until now. So I must be." I say. He nods and moves quickly to unlatch me and I sit up. I stand and my legs are a little weak but quickly regain strength. I look at him.

"You've grown." I say and lightly pat his cheek. He smiles.

"As have you brother Loki." He answers. He nods and we hurry out the door.

We run past agents and they are shockingly slow to react. We blow the lights out. We make it to a landing area outside and get ready to leave.

I look back and see the nurse in pink scrubs and thick glasses. Lady Grace.

"We must go brother!" Thor yells and takes my arm, he flies into the blue sky and I look down at the girl, that is barely at her twentieth year. Lady Grace.

Suddenly I remember it. Every time I had had a terror, she'd been there to give me a sedative. She had told me her name, her work, her goal was to help me.

She smiles and I frown as we fly higher and higher.

Thank you for the help, Lady Grace.