Bend Around the Wind by Scyllaya

Chapter 33: House Arrest

Chapter Thirty-Three

House Arrest

Andromeda Galaxy

Tumbla System

Open Space

Tony woke up to a loud thud coming from somewhere in the room. He was thankfully pain-free and relatively well-rested even if he was jolted awake by the sudden noise. He sat up in the bed and rubbed his eyes to take a look around. He was in Loki's bed, the table had food on it and Loki himself was standing by the closed door. Even before taking a closer look Tony noticed the tense line of his shoulders.

'What's going on?' he asked. His voice was rough and scratchy from sleep, he should drink some water.

'The door is locked,' Loki said in an irritated tone and that made Tony a lot more aware immediately.

'How on Earth could be the door locked?' he asked.

'Yeah, that was me,' sounded from the intercom. Tony raised both his eyebrows in surprise, but he did not actually start to worry just yet.

'Juyu...' Loki uttered the name in warning.

'Relax, we're not doing anything... devious... well, nothing bad,' she answered.

'Juyu, open this door right now,' Loki ordered.

'Juyu, what's going on?' Tony asked instead.

'Who cares?' Loki asked glancing back at Tony angrily. 'Open the door!'

'Yeah, okay no... remember what we talked about yesterday?' she asked. After a moment Tony was sure that the question was directed at Loki. 'About how you should stay in the same place until you get too bored to be angry?'

'You have got to be joking,' Loki answered, both angry and exasperated.

'Not really,' Juyu answered.

'You open this door now, and I will consider not strangling you!' Loki told her.

'No!' she said. 'No, you will stay there and talk or something until the tension on this ship is not so thick that I can basically cut it! It's for all our safety.'

Loki literally growled in answer to that and banged a fist to the door again.

'Juyu...' he started.

'No!' the girl answered right away.

'I will skin you!' Loki hissed angrily.

'Yeah-yeah, we'll see about that,' she said and Tony thought that the girl acquired the "how to piss off Loki" skill rather admirably. Hell, she was totally on the master level.

'You little...' then Loki cut off abruptly. 'Bee! Are you there? Open the door,' he asked.

Juyu actually snorted from the other side. 'Nice try, big guy, but she's the one who sneaked in the food while you were sleeping,' Juyu replied.

Tony managed to stay silent, but he had to bite his lips in order to do so. He had no idea why, but he found the whole thing extremely hilarious. For now at least.

Loki groaned loudly and rested his head on the door.

'Relax,' Juyu said again. 'If there's any sort of emergency, we'll let you out,' she promised. 'So just have a nice day you two.'

'Juyu, don't you dare... Juyu!' Loki yelled after her. 'I will... Juyu!'

Tony really cracked up this time, he tried to keep quiet, he really did, but he just couldn't, he had to laugh. Loki turned around right away and his eyes were narrowed and poisonous.