The Eighth Avenger (A Loki Love Story)

Wake Up Call

The room started spinning and the darkness closed in on me. Oh no... It started.

*vision from past*

I walked into the lab. It was, ON FIRE?!?! Oh no, all those chemicals we had made! I started having a panic attack. My body started shaking and I was breathing uncontrollably. I had to think fast.

No one else was in here; where had they gone? They must have evacuated. How did I not hear the alarms, the commotion? Well only about 5 people worked in the lab...

I ran to my desk in the back corner of the room. Oh no. It has already been overtaken by the flames. I ran to were all the beackers were and right when I took the last step BOOM. I quickly put up my arms in front of my face.

All those chemicals... they exploded. I was right next to all of them. I was laying on the ground and I could feel the glass in my arms from when I tryed to protect my face fron the explosion. That's the last thing I remembered because I blacked out.

I woke up on a hospital bed looking up at the ceiling. Both my arms were wrapped in gauze. They both throbbed like crazy.

"I see you have awakened. You had quite the little accident." A man spoke walking threw the doorway.

I went to sit up but instantly winced from pain in my head. He rushed to the right side of the bed. He wore glasses and had brown eyes. His hair was brown, short, and perfectly messy. His eyes -along with his hair- were brown. He was a tall, slender man with stubble, not a full beard quite yet. He was wearing a blue t-shirt and black dress pants and... a lab coat?

"Woah careful now, we wouldn't want you to hurt yourself more now would we?" He said slowly laying me back down.

"God, what... what happened to me?" I asked

"There was an explosion. A chemical explosion. You were unconscious for 9 minutes, thank the lord the fire was moving slowly."

"What kind of chemicals?"

"In all honesty I have never heard of half these in my life. You were breathing in the fumes for a long time you should have died! Never the less the chemicals did... affect you..." He looked worried.

"Affect? What kind of affects???" I asked anxiously. He hesitated. The wait almost killed me.

"Well. From the looks of it, you have... how do I say this.... ok this may sound crazy but it really is true. You seem to have some sort of un-human like powers."

"Powers? Like a superhero or something?"

"Yes. Something like that. The results show strange brain patterns, something that I have... never seen before." He sounded nervous as if I'd lash out and hurt him.

"But, if that's true why don't I feel any different?"

"Well you are very incredibly strong. We can't tell if you can teleport or if you have telekinesis so you have to experiment with that. You can also run. Fast. We don't know what else you can do so you should try to do other things maybe you will find you can turn invisible or something" He said longingly. Then we started walking towards the door.

"Oh. Wait. Where am-"

"Stop talking now!"

I was shocked. He yelled at me for no reason. I jumped alittle before I got defensive. I wasn't one for letting something like this slide.

"Excuse me?" I sat up quickly and continued, "NOW YOU LISTEN HERE, I DIDN'T ASK TO BE SAVED. I DON'T WANT TO BE HERE AS IS AND NOW YOUR YELLING AT ME?! WHAT DID I DO TO DESERVE THIS?!"

He grabbed my throat with one hand. He was strong and strangling me. I was hitting him as hard as I could then we let go. I gasped for air and he walked over to a little metal table. He picked up a scalpel and walked slowly over to me with a menacing smile across his face. I don't understand- how could someone who was just so nice instantly want to murder me?

He raised the scalpel and stabbed me in the chest. Over and over. I screamed in pain.

I opened my eyes and sat up quickly, the sun was just barely starting to rise; thank god . Steve who had his arms around me (again) shot up right after me. He looked at me with worry. I started to tear up. "Woah woah woah, heyyyy..." He wrapped his arms around me and I leaned into his warm chest. I couldn't keep the tears back and I started crying.

"It's ok, your safe it was just a bad dream..." He was now petting my messy hair down trying to comfort me. It was working.

I was being quiet because I had realized we weren't alone. Luckily I didn't wake anyone up besides Steve. He made me feel so safe and secure when I was with him.

I calmed down and we still sat there, his arms around me and me curled into a ball in his arms. I could hear his steady heartbeat. I moved my head away from his chest and he took it as a sign to let me go.

I looked around and realized Natasha was no longer on the recliner, she had gotten more blankets and was laying on the right, next to Clint and in front of the recliner.

They were... snuggling? Awe. That's so cute. They would make a great couple if one of them made a move and asked the other out. Everyone else was asleep in the same spots just in different positions.

I layed back down and Steve walked into the kitchen. He came back with two bottles of water. He held one out to me. "Here." He said kindly.

I took the water bottle, "Thanks" I opened it and took a drink then closed the cap on tight and layed it next to me. We both layed back down.

*Steve's P.O.V.*

The sun barely shone threw the tiny slits of the blinds, it was just rising. I woke up from a bad dream to see Jess sitting up. Did I have my arms around her? I did. I shot up worried. I looked at Jess, she was tearie-eyed. "Woah woah woah heyyyyy" I sad trying to comfort her.

She pulled her legs up to her chest in the fetal position. I wrapped my arms around her and she leaned into me. She started to cry.

"It's ok. Your safe, it was just a bad dream..." Her hair was tickling my nose. I reached up and stroked her messy hair and got it out of my face and helped calm her down. She pulled away from me after she calmed down. I didn't do anything wrong did I? I noticed her looking at everyone else. I think she just realized everyone else was here and she was checking to see if we woke them.

I got up and sneaked into the kitchen. I walked over to the white fridge in the corner of the small kitchen. I grabbed two waters from the droor in the bottom of the fridge.

I snuck back out and held out a water to Jess. "Here." I thought she should drink something considering she haddent really drunken anything yesterday or last night as far as I know. She took it. "Thanks." she said and took a drink as I sat down and also took a drink then we both adjusted and layed down in the soft blankets. Jess had her back to me. I was about to put my hand over her waist and in mid raise of my hand I hesitated. Should I do it? No... I lowered my hand back down to my side and went back to sleep.

*Jess's P.O.V.*

*buzzzzz.... buzzzzz.... buzzzzz....*

My eyes fluttered open and I picked up my vibrating cell phone next to me. It was Fury. Damn. Damn. Damn damn.

I answered it. "Hello?" I asked sleepily

"Where is everyone?!" Nic's booming voice came threw the phone

"Jeez Fury calm down. Let's just say it was movie night. I'll wake 'em all up. we will be there soon." I said annoyed and I hung up on him.