Heroes & Hunters || Avengers & Supernatural Crossover

Chapter Seventeen

Black smoke circles Rowena's body as Loki's beam of ice goes straight at her body. He grimaces when he sees that she's not there but turns around to talk to Lucifer anyway. His eyes glow a dark, blood-like red as he talks to Loki. After a few seconds, he turns his head as if he were to be staring right at Lucy. 

He laughs with a wide smirk before speaking. "You're next, sweetheart." 

Lucy wakes up with a start her breathing ragged and sweat drips down her face. She hears someone scream and soon realizes that it's her own. Lucy quickly forces her mouth to clamp shut as she runs a shaky hand through her hair, the other covering her mouth to stifle her sobs.

"O-one.....tw-wo.....t-th-thr-three." She chokes out but ultimately gives up on trying to calm herself by counting. Not even seconds later, Lucy's door is thrown open and several dark silhouettes. Lucy screams and crawls up towards her headboard, aiming the gun that she had stashed under her pillow towards one of the silhouettes before quickly shifting to the other. Her hands still shaking.

"Lucy." Dean's voice calmly whispers as one of the silhouettes slowly steps forward. Lucy swallows the lump in her throat while pointing the gun at the shadow. It slowly places his hand on top of the gun, the other slowly grabbing Lucy's hand. "You're okay. It's just us, you're safe."

"No." Lucy shakes her head but allows him to take the gun and hand it off to a different shadow. Someone flicks on the lights and everyone blinks, getting used to the brightness. Almost all of their gazes go to Lucy, some of them flinching at the state she was in.

Her hair was beyond messed up, her hands were covered with little half-moon shapes from where her fingernails had dug into her skin. Lucy's eyes were swollen and red from crying and her lip was slightly bleeding because she had bit it so hard in her sleep.

Dean slowly sits down on the bed and tucks a stray hair behind her ear, he sighs and opens his arms in an offering. Lucy bites her lip again before allowing herself to hug him, her body shaking as she slumped down in his arms.

"We're going to go and clean the living room up," Alice whispers while patting Lucy's shoulder. "At least the glass." 

"W-what do y-you mean?" Lucy demands without lifting her head.

"Well, you kinda...." Emerson trails off as Dean quickly shakes his head. 

"What?" Lucy questions while sitting up. "W-what did I do?" 

"Your powers," Bruce states from the doorway. "You just broke a few vases." 

"Promise that's all?" Lucy warily inquiries, he nods with a small smile. She sighs and looks down at her lap as everyone else files out of her room.

"Dean, maybe you should stay here for a little while," Sam suggests before lowering his voice so only Dean could hear. "You seem to be the only one she's going to open up to, if it was about Lucifer, we need to know." 

Dean nods and watches him walk out of the room, shutting the door behind him, before turning back to look at the broken girl in front of him. Dean takes a deep breath and rubs his fingers together, trying to think of something to say.

"You don't have to stay." Lucy breaks the silence, her voice cracking slightly. "I don't want to force you into doing something you don't want to."

"Don't worry, sweetheart." Dean chuckles but quickly stops when he sees her stiffen up at the nickname. He clears his throat and continues. "I uh...want to be here. Don't worry."

"Sure, you really sound like you do." Lucy sarcastically replies. 

"Look, I'm not going to force you to give me details on what happened." Dean changes the subject, his voice growing slightly more serious. "But I have to know if it was about Lu-"

"Don't say his name." Lucy interrupts. "I don't want to hear it."

"Then I'm guessing your dream was about him?" Dean mumbles.

"Isn't that obvious." Lucy snaps. 

"Woah, just making sure!" Dean replies while raising his hands in surrender. 

Lucy sighs and closes her eyes, not opening them as she replied. "I'm sorry, I'm just really stressed....and weirded out....and confused.....a-and..."

"Scared?" Dean mutters, she finally opens her eyes that are filled with tears that were about ready to spill.

"Y-yeah." 

Later

Everyone hadn't spoken about the incident, each of them watching TV in the living room or just sitting around doing nothing. Lucy sat between Dean and Clint watching American Housewife on ABC. Alice was in the kitchen with Emerson and Charlie, each of them talking in hushed voices while occasionally looking over at the group gathered on the different white couches. 

All of the sudden, the lights blink and the TV goes out. Black smoke starts to swirl around in front of them all. Lucy stiffens up and quickly grabs Dean's hand out of fear as everyone else slowly sits up to investigate the smoke.

Seconds later, Crowley appears with Rowena right behind him. Dean angrily stands with Lucy right behind him. Sam quickly stands as well and tries to help her stop Dean from killing the red-haired witch.

"What the hell are you doing here?" Dean angrily demands.

"I'm on your side now, boys." Rowena smiles. "Lucifer thought he could get rid of me, again."

"Thought you would've learned your lesson the first time." Sam scoffs.

"Don't get smart with me." Rowena orders. "But I may not be the only one switching teams."

"What's that supposed to mean?" Lucy speaks up.

"Loki." Rowena smiles and stares at Lucy. "He's only getting Asgard, he was promised a whole lot more." 

"Just great." Tony shakes his head. 

"But you." Rowena smiles and takes a few steps forward. "You must be Lucy." 

"That's close enough," Dean states while stepping in front of her.

"Oh, Dean." Rowena chuckles. "You really think I'm going to hurt her? What have I to gain from that?"

"How do we know that you aren't here on a mission from this Lucifer?" Steve demands while crossing his arms.

"Because I don't like to be double-crossed, that's what I do." Rowena scoffs while lifting her sleeve to reveal a mark on her arm where Loki's ice had just scrapped her. "So, I'd like to get my revenge."