Every Villain is a Hero

Chapter Three

 Norse Proverb: At every doorway, ere one enters, one should spy round.

Chapter Three

As luck would have it, Jane insisted on accompanying the medic who came to look at her wrists. She didn’t tell him that Loki had healed her, she wasn’t that happy with SHIELD at the moment, and she feigned pain as he manipulated her wrists.

“You seem to be incredibly lucky,” he said. “I just saw a pair of those cuffs being tested and felt for sure that they must have done some real damage.”

“I have a high pain threshold.”

‘Liar.’

‘Oh my god, Loki, stop listening into my mind!’

“Are you all right?” the doctor sounded concerned.

“I’m fine. It’s just a bit painful that’s all.”

“Of course.” He rummaged in his kit and brought out a support bandage, which he put on for her, then bid her farewell.

‘You’re missing quite the interesting argument down here,’ Loki told her.

Despite her anger at his constant intrusions into her mind, she could use the distraction.

She didn’t need to ask where he was as through their connection, she could sense his direction in relation to her, like anyone else could recognise which direction a sound emanates from, and she found him in the kitchen, calmly sitting at the table while Jane and Thor argued in the living room next door.

“How long have they been at it?” she asked Loki, putting the kettle on to make tea.

“Since the medic arrived. He’s already gone by the way.”

“Good.”

She could feel that he liked the fact that she clearly had no love for SHIELD.

“Should we intervene?” she asked.

“Of course not, who else will entertain us?”

Lisa didn’t much like his answer but she didn’t argue. Just at that moment however, the door opened and Jane entered the kitchen. Thor followed her but simply watched the scenario unfold, looking grumpy as hell. Loki disappeared, as though he had never been there.

Jane immediately noticed the support bandages on Lisa’s arms.

“Oh my god, are you okay?” she crossed the kitchen with remarkable speed for one so small, and enveloped Lisa in a hug.

“I’m okay now,” she answered. “Stupid Asgardian technology.”

“I’m so sorry.”

“It’s not your fault,” Lisa assured her.

Jane pulled away and looked into her eyes. “Did everything go okay?”

“No problems… not on Asgard, at least.”

“You can tell me all about it later,” Jane assured her.

“There will be no ‘later’, Jane, not until I’m sure I can trust SHIELD,” Thor interrupted.

“If you don’t trust them, then I’m safer up here with you, than in their super-secret bunker, right?”

“I suppose.”

“Good, because Darcy’s packing my bags as we speak.”

“Is she staying too?” Lisa asked.

“She is.”

“I thought it might be too dangerous for her up here.”

Darcy liked to complain a lot and since they had met, all Darcy had done was tell Lisa how dangerous and deadly Loki was, how messed up their friend Erik was because of him, and how you wouldn’t catch her dead sharing a house with the man.