Cheshire

Chapter Twenty Three

THIRD POV

The Avengers look up as the sky explodes with thousands more Chitauri soldiers and Leviathans flying from the portal.

"Am I the only one way out of their element?" Cheshire whines, wiping Chitauri blood from her blades.

"Guys." Natasha gets the groups attention with a shrill whistle. "Call it, Cap."

"Alright, listen up." Cheshire bounds over to the group, coming to a stop beside Clint. The archer wraps an arm over the brunette's shoulders, oblivious of the Super soldier's glare.

"We're listening old man." His eyes meet her sapphire ones and he clears his throat.

"Until we can close that portal up there, we're gonna use containment. Barton, I want you on that roof, eyes on everything. Call out patterns and strays." Clint nods, kissing Cheshire's forehead before stepping back to clean and count his arrows.

"Stark, you got the perimeter. Anything gets more than three blocks out, you turn it back or your turn it to ash."

"Wanna give me a lift?" Clint asks Tony. The billionaire smirks behind his mask and nods.

"Right. Better clench up, Legolas." Lifting up Clint, Tony flies up to the roof the a nearby building.

"Thor, you've gotta try and bottleneck that portal. Slow them down. You've got the lightning. Light the bastards up. Cheshire, Natasha, and I will stay here on the ground, keep the fighting here."

"Actually, my sweet summer child, I have something I need to take care of. Thor, care to give a lady a lift?" The god nods hesitantly as Cheshire leaps into his arms. "Onward!" Swinging his hammer, the two of them are sent flying up into the air, Cheshire's cackle filling the air. Natasha shakes her head, chuckling to herself as Steve frowns.

"She'll be fine, Ember can take care of herself Steve." Nodding, Steve turns towards the Hulk.

"Hulk, smash." Flashing a most magnificent grin, Hulk leaps towards the nearest building and runs up the wall, snapping several Chitauri soldiers in half. The green beast dives towards a building on the others side of the street, throwing dead Chitauri soldiers towards their comrades.

Thor lands on the balcony of STARK Tower, Cheshire's heeks clicking as she jumps out of his arms. "Thanks love." Thor grins before raising Mjolnir taking off towards the portal.

"Honey I'm home!" Cheshire shouts as she steps over broken glass and struts towards the bar.

"Ember, what a surprise." Loki appears beside her. Remaining indifferent, Cheshire opens a bottle of whiskey and turns towards him, slowly lowering her lashes until they barely touched her rosy cheeks, before slowly raising them again, like a theater curtain. Loki gazed into her shimmering blue eyes before raising his hand and gently wiping away Chitauri blood from her chin. "It's not going to work my queen." Her once innocent eyes turned dark before she lunges towards the trickster, the two of them tumbling towards the ground.

"Excuse me?" Cheshire's honeyed voice turned gravely as she held a blade to Loki's neck.

"You should know who you're dealing with, I am the god of mischief and lies my love, I will not roll over on my back like a dog no matter how tempting you may be." Loki disappeared, leaving Cheshire hit the floor with a low grunt.

Suddenly, there was a heavy weight on her back. Loki turned the woman over and held her hands above her head, her blade forgotten on the floor.

"Stop fighting it my sweet Cheshire." He peppered her pale neck in kisses, his knees holding her hips down to prevent her from struggling. "There is a darkness within you, and I intend to harvest it."

"Piss off, you cock!" Cheshire reeled back before spitting in the god's face. "I am nothing like you." Freeing one of her hands, she lands a punch on Loki's chiseled cheek and kicks him off of her.

"I know who I am!" Cheshire growls, striking the fallen god with her heel. Loki glared up at her with fearful eyes. The anger left her eyes as another emotion appeared. Loki froze as a grin painted itself across her features. It wasn't just her power that made him freeze in awe, it was her expression. She wore her killer smile that could destroy a person's heart. Their eyes had met for a brief second, before Loki was forced to look away, her piercing gaze shooting through him like lightning, coiling around his entire figure like a boa constrictor squeezing the life from its prey.

"I may have lost my way with those idiots, but I have not forgotten the monster lurking within me." Kneeling down, Cheshire grasped the mischief god's neck in her ice-cold claws. "You see Loki, I am incapable of loving anything for a monster like me is a heartless creature. I am a creature of pain, one who takes lives, not one who saves them."

"Then why save them?" Loki chokes out. "This world has offered you nothing but pain, join me and we can- "

"I will not abandon them!" The room goes silent as Cheshire's claws dig deeper into the god's jugular. "I may not deserve to live, but they do." Loki smirks and a huge force throws Cheshire across the room into the glass coffee table, shattering it.

"So, you are willing to die for a pile of rubbish, why?"

"Because they are better than us." Cheshire replies, groaning as she pulls herself out of the wreckage of the coffees table.

"They are broken mortals consumed by greed." Loki's voice raises as a war is fought just outside.

"You're right." She answers. "They are broken, but a lot of them try to be better, to forgive those who live in the dark." Limping towards the god, Cheshire smiles sadly. "I will gladly go back to that darkness if it means they can be happy." With a growl, Loki raises his scepter and aims it at Cheshire.

"How disappointing, I had hoped we would have a glorious future together my love." A blue light begins to glow at the tip of the scepter, and shots out towards the wounded assassin. An ear-shattering explosion fills the room, dust and glass flying everywhere.

Cheshire squeezes her eyes shut as a ringing fills her ears. Everything was blurry. "Fuck me softly." She whimpers, trying to move. Something growls above her and she squints up towards the ginormous mass shielding her. "Well what do you know..."

The Hulk's eyes meet Embers as he cradles her in his arms. "You've done good buddy, I'm all good." Placing the wounded woman down on the ground Hulk turns towards Loki's shocked figure. The Hulk leaps up and kicks Loki, hurtling him towards the wall. The god rolls himself up in a flurry of broken glass, standing up to the Hulk.

"Enough! You are, all of you are beneath me! I am a god, you dull creature, and I will not be bullied- "

Cheshire bursts out laughing, ignoring the pain in her abdomen as Hulk grabs Loki by the legs and smashes him against the floor repeatedly before finally throwing him aside to the ground.

"Puny god." Hulk grins as Cheshire gives him a high five.

"Thanks bud."

The two of them walk towards the balcony as Loki whimpers in pain.

A.N. Dude writers block is horrible! This chapter is rough and I am so sorry. Hope you all have an amazing New Years!

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