Dragon girl

Chapter 16

Cassie's POV

I don't know what happened, but somehow I ended up in my old home. The mountains in Sweden where no man had ever been or even seen. The big marks on the walls was bringing me back so many memories from my past and I let a few tears roll down my cheeks as I gently ran my fingertips along them. All I remembered was that I hurt Steve, something I had promised myself that I would never do. And yet here I was, running away from my problems, crying like a baby and breaking every promise I ever made to myself. I sat down on the edge of the cave and looked out on the sky and the other mountains. I thought of how when I was at the Avengers building meeting everyone for the first time, Steve being so gentle and sweet as always. Bucky was at first quiet and always looked like someone had stolen his favorite mug and that he was suspicious of everyone in the room, or like he had bitten into a lemon before getting out of bed. I smiled to myself and realized how silly it kinda sounded, but hey, we're all silly at some point in our life. Except that I'm silly all the time and pretty clumsy too. Meeting Peter for the first time was also a memory I cherished in my heart, him and Ned being the two dorkiest people on the planet. Then we had Tony, he was a complicated man, on the outside he didn't seem to be hurting, but once you get to know him and can see on the inside then he is in much pain from all the things from his past. He had become like a father figure for me. I made a pact with myself to learn to control my feelings, face my problem and not run away and hide up in the mountains. I was done hiding and running away, I need to learn to deal with problems, so I wouldn't become a burden for the others, I was in a way being selfish when running away from them.

I felt a cold breeze on my skin and I closed my eyes for a second to just relax and calm down, I started humming on an old nordic song. After a while I started to sing softly and it felt really good to just sit there and sing, sounds weird I know. But until you've tried it then you can't really deny it, you're setting your soul free in a way.

"I did not know you could sing?" I hear behind me.

I look behind me and see Loki standing there.

"There's a lot of things you don't know about me." I answer.

He sits next to me at the edge and looks at me.

"What are you doing here?" I asked him.

"I found out through our mind connection that something was wrong, so I decided to pay a visit."

"Tell me Emerald, what is wrong?"

I sigh and look up at him.

"Well I have realized how much of a burden I am to the Avengers, and that I act like a child running away all the time. I don't know why and recently I was unstable and after that, like it wasn't enough, I got angry at myself for losing control and hurting Steve."

A tear rolls down my cheek but I wipe it away angrily.

"I really want to know this is happening to me all at once. If I don't find out soon enough then I might end up hurting more people."

We sit there quiet for a moment before Loki speaks up.

"I think I know why this all happening now."

As soon as those words left his mouth I get a spark of joy in me, but what would Loki know about me and my curse?

"I think it happens now because you are not used to have a family to come home to and that will be there for you when you need someone close."

It..it actually made sense, I haven't had a family for about nine hundred years and I must have gotten used to being alone with no family or anybody to trust.