The Soldier

different realities ruled by chaos

Tessa made herself a cup of coffee, basically the only thing she found in her empty kitchen shelves.

Filling it into a yellow mug with some stripes on it, she enjoyed the scent of the coffee. Tessa took it with her, getting comfortable on her couch, where Wendy was still cleaning her paws.

She calmed herself down, her fingertips following the stripes on her coffee mug, enjoying the comforting warmth on her fingers.

Hey, it's only the first day, sweetheart. You'll be fine, I believe in you. I always will. I love you., Ziva's voice echoed in her mind and Tessa found herself calming down a bit immediately. She was not alone. She never really was.

Trying to distract herself, she smiled at her cat, but when Tessa tried to pet her, Wendy turned her head away.

„Yeah, I missed you too. Asshole.", Tessa murmured, looking at Wendy while the cat was running away, entering the bathroom now.

„No reason to use such vulgar language, Tess.", an amused voice coming from her kitchen scared her.

She dropped her coffee mug, jumping off her sofa to fight whoever broke into her apartment.

„Calm down, it is me, Loki.", she heard behind her, turning around again.

„Why do you look so scared? I told you I was coming today. Time to start training you.", he explained, almost sounding annoyed.

As if it was her fault that he scared her like that.

Tessa tried to calm herself down, before giving that up and laughing almost hysterically. She was done with trying to restrain herself for today.

„Yeah... well, do you not have doors where you come from? Or... I don't know, bells or knock signs or at least some sort of warning before you just appear out of nowhere in somebody's home? Because that's what people normally do here on Earth, knocking or ringing the bell or calling saying 'Hey, nice weather today, I'm going to appear spontaneously in your living room, just wanted to let you know that. Please don't get a heart attack, thank you very much.' That would have been nicer than... just appearing out of nowhere in my goddamn living room! How did you even do that anyway? I could've been doing whatever here and you just stand there and look at me like I'm the crazy madman creeping up in somebody's living room. Stop staring at me like that, I mean it!", Tessa angrily shouted while pointing at him, but Loki just continued to stare her down.

He cleared his throat, a silent, light chuckle escaping his lips.

„Are you done now? I did not mean to scare you but you are overreacting, Tess. You can not possibly be that angry just because you did not see or hear me coming. That would be ridiculous, even for mortal's standards. Besides, you already knew I would come here today, I myself told you that. Your chatter was still amusing though."

Loki looked at her, and for some reason, Tessa calmed down a bit. Maybe it was the coldness coming from him, the danger surrounding him that tickled something inside her, a new adventure she could look forward to in order to escape that dull life she was forced to live since being kicked out of the army.

„Oh. Well, amusing you really is my first concern, so now I'm here to smile with an 'I love to entertain you' rolling off my tongue or what? This is not funny, just to be clear about that.", Tessa insisted, walking away to get something to clean up the coffee and the broken mug on her floor.

Loki was following her, but she could not bring herself to care about that. It was a nice change to not be the one running after him for once.

„Oh, you can not even imagine how funny this actually is. I mean, I had creatures being really mad at me, that were much stronger and more dangerous than you, but nobody ever dared to call me a... what did you say? Creepy madman? You know why?"