Loki - The Infinity Prophecy

This part of me has many names

The Stark didn't know how much time had passed until they sent her back to her own reality, but when she saw herself once again in the bathroom of the Iron Man's mansion she had to act fast enough to not get hit by the door. Lin was maintaining the secure and confident woman facade for too long, she almost gave in to her instincts and ran away like a scared kitty as Thor entered the toilet.

The voices came back with full force, she barely could distinguish the jotun from any other human that had hurt her, her mind working too fast to properly process the information she received and maybe that influenced in the fact that now she was against a wall with her hands covering her ears, too involved in a panic attack to remember she wasn't locked up anymore.

Lin could fake being okay on most of the time, she always acted as nothing hurt her, but the truth is that she's so broken that she could only stay minimally calm in the green-eyed friend's presence. Maybe it was that expression that softened Mrs. Stark's heart when she also entered the restroom and made her want to pick her up in her lap and hug the girl as if she was a child, maybe it was the red-colored water in the bathtub that made her want to take care of every injury that she did on herself during her bath but that she barely remembered of their existence in her body. The reality shift messed up with whatever it is that caused these reactions in the woman's body and mind, for a moment it was like all the weird sensations had vanished and then came back with more force.

Lin didn't see when Loki entered the bathroom, pushing Thor out of the way nor she could see the guilty in her father's wife's eyes, she only felt when she was embraced in a hug and raised from the ground like a light weighted doll. That didn't make her more lucid, the woman wasn't used to hugs but her body didn't react to her commands, so she didn't even try to push him away.

Everyone observed without any reaction as the "Asgardian" almost ran with her to the room and placed her gently on the bed, and then go to the windows to open them so air could flow more easily. Loki then went back to Lin, taking her hands from her ears and intertwining them with his, holding them tightly. It didn't give the expected effect and as a last resource, to everyone's astonishment, the god let his skin get a blue tinge and his face lost any similarity to a human's.

Lin stared at the friend's red eyes with persistence and started breathing normally again, gradually focusing her eyes on the reality around her, for a moment everyone would say that her brown eye seemed lighter than normal, but this was a fact that nobody paid much attention.

- Your presence frightens her. – Loki said looking at Pepper and Clint, the archer who was far away leaning into a wall, his presence was almost unnoticeable. – Lin doesn't have good memories involving humans. – his skin partially got back to the complexion that everyone considered normal, letting behind any resemblance with a frost giant – So as much as I want her to be able to interact with all of you, - Loki didn't bother to look honest – I ask that you let her alone with me for now.

- And why any of us should believe that the best for her is to be with you? – Bruce, whom until then remained silent besides Mrs. Stark, asked suspiciously, apparently, none of the others present could say something at that moment.

- Because when she was being tortured by your kind for years I was the only one that tried to help. – The god smiled as if daring anyone to contest him – Not to mention that I'm also the only one who she trusts.

Clint looked at his friend's daughter as if he judged her foolish for trusting the jotun, but deep down he understood that Lin shouldn't be on the side of beings that bring her such fear. She was free now and Pepper seemed willing to make the girl trust her, maybe call her mom someday. The woman was a part of Tony who was still alive after all.