She's The Girl Where. || Avengers [4]

viii. Asgard

' She's mad but she's magic, there's no lie in her fire. '

Letting out a sob as she landed back on the platform in the Avengers compound, Carter stared down at her hands on the machine, breathing heavily before rolling onto her back and staring up in dismay as she held back tears of anguish.

"Hey, hey hey look at me!" Nat rushed up the ramp to Clint's side as he breathed heavily from opposite Carter, the brunettes own father rushing to her side as he watched his daughter stare up silently in agony.

"Shh, shh, shh, your okay. Come here." Tony rushed out as he fell down at Carter's side and pulled his daughter into his chest, her back leaning against him as she gripped his arms painfully tight and clenched her teeth harshly.

"You okay?" Nat looked between the two as she helped Clint up from the ground.

"Yeah, yeah." Clint breathed out with wide eyes "It worked." He told them all "It worked." He repeated again as he tossed his gloves to Bruce with a small smile before helping Tony heave Carter up "We're getting them back kid. We are." Clint promised as he held Carter's head in his hands, the young woman's eyes wide with grief as she breathed in deeply and launched herself into Clint's embrace.

"Okay, so the how works. Now we gotta figure out the when and the where." Steve announced as they all sat around the lab, Carter and Clint having recovered from their ordeals as they sat side by side listening to what was being said "Almost everyone in this room has had an encounter with at least one of the six infinity stones." He continued.

"Or substitute the word encounter for the word damn near been killed by one of the six infinity stones." Tony dictated as he placed Carter's coffee down in front of her. Clint swiping it and taking the first sip before the brunette even had a chance.

"I haven't, I don't even know what the hell your all talking about." Scott shrugged as he looked around at them all.

"Regardless," Bruce interrupted "We only have enough Pim particles for one round trip each, and these stones have been in a lot of different places throughout history." He pointed out.

"Our history." Tony reiterated as Clint finally passed Carter her coffee back after slipping two straws from the table inside the styrophome cup and making sure it stayed close enough for him to continue drinking out of it "So, not a lot of convenient spots to just drop in, yano." Tony pointed out.

"Which means we have to pick our targets." Clint pointed out with a stern face.

"Exactly." Carter nodded in dismay.

"Let's start with the Eether, Thor what do you know?" Steve jumped back into the business side of things as everyone turned to a blank looking Thor in the corner of the room.

"Is he asleep?" Natasha pipped up with what everyone was thinking.

"No, no. Pretty sure he's dead." Rhodey butted in causing Carter to snort before the conversations resumed. Someone eventually waking Thor to talk to him about the Eether.

"Where to start. Well the Eether firstly is not the stone. Someone called it a stone before Somebody put the stone in a angry sludge sort of thing so, someones going to need to amend that." Thor rambled as Carter stared open mouthed at the once mighty God of Thunder, unsure if he was even thinking straight "Here's an interesting story though, my grandfather years ago had to hide the stone from the dark elves. Oooh, ha." He continued "Scary beings. So we - Jane actually, ooh there she is. Yes yes Jane was uh an old flame of mine. You know she stuck her hand inside a rock this one time and - and then the Eether stuck itself inside her, and she became very very sick so i had to take her to Asguard, whihc is where i'm from, and we had to try and fix her. We - we were dating at the time you see and I got to introduce her to my mother." Thor paused as a sad look overtook his face "Who's dead, and um, oh you know Jane and I aren't even dating anymore so. These things happen though you  nothing lasts forever know so the only thing - "