Games with a God

Chapter Eleven

"Sapphire it's Christmas you look like the Grinch right now, smile a little!" Tony yelled clapping his hands, but I really wasn't in the mood to smile I was so tiered. Stayed up all night wrapping presents for everyone. I pulled a face at Tony who laughed before making coffee and passing me over a cup. "You know it's a little unethical some of the stuff you bought, but I garuntee the others will love their gifts."
"I hope so, you better like what I got you; it's so difficult to buy for you since you have practically everything." I'd bought him a huge plot of land bigger than the others he owns and it's fitted with a steralised secure testing facility where he can build new stuff and give Pepper a break from his craziness every now and then. The place I bought has a mansion added on too so he should be comfortable enough, also bought him a few other things as well that he can open when everyone wakes up. No new missions have been given to any of us so the majority of the Avengers stayed at Stark tower although Steve stayed here occassionally since he had his own place.

Natasha walked in an hour after Tony, then Clint soon followed. Bruce came next with Steve just minutes behind; Pepper was staying with some of her family for Christmas so her presents had been sent with her. "Can we open our presents now?" Natasha asked with a smile on her face and Tony nodded. It was like life or death as everyone attacked the presents under the large tree which was doomed to fall over when I tripped over Clint falling into the tree. For a while we all laughed at me before returning to open our presents. Everyone liked their presents from me and Tony hadn't stopped hugging me for about ten minutes until we noticed a huge present in the corner of the room. It was wrapped in green and gold paper with a large thick black ribon tying it all up.
"Who's that from?" Bruce asked as Steve looked at a tag on it.
"To the Avengers, merry Christmas from Nick Fury and S.H.I.E.L.D." Steve read aloud so we all surrounded the present staring at it. The gift was larger than us all and looked to be some kind of box I was desperate to know what was inside. Clint reached up pulling the black ribbon which unravelled and the paper fell from the gift revealing a glass case with something inside.
"Well at least Fury has a sense of humor."
"Clearly not a very good one." I gritted my teeth seeing Loki stood in the box with handcuffs on looking at us all horrified. Natasha looked poised to strike, Clint was tense as was everyone else in the room; the happy mood was gone and I was calling Nick. "Oh he is so dead for this!" My words dripped with poson as I ran over to the phone and dialed the number and called hearing Fury answer. "What the actual Hell?"
"I'm guessing you got the present."
"Present?"
"Yeah it was gift wrapped and everything Sapphire, how could you miss it?"
"You and me have very different opinions on what classifys as a gift."
"It's not the present that counts it's the wrapping it comes in and I put a lot of effort into wrapping that gift."
"I'm sending it back!"
"No you can't Sapphire, he's your problem now, hope you don't mind looking after him for a while."
"As a matter of fact I do." I was so going to kill Fury next time I see him.
"Your mission along with the Avengers' mission is to Loki sit so I suggest you keep him in sight at all times clear?"
"Loki Dokey. You're a fucking bitch Nicholas Fury!" I yelled down the phone and then hung up and sobbed into the counter top seeing everyone in the room staring at me shocked and impressed in some way. "We have a mission as the Avengers, we have to Loki sit." Best Christmas ever... Can you tell I'm being sarcastic?
"I can't believe you just swore at Fury, the guys going to kill you!" Tony announced so I stared at him like he was an idiot.
"Think we have more pressing matters, we have to look after that!" I called pointing at Loki who was patiently waiting in the glass case. Natasha groaned with the mission and Clint cursed under his breath.
"So who's going to let him out?" Steve asked looking around before the case just fell appart and Loki stepped out smirking and only then did I realise he was in a black tee with jeans on, he looked normal, but needed a hair cut. Everyone stared at him and he looked each of us over before stopping to look at me and Tony picked up on it as did Natasha who glanced over at me seeing my indifference to him.
"Sapphy, it's been a while since I last saw you."
"Clearly not long enough, I still remember your face; was hoping I could forget."
"I thought we'd made progress." Loki smiled and everyone in the room stopped breathing momentarily before Natasha moved dangerously close to him.
"What sort of progress?"
"Sapphire what is he talking about?"
"Why you asking me he's a lunatic I have no idea what he's talking about." I laughed nervously and started walking before Natasha caught my arm and dragged me back to face her and a Fancy dress who was trying not to laugh.
"Sapphire Lamya tell me now!" She ordered and I shrunk back swallowing hard. She sounded like that woman for a minute and shudders racked my body as I grabbed her arm struggling to stay fixed in reality as I began to slip into a memory. "Sapphire, what's happening?" Nat yelled, but her voice seemed distant.
"Memories... Drowning me, talk about something else." My voice pleaded and she seemed to panic for me as she grabbed my shoulders.
"Lavender Lamya-Sapphire, it's a pretty name, why don't you use it?" Loki asked and that snapped me into reality making me focus so I glared at him before walking over and slapping him hard across the face. He reached up cradling his cheek and shaking his head as if to clear it. "I didn't say it out loud." He told me which didn't make a difference.
"You have no right to know that, even if it did help me; you should not know that!" I yelled in pure rage, but I was so close and he took advantage of that pulling me to him and holding me there with his arms around me which were cuffed still so I was essentially trapped.
"But it's such a beautiful name to have and I just love seeing you angry especially when you can't stay mad at me for long." A smirk was once again sat on his lips taking residence over his face as he leaned down touching his lips to mine before I slammed a fist into his sternam hearing it crack and he dropped down to his knees so I grabbed the chain linking his cuffs which trapped me and melted them before walking off.
"Christmas is ruined." I announced as the lift door started to close leaving everyone standing in the lounge staring at me slightly confused. What did they want me to say? If it was something funny then I wasn't in the mood to say it, in fact I wanted to murder Loki. I hadn't heard someone say that name... My full name in so long, not since Mama. Hearing it had been a shock, but I almosted wanted to hear it said aloud, not in my head, but out loud so it was real.

Antisocial might be my new middle name, I had Jarvis seal my room so that no one could get in unless I allowed it. Tony was being Tony and pestering me to open every ten minutes, Natasha was every other second so I just ignored them and went to sleep; I wasn't in the mood for any of them. "Sapphire, I want to talk about 'progress' otherwise everyone finds out about what happened at the S.H.I.E.L.D base." Tony finally found something to use against me the douche bag! Slowly and reluctantly I opened the door groggily wiping my eyes of sleep. "So what was the progress that he was talking about, did you and him... You know..."
"What? No! Eww no Shesus!" I grimaced at what he was suggesting and an unpleasant shiver crawled up my spine. "You know when that huge ship hit England a few months back?"
"Yeah."
"That time I went missing when I was supposed to meet Pepper at the airport in London I somehow ended up on Asgard and got trapped in a cell with Fancy dress. Odin put some kind of power supressing collar on me and it made me weak to the point where I allowed a Q and A session with Fancy dress then created a permanent mind link to him." He seemed a little lost in my explanation, but soon found his way back through the maze of words and nodded his understanding.
"So you two are on good terms then?"
"Before he returned to Asgard I stabbed him, but he doesn't seem too bothered by that..."
"Reindeer games clearly pulled the short straw if he fell for you." Tony chuckled so I punched him lightly in the arm before shewing him out of my room and returning to the black and vibrant blue bed covers where I got cosy and fell deep into sleep, hopefully I'll wake up and discover I dreamed up today; if I'm lucky that is.

"Hey Hatters, so I'm glad you're all liking my story, but I would love it if you commented what you were thinking also need some ideas on what to write so please comment and tell me what you want to see happen in future chapters and I shall try to include it. This was supposed to be a Christmas day update, but it wasn't finished and I didn't have access to internet so it was delayed; sorry to make you all wait."