Broken Pasts (Loki x OC)

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Nick Fury enters the living room where everyone is seated. Tony and Steve are on the same couch and Clint and Natasha are on the sofa opposite of them. Banner is in the love seat facing the kitchen and both Loki and Epin are seated on the floor, talking with each other quietly.

"Meeting. Conference room. Now." Nick announces, making his presence known and Epin jumps at the sound, startled. Clint chuckles at her reaction and Epin playfully glares at him in return. She stands from her spot and playfully punches Clint's arm.

"You seem to be getting weaker Epin." Clint teases and Epin raises her eyebrow in a challenging way.

"Oh really?" She says and sends another punch at his arm, this time only a little harder and Clint winces.

"Shit." He says and Tony laughs, walking over to the two and laying an arm over Epins shoulders.

"You never learn your lesson Clint. Epin is the last person you want to challenge." Tony says pulling her into his side with his arm still draped over her. She laughs as Clint rolls his eyes. Loki is standing closely behind the group and he tenses as he watches Tony touch all over Epin. Loki uses his sorcery to remove his arm from Epins shoulders. Tony glances behind him to see that Loki is there, looking rather smug.

"Someone is getting protective." Tony remarks, realizing that it was Loki who forced his arm off of Epin, and Loki has to try his best to keep a blank face. Epin doesn't even realize the interaction because her eyes are on Clint as he runs to catch up with Nat and Banner.

"Come on guys! I do not want to get in another fight with Fury because we are late." Epin announces with a grin as she teleports to the conference room.

"Always ahead of everyone, as usual." Tony mumbles under his breath and begins following everyone else.

Loki has been getting more and more protective over Epin and everyone but Epin has started to notice. He doesn't even realize he has made it known to the others that he cares about Epin, but it was very obvious to everyone besides Epin. He hates that he is letting someone have so much control over him but he loves that it is Epin. Loki feels warm around her, like a kid, like for once, he is doing something right.

"I see you and Epin have gotten close." Tony says suspiciously, side glancing at Loki who trails behind him, keeping his distance. Loki offers no response and no intention of responding so Tony continues. "I suggest staying away. She doesn't let too many people close to her, so don't you dare even think about trying anything with her. You hurt her and you're dead, reindeer games." He finishes just as they arrive at the doors to the conference room.

Loki had to admire the fact that Tony clearly cared about Epin but Loki had no intentions of ever hurting Epin. It was the very last thing he wanted to do. As the doors opened, Loki sat beside Epin and gave her a small smile which she gladly returned.

"Okay we have a small mission that you will all be partaking in today. We have a source that has information on a possible terrorist threat. Considering that it may be connected to the New York attack, SHIELD has been given the assignment to retrieve the data from our source. I have the location in these files and everything you need to know is in here." Fury announces once everyone is seated as he passes out confidential files. He hands Epin one to share with Loki and she immediately opens it to reveal a man's picture on the first page of the file.

"Tony and Sam. You will be in the sky. Be everyone's eyes. Barton, you got the rooftops. Romanoff, Epin and Loki, you will be on the ground taking out guards and any other threats all while Rodgers, you are in the building for the meetup. You will retrieve a flash drive then get out of there. Thor, be wherever you are needed. We don't need this to be a big deal, let's get in and out easy." Fury adds and we all give him stiff nods.