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The initiative Chapter 10

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Morning dawned bright and clear, the sun catching Loki across the face and he put his arm across his eyes to shield them, reaching with his other hand for Sarah and sitting up swiftly when he could not feel her in the vast expanse of the bed. He peered around the room and as his eyes adjusted, he could make out her silhouette on the terrace. He crawled to the end of the bed, grabbed his breeches and slid them on, then made his way to the terrace where Sarah stood, wrapped in the silk coverlet from the bed, staring out at the sun glinting off the Bifrost bridge.
             When he was finally beside her, she said, in a low toneless voice, "Is the sun here the same as ours at home?" Loki nodded, kissed her exposed shoulder. "Why shouldn't it be? Sarah turned to him, "It shines on Midgard, Asgard, Valhalla." She cocked her head, "What's Valhalla?" Loki squinted up at the sun and raised his hand, "For us it's equal to your Midagardian heaven, a vast hall where warriors go when they die in battle. It's the goal of every Aesir." He put his arms around her waist, resting his head on her shoulder, relishing the intimacy they had created. "Loki," Sarah said, "How old are you?" Loki let go of Sarah's waist and turned her to him. "What a curious question." Sarah met his gaze straight on, "It shouldn't be hard to answer." Loki looked out over the city, "I am 34 of your Midgardian years." Sarah nodded, chewed her lip. "And in Asgard.." "Don't do this Sarah,"
                  Loki walked back into the room, she following him to the bed where he sat, head in hands. "Your father spoke to me before the feast. He gave me a lot of advice which I didn't follow," She looked wryly at the bed, suppressing a shiver at the memory of their coupling. "Now I would like you to tell me," "Sarah, it would be incomprehensible to you," Loki glanced up at Sarah standing before him and desire began to cloud his mind again. He reached up for the blanket around her and pulled her towards him, after a bit of resistance, she sat on his lap, her head on his shoulder. "We will be together, you promised me, didn't you?" Sarah nodded assent against his neck. "But I'll grow old and die." A small sniff and he felt her bury her face deeper against his skin, "Perhaps we could find a way to make you one of the Aesir." Loki said, turning to look at her. She shook her head, "I didn't say I wanted to live forever, I wanted us to grow old together." She put her head up and gave a sad chuckle, "Mind you, together is a tentative word when we return to Earth."
                She stood up and shed the blanket, reaching down and grabbing her dress from the floor. Loki grabbed his tunic and pulled it over his head. "Why couldn't we stay here.." He began, but Sarah stopped him, "Loki, I have a job on Earth," She shook her head, just saying it made her want to laugh, "An apartment, my family, a life.." She tied the gown at her shoulders. "I wouldn't ask you to give that all up if it were you." Loki pulled on his boots and stood up from the bed and she was struck, recalling how majestic he had looked striding up the aisle to kneel before Odin. "We have to go back and repair whatever damage we've done." Sarah said, as she started for the doors when Loki grabbed her by the hand and turned her to him, "What about the union between us? Last evening…" Sarah reached up and kissed him, his eyes closing, mouth seeking more, but she gently pushed him away, "That's why we have to try and fix what we've done."

                          After they had taken their leave of Odin and Frigga, and the long ride out over the Bifrost, they stood before an immense man, bearded with eyes like bright amber and Sarah remembered her arrival here, the eyes she'd seen were his. "Heimdall, how long do you think it will take to rebuild the bridge?" Loki asked as they approached him. "How long did it take to build it?" Came the booming answer and Loki looked at his feet. Heimdall had produced the scepter from beside him and he now held it in his hands, ready to hand it to Loki.


                                         Dr. Banner was sitting at the table in the cafeteria, drinking the last of his green tea when his beeper went off and he nearly dropped the cup onto the table. He fumbled in his pocket for the small square and finally pulled it out, read the number, and jumped up so quick that the teacup jumped off the table and smashed to the floor. "Hey," He yelled to one of the cafeteria attendants, "I'll come back and pay for that, ok?" He started on a run towards the elevator, dialing Stark's direct line. When Tony finally answered, Banner could hardly get the words out, "We've got a spike. I'm heading to the lab."

                              Fury chose to take the stairs, leaping them in twos and threes..there wasn't any time to lose, Banner had said there was no guarantee his calculations would be correct with all the variables he'd had to work out. He reached the tenth level just as Banner slid the door to the lab, four agents already in the room waiting with him. When Fury walked into the lab, Banner looked up from the screen he was staring at. "There's definitely some activity here. I called Stark and he said he'd be on his way…as long as I don't have to suit up, I'm good." Fury looked about the room hands on his hips, and waited..

                              Heimdall reached out the scepter to Loki, Sarah taking a last long look at the city of Asgard sparkling before her in the morning sunlight. As Loki's hand touched the scepter, the electric blue flames began to dance around him and she grabbed the handle a little more forcefully than before as the scene before her shimmered and once again, she fought to maintain a hold on the scepter as her breath was ripped from her, the freezing cold numbing her fingers, arms, for what seemed like interminable minutes but in reality was only seconds when she felt her feet on solid ground and she stumbled but didn't fall this time as Loki caught her, his face flushed, dripping with sweat. They looked around to find themselves in the corridor outside lab 3 looking in at a room full of trouble.

                           "Where the hell are they?" Fury shouted as the agents remained in defense stance. Banner peered at the computer, looked at the data on his tablet, and back at the computer screen again. "They should have been here, it looks like they're already through…" When his eyes caught movement in the corridor and he stared through the glass at Sarah and Loki. It was seconds before he could manage words, "Um, outside?" When Fury turned to look, they had already started to run for the stairs.

                    Sarah couldn't match Loki's long strides and had started to fall behind until Loki grabbed her hand. At the third floor, they could hear footsteps above them quick and many. Loki opened the door to the third floor and they started down the corridor until they found a door sporting a neon EXIT sign above it, Loki shoved it open and pulled Sarah through and they were outside in an alley filled with dumpsters. "I think this was the janitor's entrance," Sarah gasped, her heart trying to catch up with her legs, "Loki, I don't think we should be running away," she could hear footsteps in the corridor behind the door, soon they would figure out where they'd gone. Loki spun around and Sarah saw something she hadn't seen in his eyes before, pure rage. He grabbed her hand once again and she almost pulled away from him until he turned back to her and the rage had been replaced with desperation. They headed down the alleyway, turning the corner into the street seconds before she heard the door in the alleyway slam open again, shouts of "This way," reaching her ears. She pulled Loki down a one way street towards her apartment building, her feet almost slipping from under her in the sandals she'd worn upon her return as people stared at them when they passed by.

                    Tony watched them as he hovered in the air stories above them, Fury's voice loud inside his helmet. "Apprehend them unharmed if possible. I seriously doubt she's following his lead. We may have a hostage situation on our hands." Tony sighed, they had slowed to a nervous quick walk. "Gonna be a shame to bother them. They make a nice couple." Tony murmured as he bent himself earthward and hit his burners.

                      Loki heard the roar before Sarah did and he pushed Sarah to the side as Tony hit him hard. He could hear Sarah scream his name, the fear in her voice wiping out all else as he reached for Tony's helmet and began to pull outward, sparks flying from the sides as the metal gave way and Tony slammed him against the wall of a nearby bank. The breath knocked from him momentarily, he let go of the helmet, the blue glow of the arc reactor inches from his face. He reared back and punched the blue circle fast and hard and Tony stumbled backwards with a metallic clinking sound. "Hey now that's not playing fair horn boy," Tony put his hand up to face Loki, "Yeah I made that one up, so there, it's a work in progress I know, Now would you like to stand down or do I blow a hole through you big enough for people to get to the ATM?"
                 

              Sarah had fallen when Loki had pushed her and now far down the street, she could see Loki against a wall, blood dripping from the side of his mouth, Iron Man standing at battle ready before him and she started to run.

                            He heard his name and looked over Tony's shoulder to see Sarah running towards him, and Tony chose that same moment to look back at her. Loki reached out for him and lifted him over his head, threw him hard to the ground. Striding over to him, Loki put a knee to his chest and started again to pull his helmet off, lifting his chin at a painful angle, a grimace upon his face. Tony began to reach up with his hands, intending to either knock him down or rid the world of him completely when he saw Sarah, from his peripheral vision, running up to Loki.

                         Loki didn't expect the tackle and it knocked him off Tony's chest. Sarah forced him forward, flat to the pavement, placing a knee to his back, leaning forward over him. "Cease and desist immediately," She said loud and close to his ear, he heard the clang and whir as Tony stepped up to him. He reached down and picked Loki up, holding his arm as sirens screamed in the distance, Loki, however, was paying no attention to anyone save Sarah who stood before him, tears streaming angrily down her face, "What were you doing?" He growled, "I was saving your life." She shouted at him. The cop cars stopped a few feet away along with a couple of very familiar black cars behind them. Fury made his way through the crowd that had gathered, and turned face to face with Loki. "Your brother is on his way here to escort you back to the office, no offense Mr. Stark," "None taken," Came the metallic answer, "You have a lot of explaining to do, we are bringing up charges of kidnapping," Sarah backed up to the bank wall and slid down it, her hands to her face, "Unauthorized use of a classified object, assault, theft. I'm thinking your welcome is about worn out." Loki said nothing, but kept glaring at Sarah, ignoring even the loud thundering footsteps of Thor as he walked up to him and grabbed him from Tony's grasp. "Brother, what were you thinking? We've tried to be lenient with you and this is the way you repay us?" Loki's gaze snapped to Thor, "We? You don't belong here any more than I do, dear brother!" He shoved Thor's hand away and started for Sarah, Tony raised his hand but Fury held his fire.
                She could hear the footsteps coming towards her and she looked up in time to see Loki kneel to one knee in the rubble beside her, his face grim, a snarl forming upon his lips, "Now do you see? Is this what you wanted?" She looked down the street, unable to face him but he grabbed her chin and turned her back to him, "Is it?!" He shouted at her, then in a lower voice "You said we were damned that evening and you were right," His voice cracked then and a cry of pure anguish brought him to both knees. He felt the weight of Thor's hand on his shoulder, "It is time to go, brother." Loki stood without another word and walked towards one of the waiting black cars, past Tony and Fury and got in beside Thor.

             She'd started to cry so hard it hurt to breath, she wanted to reverse the clock, stop herself from ever seeing Loki, ever taking the reassignment from D.C. but she was powerless to do anything of the sort and she felt sick at heart that she wouldn't be there with him in the cell they would be bringing him to tonight. She felt a shadow over her and Fury was standing above her, offering his hand. She took it and stood up, unsteady on her feet. "Good job Agent Miller. I'd like you to come to S.H.I. E.L.D. tomorrow morning for a complete debriefing. Right now, you should go home and get some rest, I'm going to send an agent to stand watch outside your apartment to see we don't have any more trouble." Sarah wasn't sure there would be any more trouble with her ever again but she nodded and watched as Fury walked away.

                A half hour later, she was standing in the shower in her apartment. She'd come home, taken off the dress and laid it down on the bed, nearly overcome again as she thought of Loki. When she had dried off and put on her robe, she sat on the couch and opened her briefcase for papers to fill out, hoping she could occupy her mind until tomorrow when the cd slipped from the pouch in the lid and dropped onto the floor. She picked it up and stared at it for a moment, then she walked over to her laptop on the kitchen island and sat down, hesitating a minute but finally drawing on her resolve, she shoved the cd into the drive on the side and waited. The file opened up immediately and she half considered shutting it down, was in the process when Loki's face came up on the screen in the form of a mug shot with files below it marked with names like Joint Dark Energy, ships video feed, Stark tower feeds. Stuttgart. She clicked on the first folder and when it opened she clicked the first video which started to run. Loki was poised on a podium with the scepter in his hand, leaping from it like a deer and she stared open mouthed as he pounced on several agents, flying about the room like a man possessed, using the scepter like a weapon. She opened one file after another, watching with mounting horror as he ran through an agent in one of the ships video feeds, facing off against Captain and Tony in Germany, to the Stark tower feeds where it finally hit her. He'd been responsible for the chaos in New York, he'd opened that hole in the sky. She shut the laptop, her stomach clenching as bile rose in her throat and she ran to the bathroom and knelt before the toilet, bringing up little but continuing to retch for long minutes afterwards. When she could finally stop heaving, she walked out into the kitchen, popped the cd drive on the side, took out the cd and hit it against the island counter, shattering it. She lay in her bed, staring out at the lights of the city through her window until the sunlight crept in the next morning.

                                      She was in Fury's office for the better part of two hours answering his questions about Loki's behavior, what had happened in Asgard. She had told him nothing about the night spent with Loki but wondered when he probed further, if he had any idea about it. He had congratulated her on a job well done though she felt there was something more Fury wanted to say. He was about to dismiss her from his office when she stood up and asked him, "Sir, I'd like to have a few words alone with Loki, if I could." Fury shook his head, "I wouldn't recommend it, Miss Miller." "But you didn't say no altogether, I need to talk to him, to ask him a couple questions of my own." Fury put his hands behind his back. "I'll give you ten minutes tops, but that's it. He's not been in a mood for talking today." Sarah nodded and was about to leave when an agent appeared at the door. "Take her to see Loki, cell 3, Incarceration level 4. She has ten minutes with him."

                      Loki was sitting on the floor of his cell, his eyes closed, hands on his knees, looking for all the world like he was meditating when Sarah approached the door to the cell and the agent slid his badge across the panel. The door slid aside and as Loki opened his eyes, she felt her heart breaking all over again as it had been doing continuously, ever since she touched her feet to Earth again. He looked up at her, saying nothing. She sat down on a bench   to his left. "I watched the cd Fury gave me." She said simply, "Now I know why he wanted me to see it." Loki turned his head towards her and she continued, "I think I didn't want to see the truth, no I know I didn't. I wanted to believe you, and trust you, but I've seen what you were capable of." Loki put the heels of his palms to his eyes, "It doesn't matter anymore, does it? I can never atone for my past, I could only try to build a better future with you, now it doesn't matter." Sarah stood up to go, the pain of seeing him too great to bear, when he said softly, "Sarah, they're sending me back to Asgard," She turned to him, "To stay." She found her knees giving way and she knelt on the floor next to him, their eyes locking as she leaned to him and kissed him, his hands finding her face, holding it as they shared their grief, she put her forehead against his. "It doesn't matter, Loki" She whispered, swallowed hard, "I love the man I came to know, nothing will change that." She heard the door slide open to her left and the agent, "Miss Miller?" She stood up and Loki did so with her. The last glimpse she saw of him, his eyes were closed, his arms limp at his sides in defeat.
Chapter 10

I almost stopped here, I was having trouble trying to work out what i saw in my minds eye with this story after the events in this chapter but they're slowly working out well.

I do not own or presume to own and of Marvel's wonderful characters, just borrowing them for a bit
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