Fire & Ice

I laughed as I landed, realizing I had beat my father at our little race. Then I turned to look at the people that were terrified and I saw the reason for their terror. There was that guy with the piercing emerald eyes again; he had to be the one who had stolen the Tesseract. I approached him slowly and he watched my every move, which frightened me a bit. Captain America and Nat came before my father even appeared. I watched as Captain America fought him and Loki seemed to be winning. I jumped in the middle of the fight, powering myself up, before the Cap got hurt. I was trying to help him, but my powers were their usual wonky selves. Then my father came flying in and blasted him backwards.

When my father landed, I stopped my approach. My father laughed at his appearance, "Really? This is what I have to fight? Alright, come on reindeer games."

Loki growled at my father's comment of him and just put his hands up in defeat. He was surrendering, which was weird. I raised my eyebrow at the scene, but watched as they put the cuffs on him. After I knew he was locked up, I powered down, but I felt that suffocating again. I fell to the ground, gasping, this time I worried it wouldn't stop. I felt my body convulsing on the ground for air. My father ran over to me screaming, "What is happening, Tina?"

I felt tears start to fall as I began to fade, but Loki said quietly, "Let me help her."

My father did not like that suggestion, "You will stay the fuck away from my child! You can't help her."

As he screamed at Loki, I knew that wasn't true, Loki was the one who could help me. I tried to reach out towards him, but I was weak now. He saw it though, "Please just let me help her, see how she reaches to me."

My father snatched him up and pulled him over to me, "Fix her, but the cuffs don't come off."

Loki reached down and put his hands on my chest. I felt my temperature drop back down and my body begin to regain itself. I tried to steady my breathing, but that had been so close. I looked up at Loki with sad eyes, "Um...thanks."

I scurried away from him quickly and ran to the jet. I walked up to Nat in the cockpit; I wanted to be away from my father because I knew he was going to go ballistic. Nat smiled at me, "Don't think that you can hide up here, sweetie, your dad is going to scream either way."

I frowned at her, "Gee thanks for the support."

Nat's smile fell, "So what did happen out there?"

I swallowed my pain and tried to answer her, "I...um...I'm dying."

Nat flew around so fast she made my neck hurt, "What do you mean?"

I felt a single tear fall, "The fire in me is killing my body."

Nat just looked at me sadly as we stopped talking because my father had come onto the jet. He stared at me but didn't say anything. Suddenly there was a loud thunder clap and Loki made a face. My father jokingly asked, "Scared of a little thunder?"

Loki said, "I'm not overly fond of what follows," and suddenly Thor burst in and grabbed his brother out of the plane. My father and the Cap took it as someone trying to take Loki away, and I tried to explain that wasn't it, but they didn't listen. I was going to jump to, to find him, but Cap grabbed my hand, "Maybe you should stay here, miss, it would be a shame if you got hurt."

I scowled at him, I knew he was very chivalrous, but that sounded sexist to me. I jumped out, lighting my body on the way down. I saw the fight going on and went to stop it. I screamed, "Stop, dad, this is Thor. He is Loki's brother. We are on the same side."

My father stopped but suddenly I disappeared and appeared in front of Loki, "You don't learn do you?"

I stared at him curiously, "Why do you say that?"

He laughed, "You have been told your powers are killing you, but yet you continue to use them. I will not continue to be your personal icicle to fix you because you are being stupid."

I screamed at him, "No one told you to fix me, so fuck off."

He looked taken back by what I said; apparently no one had ever spoken to him in such a manner. He raised his hand to hit me and I turned my head to lessen the blow, but it never came. I only turned my head back around when I felt his hand on my cheek. I was startled by the niceness he was showing me, and he ran his hand down my cheek. He whispered, "I would never hurt you Sigyn."

I said, "I'm not Sigyn."

He blinked a bit and then looked at me again, yanking his hand away from me. He was certainly a strange individual. The other came and took him back to the jet, with us following. I took a seat next to Captain America, and I noticed how handsome he was. It was sort of creepy that I thought he was hot because he was like eighty and I was only eighteen. He turned to me and smiled, "So your Iron Man's daughter?"

I nodded, "Valentina Stark. They call me Blaze."

He shook my hand, "It's nice to meet you, Valentina. I'm Steve Rogers."

I shook my head, "Just call me Tina, everyone does. It is a lot easier to say too."

He chuckled, "Alright, Tina. So just curious, how old are you?"

I had a mischievous look on my face as I said, "Old enough."

He raised an eyebrow at me, "Is that so?"

I laughed, "I'm 18."

He nodded, "Good to know."

I could feel my father's eyes on us as we talked, he was obviously pissed off that a guy was talking to his precious daughter, but he still hadn't spoken to me. I continued to talk to Steve until I noticed someone was missing. I stood up and asked, "Where is Hawkeye?"

Nat was quiet for a moment before she answered my question, "Loki took him."

That kind of snapped me; I ran over to Loki and hit him, "What the fuck did you do to him?"

Loki growled at me, "Remember what I've done for you and don't ever think of touching me again!"

I hit him again and Steve jumped up to yank me away from Loki, "Where is he? Loki, you better not fucking hurt him!"

Loki scowled at me as Steve dragged me back to my seat. My father finally came over to me, "You can't just attack the prisoner because he has taken your lover boy."

I glared at my father, "Don't be pissed off just because I kept another secret."

My father yelled, "All of you is a secret, you haven't changed anything. My daughter doesn't tell me anything; do you know how that makes me feel?"

That comment broke me; I just stood up and looked around the jet at everyone. Nat, the friend I never thought I would have, somewhat like family. My father who I had apparently hurt by my lies. Steve, the guy I was interested in. Thor was the man who had been so nice and had helped me, and was like family now. And Loki, the nut job that kept healing me somehow. I opened my mouth and it took a bit for the words to come out, "I think I should tell everyone here, I'm dying."