Fire & Ice

Once we on board the Helicarrier, my father grabbed me and dragged me off to the side, "Tina, why wouldn't you tell me something like that?"

I screamed, "Because I didn't know how to, dad. I don't know how to tell you that your precious daughter, hell your only daughter is dying."

He sighed and looked at me with sad eyes. I really didn't know what to say to him, how to make everything better. I walked back to the others and I swear I saw tears fall down my father's face as I walked away. I stood among the others as they brought Loki off the jet. He seemed to just stare at me, which creeped me out. I scooted closer to Steve just instinctively, and he put his arm around my shoulder, "It's alright, he can't do anything to you."

I scoffed, "Doesn't mean he can't creep me out with all his staring."

Steve laughed, "Don't worry, Ill protect you."

I smiled at him, he was so sweet, if he would just stop with the chivalrousness, I mean I could take care of myself. Before they took Loki to his cell he looked straight at me and said, through my head, See you soon, Sigyn. It gave me a chill that he was talking to me in my head, and I pressed myself closer to Steve. They took Loki to his new jail cell that was a giant cylinder. I was with my father in the front of the plane, with the others. I couldn't take this whole thing anymore, I stood up and stared straight at Thor, "Who is Sigyn?"

My father was confused, as were all the others, but Thor knew what I was talking about. He sighed before he spoke, "Sigyn was a goddess of fidelity and devotion. She was so beautiful, everyone loved her. She was also Loki's wife, the only one who truly could love Loki. She was killed by a frost giant when they attacked us. It broke Loki; he has never been the same after it."

I realized now why he was so interested in me, I looked like his dead wife, this was just awesome. My father asked me, "Why did you ask that?"

Thor said, "When I saw your daughter, I thought she was Sigyn. So did Loki."

My father said, "So your whack job brother has some sick fascination with my daughter because she looks like his dead wife?"

Thor growled at the statement, "Sigyn was a part of our family, and your daughter really is her spitting image. That is probably the reason he keeps helping her."

Fury spoke up now, "Someone is going to need to go speak to him, try to figure out what he has planned. Natasha, I think you are the perfect person for that."

Nat nodded and I said, "I'm coming with you."

Nat shook her head, "I don't think that is a good idea, Tina."

I said, "You want to know what he is up to, who better to tell you that than me, he thinks I'm his dead wife."

Nat sighed as we walked towards the holding cell. As the door opened, I saw him pacing in the cell. He looked at me, hello dear come to figure out what I'm up to?

I froze, him talking in my head was really unnerving and I just ignored him. He smirked at me, "Can't ignore me forever, Sigyn."

I yelled at him, "I'm not Sigyn."

He laughed, "Oh, I know. Now what did you two want?"

Nat said, "What are you up to, Loki?"

He grinned, "I can't exactly tell you that now can I?"

Nat said, "Just tell us what you are up to."

Loki just laughed. Nat yelled, "You're a monster."

Loki said, "Oh no, you brought the monster with you."

Nat smiled at his revelation and got up to walk out. I went to follow but he called to me, "Do stay, Sigyn. I want to talk to you."

I shook my head as I ran after Nat. Everyone was in the lab now, and Nat had told them the news. They all knew this meant he was going to use Bruce to do something. Suddenly as everyone talked, it sparked an argument. As the conversation got more heated, I noticed this wasn't normal. Loki had to be doing this somehow. Bruce changed when he got heated up enough and Nat and I crashed through the floor with him. I heard my father scream for me, "Tina!"

I tried to get up as fast as I could, and grabbed Nat's hand to pull her away from Bruce, who was barreling towards us. I used my fire to try to keep him away from us, but my fire was weakening me. Finally we opened the back hatch and he flew out. I knew this was all Loki's fault so I ran towards his cell, but I came face to face with Clint. Nat screamed, "Just go, I'll take care of him."

I nodded as I kept running. When I reached his cell, I saw that Agent Coulson was there, facing off with Loki. Thor was in the cage and Loki was fiddling with the controls, and Phil had a gun pointed at him. He saw me and smirked as he appeared behind Phil and stabbed him. I screamed, "No!"

My anger jumped started my powers as I threw fire at Loki, "You fucking bastard!"

He grabbed my arm and spun me around into his arms, "Calm down, Valentina."

I gasped; he really did know my real name. I flipped him over and slammed him to the ground, "I will not calm down!"

He actually laughed from the ground, "You'll kill yourself if you don't stop using that power of yours."

I stared at him, he was right; I could already feel my breath start to shorten. But I couldn't let him win this, not after what he did. I tried to continue standing as he stood back up, "You know I can keep you alive, you should come with me."

I was shocked by his outright invitation to take me with him, why the hell would he do that. I scoffed at him, "As if I would ever go anywhere with you. You want to kill the people I consider family and you already killed a friend of mine. You are a horrible bastard, Loki. And no matter if you escape now, we will stop you."

He seemed to flinch at me calling him a monster, but then he just shook his head, "I wished you would have agreed to come with me." He grabbed my hand and kissed the top of it, "No matter what you do, if you live through all this, I will make you mine."

I yanked my hand away from him and I fell as my powers freaked out again. Loki stood above me laughing, "Just remember, dear Valentina, I am the only one who can keep you alive."

He touched my face again as my breathing began to stabilize and when I looked around again, he was gone. I lay on the floor for a moment, thinking about what had just happened. This was bad, Bruce had fallen to the ground as Hulk, Thor had been ejected in Loki's cell, and Coulson was dead. I rose to my feet as I walked back to the observation deck on the ship, where I knew everyone would be.