"And Then You" 1/6
Title: “And Then You”
Author: Lena
For: skadi/europa_kore
Fandom: Marvel
Warnings: Sexual Relations, Some Foul Language
Rating: Mature
Disclaimer: Marvel is god, I'm just a lowly worshiper, blah, blah, blah.
Summary: Darcy is driving in New Mexico when she nearly hits Loki, who has just fallen off the bifrost. Despite every self preserving instinct in her, she takes him to her home to patch him up.
Beta'd By: Just Me
Of all the things that Darcy thought she would be doing at ten at night, she hadn’t ever thought that a grocery run would be one of them. Maybe a Taco Bell run when she’d been up for way too long getting stoned with her friends at college, but never a full grocery run. No, she’d had to drive to the next town over, which was quite a ways. Puente Antiguo hadn’t exactly been near anything, and, when it was nearly destroyed, that meant that all of the supplies needed had to be shipped in from elsewhere.
Still, Darcy wouldn’t likely trade any of this for the world. Well, she’d love it if Thor’s brother hadn’t shown up a few months ago and tried to level the town in a pissing match and taken out the local grocery store, thus the need for travel, but you couldn’t always get what you wanted. She was probably lucky in that the whole town hadn’t been completely leveled, and that casualties had been minimal. She’d even gained a pet! The man that she had given Baker to have actually returned him when things had settled and the pet shop owner had said that she could keep him since she had thought to help him get all of the animals out of there. Therefore, there was that.
Of course, she also had to deal with a love sick Jane. Who knew that two people could be so attached after only two days? Darcy never would have guessed that. Now she had a mooning scientist to deal with. Being Jane’s little helper elf before had been bad enough, as the woman had a tendency to get distracted by her work for hours at a time, and to not think about things like eating or sleeping, but now that she also had love on the line? Yeah, Jane had almost completely stopped being able to take care of herself. If Darcy weren’t’ around, Jane likely would have starved to death. Erik tried, but he couldn’t compete with raw data. Darcy, however, was great at taking care of people. Well, other people. She hadn’t quite pulled off the task of taking care of herself quite yet.
This was why she was doing a grocery run so late at night. They had run out of pop tarts (the main thing that Jane seemed willing to live off) and a few other things around the restaurant that served as the makeshift lab, so she had elected to go out and get them, not thinking of how far the next town was away, or how late it had already gotten. She could have waited until tomorrow, but Jane got extra cranky when her source of energy wasn’t around, and Jane was already cranky enough. She was far more worried about dealing with Jane than driving at night.
She should have been more concerned, though. She had put in a full day at the lab, plus going out like this, so she was a bit tired and not really paying attention to the road. There wasn’t exactly a whole lot to pay attention to out here. It was just dirt, cacti, lizards, and one straight road. However, when a storm opened up the sky out of nowhere, it caught her attention very quickly. There was thunder and lightning and, despite how she knew that she shouldn’t get her hopes up, she couldn’t help but wonder if Thor had managed to find his way back. With what he had promised to Jane, Darcy couldn’t help but think something had prevented him from coming back. With another flash of lightning, something humanoid dropped in the road directly in front of her. Darcy screamed, swerving her car off the road so that she wouldn’t hit whatever it was. She suspected that, if it was Thor, he wouldn’t appreciate being hit by a car AGAIN. Not exactly the best way to welcome a guy back.
Putting the car in park, she climbed out and headed over to the unmoving form in the middle of the road. The storm was already clearing, which led her to believe all the more that it was Asgardian in nature rather than just another crazy storm in the desert. The wind was still whipping through her long, dark curls as she moved closer to the person on the ground. She could see right away that it wasn’t Thor, as the form was much too lean for it to be the big, hulking blond beefcake. Nothing wrong with lean, as Darcy actually preferred it. She could see from the man’s clothing (it was a man, upon closer inspection) that he wasn’t from around. His clothing looked similar to what Thor’s friends had been wearing when they showed up, if in bad shape. The green cloak on his back was tattered. When she gingerly rolled him over, she could see the dents and tears in his armor as well. His gleamed gold while Thor seemed to have preferred silver as a metal. This guy looked beat to hell, though. Whomever he had picked a fight with, she suspected that he had lost. However, if he were like any other guy, he would likely insist that the ‘other guy’ looked worse.
“You couldn’t drop out of the sky in the middle of town where I could get some help?” Darcy grumbled, more to herself than the prone figure in front of her. She took a brief few minutes to move her car closer to him, and, making sure the passenger door was open, slowly managed to drag him over to the car and prop him up in the seat. “Jeeze, for a skinny guy, you sure are heavy,” she grumbled. Thor had been heavier, but she wasn’t sure if it had been by much. Then again, she had Erik helping her put Thor into the van, while she was doing this by herself.
The guy was obviously Asgardian, as Darcy didn’t know of any other people who dropped out of the sky like this (then again, she hadn’t know about aliens until recently, either, so anything could surprise her at this point). He wasn’t one of the people that had shown up to ‘rescue’ Thor, so Darcy had no clue who he was. Still, she couldn’t exactly just leave him in the middle of the road. On top of all the other obvious things that were wrong with that, it had to be a massive road hazard to be lying around in the middle of the road like that.
As she started the car and got back onto the road, she couldn’t help but wonder just what she was going to DO with the dude in her passenger seat. She couldn’t take him to the hospital. Not only was it still being rebuilt on itself, but Thor had torn the place apart last time. There was nothing saying that this guy wouldn’t do the same. She thought that she should take him by the lab. Jane was likely still there, if not Erik as well, and she knew that Jane especially would want to know anything this guy knew about Thor. She’d likely throw water on him until he woke up just to ask him about the big guy.
As she’s driving, she can’t help but notice that some of the superficial wounds on him are already starting to heal up. She remembered that, once Thor had gone all Asgardian, all of his wounds had healed up like nothing. Even though this guy wasn’t as built as he was, she supposed that he was made of the same stuff as Thor, same physiology. Still, it was a freaky thing to watch out of the corner of her eye while she drove. She could see why old school Norse people thought that these guys were gods. The man unconscious next to her was certainly utterly gorgeous. If she were a little more primitive, she’d be happy to drop down and worship him.
As she drove, she heard him let out a soft moan. He started to move, seemingly waking up from his ‘nap.’ “Hey man, how are you feeling over there?” she asked, keeping her eyes on the road for the time being. “It’s not every day that someone drops out of the sky in front of a car I’m in. Actually, it’s only happened twice now, each time very memorable.”
She slowed down the car a little so that she could turn and look at him. At first he looked highly confused, which she supposed made sense, as he likely didn’t remember last being in her car. Then, before she could properly react, his face changed from confusion to anger. He reached over and grabbed her by both arms, and she managed to slam on the brakes just in enough time to not completely run off the road and move the car into park before he turned her toward him, pulling her inches from his face.
“Dude, what the hell?” she snapped at him, trying to ignore and he was grabbing her arms hard enough to likely make them bruise later. “I could have ran off the road and wrecked! You’re banged up enough as it is.”
“Hush, mortal!” he snapped at her. “Tell me where I am.”
She took a deep breath, telling herself that he might have thought he was kidnapped or something. “Earth, dude,” she told him. “You fell out of the sky in front of my car. I did good not to run you over. Now can you relax a little and let me go?”
He made a face of mild disgust, lessening his grip on her arms but still not letting her go. “Earth, really? Of all the places,” he said, seemingly talking more to himself than to her.
“Hey, insult much?” she snapped at him. “I happen to like this place.”
“That is because you do not know better, girl,” he retorted. “There are worlds much grander than this place.” He was staring a hole through her right now, and it made her want to look away, although she was forcing herself to keep looking back at him. It was the stare down of the ages. “I know you. You were with my brother the day that I sent The Destroyer.”
Darcy’s eyes went wide as her mouth dropped open a little. “Who are you?” she asked, trying to keep her voice from shaking and not quite succeeding.
He sneered at her, and she had to bite back a shudder. “I am Loki of Asgard, mortal,” he said to her. “And you should be kneeling before me.”
“Oh crap,” Darcy said.
Author: Lena
For: skadi/europa_kore
Fandom: Marvel
Warnings: Sexual Relations, Some Foul Language
Rating: Mature
Disclaimer: Marvel is god, I'm just a lowly worshiper, blah, blah, blah.
Summary: Darcy is driving in New Mexico when she nearly hits Loki, who has just fallen off the bifrost. Despite every self preserving instinct in her, she takes him to her home to patch him up.
Beta'd By: Just Me
Of all the things that Darcy thought she would be doing at ten at night, she hadn’t ever thought that a grocery run would be one of them. Maybe a Taco Bell run when she’d been up for way too long getting stoned with her friends at college, but never a full grocery run. No, she’d had to drive to the next town over, which was quite a ways. Puente Antiguo hadn’t exactly been near anything, and, when it was nearly destroyed, that meant that all of the supplies needed had to be shipped in from elsewhere.
Still, Darcy wouldn’t likely trade any of this for the world. Well, she’d love it if Thor’s brother hadn’t shown up a few months ago and tried to level the town in a pissing match and taken out the local grocery store, thus the need for travel, but you couldn’t always get what you wanted. She was probably lucky in that the whole town hadn’t been completely leveled, and that casualties had been minimal. She’d even gained a pet! The man that she had given Baker to have actually returned him when things had settled and the pet shop owner had said that she could keep him since she had thought to help him get all of the animals out of there. Therefore, there was that.
Of course, she also had to deal with a love sick Jane. Who knew that two people could be so attached after only two days? Darcy never would have guessed that. Now she had a mooning scientist to deal with. Being Jane’s little helper elf before had been bad enough, as the woman had a tendency to get distracted by her work for hours at a time, and to not think about things like eating or sleeping, but now that she also had love on the line? Yeah, Jane had almost completely stopped being able to take care of herself. If Darcy weren’t’ around, Jane likely would have starved to death. Erik tried, but he couldn’t compete with raw data. Darcy, however, was great at taking care of people. Well, other people. She hadn’t quite pulled off the task of taking care of herself quite yet.
This was why she was doing a grocery run so late at night. They had run out of pop tarts (the main thing that Jane seemed willing to live off) and a few other things around the restaurant that served as the makeshift lab, so she had elected to go out and get them, not thinking of how far the next town was away, or how late it had already gotten. She could have waited until tomorrow, but Jane got extra cranky when her source of energy wasn’t around, and Jane was already cranky enough. She was far more worried about dealing with Jane than driving at night.
She should have been more concerned, though. She had put in a full day at the lab, plus going out like this, so she was a bit tired and not really paying attention to the road. There wasn’t exactly a whole lot to pay attention to out here. It was just dirt, cacti, lizards, and one straight road. However, when a storm opened up the sky out of nowhere, it caught her attention very quickly. There was thunder and lightning and, despite how she knew that she shouldn’t get her hopes up, she couldn’t help but wonder if Thor had managed to find his way back. With what he had promised to Jane, Darcy couldn’t help but think something had prevented him from coming back. With another flash of lightning, something humanoid dropped in the road directly in front of her. Darcy screamed, swerving her car off the road so that she wouldn’t hit whatever it was. She suspected that, if it was Thor, he wouldn’t appreciate being hit by a car AGAIN. Not exactly the best way to welcome a guy back.
Putting the car in park, she climbed out and headed over to the unmoving form in the middle of the road. The storm was already clearing, which led her to believe all the more that it was Asgardian in nature rather than just another crazy storm in the desert. The wind was still whipping through her long, dark curls as she moved closer to the person on the ground. She could see right away that it wasn’t Thor, as the form was much too lean for it to be the big, hulking blond beefcake. Nothing wrong with lean, as Darcy actually preferred it. She could see from the man’s clothing (it was a man, upon closer inspection) that he wasn’t from around. His clothing looked similar to what Thor’s friends had been wearing when they showed up, if in bad shape. The green cloak on his back was tattered. When she gingerly rolled him over, she could see the dents and tears in his armor as well. His gleamed gold while Thor seemed to have preferred silver as a metal. This guy looked beat to hell, though. Whomever he had picked a fight with, she suspected that he had lost. However, if he were like any other guy, he would likely insist that the ‘other guy’ looked worse.
“You couldn’t drop out of the sky in the middle of town where I could get some help?” Darcy grumbled, more to herself than the prone figure in front of her. She took a brief few minutes to move her car closer to him, and, making sure the passenger door was open, slowly managed to drag him over to the car and prop him up in the seat. “Jeeze, for a skinny guy, you sure are heavy,” she grumbled. Thor had been heavier, but she wasn’t sure if it had been by much. Then again, she had Erik helping her put Thor into the van, while she was doing this by herself.
The guy was obviously Asgardian, as Darcy didn’t know of any other people who dropped out of the sky like this (then again, she hadn’t know about aliens until recently, either, so anything could surprise her at this point). He wasn’t one of the people that had shown up to ‘rescue’ Thor, so Darcy had no clue who he was. Still, she couldn’t exactly just leave him in the middle of the road. On top of all the other obvious things that were wrong with that, it had to be a massive road hazard to be lying around in the middle of the road like that.
As she started the car and got back onto the road, she couldn’t help but wonder just what she was going to DO with the dude in her passenger seat. She couldn’t take him to the hospital. Not only was it still being rebuilt on itself, but Thor had torn the place apart last time. There was nothing saying that this guy wouldn’t do the same. She thought that she should take him by the lab. Jane was likely still there, if not Erik as well, and she knew that Jane especially would want to know anything this guy knew about Thor. She’d likely throw water on him until he woke up just to ask him about the big guy.
As she’s driving, she can’t help but notice that some of the superficial wounds on him are already starting to heal up. She remembered that, once Thor had gone all Asgardian, all of his wounds had healed up like nothing. Even though this guy wasn’t as built as he was, she supposed that he was made of the same stuff as Thor, same physiology. Still, it was a freaky thing to watch out of the corner of her eye while she drove. She could see why old school Norse people thought that these guys were gods. The man unconscious next to her was certainly utterly gorgeous. If she were a little more primitive, she’d be happy to drop down and worship him.
As she drove, she heard him let out a soft moan. He started to move, seemingly waking up from his ‘nap.’ “Hey man, how are you feeling over there?” she asked, keeping her eyes on the road for the time being. “It’s not every day that someone drops out of the sky in front of a car I’m in. Actually, it’s only happened twice now, each time very memorable.”
She slowed down the car a little so that she could turn and look at him. At first he looked highly confused, which she supposed made sense, as he likely didn’t remember last being in her car. Then, before she could properly react, his face changed from confusion to anger. He reached over and grabbed her by both arms, and she managed to slam on the brakes just in enough time to not completely run off the road and move the car into park before he turned her toward him, pulling her inches from his face.
“Dude, what the hell?” she snapped at him, trying to ignore and he was grabbing her arms hard enough to likely make them bruise later. “I could have ran off the road and wrecked! You’re banged up enough as it is.”
“Hush, mortal!” he snapped at her. “Tell me where I am.”
She took a deep breath, telling herself that he might have thought he was kidnapped or something. “Earth, dude,” she told him. “You fell out of the sky in front of my car. I did good not to run you over. Now can you relax a little and let me go?”
He made a face of mild disgust, lessening his grip on her arms but still not letting her go. “Earth, really? Of all the places,” he said, seemingly talking more to himself than to her.
“Hey, insult much?” she snapped at him. “I happen to like this place.”
“That is because you do not know better, girl,” he retorted. “There are worlds much grander than this place.” He was staring a hole through her right now, and it made her want to look away, although she was forcing herself to keep looking back at him. It was the stare down of the ages. “I know you. You were with my brother the day that I sent The Destroyer.”
Darcy’s eyes went wide as her mouth dropped open a little. “Who are you?” she asked, trying to keep her voice from shaking and not quite succeeding.
He sneered at her, and she had to bite back a shudder. “I am Loki of Asgard, mortal,” he said to her. “And you should be kneeling before me.”
“Oh crap,” Darcy said.