An Elemental Manipulation

Chapter Ten

"Steve... you might want to tell Harley the truth or she might kill both of you..." Loki says while he's trying to calm me down.

Wanda and Nat must have known something was up because they stood up and told Sharon to get out of the building before they got to her. She doesn't move, so I blast her with a gust of wind and hold her against the elevator so she can't move. I look back at Steve and notice that he looks like he's in shock, but I don't care.

I take more wind and throw Steve up next to Sharon and start squeezing the air from their lungs. When I feel a hand on my shoulder and I hear his thoughts again,

'Harley, darling. You need to calm down, I know that's a lot to ask right now with what's going on but you don't want to do this. Just take a breath and let them go, you'll hurt them both by letting each other break each other apart...'

For some reason, I listen to him. No one knows what he just said to me, I take a breath and let them fall to the ground to catch their breath. I look at Nat and Wanda and nod, then I look at Loki and without thinking, I transfer my thoughts to him without having to talk to him.

'Meet me in my room in 10 minutes Loki, I need a minute to talk to Steve', I look at him and he nods and walks off.

"Nat, Wanda. Come here please."

They walk up to me with their backs facing Steve and Sharon, I look between them and realize that Steve has probably only been using me.

"Can you guys get her out of here and make sure that she doesn't come back? Also I'm gonna talk to Tony and have her removed from the list of people who are allowed into this building. I'm gonna take care of Steve."

I wait a few minutes after the girls leave with Sharon and walk up to Steve and slap him across the face, twice.

"I hope you enjoy the decision you've made, and I hope you both burn in hell." I look at him angry and walk away.

I walk into my room and jump when I see Loki. I forgot that I told him to meet me up here. I slam my door and walk to the window at the other end of the room. I pace the room for a few minutes trying to get ahold of my emotions but before I have the chance to breathe away the tears, they start rushing down my face and all the pain floods in. The one thing I didn't want to happen, happened.

I turn around and notice Loki's face softens when he sees the tears running down my face and my blood shot eyes. He walks up to me and looks at me like he's asking for permission to touch me. When I step towards him he wraps his arms around me and runs his fingers through my hair trying to comfort me.

I hear a knock on my door and glance up, I don't want to answer it so I look at Loki with pleading eyes and he nods. When he opens the door, I can feel the environment around me intensify. Without looking or hearing his voice I knew it was Steve standing there.

"Is Harley in here? I'd like to speak with her..." he says angrily knowing that I was in the same room as Loki.

"She's here but she doesn't want to talk to someone like you."

'Loki, don't hurt him. I'll be there in a second.'

I wipe my tears away and use the camera on my phone to fix my hair and make sure my mascara didn't smear. I sat up off the bed where I had sat down when Loki went to check the door. I walked to the door and Loki and Steve looked like children trying to have a staring contest.

"Steve, what do you want? I thought I made it clear that I didn't want to talk to you or Sharon." I say standing partially behind Loki.

"I just wanted to apologize, I really am sorry.."

Before he could finish his sentence I cut him off,

"Sorry for what? Using me? Taking me on a vacation just to come home and cheat on me? Let me guess, this has been going on since the day I agreed to go out with you. Whatever was going on between us is done and will never be happening again."

I took a step past Loki and slammed the door shut again. I turn around to face him and he genuinely looks sad for me. I know it's hard to believe but Loki isn't a bad guy, he's been through some stuff and no one was ever there for him. I smile at him and hug him.

"Thank you for being here for me Loki. I'm really glad you're here."

"Yeah, of course. What kind of person would I be if I wasn't..." he smiles at me and turns towards the bed. "Wanna watch a movie? I'll let you pick"

I laugh and move towards the bed and lay down next time him while we watch one of my favorite movies, The Jungle Book. I make it about half way through the movie when I start falling asleep on Loki's chest while he's stroking my hair and watching the movie. He doesn't move when he realizes that I've fallen asleep either, he just laid there and comforted me.