Packless Monsters

Chapter 19

The stairs let out on a huge underground room. No one was there except for one of the wolves in human form. He looked over when you and Loki slipped into the room. You'd separated to potentially attack him from different directions if you couldn't slip past him. He raised his gun, pointing it directly at Loki. "Show yourself," he ordered, reaching for a radio. Loki shimmered back into view and the radio on the wolf's side crackled when Loki's bolt of magic hit it. We didn't need him calling help. He steadied the gun pointing at Loki.

You stepped in between Loki and the wolf and growled, drawing the wolf's attention to you. In a normal pack, in the normal way of things, a werewolf would never harm an Omega. You were hoping for that instinct now. He just stared in shock. "Omega," he said softly, reverently. He wasn't of your pack. You'd never seen him or smelled him before. He must've been a lone wolf, especially to have never encountered an Omega. He held his gun out away from him, holding his arm far from his body as he knelt and laid the weapon down. "Parlay?" he asked softly, gently, kindly. He didn't use the full ceremonial words, because you were in wolf form and he didn't know if the wolf was in control or not. You sat and wagged your tail in reply, accepting the parlay. "Please, I will not fight you. I will let you pass, unchallenged, Omega. Please, do not kill me for doing my work," you stepped forward and licked his cheek. You saw the bliss, calm, and peace in his eyes. You stepped away from the wolf and gestured to him with your head. Loki knocked him out with magic in the least painful way possible. At least that's what he promised you later.

You picked up Vincent's trail and followed it through the maze of the lower floor of the warehouse. You found him in no time in a room with the other wolf and other agents and guards. Luckily this was the only entrance to the room. Unluckily, the wolf was in wolf form. The guards had Vincent and the others under the meeting table in moments and the wolf lunged for Loki. This wolf was hesitant to attack you as well. You growled and launched yourself at the wolf, grabbing it by the throat before he could attack Loki and throwing him with all of your strength into the guards.

Loki took care of the human guards while you battled the wolf. He trusted you to keep him safe from the more dangerous adversary. Between his magic and years of combat experience, the guards were no match for him. The wolf outweighed you by a hundred pounds of muscle, as all of the males did, and stopped being hesitant of you being an Omega after the first attack. The fight was vicious and brutal, and Loki finally saw what werewolves could really do. The wolf was a hulking brute, but you were smaller and faster and had fought all your life against hulking brutes. He had no idea how to fight you.

So he fought dirty and went for Loki after he got a lucky hit on you and threw you to the side. He knew you were an Omega and would go out of your way to protect your companion. He had actually gotten Loki's arm between his jaws before you tackled the wolf hard, ripping at his throat and face while you backed him further away from Loki. It had been fighting dirty to make you fight less cautiously, but he had angered you and the wolf, and gave you the opening you needed. You finally took the wolf down when you got under him and crushed his windpipe between your jaws. He'd heal, but it would take a long, long time to heal from that and he wouldn't get up to bother you again anytime soon.

The rest of the team joined you a moment later. "Sorry we're late, we couldn't find our way through the maze as fast as the wolf," Tony indicated you. You nodded and went to Loki to make sure he was ok.

"I'm fine, little wolf," he teased and petted the top of your head and scratched behind your ears. "Are you injured?" he asked. You hesitated on that one. There were scrapes, bruises, and a couple places where the wolf's teeth had gotten you, but nothing major. "Anything I need to worry about?" he clarified. You shook your head. "Good," he petted you again and turned to the others to see what help they needed.

"Y/N, if you can manage it, you should change back. It's better to leave here human," Nat told you. You huffed, but had been practicing shifting back and forth faster with less time between, so that wasn't such an issue. Unfortunately, there was the slight problem of clothes. Yours weren't exactly nearby. Loki draped a cloak over you. You licked his hand and began the change back to human. Loki supported you, steadying you on your feet as he helped you stand again. It still took a lot of energy to shift again so fast.

"I'm ok," you told him as you held the cloak closed firmly with one hand. "Any chance you have my clothes?" you asked him. If this was going to be a common thing, you were going to have to figure out a better clothes situation. Shifting without them was a problem. Loki smiled and handed the neatly folded pile of clothes to you. You dove into your clothes, your back to the room and Loki's cloak covering you as you did, years of practice kept you decent while you did.

You saw the werewolf was rousing. He shouldn't have been coming around this quickly. He should have been down for days. He was an Alpha, you realized. He was pulling strength from his pack to heal. He somehow lunged to his feet, going directly for Loki. You shoved Loki aside hard and took the blow yourself, despite that you had no armor from the teeth and claws. He hesitated when your blood was spilled in earnest, his teeth in your arm. You grabbed his throat in your other had and squeezed. He let go of your arm, howling in pain as you reinjured the wound you had inflicted on him. Loki and Tony both attacked the wolf at the same time, blasting him with magic and repulsors from two different directions. It only paused the wolf in his attacks on you.

"Loki! I need a dagger, silver!" you called, raising your hand as the wolf lunged for you again. Loki tossed you a dagger, which you caught and drove as hard as you could into the wolf, wherever you could reach from the awkward angle. He howled in pain and passed out again, half on top of you. You shoved him off of you and got back to your feet. "We need to bind him before he wakes again," you told the others. "He's only healing as fast as he is because he's an Alpha and pulling power from his pack," you added when they looked at you confused.

They helped you bind the wolf, using ducttape over his muzzle and tying his paws together. They handcuffed Vincent and the other Hydra agents and led them all to the SHIELD vans parked outside the warehouse. Loki settled the cloak back over your shoulders after he'd tied a quick bandage around over your arm, promising to look it over better when you were home. The cloak wasn't covered in blood, unlike the rest of your clothes. You leaned on him as he walked you to one of the SUVs waiting to take you home. You were exhausted after the battle and shifting multiple times.

There were press waiting outside as well, which the group all pointedly ignored. It was a very impressive feat to ignore press shoving cameras and microphones in Cap's face, but he did it so well.

"You saved my life today," Loki told you softly on the trip back to the tower, sounding impressed, or honored.

"I'm sure you could take down the werewolf on your own, you're a mighty god after all," you replied, teasing in your voice, dismissing the praising sound of his tone. He probably could had done it faster, except that he'd been hindered by not being able to risk being bitten or scratched.

"You saved me," he insisted.

"I protect what's mine," you replied tiredly, not guarding your words. He smiled and pulled you closer in the backseat of the SUV.

"I love you too," he replied and kissed the top of your head.