Everyone was listening to Fury brief Loki on his situation. Some didn't even look at the screen, but others were watching intently.
Beau sat at one of the chairs, hugging her legs, resting her head on her knees in exhaustion. She heard all of Fury's words, all of Loki's replies. Subconsciously, it scared the shit out of her to think that Loki was on the helicarrier with them. Regardless, she had faith that Fury knew what he was doing.
"Well, you let me know if Real Power want a magazine or something."
With that, the monitor went black, and the ones who were watching retracted from the screen.
Beau eyed Thor, not turning her head. He looked torn apart. Everything Loki had said was utterly insane. He was a psychopath. Beau couldn't imagine what it'd be like to have a sibling like that.
Everyone else was silent, equally stunned.
"He really grows on you, doesn't he?" Banner said, breaking the silence.
"Loki's gonna drag this out. So, Thor, what's his play?" Steve said, on a more serious note.
Thor, seeming to have been broken from his thoughts at the sound of his name, thought more before answering.
"He has an army called the Chitauri. They're not of Asgard or any world known. He means to lead them against your people. They will win him the earth. In return, I suspect, for the Tesseract."
"An army? From outer space?" Steve said, stunned.
"So he's building another portal. That's what he needs Erik Selvig for." Banner added.
"Selvig?" Thor perked up.
"He's an astrophysicist."
"He's a friend."
Natasha broke her silence. "Loki has him under some kind of spell, along with one of ours."
"But," Beau started, and everyone turned to her. "Why did Loki let us take him? He's not leading an army from here."
"I don't think we should be focusing on Loki. That guy's brain is a bag full of cats, you could smell crazy on him." Banner said, seemingly proud of his comment.
"Have care how you speak," Thor said, "Loki is beyond reason, but he is of Asgard, and he's my brother."
"He killed eighty people in two days." Beau said looking down, then turning her head to look at Thor.
"He's adopted."
Beau held in an eye roll. What does that have to do with anything?
She picked at the dirt underneath her fingernails, still there from the day before, even after washing them. She thought of what they had said. Alien army, from space, that was going to take over the world. She knew they were powerful, and with Thor, even more. But how the hell were they supposed to beat that?
She also thought of the previous day itself. Her first mission. She couldn't put words to what it felt like, helping people. She realized, as well, that she saved that old man's life. She couldn't decide if she thought he was being foolish or brave, but she saved him nonetheless.
Even after that, when Loki was taken by Thor, and he was fighting Tony; she felt like she wasn't questioned. For her age and appearance, specifically. When she landed on the ground in front of Thor after jumping of the jet, it made for a rather dramatic entrance. But she didn't feel shy. She felt powerful. And she didn't feel small compared to Thor or Captain, despite her age. She felt just as strong as them.
***
Beau was wandering the halls of the helicarrier, as everyone had retreated to their own matters. Surprisingly, she was bored. An Avenger was bored. She then remembered they had what was basically enemy #1 on the ship, and decided it wouldn't hurt anyone if she talked to him. She was curious about him, and he was certainly curious about her, too.
She walked to where he was kept, and turned invisible before she reached his sight. She saw him, completely clueless. He just stood in the cell, pacing slowly. He halted as if his train of thought had stopped or reached a conclusion as well. He was facing opposite of Beau, and she walked over.
He was standing close to the glass, and she was now standing directly in front of him. It still shocked her how people looked right through her, how she was totally and completely invisible. After a couple seconds, she turned back.
She thought Loki couldn't get paler, but he did. He was as white as paper, utterly scared at Beau's sudden appearance. She couldn't help but burst out laughing.
His face went from startled to mischievous.
"Are you lost, child?"
Beau laughed more at his attempt to minimize her. She would never live down the fact that she had just scared the shit out of a god.
"I know exactly where I am. And actually, I want to know why you're here."
"Excuse me? You and your circus captured me."
Beau sneered. "You and I both know you let us take you. If you wanted to, you would've killed us."
Loki stayed silent.
"Or are you really that incompetent?"
Loki's smirk disappeared from his sickly face.
"You mean to tell me about incompetence? How can you speak of such a subject when you're a part of it?"
Beau grinned, unfazed. "I'm impressed at how mature you are, Loki. Turning the insult back to me. Nice, definitely haven't had that happen before. I'll have you know that I've had my fair share of imbeciles like yourself."
"Have care how you speak, brat. I'm nothing like anyone you've ever encountered before. I am a god-"
"Yeah, yeah, a god." Beau interrupted. "A severely psychologically impaired god. Now, I'm no psychoanalyst, but I know for a fact that you're heavily fucked up in the head."
Loki stood still, internally fuming and shocked at how much courage the girl had speaking to him like that. She knew if she didn't have her powers and he wasn't trapped in the cage, he'd crush her skull in a heartbeat. But she had the upper hand; even if he wasn't captured like that, she still had her shield.
"You're an audacious one, aren't you? It'll be enjoyable when I get out of here and snap your neck."
Beau snickered. "That's it? You'll only snap my neck? Doesn't seem too enjoyable, you know. That's quite a quick death. I would've thought you'd be into something more violent."
Loki was irritated and how quick she was to retort. She seemed almost cheerful when he threatened her, and he knew deep inside that she'd be harder to beat than the rest of the Avengers. She had great advantages.
But to Beau's surprise, Loki smirked again, then spoke up.
"Something tells me you're stronger than the rest of them."
"Is it my snappy comebacks? Or this?" As she said that, she turned invisible. She saw the small glint in his eyes, of sudden surprise.
"Is that your best trick?"
"That?" she scoffed, and held her invisible hand out. "Of course not. This is." The violet energy drained out of her hand, into the air. Of course, to Loki, it was just the substance that he saw. She turned back, all of her visible now. Turning her shield on, she grinned. "This, too. But you've already seen that enough times." She turned her shield off, and her energy poured back in her hand, disappearing into it.
"And you? You can clone yourself, but you're nothing without that spear. You think you're "Real Power", but I know that deep inside, you're just a pathetic, immature psycho with daddy issues who leeches off the pain of others to make yourself feel powerful and superior."
He cackled loudly. "You don't know anything. You don't know what's coming. You've never seen anything. War, violence, death. You think what took place in Germany was frightening? You don't know what's next. All you will see is blood, and it'll be that last thing you see before you die, before I end you!"
Beau stopped smiling and stood quietly. Loki seemed satisfied with his words, having frightened her. He knew she was young and inexperienced, and even though she was tough, she was weak at the same time.
Beau took a deep breath, and Loki's attention was back on her. He waited for her to start crying, or for her to leave. Instead, she only said one thing before turning on her heels and leaving the area.
"Well, let me know when you get out of the cage, so you can follow through on that."
After she was gone, Loki stood where he had the entire time, more surprised than when she had shown him his powers.
She really was tough. Tougher than anyone could imagine.
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i'm sorry that's such a lame ending but i couldn't think of how else to end it. Anyway, i watched captain america civil war and obviously i have a lot of motivation to write this now!! let me know what u guys think of it so far!! i love seeing comments for real!! anyway, i plan on writing a lot of chapters soon and keep consistently uploading :-) but thanks !!! lemme know what y'all think!!
ALSO I know I said in the second chapter that Beau was only a sophomore but I'm changing that (because of character development and whatnot) so for the sake of this story and future stories (👀😏) she is a junior (around 17) at the beginning of the story... But, she was recruited a while ways before the New York thing with Loki, so she'd now be around 18 or a little older. That seems old, but to the rest of the avengers, she's still a kid, basically. Anyway that was just something I wanted to update and inform you guys on but thank you all for reading !!! I plan on updating soon :-)