i fear that the end is near
“okay, my idea is kinda crazy but hear me out”
Natasha raises a brow, already looking bewildered just by his presence. “you’re really into this right now”
“yep” Tony says happily before looking back to the room “anyways, Kol has been hearing things, people, she stopped you two from dying because she saw it, she came back to life while being half dead and you know how animals can feel vibes?” he takes a deep breath, preparing for anything as he finally asks “what if they’re the new god of death?”
and the first thing that’s said to him is “are you doing drugs again?” and Tony’s jaw drops, his heart actually hurts at that. Of course Clint would assume that of him.
“really?” Tony asks “you’re ignoring all of the hints?”
“Ikol said that premonitions are apart of their seidr” Wanda retorts
Sam points at her, agreeing and adding in “if they’re the god of death then wouldn’t they be able to stop themselves from dying?”
“what about hearing things?”
“you can see that she’s mentally unhealthy” Bruce says “it could just be hallucinations from stress, who knows maybe she’s bipolar”
“doesn’t explain Alpine and Fenrir being scared of her” Tony questions, “why would Fenrir not recognize her owners scent as soon as Ikol walked in, why was she so scared?”
“maybe because Ikol is half dead?”
“and how can they survive like that?” Tony asks “Norse mythology says that half of Hels body was dead-“
“Tony she’s dying right now, she’s not healing we’re just giving her more time” Bruce says “we’ve been trying for a month now”
“don’t say we give up” Tony spits
“I was gonna say that you should prepare for when she goes, not to give up”
Tony sighs, rolling his eyes, hiding his true pain as he walks out of a room with a sarcastic “damn, last time I was rejected my dad was alive”
Ikol coughs loudly as he empties out his stomach, all his dinner coming back up and leaving him breathless. He slumps back against the shower door, trying to catch his breath and he cringes at the air hitting the leftover acid in his mouth.
He wipes his face and flinches when he touches his jaw too hard, something presses against his tongue so he uses his tongue to try an feel for it, it’s hard and wet, everytime he moves it he can taste metal in his mouth.
So he grabs it with his fingers and pulls as hard as he can, ripping it out and letting more metal fill his mouth. He moans softly at the relief of pressure but that relief is gone as he realizes what he’s holding.
His own tooth, black and rotted.
He drops it in the sink and quickly washes the blood off if his fingers. Once the water runs clear he turns it off and reaches for a towel, only for a drop of blood to fall on his arm.
He freezes, reaching up and touching his nose to find blood on his finger “fuck” he whispers as he leans forward over the sink, letting the blood flow as he tries to reach for the Kleenex. Tipping your head forward should stop it but in his case, the blood runs faster.
He presses the kleenex to his nose and tilts his head back, swallowing some blood but he doesn’t care, because the nose bleed stops.
He feels better for once.
“sharing a love i thought would last forever”
“hi” Tony says with a frown and Ikol continues singing
“moonlight to show the way so we can follow” Ikol smiles as he uses the spoon as a microphone, closing his eyes and tilting his head back as he continues“waiting inside her eys was my tomorrow ”
“of all songs this?” Tony asks.
“I am older than you remember?”
then something changed her mind
“My dad used to listen to this”
her kisses told me
“your dad can suck my ass” Ikol deadpans before yelling out “i had no loving arms to hold me”
Tony can’t help but mouth the words, despite his dad loving this song, he loves it too “everyday i wake up then i satrt break up lonely as a man without love”
Ikol groans “you’re boring” he turns around and shuts the stove off
“I just woke up” Tony proclaims “still tired” he says as Ikol suddenly places a cup of coffee and a plate of food in front of him, he purses his lips, impressed on how good the omelet looks “I didn’t know you could cook”
“neither did I”
“how come you’re so.. better?”
Ikol shrugs, he doesn’t know why but he’s going to enjoy it while he can “I wanna go somewhere”
Tony asks “where?” as he shoves some of the food in his mouth.
“I don’t know, anywhere” Ikol says “I havent left the compound since California” and that was two weeks ago. God he must feel trapped in here.
“I was gonna go and see Thor and Rhodey today”
“rhodey” Ikol repeats, trying to remember the name and then it clicks “your bestfriend right?”
Tony frowns “how do you know?”
“you think I didn’t go through your files when I found my own?”
“no fair”
“how is that no fair?” Ikol questions “you no more about me than I do, it’s only fair I know you too”
“ok yeah, good point” Tony comments “so you wanna meet him?”
Ikol hums “no” he deadpans “from what I know about him, he won’t like me, he’s too good”
“well that’s not a lie” Tony takes a sip of his coffee and asks Ikol “you’re not going to eat?”
“ate earlier” he states “I was just bored” as in he wanted to do something nice for them for once. “so we’re going to see Thor?”
“you want to?”
Ikol nods “I was hungover and grumpy last time, should apologize to him” he says and Tony nods, finishing the last of his omlet. “plus I miss Fenrir”
“you remember her?”
Ikol nods and explains, “I dream of some kind of memory almost every night” he suddenly smirks as he tells Tony “I remember you flirting with me when we first met”
Tony rolls his eyes “that was to stall you”
“I mean the QuinJet”
“don’t remember that”
“so you don’t remember strapping me into that seat and saying, and I quote this would be better if you were na-“
“nope” Tony interrupts “don’t remember at all” he chugs the last of his coffee and heads for the elevator “let’s go”
Valkyrie doesn’t say anything, she just continues staring at Ikol because she can’t figure out what’s wrong with him. She has the power to sense when someone is near death but this, this is different.
There’s no dark aura around him, there’s a blur instead and she can feel the death radiating off of him, that never happens. It’s heavy and dark and she has no idea how no one else can feel it.
It’s just like…
Just like Hela.
Valkyrie stands up quickly, knocking over her chair as she rushes out of the room “Val where are you going?” Thor asks
She shakes her head “I can’t-“ she doesn’t bother to elaborate because everything hurts, her chest hurts her head hurts and her heart hurts.