Secret Revelations
Pepper watched Peter with great concern as he slowly sipped the tea she had gotten him. Harley was pacing anxiously by the window; he kept casting nervous glances toward the night sky.
“Peter I need you to tell me what happened,” Pepper said quietly rubbing his shaking shoulders.
“I went to…” he took a deep breath-- “I went to go talk to Director Brax a few days ago. He told me Mr. Stark had been looking into Hill, but that's not what--- He was weird…” Peter trailed off.
“Weird? What kind of weird?” Pepper asked.
“I don’t know, but my spider senses spiked bad as soon as I walked in the room with him…” Peter stopped and calmed himself and then continued, “It gave me a bad feeling. So I decided to call you.”
“I remember,” Pepper nodded. Talking to Peter that night had made her feel better.
“Well I wanted those files so I could see what exactly Mr. Stark had on Hill. I discovered he had nothing on her. It was Brax. He was investigating Brax secretly.”
Pepper inhaled sharply.
“What did he have on Brax?”
“Not much, I spent two unsuccessful days hunting down the possible leads he had, but I think Brax got to all of them first,” Peter said quietly his voice was still quivering, “Then I got a call from Carol and she told me Brax was there to meet with them. I got up there as fast as possible. I got there about two hours later… and then… then um Steve stopped me at the door. After that…”
Peter pulled his legs up onto the couch and curled into a ball.
“Peter what happened?” Pepper asked gently.
“I… um, they um started trying to kill me or something. I don’t know. I went to get a quinjet so I could escape, and they started chasing me…” Peter trailed off and buried his head in his knees.
“It’s okay Peter,” Pepper wrapped her arm around him, “Your safe here.”
Peter nodded a little, but didn’t look up. Then a thought dawned on Pepper.
“Peter was there anything different about their eyes?”
Peter sat up as if remembering something.
“Yes, they were like light blue or something, It was weird.”
Pepper’s blood ran cold. Someone had found Loki’s scepter.
“Did you see Brax?” Pepper asked trying to hide her rising fear.
“No, but I think Loki might have been there.”
Pepper froze. This was bad. Loki quite possibly had control over the Avengers which meant if he was about to bring an army to earth no one stood in his way. Not to mention he now had control over the most powerful team in the world.
“Peter are you sure?”
“I think so… yeah i’m pretty sure.”
Pepper sighed and leaned back in her chair. This was bad. They needed help, and she didn’t know where to get it.
June yawned and leaned her head on Loki’s shoulder. He smiled. No one had ever trusted him enough to do that before. This had not been part of his original plan, but then he had figured out how much of an asshole Niko was, and he just couldn’t leave June with him. Plus if she trusted him and felt connected with him it would make telling her that he need a portal to Jotunheim. His original plan had been to get her to open the portal and then let her be on her merry way, but now? Now Loki wanted to raise her and her keep her safe from people who would do the same thing he had been going to do. He needed the portal, but at the sametime he didn’t want her to think he was just using her. He genuinely cared about her, and wanted her happy and safe.
“I’m tired,” She yawned quietly.
“You want to go to bed kiddo?” Loki asked and stroked her hair.
“Yes please…”
“Then come on,” Loki scooped her into his arms and carried her out of the conference room. He had had someone set up a room for her. By the time they reached her room she had already fallen asleep. Loki smiled lovingly and set her down on the bed.
“Good night,” He whispered and slipped silently out of the room. Steve was standing outside the door, “Can you fire up the chopper for me?”
“Yes sir,” Captain America said and left. Loki had a meeting to get to.
One hour later…
“ Director Brax what took you so long getting here? We understand you are still getting settled in as director, but Brax we fully expect you to be on time to meetings. Especially a meeting of this much importance. Now please take you seat at the head of the table,” One of the head agents fussed.
“Sorry, I had a meeting with the Avengers,” Loki apologised and took his seat at the head of the table.