Chapter 24
12 HOURS EARLIER
3rd Person:
Thor had just seen his teammate, his friend, get stabbed. He also watched his mother get stabbed. In his white-hot anger, he had permanently scarred Malekith's face. He instantly knew that Julia was dying, and his mother was dead. He also knew that the man of iron would kill him if he let Lady Julia die.
"Julia Allen! You are me of the fiercest warrior I know! You will live! You did not just escape Hydra to die!" Thor shouted at her, picking her up, hiding her, and flying to Heimdall. "Heimdall! I need you to open the Bifrost!"
"Of course, your majesty. But my king will be angry when you come back. And who are you hiding? I sense a second presence."
"Lady Julia. She is dying and only Midgardian doctors can save her." Thor explained quickly, and the Bifrost opened around him. Thor found himself on the gauntlet on Stark Towers.
"Jarvis! Where is the man of iron? It is urgent."
"He is currently in a conference," the computer's friendly voice answered. By now Julia's body was emitting lightning, electricity, water was around her, yellow-green wisps were circling her hands and Thor's hammer. Thor had already known where the conference building was, so he flew there.
"Stark!" Thor's loud voice boomed, causing all of the reporters to turn their heads.
"C'Mon, Point Break. I'm in the middle of a conference. Can't this wait." Thor moved his cape, showing the bloody, sickly pale girl that was hiding.
"Julia? What the hell happened to her?! This conference is over! I'm going to murder Loki if he did this," Tony shouted, enraged.
"We need to help her. She is dying quickly," Thor spoke up, seeing Tony call someone.
"Hey, Ramon? We need you. Bring the cold gun. Julia's dying, fast. Stab wound in the abdomen." there was mumbling on the other line.
"Thanks, you're a life saver, Ramon. No pun intended." Thor assumed the guy on the phone was someone named Ramon, and he would help Julia.
A blue portal, that looked exactly like Julia's, opened and a man with hair like Loki's came out of it. He was carrying a strange gun and had strange glasses on. Thor had set Julia across a row of chairs, and the man, who Thor assumed was Ramon, shot her.
Instead of bullets coming out, a long stream of ice and fog came out, and Julia looked like she was slowly healing. Thor watched her skin regenerate in awe. He knew she healed quickly, he just never knew it took a few seconds. After all, Thor thought, her healing quickly could be something that happened to her after she was kidnapped. or it could be the very thing that was killing her- the aether. Thor was snapped out of his thoughts as a still sick looking Julia coughed.
"Hey Tones, I'm not going anywhere until I meet Brendon Urie and Gerard Way," Julia said in a raspy voice, her choice of words causing Tony to chuckle darkly.
"Guess you can't meet them then, I don't want you to go anywhere," Tony replied, smiling sadly through the tears that were spilling down his face. "What happened to you? Was it Loki? Are you okay?" Tony bombarded her with questions.
"It takes not even 24 hours for you to find a way to almost die again," Cisco spoke up, coming out of the shadows.
"Sorry?" Julia said, more like asked, not sounding sorry whatsoever. Stark rolled his eyes, "Typical Julia," he muttered under his breath.
"Love you too, dad," Julia teased.
"I know you do, kiddo," They both smiled peacefully.
"I have to go back to Asgard. As far as I know, Loki thinks you have died. Maybe I can use that to convince him to destroy Malekith," Thor spoke up.
"Thor, you have to let me go with you," Julia pleaded.
"To do what? Let you almost die again? You already have the aether inside of you Julia. I, I think it's killing you. How else did you not notice that sword?"
"That's why you should let me go! Malekith is just going to sense the aether all over again and come here, to Earth! I can't kill him by myself, especially if the aether and my broken heart are weakening me!"
"What?" Both Thor and Tony turned their heads towards her.
"Did Loki break your heart?" Tony asked quietly, calmly, even though both Julia and Thor knew there was rage bubbling just underneath the surface.
"Yeah..." Julia said quietly. "He told Frigga he didn't love me, right before the invasion, not knowing I was there."
"Fine... you can come with me. But you will not be fighting."