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Chapter 1
‘Is the machine broken or are you just slow?’
I rolled my eyes and saw Marcus coming towards me, with his old fashioned suit and perfect hair.
He hadn’t said a friendly word to me since I started working here 6 months ago. He was in his early 40’s and technically my boss so I tried to ignore his rudeness.
'I’m coming,’ I shouted as I put the 3 cups of coffee on a tray and carried them to his desk. After putting the cups on the table I rushed away before he could ask me for anything else.
I worked in the SHIELD facilities and offices in London, don’t get excited, it’s not nearly as adventurous as it sounds, I have yet to see my first Avenger and I definitely wasn’t chasing any bad guys, I was the girl who brought coffee to the guys who do paperwork for the guys that chase bad guys.
And I’m pretty sure not a lot of people applied for the job cause I worked in the facility that harboured fallen superheroes, murderers and evil villains.
Again I have yet to see my first villain cause my job consisted solely of bringing coffee and mail around the offices and making a few phone calls now and then.
It doesn’t get more adventurous than that!
Marcus was talking to a group of 4 other suits and I could see them all looking at me and whispering.
Oh great, what’s wrong with the coffee now?
'Coffee lady?' he yelled.
'It’s Emma,’ I let out a sigh and tried not to look annoyed.
I dragged myself over there and was expecting to get snapped at again but he just looked at me: ' Did I read in your resume that you finished nursing school? Is that correct?’
My mouth almost dropped, so he did know who I was.
But then I saw my resume in his hands…or he just looked it up right now.
‘Yes that’s right, but I never actually…’
He was already talking to the other suits again and had no more interest in what I was saying.
‘So you can work with needles and syringes?’ he asked.
Where the hell is he going with this?
'Um I guess, yeah,’ I said carefully.
He looked at the other suit again,‘ what do you think?’
The suit nodded and spoke without any hint of doubt in his voice,‘ Yes, she’s perfect.’
‘For what?!’
I hadn’t meant to say that so loud and aggressively and I bit my lip.
The suits were talking to each other again as if I wasn’t even there and I could only make out a few sentences: ' Can we do this? We have no choice, we need a different approach…’
‘Marcus?’ I insisted.
He came closer and looked me in the eyes.
‘Emma, is it?’
I sighed again,‘ Yes, it’s Emma’
'Emma, we’re going to need you to do something for us,’ he continued,' we’re not getting anywhere with one of the prisoners and we had the idea he might react better if we don’t send in another agent, he sees right through all our usual methods, it's not getting us anywhere. To make a long story short, we want to send in a regular girl, an innocent looking girl like yourself and see if he responds differently to you.’
My mouth dropped to the floor again.
I knew that I might look harmless but I hadn’t been called innocent in a very long time.
‘You have nothing to fear,’ Marcus continued but it didn’t really sound reassuring to me,’ he’s all chained up and can’t hurt you, all we ask is that you go in, give him the sedation and get out. We just want to see how he reacts to you, it’s two minutes, in and out.’
I should have known right then and there that was a big lie.
I was afraid to ask my next question.
‘Who is it?’
His face changed into an expression that made the hairs on my arm stand up.
‘Loki’, he said, ‘it’s Loki.’