How ya doin' my lovely readers? I hope you're enjoying the summer :D
As promised, I'm starting to upload this story now although I can't promise a steady stream of uploads. For those of you who haven't done it yet, check my profile for more information on this story. It's gonna be a HUGE thing so it's gonna take me some time to get through it. But for now just enjoy~
And do toss me a review, if you would... I feed on them and they're a GREAT boost for my imagination and my desire to keep putting effort into a story :D
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Prologue
System online...
Access S.H.I.E.L.D. archives: Agent files
Requesting password...
callmeishmael
Password accepted...
Welcome, Director...
Access file № 354193
Pending...
Pending...
Pending...
File found...
Explore file
Access denied...
Warning...
File is registered as private...
Overwrite access... Fury, Nicholas Joseph
Pending...
Pending...
Access granted...
Opening file...
Playing audio recording...
Hi there... my name is Kara Taylor. Yes, it's not a common name; if I recall right, he said it's of Viking origin. Oh, what it means? The untamed one... pretty cool, right? Come to think of it, maybe that's why he liked it so much from the beginning. Who's he? Well I'll tell you; let's take it from the top, when he first showed up...
Audio recording stopped...
Closing file...
Closing archives...
Have a good day, Director...
OoOoO
System online...
Access S.H.I.E.L.D. archives: Agent files
Requesting password...
callmeishmael
Password accepted...
Welcome, Director...
Access file № 354193
Pending...
Pending...
Pending...
File found...
Explore file
Access denied...
Warning...
File is registered as private...
Overwrite access... Fury, Nicholas Joseph
Pending...
Pending...
Access granted...
Opening file...
Playing audio recording...
Hi there... my name is Kara Taylor. Yes, it's not a common name; if I recall right, he said it's of Viking origin. Oh, what it means? The untamed one... pretty cool, right? Come to think of it...
Audio recording stopped...
Closing file...
Closing archives...
Have a good day, Director...
OoOoO
System online...
Access S.H.I.E.L.D. archives: Agent files
Requesting password...
callmeishmael
Password accepted...
Welcome, Director...
Access file № 354193
Pending...
Pending...
Pending...
File found...
Explore file
Access denied...
Warning...
File is registered as private...
Overwrite access... Fury, Nicholas Joseph
Pending...
Pending...
Access granted...
Opening file...
Playing audio recording...
Hi there... my name is Kara Taylor. Yes, it's not a common name; if I recall right, he said it's of Viking origin. Oh, what it means? The untamed...
Audio recording stopped...
Closing file...
Closing archives...
Have a good day, Director...
OoOoO
System online...
Access S.H.I.E.L.D. archives: Agent files
Requesting password...
callmeishmael
Password accepted...
Welcome, Director...
Access file № 354193
Pending...
Pending...
Pending...
File found...
Explore file
Access denied...
Warning...
File is registered as private...
Overwrite access... Fury, Nicholas Joseph
Pending...
Pending...
Access granted...
Opening file...
Playing audio recording...
Hi there... my name is Kara Taylor...
Audio recording stopped...
Closing file...
Closing archives...
Have a good day, Director...
OoOoO
For what was probably the thousandth time in those few days, Fury found himself unable to carry on listening to the cheerful female voice recorded in that file. Each and every single time he tried, his throat twisted in a painful knot, and the one eye he still had stung in a way he didn't feel too often, warning him of oncoming tears; his jaw clenched and his heart contorted painfully within his chest.
Raising his gaze from the touch screen set onto his desk, he glanced to a small picture framed in oak wood. Steely blue eyes returned his glance, set upon the smiling expression of a girl, apparently no older than her twenties; the very girl in the recording; the girl whose face and voice still haunted him. Never... never had the death of an agent affected him to such an extent as hers had. Granted, no other agent had been as a child to him either.
Leaning back into his chair, he closed his eye with a heavy sigh. And as it happened each time he allowed that darkness to fall upon him, his mind began replaying the events of that fateful day; people running in disarray like scared sheep... the screams... the blood... even the smell of smoke and death intertwined in the air. And in the midst of all that the Avengers... no... his Avengers, scattered about in a desperate attempt to once again save the world they all shared.
It hadn't been until the end of the battle... although he easily could have called it war... that agent Romanoff had contacted him with the news that she was dead. No... not just dead... she hadn't just been killed in battle; she had sacrificed herself for that... guy...
Now, Fury considered himself an open-minded person... he wasn't one to judge people by appearances. Heck, he was probably one of the most tolerant people in S.H.I.E.L.D. when it came to things like cultural customs or religion. But he would be damned if he had ever understood just what Kara had seen in that... that what? They had called him many things over time; Rogers called him a murderer... Stark and Romanoff called him a monster... Barton called him a manipulative bastard... Banner called him an insane wreck... and Thor... well, Thor still called him brother even after all the things he had seen done at the hands of that...
But what was he really? A man? A god? A demon? Fury still had no answer of his own to that question...
He had asked Kara, actually, to tell him what that... being... was; or what she believed he was. Even now he could so perfectly picture in his mind her warm smile and that gaze he never knew how to read; he could still hear the particular shade of softness in her tone, the one she apparently reserved for that male alone. And her answer had left him quite baffled...
"Loki... he's just Loki."