Loki x Darcy 'Such Great Heights' - Chapter Eleven

'Such Great Heights'

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Author's Note:
This story takes place in a Marvel Movieverse and after the incident in Thor and before the Avengers.

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- Chapter Eleven -

Darcy woke up earlier than her usual time as she turned to the clock and it was 4am. She sighed, trying to go back to sleep as Coulson’s call just made her worry. She got up and walked to Buddy’s room and saw him asleep. “Good.” She sighed and began to dress up and walked out of the building.

It wasn't a long drive, for about an hour later she managed to drive herself to SHIELD headquarters and it was already about 6 am. She drank her coffee, saw a different guard on duty but he let her in anyways. She waited in the car for Coulson to arrive and decided to sleep in for a moment.

She woke up with a sudden knock on the window and she jumped up to see Phil, “You’re supposed to inform me if you’re coming over.” He said from the outside.

“I would but I wouldn't want to disturb your beauty sleep.”

“Well, looks like you lack one.”


“I was worried..” she opened the door and got out. “So, shall we talk about Buddy?” she stretched and straightened her outfit. "Also, are you implying that I'm ugly??"

“You seem to be very concern of the man.”

“C’mon, I got the hang of the dude! He’s sweet and cute and clumsy!”

“Yeah? Well you can’t keep him like he’s your pet.”

“Why not??” she pouted, standing in front of the older man as they had walked their way to his office.

Phil just sighed, “We'll talk about this in my office.”

“Why do I feel this is like high school all over again?” she frowned and walked along with him.

"You wish it's a high school, Ms. Lewis. We can't take lightly of this subject." They arrived to his office and went in. Coulson casually walked over to this table and watched Darcy looking around at his small office.

"It's all.. patriotic." she noticed some old posters of what looked like a man in a strange suit, his helmet with the letter A on it. "Who's he?" she pointed at one of his vintage picture.

"None of your concern, Ms.Lewis." he replied, clasping his fingers together and looked at her.

She looked back at him with a smirk on her face, "With all of these 'idol-istic' pictures around, I am concerned."

He rolled his eyes, "Sit down." and Darcy did just that. He took out a folder and handed it to her. "Here are Buddy's results from his blood test."

Darcy opened the folder to look at the analysis and she began to skim through the results. She frowned, "How is this possible?? I thought SHIELD is like this..super big organization that have all the cool stuff!"

Phil looked at her, his lips pursed in a thin line. "I thought the same too. The reason I brought you here is to hear how you found this man."

Darcy looked over at the older man, confused look in her eyes, "I found him at 7/11. It was late at night and he just collapse in front of me and I brought him to the hospital. The doctor told me that he has got amnesia and had no family members."

"And what does he do in the lab since he joined in?"

"Helping us with research."

Phil began to lean back onto his chair and looked at Darcy seriously. "Don't you find this strange, Ms. Lewis? That he had amnesia but only recall on something so complicated like the galaxy?"

"W-well, u-uh.. I never thought of that."

"Then think about it. We cannot be certain about this man." he turned to the side and pulled out a drawer and handed her a comm.

"Ooh cool!" she picked it up and observing it like a child.

"I want you to become my ears and eyes, Ms. Lewis." He had a slight smile on his face.

"Wait..you want me to spy on a spy??"

"Exactly."

"But what if he's just some innocent dude who happens to be really good with Astrophysics?"

"What if he's just some man who works under some government and steal every bit of research with SHIELD?" With that, Darcy frowned and looked away. "Listen.." Phil leaned closer to her from where he sits. "I know you're growing attach to this man but think about Jane and how hard she had worked."

Darcy's thick lips began to purse in disappointment. "Fine." she said, almost unenthusiastic-ally.

"Good." Coulson pulled out another device and placed it in front of Darcy. "If anything happen, use this." it was a taser gun.

"Whoa!" she looked at the advance model of the thing. "Pikachu Mark II!" she grinned and observing it. Completely forgotten about what she was disappointing about.

"Use it when necessary..not when he was scary."

"Hey, dude. You're talking to Darcy. Goddess of Tasering people."

"You accidentally tasered our agents a few days back."

"'Accidentally'" she repeated.

Phil only sighed and stood up towards the door. "I expect you to report me of Buddy's actions every 5 hours."

Darcy stood up and saluted him. "Yes sir." she grinned.

Phil just shook his head with a serious look on his face. "No, don't do that."

"Hey, does this make me like an agent?"

"No."

"Awh! Why not?"

"One being a tasering fool."

"Hey! Took me a few hours to master the arts of tasering!"

"Exactly why you're a tasering fool."

"I took down a God once, ok? A god!"

"Your fingers slipped."

"Not true!"

"That's what you said when you accidentally tasered one of my agents."

"I said I was sorry!" she put her arms down in defeat.

Phil could only chuckle as the two walked out the building. "Remember, report every 5 hours via comm. If anything, let your fingers slipped." He watched her walked into her car and putting on her safety belt.

"Now you sounded like my mother." Darcy rolled her eyes and turned on the ignition.

"At all cost, protect Jane." he said before taking a step back. Darcy could only nod and she drove her way back to the lab.


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“Jane?” Buddy walked down the stairs to see his friend working in the computer. “Is Darcy out?”

Jane looked up, lost her focus in her work, “Hm?” she turned to the window and found that her vehicle is missing. “That’s weird, maybe she’s just buying some food. You know she loves to eat.”

“I suppose.” He nodded, feeling a little worried by this.

“Hey, what’s wrong?” Jane looked up and saw him pacing around nervously. “Did something happen last night? Other than you hitting your head?”

He shook his head, “Nothing..we just watched a movie last night.” He stopped his pacing and turned to look at Jane. “Don’t you find it strange that..she just disappeared all the sudden?”

Jane shook her head, “She does that a lot when something’s bothering her..” she paused and looked up at Buddy, “Wait.. something’s bothering her?” she said to herself. As soon as she said that, a vehicle pulled over at the driveway. The familiar jeep she and Darcy usually drive to do their research, “Speak of the devil.” She sighed in relief as she watched Darcy exit the car and walked her way to the lab. “Where were you??” Jane immediately asked as soon as Darcy stepped into the building.

Darcy paused for a moment to look at Jane. “I was at the base. Coolman was calling me.” She sighed and placed her bag down at a nearby sofa. She had stuffed the file into her bag so she could read them up later in her room.

“Coulson? Why didn’t he call me?” Jane frowned and sat back down. Her face shown nothing but disappointment.

Darcy thought for a quick moment to find a good enough reason to lie to her. She felt it’s safe to not tell Jane about Buddy. “He figured you’re busy and let you work with Buddy while I report our findings.” She shrugged and walked to the kitchen.

“Report? We haven’t find squat!” Jane replied and began to look at her laptop to do work. “Almost find squat though.”

“He’s just asking the progress and wanted to know how Buddy’s coping up with the work here.”

“I actually enjoy it here.” He smiled at Darcy. She walked out with a cup of coffee. She knew she needed it. Darcy didn’t look at Buddy, she couldn’t dare for Coulson had said about Buddy.

“I’m glad you do.” She replied and took a sip of the strong beverage. Still wondering if she regain her trust with this man.

Buddy walked over to Darcy, "Are you alright?" he noticed she's a little off.

"Yeah, I'm good. Just really tired." she smiled and sipped the coffee again.

"Um.. alright.." he lean to stand next to her. "I was thinking.." he bit his lip nervously.

"Yeah?"

"I was wondering if you want to meet me outside tonight?" his voice was shaking, almost nervous.

"Tonight?"

"Yes. I-If you're not.. busy.." he looked away, Darcy noticed how nervous he looked. His cheeks flushed pink and his ears slightly bright red. Certainly looked adorable.

"Alright." she smiled, forgetting about what Coulson had talked to her about earlier.

"Tonight at 9?"

"Wonderful. Tonight.. at 9." he grinned.

"Yeah, at 9."

He nodded. "Okay."

"Okay." she smiled back.

With that, Buddy nodded nervously with a smile on his face. She smiled in return and walked out of the room with a cup of coffee in her hands.

He watched her leave, trailing her presence out of the room. He felt like a fool smiling all by himself but soon, he realized what he had done.

"I'm having a date??" he whispered to himself.