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"Who are you?"
I snorted, amused. "Isn't that way to start off a conversation?"
Agent Coulson stood in front of me. He already questioned Thor who wasn't really talking to him at all. At least that's what he told me. Now it was my turn to be questioned.
He sighed at my response. "You and your friend made us all look like a bunch of mall cops. That's hurtful."
I laughed. "Why? Did I hurt their dignity too?"
"Where did you receive your training?"
"Nowhere. Self-taught."
"Your friend?"
"Not telling."
"Name?"
"Can't you find that out yourself?"
We stared each other down. I crossed my arms and leaned forward. "I won't tell you jack shit. About me or my friend." I leaned back into my chair waiting for him to respond.
He pulled out Jane's notebook that made me a little tense. "I might not have to ask you." He opened the notebook and flipped through the pages and stopped on one.
He hummed. "Riona Molinari. Powers include control over basic elements, secondary elements, and control over weather. She also has the power to mimic other powers:
-teleportation
-materialization
-telekinesis
...shall I go on?" Agent Coulson asked closing the book shut. "I'll ask you again. Who are you?"
I shrugged, "Just a woman. Plus, how can you possibly prove that I can do any of those things?"
"We have footage." Agent Coulson fought back.
I gave him a smug smile. "Do you really though?" His facade cracked. "Without any actual evidence, I'm afraid you would be taking the words of men who probably all have concussions and it could be all played off as their own hallucination caused by head trauma."
"So, in reality the only reason why you can keep me here is because I trespassed government property. Same goes for my friend." I smiled triumphantly.
He glared at me, knowing that what I said was all true. "We will find what we need to know. We're good at that." And with that, he walked out of the room, and the door shut behind him, leaving me alone.
I let out a sigh of relief. I just dodged a couple of bullets. I knew it would be a matter of time before they suspected even more of me. There is no record of me anywhere in the past four years I've been here. Then they'll be on my ass about that.
No later than ten minutes went by when a voice called my name by the door. "Riona! There you are!" Erik had a forced smile on his face, coming up to me and lifting me up to my feet. Thor was standing right behind him looking just as confused as I was.
"Come my friend, I'm taking you both back home."
We make our way past SHIELDS security outside, I notice all of Jane's possessions under a tarp and also spot her notebook. Agent Coulson must've put it back with her things and used it to interrogate me when he did.
As we passed, I grabbed it quickly and shoved it into the inside pocket of Thor's jacket that I was still wearing. " !" Agent Coulson yelled.
We freeze without turning back. "Just keep them away from the bars."
"We will." Erik replied.
"Where are we going?" Thor asked, looking at Erik.
Erik huffed and stomped forward. "To get a drink."
The clinking of the pool balls and music filled my ears. I looked over at Thor and Erik who sat at the bar. I wasn't one much for drinking. Maybe a glass of wine here and there, but no beer, no shots, nothing. I just never really liked the taste.
"Hey," The guy who I was playing pool with tore my gaze away from my friends. "Your turn." I gave him a faint smile and looked for move, taking a small sip of my soda.
*No one's p.o.v.*
"You know I had it all backwards." Thor said. Erik listened with mild interest. "I was all wrong." Thor continued.
"Was that a bad thing finding out that you don't have all the answers?" Erik asked. "You start asking the right questions." Thor thought about it for a moment. "The first time in my life I have no idea what I'm supposed to do."
" Anyone who's ever going to find his way in this world has to start by admitting he doesn't know where the hell he is." Erik says.
"Thank you. For what you've done." Thor sincerely thanks Erik.
Erik protested. "Don't thank me. I only did it for Jane and Riona. Jane's father and I taught at University was a good man. He never listened." This registers with Thor.
"Neither did I." Thor admits. "My father was trying to teach me something. I was to stupid to see it." Erik eyes him with interest.
"I don't know if you're delusional or if your pulling some sort of con, and I don't care. I just care about the both of them. Especially her." Erik gestured over to Riona who was enjoying a game of pool. Thor looked over at her and then back at Erik.
"She been through enough. No family, she lost all of them a long time ago. No close friends other than Jane, who is like a sister to her. I see her as my own daughter." He paused. "I've seen the way she looks at you."
No family, no friends? Thor was crushed to hear that she truly didn't have anyone outside of the three of them. He thought that she maybe didn't have such a good relationship with them, but to know that she lost every single one of them must have been a painful experience.
Thor furrowed his eyebrows in confusion. "I swear to you I mean her no harm."
"Good. In that case I'll buy you another round, and you leave town tonight." Erik said.
Thor took a long pause before nodding in agreement. Erik looked to the bartender. "Two boilermakers."
The bartender placed two pints of beer along with two shots on the table and walked off to tend to the other customers. Erik poured the shots into the beer and the two proceeded to clink their glasses and drink.
The two locked eyes with each other and silently agreed to have a drinking game to see which one of them could chug their drink. Erik chugged his drink as fast as he could not wanting to lose to Thor.
"Hey you two... oh." Riona skipped up to them having coming out as the winner of the pool game she was playing. She looked back and forth between the two of them, chuckling as she saw what was going on. She snorted. "Men will be men." She said to herself.
Riona gave Thor a side look, the two smiled. Well, Thor tried to the best of his abilities.
"Good luck you two." Riona grabbed her soda and went off to play another round of pool until they both had their full of drinking.
Little bit of a smaller chapter. Sorry.
