by C. Gockel
PART II OF I BRING THE FIRE
The door to Agent Steve Roger’s office is closed. She’s about to turn back when she hears a muffled, yet extremely familiar voice. Her eyes go wide and she’s suddenly too angry to even be afraid of Steve. Bursting into the room, she sees Agent Rogers behind his desk which is now on fire, aiming a gun at Loki.
“You really should tell me where you got the technology,” Loki says quietly.
There is the sound of the gun firing twice. Amy screams. There are two dull thuds in the wall next to her and Loki turns to her apparently unharmed.
Loki’s wearing a light gray suit, or at least he’s pretending to wear a suit. No tie though. And he looks like he has lost a lot of weight. His hair is black now, which is weird.
He blinks. “Amy,” he says. He blinks again. “I tried to wire you money, but apparently your bank account is no longer open?”
Her nostrils flare up, she goes hot — and it has nothing to do with the blaze in the room. There’s a fire extinguisher on the floor. Picking it up, Amy pulls the pin and aims it at Steve’s desk and yells at Loki. “You steal all my money and then you come here. Are you trying to make me lose my job, too?” She’s finally got a new plan, and things are going to work out, and he’s going to ruin everything all over again.
“You know him?” says Steve.
Loki’s face goes livid. “I stole nothing! You offered it to me! You said to take as much as I needed.”
“I didn’t mean to take it from my bank account!” Amy shouts. She can feel the veins in her neck popping.
Raising his arms, Loki says, “What did you mean, then, pray tell?” His eyes widen. “You can’t have meant just the money in your change belt? How was that supposed to buy me an airline ticket to Europe?”
“Ticket to Europe?” says Steve.
“You gave me your oath you wouldn’t steal!” says Amy, throwing the spent fire extinguisher at Loki. Of course it just goes right through him. She rips off the heavy sweater she’s wearing — it’s Chicago and the temperature fell 40 degrees literally overnight. Dropping it on a flame that’s not quite out on the floor, she steps on it with her shoe since Steve seems to be in some sort of shock.
“How did the fire extinguisher just pass right through him?” says Steve. “And why didn’t my bullets work?”
Ignoring Steve, she narrows her eyes at Loki. “You walked into my bank as me and withdrew all my money! That’s stealing and probably a felony.”
What is obviously an astral projection of Loki takes a step closer. Bending so his face is next to hers, he points a finger at her chest and says, “You told me I could take as much as I wanted. I thought your law was higher than any nation’s law!”
Amy stands, breathing heavily. Loki looks down at her chest and smiles. Amy follows his gaze. The shirt she was wearing underneath the now ruined sweater isn’t really meant to be seen without an upper layer.
She crosses her arms over her chest and gives him a dirty look.
Continued in “Monsters ~ Part II of I Bring the Fire”
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All Stories By C. Gockel & Contact Info
The I Bring the Fire Series:
I Bring the Fire Part I: Wolves
Monsters: I Bring the Fire Part II
Chaos: I Bring the Fire Part III
In the Balance: I Bring the Fire Part 3.5
Fates: I Bring the Fire Part IV
The Slip: A Short Story (mostly) from Sleipnir's Point of Smell
Warriors: I Bring the Fire Part V
Other Works: Murphy’s Star a short story about “first” contact
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