MAGIC AND CROWNS ; loki

vii. helping the soldier out

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"give it back, Wilson, or I swear to god I will kill you in your sleep"

Was the first thing Cora heard that morning as she walked in the kitchen where Sam and Bucky were arguing and Sam had... Bucky's metal arm behind his back?

"Um, guys? You okay?" Sam nodded quickly and said good morning but the soldier didn't take his eyes off the man who had taken his arm as revenge for who knows what

"Buck, did the mean bird brain take off your arm?" Barnes slowly nodded, still not tearing his murderous gaze from the man next to him

"Sammy, i'm gonna close my eyes, count to five and when i open them Bucky's arm better be back where it's supposed to be. Got it?" Cora was a very easy going person and, after two weeks of living in the compound, the rest had learnt that whenever she changed her tone from the bright and playful one she usually had to a slightly more serious one, like she did just now with the falcon, she should be listened to. They learnt after the accident

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CLASH!

Everyone came running to the common room where Cora stood with an uncharacteristic angry frown, in front of a broken window, as one of the many suits from the Iron Legion went flying through the empty space that the window had occupied previously, then not a minute later it came back up holding a very shocked Tony.

"What the HELL happened here?" Asked/yelled the russian spy, though there was a ghost of a smile in her face seeing as Stark had clearly been just thrown out the window, still they all needed to know why. Everyone flinched at Natasha's volume, but Cora just turned around to face away from the window towards the group, still with a very unpleased face

"I told him I was busy and he still followed me around like a puppy because he wanted to watch a stupid movie" Cora explained dangerously slow, emphasizing with a hiss the words 'busy', 'puppy' and 'stupid'. Everyone took a step back, Strange was right, she was scary.

"C'mon Sabrina, just one!" The dumb genius apparently wasn't giving up yet

Cora lost all emotion in her face as her stare fell on the billionaire, her eyes changed from the usual happy silver to a killing deep purple. She started to wrap her magic around Stark and made her way to where the big TV and the sofas were, the body of her friend and the rest of the frightened heroes trailing behind, although Tony's body was carried against its will. They came to a stop and with a slight swish of her finger he was gone, until they looked towards the TV, where a very annoyed, confused and still scared Iron-Man was yelling apologies and begging for the sorceress to bring him back

"you upset me, you get what you deserve. There's your movie, Stark" She snarled one last time and tried to find her smile back as she made her way to the kitchen, almost the whole team behind her once again "I just trapped iron ass in the TV for following me around, do you wish for the same faith?" She asked with a smile, but this one was intoxicatingly sweet, too sweet to be real, and given the context it clearly wasn't.

"Leave me alone, I said I was busy, I meant it then and I mean it now." She took a breath to calm herself and continued "The spell will wear off in three hours, Tony will be going through many different movie cliches, there's popcorn for everyone waiting in the coffee table, i'm going to visit the sanctum, see ya" And with that she left, teaching everyone the valuable lesson of keeping the woman on their good side, and also everyone got to see a Tony Stark in the big screen being chased by gorillas in the middle of a jungle.

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Cora didn't even get to close her eyes and Sam had already given the arm back "Good boy" Said the woman with her usual smile and patting the man in the head as he made his way out of the room.