Not Dehydration

This time you wake-up to Loki wrapped completely around your stomach, head resting under your chin, "Loki."

He snuggles closer, now wrapping his leg between and under one of yours.

Strands of Loki's hair tickle your chin, "What are you, a koala?" You lightly run your hand through his hair.

"I could be," Loki mumbles and pulls you even closer against him.

You tap your fingers on Loki's scalp, "And as adorable as you would be, I would still need to use the bathroom, so up you go, koala."

Loki groans and rolls onto his back, "2 minutes, Mate."

You get to the bathroom door, "Demanding, koala."

Loki opens one of his eyes, "One minute, 45 seconds."

Your eyes widen and you quickly close the door.

While you put soap on your hands, you hear Loki call out the 30 second mark. After you dry your hands, you take a quick sip of water, but it goes down the wrong pipe and you end up choking into the sink.

"Darling?" Loki leans up on his elbows.

When you open your eyes and look down, blood is splattered into the sink, "Lo..." 

Loki's got the door open 2 seconds later before you can even finish his name, "Wha...?"

Both of you now look down into the sink again, "I...don't think it's dehydration."

Loki turns you to him and quickly looks you over, "Where are you bleeding from?"

"I don't..." you start to say but wind up coughing again and more blood goes into the sink.

Loki's eyes widen, "You..."

Then suddenly there's a sharp pain on your stomach, and when you lift your shirt, there's a huge bruise where your wound was.

Loki wraps an arm around you, "Do not let go of me."

A second later, you're in the med bay of the tower with Loki, Bruce, and Tony.

Loki places you down on the bed and shows them the bruise, "Something is wrong."

Bruce grabs an x-ray tablet and scans the area, while Tony pulls it up on a bigger screen, "Here. There's a small gash that opened internally."

Loki's eyes switch from you, to Bruce, to Tony, "So fix it!"

"I..." Bruce keeps looking at the screen.

"What? This should be simple!" Tony taps a button and his disappears.

"It's..." Bruce shakes his head. "If we try, we risk causing more damage, since everything else is not totally healed."

"So what?! We just wait until they bleed out?!" Loki's hand tightens in yours.

"If there was anything I could do, I would have already started!" Bruce raises his voice as well, which is almost shocking to hear.

The trio continues to argue around you, but suddenly you can feel the gash getting larger inside of you, "N-nothing is going to work." You groan out.

Loki spins to you, "Do NOT say that! How could you even...?!"

"Loki..." you maintain a calm tone. 

"No! I can..." you can see the wheels turning in Loki's head.

"What if we drain the blood?" Tony chimes in.

Bruce thinks for a second, but shakes his head once again, "If we put Y/N under...we risk the chance of them not waking up."

"Then let me heal Y/N from the outside," Loki starts to move to do so.

"There's already too much internal bleeding, Loki. It would cause a greater infection," Bruce shows Loki the scan.

You still hear the 3 frustrated voices, when your eyes start to close, until you feel something poking your hip from your pocket.

"How long do we have until...?" Tony's voice drops.

"3 days at most," Bruce matches his tone.

You reach into your pocket and pull out the box with what Heimdall gave you, "Loki."

His head and sad eyes turn to you as you open the box.

"Will this help?" you move it a little closer to Loki.

Loki looks down to your hand, and nearly falls off of the bed, eyes wide.

You take out the grape-sized piece, "I don't know what this is, but Heimdall said to ask you and Thor incase..."

"When did Heimdall give this to you?" Loki's eyes remain on the piece.

"I..." you didn't expect this reaction from Loki. "On Thanos' ship. He said to use it if something went wrong."

Loki reaches out and runs his finger along one of the sides, "Call for Thor."

You prop yourself up better, while Bruce does what Loki asked, "If this thing really can help, shouldn't I just use it?"

"It is a bit more...complicated than that," Loki says just above a whisper.

You're about to say something else, but Thor enters the room.

"Banner said it was urg..." Thor starts, but then sees the state you're in. "What has happened?!"

"Brother..." Loki holds out the piece to Thor.

Now Thor looks down, and an expression of recognition flashes across his face, before he looks back to Loki.

"Heimdall gave it to Y/N," Loki answers Thor's non-verbal question.

Both brothers examine it for a few more seconds, but you're fed up, "And Y/N is right here, so SOMEONE BETTER START EXPLAINING WHAT THE HELL THAT IS!"

Author's Note: 92,000 reads! Trying to wrap my mind around the fact that we're less than 8,000 reads from 100k! INSANE! x