You woke up Wednesday morning at around 9:00 A.M, way later then when the school day started, when a gentle breeze blew though the room.

    When you cracked open your eyes you saw that Eclipse had just flown in through your open balcony doors.

     "Morning." You greeted Eclipse with your sleepy morning voice.

     Eclipse purred in response before coming up to you and pulling your blankets back with his teeth, telling you that it was time to get up.

      You groaned when you felt the cold air hit, pulling your knees up to your chest as you reached down to pull your blankest back up. The open balcony doors were letting in a nice cool breeze, and though the breeze felt wonderful when you were covered in you nice warm blankets, it didn't feel all too wonderful now.

    You grabbed ahold of the edge of one of your blankets, trying to tug it back up to your chin. With a stubborn dragon attached to the end of said blanket, it proved to be more challenging than it should be. "Give it back Eclipse." You yawned at your dragon, who was now actively pulling the blanket off the bed along with you attached to it. "It's chilly."

    Eclipse stubbornly backed up, with the blanket still firmly clenched in his mouth dragging the blanket, and you, clear off the bottom of the bed. You hit the floor with a soft little grunt, landing on the pile of blankets that were now on the floor.

    Eclipse dropped the blanket he was holding, coming to stand over you, starring down at you expectingly. "I'm up." You groaned, sitting up in your pile of blankets, glaring up into his forest green eyes.

    Eclipse purred at that.

    "I don't understand." You grumbled. "How can you be so bossy when you can't even speak English?"

    Eclipse made a laughing noise in the back of his throat. Which caused you to roll your eyes at him.

     You stood up off the floor, grabbing one of your blankets and wrapping it around your shoulders. The weather was finally remembering that it was supposed to be fall. And though it wasn't necessarily cold yet there was a definite nip in the air. "I'll meet you in the living room." You told your dragon, as you left the room cuddled in your oversized blanket.

     Eclipse couldn't fit in the elevators so he had to fly form one balcony to another to get to the other levels of the tower.

When you reached the main living room you saw Loki in the kitchen with his back turned towards you making his morning tea. You had taught him how to make tea a couple of weeks ago and now it was his favorite drink on earth.

     "Morning Loki." You greeted him at the same time Eclipse came in through the balcony doors.

Loki jumped, slightly startled, and whipped around to see who was talking to him, dagger magically in hand.

"(Y/n)." Loki breathed, vanishing his throwing dagger the instant he realized it was you who was talking to him. "I didn't realize anyone was still here. The whole team got called in by Director Fury today for a quick briefing. I thought I was the only one still in the tower." Loki explained as to why he was so ready to lodge a dagger in-between your rib cage. Then a thought seamed to hit him, "Aren't you supposed to be at your learning hall? I do believe you attend there on the week days?"

"Technically, yes." You shrugged, brushing off the fact that Loki was about ready to use you as target practice. You had gotten weapons pulled on you so many times over the year you lived in the tower that it hardly even fazed you any more. "But me and my dad made a deal before the school year started. If I had all A's in all my classes I could skip as many classes as I like."

     "A's are good?" Loki asked curiously, turning back to his morning tea.

     "Yeah. It's a whole system." You told Loki casually, going over to the pantry to see what you could eat for breakfast. Not feeling particularly hungry you settled on a banana. You went over to Loki, jumping up onto the island, swinging your feet absently as you waited for him to finish making his tea.

      Loki nodded, picking up his mug and turning around to face you, leaning on the counter. "I was under the impression that the Captain was in charge of your education?" Loki asked curiously as he began to stir his tea.

    "He likes to act like he is." You began, un-pealing your banana. "But its my birth parents that are actually, legally, in charge of what I do. Until I'm 18, that is. I only live here because the Avengers hired me as an Avenger after I saved the city of L.A. from an angry dragon. It's good experience, and if I like it it will turn into a life time career. Since I split my time living on Earth and Dakarus I have to have two jobs. Earth currency doesn't have any meaning on Dakarus, and Dakarian currency doesn't have any meaning on Earth. I need to be able to support myself on both worlds, not just one."

    Loki nodded, in understanding. Though the two of you had been friends for weeks he still didn't know much about your life. He knew that Eclipse chose you when he crashed in the woods near your house two, almost three, years ago. He knew that you were kind and gentle hearted, and that your father was a rich doctor, and that you grew up in a richer family than most. He also knew that you didn't really like, or get along with most people.

    "Your parents are human?" Loki asked you, remembering a question that he wanted an answer to weeks ago. The only reason he didn't press for answers then was because you were sopping wet and freezing in the cold night air.

    You nodded your head in agreement, taking a bite of your banana. "Last I checked."

    "But you told me you weren't mortal?"

    You smiled at that, mischief gleaming in your eyes at Loki's obvious confusion. "No," you agreed, "I'm not mortal."

    "Is you mother immortal?" Loki asked when you didn't care to enlighten him. Finding it humorous that he was trying so hard to figure you out.

    "No," you told him with a smirk. "She's a human. Just like my dad and me."

    Loki continued to look at you, silently asking you to enlighten him on why you weren't a mortal.

     You sighed, smiling at him, giving into his questioning looks. "When Eclipse chose me to be his rider he not only chose me but... tied? I guess you could say? Us together with magic. This," you said pulling the collar of your pajama shirt down over your shoulder and turning your back to face him to reveal a pitch black silhouette of a Nightfury etched into the back of your left shoulder blade. "Was burned into my skin with magic the day Eclipse chose me. It's a magical symbol that all dragon riders get when they find their dragon. It not only binds the dragon and rider together by power, but also by life." You turned back around, letting go of your collar, letting the shirt fall into its usual form, once again covering up your marking.

    The mark wasn't a secret by any means, you just didn't go out of the way to show it off. On Dakarus, especially at royal events and ceremonies, it was much easier to show off your mark without trying, just because of the clothes you were expected to wear always empathized it. Not everyone on Dakarus are picked by dragons to be dragon riders, in fact it was quite rare to be a real dragon rider. The ones that are picked show off their marks with pride. But Earth's cloths were not made to show off ones dragon rider mark. So when you were on Earth you just didn't bother with trying to show it off.

    "Like most dragons Eclipse is a long living species. Living for thousands and thousands of years. About as long as the Asgardians live for. I will age as fast as a human until about the age of 20. That's when I will stop aging like a human and start aging more like an Dakarian. I will actually age about the same speed as you do. Like Eclipse I will live for thousands of years. Unless I die form something other than old age or disease."

    Loki nodded, thinking over what you had just told him, leaning back onto the counter taking a sip of his tea. "So, to sum it all up, you are immortal? Like me and Thor? Because you and Eclipse are binded by magic?"

    You nodded.

    "What happens if one of you dies before the other?" Loki asked curiously. "Do you both die?"

    You hesitated at his question, your eyes glazing over with dark thoughts as your feet became still. Not amused by the carefree swinging that they so usually enjoyed. The banana in your hand now forgotten. You were not expecting him to asked the most difficult and darkest question of them all, by dragon rider standards. But this was Loki. He was the most curious and nosey person you knew. He also knew if you were lying to him. He was the god of them after all. You also knew he wouldn't let the subject drop until he got his answer. He would bring it up again if you chose not to answer him now. So might as well get it over with. After all, if he was really your friend he shouldn't be scared off by the information you were about to give him.

    "No." You answered him firmly, your voice void of all humor and happiness, you never liked talking, or even thinking about this subject. It filled you with fear and despair. "I can't die before Eclipse. Sickness, nor old age can no longer pose as a fatal threat to me. The only way I can die before extremely old age is if someone goes out of their way to kill me. If that happens Eclipse will die too."

    Loki took in your words, letting them sit and settle before slowly, painfully, asking the next question"And if the dragon dies before the rider?" He could tell by the lifelessness in your eyes and the firm, almost harshness, your vice had become, that this subject was not an easy one for you to talk about.

    "If the dragon dies before the rider the rider will lose their mind. Lashing out at people, starting fires, and, if it gets really bad, going on killing sprees. They become a shell of themselves, lost to the pain and heart ache of losing a part of their soul. There's an island on Dakarus, called the Island of the Lost, where they put all the riders that had lost their dragons before their time. They're taken care of by the people that work there. It's kinda like an insane asylum, but with crazed, powered people, who know how to fight to kill." You shuttered just thinking about that place. You've never been to the Island of the Lost, but you had heard enough horror stories to last a life time. So have all the other dragon riders. It was one of the things that no one ever liked talked about. Especially if you were a dragon rider.

    "I'm sorry." Loki apologized sincerely, quietly, when you were quiet for too long, notting the look of absolute look of despair that had crossed your face.

    You shook the increasingly painful thoughts from your head, snapping out of your plagued, fear stricken, mind. "It's just not a subject I choose to dwell on." You admitted to Loki. "Or think about. I honestly wish the I would just drop dead if Eclipse dies before me. That seams like a better fate than losing your mind and becoming a pain-stricken shell of yourself. But, alas, it was not to be."

    Loki didn't know what to say to that, nor did he know what to do with the information you had given him. Losing your mind and becoming a shell of a person, filled with nothing but pain and despair was a lot worse than dying.

    The two of you stood in defining silence for what felt like forever before you finally broke it. "Do you want to see the movie I helped create?" You asked Loki excitedly, jumping form the dark topic the two of you had just been on, unable to let your mind wonder on what could very well happen to you and Eclipse.

    Loki gave you a kind, friendly smile, "I would love to." He told you, his voice a calm and soothing purr. He was trying to help ease your mind with his calm, gentle, and strong demeanor, and you couldn't be more thankful for it. He wasn't pitying you, nor was he acting like you were a bomb that was about to go off any second. No. He was simply being a calm and sturdy friend that you could lean on when you needed to. And you couldn't be more thankful for him at that very moment.

    You gave him a bright smile, trying to rid your mind of the last crumbling thoughts that still resided there. "You'll love it!" You exclaimed, bouncing over the the T.V. You grabbed the remote and firmly wrapping yourself back up in your blanket before flopping onto your couch.

    "I'm sure I will find it quite entertaining." Loki agreed with you, sitting next to you with his tea in hand.

    You curled up away from Loki, afraid of becoming to clingy for him, wrapping your arms around yourself, trying to comfort yourself from your lasting thoughts. Eclipse came over you you, nuzzling your free hand with his nose, feeling your fear and despair in his own heart.

    "I'm ok." You told your dragon softly under your breath, trying to keep your fears quite from Loki. Even if he did hear you he would pretend he didn't.

    That seemed to be enough encouragement for Eclipse, or he knew you didn't feel like talking about your feelings, so he laid down in-front of the couch intent on taking a little dragon nap.

    "This movie is called "How to Train Your Dragon." You told Loki as you clicked through the controls on the TV searching for said movie. "After the Avengers recruited me as part of their team S.H.I.E.L.D thought a movie should be made for the public, showing off the friendly characteristics of dragons. You know, to help ease any unnecessary fear involving me and Eclipse on the team. A company called "Dream Works" reached out to me not long after, telling me they would be more than happy to help make the movie. After that one thing led to another, and well... a movie was made."

    "I see." Loki smiled. "Is it about you and Eclipse's adventures?"

    "No. I decided the inspiration should come from a book series found on Dakarus called 'How to Train your Dragon.' It fallows the adventures of a boy named Hiccup and his dragon Toothless who is also a Night Fury, like Eclipse."

    You found the movie and pushed play, settling back into your seat. You were quite intent on focusing all your energy onto the movie to try and forget about the serious conversation you and Loki just had.

    You watched the dragons attack Berk, Hiccup shoot down Toothless, and dragon killing lessons begin. The banana that you were eating was now tasteless and heavy in your stomach as your mind continued to go back to the heavy conversation.

    What if you died?

    Eclipse was on the endangered dragon list after all. Could the species really afford to lose another Night Fury? More than that, you didn't want Eclipse to die just because you were too weak. You loved him too much to let anything happen to him.

    What if Eclipse died fighting for you? There was the obvious losing your mind for all eternity. But you couldn't imagine life without him by your side.

    Dragon ridding was dangerous and so was being an Avenger. Death was a really real possibility for the both of you.

    Loki managed to ketch your eye when Hiccup was finally beginning to earn Toothless's trust. He gave you a kind smile and held out his arms.

    A silent invitation for you to curl up to him. And so you did.

    You rested your head on his chest, curling up to him on the couch as he wrapped his arms around you.

    Nothing more than a friendly gesture. Surely.

    "You and Eclipse are too strong to be beaten." Loki told you, his voiced no louder than a whisper against your hair. You looked up at him confused as to how he knew what you were thinking. "I can hear you." Loki reapplied, tapping your head with his fingers. "Your thoughts are loud."

    "Sorry." You mumbled, embarrassed.

    "No need. Everyone has moments of self doubt. Even fearsome dragon riders."

    "Or gods?"

    "Or gods." Loki agreed, "but if you ever tell anyone I told you that I will deny it until my last breath."

    You managed a little giggled at that. "Don't worry, oh mighty god, your secrets are safe with me."

    "How come I have a horrible time believing that?" Loki asked you with a teasing smile.

    "Are you watching the movie or am I going to have to rewind it for you?" You asked him back, choosing to not engage with his teasing.

    "I'm watching it." Loki assured you with a dashing smile.

    You, of course, rolled your eyes at him. But settled back into his side, content with cuddling up to him. He was your friend. He was safe. And after a few moments you started to fall asleep in his arms.

    "I wont let anything happen to you." Loki whispered into your hair. "You and my mother are the only two people in the universe that has shown me true kindness."

    And with that you dozed off, safe in Loki's arms.