"he can." Natasha admitted. "he told me. well, sort of. he implied it, which for him is basically the same thing." she admitted, gently running her fingers through James hair. "good boy." because she knew praise was rare in Hydra. she was his handler now, for better or worse and she was going to treat him right dammit. especially when he was like this. "i wouldn't mind trying, i trust Bruce." he admitted, smiling at Bruce who had gone his normal pasty skin color with pretty grey eyes again. "Hulk is pretty fascinated by you, he'd totally go for it." Bruce admitted. "with Tony's permission of course." "of course, Tony is the primary after all." Loki admitted. "Yes, no hurting Thor." Loki agreed. "i was never worried i wouldn't like him. i was just... jealous a bit." Steve admitted sheepishly before frowning, worried when Loki went tense at Phil's comment.
"I haven't been an agent for long." Skye admitted, staring at Grant. "how come you aren't testing Grant?" "because i've already gone through Thrush." Grant admitted, coughing a little. "i... uh..." Loki looked very amused. "what did you do?" he demanded, Grant coughing a little. "I'd rather not say." he muttered, glancing at May before looking away, Loki cringing. "say no more. i understand." "i don't. why did he look at me?" May demanded. "...because during Thrush a submissive type Kree will seek out a mate to own him during the process and if their mate turns him down he goes a little insane." May looked so horrified that Loki almost laughed in her face because she realized, right then and there, that she had been the reason why Ward had turned on them. "you had a secondary?" "yes but she... wasn't dominant. she couldn't... she didn't know." Ward shrugged. "and the Tertiary, well..." he shook his head. "i was pretty fucked up for about a year. i couldn't think straight and i was so sure everyone was trying to kill me. some of them where and some of them where trying to help and i couldn't tell who from who so..." he shrugged. "so... so the reason you dumped Fitz and Simmons..." Skye asked, nervous. "sort of. i was between, and Garret... he was Dominant and i wasn't and obeying him as so much easier than trying to understand what i was doing... i dumped them, but the thing wasn't supposed to sink. it was designed to float, i don't understand why it sank..." that was true, the pods where supposed to float.
"Phil. it's okay." Clint said,moving over to the other man, gently taking his hand. "just let him. please." Loki closed his eyes and gently set his finger on Phil's pulse,which Clint was offering to him. "... just as i thought." Loki whispered, opening his eyes. "the Kree whose Genetics you, er... borrowed. was Psychotic. that's why your drawing things. the psychotic genes in your system want you to, pretty much destroy the world. your going through Thrush right now, eager to prove yourself to your mate. a psychotic won't go anywhere near his chosen mate until he has an impressive amount of bodies piled up around him to make a nest. all Kree display in some way. Submissive tend to get very affectionate, build nests, provide food, safety stuff like that. Dominants tend to fight violently with other dominants, get very aggressive, possessive and protective and psychotics cut bloody swaths though anything that isn't Kree." he admitted. "lucky for Phil, he's a very stubborn man and his own Genetics are that of a Dominant, who knows killing anything would upset his Primary and has managed to avoid killing anyone. it's very dangerous though, the psychotic genetics are currently trying to overwhelm his own." Loki admitted. "what does that mean?" Clint demanded. "...it means that the Kree genetics inside of Phil is trying to kill him and wear him like a Phil flesh suit." "...and to stop it?" Clint demanded, Loki wincing. "ah... it won't be hard but it's... going to hurt. all we have to do is take Kree blood from another Dominant, and transfuse it to Phil, this will give his natural dominant genetics the strength to stamp out the psychotic. but the only way i know how to do such things is... rather barbaric." "blood transfusions are simple enough, i can do that." Bruce admitted. "the human DNA in the girls system will have to be filtered out..." "also easy." Bruce assured Loki who sighed in relief. "thank god. i can't stand the sight of blood..."