First, this story is based on things we've all seen and heard in the news lately about the despicable abuse of women and children by sports figures and the responses to it. In this story we answer the question: what if this happened in the Marvel Universe to members of the Avengers and what would the response be there? This is definitely a story for mature readers only.

Second, it's an adult love story but of a very different type of love as it is love based on the tenets of the Angels of Heven, the newly discovered Tenth Realm (Thor and Loki in the Tenth Realm #1-5). Even in this realm where honor is meaningless and alliances change by the minute we find that love still survives, just not as we know it.

Finally, it is a story about the meaning of the word 'worthy'. This word appears on Thor's hammer in the following inscription:

"Who So Ever Holds This Hammer, If He Be Worthy Shall Possess The Power of Thor."

This begs the question as to how such a spell would know even what worthy meant. How would the spell define it? We shall try to answer that question.

Now for the background.

Those of you who've been following the adventures of Loki Agent of Asgard #1-#6 and Thor and Loki in the Tenth Realm #1-#5 be aware that this story takes place just after Thor and Loki in the Tenth Realm #5 and before the events in Thor #1 (2014). If you are someone who has read these issues in Loki Agent of Asgard and Thor and Loki in the Tenth Realm, then you may jump to the chapter entitled 'The Couch Is Waiting.' But if you haven't, then read on as we'll try to set the stage for you.

A lot has happened to the two brothers Loki and Thor in the last month and it's about to get worse. For those of you who don't know these gods Loki is the Norse god of mischief and is a human-like Frost Giant, an adopted son of Odin, and can be male or female and just loves to use magic to trick and deceive people. Loki is an incredibly lonely god who hides it behind bluster and sarcasm. He knows that he'll never find a love that will last as he always betrays and tricks those who care about him. He's resigned to always being alone and despised by the rest of Asgard.

On the other hand Thor is the Norse god of thunder and is a full-blooded Asgardian who gets his power of flight and control of the storm from his hammer Mjolnir. Without it he's still as strong as the green-skinned Hulk the strongest mortal. He's also incredibly arrogant at times and devoted to serving Odin and Asgard but still cares for his adopted brother and wishes his brother would not trick him all the time but he knows it's never going to happen.

In Thor and Loki's exploration of the newly discovered Tenth Realm called Heven which is filled with beautiful war-like women with wings they met a super-strong red-haired woman without wings who turned out later to be their lost sister Angela who is a full sister to Thor. She was raised by the Angels of Heven whose culture is based on the idea that everything has a price and that honor is a worthless nothing to try to get you to do something for free. Of course they and Asgard which runs on honor and obedience to Odin are mortal enemies.

Angela scorned for her lack of wings found it hard to be accepted in Heven and left for the freedom of the stars to find out who she was. She was taken in by the Guardians of the Galaxy issues #5 and #6 with Tony Stark, AKA Iron Man in attendance, but when she hears Asgard in the form of Thor and Loki have invaded the Tenth Realm she leaves the Guardians to defend the Tenth Realm.

She and Thor fight and Angela knocks him unconscious which means she's as at least as strong as he is. Loki being who she is changes sides but not really and leads an Angel fleet to attack Asgard but she knows its defenses will destroy the fleet. She actually goes to bring back Odin to defeat the Tenth Realm. Before the attack Loki offers mockingly to pay anyone who won't kill Asgardian babies to not take place in the attack and an Angel name Buehler hesitates and may have accepted the offer. Buehler will play an important role later as we assume she accepts.

In the meantime Thor regains consciousness and immediately escapes and when he and Angela fight again in one-on-one combat he brings lightning down and stuns her. He then raises his hammer lost in rage, shouting he'll crack her skull while she's helpless before him. He is only stopped in his murderous rage by the arrival of Odin who reveals Angela is their long-lost sister. This causes the Queen of Heven to reject her and then she in turn rejects Asgard for the stars. At the end Loki who understands the struggle she's going through with not being accepted offers Angela a couch to sleep on if she ever needs it during her struggle to be herself.

For Thor the events that happened in Heven when he tried to kill Angela are about to have damning consequences. Also Angela is naïve about what happens on earth (Midgard) and that is going to get her in a lot of trouble.

Tony Stark who is the Avenger Iron Man is a billionaire and a playboy. In the past he has acted a lot like Hugh Hefner and has thrown wild parties and in some issues of Iron Man has woken up with hangovers and no idea whom he slept with. Early on in his career he became addicted and there were several issues devoted to his drying out. This theme of carousing has continued over the years. Tony still parties it up as a playboy (Guardians of the Galaxy #5) and now events from his past that he thought dead and buried are about to come back to bite him.

It should be mentioned that there is a complication in that Old Loki from the future is here in the present trying to bring about his birth from the present Young Loki and become the god of evil and king. He is everything that the present Young Loki does not wish to be: cruel, arrogant, and loves only himself.

Young Loki was birthed from yet another reincarnation of himself who was created after the original Loki died saving Asgard and his own future from the alien Century. This new reincarnation, Kid Loki, manages to change and reject evil. Kid Loki's reward is to have himself overwritten by a copy of his former self left to lie in wait by the original Loki in the crime that will not be forgiven.

However Young Loki finds himself changed by the story in the mind he now occupies and he finds himself no longer desiring to be a god of evil but one trying desperately to change to what Kid Loki was but no one seems to want him to succeed, especially Old Loki who is in love with being the god of evil and wants to change Young Loki into an evil villain so he can be born.

Another complication that should be mentioned is the presence of Mephisto who is a version of Satan taken from Goethe's Faust and he's out to ruin everyone else's lives and get them into his hell. That's all you'll need to know to understand who he is.

Now dear reader, read on as we join Angela at one of Tony's parties.