This Is my first fan fiction in quite a while. Please leave reviews, tell me how you like it, or don't like it. I have a huge love for Loki and the Avengers. Loki/Darcy and most likely other couplings, keep you posted. I wrote this very quickly just as a jump starter kinda. I just wanted the first chapter done. There will be a lot more thought in the rest of them. I really hope you enjoy it. Happy reading c:

~MollyyDolly-Chan

Loki sat on the edge of his bed, his piercing green eyes glazed over, deep in thought. The sun, beginning its climb over Asgard, was just barely seen through his thick, dark green curtains. His beautiful pale face looked drained, not just physically, but emotionally as well. Like the past two months since the Battle for Manhattan had taken a great toll on the young prince. And he had to admit, then had.

"How could you have been so stupid?" a voice in his head taunted, "You, second Prince of Asgard, God of Mischief and Lies. Are you so weak of mind that you let some foolish little box of energy control you?"

"Tesseract," Loki snapped at the voice, "It is called, the Tesseract. And you saw for yourself how powerful it was."

Since their return to Asgard Loki had not seen the cube, and Thor had made a point not to speak anything of it to his brother. It was realized mere days later that Loki had obviously been under the control of the cube throughout his rampage of Midgard. Well, know that is by his family, the Warriors Three, and Sif. The rest of Asgard was not as forgiving or understanding. They had not seen Loki suffer the withdrawal from the cube, every day. They could not understand. They called for his punishment, and Odin, though Loki could not understand why, had no choice but to oblige.

In those two months his family situation had gotten some what better, they were trying to work though their issues. Loki was trying to forgive them for lying to him all those years. It took a lot of composure. He soon realized it was a day by day effort.

"Loki…" Thor called from the other side of the door, "Brother, it is time…"

Loki knew perfectly well what he meant. It was time for him to appear before the Asgardian court, to receive punishment. Loki shook the inkling of fear from the back of his mind and rose from his bed. With the snap of his fingers, Loki appeared beside his brother.

"Are you ready, Brother?" Thor asked in a low, grim voice.

"As ready as I'll every be," he replied in the same grim tone. Loki looked in the eyes of his brother, it was a look a pure sorrow. They had come far from that battle on Midgard, they were attempting to restore their brotherly relationship. Loki appreciated the attempt, and honestly, even though Thor really pissed him off, he could never say he didn't love the big oaf.

"I am going to miss you, Brother," Loki thought to himself, "but you don't need to know that."

Thor and Loki turned the corner and arrived at Odin's court. They stopped a moment before entering, Frigga, their mother had met them at the doors. "Loki, my son," her voice was thick with grief as she collected her second son in her arms. Loki welcomed his mothers embrace and hugged her in return with mighty force, like a small child clinging to their mother for protection. "I love you Mother," he whispered as he released her.

Darcy sat on the roof of the, now empty lab, staring up at the beautiful New Mexico sky. The sun was just meeting the horizon, the sky filled with oranges, and reds, and yellows, all bleeding together into the beautiful masterpiece above her head. Darcy watched it awe, until all signs of the suns existence were gone. It was just the moon, and her.

She was lonely. She missed Jane, and Eric, but mostly Jane. It had been almost two months since they had spoke, and almost four since they'd last seen each other. Jane was busy, busy searching for a way to Thor, busy with research, busy with something.

"Always something," Darcy thought to herself. It hurt Darcy that her friend wasn't there. She had never felt so utterly alone before. She had converted the lab into her own living space, with permission from Jane of course, after Jane and Eric had been ask to do research elsewhere. Of course, Darcy was excluded from that research.

Darcy sat up on her elbows, looking out at the dark horizon. She could feel the energy around her being pulled into the desert. She scanned the darkness, and then she saw it. About fifty or sixty miles out, the giant cloud forming in the sky, the lightening surging inside, the ground slightly shaking beneath her. She knew what it meant almost instantly. Someone, or something, was using the BiFrost. But how? And Why?

Darcy ran down stairs, grabbed the keys to the research van from the closet, and ran to the garage. She opened the van and turned on all the necessary equipment and then adjusted herself into the drives seat.

"Why am I getting myself into this again?" she thought to herself. With that she toke off toward the massive energy cloud.

Darcy was about four miles from the cloud when a great beam of light came down throught it. The ground rumbled and shook beneath her, the van threatening to tip as it rocked. And then it stopped. The beam retreated back through the sky and the cloud dispersed. Darcy toward the "landing spot" with caution, her last experience with this, well, Jane hit Thor. She wasn't taking that chance again.

She slowed to a stop about a quarter mile away. The only thing that remained from the storm was a thick cloud of dust and sand, which unfortunately blocked all view of what was inside said cloud.

"Hello? Is anyone there?" Darcy called into the cloud.

Silence.

"Please, if anyone is there, just make a noise," Darcy called again. And again there was only silence. Tears began to well in her eyes. "What am I doing?" she thought to herself. Here she was, in the middle of the desert, alone, calling into a dust cloud. "Why did I even come here? What was a hoping to find?" she asked herself again, "no one is here." A single tear rolled down her fair face as she turned away from the cloud.

Then a voice came through the cloud, "Hello? Miss? Can you hear me? Please? I need your help!"

Darcy heard the voice and ran into the cloud. Colliding instantly with what felt like a rock. She yelped and then looked up to see what she had hit to find it had been no rock. A tall, gorgeous, pale-faced man with piercing green eyes towered above her. She stared up in awe and at first he stared back in shock, but after a few moments the look of shock was replaced with this dark, sexy, smirk that made Darcy weak.

"What have I gotten myself into?"

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