Hope you're all enjoying it. I'm taking my time with this because I want to be able to really capture Loki. I saw Avengers for a second time last night and I've been watching youtube clips of Loki in Thor. I think I'm going to be unable to see the movie because clearly it'll be heartbreaking for me when he goes cray cray.

Enjoy! Review any discrepancies or praise! ; )

Chapter Two

Loki launched himself into the air. His spirits lifted for the first time in Odin only knew how long. He was propelled higher and higher by his own will and if felt glorious. The riotous wind coursed over his body, whipping at his face. To him it was an unspoken challenge and it felt heavenly to be in control like this.

Then he frowned.

Why hadn't he been able to kill the girl? Was he so weak from his time in space? Did this planet have that effect on him?

Loki had soared high in the air and began to move forward, away from his crash sight. He saw the lights of what he could only presume to be a vast city twinkling in the distance and on he flew.

All of sudden without preamble Loki began to fall to Earth. It was quite a shock to the God as he suddenly descended just as low as he had risen.

Amedea was panting on the ground as if she'd run a marathon. She didn't know who she had to thank for saving her but she knew someone somewhere had protected her. That little ball thingy should have done her in and somehow it hadn't. She sat on the hard ground trying to conquer her shaking limbs, which rattled dangerously.

All of sudden she saw Loki start to plummet to Earth….again.

"Oh please, not again…."

Her lip placed itself between her teeth of its own accord and the relief which had literally washed over her in fresh, warm waves began to evaporate entirely.

BOOM

Loki hit the Earth in the patch of ground right next to his original landing sight. The ground was already sufficiently dried from his fiery entrance and a cloud of dust rose into the air.

Amedea got up this time. She needed to be ready to run if this guy got any ideas again.

Just like before Loki rose with a screech of indignation, cursing in some ancient tongue that Amedea had never heard before.

Once more he turned blazing emerald eyes on her.

"WHAT DEVILRY IS THIS!"

Amedea once again stood stock still as Loki's gaze bore down on her.

Loki realized as he stood there, his eyes boring into her skull that she had no idea what was happen. His fair features twisted into a look of revulsion.

No, no how could she know. She is just a simple Midgardian.

Despite knowing this a growl reached the surface of his throat and he released it.

What was his purpose here? Who was the girl?

A small silence stretched out between the unlikely pair.

Finally out of total frustration Loki released three energy balls in rapid succession, one right after the other. They hit the distant ground and smoke rose up from the burnt earth.

Amedea jumped at the loud nose making a small sound of shock. She watched as the Earth melted under the heat of his power. She was in awe, for about a minute and a half. Then she was angry. He was going to do that to her?

Anger overtook her. Her one constant flaw and she planted her feet more firmly in the soft Earth and turned preparing to face this so called thing.

"Excuse me," she said as she balled her hands into fists at her side.

Loki turned to her, outraged; she dared to address him in so mildly a manner.

"Did I do something to piss you off? Are you actually telling me that you were going to blow me out to kingdom come because I had the misfortune of owning the land that you decided to crash on? That was my ONLY crime, simply being here and for that you were going to KILL ME?"

Loki didn't understand all of the strange talk that left the Midgardian's rambling mouth. He hadn't pissed on anything. He did understand the bit about killing her though.

He smirked at her outrage. Not a rueful or mischievous smirk, but one formed out of malice and dripping with spite.

"What do I care for the life of a mere ant? I am a God amongst your kind and I will do as I see fit."

"Oh you're a God? How's that working out for you lately? Last I looked God's didn't have a problem with things like keeping themselves propelled in the air!"

She sensed she was overstepping some kind of imaginary line but she was too angry to stop. What kind of man tried to kill someone for no reason?

Loki growled low in his throat and once again he punctuated his hatred by sending out a wave of energy balls in rapid succession.

Amedea turned away but all of them fizzled out before they reached her.

Dare she gloat?

"Yeah, I don't think a God would have trouble with that."

This time Loki charged at her.

"AH!"

Amedea saw him coming and screamed and prepared to run away but the God was upon her in moments. She saw one of his hands coming out to strike her and watched in awe as the limb made its way towards her and then flew harmlessly away.

Loki seethed.

He had suspected as much. For whatever reason he could not fathom he had been brought here. Brought to this spot, perhaps even brought to this girl, though he highly doubted it. Something was protecting the girl; something was interfering on any and all attempts that he, Loki the God of Mischief, made to harm her.

Loki felt rolling waves of anger crest over him as he fought to regain control of himself. He turned away from the girl contemplating his options, in doing so he ran the long pale digits of his hand through his raven locks before almost hissing in disappoint. Finally acquiescing to defeat he turned to face the girl.

"We've not been properly introduced. I am Loki, God of Mischief, and I am burdened with a glorious purpose."

The girl herself was still angry and still very much afraid. It was weird having such strong raw emotions such as fear and anger face off inside of you and she felt ready to burst with them. Later on when she replayed this encounter in her mind she would attribute those warring feelings to her snide remarks.

"Glorious purpose?" She couldn't help the dry humor that laced her voice, she was mocking him.

Loki was fighting to stay cordial. The girl could see a quiet tightness covering his face. He was barely containing his rage.

"For what reason I have been sent here, I confess I know not. I know merely that I am here, in your service."

With that he gave a slight half bow.

"Oh do you make a habit of trying to kill all of the people you service?"

Loki ignored her and continued on.

"I suspect my sudden appearance here and my lack of ability to leave all have something to do with you. As such Midgardian I will stay with you until such time that my purpose here is….revealed."

Amedea snorted, "Good luck with that."

"Pray you think of it this way. I may not be able to harm you, loathsome mongrel" Loki added the insult and paused just for affect, "but I am unable to leave here and unable thus far to harm only you. Do you think the same applies to your family and loved ones? For I am eager to put this to the test."

Amedea for her part had never had a good poker face. She was one of those people that if you were a mind reader you didn't have to use that ability on her because her thoughts were genuinely written plainly on her face. Still when Loki threatened her family and friends and she tried to remain calm.

He'd absolutely do it. He's already tried to kill me six ways from Sunday he'd kill them all.

At that thought Amedea felt a faint shiver of fear passing through her and she needed to take a deep breath to calm herself.

Loki missed no part of it.

"Then we have an accord?" He said showing a smirk that made Amedea feel weak for reasons she didn't feel safe enough to explore.

"What do you want me to do? I don't know why you're here."

Loki's smirk faltered for only a minute.

"I will stay with you until such time as my grand purpose here on Midgard" Loki raised his hands gesturing to their surroundings, "is revealed to me."

Amedea raised a skeptical eyebrow at him.

"Then you'll leave?"

Loki's eerie smirk returned.

"Oh, yes. Swiftly in fact."

The girl shook her head re-thinking her previous statement.

"No, let me reword that. When you figure out," she held her hands up in the air her fingers making imaginary quotation marks and she deepened her voice to sound like him, "you're Grand Purpose, you'll leave me and my family and my friends alone. You won't kill, maim, or murder any of us?"

Loki almost chuckled at the Midgardian. Almost. Her previous mocking of him would not do, but her thoughtfulness at making sure he would not torture or kill her family amused him.

"My, are all mortals this dark minded when they bargain for an arrangement," his smirk never left his mouth.

Amedea didn't falter.

"Do you agree?"

She had the uncanny feeling she was making a deal with the devil and that she was about to be bitten in the ass for it.

"On my honor as a God."

And so it was arranged that Loki God of Mischief would stay with Amedea.

Leave a token in the little wooden box