I forgot to mention this in my first one: I don't own any part of the Marvel Universe, as much as I would like that to be the case. Thanks to everyone who has decided to carry on reading to this chapter!

Loki and Gambit had spent the night sleeping rough, taking it in turns to keep watch. In the morning they teleported to a small remote town in the middle of nowhere.

"Why are we here?" Gambit asked, as he looked around the town. Early in the morning it was deserted, and there seemed to be no sign of life.

"Thor was here. He developed feelings for a human girl who lives here, and I am sure that he will try and come back to Earth to see her again. Before he comes back I will try and convince her that I had no intention of harming Thor or anyone else; when Thor arrives she will help persuade him to let me come back to Asgard." Loki revealed his plan in a monotone, eyes scanning the town.

"That's quite the plan." Gambit muttered. Loki smirked in response.

"You!" A shout rang out from behind them, and they turned round to see an angry young woman advancing on them. "After everything you've done, you come here!" She finished, drawing up short in front of them. Gambit looked puzzled.

"What have I done?" He asked, before realizing that he probably wasn't the one she was angry at.

The woman rolled her eyes. "You've done nothing that I'm aware of, but if you're friends with him you're probably… I don't know, another horrible lying scheming traitorous bastard!" At this she tried to punch Loki, but he easily dodged it.

"Jane? What's going on? You totally interrupted my beauty sleep." Another woman had joined them, and was standing behind Jane wearing a jacket hastily thrown over her pyjamas.

"Darcy, this is Loki." Jane said, her voice dripping with hatred.

"Oh my god. What's he doing here? Are we all going to get attacked again or something? Is Thor here? Who's the other guy?" a stream of questions erupted from Darcy's mouth, as she gazed in horror at Loki.

"I knew if I came with you there'd be trouble" Gambit said, speaking to no one in particular. Loki gave him a sideways glance.

"I thought that that was why you came. If you're going to complain you can go back to the X-Men."

"Boring." Gambit stated, at the same time Jane yelled to get their attention.

"Hey!"

"I apologise. I take it you are Jane Foster, and you… must be Darcy Lewis." Loki's voice was smooth, trying to calm Jane down.

"How do you know my name? Oh my god." Darcy stared wildly at them before running back inside.

"What are you doing here?" Jane echoed Darcy's earlier question, her voice calmer than it had been, although she still looked like she wanted to hit Loki. Loki sighed.

"I'm here to try and explain my actions to you- I understand how it must have looked to you but I hope you will appreciate that there is another side to the story. I tried explaining to Thor, but he wouldn't listen. So I came here, in the hope that you might hear me out."

Jane scowled. As much as she wanted to pay Loki back for all the trouble he'd caused, she couldn't doubt the sincerity in his voice. She hadn't wanted to give him a chance to explain himself, but… well; it couldn't hurt to hear his side of things could it? Her train of thought was broken by Loki collapsing at her feet. She turned round to see Darcy standing there holding her long range Taser gun.

"Darcy! He was going to tell us why he's here!"

"Sorry! I thought he was going to kill us all!" She ran over, and Gambit took an involuntary step back.

Jane groaned. "He might kill us all now that you've done that." She turned to Gambit. "Can you carry him inside? Or does Darcy have to taser you too?"

"Non. No taser. Please." Gambit picked up Loki's limp form. "But I hope you don't live too far away- he's heavier that he looks."

Jane eyed Loki suspiciously. "Hmmm. Must be the weird clothing. We live over there." She gestured to where she meant, and then motioned for Gambit to go first, so she could keep an eye on him.

. . . . .

Minutes later Loki was handcuffed to a chair and Gambit was getting interrogated.

"What's your name? Are you really with the X-Men? Why are you with him?" Jane wasted no time in getting to the point.

"My name is Gambit, and yes, I'm one of the X-Men. I'm with him because… I'm not really sure. It was a spontaneous thing." Gambit eyed the handcuffs. "Handcuffs aren't going to hold him you know. He can teleport."

"What's your real name? How do you know Loki?"

"Remy le Beau. He's a friend." Gambit didn't really want to go into the details. The whole having your DNA stolen along with that of a Norse god to make a kid tended to confuse people.

"Remy… that's a nice name. Do you have a girlfriend?" Darcy entered the conversation, but was met with a stern glance from Jane.

"Darcy, why don't you make some coffee."

"Coffee. Right. Um, should I make Loki any?" Darcy wondered.

"If you must." Jane said, in a way that clearly meant 'only make him coffee if you put a lethal dose of poison in'.

"How did you know who he was? I thought you'd never actually met." Gambit asked Jane.

"Thor gave a pretty vivid description of him. I also guessed that someday he might show up."

They sat in silence for a minute until Loki stirred. As soon as his eyes snapped open he realised that he was handcuffed, and so he instantly teleported to the other side of the room. He glared at Jane reproachfully. Gambit couldn't resist an 'I told you so' look. Jane took a deep breath.

"I'm sorry. Darcy panicked and tasered you, and I thought you'd be angry when you came round so I handcuffed you to the chair. Please sit down."

Darcy chose that time to come in with the coffee. "Oh wow, you got out of the handcuffs. Are you like Houdini or something?"

"Or something." Gambit muttered. Loki sat down again and sharply elbowed Gambit. He stared at the mug of coffee placed in front of him.

"What is this?" He questioned.

"Coffee. Um, Thor drank it, so I guess it's safe for your kind to drink, but we have juice if you like, or water, but we don't have anything weird like reindeer blood." Darcy garbled, then noticed everyone was giving her odd looks. Jane mouthed the word 'reindeer blood' questioningly at her. Darcy shrugged.

"So." Jane started. "You'd better start apologising or story telling or whatever it was you came here to do. Before Darcy gets her taser out again." She added darkly.

"I will not be caught out by that one again." Loki replied, but said no more. Gambit coughed, and looked at him expectantly. Loki sighed.

"I never wanted to hurt Thor, he was practically my brother."

"Wait- I thought you were brothers." Darcy said, looking confused.

"I thought so too. But it was not the case. My father was a Frost Giant, who kept me hidden because, well, I was not really a giant. Odin found me, took me, and raised me as his own son. It was only a few weeks ago that I found out the truth."

"That doesn't sound like much of an excuse to try and kill everyone." Darcy put in. Jane frowned at her.

"Darcy, please stop interrupting." Darcy mouthed 'sorry' and went back to her coffee.

"Laufey, my real father, hated Odin for the truce he made with the Frost Giants years ago. The Frost Giants are a warlike race, and disliked the peace between races. They wished to overthrow Odin and be done with his truce. I was only an instrument in their plan. At first when they came to me I refused to help them; I was even going to warn Odin of the uprising. But then they tried again, and this time I couldn't refuse."

"Why? What could have happened that would make you want to destroy your own family?" Jane herself interrupted, completely lost in the story.

"I didn't know they wanted to destroy the whole of Asgard; I only thought they wanted to be rid of Odin and his truce. Originally, as I said, I refused, but they then told me that they had my son held prisoner."

Jane and Darcy couldn't help but gasp.

"What? They had Jari!" Gambit was so caught up in the tale he forgot it was all a lie. Loki glared at him.

"Who's Jari?" Darcy asked.

"My son." Loki and Gambit both answered at the same time. Darcy spluttered and sprayed coffee all over the table, but no one noticed.

"Anyway, they said they would torture and gradually kill my son, Jari, if I didn't help them. So I went along with their plan, while all the while I plotted behind their backs. I purposefully made Sif and the Warriors Three distrust me, in the hope that they would return to Earth and bring back Thor, whom I knew would be able to overthrow the Frost Giants."

"But the Destroyer was controlled by you…" Jane almost whispered.

Loki shook his head. "An illusion. At that time Laufey had sneaked in to try and kill Odin in his sleep. Before he could I took my chance and killed him. The Frost Giants started to retreat, but then Thor came back. He held me responsible for everything that happened. He started to fight me- I fought back, but only in self-defence. Odin arrived to try and stop him but it was too late: the invasion and fighting had weakened the Bifrost to the point of collapse. I fell as it disintegrated, and ended up on Earth. Thor and Odin tried to save me, but couldn't. They now believe I am dead, and I am stranded on Earth until Thor finds a way to come here."

Loki finished, and was met with silence. Jane finally spoke. "But… your son, what happened to him?"

Loki allowed himself a sad smile. "He was released by the Warriors Three and is now safely back on Earth. But he doesn't trust me the way he used to; he said he didn't want to see me again for some time."

Gambit shook his head. "I've tried to talk to him, but he wouldn't listen. It must be a teenage thing."

Darcy patted his hand sympathetically. Jane simply looked shocked. "How can you be so sure that Thor will find a way to come back to Earth?"

"I have every faith in Thor. I know he will find a way."

Jane nodded. "When he does, I'll try and explain to him. If he won't listen to you."

"Yeah, and I will too." Darcy said.

"Thank you." Loki looked round at them all, smiling. If they had been watching closely, they would have seen a look of cunning flash in his eyes briefly. But they didn't.

How was it? I know a fair amount of it was Loki's story, but it had to be said, and now it's out of the way. If you're wondering where Erik is, he will be back in the next chapter. I'm also wondering whether Rogue or one of the other X-Men should make an appearance. Should they? Let me know!