Iya felt all her rage come to a head and the slap wasn't good enough. She reeled back her arm; hand clenched into a fist. She didn't get to swing. When her arm reached it's zenith it was stopped by Brooklyn.

"IYA," Brook shouted in anger as she glared daggers at her normally responsible friend. "Control yourself or I will." She said severely and Iya merely swiveled her head toward Brooklyn, who stared back at her in frustration, and snarled. Before Iya could respond to Brook's empty threat, Riley laid a hand on her shoulder carefully, giving it a small squeeze of comfort while Kyra looked at the scene with wide eyes and her jaw dropped open. Brooklyn never raised her voice above a normal tone at anyone before.

"You cannot change what happened." Brook reminded Iya as her voice lowered back down to her normal quiet tone of voice. Iya huffed in disgust as she ripped her arm away and stalked off.

"I will not work with my sister's killer." Iya informed them with a snarl before she spun on her heel and walked away from the group. There was a pregnant pause before Kyra finally gained the courage to speak up.

"Iya had a sister?" She asked Brooklyn quietly as she fidgeted with her hair slightly; a nervous habit she couldn't break. Brooklyn sighed heavily as she stared in the direction Iya had left before turning around to face the group of curious people.

"Yes." She started in exahustion, sitting in the nearest chair for support. "Iya had a sister, but during the attack on New York she was killed by Chitari protecting innocent people. To add insult to injury Iya saw it all happen and couldn't do anything to save her sister." She answered grimly. Brooklyn turned back towards the door Iya had exited through and her shoulders slumped slightly with the thoughts of her friends sister.

"Right now we can only hope Iya will swallow her pride and come back."

A bright flash of light slammed into the building Iya stood next to. It hit with such blinding force that most of the building crumbled and Iya screeched in fright as chunks of the building started raining down on her, forcing her to dodge left and right. Abruptly, a thick metal beam fell, along with incredibly thick rubble, and pinned her to the ground. Iya let out a surprised breath as she cautiously opened her eyes to find that bothing was actually broken. She lifted her head as far as it would be allowed and searched around the terrain desperately

"Reneè! Help, I'm stuck!" Iya called out to the girl just a few yards from where she was laying. Reneè swung her head around toward Iya's direction; her lavender hair swinging outward with the motion.

"Iya!" She yelled in panic as she drove her knife through the alien's heart and pushed his body away from herself. "I'm coming Iya! Just hang in there!" Reneè called as she started fighting her way toward her. She managed to ran up next to her younger sister and started trying lifting the rubble off of her before Iya spotted another one of those aliens and started tugging on her leg desperately.

"Reneè they're coming!" Iya screamed as more joined the first in their stamped toward the two sisters. Reneè, who was next to Iya's right leg, swung her head to look behind her back; finding that Iya was right and that there had to be at least ten or twenty of those things coming in their direction. Reneè picked up her knife and ran forward to meet them head on in a desperate attempt to protect her sister. She desperately fought against the growing crowd around her. She hissed sharply as a blade ripped across her face; narrowly missing her right eye. Reneè spun on her heel and kicked back another Chitari that went for the downed Iya. She fought hard by herself before Chitari overwhelmed her. Iya's eyes widened with fear as one came up from behind her.

"Reneè behind you!" She screamed and Reneè spun around on her heel quickly. Reneè gasped, the sound somewhere between pain and surprise, and she looked down at the weapon as her hands gripped the blade, scarlett blood trickling between her fingers. Iya suddenly couldn't breathe. The Chitari pulled it out and Reneè dropped to her knees in a daze. Her eyes wandered to Iya's, blood trickling down the corner of her lips, before she collapsed onto the ground. Iya jerked her leg quickly; the rubble finally loosened enough for her to pull it out. With her leg free, Iya jumped up and ran toward her sister and the Chitari; who now took notice of her. Her hands crackled violently, throwing off sparks as her anger sky rocketed and she threw both of her hands up at the Chitari, bolts of lightning flying out of them and striking the group closest to her, arching off one and connecting to another before they either fell to the ground dead or blew up from the voltage. Breathing heavily, Iya collapsed to her knees next to Renee.

"Reneè!" Iya called out as she picked her sister up cradling her carefully in her arms. Reneè's eyes stared upward to the sky at nothing; the light they had previously held gone. Iya could feel the tears roll down her cheeks, cutting clean rivers of lines on her filthy face.

"Reneè. No, Reneè please! Wake up! You're just faking it to trick the aliens. Please wake up!" She cried out in agony as she clutched her sister closer to her chest. Iya sat there in the middle of the broken and choked street; with people screaming and cheering as the Chitari suddenly fell dead all around them signaling that they had won. She took no notice of the people starting to gather around them, she only noticed Reneè and the cold cruel fact that she had been taken from her. She bowed her head, her deep red hair falling over her face in defeat. One last, final cry escaped her as she called out desperately to her sister.
"RENEÈ! DON'T LEAVE ME HERE ALONE!" She screamed to the heavens in agony.

A single tear slowly rolled down Iya's cheek as she looked at the picture on the wall. It was of her and Reneè. Reneè was ruffling her hair as she had her in a head lock while Iya cringed in disgust and anger.

"If I hadn't gotten caught under that rubble...if I had been quicker in warning you...if I had realized I had some sort of powers, you would still be here today." Iya told the thin air before she looked down at her hands folded in her lap, her hair falling in front of her face gently.

"You're terrible Iya! Stop blaming yourself for what had happened in the past. What happened, happened and that's that. There's no way to change it." Brooklyn had told her a month after her sister died. She was the oldest of her friends; the one she had known the longest.

"Give him a chance Iya. He was played like a hand of cards, it wasn't his fault." Reneè's voice rang in her head. Iya smiled slightly with the comfort that she knew her sister well enough to know what she would have said. And in all respects she was right. Iya sighed tiredly as she got up and grabbed her coat. She walked out the door, locked it, and started down the street toward the cemetery. Night had fallen by now and it had gotten colder despite it being summer. She arrived and quickly walked through to three headstones, two older than the third.
The first one read:

Sarah 'Lightning' Smith. Loving Mother and Wife. May you find peace among the stars you treasured.

The second one read:

James Howard Smith. Caring Father and Husband. May your spirit live on in the kids you loved so dearly.

Iya stopped at the third and final headstone. The small, handmade statue of Reneè stood guard over her headstone, a sword resting underneath her hands that were grasped tightly around it. Iya read her sister's headstone in grief.

Reneè Lily Smith. Thoughtful daughter and sister. You will live on in the hearts of those you touched.

Iya bent down and left a single red rose on her headstone near the feet of the statue, before she spoke out loud.

"Do you come here to look proudly upon the gravestones that mark the people you've killed? Or is it to remind you of how many families you've killed and destroyed?" Iya asked without turning around, already knowing who it was. His magic had a unique feel that was left on the air. It was disgusting and she hated it. The figures stepped out of the shadows, emerald green and sky blue eyes shining in the dim light while black and blonde hair shifted slightly in the breeze.

"Neither." Loki replied as Iya turned around to face him. His pale skin made him stand out slightly from their grim surroundings, but his face was still somewhat shrouded in shadows. His brother behind him, arms crossed and face grim.

"I do not have a tendency to grieve over Mortal's I do not know." He told her as he moved past her easily and stopped over Reneè's grave. Silence followed his statement and Iya moved to leave when he spoke again, softer this time.

"What was she like?" He asked her; causing her to freeze in surprise. Surely the God didn't care anything for her sister? Surely he was just trying to get inside her head? And if he was why didn't he just use his godly powers or something? Iya wondered in concern but she just couldn't shake how soft and sincere he sounded. Iya turned back around and walked over next to him, passing a silent Thor, before she spoke her next words.

"Reneè was the older sister, I was the younger. She was the type of person you couldn't stay angry or depressed around. She just had a natural glow about her that made you want to smile happily for no reason." Iya paused before adding in her feelings about her sister. "Sometimes I would feel like I fell into her shadow and couldn't get back out. She was better at so many things; more than I was. But she would notice and instantly help me get into a limelight of my own so then we got equal attention. I could never hate her for that, not after she would try so hard to help. That was just who she was...she wanted to help everybody." Iya told him quietly. "Then I lost her to those stupid alien things called Chitari." She finished, turning her face upward slightly to look at his face. Loki coughed hastily and shifted nervously.
"I had better bid goodbye to you for now. They will be out looking for me if I linger too long." He answered quickly before turning and swiftly walking down the street, his brother in tow. Then to his surprise and misfortune Iya joined him, walking in time to his steps.

"I have decided that I will try and tolerate you." Iya told him steadily and Loki looked incredibly surprised.

"Why?" He asked uncertainly and Iya smiled sadly before answering.

"It's what Reneè would have done." Was all she said.