Chapter 1
Darcy looked around at the world around her. How things had changed in the two years since Thor's brother Loki had taken over their planet and
defeated the Avengers. He had made the citizens all slaves to his will and was currently searching for a "worthy vessel in which to carry his heir." All
fertile females were being brought to the palace and she was trying her best to avoid being brought before him. She knew that every female he saw
he would immediately dismiss because she had it on good authority that he was looking for her. She didn't want to be the one chosen to be the
mother of his heir because that would mean that she would have to become his queen and it seemed wrong to her that she would rule the very
planet she was a part of. She didn't know why he had chosen her specifically but she was doing her best to keep from being found and brought
before him.
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Thor and the rest of the enslaved Avengers stood before the throne.
"Why is it one female can elude the six of you? I asked you to find her and bring her to me and you stand here and tell me that you cannot
find her? Must I do everything myself!?" Loki yelled at the five mortals and his former brother.
"She is an elusive woman sire. Why are you looking for her specifically, anyway? From what I hear she is no beauty. Perhaps she got wind that you were looking for her, Sire and doesn't wish to be found," Tony said trying hard not to give anything away knowing full well that Darcy wanted nothing to do with the new king.
"Well, I am looking for her. She is the one I have wanted this entire time and I will have her. Now go! I want her found by the end of today and
brought to me no matter what time it is. Do I make myself clear?" Loki said turning from the group and striding away. He was angry that one simple mortal could elude him for so long and wondered who it was that told her that it was she he wanted as his queen.
They nodded and left the king to ponder the slyness of the one single mortal woman that he wanted above all others. Yes, the new king of Midgard
wanted one Darcy Lewis with a passion that he could not understand. But want her he did and he had already decided that she was the one he
wanted by his side as his queen. After seeing her three years ago through the Destroyers eyes he had wanted her. She was also one of the few that
remained free from enslavement as he had not been able to use the scepter on her as of yet and the more he pondered it the more he did not want
her under its influence. He wanted her compliant and wanting him.
Starks words made him think. Who could have tipped her off that he was looking for her specifically. Everyone close to the Avengers had already
been put under the influence of the scepter so they were immediately ruled out. So who could it be? Who could have told her?
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Darcy could see Thor through the slats in the boarded up windows of her old dorm room. She knew that he was looking for her and tried to stay as
quiet as possible as not to alert him to her presence. She was thankful that he had been the one to alert her to the fact that Loki wanted her before
his brother had enslaved him. And seeing as now he was the one that was looking for her made it hard for her to keep silent. There was a part of
her that wanted to just turn herself in and be done with all the hiding but there was a part of her that just could not do it. She waited until he
walked away before she breathed a sigh of relief. She was free for a few more hours at least.
It had not been an easy road these past two years. Jane had been one of the first to become enslaved by Loki and the rest of the Avengers followed
soon after. It had only been by some miracle that Thor had managed to tell her that it was she that Loki wanted as his queen moments before he too
was enslaved and she went into hiding. It wasn't that she didn't want to be queen, what girl in her right mind would not want to be the wife of the
very handsome new king. But she didn't want to be forced into it. She didn't want to become a mindless minion who followed orders to the letter.
She wanted to be loved and cherished by the man she married. She wasn't even sure Loki knew how to love anyone.
Hopping from her old dorm room to her old apartment and back again the past two years had not been easy. She was lucky that there
was an abandoned grocery store nearby that had been easy to break into, though she had loathed to do it. However, she had to eat and
seeing as she had no choice, she had broken in. She only ventured out very late at night so as not to get caught as it was the only time of the day that no one was out looking for her. She was surprised that she had yet to be brought before Loki seeing as her dorm was only blocks from the golden palace.
She heard movement right outside again. She peered through the slats to see all six Avenger's and Jane standing right outside looking up at her building. It seemed to her that their eyes lingered on her window. She had to think and fast! She saw the device in Tony and Jane's hands and knew that it was a heat sensing locator and she didn't have to be told twice that it had located her position. Silently she got up and began the biggest game of hide and seek she had ever played in her life.