Chapter 2

I whirl facing Rogers with vicious sneer, "We are notsoldiers."

Rogers straightens like a true soldier almost just to spite me. I look away.

"I'm not marching to Fury's fife," I explain.

He shakes his head, "Neither am I, he's got as much blood on his hands the Loki does. But right now we got to put this behind us and get this done. Now Loki needs a power source, if we can make up a list…"

"He made it personal," I cut in as I look down at the blood left from Coulson's wound.

Rogers gives me an exasperated look, "That's not the point."

"That is the point," I insist, "that's Loki's point. He hit us all right where we live, why?"

"To tear us apart," he says as he begins to catch on.

"Yeah, divide and conquer is…great, but, he knows he has to take us out to beat us, right, that's what he wants. He wants to beat us, he wants to be seen doing it," I pause as I recall Stuttgart, "he wants an audience."

Rogers points out what I had been thinking already, "Right, I caught his act in Stuttgart."

"Right," I say, "that's just previews, this is opening night and Loki, he's a full-scale diva. He wants flowers, he wants parades, he wants a monument built to the sky with his name plastered…" I pause as realization dawns on me.

Rogers raises his eyebrows in question.

"Son of a bitch," I hiss. I walk back the way Rogers had come.

"Wait, where are you going?" he asks.

I turn back to him, "He's using the Arc Reactor at Stark Tower to power the Tesseract, do you know what that means now?"

He sighs heavily under his breath and puts on his 'Captain America-I-am-the-leader-here-don't-fuck-with-me' face.

"I'll assemble the team, do you want to get a head start?" he asks.

I raise one eyebrow. Is he actually being nice to me? "Yeah, sure. Meet you there."

He nods and turn to leave again, but he stops me one last time.

"Hey, Tony?"

"Hmm?" I ask.

He looks at me with a serious expression, "Be careful."

Now, what does that mean?

Author's Note

I know this is short and I know I was gonna only do a two-shot, but I want to go a little more. Maybe 1 or 2 more chapters! So always, REVIEW FOR ME!

-NeedanEscape18