I've decided to base the first part off of an Aesop the Lion and the Mouse. If you don't know the story go look it up, or just pay attention and I will post little excerpts from the story at the begining of the chapter. Any who... New chapter! Enjoy! leave me a review, correct my spelling/grammar, favorite follow all are greatly appreciated!


Part One: The Mouse and The Lion

Chapter One


"Once in a dense jungle far far away there lived a mighty lion whom all the other creatures used to fear very much..."

It was dark in her cell, and very, very, cold. Pulling her coat tighter around her she sat up nervously glancing around her cell. The room was made of a dark stone, with what looked like a gently glowing orange force field taking up one wall. There was a cot beneath her that couldn't have been much softer than the floor, it took up the entire length of the back wall. Looking up, she could see that the ceiling was low, in fact, she estimated that if she were to jump her head would easily hot the ceiling. The only other thing in the room was a bowl of water next to the bed.

"You are not Jane foster."

The voice came from a figure in the shadows How long has he been here? She wondered wildly. She couldn't see him fully, he was draped in the shadows, but he was definatly there.

"Who are you?" He demanded a chill ran up her spine you could freeze hell with that voice.

"Who are you?" Darcy challenged but assoon as the word left her mouth she regretted them. Hostage 101 Darce, don't piss off the dude who has you caged.

"You are in no position to ask any questions silly girl." He said. "Now answer me."

" I don't talk to strangers." She said stubbornly crossing her arms. Oh god, I need to shut up.

"l can always kill you if you do not wish to be cooperative."

"No!" She said hastily. "I mean, you don't want to do that."

He gave a bored sigh. "And why not?"

"Because," Darcy said the gears in herhead turning wildly. " I'm important, people will be looking for me right now, and they will come and find you."

"Not if they do not know where you are." He mused. "So tell me why you are so important. You are not Thor's lover, you are not an avenger, you are not- Well, anything really, just...unimportant."

"Look dude, I don't know who you think you are, but this is America, you can't just swoop in and abduct people and all that bull shit."

Keep him talking, if he is talking he can't kill me right?

"I know the avengers." Well, two of them at least. "I know Thor, and less than a month ago I helped save the world from a bunch of angry elves, so I'm kinda a big deal."

He shook his head. "You are a dreadful lier."

He stepped into the soft glow of light emanating from her cell so that she could see his face. It took her a moment to recognize him, as they had never met in person, and she had only seen his face in pictures or on news clips. It was Loki, she was sure.

"No, you're dead, Jane saw you die."

"Well I'm obviously not dead." He sounded bored. " I will ask you once more, and if you continue to be uncooperative then I will kill you, who are you?"

She hesitated "I'm Darcy." She said finally. "Darcy Lewis."

He rolled his eyes impatiently " Darcy Lewis?" He repeated. "Have you any importance at all on midguard? What is your relation to Thor?"

Darcy hesitated, it was no secret that the two brothers had some sort of beef, but they had made amends right? Still, she wasn't sure what all to tell him, but he was right, she was a horrible lier.

"I met Thor when he came to earth," she said carefully, "before he had his cape and lightning."

He didn't say anything, but waited for her to continue.

"After the thing in new mexico and the elves I kinda work for sheild now I guess." She offered shrugging her shoulders.

"You guess?" He repeated mockingly disdain coating his voice. "You are completely useless arn't you?" He started pacing like a caged cat. "At least that Jane woman was clever, you" he made a gesture to indicate her as a whole and contorted his face into a look of disgust. You are just pathetic."

"I'm pathetic?" Darcy managed an indignant laugh. "At least I didn't throw a tantrum and decide to destroy an entire world."

"I didn't destroy anything."

"Tell that to New York and a small town in New Mexico. You litteraly sent a thing called a Destroyer and Alien army. All because you have some sort of beef with your brother."

"You are just a foolish midguardian I wouldn't expect you to understand."

"You're right I don't understand. Please explain what justifies you killing people? We all have problems dude, you can go bat-shit every time somthing doesn't go your way" she hadn't realized she was so angry with him. she had never even been to New York, but she was mad that the city was in shambles, she was pissed that her favorite diner (the one with the best milkshakes ever) had been destroyed, and she hated him for putting his brother through this. She would have killed for a big brother like Thor growing up. Thor was a ready bear. How did he end up so nice and his brother become such a dick?

He was begining to look extremly pissed off and just when she thought he was going to snap, his face suddenly straitened, his anger instantly disapating.

"Give me one good reason why I shouldn't just kill you" His voice held no malice, and for some reason that scared her more than if he had yelled at her.

"No need to answer now, to show you what a generous captor I am, I will give you until tomorrow morning to come up with an answer."