He hadn't. Died, that is. Not that I'd actually expected him to, what with him being a god and all that. But I had feared it, and I didn't like it, I didn't fear things. I'd had no reason to really fear things for years now and yet this one man had changed all of that just by simply being near me. That didn't sit well with me, not in the least. As a matter of fact I was pissed, so pissed that I felt like hitting something, hard. But there was nothing I could do about it at that point. Loki had been handed over to other agents, agents with automatic weapons and other stuff that would have scared a normal person. But Loki wasn't normal and somehow I got the feeling that he wouldn't be here unless he wanted to, that if he wanted to those agents and their weapons could disappear into thin air with just a snap of Loki's fingers. As if it really mattered how many men with guns they surrounded him with. The others didn't seem to think the same way I did. Fury seemed okay with putting him in the cell made for Dr. Banner. I however was very afraid that they were underestimating Loki and his abilities. I feared that the mind control he'd performed on Clint and Dr. Selvig and his ability to duplicate himself were only small pieces of the Loki puzzle. There were far worse things to come and the fact that everyone else seemed so oblivious scared me. I'd heard parts of Fury's talk with Loki but it had been hard for me to concentrate on what they were saying, I had this gnawing feeling in the pit of my stomach. Something was about to go terribly wrong. When the screens that showed the footage from Loki's cell shut down I snapped back to reality.

"He really grows on you, doesn't he?" said doctor Banner.

"Loki's gonna drag this out. So, Thor, what's his play?" Rogers was the next one to speak up. All eyes turned towards Thor, who from what I'd gathered was Loki's brother, also an Asgardian god. My books certainly hadn't depicted the god of Thunder like this. I was happily surprised that he didn't have carriage and goats. Maybe he did back in Asgard, who knows?

"He has an army called the Chitauri, they are not of Asgard or any world known. He means to lead them against your people. They will win him the earth. In return, I suspect, for the Tesseract" said Thor. He like Loki spoke like he was from a different time. I guess they kind of were.

"An army? From outer space" said Rogers. This was not good, not good at all. How the hell were we supposed to fight against an army of aliens? I guess we didn't have to worry about that though. I suspected we'd be dead long before we had the chance to even try and fight them.

"So he's building another portal. That's what he needs Erik Selvig for" said doctor Banner. Of course. That made sense. There were few things that made sense about earth being invaded by Asgardians and other creatures from outer space. But kidnapping Selvig, that actually made sense.

"Selvig?" asked Thor.

"He's an astrophysicist" answered Banner as if Thor didn't already know that. Phil had once told me about what happened in new Mexico a couple of years before and from that I gathered that Thor and dr. Selvig had become something like friends.

"He's a friend" Thor replied and that just confirmed what I'd already concluded. Natasha was the next one to speak. "Loki has him under some kind of spell. Along with one of ours" I didn't really like to think about Clint. It felt weird doing all of this without him. Natasha looked about as worried as I felt.

"I wanna know why Loki let us take him. He's not leading an army from here" Rogers said. My eyes shot toward him and he gave me a weird look. Finally someone was thinking along the same lines as I was. It had been too easy for Stark and Rogers to capture Loki, way too easy. Dr. Banner swiftly discarded Steve's worries.

"I don't think we should be focusing on Loki. That guy's brain is a bag full of cats, you could smell crazy on him" What he said made me angry, and that confused me. Why would I be angry that he called Loki crazy? He was freaking crazy.

"Have care how you speak, Loki is beyond reason but he is of Asgard and he is my brother" said Thor, obviously offended by how Banner spoke about Loki. I'd been standing in the corner of the room watching the group as they spoke but I took a step forward as I opened my mouth to speak. "He killed eighty people in two days" I said, matter of factly. No matter my conflicting feelings towards Loki, this was true. Thor looked at me and shrugged slightly.

"He's adopted" he said. I almost laughed at that, literally laughed. He was really blaming this on Loki's true parentage? Whatever that may be. No, I think this had more to do with their father, Odin I believe his name was, at least that what it said in the books I read on Norse mythology.

"I think it's about the mechanics" Banner said, interrupting my thoughts. "Iridium, what did they need the Iridium for?" he asked, as if someone in the room actually had an answer. Thankfully Stark and Phil walked in at that exact moment and I went back to just watching, not paying much attention to what was being said. All I got from what was being said was that Stark was being his usual snarky self. I tried not to think about Loki, but that turned out to be harder than I thought it would be. He was everywhere, in my mind, on the screens, no matter which way I turned there he was looking as gloriously sexy as ever. I was ashamed of myself for even thinking of Loki as being sexy. It was very unprofessional. I snapped out of it when Fury walked in and started talking, all though I only got the last few words of what he was saying.

"Let's start with that stick of his. It may be magical, but it works an awful lot like a Hydra weapon" said Rogers. Yes, Hydra, the other shoe S.H.I.E.L.D was waiting for to drop. It was only a matter of time before they resurfaced. Having read up a lot on what happened with Hydra during World War Two I shuddered at the thought of them ever returning.

"I don't know about that, but it is powered by the cube. And I'd like to know how Loki used it to turn two of the sharpest men I know into his personal flying monkeys" said Fury, dismissing the Hydra comparison that Rogers had made. I realized that Rogers and I were actually pretty likeminded. At least we seemed to be worrying about the same things, the things that everyone else seemed oblivious to.

"Monkeys? I do not understand" said Thor, obviously confused. Of course an Asgardian god wouldn't understand a reference to the Wizard of Oz.

"I do! I understood that reference" said Rogers, proud of himself. I chuckled as Stark and Banner left the room. I walked up to Rogers and smiled.

"Oh Toto, we're not in Kansas anymore" I said and Rogers chuckled lightly. Thor just looked at us like we were crazy. I smiled at him before walking out of the room. I decided I'd go and punch something before I accidentally ended up punching someone.

After I'd finished my punching session and had a quick shower and a change of clothes I went looking for the rest of the team. On my way to the bridge I saw an open door, a door that hadn't been open when I'd passed it just fifteen minutes before. Curious as I was I decided to check it out. Turns out that Captain Rogers was also curious. I saw his red, white and blue suit before I saw his face. I snuck up behind him. I was just about to tap his shoulder when he grabbed me and pushed me up against a wall.

"Captain" I choked. He looked angry, like he was in defense mode. Then his eyes changed and he relaxed his posture, almost like he hadn't realized it was me until that point. He let go of me and took a step back.

"I'm so sorry" he said, taking yet another step back. "Are you all right?" he continued. I nodded, still trying to catch my breath. He looked scared. I held up my hands in a 'I'm fine' sort of way. Once I'd caught my breath he seemed to relax a bit.

"What are you doing in here anyway?"

"Let's just say that Stark peaked my interest" he said. Of course Stark would be the one to make Rogers believe that S.H.I.E.L.D was conspiring against the world. Damn playboy billionaire, one would think he would have realized that meddling in other people's business would only get him hurt.

"We're not Hydra you know" I said. I didn't want the Captain thinking that what happened in the forties was going to happen again. Over my com I heard Natasha saying something about Loki and the Hulk. I started running towards the lab, Rogers behind me. Once inside the lab everyone started arguing about some secret files that Stark had found and a weapon that Rogers had found. According to Fury this was S.H.I.E.L.D's way of protecting themselves from other worldly visitors. I thought this was all ridiculous until Fury said something that caught my attention.

"The world's filling up with people who can't be matched, they can't be controlled" he said. This angered me. But I didn't know what to say or what to do.

"Like you controlled the cube?" asked Rogers. Like he controlled me. Like he is still controlling me. One of Starks gadgets falling to the floor alerted Fury towards me. He gave me one of his look. A look that said 'easy'. Like I was going to let him control me. I should've realized this before. I was only with S.H.I.E.L.D because I was too powerful to be allowed to be anywhere else. Stuff started flying around the room, that's how mad I was, so mad that I had a hard time controlling my powers. I wasn't the only one mad, Thor was fuming as well.

"Your work with the Tesseract is what drew Loki to it, and his allies. It is a signal to all the realms that earth is ready for a higher form of war" he said, or maybe yelled is a more suitable word.

"A higher form?" said Rogers, confused about what Thor had meant.

"You forced our hand, we had to come up with some.." Fury started but Stark interrupted him. "A nuclear deterrent, 'cause that always calms everything right down" he said. He spoke the truth. Creating weapons to fight against people with other weapons never worked out.
"Remind me again how you made your fortune Stark?" replied Fury. Valid point. Stark had made a living out of creating weapons of mass destruction up until pretty recently.

"I'm sure if he still made weapons Stark would be neck deep" said Rogers only to get interrupted by Stark. "Wait, wait. Hold on! How is this now about me?" he said. Interesting question. I realized that this is what Loki wanted. To turn everyone against each other. He was succeeding.

"I'm sorry, isn't everything?" replied Rogers. Okay this was going too far.

"I thought humans were more involved than this" said Thor, he'd been quiet for a while.

"Excuse me, did we come to your planet and blow stuff up?" said Fury, now losing his temper. After that it was like the room exploded into voices. They were all arguing with each other, saying stuff that they didn't really mean. Stuff that they were going to regret saying later. They had to stop, before it was too late.

"Hey" I yelled and some stuff flew around the room. They all turned to look at me.

"Don't you see that this is what he wants?" I said once I'd gotten everyone's attention. They all looked at each other. At that point the computer alerted us to the fact that they had the location of the Tesseract.

There it was. Chapter 3. I hope you guys like it and if you want another chapter please comment because I'm starting to doubt if this story is any good. There are gonna be some filler chapters until I get to where I want but I feel like they're actually needed. I'm thinking of doing something Freya and Captain Rogers but I'm not sure. Should they be friends or something more? I'm not that fond of love triangles myself and I'm pretty sure that ya'll have figured out that something's gonna happen between Freya and Loki. You guys just don't know what yet. What do you think? Freya/Steve or Freya/Loki, and if Freya/Steve then just as friends or as more. Please let me know what you guys think!

xx Michaela