"Do you have any idea what you've just stepped into, Miss Mynx?" Nick Fury stood in front of a metal table that Orthani was sitting behind, her hands still tied behind her back.

She remained silent, refusing to speak to him, though she did throw him a nasty look.

"You've just landed yourself on S.H.I.E.L.D's radar, and let me tell you, you might not be too happy that you got yourself on our bad side," he leaned up against the table. "What were you doing on our base?"

"What's it to you?" she snapped at him.

"You just trespassed on top secret government property. Unless you want to find yourself locked up for the next twenty years of your life, I suggest you start talking if you want to cut yourself a deal," he said flatly.

"And what does that deal entail? Being a slave to your dirty work?" she scowled at him.

"If that's how you want to look at it," he shrugged, taking a seat in the chair on the opposite side of her. "Look. It's either you tell us what you were up to and become a partner here at S.H.I.E.L.D, or you get thrown in a federal prison. It's your choice here." His eyes were more than sincere, in the harsh 'Nick Fury' kind of way. "But let me tell you this. If you choose the latter, you will wake up every day in a dirty cell, with hardly enough food and water for you to live off of. I will make sure that everyone in that place thinks you were a snitch and a fool, and I will make your life a living hell. Do I make myself clear?"

She stared him down. "So you are basically giving me no choice?"

"Hey, we have an outstanding task force here at S.H.I.E.L.D. You earned a spot when you took down 5 guards single handedly." He was practically throwing a sales pitch to her. "Sure, you aren't as well trained as our elite, but they're also the freaks we call heroes."

"And let me guess, they were all once sitting in the same chair I'm in?"

He gave a sideways smirk. "Actually no. Most of them came to us," he kicked back in his chair. "Well. One or two. Either way, it's still a better seat than you're sitting in right now," he chuckled. "Now, why don't you tell me what you know about our project you so rudely interrupted?"

She sneered at him. "I don't know anything about it besides it's a giant glowing cube of energy," she rolled her eyes.

"Well that's a start."

"I don't feel like going to prison. So kill me," she said sarcastically.

"How'd you get it to open?" Nick crossed his arms over his chest.

"I have no idea what you're talking about."

"Sure you do. You were the only one there. Who could've opened that thing up if it wasn't you," he said condescendingly.

What? I wasn't the only one there…

She gave him a confused look. "I was the only one there? You didn't see anyone else with me?"

Nick shook his head. "You were the only one. Security footage backs it up," he exhaled.

What?

"I don't know. It opened itself," she said, smartly deciding that she'd rather not sound like she was crazy claiming that she had an Asgardian God with her when she broke in. They'd probably assume she was lying and wouldn't give her a bargain out of jail time.

"So you just walk into the room and it just decides to open itself," he said apathetically. "What, don't tell me you've got powers too. You some sort of magician?"

She hid a smirk. "I'm 100 percent human. I'm not going to be some addition to your little freak show you've got going on, Fury."

He chuckled. "You'd better hope your blood tests say that, and two, you aren't good enough to even be considered for a spot in what you called my 'freak show.'"

She shrugged. Good. I don't want anything to do with it.

"You've got anything else to say? Cause right now, I'm not convinced enough to hand you a get out of jail free card." He tapped his fingers against the table rhythmically. "You mean to tell me you didn't know that thing was a portal to another realm? And yet you waltzed into that room and it magically opened for you?"

She nodded. "Interesting you know about other realms in this universe. How'd you figure that one out, a book?" she taunted.

"We had an encounter with Thor, the god of Thunder a couple months back," he said rather proudly. "We've since then realized that we aren't alone in this world. Now how about you? You seem unfazed by this."

She gave a coy smile. "I know some people."

He stared her down intently. "I'll send Agent Coulson in within the hour with a consent form saying that you will become a part of the S.H.I.E.L.D agency in exchange of your freedom," he said as he got up from his seat. "Though I should warn you, if you so much as cross us or disobey our orders, we have the power to nullify that contract and send you to prison so fast, you won't even have time to get your act straight," he mused.

"So that's it then? I sign my life over to you like it's no big deal and I get to jump right into the operations?" she asked, slightly amused by the lack of protocol.

"Oh no. It isn't that easy. You've got about 6 months of rehab and specialty training. You might not be Avenger material, but you will be one hell of a special ops combat agent by the time they're done with you," he said as he walked out the door.

Oh good. I've always wanted to learn how to parkour.

Loki made contact with the ground, once again becoming familiar with the aches and pains of a hard landing. He groaned and stood up slowly, blinking quickly to regain his vision.

He felt himself being snatched off the ground, and his reflexes kicked in. He put an ice dagger into the chest of whatever was holding him off the ground. Whatever it was screeched in pain as it dropped him, and he scrambled to get to his feet. He looked around him to see that he was quite literally surrounded by these…things. He couldn't even describe them.

He summoned another one of his icy daggers to his hands. "Unless you plan on seeing your untimely deaths here today, I demand you take me to that you call your leader," he held it out towards his opponents. The other one he had just stabbed screamed in pain once more. "DO IT! Unless you wish to join him!"

These strange beasts looked at each other, then turned back to him before easily knocking him to the ground with one swipe of their limbs. He was instantly knocked out, and they dragged him towards whom they called leader.

Orthani was left in that interrogation room for what seemed like ages to her. They still had her hands bound behind her and she was already starting to feel her fingers go numb with the lack of proper blood flow to them.

She exhaled a low growl and put her head down on the cool metal table to shut her eyes. She couldn't believe she had just sold her soul to the devil known as S.H.I.E.L.D just to avoid ending up in the place both her parents had ended up.

Wherever that bastard ended up in, I hope he rots there, she thought to herself. She didn't care what his reasons were behind it, all she cared about was the fact that he hadn't even told her his plan. If he was planning on leaving her behind, he couldn't even had bothered to tell her? She might've not been put in this situation if he had the decency to inform her beforehand.

And they had kissed. He knew more than enough that she had agreed to continue on with him because she realized she actually had feelings for the man. Yet, he still managed to deceive her and abandon her in the worst place imaginable in her eyes. So what, did that kiss mean absolutely nothing? Was it a ploy to get her to continue helping him until he didn't need her anymore? Was that what this was? Ditching her last second because she was absolutely useless to him now?

She growled and kicked the table leg in frustration. Maybe he never cared. Maybe this was all just a scam so that he could use her to get to what he was looking for quicker than if he was on his own. It was sure turning out to look that way. He had been so protective at some points though. He sent her off for food, knowing she would have died of starvation if she hadn't. What of that kiss? That connection was something not even a God could fake. It couldn't have been something that was just made up in her imagination. She couldn't be absolutely sure of what his intentions were, and she had a feeling she was about to be driven insane trying to find out for herself.

"You're a lucky woman, Orthani Mynx," she heard the voice of Agent Coulson say as the door to the interrogation room opened.

Yeah. Lucky is definitely what it's called.

"Nick isn't really known for letting little fallouts like this slip through so easily," he continued, closing the door and taking a seat where Director Fury once sat. He had a manila folder in his hands full with at least 10 pages of paper all stapled in a bundle. "Can someone cut her lose please so she can sign these?" he called out to the agents hiding behind a one way mirror.

She kept her head down as she heard the door open and heard footsteps approach her. She felt the binds release and then heard the person that had freed her exit the room and lock the door.

She violently stood up, the chair she was sitting in flying back and hitting the wall from the force. She towered over him and glared at him, a furious face adorning her features. She could tell that the agents outside had frozen in anticipation, waiting for her to make one more move towards him so that they could storm in and make her stand down. Nick was watching her as well, noting that she would be the type to retaliate the moment she was set free if he didn't watch his moves.

It was like everyone, including the room itself, was holding their breath and completely frozen in time. Even the air was still.

"Sit down, please." Agent Coulson said calmly, not even so much as flinching at her sudden menacing attempt to scare him.

She didn't move at first. She just glared at him with a pure hatred that even Loki would've been afraid of had she ever given him such a look. Agent Coulson didn't flinch, nor was he fazed by her. She couldn't win here. She might've been able to scare everyone else with intimidation, but here, everyone was unaffected by it. She couldn't win.

She forcibly grabbed the chair that she had just about flipped in her violent stand and shoved it towards the table. She angrily sat down and scooted the chair up to the table.

"Thank you. Now, I'll need you to sign here, and this just states that…" Agent Coulson began to explain what the entire agreement said, going over important details and deals that would be prudent for her to follow. He rattled on and on, pointing out places for her to initial and sign while explaining what each thing was for.

Since she had no other option, she began signing away. Once they had gone through the entire thing, Agent Coulson stood up from his chair and two men unlocked and walked into the room to take her to processing where she would practically be stripped from her current attire and put into a more S.H.I.E.L.D like attire. Agent Coulson escorted her there as well.

"I'd better be able to choose what I get to work in," she growled, no longer trying to fight her unavoidable fate.

"Eh, maybe after your boot camp rehab. For now, you're wearing S.H.I.E.L.D uniforms until you get your act together," he said with a straight face as the two guards led her into the more grim side of the facility. It was like a holding bay where they were already storing all of her daggers and such they had confiscated off of her when they caught her, as well as everything they had found in the SUV that was left at the scene. They would hold all of that there whilst she was transported to their own special training facility, where they would improve her already impressive fighting skills to fit what they wanted her to become. They would also hold her there until she became their cooperative ally without any symptoms she would resist their command.

She was theirs now. She had to learn it.

"What dares enter these parts of our rule?" a dark, gruffly low voice boomed in his own tongue, which echoed throughout the main center of the ship as the creatures that had captured Loki walked to their master. They practically threw him down at his feet, not even bothering to be careful.

"I am Loki, of Asgard," Loki spoke, hauling himself off the ground and standing up as if his dignity still lived in this situation. "And I have come to make to you an offer which you cannot refuse."

Thanos gave him an apathetic look and then turned to the one who stood by his side. "Have you heard what this fool has spoken? He wishes to make an offer," Thanos again spoke in his own tongue, laughing at the petty Asgardian God standing before him. "Tell me, Loki of Asgard," he this time spoke in the language which his proposer was, "what has brought you to such a dark realm so far away from your home." His words were thick, menacing, and dripping with the urge to simply kill this trespasser on the spot. He was dressed up in full armor, not of their realm at all, and to approach them with such disrespect was a dangerous move.

"I have found something that I believe belongs to you," Loki smiled, not even phased by the one who stood before him. "In fact, this is how I landed on such a desolate place. Something the human race has claimed as their own," he spoke to intrigue them; hook them into a binding contract they couldn't resist.

This was a time he absolutely adored his silver tongue abilities. He could sweet talk even the meanest of enemies into being his ally.

"What is this you speak of," Thanos' voice dropped its humor.

"Ah, what was it they called it. Tesseract?" He played his cards close to his chest, yet he decided he was to come off as such a sly persona that they wouldn't catch on to his overall plan. "They have your relic."

"Silence!" Thanos boomed, causing the one who sat beside him to flinch.

"As you wish. I came here with the intent to help you see to its return, however, should you resent me, I shall leave immediately," he swiftly turned to head out the exit.

"Halt."

Loki smirked as he stopped walking.

"What is it you seek, Loki of Asgard."

He turned back around to face Thanos with a wide, deceptive smile on his face.

"An army." His smile fell to a sneer. "I plan to conquer this so called Earth and proclaim myself their King, though I cannot do so without an army." He slowly started walking back to where he originally stood. "As you can see, I have been cast out by my own people. I have no army, however, shall you grant me this, I shall return to you your precious relic to its rightful place."

Thanos eyed him carefully. "You have no knowledge of the power of which the Tesseract holds," he growled, staring him down like a pack of wolves.

"Then let me learn," Loki replied without hesitation. "Teach me of its power if so is required to give me command over your…kind." He turned and eyed the strange looking creatures that had dragged him in.

"You make quite the offer for someone who has walked in defenseless." Thanos narrowed his eyes and studied the Asgardian God. Something behind Loki clicked in its own language as to defy the master's statement, and Thanos' eyes darted to the source. "Sorcery, you say?" His eyes landed back on Loki.

Loki let out a smirk. Kill one, they shall fear you from that moment on, he mentally triumphed.

"Let me lead you into war against these foolish people, and I will return to you the Tesseract," he put his hands behind his back and puffed out his chest proudly.

"In exchange for your rule over these you call humans?" Thanos stated warily.

Loki nodded. "Such a simple transaction really."

He was still being studied by Thanos, who wasn't really going for the idea. "Your eyes deceive you, Loki of Asgard."

Loki didn't even flinch at the accusation. "Why would I try and deceive you? Here I stand before you without a single weapon drawn, without any warrior at my side to assist me. If I was a fool enough to attempt to deceive you, I would have done so not alone," he lied as if he had been lying his whole life. "I cannot best an entire race such as yours alone, even being the extraordinary sorcerer I am. It is a fool's mistake to walk into such territory as yours with the intent to deceive."

Thanos watched him, still rather wary about this stranger walking into these chambers and speaking of a bargain that would return such a powerful object to their possession. "We shall see of where your allegiances lie, Loki of Asgard," he stated as a final judgment. "Shall you receive the knowledge of the Tesseract and fail-"

"I never fail."

He was thrown across the room by one of the horns on his helmet.

"Shall you fail, you will be punished for your treason," Thanos glowered over him after tossing him aside for interrupting him. "For now, you must learn of the Tesseract and its unyielding power. Should you not abandon your bargain and proceed to lead us to war, we shall then see who is deceptive."

Loki remained quiet this time, but he never did wipe the smirk off his face. "So is it an agreement, then?" he asked, getting somewhat cocky when he knew Thanos was through speaking.

He was eyed suspiciously. "For now." With that, Thanos turned quickly to return to his seat. "Chitauri!" he began speaking in his native tongue. "You shall obey the one who has been delivered to us today, for he claims he shall restore the Tesseract to its true home. For he shall in time be known as…your master!" he delivered the speech with a finesse that made the strange creatures chatter in agreement.

Loki smiled, overly proud that his plan was working flawlessly.

"Other!" Thanos snapped, quieting the room with a single roar. "You are in command here. Watch him. Make sure he doesn't attempt to cross us," he growled, returning to his throne before being enveloped by the bowels of the ship that served as his safe haven.

A/N: Thank you so much for all the lovely replies! I can never thank you all enough! As always, don't be a stranger! =) Forgive me if I sound ignorant in the overall comic book lore that is known as Avengers. It's been forever and a half since I've read them and I can no longer get my hands on them . So I'm doing this off of memory.

To Alittleteapot:Shhhh! Spoilers! xD And of course, I have to sort of follow the already concrete plotline of the Avengers movie, so you were right about the Thanos bit. Though when it comes to Loki and Orthani's relationship in general, you're sort kinda way off. x) But shhhh, don't spoil it! It'll be worth it, I swear.