I find myself clenching my fists. "What the Hell do you want?" I try to demand, but my voice shakes.

Thanos walks up to me and runs an ice cold finger under my chin. I take step back, and he laughs. "Oh, Henna," he whispers, "You did realize that the Bubble's sound works both ways, did you not?"

The color drains from my face. "What... what do you mean?"

He leans closer to me and grins evilly. "I mean, the Other and I could here every word you and that pathetic excuse for a god uttered while you watched us. And what you did."

Oh god. "Such as?" I ask, trying to keep my voice steady.

He smirks and walks around me. "I think you know, Henna. Let me put it in a way you will understand: 'the funniest thing of all'."

That's what Loki had said... right before he kissed me that first time.

Damn.

"Oh, is that all?" I pretended to brush it off like it was nothing. But my heart fluttered nervously in my chest. "That's nothing."

"Are you positive?" Thanos raises an eyebrow. "Last time I checked, it was more than nothing."

"I'm sure." I nodded, my eyes stinging from holding back my screams.

He walks around me again, his eyes studdying me, my features, scanning me. "You are a strong girl, Henna. Twenty eight, now, are you not? Not a girl, a woman."

"I don't think 'woman' is quite the word used to describe me," I say.

"Faith," he says, toying with a loose strand of my hair. "You must have more faith in yourself, Henna. If you were not so tied up in your little agency, your alliance would benefit me greatly. But alas, you do not wish for a life of evil." He stops in front of me, and looks me in the eyes. "Oh, it seems I've forgotten: 'what really defines evil, anyway? maybe what {you're} agency is doing is the evil thing, and what {I am} doing is the good'."

My line. He stole my line from my speech.

Crap.

"I was just trying to manipulate SHIELD, to get them on my side," I explained, gritting my teeth.

"Manipulation. A good quality to have if you want to join me."

God.

"I'm not going to join you," I say, narrowing my eyes. "No matter how many cookies you offer."

The knives are in the air before I can control myself, jumping up in the air behind me.

Thanos frowns momentarily, and before he can process what's happening, the knives are flying through the air, and they would have hit him if he hadn't dissapeared and reappeared two feet away.

"That's good to know," he said thoughfully. Then he glared at me. "If you will not join me, suit yourself. I can destroy you as easily as anyone else in your little group."

"Doubtfully," I say.

He vanishes.

When Agent Romanoff unfreezes, she continues speaking, but I don't hear anything she says because I am running as fast as I can.

X

"I'm dead," I anounce, plunking down on the cold metal floor of Loki's cell.

He sits above me on the bench and toys with my hair. "And why is that?"

I tell him everything, and he freezes.

"You resisted," he says, amazed. "Where I could not."

"What do you mean?"

"The Other tried to get me to join him in the same way, Henna."

For some reason, this frustrates me instead of angers me. It frustrates me that I, apparantly, am a good canidate for a villian. It frustrates me that we have no clue when the Other and Thanos will attack.

It frustrates me that I don't know what to do now.

I close my eyes and Loki sits next to me, taking my hand.

"You are brave, you know," he says softly. "To straight out attack him like that."

"I'm stupid," I whisper back. "One false move, and I'm screwed, like you."

He laughs and I lean my head against his shoulder.

Then I punch him in the leg.

"It's not funny," I protest, pursing my lips.

"Yes it is," he says, pressing his lips to mine.

But I pull back.

He looks perplexed.

"Not now," I say softly. "Not... after that."

He nods.

But I still don't fight it when he puts his arm around me and hold me close.

X

"So that's it?" Tony blurts. "The guy tried to recruit you and you blew his ass off?"

"Pretty much," I concluded.

"Wow." He blinks. "La-ame."

I huff. "Well, sorry that I don't want to be the bad guy, then."

"No, not you. The fact that he left after you tried to kill him? Classic weak guy move."

"Maybe not," Clint says. "Maybe he was just trying to show you that he fears you, but he's acting so that we'll underestimate him."

I think about that, sipping my raspberry latte. The three of us are sitting in the helicarrier's hidden coffee shop that JARVIS found. "That's stupid," I scoff.

"Yeah, but we're all pretty much screwed at this point, so why not just go with it?" Tony shrugs.

I consider this. "Yeah, okay."

X

Black sweatpants.

Cher Lloyd T-shirt.

Combat boots.

My hair in a braid.

I take myself in.

It's been a few days sense Thanos tried to rape me. I feel surprisingly better, though.

And-

BAM!

"Henna!"

A shout.

My earpiece crackles to life. "New York-"

My door flies open, and Natasha pokes her red head in. "Henna! Thanos and the Other... in New York City..." She gasps as I push past her and bolt down the hall, winding up in Loki's cell.

He glances up as I enter, eyes shocked. I guess I look pretty crappy and flustered. But i ignore him and open the door as fast as possible.

"Thanos and the Other..." The words are barely out of my mouth before he is by my side.

He takes my hand and presses his lips gently to the top of my head and we run down the hallway, hand in hand, to meet the rest of my team in an escape jet.

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