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Chapter Eleven

Things didn't go too well in the days following Gwen's disappearance. Nobody found a trace of her, though it felt to Tony like he and Bruce were the only ones looking for her along with the tesseract. He wondered if Fury was thinking she defected and went willingly with Loki. It was preposterous, but Tony didn't put it past Fury to think that way.

The members of the Avengers were, of course, grim during these days. Most of the time Steve was in the gym probably beating up punching bags because he felt so guilty. This slightly annoyed Tony as he thought Steve would be the one pushing Fury and all the others to do a better job searching. Instead he was rather quiet. And everyone left him alone.

Some people came up with theories of what happened. Tony and Bruce, of course, kept quiet, even though they were pretty sure what was going on. Thor even suggested that Loki took Gwen to Asgard. This didn't go over well with Steve whose face drained of color and he looked as though he could throw up.

Tony actually started spending most of his time on the helicarrier. It was after pushing from Pepper, who was very concerned about Gwen, that made him stay there. He figured, along with Bruce, that wherever the tesseract was, Gwen would be. But they couldn't even find a trace of it. It could've even been on the helicarrier and they wouldn't know.

Tony was getting frustrated.

Most of his frustration was not actually towards Fury, but towards Steve.

He thought the soldier should be doing something to help instead of moping around. And so Tony decided it was time to have a talk. And he knew exactly what he was going to say.

Tony found his way to the gym, while holding a glass of some sort of alcoholic drink, where Steve was using a punching bag. The genius walked inside, unnoticed by Steve.

"Y'know," said Tony to alert his presence, "from the angry hits you're giving that thing, you might want to consider therapy."

Steve turned to shoot a glare at Tony. "What d'you want?"

"What do I want? I want to get Gwenie back."

"Yeah, well join the club."

Steve threw another punch at the bag.

"Did she tell you why she lets you call her Gwen?" asked Tony.

Steve froze and then looked over again, this time without a glare.

"No," he answered simply.

He watched as Tony walked over to a chair that was randomly sitting in the gym and sat down.

"She'll kill me if I tell you this, but she doesn't need to know," began Tony and then took a sip of his drink. "Gwendolyn started working for me the moment she got out of college. She grew up in Jacksonville, Florida, and was the best computer programmer I had ever seen, except when I look in a mirror of course. She moved once I hired her. Two years later, she got a call from her mother. Gwendolyn's father was diagnosed with Alzheimer's."

Steve looked down at the floor and Tony assumed he knew what it was.

"She was going to wait a while before flying back to Florida, but her father was getting worse very fast. And so I paid for her to go just so she would. Her father died one month after she got there. She stayed for a while to be with her mother until she was emotionally stable. Then she came back, but she didn't do very well with her work. She was angry that her father had died. And her headaches got worse. So about five months after he died, her mother called. She had breast cancer. Apparently it was really bad. Her mother supposedly was fed up with doctors and hospitals after a long history of bad luck with them and refused to go in. Her mother was given four weeks to live. I paid for Gwendolyn to go back again. Her mother died three weeks later."

Tony was silent for a moment while he let Steve digest all of this new information.

"Now, when her father was at his worst, he couldn't remember who anyone was. No one. But be could remember his little Gwen. He always called her that because he thought Gwendolyn was a mouth-full. So when she got back she told everyone to never call her Gwen ever again. She said it hurt to much and maybe, just maybe, she'd get over it."

"So what are you getting at?" asked Steve.

"What I'm saying is that she must really like you for her to let you call her Gwen. And right now, Loki has his dirty little god hands on her."

Steve didn't respond.

"And to find her," continued Tony suppressing an eye roll, "we need a plan. And to have a plan, we need a Captain."

Steve looked up at this as he finally understood what Tony was saying.

"So what are we waiting for then?" asked Steve as he unhooked the punching bag. "Let's go find Gwen."

Tony had gone back to the labs while Steve cleaned up as quickly as he could. Tony had a large smile on his face, happy that he was successful. Steve had the reaction Tony had wanted.

Bruce was sliding his fingers along a monitor when Tony approached him.

"Guess what I did," the genius said playfully.

"I'm not sure I want to know," answered the doctor. He looked down a clipboard and scribbled something down.

"I told Rogers about Gweneth's parents."

Bruce turned to look at him with an expression that read, "Are you insane?"

"Don't worry," said Tony, putting his hands in the air as if he thought Bruce was going to turn mean and green. "It had to be done."

"Gwendolyn's going to kill you," Bruce said with a sigh.

"I had to do it. Someone had to say something to the old man."

"But why her parents?"

Tony sighed this time. "He needed the push."

It wasn't long before the lab door opened again revealing Steve, suited up in his patriotic tights.

"Suit up," he told the duo, confidence radiating off of him. "We're leaving."

And with a nod, they headed off.

It had been far too easy. But Loki didn't mind. It made his life easier in fact.

But Loki could not wipe away the smirk he wore on his face. It had been so simple to get Gwen away from the soldier. And now he had her. And best of all, she was under his control.

He had made sure that she would be seen by sending her to an area of the warehouse that was visible by the sky. He knew that if SHIELD saw him, they would take a short amount of time to get to him, but if they saw Gwen, it would be even shorter.

Loki had no way of knowing what their plan would be, but Gwen seemed to have an idea.

"Gwendolyn!"

The blonde approached him as he sat at his little table, simply admiring the tesseract. Her arms were at her sides. Her eyes were no longer green, but entirely made of the color white. There was nothing else but the creamy color.

"Yes, Master Loki?" she asked in a monotone.

"Have you finished with the traps?" he asked.

"No," she answered. "I am perfecting them."

Loki's smile grew wider. "Excellent work, Gwendolyn."

"Thank you, Master Loki."

Loki watched as Gwen turned around and walked out of the room. According to her, she knew their weaknesses. She said that she could make traps for the Avengers for when they came. And Loki assumed they would be coming. Unfortunately for them, they weren't going to be leaving. If everything went as planned, and Loki had no doubt it would, he would have Gwen and the super soldier and all of the other Avengers would be dead. They would all begin rotting under the remains of the warehouse while Loki laughed at their will to fight for a mere girl. And so Loki got up out of his chair and disappeared to where he would be meeting Gwen that night and began to wait.

"Sir!"

Nick Fury turned towards the source of the shout where a man had stood up from his computer.

"What?" asked the tall man dressed in black.

"We've got a hit on Agent Gwendolyn Powers," answered the agent quickly.

Fury quickly strode over to the monitor to see. The picture was grainy and it was hard to make out what he was looking at exactly, but there was no denying that it was Gwen he was looking at. She was inside a warehouse, the same warehouse that they had seen Loki leave from several days prior.

Why hadn't they thought of that?

"Call in the others," ordered Fury. "We need to make sure that the tesseract and Loki are there as well."

"But what about Gwendolyn?" asked Agent Hill worriedly.

"Well, she doesn't look too unhappy to be there, does she?"

Several other agents leaned around their monitors to look at the picture of Gwen. To all of their suprise, she was smiling. And it wasn't a friendly smile either.

"Director Fury," said Agent Hill slowly, "you don't think she's working for Loki, do you?"

"If she is, she isn't doing it knowingly."

However, it was not Fury that answered. All those in the command center were now accompanied by Tony, Bruce, Natasha, Clint, Thor, and Steve. It had been Steve who spoke.

And they were already suited up.

"Did I tell you to suit up?" asked Fury who was clearly feeling furious.

"No, sir," answered Steve. "But we're going to get Gwen."

"Negative, Captain." Fury was feeling irritated now. He did not need Steve to let his feelings for the girl get in the way.

"Well, it doesn't really matter because we're gonna go anyway," said Tony with a smirk on his face.

"Listen, we have to make sure it's safe-"

"We can't wait any longer, sir," argued Steve. "We're going no matter what you say."

Fury shook his head. "If you go, you are expected to come back with the tesseract."

"We can't promise that," replied Tony. "We're going for Gwen. She's our priority."

"The tesseract-"

"-will come to us in time," finished Thor. "Loki is using Lady Gwendolyn for something we are unaware of. If we can get her back, we may be able to find out what exactly that is."

Fury could see there was no more point in arguing. There was no stopping these people. So the man sighed.

"Just don't get yourselves killed."

They all nodded to him and left the command center to reach an aircraft.

"She better be worth it," Fury mumbled to himself as he went back to his postition in the center.