"Well the good thing is, no one died or got hurt..." Tony stated, looking around the members of The Avengers (Plus the add ons that no one seemed to worry about any more). "Apart from Grace, but that doesn't count..." He smirked as Grace flipped him off and self consciously touched the bandaged on her head.

"That doesn't mean a thing!" Fury snapped, pacing back and forth at the head of the table. "The Morrigan is still out there, and we have no idea how to capture her!"

"Give her what she wants..." Callie said meekly, shifting in her seat and flinching as it pressed on the burn that still adorned her back. Loki had healed the more dangerous wounds and the wounds that would be seen by others, but he had left the burn as a reminder to her.

"You want us to start a new war?" Fury snapped, glaring at his daughter like she had become deranged.

"No, a fake war." Callie said. "Fake town, fake battle, fake injuries... She'll be drawn to it like a moth to the flame. And then when she starts to sway the battle, we have her."

Before Fury could comment, Maria barged through the door, panting and shaking in what could only be described as fear. "She's just wiped out Chicago." She managed to pant, before falling to the ground as her legs gave way to the shock. "I-Its all gone!"

"That's Bruce's home city!" Callie said, but before anyone could stand up there was a roar and the building shook as Hulk escaped in to the wilderness that backed the property. With a sigh the others sat down, apart from Grace, who with a nod from Fury left the room quietly.

"Someone needs to take him clothes, and she's the best tracker we have..." Fury explained, making Tony laugh out loud.

"Yes, because tracking a giant, pissed off green monster is so fucking hard!" Tony muttered, shutting up as Fury glared at him. He instantly swapped from his normal attitude to a more gentler one as he walked over and helped Maria up, sitting her in the seat and handing her a glass of water.

"I don't know what to do..." Fury said, sitting down in the seat and letting the news sink in. "She's so unpredictable, there is no pattern in her destruction, there's nothing! Not even a trace to..." He paused, frowning as his mind flew in to over time. "Tony, I need you to design me the smallest and most high definition camera you can. Natasha, I need you to infiltrate the bird sanctuary and get a crow for us. Keep the killing down to three please."

The others stared at him weirdly before Callie finally clicked on to what he was doing, smiling at her father, who turned and ignored her. "He's going to send a crow to the flock of Morrigan's crows, the camera will show where they are heading." She explained to the others, her eyes shining in excitement.

"Sure thing..." Tony said, slightly bored at the thought of only having to build a camera. "Loki, join me in the lab." He commented as he walked out the door, leaving the others to wonder what was going on as Loki followed him out.


"She has a chip in her head." Tony said as Loki walked in to the lab and shut the door. Bringing up the information on the screen he showed it to the god. "Three months, it took them three months of constant brain surgeries to get it implanted, but it is there." He brought up a scan of Callie's mind and enlarged it, showing Loki the small circular object amongst the brain mass.

"What does it do?" Loki asked, glaring at the screen as his hands clenched in to fists, green mist rolling from them in his anger.

"Collects constant data from her brain waves." Tony said, moving to another screen and pressing some buttons. "Apparently it's been constantly monitoring her since it was implanted, the side effects included seizures that was treated with medication as well as random fainting spells but they wore off after a couple of weeks. They gave her amnesia pills so she wouldn't remember and used alien technology to seal up the wound without a scar."

"W-w-who authorised this!"

"Nick Fury, Director Of S.H.I.E.L.D. Father of subject 124."

"They've done this to others?"

"Callie is the only one who has survived it..." Tony said, looking up even more information. "Loki... They don't know how long the metal chip in her brain will last before it kills her." He turned to the god, watching as the emotions crossed the older mans face, everything from complete and utter anger to terror, before his face went back to its passive expression.

"Thank you, Stark." He said, his voice cold and without emotion. He walked from the lab quietly, leaving Tony to wonder what the hell he was going to do.


The door opening and slamming pulled Nick out of his thought patterns, folders and sheets of paper littered the desk as he tried his hardest to find any small chance that this plan would work. The only plan they had and he himself was not even sure that it was the right one, but he had to go on gut instinct and follow through.

It was at these times he wished Phil was still alive to help him out, but when he looked up his eyes fell on the very being who had killed his friend.

"What can I do for you, Loki?" Nick asked, putting his hands on his desk and leaning back in his chair. "Though please excuse me if I do not offer you a chair, I do not want you to occupy to much of my time."

"I thought Odin was bad, oh I cursed him wondering what kind of a man could do what he did..." Loki said, advancing towards the desk and laying the scan of Callie's head on the desk, watching as the director flinched. "But then I met you, and believe me Director, you have blown Odin's bad decisions out of the water! A chip, a metal chip inserted in to your daughters brain, constant data record for your own special child... Yet being the only one who survived, you do not know how long she has to live, do you? You keep her close to you not because you want to, but because you need to. Why? Tell me why any father would do this to his child?"

"It had to be done, her powers were growing greater, she had killed a man by her entering his brain and causing it to explode." Nick said, not looking at the scan that sat on his desk. "We thought if we could track her brain activity we could predict when it got in to a zone where she would kill again..."

"And did it?"

"No, it didn't. Her brain functions just like a normal humans, with only a small fluctuation when she speaks to you with her mind."

"Then why not remove it?"

"I can't. To remove it will kill her, to leave it in will kill her."

"YET YOU STILL DID IT?"

"I needed to understand! I wanted to know how this happened!" Nick said, standing up and staring at the god. "I needed answers that I did not find! And now I watch her each day as I see her brain activity get weaker and stronger every now and then, I watch as she loves and starts a family. God damn it I watch her knowing I will bury her soon!"

"The reason you were so happy to end Callie's life to save this planet was because she already had a death sentence." Loki said, fear filling him. "And now so do I!"

"Loki please, we will find a way to fix this!"

"When I capture The Morrigan, the destruction of this world will not end." Loki snarled, walking to the door before turning to stare at Nick. "Because I will watch this world burn, and you will know that it was completely and utterly your own fault!"

Nick watched as Loki left the room, the door slamming behind him.


Ok guys, just a reminder, there is now a sister story to this one up called Just Relax! It is the same story line and time line but focussing on Grace and Bruce. Of course you don't need to read it, but there will be times in this story were something is referenced from Just Relax! But don't worry because you'll be able to guess what happened anyway just from the context.

But if you feel like it check it out and drop me a review on what you think. :D