Chapter Ten to make up for how late these are!
Disclaimer: You really think I own avengers? Just Thora. Period.

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Chapter 10

Loki

Loki panicked as he watched Thora's head slam into the control console, and her body became limp on the ground. He watched anxiously as she lay there like a doll, not a movement coming from her. Then he saw her begin to breath. He looked up as he heard the commotion, and then smiled. Time to get out of here.

So he opened the door, and left a clone in the cage as he walked towards the unconscious woman on the ground. She looked so vulnerable…

"You could kill her now," that voice whispered.

Loki shook his head. He would not kill her. She was too… unique. So he simply stood and left her there. If she awoke and escaped before the flying fortress fell from the sky, she deserved to live.

A quick teleportation got him his scepter from the lab. He picked up the scepter, feeling the power of scepter filling his body, and his green eyes became encircled with blue, then the blue seemed to invade the emerald of his irises, and he felt as if he could purr in the pleasure the power gave him. Now he would show Fury that he was not a force to be trifled with. Starting with the plummeting of his flying fortress.

He teleported back to the containment room to wait—Thor would be here anytime now. So he "disappeared" as he waited… which wasn't long.

Thor ran into the room where Loki was contained. He watched as the door slid up and ran over as Loki's clone walked out and crouched, only to go straight through him as the image faded. Loki reappeared behind him and closed the door, locking Thor inside.

"Are you ever not going to fall for that?" he questioned with a smirk.

Thor glared at him, and there was a soft groan and whine of pain in behind him. Thora had awoken. But that was an unimportant matter at this moment.

Thor struck the wall of the cage with his hammer, and the cage cracked and began to shake off the bolts and shuddered.

Loki had a mock look of alarm on his face, then laughed, walking back towards the control pad again. "The humans think us immortal. Shall we test that?"

Loki moved to open the chute beneath the cell meaning to drop Thor—to what for any regular person—seemed to be certain death.

"Loki, stop!"

The God paused, and then turned to look at the woman who had been trying so hard to bring him back to the light. "And why should I?"

"Because this isn't you!" Thora snapped, her eyes filled with pain from the blow to her head, but along with the pain was a strange determination. "This is not the Loki I have spoken with. The Loki who I would be led to believe would not harm a soul without reason!"

He laughed while Thor looked at the Midgardian woman in a new light. She was small, but she was strong. She saw through any falsehood with an eye of flame—the thing that could reduce everything ash. And her flaming eyes were seeing through his brother's lie, slowly burning it to ash.

But Loki laughed… that laugh that had made Thora tremor in fear. "You are still set on "healing" me aren't you? What if I do not want your healing? Or saving?"

"You don't want this, Loki. You and I both know that! Deep, deep down you don't want to be a monster."

"You are the fool I knew you were, Dr. Danielsen. Thinking you can save me doesn't mean you will save me. I don't want saving. I like being like this," Loki said, reaching for the button that would send his brother plunging to the terrain below.

"No. You don't."

Coulson suddenly appeared, wielding a large prototype Phase Two weapon. "Move away please." Loki stepped back from the panel as Thora looked at the agent, her face showing her concern for the man. Coulson gestured to the gun by lifting it. "Do you like this? We started working on the prototype after you sent the Destroyer. Even I don't know what it does. Do you wanna find out?"

Coulson prepared to fire the weapon when Loki disappeared, reappearing behind him and thrusting the point of his spear through Coulson's chest. He yelled and dropped to the floor.

Thora covered her mouth in shock as Thor screamed. "NO!"

Loki returned to the panel, opened the chute and pressing the button which sent the cell—and Thor—falling from the ship. He turned to Thora, who was staring at him, tears in her blue eyes. Those eyes that had always looked at him like he wasn't a monster… were staring at him just like that. The good inside him that didn't want to be the monster felt like something inside had shattered, while the part that wanted to burn the world, grinned at her tears.

"See this? This is what I am!" he allowed his armor and helmet to appear, and his eyes burned with hatred towards her. "You cannot bring me back from this!" but he paused and offered a hand and what could have been a gentle and caring smile, had she not just seen him possibly kill his brother and stab a good man through the heart. "But you could join me. See that the freedom that you so cherish is nothing but a lie, and you will truly be at peace, my dear Thora Elizbet Danielsen. You could be a priestess, or even a queen. All I would ask is that you fear me, kneel before me, worship, and perhaps eventually love and obey me willingly."

She took a shuddering breath, looked down and took a much more steady one, and then glared into his eyes, her natural blue eyes becoming as hard and as cold as the realm of Jotunheim… which seemed to shake even the dark side of the God of Mischief.

"The thing you are asking of me would not matter. For you ask for something that no American would EVER be willing to give. You ask that we give up our God-given and hard earned RIGHT to be free, to govern ourselves, and even chose our own religion, just so you can play King and God?" her voice was as sharp as a dagger. "You call me a fool, Loki Laufeyson? YOU are the fool! You think that you can make me bow by acts of cruelty? I bow to no man, God, or demon. The last time you raised your voice at me, you did make me fear you," she turned and walked away, and that felt like a harder blow than any he had felt from Mjölnir. She stopped at the door and said over her shoulder, "I now pity you. That is why I will still try and save you." And she disappeared outside.

Coulson was slumped on the floor and Loki turned to leave after blinking away the shock that was caused by Thora's words. "You're going to lose."

The God paused and looked at the dying man. "Am I?"

"It's in your nature."

Loki could not help but laugh. "Your heroes are scattered, your floating fortress falls from the sky. Where is my disadvantage?"

Coulson smirked, and coughed slightly. "You lack conviction." Then he chuckled. "And Dr. Danielsen is right. You are a fool. A child even."

Loki glared, ignoring the last part. "I don't think I—"

Coulson fired the weapon, which shot a blast of fire similar to that of the Destroyer, sending Loki flying through a wall. The man kinda shrugged and smiled slightly. "So that's what it does."

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