A/N: the next couple of chapters will most likely be a bit more Cephera/Loki then anyone else. (This may change depending on my writing mood.) I will try to do the same for the other characters as I can't keep separating them to much or people will have trouble keeping up with that a has happened to that certain couple last. Also note that this Time frame for Cephera's life is altered to give it a new little twist.

Doctor Loki love: Loki could have beaten him but he was hit with his own power. :( he should be grateful... And unfortunately you'll have to wait.

Akera writer of the night: OMG...tomorrow never comes.

Kuria tenshi015: yeah I needed to bring in some action. Lol. And they assume they went rogue...

Loki's dreamer: I am glad I have managed to once again make their meeting different. You have I idea how much more truth their is. :p

Poodle warriors: Amelia held her own pretty good...for the kids. And yes slowly Loki is forced to speak to Cephera. :p

Chapter 11

Loki made sure that when he left the room he boycotted Thor and followed the girl Cephera. He wasn't finished with her. When she reached the elevator she turned to press a button and took in a surprised breath of air when she saw him enter behind her. They were not alone in the elevator. Neither spoke as people got off on each floor on the way down. To his annoyance he was forced to follow her directly to her floor.

She stopped and waited for the door to close. "Now is not a good time." She said weary of the guards now stationed back at the doors.

"Make it a good time." He said firmly.

"You can't be serious." She said. It took him giving her a sharp look for her to sigh defeated. "Fine follow me." She said and led him to an office like room. It was small but oddly neat and tidy. "Close the door." She told him and sat down. "What can I do for you?" She said.

"What are you?" He asked her.

"We just survived an attack. People need tending to. Places need cleaning up and I have duties of my own to see too and you want to chat about what I am?" Cephera shook her head.

"We are no longer under attack and I don't care what you need to be doing I want answers." He told her glaring down.

"I'm human." She told him sitting back shrugging.

"No you're not. Fury brought you upstairs the first day I was here to meet me, Why?" She took a moment of thinking before she responded.

"He wanted me to copy your magic." She said finally. There was no hint of lies in her tone.

"What do you mean?" Loki wasn't sure he liked the concept.

"I had two human parents but my birth circumstances were strange. I developed a tolerance to be able to use magic and I also carry the ability to copy the energy used to cast those spells. Upon touch I was able to copy yours." Loki took his own moment to think about this.

"And why would you need mine?" He finally asked. He knew she had been there for a reason.

"Because I can only copy magic not abilities. Healing was the only useful magic I had until you came along." Loki caught a hint of something in her face. She was hiding something. Loki was very good at reading people.

"And the humans don't know of your healing?" He inquired remembering her words for discretion on the matter.

"Only a handful know." She replied. He was scrutinizing everything she said. The fact Fury had tried to keep his intentions with her secret and the fact that he saw SHIELD as his enemy made her on the top of his list of people to keep an eye on. Loki was not fond that with one touch she had learned all the magic that had taken him lifetimes to learn.

"How well versed are you in the use of what you have learned?" She shook her head then.

"Why are you so suddenly interested. Last week I could barely get you to speak to me and now you want to know everything about me." She completely avoided his question.

Loki decided to take another route. He slammed both his hands down on the arms of her chair visibly startling her to jump a little making the chair role back slightly. He was bent down and was near her face. "Do not take me for a fool woman. I am a god and when I ask you..." Loki cut off in mid sentence when once of her hands came up cupping his face softly and a look of sadness on her face.

"Were you always so mean and untrusting of those around you?" She said. Loki was more stunned by her gentleness toward him in the face of his threatening demeanour then her words. For a second he wasn't sure how to proceed which didn't often happen to him. Finally he snatched her wrist and roughly pulled her hand off him.

"Do not play me woman you are no seductress." He growled.

"Which is why I am not trying to seduce you. We are no longer your enemies Loki. As long as you do not harm us we have no quarrel with you. You have nothing to fear from me." Her voice was ever so soft.

"Why would I fear you. I am simply making note of those who could become an annoyance if I should get turned on." He pulled her to stand. "When next we have a 'delightful' chat such as this I will test your ability to handle magic and I cannot guarantee you will come out in one piece." He let her go but her hand grabbing his wrist stopped him from leaving.

"I saved your life." She said incredulously.

"I would have survived given the right time and method of removal." He pulled from her small hand.

"The great Loki taken down by his own blades by a mere human with special power and saved by a girl. Is that why your such an ass right now?" The words seemed to escape her before she thought about them. He had riled her up and her words did the same in turn to him. If not for Thor entering the door at that moment Loki might have taken her by the throat.

"Brother I was wondering what happened to you." Thor said. "I was directed here." Thor looked between them. "Is everything ok?" Cephera walked passed Loki and then out the door passed Thor.

"Your brother needs to learn when to be grateful." She told Thor. "I won't be so freely open to saving his life next time." Loki glowered her way. The last thing he needed was a talk from Thor. When she was gone Thor turned to Loki again.

"What did you say to her? What is this she speaks of?" Thor was eyeing Loki's still messy state.

"I do not wish to talk about it. She is an annoyance that needs silencing." Loki growled. Thor laughed.

"You like her." Thor said. Loki was not sure how Thor surmised that but it did nothing more then irritate Loki further. He pushed passed his would be brother. As he kept walking and got to the evaluator he couldn't help but think about what she'd said. Granted she'd said it because he had lit her fuse but she was right. He was miffed over having lost to a human. If it had been man made weapons he would have been fine but because the blades were of magical creation from Loki's own magic it had been his own undoing. The fact he had needed her help sealed the deal on his wounded pride.

He was some what impressed she picked up on it at all. Usually people just assumed he was being an 'ass' because it was in his nature. But it hadn't always been his nature to be how he was now which brought him back to her question before her outburst. He hated questioning what he was now. He felt he was sure of who he was and had accepted it until people like her came along and made him think.

"She is a kind and gentle soul Loki." Thor had promptly joined him in the elevator. "Whatever had happened between you perhaps you should let it go, this fight is not worth the end results." Loki looked to Thor. What would he know on the matter. The golden boy who never had to fight for anything. The one who was handed it all and never punished. Loki did not respond. He settled his thoughts back to the fact that she could ow apparently use his magic and he wanted to know to what end she would need it.

(Cephera)

The day was long and hard. The hour she finally left was late and she was tired. Tony had sent his private jet to fetch her as he sometimes did. She was home in no time. She threw off her soiled dress right into the small garbage can. Somehow blood even managed to get under her skirt and so she threw away her underwear and bra as well. She could always buy more. She was stood in her room naked and with the intent of taking a bath. She went to her bathroom and began to fill it. While the water was running she moved back to her room and opened up a small box on her dresser. Inside it was a stone. An opal with and intricate pattern etched across its surface.

She brought it with her to the bath. She slid into the rising bubbles and looked at the stone letting her mind wander to a memory long etched into her mind but rarely thought about now-a-days.

She viewed the memory more like a dream as so many years had passed it felt more like one anyway. In her mind a girl in a dirty linen dress, bare foot with her hair tied back messily with a strap of clothes was drawing water from a river far from the tiny village from which she had come from. The woods darkened slightly. She had been out there for a long time taking her time before returning with her full bucket. She trotted through the woods and stopped at the sound of voices. A young woman back then did not want to be found alone in the woods.

"Did you see their faces brother." The tall blonde boy said to the other dark haired one next to him.

"Thor I am glad you find these simple humans so fun." The girl held back her gasp. The great god Thor. She got to her knees in respect quietly afraid to be seen but could not bring herself to be disrespectful in his presence though they knew not that she was there.

"Loki where is your sense of fun." Thor said. The girl trembled slightly at the name. She dared to look upon them both again. The golden god Thor. Strong and just and then his brother Loki. Dark and handsome but full of trickery and lies. One god loved by her people and the the other feared. The dark god shrugged frowning. "Hiemdall!" Thor cried out. The skies opened up in a rainbow light and in a flash they were gone. A glitter of something caught the girls attention. She forgot her bucket and rushed to the carvings now etched into the grass. On the ground was a gemstone. She picked it up and looked back into the now calm sky.

Cephera looked down into her hand. The stone she had found that day when she was only fourteen years old, over 800 years ago still in her possession. She had feared to sell it in case the god, Loki, would return for it and enact a horrible act against her. She had gone back everyday in case he should come back for it but he never did. Soon she gave up going back and a year later was when her sister's father had come looking for Seraphina.

Meeting Loki like that today had sent her nostalgia reeling. It wasn't that she had forgotten, it was more that she no longer worshipped them like she once had and saw no need to bring up that fact she had something belonged to him. She was sure it was his as he was a master of sorcery. Those were the years of her life she rarely thought about. Back when the Vikings roamed the lands and worshipped Thor, Odin and Loki as gods, among others. She too had worshipped. Cephera felt almost embarrassed to bring it up now. So much had changed for all of them since those times.

Loki had become a man since then. So had Thor. Both of them looked so much more like boys but now...Cephera blushed upon thinking it. Loki was handsome. She'd only seen him for the briefest of moments back then but she remembered. Even though he seemed bored he seemed happy. He didn't hold himself the same way anymore but then after this many years who would.

Cephera had never told anyone who knew she was 'immortal' about how old she truly was. Usually they assumed she was 100 or so but she was just good at adapting too the times. She spent almost 200 years on Mechanova with her sister before returning to earth the first time around. And believe it or not her life had been pretty boring and vanilla after that first stressful decade on Mechanova when they had been attacked and she had learned to drain people's energy. Her sister Seraphina still tells Cephera how much she hasn't changed but Cephera had to disagree. She felt like she was no longer that same silly, naive girl. She felt stronger than she once had.

A/N: Put up a one shot last night of something old I found that I had written.

When I First Met You

It is remaining a one shot for now but I'm pretty sure I will continue it at some point. :p