Authors note: HAPPY TURKEY DAY.

Disclaimer: I only own Phraia

"Sir, we've found something." An agent sitting in front of a computer screen announced."Satellite imaging has shown an explosion in a foreclosed house outside of the city."

"Look into it, as of now that is our only lead, In the past twenty four hours…-"

"Sir, it's definitely Loki, with Raia."

"Are they still there?"

"No sir, they left four minutes ago."

"Follow that car."

"Yes sir."

The car ride to the new location was extremely awkward.

Raia had no idea what to say. She had been staring out the window for the entire ride, and she wondered what Loki was thinking. She peeked at him from the corner of her eye. He was staring right back at her. He was fiddling with something with his fingers.

What's that?" He curled it into his fist, hiding it from her eyes.

"Curiosity killed the cat." He teased.

"I am not a cat." She tried to make a grab for it

"I'll give it to you if you answer a question."

"Fine."

"If Shield were to forcefully take you back to their side, what would you do?"

"Well first off if they tried to forcefully do anything, I would break them. And I would probably leave. Secondly, if YOU try to forcefully do anything, I .Will. Hurt. You." He believed her.

"Now gimme." He dropped the object into her palm. It was a ringthat had some heavy magic fused into it, she could feel the power radiating off of it.

"Is this what I think it is?" if it was, it was like a mood ring, but it actually worked. The moods were sent to whoever cast the spell on the object. So if she was overjoyed for any reason, he would know. He would also know if she was in trouble or distressed, stuff like that. There had to be more to the ring then just that that he wasn't telling her.

"Thank you."

"Where did you keep this?"

"A different dimension. I found the ring when I was younger."

There was a pause between the two.

"I told you that you couldn't hurt me." She watched as the scepter pulsed.

"Why does that bother you so.?"

"I …don't…" He couldn't speak. She reached over to trace that amazing jaw line of his on impulse. He watched her do it.

"Why did you wear those hideous Midgardian clothing ?" he asked as she switched over to her normal clothes she worse at home.

"So I wouldn't stick out like a sore thumb. But with you wearing that…"

"Director Fury, Loki has relocated to another foreclosed house."

"Create a perimeter, prepare to…"

Director Fury watched on the monitor in front of him as Raia walked willingly with Loki through the front door of his new hideout.

What is she doing?

"Prepare to apprehend as many as possible.

"Well this place needs some work." She commented. The outside didn't look too bad but the interior walls had peeling walls, the carpets and wood flooring looked like rodent gnawed on them , and it smelled bad.

The door creaked open, two men carrying a huge black box came in and carefully set it down.

Raia guessed it was the Tesseract, and she was feeling very conflicted. What am I doing here? She watched Loki practically growl at something one of the newcomers said.

"It seems, the Shield agents have found us already. They have the property surrounded." Loki announced.

"This Box needs to be transported to the Doctors location. If it does not arrive to its new place in one hour, I would not have any regrets in ending your already short lives."

Four men left with the box, leaving eight in the rotting house.

"Create a distraction, lead the government agents away." Three more of Loki's men followed the others out the door.

"The rest of you, stand guard." Loki was oddly calm when Shield would have the Tesseract in fifteen minutes.

"Phraia if you would follow me." He led her out the back, into a heavily wooded area. The light in hi scepter dimmed so that no mortal eye could see it.

"You have it, don't you?"

"I do. You think I would trust them with the Tesseract?"

"I think they will be apprehended within ten minutes." About forty seconds later. Gunshots and screams surrounded the air.

"I think you give mortals too much credit." Loki commented dryly.

They finally stepped out of the woods onto a paved road where a car was waiting for them.

"Convenient….what did you have in that box?"

Loki did not answer, just smiled mischievously. As soon as the car door was slammed shut, the car took off. But unfortunately, the road ahead was blocked by Shield.

"Fire!" Was the last thing Raia heard as she bolted from the car before darkness flooded her eyes.

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