This first part is in third person. Thank you for all of the feedback and story alerts and favorites. As usual, I only own Charlotte.

"Are you okay?" Charlotte asked, moving past Loki in a daze to reach the bedroom and change into casual clothes. Loki didn't seem to want to respond and only followed her into the room.

"I didn't believe he was going to be found," he said, which was certainly true.

"I didn't much believe it myself." She no longer appeared to have any amount of modesty and she changed clothes right there with him in the room. Perhaps she was simply in shock, after all, she had been positive that Thor would never return. He looked at all of that warm skin he hadn't gotten the chance to touch. "I'm sorry but I have to go." As Charlotte moved around the house, grabbing things she might need, Loki was just moving about in daze, following her with his hair tousled. She didn't even remember touching his hair. As Charlotte grabbed her keys, she turned to him again. "Seriously, are you okay? If you're worried about me mentioning you to him, I won't do that. I respect what you want." Loki knew the problem didn't lie with Charlotte. She wouldn't betray any amount of trust of his. She blindly cared for him. Loki was more concerned about the things Thor would say about his falling off the bridge. There was no doubt Charlotte's company… what was it called? S.H.I.E.L.D. would tell Thor about the helmet and the false hope it had given them. Then Charlotte might be exposed to the things he had done and failed to mention to her. He had known Thor returning would be the catalyst for his plan going into action and he'd made many preparations during the days he left. For all her curiosity, Charlotte never pressed him for information on what he had been doing; that only served to make him actually feel guilty about it.

"Everything is fine," he finally responded. It certainly wasn't fine but she wouldn't leave unless reassured.

"Are you sure? Please talk to me about stuff, Loki." She pleaded with those big eyes and once again, when he looked at her, he was unsure whether she was a woman or a girl.

"They'll notice if you're not on time. We can speak later." She sighed, defeated as she usually was whenever she asked him a personal question. Then she whipped her auburn hair, that dark gorgeous color that Loki was so jealous of, and Charlotte walked out of the house. Loki knew for certain that it was one of the last times he would ever see her.

-Charlotte-

I knew something was up with Loki. I'm not the naïve mortal he seems to think I am. I jerked open the door to my Jeep, still in shock over where I was going. Tony had texted me their location. We were probably going to confuse the living daylights out of this guy with all of us there.

I kept my eyes focused on the road ahead of me while my mind moved at a mile a minute. Did this have anything to do with where Loki would go for a couple days at a time? Seriously, what did I know? He never revealed much to me and usually, I was abnormally fine with it; certainly, I was more accepting of it than the average person would be.

Soon I could see lights in the distance in the desert, no doubt where S.H.I.E.L.D. had set up tents and everything else needed. I parked my Jeep along with the other vehicles and slowly got out, my lack of sleep suddenly getting to me. How was I even acting this normally when I had almost had sex with the god of mischief? I almost had an aneurysm when Steve's leg had accidentally brushed mine earlier. My brain obviously needed to sort out its priorities.

Speaking of Steve, he was the first Avenger I laid eyes on so I went to stand with him. "Sorry I had to wake you," he said. I nervously laughed because I was nowhere near sleeping. "Honestly, I have no idea why they wanted to alert everyone and make them come out here. We'll probably just confuse the poor guy more than he already is."

"That's exactly what I thought on the drive over," I said back. "Where's Jane?"

"I actually don't think she's out here." I raised my eyebrows while I looked up at him. Why the hell wouldn't they want her out here? "I think they wanted us to talk to Thor before she had the chance to, which is lousy considering how much she's done for us."

"I take it that it wasn't her tunnel that brought him here?" Steve shook his head.

"All I know is that it wasn't because of anything Jane created. They haven't said anything else." That really was lousy. If anyone deserved to be out here, it was her. She spent so much time trying to get to Asgard to get to Thor and now that he's here, they didn't even call her? Sometimes I wondered if S.H.I.E.L.D. was really the right side to be on.

"It's a shame that it wasn't because of her that he got to come back. She worked long and hard on that thing." Steve nodded at me and I looked away from him. His eyes were really pretty and he just looked too sweet.

"What are you two up to?" I heard Tony ask, walking towards us. I rolled my eyes.

"I'm not in the mood right now, Tony," I responded. "But if you wouldn't mind answering a question, are we just supposed to stand here and wait for one of ya'll to tell us something to do?"

Tony shrugged. "It's beyond me why they even bothered to call all of us out here. I need my beauty rest. Couldn't we meet the god of thunder tomorrow?" I laughed a little.

"He's the one who probably needs the rest," said Steve. I knew Thor wasn't hurt and better yet, he probably wasn't even tired. Loki hadn't been either of those when I found him.

"We're only going to confuse him. They didn't even bother to tell Jane," said Tony. "Can you believe that? I spent so much money on that project and she's not even here to see him."

"Didn't they tell you that it's not even because of that that he's here?" asked Steve.

"Then I wasted a bucket load of money on a dead end."

"Oh please," I said, "like you can't make anymore. But seriously, why couldn't she be here for this? I didn't think Jane minded S.H.I.E.L.D. recruiting him to the Avengers. Besides, that's not even her call to make."

"Oh, don't play dumb, Charlotte," said Tony. "You know S.H.I.E.L.D. was using her to get to Thor. Now that they've got him, she better go back to her day job." Steve looked confused by the accusation but Tony was right, I had known that. I'd had my suspicions from day one. Steve was just, like I said, too sweet and nice to believe that the company might take advantage of someone like that; especially someone as great as Jane had been to us. It shocked me too but clearly, it didn't ruffle Tony. He was a business magnate and he knew how things like this went. "It's not like it was her goal to work with us anyway. She was going to work on that with or without our help. I guess Jane just decided that my money was better to spend than hers."

"Can you blame her?" I asked. After a few more minutes of standing there, Phil walked by and gestured that we could finally move close enough to see Thor out in the distance. The three of us moved to stand with the other Avengers, Natasha, Bruce, and Clint. Other agents were around us. I caught a glimpse of a flash in the distance and I knew it was Thor in a great metallic outfit just like Loki's. S.H.I.E.L.D.'s huge lights were reflecting off of him and the agent with him, who I could only assume was Nick Fury. Then I could tell they were beginning to walk back over to the tents set up here. Why they had set up tents was beyond me; probably some desperate attempt at making sure no one but government officials were able to come here.

"You seem nervous," observed Tony and I was. This was Thor, Loki's adopted brother and one he wasn't on good terms with. Of course, I was nervous.

"I was nervous the day I met you too," I responded. I flashed back to the day I had been introduced to Tony Stark. It had been two years ago at the set off of the Avengers Initiative and Tony was the first outside recruit. I was already familiar with Clint and Natasha. In fact, Clint and I were in talks to date. I'm glad I dodged that bullet. The first time I met him, it was to strictly give us access to his suit. He had been judged unfit for the teamwork the Avengers would require so we were only getting access to the suit. I had been sweating bullets when we sat down one on one and he seemed sad to be giving up some of his technology. That conversation was the only non-joking conversation I've ever had with Tony and I did my best to convince Fury and Phil to let him on the team. Eventually they gave in and eventually I found out why they thought he couldn't work with others.

I stared out in the desert and as they moved closer, I could tell it was Fury who was with him. I caught a glimpse of a helmet and another of blonde hair. He was taller than Fury and my guess is that he might've been taller than Loki or Steve, which I had thought was nigh impossible. I moved to stand with other agents who weren't on the Avengers team and knew that I probably wouldn't get introduced to him tonight. That was fine but I wish I had been able to stay at home.

I watched as Thor was introduced to each of the Avengers. He had removed his helmet upon entering the makeshift camp. He was wearing a great outfit framed with a red cape and had his hammer hanging in his left hand, brushing the side of his leg. I immediately recognized why Loki was so jealous of him. Thor was gorgeous, much like Loki, just in a different way. I could tell he had a jovial manner to him that Loki obviously didn't possess. He was brawny and burly where clearly, Loki was not. Thor was blonde and light where Loki was dark. It appalled me that anyone could've thought they were siblings at all. I understood why Loki was so jealous when I looked at Thor and I felt sorrier for him than I had before. Thor was so beautiful and was exactly what one would picture a god to look like. I knew Loki had strengths different from the obvious muscle of Thor but that didn't change how he must've felt.

Once Thor had spoken to Bruce, I heard Fury say that they were going to take Thor back to the S.H.I.E.L.D. facility for tonight only. I guessed it was to make him answer menial questions that he could answer tomorrow after he had slept. Tony immediately began walking towards his car that had a driver for him, no doubt. Clint began to walk towards one of the tents with Natasha on his heels and Bruce dispatched as well. Steve was, of course, making his way towards me so I began to walk too.

But I paused before I got very far. Thor was nearing me now as well and he was staring at me like he knew. I shivered involuntarily. That was impossible, he couldn't know anything. He couldn't even realize that Loki was on Earth yet. "Who are you?" he asked in a booming voice as he arrived directly in front of me. He was much too close to me; there couldn't have been three inches between us. I gulped and looked up at him. I also noticed that most people hadn't walked far enough away to ignore our exchange. Tony had turned around, hearing Thor's deep voice. Steve had stopped in his tracks, downright confused. Clint poked his head out of one of the tents.

"I'm Charlotte," I whispered nervously. I saw Fury intensely staring at us.

"Charlotte, why don't you take him back to the office and then you can go home?" I heard him call. He could be such an ass. He knew this conversation wasn't normal and he wanted to capitalize on it.

I nodded, still staring up at Thor. Thor didn't seem angry with me, just curious, but he was being completely serious. He wanted answers from me and I just knew he wanted them on Loki. "You remember what cars are?" I asked. He nodded down at me. "Okay, come with me." I turned nervously and walked slowly with Thor following behind me. That was when Steve finally caught up with me.

"What was that about?" he whispered down to me.

"I dunno. I'm kinda nervous about it, actually."

"You don't have to take him. I'll tell Coulson-"

"No, it'll be fine. Please don't worry. I'll tell you if there's anything weird." He made a face down at me but walked over to his motorcycle anyway. Then Thor moved in front of me and opened my door to the Jeep before I could reach it. "Thank you," I said, still squeamish about the whole thing. He got extremely close to me again. He obviously had no idea that I had personal space.

"I apologize if I've made you nervous," he said down to me.

"It's totally fine. Come on, I'll drive you." He shut my door once I was inside and he got in the passenger side. He paused before he got in and I became nervous again. Did he realize Loki had been here with me? I'm going insane, he's probably just never been inside a Jeep Cherokee before. Thor was silent as I began driving back into town, just occasionally looking at me.

"Do you know Jane?" he finally asked. I nodded.

"She's been trying to reach you for a long time. She'll be ecstatic to see you."

"Why wasn't she there?"

"I don't know. She should've been."

"What do you know about me?" He was genuinely asking and I didn't want to lie to him.

"I know a lot about you, thanks to Jane." And your estranged brother, no big. "Why did you want to know who I was?" I felt like I was tiptoeing out on ice and it was cracking.

"I knew I could trust you." I sighed. That was a really good sign. He may have thought he could trust me because of Loki subconsciously but he didn't seek me out strictly because of that.

"I'm glad that you do." How could Loki be angry at Thor? He didn't appear to have done anything. "How did you get here?"

"They built a new Bifrost. I destroyed the other because of Loki, my brother." I nodded and gulped. Thor turned his head to look at me further. "Loki, the one who sent the Destroyer." He did know. There was no doubt.

"I'm familiar," I whispered.