Disclaimer: All characters involving the Avengers belong to Marvel, I only own the OC's present in this story.
Luciana entered the somewhat small hotel room, her daughter's car seat in one hand and her bag in the other.
She was still shaken from being on the Helicarrier, and the jet ride to the hotel didn't help her case. But she was happy to be out of the air and on the ground, where if she fell, she wouldn't fall far.
She took a couple deep breaths as she put the car seat on the bed and sat down beside it. She looked inside of it and at her small daughter, who smiled as she saw her mother's face.
"We've had quite the adventure, haven't we, Aviana?" Luciana asked, taking her daughter out of the car seat and onto her lap.
Out of the corner of her eye, Luciana saw the green blanket that Loki had given Aviana fall to the floor. She noticed her daughter leaning down in her arms and trying to grab it, making noises of frustration as her attempts were in vain. Luciana sighed and picked it up for her daughter, who cooed happily as the blanket was returned to her grasp. Luciana smiled sadly. Her daughter seemed to be in love with the fabric, and the man who gave it to her.
Luciana absent-mindedly straightened the blanket to cover her daughter as she stared at the floor, her thoughts running wild.
If Loki's plan did succeed, and Luciana was forced to be Queen of Midgard, who would sweet, innocent, little Aviana grow up to be? Would she disagree with her father's ways and try to stop him, or will she end up exactly like him?
Luciana only wanted Loki back, the real Loki, not the sadistic, insane, horrific one. She felt so hypocritical. She's said that she loved and hated Loki, that she feared and cared for him. She couldn't do all of that at once and not expect to confuse herself. She felt like slapping herself for loving and caring for Loki, yet she felt like she had to slap herself for fearing and hating him as well.
She only wanted everything to go back to normal; she wished none of this had ever happened. Thor's banishment; Loki's insanity; everything. She remembered the morning of Thor's coronation, a time when she and Loki had woken up still a happy couple. How she wished time would have frozen then, and had remained there for eternity, sparing her from the heartbreak that followed.
Aviana started to tug on Luciana's blazer, and the woman looked down at her child, broken out of her thoughts.
"What?" She asked, smiling as her daughter played with her sleeve.
The infant let out another coo as she continued to tug on her mother's sleeve.
"You must be hungry," Luciana said, standing up and placing the small girl back into the car seat. "I doubt SHIELD fed you."
Luciana walked over to the door and took her suitcase and placed it on her bed and then unzipped it. She rummaged through the things she and Thor had packed.
"Clothes, diapers, soap..." She muttered as she searched in the bag. "Aha! Here we go, baby formula!" She exclaimed as she pulled out a container.
"Now, where did I put your bottle?" She asked Aviana, who giggled in response.
Luciana smiled and began to rummage through the bag again. "Here it is!" She said happily as she took out the bottle.
She took the bottle and the container of formula into the bathroom and turned on the sink. She took the top of the bottle and put it under the tap and watched as it filled with the warm water. She then opened the container of formula and put some of the powder into the bottle of warm water. Putting the top back on it, she shook the bottle rapidly and walked back to her daughter. Luciana tested the formula on her skin, then with a nod, took Aviana out of the car seat and held her in her arms. She gave her the bottle and the child happily cooed before beginning to drink.
She flipped on the TV and laid down on the bed to calm her nerves. She had just started to relax when the phone on the bedside table rang, causing her to frown. It was most likely SHIELD wanting her to do something. So much for relaxing.
"Hello?" She asked as she brought the phone up to her ear.
"Hey, yeah, uh, Lucy?" She heard the panicked voice of a man answer, followed by some explosions. "It's Tony Stark."
"Tony?" Lucy asked shocked as some explosions were heard. "What the hell is happening?"
"Well, you see," He began. "After you left, some of the agents Loki had hypnotized, or whatever, attacked the Helicarrier and broke him out." Another explosion was heard. "And now Loki's used the Tesseract to unleash his army."
"What?" Luciana asked shocked as more explosions were heard.
"Don't believe me, look out your window! And quickly please, I could use some help!" He said.
Luciana walked over to the window and opened the curtains. Her jaw dropped at what she saw. Outside her window she saw a bunch of spacecrafts shooting at everything they could see, and driving the destructive vehicles were creatures that looked half machine and half alien.
"You seeing this?" Tony asked.
"Oh I'm seeing it alright, but I'm not sure I believe it." She said, stunned.
Suddenly a yellow and red suit made of some sort of metal stopped in front of her window.
"Uh, Stark?" Luciana said, slightly terrified for her life and her daughters.
"Relax it's me!" He said, then the suit waved. "Listen get you and Aviana downstairs to the basement of the hotel, leave Aviana in the first closet to the left, she should be safe in there, and also take the black bag that's in there." He explained.
"Why?" She asked.
"It had some bulletproof clothing you should probably wear; it also has some guns and bullets." He told her.
Luciana nodded and hung up the phone. She ran to the bed and grabbed the car seat that held Aviana, then raced out the door.
She ran as fast as she could down the stairs and into the basement. She went into the first close on the left and placed the now screaming Aviana in it.
"It's okay, sweetie!" She said trying to sound calm, but her panicked voice failed her.
Sure enough Luciana soon found the black bag and changed into the clothes inside of it. She grabbed the guns and bullets and secured them on the tight black uniform that was similar to the one Natasha wore. Luciana walked out of the closet and shut the door behind her, muffling her daughters screams. She sighed sadly and quickly performed a protection enchantment on the closet before running out of the basement, praying she would live to see her daughter again.
The street was in utter chaos. Loki's army were flying around the city shooting at everything, and she covered her head as a nearby car exploded in front of her.
"Luciana!" She heard a male voice call her, and she turned around to see a man dressed in red, white, and blue running towards her.
"Who are you?" She asked, looking at the man up and down as he stopped in front of her.
"It's me, Steve Rogers!" He explained, and ducked as a car exploded nearby.
"Look, if you're gonna use your magic, now's the time. Try to get as many of those things as you can on the ground. Got it?" He told her.
"Got it! What the hell are these things?" She asked.
"Chitauri, now good luck!" He said before running off.
Luciana looked around at the chaos. "Valhalla help me."
She began to shoot beams of light at any spacecraft she saw, successfully sending many crashing to the ground. She shot a beam at one Chitauri, who moved out of the way but began chasing the woman down. Luciana ran as fast as she could, dodging and reflecting beams as she jumps and ran over rubble. Every so often she would shoot at the Chitauri that chased her, but it would either before her beams could hit it. Her heart pounded in her chest as she ran, and she turned around and shot another beam towards the Chitauri and finally sent it tumbling to the ground with a loud crash.
"Nice one!" A female voice yelled at her, and she turned around to see Natasha with a man who held a bow and arrow.
"Thanks," She yelled back, panting.
Soon a Chitauri ran towards her and Luciana pulled out one of the guns and shot it, sending it down.
"Not bad aim!" The man with the arrows said as he shot one down himself. "Clint Barton!" He introduced.
"Luciana!" She said back, helping Natasha shoot down more Chitauri.
Steve then ran up towards them and hit Chitauri with his SHIELD, all the while explosions went off in every direction.
Suddenly lightning struck a Chitauri and Thor sailed to the ground.
"Thor!" Luciana exclaimed before she shot more Chitauri.
Abruptly, Luciana was picked up by a spacecraft and soon found herself sailing through the air. After recovering from her initial shock and terror, she frantically looked at her captor and saw Loki, who was leading a fleet of Chitauri around the city.
"Loki, let me down!" She yelled, clinging onto him as she looked at ground, which was farther away then she would've liked.
"No!" Loki barked as he continued to fly the craft.
"Loki, please!" Luciana begged, holding onto him tighter as they quickly turned a corner.
Out of the corner of her eye, she saw lighting gathering at the top of a building then go towards the portal where the Chitauri came out of, destroying many Chitauri and a huge snake-like creature that was coming out.
She smiled slightly at the lightning, knowing it was Thor, but was suddenly jerked to the side as Loki turned another corner.
"Look around you, darling heart," Loki yelled. "Earth and its 'heroes' will fall. Join me now and spare yourself later defeat!"
Luciana looked around at the city, which was being destroyed as the battle went on. She winced as she heard another explosion and watched as one of the giant snake-like things smashed into buildings. She had to get down there and help, but Loki's vice grip on her waist said otherwise.
"Loki, just let me down!" She pleaded, covering her head as a beam of light flew past her face. "I don't want to be Queen, I honestly don't! I just want Earth to be safe and for you to give this all up!" She yelled, desperate to be returned to the ground.
Loki then forced her to look at his face. "You want to be let down?" He asked. "Fine then, I'll let you down!"
He then flew over the top of a building and dropped her on the roof, the impact painfully knocking the breath out of her. Loki landed the aircraft and walked towards, her picking her off the ground.
"Why do you insist on being so stubborn?" He asked. "Why can't you just accept the fact that we both love each other and I'm not letting that get away from us?"
"Because I- because I..." She trailed off, tears filling her eyes. "Look at what you've done."
She gestured around to the chaos that transpired around them.
"You've hurt so many, including myself! How do I know you won't do it again? I don't want my heart broken again..." She said quietly.
"Luciana," He said, putting a hand under her chin. "I will never break your heart again, this I vow. But I need you, and I honestly can't let go of you, I love you, Luciana, and I know you don't believe me, but I do, honestly I do. I've loved you ever since I first laid eyes on you, and I've never stopped. I'm not lying to you, darling heart; I can never lie to you. I truly love you. And I know I've messed up and hurt you, and I've only destroyed all the love and trust you had for me, but I ask of you, no I beg of you to find it in your heart to forgive me."
"I-I, I can't," She said shaking her head as she looked at the destroyed city.
"Darling heart, please," Loki begged.
Luciana let out a shaky sigh as she stared into his eyes, which pleaded with hers. She let out a sob and wrapped her arms around him.
"I can't take it anymore!" She cried. "Just stop this, stop all of it! Please, Loki, for me! "
"Darling heart," He said, wrapping his arms around her. "I've come too far to stop it."
"Then...Then just don't die!" She cried, pulling away from him.
She looked into his eyes and shook her head. "How do you do this?" She asked.
"Do what?"
"This! How do you make me forgive you for how you've hurt me? I should hate you for what you've done! And for awhile I thought I did! Loki, you confuse me so much with that silver tongue of yours, and now I can't tell my feelings apart anymore! How is it possible that after all we went through, all the broken hearts and hatred, that you are able to make me fall in love with you all over again?" She exclaimed.
She then wrapped her arms around his neck and passionately kissed him, tears streaming down her face.
Loki wrapped his arms around her waist and returned the kiss, pulling her closer to him. For a moment, everything seemed silenced, as the two of them seemed alone on the top of that roof, with no chaotic destruction circling them. Just two people who were terribly confused and hopelessly in love.
He pulled away from her and looked into her eyes. "I'm so sorry, for everything."
Luciana nodded and rested her head on his chest. "I just...I just want my husband back," She said quietly. "I want the old Loki who's buried somewhere deep inside of you, I just want him out. You may look like him on the outside, you're not him. Please, Loki, please find yourself, because this isn't you, the real you would never do this. I don't know what happened to you when you fell into that abyss; all I know is that it's changed you. And I don't like this change Loki, and I'm trying so hard not to fall in love with you again, but I can't help it."
Loki only kissed her and wiped away the tears that flowed down her cheek.
"And now I'm so confused because I thought I hated you, and now I love you. But you've done all these horrible things and I just- I can't -I..." She trailed off, unable to find the words.
Loki kissed her again. "Darling heart," He began. "It's alright that you're confused." He asked, trying to piece together her mind.
"Stay here," He said, kissing her cheek. "I'll be back for you."
Luciana nodded and watched as he walked back to the aircraft and flew away into the chaos.
She looked around and saw Chitauri everywhere, including one coming straight for her.
"Great," She muttered before blasting it.
She began to blast various Chitauri with her magic, sending them crashing to the ground. Chitauri by Chitauri, the creatures were shot down by beams of bright coloured light coming from Luciana's hand. The woman's heart pounded as she shot light and ducked as beams came towards her, and she wanted nothing more than for all the Chitauri to drop dead.
She looked up at the sky and to her shock, the portal was closing, and Tony was falling from it. A Chitauri landed on the roof and ran towards her. She conjured a glowing light in her hand and prepared to shoot it, when the Chitauri screamed in fury and dropped dead at her feet.
She looked confused for a moment and nudged the creature with her foot, smiling as it didn't move.
She looked around as she heard all the Chitauri screaming in fury and dropping dead around the city. It was over.
Luciana sighed in relief and closed her eye, taking in the long awaited peace.
Suddenly, she heard something land on the roof and her eyes shot open. She saw Thor standing in front of her and the man smiled.
"Luciana, I'm glad to see you are unharmed." He said.
"Yes, well, I'm glad this is all over with." She responded, wiping some dust off her arm.
"It's not over yet. We need to get Loki." He said.
He then grabbed her and started swinging his hammer around, and Luciana's eyes widened in realization.
"Um, Thor, you know I'm not good with heights. So how about I-" She was cut off by her screaming as Thor sailed through the air.
Okay my endings have been very bad lately. But on the plus side, Loki and Luciana love each other again! That wasn't going to happen in the first draft, but I really wanted them to reconcile, very badly. But they will have to address some obvious problems...
And I have good news, instead of a sequel; I will in fact be making a prequel to this story. I won't be making the sequel until Thor 2 comes out and I get the opportunity to see it, and then I might make another part for this, but it depends on how Thor 2 ends. There are rumours that Loki dies, and I'm literally begging god that doesn't happen, so fingers crossed.
Anyway, when this story is finished I will post the prequel on my profile, so if you want to read it, it will be there the same day that this ends.
Just telling you now, it will be pure romance and will have some adventures, so it will be a longer story than this one.
Anyways, please, please, please review!