And number two. Rain's doing stuff. More stuff than usual.

"Rain! Stop this now!" Loki attempted as he too noticed Raina's intentions. Loki turned to intervene when Amora appeared in front of him and threw him backwards. As Loki looked up at her, she smiled and said, "This is no matter of yours," as she advanced towards him with a green fireball growing in her hands.

"Let's see how you are after the love of your life is taken from you," Raina spoke darkly.

As Raina made her way towards Steve, the Avengers and Gwen found themselves being forced away from him by shadow beings that Amora had conjured for that exact purpose. The Hulk quickly threw the creatures off, causing Amora to conjure twice as many, just to pin him down. With every step that Raina took towards Steve, Rachel worked harder to get out from under the miniature cyclone that Raina had pinned her under.

"Raina, stop, you cannot do this!" Thor thundered at her.

"I dare you to try and stop me!" Her saunter turned into a sprint as a metal staff magically appeared in her hands with Amora's aid; Raina used her gifted fire abilities to melt down one end, turning it into a pike.

"Steve!" Rachel screamed. Natasha heard her friend's scream and, with Clint, tried to fight her way over to Steve, allowing herself to get hit with a few blows from the creatures. Tony blasted at them until they had practically covered him in his attempts to break away to get to aid Steve.

Several knives were sent Steve's way as he raised his shield to block it. The knives clanked as they hit the metal and fell to the ground. Rain immediately followed with a cyclone to force Steve's shield out of his grasp; it landed mere feet away. Raina used her wind to send the recently discarded knives flying through the air once again towards Steve.

"Rain, please stop this!" Steve attempted to reason with Raina as he made a move to grab her wrists.

"I don't associate with you people anymore," Raina muttered darkly. The knives shot towards Steve, the force of them, combined with the wind that Rain created knocking him heavily back to a boulder just behind him. Steve tried to move, but found himself stuck to the rock by the knives; some blood had begun to ooze from the cuts that the knives had made when they sliced through his suit. He quickly tried to pull the knives out but was stopped as two more knives flew through the air, going straight through his palms and pinning his hands to the rock. Raina laughed as Steve shouted in pain.

Raina stopped just in front of him, the churning up all around them; Steve suddenly found it hard to breathe.

"Rain, don't!" Rachel attempted again, her words going unheard.

Rain slowly raised the pike high into the air, "My heart was once broken, let's see how you like it now." She whispered darkly, "Farewell." In one motion, Raina plunged the pike, with the addition of Amora's magic, straight into Steve's chest, piercing his heart. Raina stared straight into Steve's eyes as she watched the light leave them.

"Steve!" Rachel shrieked, causing her voice to go hoarse.

"Does it hurt?" Raina asked, her voice void of emotion, as she turned towards Rachel, who hadn't taken her eyes off of Steve. Upon seeing her friend's broken expression, Raina felt something break within herself and she swayed on the spot. Loki, who had just broken Amora's arm, looked in time to see Rain and the damage that she had done to Rachel. He shoved Amora out of the way and ran in Rain's direction, grabbing her roughly and spinning her around to face him. The sudden change caused the cyclone pinning Rachel down to dissipate.

"Rain, please," Loki begged, shaking her slightly, "Look at what you've done."

They were interrupted when Clint yelled Natasha's name, helping her to avoid an attack just in time. Rachel, realising that the only way to help Natasha and the others was to go after Amora, tore her eyes away from Steve's broken and bloody body and fixed them upon Amora as she rose from the ground. Amora smirked as she watched Rachel shakily pick herself up with her disheveled hair and tears still wet on her face.

"Oh, are you going to try to fight me now mortal?"

Loki heard Amora speak and he turned his head from Raina while keeping a tight grip on her arms. Loki's eyes widened when he saw that Rachel was, in fact, being reckless enough to attempt to take on Amora.

"Rachel!" he yelled, "Don't-" Loki was cut off by Raina, whose anger had mixed with anguish.

"Shut up!"

Loki looked at Raina with shock; she had never raised her voice to him like that before.

"What did you say?"

"You'll never understand how we feel!"

"Who is 'we'?" Loki asked, chancing a glance back to Rachel, looking on in horror as she got thrown backwards. Instinctively, Loki looked for his brother, only to see that Thor was attempting to help Gwen be free of the creatures that Amora had changed to resemble tar and start sticking to everyone. He sought out Rachel once more and watched in defeat as she, stupidly, in his opinion, picked herself up from the ground and said "Is that all you've got? Believe me, I've had worse."

Amora smirked at her, "Oh I've heard. Raina has told me so much about you. How you martyred yourself and kept her with you so that you wouldn't be in exile alone. The abuse you took from your lover. All the tragic deaths that you lived through. And your brother," Amora continued as she sauntered over to Rachel, "Your brother liked to choke you," she said, placing her hand gently at Rachel's neck, causing her to stiffen in fear.

"Did you know that it would take so little effort on my part to kill you in this way? The way you fear the most," Amora taunted, tightening her grip on Rachel's neck.

"Amora!" Loki yelled, though he knew it was useless, "Release her," he growled as he watched with sympathy as Rachel's hands flew to Amora's wrist, trying to save herself.

"I will if you will," Amora smiled at him. Loki, by that point was sure that the only thing that was keeping Raina from going off on a rampage was his hands on her; the physical connection was keeping her grounded to reality. Loki was stuck in an impasse, watching as Amora's grip on Rachel's neck slowly tightened, but unwilling to let Raina go without trying to break her free. Loki sent an apologetic glance to Rachel then turned back to Rain.

"Rain, you have fight it! I need you!" Loki watched with hope as Raina's face changed to one of love. Loki released his grip from her arms and pulled her close, wrapping his arms around her tightly, as if he was trying to transfer his feelings to her. He exhaled in relief when Rain wrapped her arms around him and rested her chin on his shoulder.

"Such a childish notion Loki," Rain whispered softly in his ear, "That you believe that you alone are enough to sway me." As she finished speaking, she slipped a knife from her sleeve and stabbed him in the back, missing his heart by inches. Loki gasped, more in shock than anything and pulled away to look at Rain, who had a tear streaming down her face.

So that happened. Izzy had a lot of fun writing Steve dying. I didn't like it too much, but what can you do?

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Thank you for reading.

~Jade