Hello all, this is once again Jade, Izzy and I are terribly sorry about forgetting to update on Monday again, but as I've got a little time today, I decided to put the chapter up and, as a special Christmas treat, I'm going to put up two chapters today.
Hope you enjoy them both
With Loki, Bruce and Steve gone, the rest of the Avengers sat around in the living room together, waiting for everyone to get back.
"What are we going to do?" Natasha asked.
"What canwe do?" Thor asked.
"Stop asking questions and answer them." Tony replied, "We need to give them some space to work out their problems, for starters."
"I hate to ask another question, but where do we go?" Clint asked. Tony sighed, "I suggest that wherever they end up, we vacate that floor."
"Shouldn't someone remain, to make sure they do not kill one another?" Thor countered.
"No," Natasha answered, "They should work this out alone."
"Okay," Clint started, "Then when Rae gets back, we just run in the opposite direction."
"Good plan," Tony said. They all sat down and waited for either Rachel to come back or Raina to come down the stair. They didn't have to wait long before Rachel, Steve and Bruce to come through the back door. Rachel walked in and went straight up the stairs.
She immediately went to Raina's room, assuming her to be in there. When she walked in and saw all the broken glass, she closed her eyes, realising the damage that she had done with her words. Rachel cleaned up the mess, wanting to think through what she was going to say to Rain. When she finished cleaning, she knew there was only one place to go.
Rachel walked to Loki's room and knocked on the door. She didn't have to wait long before the door opened to reveal Loki. He was obviously not happy with Rachel, but she refused to back down with him, especially now. He moved to let her in wordlessly and Rachel couldn't help the look of shock that came over her face. He left the room as Rachel walked in. He closed the door behind her. Rachel walked over to her friend, asleep on the bed. Rachel sat down on the side that Loki had obviously been laying on previously.
Rachel sighed before shaking Raina lightly. "Rain," she said almost silently. Raina curled up into a tighter ball. "Please." Rain sat up reluctantly and faced Rachel. "What?"
"I'm so sorry about what I said earlier."
"I was just trying to help," Raina responded, repeating her earlier statement.
"I know, I'm just stressed. I'm sorry that I took it out on you kid." Rain looked up at her. "I didn't do anything wrong though."
"I know. It's your money, you can spend it the way you want. I just freaked. I was thinking about how I would support you and me andmom. I shouldn't have taken it out on you, it was a shitty thing to do."
"Youneed to stop worrying about money all the time. You don't have to worry about that anymore. But that's not what it's really about, is it?" Rachel's only response was to put her head down.
"I'm just going to miss you so much when you go." Raina's eyes widened, "Go where?"
"With Loki."
"Rae," Rain started quietly, "I haven't decided anything yet."
"You're an idiot if you don't go with him." Rachel said, looking into Rain's eyes, "You can't just stay here because of me, if you love him, you need to go."
"But what about you?" Rachel shook her head, "I'll be here, doing stuff." She smiled at the joke that she made.
"But-"
"Rain, it's fine, I've always had more attachments than you here." Rachel held her head slightly higher and looked at Rain with complete seriousness, "I've got people I need to take care of here Rain. Loki can take care of you."
"What about Steve? You're just going to make him go through heartache again? You're going to put yourself through that?"
"I have responsibilities here."
"On that argument, I have responsibilities too, you." Rachel sighed, it seemed as though they would never get to the same page. "Can we just agree to disagree? For now?" Rain frowned but agreed to Rachel's suggestion.
"So," Rain started, "We should probably go down and tell everyone that we're not going to kill each other anymore." Rachel started laughing, "Sure, but one more question."
"What?"
"Rain, did you even buy sheets and pillows?"
"Yeah, they're in the office." Rachel rolled her eyes, "Of course they are, I'm going to start going in there once a day so you can't hide things from me anymore."
"Well, the Avengers are going to be sleeping in there, so yeah."
"Alright," Rachel said, standing, "Let's go show them that we haven't killed each other."
The girls walked down to the living room, where the Avengers and Loki were all gathered. They had the TV on but it was obvious that they hadn't been paying attention to it. All of their bodies were tense, clearly waiting for the moment when the girls would come down or tear each other to pieces.
"We're fine now guys." Everyone looked over to Raina and Rachel, not really believing that there weren't any more hurt feelings.
"Really?" Clint finally asked, eyeing Raina.
"Yes," She answered. Rachel smiled, "So, we need some help with making the beds."
"This is what is called a controller," Raina explained to Loki, Thor, and Steve, "You use it to control your character. Just watch what I do." Raina stated to play one of her Halo games, explaining what each button does as she did. After a few minutes of letting them watch Raina handed each of them a controller, switching the game to multi-player.
"This game is quite complex." Thor spoke as he attempted to shoot one of his foes on the screen, but to no avail.
"Do kids play these?" Steve asked, concerned.
"Yeah, even though they have an adult rating on them. Most kids get used to the violence, others take it way too far. I blame the parents." Rain explained as she stood behind where Loki sat on the couch, her head next to his whispering tips and such so he could beat Thor and Steve.
"Brother, pray tell how are you so skilled with this 'game'?" Thor asked just as he died again.
"You could say I have a guardian angel." Loki answered. Thor and Steve turned towards Loki to see Raina bent over the back of the couch giving Loki hints.
"If that's how you want to play," Tony spoke up from his spot in the room, "I'll lend you a hand there point blank." He said as he walked over to stand behind Thor.
"I might as well." Rachel sighed as she too went to stand behind Steve. After a couple of hours, and the score coming out almost even with Loki only up by a couple extra kills, Raina decided that they should play something else that was slightly simpler.
"Dance Dance Revolution?" Steve read out.
"Yep, basically if you see the arrows pop up on the screen you step on them here on the mat as they reach the top of the screen." Raina explained. "Hey Rachel, want to demonstrate for them?"
"Sure." The two girls set up the mats and started going through song choices. After a few minutes of arguing over what song to do they finally came to an agreement.
"Nice moves!" Tony called out in the middle of the song. Loki sent a glare at him for looking at Raina that went unnoticed.
"This is certainly a different style of dance from the festivals at Asgard." Thor commented.
"Yeah, different." Steve added.
"Ever that your dancing moves and your fighting moves are similar?" Natasha commented.
"Rain's got her own styles, that's why." Rachel answered.
"Yup!" Raina smiled.
"You look silly." Loki finally spoke up.
"Too bad, you're up next!" Raina shot back.
"That'll be fun to watch." Clint laughed. Loki rolled his eyes. Suddenly, Raina shot her leg out towards Rachel, tripping the woman and causing her to fall over.
"I thought we agreed to no more cheating" Rachel said as she stood up.
"I'm just dancing yo!" Raina snorted.
"Does she play like that often?" Bruce asked Rachel, who'd started dancing again.
"She used to. That's why her fighting moves are similar to her dance moves, Natasha, she used to use them to trip me." The song ended and Raina immediately began to cheer.
"Aight, who's my next victim?" Raina turned to face the group smiling mischievously. For several more hours they all played random games, except for Raina who was banned and Loki who refused to. Finally, hours after the sun had set the group, one by one, decided to go to bed.
"Thor...come outside to me...Thor...come to me." A female voice spoke within Thor's mind. Rising up from his bed in the office, Thor stood and began to walk outside. Rachel and Steve, who were sitting in the entertainment room, heard Thor and asked him where he was going, only to be ignored. Inside Loki's room, Loki turned his head away from Raina and their conversation as if sensing something.
"What is it?" She asked him.
"Something is wrong. I sense magic."
"Could it be Amora?"
"Find Thor!" He exclaimed as he stood from the bed and ran out of the door.
Rachel and Steve were following Thor out the door when Loki and Raina got to them, Loki pushing past everyone to get to his brother.
"Thor!" Steve yelled, waking up the rest of the Avengers. Thor was walking towards the image of a woman dressed in emerald green dress. She had flowing blonde hair and bright green eyes.
"Thor! Where are you going?" Steve yelled out to no avail. But Thor still kept walking. By now the rest of the Avengers had joined them outside.
"Enchantress! Send me back to our reality!" Loki demanded.
"Thor?!" Tony called out to him as well. He kept walking towards the woman. Suddenly, Rain ran forward getting in front of the thunderer, her hands on his chest trying to stop his advance. She growled as she saw it was not working. Rain raised her hand up into the air behind her. The group cringed as a resounding 'smack' sounded through the air. Thor stopped walking and raised a hand to his cheek where a pink hand-print was now prominent on his face.
"Raina, what are you doing? Amora?!" Thor was broken out of his trance, his attention now on the Enchantress.
"You may have been saved this time Thor, but I will be back for you, and you will be mine." Amora growled out and disappeared in a flash of green.
"Well, we know she's here at least." Natasha told the group.
"Thank you friend Raina, for stopping whatever hold Amora had on me." Thor said, placing a hand on her shoulder.
"No prob bro." Raina beamed up at him.
"Well, now that that's settled, everyone back in! I'm freaking tired." Rachel told the group as they all began to walk back inside.
Once Rain and Rachel had gone upstairs to bed, the Avengers and Loki all sat in the entertainment room.
"I don't think we need to worry about not getting getting back." Natasha said, starting the conversation off. Tony nodded and then said, "There's no way we're notgoing to be taken back to our reality."
"Yeah, but what should we do until then?" Bruce asked.
"Ithink that we should just stay here." Loki stated.
"Yeah, we all know your views on the matter," Clint said dismissively.
"But clearly Amora knows where we are, perhaps someone else will find us here, we don't want to be gone when they do, it may be our only opportunity," Loki argued.
"She's only here because Thor's here, and you know it." Natasha said.
"But if we're not going to be here much longer, we might as well stay here," Bruce said logically, he had grown rather attached to both girls over the two weeks that they had been in this reality.
"I agree," Steve said finally, he had been arguing with himself over this point for the last couple of minutes, "We might as well stay where we know we don't run the risk of being exposed, that is, if Thor doesn't care."
"Why would I care?" asked the demi-god.
"Because she's after you," Steve stated.
"Then I say we shall remain here, if Raina and Rachel will have us."
"Okay then." Tony said, "Is everyone else in agreement?" When there were no objections, the group disbanded for the night and Loki, Natasha and Thor went upstairs to the bedrooms while Steve, Bruce, Clint and Tony went to the beds in the office.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!