Hi all. Sorry its take me much, much, much longer than anticipated to put up this chapter. Life sometimes just takes a detour and you've got to roll with the punches. Grandma's better, but she's now in a nursing home now full of adorable seniors we get to spend time with everyday when we visit her. Thanks again for your patience.

"THOR! THOR!" Loki screamed rattling the bars in his prison cell loudly, "THOR I WANT TO TALK TO YOU NOW! I AM STILL A PRINCE OF ASGARD FETCH FOR ME MY BROTHER!"

"Yes I will send for him." the guard replied impatiently. He returned with Thor some time later who looked at Loki impassively.

"What?" Thor asked looking at him annoyed as he peered through the cell door's windowed bars.

"I want to know when the All- Father will return my powers to me." Loki asked as he paced the length of the cell before turning to face Thor.

"I have not heard anything Loki." Thor replied calmly attempting to appease him.

"Talk to him now. Talk to him NOW!" Loki shouted as he ran towards the door and rattled it ferociously.

"I will Loki, I will." Thor replied just as calmly as before, "Brother calm yourself."

"I am losing my patience with you all." he replied as he tried to kick the door open.

"Loki, please."

"I want to know when, I want to know NOW!"

"Loki, you must calm yourself."

"NO! I have had enough." He shouted as he pushed against the door hard. "You can not even begin to understand my impatience!"

"Loki, I will go speak with him now! I do understand your impatience brother."

"You honestly think that I will wait till that doddering old fool decides what to do with me! Where is she, at least tell me that she is safe?" Loki asked softening his voice with concern, hoping that Thor would see his pain so he could exploit it for his benefit.

"She is with my friends, so she is very safe Loki. You have my promise."

"What? That Fury and your Avenger simpletons have her!" he replied with a fury in his eyes that Thor had not seen since they both were on Midgard.

"I had no choice, how was I to ." Thor stated trying to reason with Loki.

"You trust that Fury who is a collector of relics like your father?" Loki replied as he interrupted him pointing his finger at Thor through the cell bars glaring into his eyes "If it is up to that mortal, no one will ever see her again."

"Loki please." Thor tried to reason, as he watched Loki begin to pace around the cell restlessly again.

"You know I am correct, you know I am! Tell him to restore me or I will not be held responsible for my actions. I do not need his help to restore my powers, I have made allies that he could never even dream of." he replied as he walked towards the bars of the cell looking at Thor with darkening eyes.

"Loki be rational, I have told you I will speak with father immediately. Do not do anything rash, please." Thor pleased softly.

"When have you know me to be such?" Loki asked with a maddening grin.

"I will talk to him, please don't do anything rash."

"One more day." Loki emphasized as he glared once more at Thor.

"One more." Thor agreed as he looked at his little brother who's eyes had begun to twinkle thinking all sorts of malice within them that his blood ran cold. Thor knew that if things did not progress quickly Loki would charge on the world he loved again if the All- Father and Fury did not agree to his demands. Thor bowed his head in frustration turned back to the exit of the dungeons, and walked back up stairs to meet with his father. He chewed his lower lip contemplating all the difficulties that lay ahead of him dealing with Loki and all the problems that surrounded him and his family. Thor walked into the small sitting room he had been directed into by his father's guards to hopefully put to rest the issues he had been mulling over in his mind as he walked.

"Father, I have just come from seeing Loki. He is demanding that you restore him." Thor said looking at Odin who was standing with his back towards him looking out into the city below him.

"There will be conditions if I do consider it." he said as he walked towards his son sitting down on the couch nearest to him.

"He said that if you do not restore him, that he will find other means." Thor replied as he sat down in front of him, Frigga walked towards him and sat on the arm of his chair placing her arm around him.

"What other means?"

"The Dark Worlds he has traveled, I am assuming that is what he was alluding to. Please do not let it get to that level, restore him I will watch him myself."

"He can not be trusted, but you have a point my son I know what to do. He will have his powers conditionally, upon her restoration he will lose his powers and will be brought back to Asgard. He must not know of this, his behavior does not leave me much of a choice in this matter."

"Is that wise husband?" Frigga asked looking at him with worried eyes.

"He only wants Sekhmet mother, I do not doubt that his only concern will be to get her back."

"Please, husband. Please do not allow Loki's bitterness to let him do something irrational. Please." she asked as she rose off Thor's chairs arm rest then walked towards her husband taking his hand into hers as she sat next to him.

"You, will be charged with going with him to Midgard. Should you fail, you know what he is capable of."

"Yes, father I will do as you command. He will not leave my sight." Thor replied with and earnest bow.

"Bring him to me." Odin commanded, Thor bowed again and left the room to fetch Loki.

"Well, did you have a nice time last night?" Clint asked as he sat down next to Steve after their workout, mopping his face with a towel.

"Yes, though I never really have taken a girl out. It was easy since she only has television as reference." Steve laughed looking over at Clint who smirked at him.

"Well any good night kiss?" Clint asked smirking still as deviously as ever. Steve looked at Clint deciding if he should say something and then smiled "Nice." Clint replied as he clapped his back hard laughing, "Like I said before, you're welcome."

"It won't happen again." Steve replied looking at him seriously, "I made it perfectly clear."

"What?" Clint said looking horrified, "What the hell is wrong with you Cap!"

"Do you want me to list why?" Steve said as he rolled his eyes.

"Go ahead so I can understand how insane you are." Clint responded rolling his eyes in return as he folded his arms against his chest surveying him as though he was crazy.

"One, she's a probational S.H.E.I.L.D agent, technically. Two, she's another guy's girl. Three she's Loki's girl, Loki remember that? Four, she's Loki's girl. Five, she doesn't belong here, she's not suppose to be here. Do you need me to continue?"

"No, and so what Cap! Loki messed up, he had his chance. You should take the opportunity, hell I would but I'm not her cup of tea. I would love to be able to get in a punching him in the face fight after what he did to me if I was her cup of tea! Man would I love that! Like I said you're her style, which is weird because your all buff and a blond streak of sunshine, and he's a psycho lanky freak and dark in all sorts of fucked up ways." he mused as he tailed off before adding "You should take her out again, fuck him."

"I will, only as friends though."

"Your killing me Cap! Can't I have one friend to live vicariously through? Come on!" Clint replied throwing the towel in his face. "Come on! I never get to enjoy this kind of conversation unless Stark is here, and that's only old news! How many opportunities are you going to have to make out with a genuine goddess, and how many opportunities am I going to get to be jealous about that! I never said to bang her!"

"Really Clint, did you just hear what you said because I swear you said and I quote 'wine and dine on her'? Honestly, I want to date her I really do but I have to respect her relationship with Loki whether I like him or not, even if she remembers him or not. Even if I think he's selfish, greedy, and beyond undeserving of her. It makes me so angry that he didn't even think of taking her once while he was here, I can't believe that he wouldn't have felt that she was here."

"I get what you're saying, I still think that it's ridiculous. So did you kiss her or did she kiss you?"

"She kissed me. I pulled away thought." Steve replied stressing the last part.

"She wants you bad." Clint said smoothly smiling mischievously.

"What are you talking about?" a voice called out from behind them, they both quickly turned to see Natasha watching them with a knowing look and folded arms.

"His date."

"She told me she had a fun time, she hopes you will take her out again. She also told me she kissed you, but you pulled away and then you turned her down. Kind of lame in my opinion, but to each their own." she said shrugging.

"She really had that good of a time?" Steve asked looking at her smiling suddenly.

"She has no frame of reference so yeah, she did. If I was rejected like that I wouldn't be looking to go out again with a guy like that." Natasha replied shrugging her shoulder again looking impassive.

"Hey!" He asked outraged, "Are you telling me that I'm a bad date?"

"Yup! See you later, she's upset and we both decided that punching things sounds like great therapy." she replied as she smirked.

"Punching things? She seemed fine after she left." Steve commented looking at her annoyed.

"No, actually she wasn't fine she was really angry when she left. Because of you, because of Loki. We had a long talk." as she walked off her voice trailing her through the locker room.

"About what?" Steve asked rising off the bench to follow after Natasha's voice to meet her at the door.

"Can't it's against the 'girl code', bye Captain Rogers." she added as she slipped out of the room.

"Fuck girl code, it basically means they ate a bunch of ice cream and talked about how shitty men are." Clint replied as he caught up with him patting Steve's arm in brotherly solidarity, "Like they're perfect!"

"I, I don't." Steve stuttered confused.

"Ah, you've been bitten by the Black iwdow. They're all Black Widow spiders I swear. Don't worry too much Cap, it will blow over in a few days. She'll probably dress up in cute outfits to make you regret some more, flirt with some stupid ass mother fucker in front of your face to piss you off, then it will be like nothing happened. Just ignore it."

"I, I still don't."

"Bitten, nope poisoned I say! Let's go out just us guys, you know, team building." Clint replied with a smirk "I'll get trashed, you can watch, and we both can cry. Move it solider!"

Thor walked down towards Loki's cell he ordered the guards to prepare Loki to transport him to Odin. They opened the door and Loki quickly stood up from the bench he was seated upon "So, the old fool has decided my fate then? Good. I look forward to having my powers back."

"Loki, you must stay with me at all times. That is the condition of your freedom."

"So I am to what, be chained to you?" Loki asked exasperated as they clapped irons upon his wrists, and ankles.

"No, but should it be needed I will request it to be so."

"You trust me still then brother?" Loki asked with a sneer, however Thor only looked at him with a sideways glance before he pulled on Loki's chains to take him back up towards the throne room. "I'll take that as a no." Loki added as they began to walk up the stairs surrounded by half a dozen guards on either side of them. "I am glad that you finally see me as the monster I am." Thor grabbed Loki quickly by the neck and roughly pressed him into the wall. Loki smirked as Thor glared at him "Slay all the Frost Giants, remember brother what you said when we were children."

"I know what you are doing Loki, enough!" he commanded as he pushed him one last time before he grabbed him by the chains and roughly dragged him through the halls. Loki made no protest as he tripped his way through the Golden Halls till they reached the throne room as they were directed by the guards, they walked towards Odin and Frigga whom both were seated next to each other. Frigga seeing Loki in chains again tore at her heart and tears began to form in the queen's eyes, and in a very undignified fashion ran towards Loki wrapping her arms around him.

"Mother, he is well." Thor whispered as he patted his mother's shoulder gently. Frigga pulled away and looked at Loki smoothing his hair checking him over quickly with her worried eyes.

"You have lost weight, I will never forgive them for not feeding you well enough. No matter what anyone says, including you, you are still my baby boy." she said as she wiped the tears off her face. Loki looked into her eyes and said nothing, he always hated it when she cried he honestly couldn't speak any harsh words to her when she was like that.

"Loki Odinson." Odin boomed interrupting the moment that he shared with Frigga.

"I am not a Son of Odin." Loki replied as he shook his head away from Frigga's touch. "Call me by my proper name."

"Loki," Odin started then wavered a bit before he continued, "Loki Laufeyson. After much consideration, and the sworn oath of your brother I have consented to allow you to be restored of your powers conditionally till you have aided in bringing back the Princess Sekhmet. Conditions are as follows. You must stay within Thor's sight at all times, you may not shield yourself from Heimdal, you may not shed any Midgardian blood."

"And if I disobey?" Loki asked as he quirked eyes eyebrows.

"I will hunt you down myself. Do we have a deal?" Odin asked surveying Loki with a keen eye.

"No, I do not enjoy this particular deal. Because if one of those idiot mortals have touched one hair on her head I will personally bathe in their blood, secondly I do not need to be tethered to your idiot son! I only want what you and her father have denied me for far too long, that is my incentive to not do anything that will cause her harm in her mortal state." Loki replied angered.

"Then I will not concede, if you do not follow my edict you will remain here." Odin replied plainly, "The choice is and always will be yours."

"Brother, please." Thor whispered pleadingly "Do not allow your bitterness to bring to you more grief than necessary."

"I AM NOT YOUR BROTHER!" Loki shouted as he shoved Thor roughly away from him.

"ENOUGH!" Odin bellowed "ENOUGH. Clearly you care about no one but yourself, so therefore you may go back to your cell and Thor will collect Sekhmet on his own and return her to her family. You will indeed never see her again. Take him!"

The guards grasped Loki roughly and began to drag him as he kicked and screamed. "FINE! FINE! I WILL DO AS YOU SAY! LET ME GO, LET ME GO! I WILL DO WHAT YOU ASK, I SWEAR IT!"

"Release him." Odin commanded through Loki's screams.

"Father, I must inform the Midgardians of your plans. Sekhmet has no memories, and as far as I am aware she may not have the best recent memories of Loki. Please allow me to first explain the situation to them." Thor added as he walked towards his father.

"They lied to her about me I know they did?" Loki asked as he shook off the guards.

"They only showed her what was the truth Loki, what you did there, what you were responsible for. None of it was lies Loki. How do you expect her not to know of this knowledge? She was mortal at the time!"

"I know that Fury, and I am quite certain that he embellished everything." Loki replied outraged once again pushing and pulling againt the guards that tried to restrain him.

"Loki, will it matter? Once we have her powers back none of it will matter."

"Enough!" Odin said interrupting their what he knew to be a soon to be never ending argument. "Loki then you agree to my demands?"

"Yes, yes I agree." Loki replied coldly.

"Unchain him once you have brought him here to me." Odin commanded as he rose off his throne, the guards walked Loki towards him then unchained him warily watching Odin carefully. Once they were completed their task they stepped back from the Trickster God just as quickly as they could. "Loki," Odin said as he tapped Gungnir once upon the golden floor, "I return to you your powers." once he tapped Gungnir again and Loki fell to the floor screaming in pain as his powers return to him. Thor dropped down to Loki's side trying to control his contorting limbs as Loki continued to scream, he looked up at his father, however Odin remained unphased. Loki felt his veins burn as though his blood was on fire which only furthered in intensity as the time past, his head felt as thought it was splitting in two once the painful fire spread up further his body. Just as soon as the pain started it began to fade, he slowly rose back up with Thor's help as he breathed heavily looking up at Odin. "Well," Loki said with labored breath, "I think, I think, I, I will, be, be leaving then." He said as he vanished from Thor's arms before anyone could even begin to think of what to do next.