AN: Please don't hate me by the end of this alright? k thanks. It's worth it, it's all worth it! I own Kiera and nothing else.

Show me how to lie
You're getting better all the time
And turning all against the one
Is an art that's hard to teach
Another clever word
Sets off an unsuspecting herd
And as you step back into line
A mob jumps to their feet

...
Slowly out of line
And drifting closer in your sights
So play it out I'm wide awake
It's a scene about me
There's something in your way
And now someone is gonna pay
And if you can't get what you want
Well it's all because of me

'You're gonna go far kid.' The Offspring

We walked down the crowded streets of New York , Loki now wearing something he would have as Logan trying to blend in more. Our conversations thus far had been mainly concerning how nice I looked and how I was coping well with being bound to such a great and powerful god such as Loki. I caught him look me over multiple times during the hour of walking.

"I'm not going to do a trick you know?" I said walking faster than him and he caught up grabbing my elbow.

"I realize that but I've just come to a conclusion." I turned and looked at him. People were now walking around us still trying to go places at night.

"What?" I said flatly.

"You're much more at ease here where no one notices you as opposed to your own home. Where there are only the select few who even know you here, you are more relaxed. At home everyone knew you and gave you attention but you were suffocated. This is what I don't get. You love anonymity, yet crave an individual's attention." He looked at me to explain and I sighed. If I summoned up every ounce of my phycology course work I doubt I'd even come close to figuring myself out but I could try.

"I- I really don't know why that is. My mom said I was a people-pleaser. I changed based on my surroundings, because I don't like to disappoint people."

"Which explains a lot." He mused.

"Huh?"

"You try to be a strong fighter for the Avengers, you tried to play an obedient daughter at home, and for me you are defiant yet broken. Blayne you were strong, you were scared you were everything."

"Because I still could be myself around him. He still knew me better than anyone." I whispered. I let my head hang low and slumped. He knew me better than myself and I let him die. I let him go on a path of evil. I heard Loki groan beside me. "What?" I asked perking my head up.

"Do not do that." He said holding a hand over his chest.

"Do what?" I asked.

"Feel so despaired. So hopeless, remorseful. WE are linked, when you feel such strong emotions like that, I feel their effects as well." He stated. I furrowed my brow and tried to wrap my mind around it. That could explain any mood swings I had.

"Why did you link us?" Loki stiffened and glanced at me then away. He walked away from me and I followed him. "It's a simple question!" I asked walking in step with him.

"It is not simple. I fancy you. You're a surprise and a beautiful woman, yet you are insecure about everything, that's why you're a people pleaser. I linked us so that I could find you, know when you're in danger, and protect you."

"You'd protect me even when you're hell-bent on destroying everything I know and love?! Now who's the confusing one!?" I asked backing away from him. He sighed and rubbed his temples.

"You over-analyze everything."

"I do not! What do you really want?" I asked. He walked over to me ignoring and shoving those walking around us.

"I want you," He grabbed my trembling hands and looked me in the eyes. "As my queen, my equal, my love. Is it so hard to believe I'm capable of that?" I looked at him and searched his face. He was being so open. How could I not believe him? Well, let's see he is the god of lies and he's going to destroy my world. Yeah shouldn't trust him.

"Yes it's hard to believe." I tore my hands from his and walked on. He sighed and I heard him mumble under his breath.

"This will be a long night."

O"O"O"O"O"

"Alright Kiera where's my dinner? I've located you're crazy boyfriends location you can now go have another destructive sleep-over!" Tony announced walking in the door to the apartment with Bruce in tow.

"She's not here." Thor stated walking from the kitchen to meet his friends. Tony met him at the counter and gave him a skeptical look.

"What do you mean not here?" He asked

"She wished to have some alone time and clear her mind." Thor stated simply munching on a pop tart.

"Well I wanted dinner waiting for me when I got done working my ass off!" Tony said resorting to the bar across the way in the lounge area.

"So make it yourself!" Steve said from the couch. "I think Kiera has earned a few hours to herself."

"What's got you so riled up Stars?" Tony said pouring a himself a glass and nursing it as he walked over to him.

"You think she's just here to serve us!" Steve jabbed.

"No! It was a joke! Calm down. But seriously we figured out where Loki is we need her so we can start formulating a plan of attack." Steve stiffened a bit and a shimmer of fear passed his eyes.

"Someone get her back here." Bruce said. Steve sighed and pulled a phone from his pocket. He fumbled with the touch screen for a moment before Tony ripped it away from him and dialed Kiera's number. He heard nothing but the constant dull ring of a dead line.

"Well that's not good." Tony said throwing the phone back at Steve.

"What?" Bruce asked.

"Her line is dead. Not even a voicemail. She could be dead too. That's a problem." Tony said rising from his seat on the couch. Everyone was panicking now, excluding Tony. He was always trying to play cool.

"Well we have to try and find her!" Thor said

"What if she ran off with Loki?" Steve asked tasting the words before they came out. He seemed to be conflicted with the idea. On one hand, she was his teammate, but something was telling him to push this idea, it was more plausible.

"She wouldn't do that." Bruce said "She cares about the team too much to just throw everything away!"

"What if she cares about Loki more? He was already using her as a spy! Think about what he did to Barton! It's not hard for him to manipulate people around him, and it'd be easy to change someone who likes him!" Steve stated now backed behind the idea.

"I thought you were on her side!" Thor said.

"I was until Barton snapped. He made excellent points that you all refused to believe because she's been so nice! I mean yes she is a nice girl around here who helps out a lot, but do we really know her? We should be glad she's not here right now while we're planning! She is probably on his side, and was the whole time!" Steve stated growing angry.

"You need to calm down Rogers. She's not going to turn us over to the psycho!" Bruce said.

"How do we know that for sure? Loki is always one step ahead, he could pull the wool right over our eyes and we'd never notice until it was too late." Rogers said grimly.

O"O"O"O"

"Dinner? What's next a long walk on the beach?" I scoffed as Loki held the door open to an Italian Bistro.

"No but I said I would feed you. So I will." I rolled my eyes as we were escorted to the back in a dim candle lighted booth. Loki pulled my chair out for me and asked for some red wine to be brought to our table.

"How did-"

"Reservations my dear. I have learned some of your customs and adapted. However I'm not going to make these permanent adaptations. Now, I'll ask again. Please join me, as I do not want to see you side with such an odious bunch of freaks that are doomed to fail." He said full of sincerity. I laughed and crossed my arms leaning away from him.

"You're crazy, you know that right? They will beat you."

"They have no idea what's coming. They won't be expecting it at all, and I relish in the fact that I have bested them." I furrowed my brow and tried to piece together anything I could to figure out his plans. "Oh, don't bother my pet. You didn't see it coming either."

"See what?" I asked scared. I looked around me checking for anyone that looked suspicious and Loki laughed at me. The waiter walked up and I kept my eye on him as he poured the wine leaving the bottle at our table.

"Oh dear me. You are rather jumpy. Do you think I would be so rude as to attack anyone whilst they dine? That's just bad manners for a King don't you think?" He had a sick smile on his face and I bit my lip. Great, after dessert, I am out of here.

"I think any king who tries to rule with violence, is a poor king." I stated looking down at the menu. He studied me and seemed to conceder what I had said before brushing it off and looking at his menu.

"It's all in perspective dear heart. All in perspective." He said not looking up from his menu. I wasn't even reading the ink on the page I was trying to wrap my mind around the fact that he was here and we were talking over dinner. This is just great, on a date with evil. "What will you be having?" He asked carelessly. I looked up at him confused. Was he really trying to play everything cool? Did he really see this as a date? He shook his head and closed his eyes. "It was a simple question my pet, no need to look so dumbstruck," He looked back at me and saw the flash of hurt on my face. "I'm sorry. That was uncouth of me. Instincts and all. Forgive me." I looked into his blue-green eyes and smiled a bit, before taking my wine to hide the smile. He was evil and I kept forgetting that. I glanced over the rim of my glass and his eyes were still looking at me to accept his apology. I set the glass down carefully and tried to formulate the correct words.

"I'll forgive you if you tell me how you truly feel about me. Am I just a pawn or am I a plaything? What am I to you Loki?" I finally looked into his eyes and he blinked and I watched his face furrow with confusion. He didn't know. He leaned back and looked at his lap for the answers.

"Well, I suppose the best fitted word would be an object of affection," he glanced up and then back down like he was ashamed to tell the truth. "I desire you in more than just the physical ways, you rival me and it just mystifies me that a mere mortal is as worthy of the blood of an Aseir as you. You have the heart of a warrior and the passion of any scholar and are determined like any laborer. You possess all the strong beauty of a Valkyrie and it's strange to find these qualities in a human. I wish to protect you from harm, as best I can, because in the end I want you by my side to amaze me like you do for all eternity." I started blushing and by the end of his confession I had to be beet red. But could I believe any of it? That's the problem.

"How much was truth?" I asked. He looked up at me hurt filled his face.

"You think I was lying?"

"Well as god of lies and mischief, your word cannot be trusted often." His face dropped and he fought back a smirk.

"You make an excellent point my pet, but every word I spoke was laced with the purity of truth." He stated. I nodded my head slowly and looked back down at the menu. "Would you have questioned it if Logan said those things to you?" I froze. This was true. I would have giggled and blushed and carried on like a normal woman if Logan had told me these things, but Logan wasn't a scheming man trying to take over the world. The waiter came over and asked if we were ready. "A few more moments, my darling is torn between the wide succulent variety of foods you have offered. She never gets used to being treated like a queen." Loki wove his words so artistically the waiter practically shined with pride to be working at this place now. He walked away and I just stared at Loki, he seemed equally proud of himself. His silver tongue was his favorite trait, it was obvious. "Now dear heart, about Logan. Tell me what you thought of him."

"He was kind and a gentleman. His attempts may have been obvious but I felt safe being near the mysterious man."

"And why is Loki so different?" He asked

"Because he's a demented evil mastermind bent on destroying the world I love!"

"Still caught up on that aren't you dear?" He asked clicking his tongue. I scoffed and shook my head. "I'm not going to destroy the world, I am going to fix it!"

"How?"

"There are many methods my dear, regrowth, reform, but everything powered by fear."

"Loki, how can you expect people to listen or even admire their king, when they live in fear of him?"

"Fear and love are closely intertwined. Look at yourself." He looked up at me smirking and then glanced down after making sure his words had the right effect on me. "Besides, fear gets things done, love backfires things. Think on that." I did. Every time I was afraid of Loki I got things done, I escaped, I got things done that needed to be. I feared for my family getting hurt and I left my friends to try and protect them. But love, love made me not want to hurt Blayne when he needed to be stopped, love made me get into a dangerous situation and made me conflict with myself over everything. "When people begin to see things as I do, this world will be better." So I began seeing things as him. Trying to piece together what he was now saying. He bowed his head down looking at the menu again.

"So you are saying love is pointless?" He glanced up and held my gaze. The way his face was now angled he looked more sinister than ever. I continued anyway. "If I'm correct in following your thought process, you don't love freely. It ruins your plans." He slowly lifted his head up and set the menu down in front of him. "You don't love me this is all a bluff, what are you getting at?" He reached for the wine glass and swirled it a few times before sipping from it. He set it down making a loud thud and looked at me with dark eyes.

"I had hoped this evening would go on much longer, perhaps I could have been better off by the evenings end after convincing you I 'loved' you and I had you where I wanted. You truly are too clever for your own good." I shifted in my seat and glanced around. "Blayne, he was blinded by that concept of love as well, and I freed him of it. I twisted his depression and morphed it into anger. He became something then, not just an empty soul. That's the reform that must happened." I gulped down the fear that was forming as he continued. "Because I feel we have grown so close my dearest and you won't be able to tell a soul anyway, I will give you the whole truth; The pond you two were at was the mixing pot for my newest fuel source. I was informed that two people were getting near it and I went to investigate. By the time I got there, you both had fallen in. I decided to let you both die but after thinking, if that original fuel source mixed with a living creature's blood, the effects would be very powerful. So I took it upon myself to rescue the man, thinking he would be stronger, but I was wrong. His blood was too tainted with your mortal's drugs to be as good as I needed it, so I needed a cleaner source. So I had to have you. Unfortunately SHIELD beat me to you and I had to continue to use Blayne, but he would not stop blubbering about you so I reformed his mind and emotions to benefit me! He was very obedient in that state and he became my new toy. He even was kind enough to be a victim of a new spell I found. One that places darkness on the heart that can be spread to whomever the cursed chooses, fortunately mind control works well for the victim to choose wisely." He winked and continued. "But all those details aside, I have you and I will win." His face softened a little for the next part. "Please don't think my offers to be my queen were for show, because I would love to have you beside me after all of this, that is if you survive me draining all the blood from your body." I was frozen. Fear, it just consumed me.

"You-you made Blayne act that way?" I said letting tears form.

"Yes I did. And may I just say, it was a very hard process. He still loved you so much when he woke up, but like I said, love doesn't accomplish anything." He said smirking. I bit my lip and let the tears fall.

"And you never loved me, you just put on a show."

"Alas, you're correct. Love is much too strong a word, I respect and admire you. The love part was a well-organized show based upon the torture of reading Nicholas Sparks." He said wincing a little.

"All of this, and you don't feel a bit of remorse? The bond? The emotions?"

"Doesn't even make me bat an eye, as for the bond, necessary. The emotions are just a side effect of a well thought out scheme." He smirked and sat back enjoying this.

"You monster."

"Mmm, is that it my dear? Let your anger out. Embellish it! Live in it!" My hands balled into fists and my knuckles were white. I was so mad at myself for letting Blayne go like I did and mad at Loki for changing him when he was still a good person. He had blindly lead me on as well. Everything a con.I snapped. I sprung from my seat and let my body change states. Loki was ready for it and grabbed me before I attacked him and set me solid. The same pain he had given me earlier when warning about breaking the bond was running in my body, only my screams were muffled by his hand over my mouth. "Fear, gets things done, anger gets you killed." He said before making us both disappear from the place and into some huge white room in the middle of god knows where. "You and that Captain have been a great help, you giving me power him giving me knowledge." Even in all the pain I managed to breathe out a 'what?'

"You see my dear, when I bonded us I want to know where my fuel source was. When Blayne paid your tower a visit he gave Steve something special from me, a heart of darkness, and as time wore on it's grown more powerful, and by now, if my calculation are correct, he should be turning against the team. I figured if I bound us you would be the bigger picture, a direct connection to the enemy, watch her moves. They all over looked Steve's and now I have you and I have him, ready to destroy the very team he's in charge of." Loki said letting an evil smile form.

O"O"O"O

Clint was walking back into the suite Natasha by his side.

"I am sorry for everything Natasha, she was just trying to help."

"I was trying to you that all along" She punched his arm playfully and he held it in mock pain.

"Too bad that doesn't work for knocking sense into people." He joked.

"Yeah, because if it did I woulda decked ya a lot earlier." She laughed opening the door. Inside it was deadly quiet and the place was a wreck. The window was broken and the couch torn in two. The pair looked at each other preparing their weapons at their belt.

"I wouldn't do that." Came a loud voice behind them. They turned and pointed their guns at the heart of the person. Natasha saw who it was and lowered Clint's weapon.

"It's just the Cap'n Clint." She stated.

"What the hell happened?" Clint asked motioning around.

"Kiera." Steve stated darkly letting an evil smile form that would match Loki's.

AN: well, that was a plot twist plus some. now there is a reason behind why steve is blaming Keira and whatnot and i hope that this was good enough to make up for my like state of death for a while back. Plot twists are my favorite and i was debating the Stve thing but then i'm like, you know what: it's a sick thing that loki would totally do.

And yeah the 'date' was a set up. Loki hoped by the end of the night he would have her running into his arms and that would make everything easier but well. Kiera's too smart for that shit. However Loki still kinda won... we'll have to fix that!

But leave reviews and stuff thanks!