Evie watched Bruce and the Doctor talking quietly, and then turned when she heard Steve say something to her left.

"I'm sorry, what did you say?"

"I asked how you're feeling." Steve repeated.

"I uh- I'm okay I guess. Very confused."

Steve nodded, "Understandable. So you don't remember your name?"

"I don't- I can't remember anything. I don't know who or what is going on."

"Well Evie, as said my name is Steve, and I promise you that you can trust me."

"Are we friends?"

Steve hesitated before nodding. "Yes. We are."

"You hesitated." Evie pointed out, "Why?"

"Because... you and I were...uh, more than just friends."

Evie's eyes widened, "Oh. Oh! Um, I uh-" Evie shrugged not knowing what to say.

"Steve," Bruce spoke motioning him over, he glanced at Evie before heading towards Bruce and the Doctor. After a minute of Evie straining to hear them, the Doctor left the room and held it open for a moment as another man entered the room. The man was extremely tall with long blonde hair; he looked strong with bulging muscles and was just generally attractive.

He stared at Evie for a few moments looking considering before a small smile graced his features and he stepped closer to her, taking the seat that Steve had vacated. "Evie, you are looking well." He spoke in a very posh English accent.

Evie vaguely wondered how she knew it was English but she didn't ask; instead she just looked at said English-accent man. "Uh- I um, thank you?"

English grinned at her as the Doctor left the room and Bruce and Steve came towards them, Steve took the seat that Bruce had been in when she woke up, whilst Bruce sat down on the arm of the chair that English was sitting in.

"Thor?" Bruce asked looking down at English. Evie assumed his name is Thor. The name struck her as unusual, despite the only names she knew at the moment pretty much summed up to the ones belonging to the people currently in the room with her.

"It's gone." He told Bruce who then grinned.

"What's gone?" Evie demanded, "What's going on?" Evie looked between the three men.

"Evie, this is Thor." Bruce explained pointing to English-accent man.

"And what's going on?" Evie repeated.

"I believe you're suffering from full Retrograde Amnesia."

Thor looked away from Evie and to Bruce looking mildly confused – but he seemed to understand the implications of whatever the medical term meant. "What does that mean?" Evie asked.

"That you've lost your memory from a certain date. It seems that you've lost all of your personal memory. You still remember some facts and things that you've learnt but nothing personal."

"Will my memory return?"

Bruce shrugged, "I don't know. There's no way to know until sometime has passed. If it does it may return in parts or all at once. It's very hard to find a pattern and changes from person to person. Thor, you know the most about what happened?"

Thor nodded, "This hasn't been reported before. But I will visit Asgard and Kalur and try to find out what happened." He stood up and smiled at Evie reaching out to lightly touch her arm, "This will be okay Evie. I promise."

"Steve, can you go talk to the others please?" Bruce asked and Steve nodded standing up to follow Thor out of the room.

Evie just watched them leave the room; she caught a small glimpse of the corridor outside the room – white walls and the sound of footsteps walking in unison. It somehow struck her as military. Thor turned to the left. But the door closed before Evie could see anymore. "Where are we? Is this a hospital?"

"No. We're in a base of operations called S.H.I.E.L.D in New York. We're there and in the living area. This room was assigned for you until you woke up."

"Right." Evie nodded trying to digest this information. "But you said I was in a coma for a week. If I was in a coma shouldn't I be in a hospital?"

Bruce didn't answer for a moment, instead he just stared at Evie for a moment, "You know what a coma and a hospital is?"

Evie shrugged, "Uh, apparently."

Bruce nodded, "Good to know. It wasn't a normal coma. You were breathing fine on your own. We just had a Doctor keep an eye on you." He took off his glasses that had somehow made their way onto the bridge of his nose during the brief discussion with the Doctor.

"Okay then. That makes sense I guess. So uh- what actually happened?"

Bruce moved so that he was sitting in Thor's vacated seat and leant forward taking a deep breath. "There are two very important things you need to know immediately." Bruce began, "One is that you're 16 weeks pregnant."

"Preg-" Evie's hands went straight to her stomach, "Steve's?"

"No, not Steve's."

"Whose then? Why did you ask him to leave before telling me this?"

"I asked him to leave cause there's other people that need to know what's happened. And the father's name is Loki." Bruce answered.

"Loki." Evie tested out the name, "Can I meet him?"

"I'm afraid not." Evie narrowed her eyes and Bruce sighed knowing that this could go either way, he knew by telling her this it could cause her to not want to remember but he couldn't keep anything from her. "He's not the best of guys. He's currently in prisoned, he possessed you with a thing called a daemon, caused you to do things that you wouldn't usually do."

"Like what?"

"Try to take over the world."

Evie blinked, "Sorry, what?"

"You didn't succeed though. We managed to stop you."

She frowned and asked, "so I'm a... prisoner too?"

"Not exactly. You were, but you've been... un-daemonised so you're back to being yourself."

"So that's what... Thor, meant when he said it's gone?"

"Yes."

"So I'm no longer a prisoner?"

Bruce hesitated again, "You have more freedom than before but until we know that we can trust you again, you're not completely free." He leant in slightly, "look, when you were daemonised you weren't trustworthy. But now the daemon's gone, and if you don't kick up a fuss about anything or do something against the rules, you'll be given more freedom quicker. Just some advice."

"Okay." Evie nodded falling silent for a moment obviously trying to digest all of this information, "So, you said two things, or was trying to conquer the world or being a prisoner the second one?" she sounded very sceptical as she spoke.

"No, the second one was that you're a mutant." Bruce answered simply; he tried to tell her softly but bluntly was the easiest way to tell her.

"Mutant?" She said it though she was offended.

"People that have abilities. You can turn things into water."

She paused. "That's a pretty sucky superpower."

Bruce laughed. "Not if you think about it. This also means that you can control water. Hey, I'm not going to go into the details of what you did while daemonised but it was anything but sucky."

"Things? Like anything?"

"We think so. You're mostly just limited to how much energy you have, we think."

"Does anyone else I know have abilities?"

They both shook their heads, "Not exactly. Me and Steve, we're not mutants but Steve is very strong. Inhumanly so."

"And you? ...Thor?"

"I uh- if I get angry I change into what we call, the Hulk. But I have a lot of control over it now. Thor, he... isn't human."

"He's an... alien?" Evie obviously didn't believe him judging by the look she was giving him.

"He's a god." Bruce corrected, "well, demi-god. Specifically the God of Thunder and Prince of Asgard. And... Loki is his brother. Sort of."

"Loki? As in the father of my baby Loki? He's an alien?"

"Yes. He's Thors adopted brother from the planet Jötunheimr, he's a Frost Giant."

"So... my baby's an alien?"

"Yes." Bruce nodded, he knew how unbelievable everything he was saying is, but he couldn't not tell her just because she might not believe him.

Evie shook her head, "Look, are you a psycho or something or just a dick for making fun of someone without a memory?"

Bruce sighed, he was probably making her not want to remember but he couldn't keep this sort of information from her, she needs to know. "I promise you Evie that I'm not making fun of you. I'm telling you the truth. I know it's hard to believe, but what would I gain from telling you this?"

Evie shrugged. "I dunno, but this is insane." She gripped hold of the blanket covering her, "See? If I was a mutant should I be able to change this?"

"Since you were our prisoner we didn't want you escaping so we've given you a temporary cure. That should ware off soon."

"How convenient." Evie murmured. "Okay, you, change right now. Show me the Hulk?"

"That would put you in extreme danger without the proper backup. Please just trust me."

Evie sighed, "Why should I? I'm sorry but I've just met you. Why should I trust you?"

"Because we're your friends."

"To me, you're a stranger that I've just met and are trying to convince me of the impossible. Am I actually even pregnant?"

Bruce nodded, "Look under your pillow." Evie did so and she found a picture – the ultrasound. She slowly picked it up to see it closer and she very lightly touched it. "Look, can I be alone for a little while? Digest all of this information? See if I can even try and believe you?"

"Okay." Bruce stood up, "There's a toilet through there if you need," he pointed at the second door in the room, "We'll find a way to bring back your memories Evie. I promise." Bruce told her but Evie didn't react, she was still staring at the picture, so he left the room closing the door behind them. He didn't lock it knowing the room was being watched so if Evie tried to escape she wouldn't get very far, with or without her memories.

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As soon as they left the accommodation floor, Thor and Steve nodded at each other and headed their separate ways. Thor towards the roof and Steve to the main base where he contacted all of these Avengers telling them that Evie had awoken but with extreme memory loss, and asked them to come to S.H.I.E.L.D ASAP.

Once they arrived he told them what he knew and soon enough Bruce joined them and took his regular seat and everyone looked at Bruce to explain.

"Has Steve told you about the memory loss?" he asked and they all nodded.

"Retrograde amnesia." Tony said, "I'll have to read up on it."

"You do that." Bruce nodded, "I began to tell her the basics, her pregnancy, her powers, the Hulk and about Thor Loki but she doesn't believe me. She's made up her mind that I'm ether crazy or a psychopath."

"That's a lot to tell her at once." Natasha said, "If she doesn't like what she hears, it can run the risk of her not wanting to remember."

"Yeah, I did consider that, but in most cases telling people about their lives helps them to remember, by doing that we can't just not tell about her latest actions."

"I understand, just making sure that you're aware of the risks." Natasha nodded.

"So how do we help her remember?" Leo asked.

"Pictures. Photo albums." Bruce shrugged.

"Her Tumblr account?" Tony suggested and Bruce nodded.

"We need to prove her about what I told her otherwise she's never going to believe anything we say."

"Well, there's a bloody lot of footage from JARVIS to help prove it and for her memory."

"Yeah." Bruce agree smiling at Irene, "But saying this we shouldn't tell her all the details. Just, the basics. Also it's not certain that she will remember." Bruce thought to tell them all now before their hopes were raised only to be crushed. "I'm not an expert but there have been cases of people never recovering their memory. You must be aware of that."

"But there's still a chance she will remember?" Irene asked.

"Yes."

"Then I'm not giving up."

"I'm not saying you should, just warning you. I don't want you to have your hopes to high just of have them crushed."

"So what's gonna happen now then?" Clint asked.

"According to Thor, the daemon has gone so she's safe. We just want her to remember now, so if Fury'll sign her off then we can take her home."

"Which home? Back to the tower or our apartment?"

"Tower. It's safer." Steve answered immediately. "She can stay in our- my room; I'll stay in a spare room."

"Can I go talk to her?" Irene asked.

"She wanted to be alone for a while," Bruce told her. "If we gather photos and anything we'll need, at some point we can take her to the cage and I'll change in front of her, show her the big guy."

"Y'know, out of context that sounds-"

"Shut up Tony." Three different people said in unison.

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After Bruce left the room Evie sighed and fell back onto the bed still holding the ultrasound picture in her hand. Her other hand was resting on her stomach.

Pregnant. Possibly alien.

She couldn't really believe that though. She may not have her memory but aliens don't exist and a god? On Earth? Was she even religious?

Plus someone that can apparently change into a Hulk whatever the hell that is, and she can turn things to water?

It just doesn't make sense.

She sighed and put the picture back under her pillow and ran her hand through her hair as she swung her legs out of the bed and walked unsteadily towards the bathroom. It felt as if she hadn't walked in a while. Although, the creepy Doctor man said she was in a coma for a week, so she definitely hadn't walked in a week and as a prisoner, how long had it been since she was actually free to do as she pleased? Even now, she didn't feel particularly free.

The bathroom was literally just a simple toilet and sink with a mirror above the sink and a towel beside it. Evie looked into it at herself, she felt like she should recognise herself but she didn't.

She left closer and looked into her own brown eyes, moved her hair from her face, it felt slightly greasy and needs a wash; she made a toothy grin into the mirror and ran her tongue over her teeth. "Teeth." She murmured to herself for no reason.

Evie turned the tap on and splashed water onto her face and then dried it with the towel. She then turned sideward into the mirror and lifted her plain grey shirt, her belly is slightly swollen. She pressed her hand against it – there's a baby in there she thought.

Sighing she went to the toilet, washed her hands and headed back into her room to lie down on her bed.

"What the hell have I forgotten?" she asked herself aloud, "Obviously a lot."

She closed her eyes and tried to think, tried to imagine someone called Loki that isn't human, she thought about the three men she met, imagining their faces and trying to think about seeing them before. When she thought about Bruce she thought about the colour green but with the others, there was nothing.

She thought about this for a long time until she felt herself slipping into the realms of sleep.

The next time she woke up there was a woman in the seat beside her, she was holding a book and was thumbing through it and grinning at it. She had black hair with slightly lighter roots and green eyes.

Evie shifted and the girls head shot up and she grinned at Evie. "Evie!"

"Uh- hello?"

"I'm Irene, Irene Thompson. You and I, we've been best friends since we were babies. Shared a cot together." Irene bit her lip to stop herself from babbling and telling Evie her life story before she's ready.

"Oh. Okay." Evie didn't know what to say about that. "Uh nice to meet you I guess."

"Yeah, I guess so." Irene looked sad for a moment before grinning suddenly and holding up the book, "This is a photo album. I uh, Bruce told you about some of the latest stuff that's been going on but I thought I should tell you about older stuff. But I mean I don't wanna overload your brain or anything."

"Uh, before we do that, can I get some food?"

"Food? Crap. Food. Damn I can't remember the last time I ate. Yeah come with me. I'm sure you're allowed out of your room now." Irene stood up putting the photo album under her shoulder to hold it.

"Um..." Evie didn't really know what to say so she swung her legs out of the bed and stood up. Irene led her to the door and when they stepped outside they were in a corridor with doors on either side of the corridor. "If I was a prisoner why aren't there any guards?"

"Because you're safe now, and there's loads of camera's all over the place." Irene answered simply; Evie began looking around for these cameras but couldn't see any.

They reached the elevator and Irene pressed the button, "So uh, who are you?"

"Irene. You and I grew up together." Irene repeated. The elevator arrived and they both stepped inside and Irene pressed the button for floor 23.

"What are my parents like?"

Irene hesitated, "They uh- Your dads name was Nelson, he left when you were four. Your mum's name was Rosie; she died a few years back. She was really great I guess but we spent a lot of time with your aunt Maggie. She was amazing."

"Was amazing? She died too?"

Irene nodded sadly, "Last year in October."

"And what's the date?"

"It's July the 16th 2013. But it's like ten at night so it'll soon be the 17th."

"Right." Evie felt she should be sad about finding out all of these important people had died but she didn't know who they were, so she just couldn't bring herself to feel sad. "Anyone else I know dead?" She meant to sound like she was joking but also curiously.

However Irene just froze and looked away from Evie, she swallowed down a frog in her throat and Evie could see the sadness in her eyes, tears shining in them until she blinked them away. The elevator door opened stopping her from needing to reply. They were in another long corridor, doors in either side but there were fewer doors than the other floor but more people, a couple of men and women all dressed in black and ignored the two of them.

Irene led them to the middle door on the left and stepped inside.

Inside the room was a large kitchen, a table that could easily hold at least fifteen people with Bruce and a man she didn't recognise sitting at the far end and two people she also didn't recognise at the closer end. There was also a large double fridge with someone looking through it along with various ovens and other kitchen equipment.

There was a large window over the sink, outside was dark but Evie could buildings, light coming from them all. Without thinking Evie stepped towards it to look out into the city. New York, Bruce had told her.

It was beautiful.

"Evie?" a voice spoke and she turned to see Irene stood behind her and the other people in the room watching them.

"Sorry." Evie spoke looking around again to pay more attention to the other people in the room.

"Evie, good to see you out and about." Bruce commented before he took another bite out of the toast in his hand.

Evie just shrugged at him, "I was hungry. Irene brought me here." She glanced at the others around them.

"Evie this is Mycroft," Irene said pointing at the man sitting beside Bruce with short black hair, blue-green eyes and a rounded face. He wasn't looking at Evie and was clenching his hands together.

"Mycroft," Evie tested the name. "Hello."

Mycroft just nodded at her, clenching his fists again, Bruce glanced at him worriedly and Evie had to wonder what was wrong with him but she didn't ask.

"Um, this is Agent Clint Barton," Irene continued motioning towards the man that stood by the fridge, he was slightly shorter than average height with very light brown hair, almost blonde which stuck up at odd angles, he looked very strong and his eyes were sharp blue as he stared at Evie. He looked considering for a moments before he nodded at her.

"Good to see you Evie." Evie just nodded at him. He then hoisted himself up onto the counter and sat cross-legged on it, his arms around his belly. No one actually questioned this; despite the face he was pretty much putting his shoes on a counter.

"And then those two are Agents Stone and Huiot." The man and woman sat on the other end of the table looked up, the man – Stone – was quite lanky with black hair, brown eyes and a scar across his forehead. The woman – Huiot – was Asian and she looked kind with a kind of feel that she'd forgive but not forget.

They both nodded at her and Evie nodded back not knowing what else to do or say.

"Do you want a sandwich?" Clint offered suddenly, "I was gonna make myself a cheese sandwich?"

"Please." Irene nodded and Evie shrugged and looked at Irene.

"Do I like cheese sandwiches?"

"Yes."

"Yes please then."

Clint nodded, slipped off the counter and began to make them, Irene and Evie sat down opposite Bruce and Mycroft.

"So, will you show me the Hulk?" Evie asked Bruce.

She needs proof of what he's telling her. Just so that she knows that they're not just making fun of her and trying to make her crazy just because she's lost her memory.

Bruce sighed but he nodded, "We can head up to the cage, it's safer there so I can't hurt you." he looked nervously at Irene. She had seen the Hulk during the battle but he hated the idea of her seeing him again. He didn't want to scare her away.

"Now?" Evie asked him, the sooner the better so that she can begin to process everything that she's been told so far.

"Uh," Bruce hesitated; he wants to put it off but knows he can't - at least not for very long so he nodded, "Yeah. Before you eat might be better."

"Clint, just put the sandwiches in the fridge please. We'll eat them in a little while." Irene called over. Clint glanced over at them and nodded. "Croft, do you wanna come?"

"No, I'm fine." Mycroft answer not looking at them. Evie was slightly surprised, for some reason she had expected his voice to be slightly deeper than it is.

Bruce led them out of the room, Evie and Irene walking close behind him, "Why does he need to be in a cage?" Evie asked as they entered the elevator and Bruce pressed the button for the top floor.

"He's strong. Stronger than anything you can imagine and he's always angry. If you're in his way he won't hesitate to hurt you."

"Actually," Irene spoke up, "During the uh, the last time I saw him he threw a car at a mutant I was fighting with and as soon as he- as soon as you, saw me, he came running and grabbed me out of the way."

"I didn't know that." Bruce said and Irene shrugged.

"You don't remember?" Evie asked curiously.

"I get flashes of what happened but not fully, no. When I hulk out it's no longer actually me, I'm there but in the background."

Evie nodded and the elevator doors opened. This time they opened straight into a large, windowless room.

In front of them was a single metal door with a number pad beside it and beside that was a screen attached to the wall. Bruce turned the screen on and it displayed a large room, it was empty with white walls and a grey floor.

"That's an interesting cage." Evie muttered, Bruce chuckled.

"The walls are strong, very strong. But if they do happen to break it will trigger tranqs hidden throughout the room and put the Hulk to sleep."

"Oh. Okay." Evie didn't know what else to say.

"Uh, I'm gonna strip now because I like these clothes, but I'll keep the underwear on." He thought to add, "and then I'll go in there and change."

Evie immediately spun around to face away from him, but Irene just lent back against the wall and smirked at him. Bruce rose an eyebrow at her and she just smirked, "What?" she asked him.

Bruce rolled his eyes but he removed his shirt and trousers, trying to ignore Irene's eyes as she looked him up and down hungrily.

He then turned to the door and pressed a code into the door; turning back he caught Irene's eyes for a moment before closing the door behind him. Irene turned to the screen; Bruce was stood in the middle of the room looking towards the camera.

"Evie, this is what you'll want to see." Irene spoke and Evie slowly turned around and locked her eyes on the screen.

"Knock once on the door if you're ready." Bruce spoke, his voice coming through speakers on the screen making Evie jump.

Irene looked at Evie who nodded so Irene knocked once heavily on it and then turned her eyes back to the screen.

Bruce stood for a moment, breathing heavily before, despite the small screen they could see his eyes obviously change colour, his skin began turning green and he began to grow, his muscles budging out, growing taller, his bones clinking and they winced at the volume of it, the large he got the darker shade of green his skin went. His underwear grew with him – thanks to Tony's technology. His eyes were locked onto the screen and they were Bruce's eyes until the very last moment when they went fully black and he was now the Hulk.

Evie's eyes were locked onto the screen; her brain going into overload, this man had just changed into a monster in front of her. He was giant; he could crush her so easily, blocked by just a wall and a door.

She felt like she should recognise this but it just succeeded in terrifying her. He could turn into this at any moment and she was supposed to be friends with this guy?

And then if this is true, then does that mean everything else he said is true? That she's having a God's baby? That she has powers?

She watched the Hulk roar and begin to punch at walls and jump at them, try to escape. He jumped at the door hitting it hard and both Irene and Evie jumped away from it but it wasn't even dented.

She closed her eyes for a moment trying to take this in. It's incredible that this can actually happen but how was she supposed to react? She has no idea. This means she's having an alien God's baby. That thought alone was enough to make her want to curl up in a corner and give up but she couldn't. She knew she had to try and live for this baby, despite everything the one thing she knows for absolute certainty is that she loves this baby and would do anything for it.

Part of her wished that Bruce had been lying to her, just trying to make her crazy but he's not. She tried to take over the World. She hoped that was an overreaction on Bruce's part but something told her that it wasn't.

So - what does she do next?