Thea Stark grew up on Asgard up to the age of 13, where she found her father was a human and she went to Earth, in this process leaving her best friend and partner in crime, Loki behind. With a promise to come back, she returns as Asgard faces its immediate doom in hope of helping her old home, and saving her friend from his own mental instability after the battle of New York.

Phil Coulson says goodbye, the long way round.

A Philinda Oneshot in which Melinda May welcomes death like an old friend.