I''m so sorry for your long wait! I feel really bad for letting you wait that long, but my semester, jobs and internship stole too much time.

Please note that this is the unbetaed version. I sent this to my beta two days ago and I do not know if she received it. As soon as I get the betaed version I will exchange them.

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Another tracker had returned days ago without any indication where the little mortal child could be. To Aro's frustration even the twin's plan had turned against them as they had planned to use the old coot as bait to get Bella out of hiding. But whatever they did it seemed that these mortals were one step ahead of them. The old mortal woman and her entire family had been relocated according to their neighbours, but nobody had known where. Jane had been so angry that she had dispatched the unfortunate miscreants. It must have been in a hurry as the flats and houses still looked as if they could return any moment and her scent had lingered there but it seemed that they had anticipated their move again. Perhaps the Cullen's appearance had tipped them off. He knew that there was some agency behind it, but the Volturi had never cared to immerse themselves with the politics of mere mortals. Their lives where fleeting and their history tended to repeat it anyway. Even faster with the new technologies. Years ago Jane and Alex had wanted to kill the people enquiring about the missing bus tours, but their seer had warned them, that they were part of a much bigger plan and should better left untouched. Their disappearance would only have lead the wrong people in their little realm. He was currently starving the entire Cullen clan in their dungeons, and hoped to break their spirits long enough for them to return to the "normal" vampire habits. The empath and Edward were close to breaking anyway, but Carlisle and the rest of the clan showed exceptional constraint. It was quite unnerving.

"My Lord!" An excited gangly pale vampire having the appearance of a dark-blond young man in his mid thirtieth appeared before him. "We have found her! She has left the protection and is with a newly arrived player in London Underground. Some old war bunker. Do we have permission to get her?"

Aro happily put his hands together while a grin started to grow in his marbled face. Finally. They would be able to proceed to the next stage.


With the cold, wet, dirty wall behind her back and the towering dark haired Asgardian in front of her she contemplated how to finally escape him. Well she could try going for his sceptre, but she doubted that he would let go of it and he was probably faster than her. Would she be able to break the connection between the sceptre and Loki if she took it from him? Would it affect her? Why had he not been able to turn her into one of his brainless minions? Natasha would certainly try to confuse him with her femininity, but she had no experience in that and it could seriously backfire. She carefully glanced to her left, to her right and to the sceptre while biting her lower lip. What should she do?

"Now what?" she asked annoyed and tried to push the Asgardian away while trying to walk past him but he did not bulge.

"You are a curious little thing." he smirked staring at her, but she did not like that.

"I am certainly not 'a little thing', thank you very much!" Bella scoffed crossing her arms in front. "What now? Are we staying like this? I move this way you move that way?" Bella tried to move past him again but each time he blocked her again and his ever present smirk showed her that he was amused at her tricks to move past him. "I have better things to do than play amusement for you. So move out of the way." She pushed at him again, but he only smirked again.

"Pray tell, what could you possibly have better thing to do?" Walking around her he asked, but it was Bella's turn to smirk as she was now in front of the door and Loki two steps away. She carefully took a step further back towards the door. Now she knew which direction was leading outside and she intended to use it. Loki had still not taken another step from his position but he looked puzzled at her as if he tried to figure something out. Did he really not notice that she was about to slip away, maybe he was goading her but as the sceptre caught her gaze again she could see it pulsating and as she was looking at the tall Asgardian she saw the same blue pulsating in his eyes. He was definitely controlled by it. Was the sceptre trying to keep the hold on mind? Was he fighting it? But how and more importantly, who was controlling him? What could the person behind him gain from their planet? The Tesseract? Well, this was her chance to escape! She spun around, smashed the door closed and sprinted as fast as she could with a rapidly beating heart towards the right side and along the long and narrow corridor, but she heard a roaring "No!" soon after and she pressed for even more speed. She needed to find the bigger corridors which would most likely lead her up to the surface. Suddenly she almost crashed into two patrol guards with automatic guns coming from around the a corner, skidded to the right in front of them only to turn to the other corridor on the right. She could hear two men running after her plus the Asgardian shouting them to stop her and bring her back alive and unharmed. Why did he not use the same trick he had displayed at their first contact? Was he not able to multitask anymore? Run and do whatever he did? There she could spot a stairway up, but as she ran closer she discovered that there was fencing separating her from her escape road. Damn! As it looked somewhat rusty she jumped at it with her feet raised, but it did not bulge. She fell on her back, swearing at the pain, rolled to her right side and went back on her feet running towards the other corridor, but just as she sped towards the dark she could spot something red coming towards her and her heart skipped a few beats as she detected the pale reflection and knew that the leeches had found her. But she would not let them take her. She skidded to a halt again and ran back towards her former pursuers while screaming: "Hostile contact! Hostiles! Take aim!"

The two confused men soon recovered from their initial shock at their former target coming towards them and just took aim as she passed them. She could hear the fast rattling of the automatic weapons and the anguish cries of the two army guys. At least she thought that they were army guys. Turning around the corner again she bumped into Loki and would have fallen to the ground if he had not caught her by her wrist.

"Vampires!" she shouted urgently while pointing to behind her. Loki looked at her, at his sceptre and pulled her swiftly behind him. Too swiftly, as Bella almost kissed the wall.

"Bella. Bella. Bella. You're a hard girl to find." came the sickingly sweet voice from the other end of the corridor which straightened her neck hair.

"Well, I have no desire to become one of you anymore, Jane!" she snapped back while her heart was so rapidly that she could feel it in her neck. "Did you really think that I would not find out about your plans?" I need a weapon!

"You have no choice, my little mortal." Jane said varying her pitch into a singsong. "Our laws cannot be broken and you have broken two already." she said finally stepping into the harsh cold neon light with her brother close behind her. "I'll make it simple for you: Come with us now and we grant everyone in these tunnels a quick death. Refuse and we will make you watch them suffer." Jane smiled in eager anticipation. "I personally prefer the latter."

"You will turn around and leave her alone." Loki cut in Jane's monologue with a booming voice for the first time. "Isabella Swan is under my protection and is therefore not to be harmed."

Several seconds trickled by until suddenly Jane burst into high pitched laughter, together with the five other Vampires behind her.

"You stupid little man! Do you really think that you could stop us from taking what is ours? Who do you think you are?"

It was obvious that Loki did not like to be called little as he balled his left hand into a fist. "I am Loki of Asgard and future ruler of this realm." he proudly claimed while straightening his stance ready to fight. Bella could detect a dark chuckle coming from the vampires.

"If you take her now, I will hunt you down and exterminate your species as soon as this realm is fully under my control. Should you decide to go back from whence you came I will grant you some pitiful rock on this planet where you can hunt. Decide wisely." Bella could feel her rapid heartbeat at her throat and began to see black spots clouding her vision and she realized that she had held her breath.

"Well, Loki, supposed God of Mischief from Norse Mythology. I don't believe a word you say and we will take Bella. Her dear Edward is waiting and yearning for her presence." she snickered and her face became emotionless again.

"Loki! Watch out!" Bella called from behind him, but it was useless. She saw him tensing with pain and the Vampires slowly moving towards them as if in slow motion and she dared not to blink. Don't blink! No she could not let them take her! She had to protect Loki. He was her only chance against them at the moment and to prevent a blood bath, but she had nothing to hold against them. Loki's sceptre was the only valuable weapon and even if she were able to grab it in time there was no chance that she could use it. To the delight of the vampires her heartbeat accelerated with her increased panic as if it was about to jump out of her breast. She knew she was stronger but not that strong! She could not let everything she learned to be in vain or all the people she had befriended disappoint or never see again. She could not leave her "uncle" without talking thoroughly about her strong suspicion of him being her birth father. So far she had not dared ask him about it as she had feared to be wrong about it. But she could not let it be unresolved! She would not give up.

Heartbeats before she saw the Vampire reach Loki and her, something in the back of her head expanded further than in the small room an hour earlier, moved over Loki and stopped the Vampires in their tracks. What the hell, is that? At least she believed that it had expanded over Loki, as his tensing had stopped and he stood in front of her again ready to fight. Did I do that?

"That was the wrong decisions!" he snarled, while jumping high in the air towards to vampires while quickly dispatching them with his sceptre which suddenly seemed to be razor sharp. Or was he using that much brutal strength. Jane took several steps back and focused on the man again, but whatever he did he suddenly seemed to be immune towards her powers. Another immune one?! The third vampire was dispatched before her eyes and Alec tried his luck with his power but Loki angrily lifted him up and pushed him towards the wall which cracked at the impact of his back. How can he do that!? He is not a vampire!

"I told you that Bella Swan is under my protection and you do well to remember it." he angrily shouted, emphasizing it by pulling and smashing Alec's body repeatedly towards the wall with every word. He then proceeded to point the sceptre towards Alec's front and with clear precision the blue light moved over his body and cut the vampire into pieces as blue lines appeared on his neck, arms and legs. Jane, who had stayed there paralyzed from the shock, came out of her stupor and snarled while hurling herself towards Loki. No! Not my brother! But as she was about to grab him her grip moved through the Asgardian who suddenly grabbed her from behind and pushed her to the opposite wall cracking the poor wall and putting some fine cracks on Jane's marble skin before she fell forward on the ground again.

"What shall I do with you?" Loki slowly asked while slowly prancing towards her with his happily glowing sceptre. "I almost want to let you go as you clearly know of our location, but you might bring more of your blood sucking parasites. …. No. Better let them wonder." he smirked happily while Jane looking terrified tried to hastily crawl backwards only to be caught with the wall in her back again. Loki swiftly aimed her sceptre at her and quickly dispatched the teenage looking vampire with one shot of blue from the sceptre until her body parts were scattered with the others in the room.

Bella seeing the different body parts of her enemies lying on the dirty ground realized that her betting on the madman Loki had just saved her life but she did not know what exactly had happened. What was the thing that had expanded from her head? Had she done that? Was she crazy? She felt exhausted, ready to fall asleep. But she could not fall asleep know! She had difficulties concentrating and shivered as if she had exhausted some muscles she did not know about. The thing expanding from the back of her head wavered and disappeared and she staggered to the right wall to support her as her legs gave way and she tiredly slid down the wall until she came to sit on the cold hard, semi wet ground as she watched Loki step over the scattered body parts. "It's not over." she whispered gravely. "They need to be burned immediately, the two guards who died too, otherwise they'll come back."

Loki now coming towards her stopped in his tracks and looked back to the limp parts. With one swish of his right hand they started to scarily rearrange themselves into a pile while the bodies of the two guardsmen were dragged over the floor as if from invisible hands towards the pile and made Bella jump. Bella's breath hitched as she was reminded of several horror movies where the victims or rather their body parts were drawn to their inescapable death. Loki now fully turned towards the waist-high pile of limps and dead bodies and said something in a language she did not understand. As he pushed his right hand away from him there was a golden spark which light the pile and she could watch as the limps were caught in the golden, all consuming fire. He has lighted the pile in here! Underground!

"Are you crazy!" Bella exclaimed horrified! "You are killing us all! There is not sufficient ventilation. We will suffocate and what if the tunnel catches fire!"

But Loki only smiled with glee and shook his head as he strode towards her again:"Little mortals. No idea about the usefulness of magic."

Bella glanced from Loki back to the rapidly sinking pile, and yet she could not smell anything. How was this possible? Did he say magic? I've officially arrived in crazy town! Bella thought to herself shaking her head. But then I am stalked by vampires.

Loki stopped in front of her, swat down, still towering over her while grinning like a Cheshire cat and Bella just wanted to kick him hard in his easy to look at face in annoyance or where he would hurt most, even though he had saved her life moments ago only to wipe that annoying grin of his face.

"Well, Bella Swan. You just made yourself even more valuable and indispensable." Stop talking in Riddles! Bella mentally growled. Valuable how?

"So, I suppose there isn't a chance that you will let me go as I am clearly a security risk to your, ... ahm, operation " Bella asked nonplussed, but decided that she would continue trying. Loki started to open his mouth to retort something, but was interrupted by the noise of running boots towards their location until several armed guys led by Barton came into view.

"Sir, we were just informed about a breach in the eastern parameter." Barton stated stopping right in front of Loki taking in the scene of Bella tiredly sitting on the ground and a pile of burning bodies. She could have sworn that he looked concerned for a second, but when she blinked it was gone. Maybe I am just looking so hard for the real Clint behind the puppet that I'm imagining things?

"It has been taken care of, but you need to strengthen security and better watchmen for this one." Loki ordered pointing at a scoffing Bella who crossed her hands in front of her. "The two you've assigned were clearly useless."

Clint signalled one of the men which came with him and dragged Bella onto her feet again, to which she heavily protested. "Hey! Don't touch me, puppet!" she called trying to wiggle out of his grip and trying to make herself heavier by tensing her muscles,but to no avail. He just was stronger than her and had more experience in handling difficult people. Hell, he had brought Natasha to S.H.I.E.L.D. That could not have been easy. The second man took out handcuffs and she protested even more, trying to thrash her hands around and kicking with her feet! No one would put her in handcuffs! And Especially not after what just happened! How should she be able to defend herself! Clint was agile enough to block her kicks, but the second one was not so lucky and as he heard a startled exclamation of pain the second man let her go of her arm as he dropped to the floor holding his most precious parts she knew that she had hit at least one target. But it seemed that Clint also had enough of her behaviour and with two well placed kicks brought her to the floor again and put the cold, handcuffs on. Curse you! Clint! Bella thought angrily. No she had to look for a metal pin or a small wire somewhere. Lifting her head she saw Loki leaning at the other side of the wall with the sceptre in his hand while watching her little fight with an amused grin. As soon as she would be out of these cuffs he had one coming! Clint dragged her up again although her legs protested again. She was now more tired than before but he and the other men clearly saw it as her continued protest against them.


A few minutes later she was entering the bustling room of all the scientists again and she was lead towards the exact same spot Loki had been sitting when she had first tried to sneak past him, but she would not give up. With one final try she threw herself against the guard walking on her right side and crushed him into one of the workstation, before she was pulled back again by several strong hands. But what they had not seen was the barely visible thing she had stolen from the station and what know felt cold hidden in her closed hands behind her back.

As she had anticipated she was seated at the exact same spot as Loki had before. Clattering tools, tapping, mumbling could be heard all around her. Bella hoped that Loki would not personally guard her. He couldn't have the time, could he? Apparently he did as he sat next to her on the ground, nodded at the men surrounding them, who moved towards various places in the large room and he turned towards her. This could not be good.


"Sir, we've detected an unauthorized access on S.H.I.E.L.D.'s main server in the Hub, about an hour ago." Agent Maria Hill informed her one-eyed boss on the Helicarrier's bridge after the doors behind Romanov and Banner closed.

"Nothing was downloaded, but the curious thing is that someone has tried to access Agent Coulson's file."

Director Fury's expression was unreadable, but Agent Hill knew that he was contemplating several scenarios.

"Were you able to trace it back?" he asked.

"No. The attack was too short, but we detected seven out of ten identifying signature coding strategies Isabella Swan uses and one message, we have yet to decript. I believe that she tried to contact us but was unsuccessful." Fury nodded with his hands behind his back.

"At least we know that she is still on our side. Keep an eye out if she is able to contact us."

Agent Hill nodded and turned to go back to her station but stopped. "Sir, I've wondered. Agent Coulson is remarkably calm considering that his goddaughter was taken. Does he know or is he under the influence of some calming draught?" Maybe Fury had slipped something in his food.

Watching Coulson hovering behind the digital technicians he answered: "Yes, to the first, no to the second. He is being professional, but I recommend watching him when we find her again. He'll probably lose his countenance again" Fury answered thin lipped.