"Are you just going to sit there and not say anything? Staring is rude" commented Loki, the silence becoming too much for him. After saying his name, the young woman had just sat up and stared into the abyss for the last several minutes. She slowly turned her head in his direction, locking eyes with him.

"I have no interest in talking to a selfish pampered Prince. I prefer an intelligent conversation. Not one where I am repeating myself"

Loki smirked, the amusement now dancing in his eyes. "You've met Thor then? Well…" he said, backing up to take a seat on the bench inside his cell. "I am nothing like him. If you desire an intelligent conversation? Try me"

Lucy's expression turned into one of concentration before, "What would you say if I told you: I added powdered root of asphodel to an infusion of wormwood?"

Loki's eyes widened, instantly on his feet, he came as close to the glass as he could get. The shock and realization on normally poker face evident as he studied her. "Lucy?"

"What would I get?" she repeated in a monotone.

"I would answer to find a Garden Daisy, mix it with Purple Hyacinth, Rosemary, Bay leaf, Wood Sorrel, and finally Amaranth Globe. But right now? I say: Your Angus Castus matches Currant. Where's your brother?"

"He's here, in another part of the ship. My friends are momentarily looking after him"

"Lucy!" called out a familiar female voice.

"Agent Hill,"

"What are you doing here?" asked Fury's second in command as she walked in.

Lucy looked back at him, "I've got to go." Loki gave a slight nod before a bouquet containing the flowers and herbs that were discussed earlier appeared in Lucy's hands as Agent Hill guided/herded her out of the room.

"May I see that?"

"If you promise not to defile it. Other than the creation, I can detect no mind control substance"

The Agent raised an eyebrow. "How do you-?"

"Some people are born with an extra gene that works like a sixth sense. They receive special education in order to control it and can even detect some other "unnatural" things. Let's leave it at that" said the teen, reluctantly handing over the bouquet as they walked.

"Director," she said upon re-entering his office, the group had decided to reconvene there while the janitor did his job cleaning up with the water.

"Miss Potter," said Fury, "You decided to rejoin us"

"Found her with Loki. How she got in there-?"

"Thank you, Agent Hill, I'll take from here" he finished. Taking notice of the floral arrangement in her hand questioningly.

"They're not mine Sir, Loki gave these to Lucy-"

"What a second!" stated Tony Stark coming forward. "Mr. Kneel before me" actually got on his knees and gave a girl flowers?! Never mind a Minor."

"My brother doesn't give tokens of affection, except to our mother when he was younger" said Thor, now curious. "What did you say to him?"

"I asked him what would I get if I added powered root of asphodel to an infusion of wormwood?" Lucy answered, her eyes narrowing in his direction.

"You quoted what Sn-Our teacher asked at the beginning of last year? Why?" asked Harry, puzzled.

"No, seriously. What did you talk to Rock of Ages about?" asked Tony, while Bruce face turned thoughtful. "Asphodel is a type of Lily"

"That's our Mum's name!" said the boy, "You were asking him about our Mum?" Lucy nodded.

"It was a coded message," said Steve and Natasha at the same time, their backgrounds kicking in.

Once again, the girl responded with a nod. "Lucy, you can talk in front of them" said Mary Jane, "They've all taken the Vow." She raised an eyebrow in the "Thunder" God's direction. "Even him,"

"My most humbling apologies to you again. Lady Lucy. I am truly… Sorry" he said, letting the double meaning of his words be known while this time keeping his distance.

The teen stared at him for a minute before responding, "We shall see, I will be watching you" She turned her head back in the direction of the bouquet, "Can I Please have my flowers back?"

The Agent looked at Fury who slowly nodded as she put them down on the desk before excusing herself and making her way out the door. If something important was revealed, she trusted her boss would tell her.

As Lucy silently picked up the flowers, staring at them. Midnight cleared her throat, "You really told him that "I bitterly regret Lily's death" And he answered you with "I share your sentiment. Please Forgive me. I changed in death. Remember my motherly love for you is eternal?"

"Loki said that?" questioned Fury.

"It's what the flower arrangement in the bouquet means. It's Victorian Flower Language. Sometimes in the 1830's up to the early 1900's the people in England sent coded messages to their loved ones using flower arrangements. He wouldn't have known that unless he had been her. Flower language was often how she and my Father communicated in secret at school" said Lucy, making her brother's eyes widen. Snape was actually apologizing for their mother's death when they first met! But since he didn't know the language, there was no way he could've understood.

"Did you just say "Mother?" asked Thor, "Loki is your mother?!" Now realizing the true reason behind his niece's coldness.

"Don't even think about it" she warned, stepping in front of her brother protectively.

Oh Father, what have you done?! "Ragnarök," ever since the Prophesy of Ragnarök. The "All Father" has treated all of his brother's children the same: like Monstrous Enemies. It was one of the biggest regrets he'd had when he'd mourn after Loki had fallen off the Bifrost. Standing by, holding his brother back as he cried and begged for his children as they were banished and thrown out of Asgard. Lucy looked at him like a threat, and in a way he was. Did the "All Father" know about his new grandchildren? That was a stupid question, if Lucy's claim what anything to go by. They had met. But why? Why did he spare them and not the others?

"Stand down," ordered Steve Rogers, "Everybody needs to stand down. We are on the same side here"

"That my dear Captain is questionable" Lucy breathed, her eyes tightening.

"Thor? Why don't you take a walk? Maybe check on your brother? See if you can get him to talk?" suggested Fury, not buying what he was saying, but also not wanting that obscurial thing inside Lucy to break loose again. Once was enough, and they had the Hulk onboard as well. He didn't know if his ship would survive if the two of them started going at it. "Best defuse the situation" he breathed.

Thor nodded, going towards the door before looking back. "I mean you and your brother no harm. If it is true, you are my Niece and you are my Nephew"

"Which means what?" asked Lucy.

"You are my Family" he answered, completely catching her off guard as he closed the door.

...

"Lucy!" said Mary Jane, lightly shaking her friend, hopefully out of shock. "Focus," she waited until her eyes and expression went back to normal.

"I'm sorry. Wh- what?"

"That's better, now did you get anything else from Loki?"

"He said "My Angus Castus matches Currant"

"Your cold indifference puts a frown on my face"

"This is getting us nowhere," said Steve Rogers.

"He's the "God" of Mischief and Lies, you can't expect him to make it easy"

"Judging by his earlier performance with Miss Romanoff, it's safe to say that guy's mind is a bag of cats" Bruce Banner agreed.

Director Fury had "asked" the Black Widow to find out Loki's plans. When she got him to reveal that it was to unleash the Hulk. She had rushed back, barely being able to defuse the situation by tearing Bruce away from Loki's mind controlling scepter with the promise of food. Hence why they all went to the Canteen in the first place.

"Hold up," said Tony Stark, "Are we not just going to talk about the bombshell that just landed in the room? Rock of Ages is these kids' Mother? Which doesn't seem a surprise to "One eyed Pete" over there. You knew, Fury?"

"Yes, I did" he answered him, rolling his good eye. "Analyzing and tracking Loki's blood left over from the earlier attack is how we found them. As for Loki being their Mother, I believe I will let Miss Potter explain"

"Thank you Dr. Director. It's really quite simple Iron Man. Loki is a Master Shapeshifter. He can turn into anyone and anything with ease. Even a Female and that includes their reproductive system. From there it's just the basic math: Boy meets Girl, they start talking and you know the rest: Relationship then Bedroom or sometimes not even that. I was created at a School Dance. Enough said?" she asked, hoping he would get the hint and drop it.

The billionaire shook his head, "The more we discover about this guy, the more seriously screwed up he becomes. No offense kids,"

"None taken," said Harry, if only you knew how much our life was already screwed anyway, he thought to himself.

"We need a plan," said Natasha Romanoff, all of a sudden. "It's obvious that talking to Loki is getting us almost nowhere. He's a wordsmith if I ever heard one. He'll keep sending us in circles until it's too late. Maybe that's his goal? To get us all out of sorts, so when his plan of world domination comes. We won't be able to do much of anything, standing against him. There has to be another way to get information out"

Instantly the three Witches started pacing before coming together, making a triangle. Leaving Harry and the others bewildered. "What's going on?"

"There might actually be another way to get information out of Loki," said Midnight, "But it will be dangerous, very dangerous. The mind is not usually meant to be trifled with"

"Wait a minute," said Nick Fury, "You're saying-"

"There is a spell, actually a combination of Spells and Ancient Runes – like the symbols on the enchanted suitcase. That might allow us to get a closer look at what we're dealing with" said Mary Jane.

"Really?" asked Harry getting all excited," How come I haven't heard of it, Even Hermione-!"

"Harry, you don't start learning Ancient Runes until your Third year, it's an elective that you chose. Studying the spells that affect the mind? They'll start you out with subtle ones soon enough but they don't drive more into it until Fifth year if you want to learn Occlumency. The study of shielding your thoughts and memories from others. Which ironically is the opposite of what we are suggesting to fix Mum" said Lucy.

"You want to read Loki's mind? I don't envy that job" said Bruce Banner.

"Is it right to invade a person's mind, even Loki's?" asked Steve Rogers.

"If it was normal circumstances? I would say "No, he has a right to his private thoughts. But even just shortly talking with him earlier, I could tell something isn't right. As in, "I don't think Loki's acting alone of his own accord." There is something or someone reinforcing his decisions. Magic leaves traces and he does have an unhealthy obsession with that Scepter from the security footage rescued from the S. H. I.E.L.D site cave in. At any rate, with what I'm purposing. He won't be going through it alone; I will be too" said Lucy.

"WHAT?!"

"He's so powerful. It's going to take two Adult witches to cast the spell and keep it going. One on the inside and One on the outside. Both Harry and Midnight are Minors in the Wizarding World, so they can't do it."

"Hey! I want to help save Mum too!" her brother protested, while Midnight nodded in agreement.

"Nobody said you two were going to be left out. You just can't cast the spell. One warning at Privet Drive this summer was enough"

"That wasn't my fault!"

"I'm not blaming you Harry; I know whose fault it was. I'm just saying the Ministry already has their eye on you. Don't give them more ammunition"

"So what you want me to do?"

"What you both will do," corrected Mary Jane.

"When you obviously came to Privet Drive while we were gone, was Hedwig the only thing you picked up?" asked Lucy.

Midnight shook her head, "After not hearing from you in so long, we…That is us and Miss Aurora decided to pay you both a house call on our way to Germany to finally test and get the "stabilizing Medicine" to Mary Jane's condition. It's finally ready. We immediately noticed that you weren't there and Miss Aurora had a – well she found you on a plane already headed for Germany. We decided to gather your things and meet you there. Everything was going fine, having arrived at the entrance of Stuttgart's version of Diagon Alley when Loki decided to crash the party. Miss Aurora quickly gathered us back into the case, and was flying to safety when I guess a blast from his scepter caused her to drop the case. All I heard was a loud some blast of energy and a parrot's squawk of pain as we fell, landing beside Captain America apparently. Long story, but the point is. We got your stuff"

"Even Harry's trunk?"

"Yes…"

"Good, there's an item in there that might be able to help us."

"You're talking about-?"

"Yes, Little brother. I'm talking about that specific one you recently inherited from Dad"

"You want me to sneak around? On Purpose?!"

"It is one of the things you do best, I'm finding" she sighed ruefully, "Now if only you could apply a little stealth to it?"

"Why on earth would you think I would allow your brother or anyone else-" (looking at Tony Stark as he said this) "to Sneak around on my ship?" questioned Fury.

"Harry has a special gift which allows him to slip around often unnoticed, and if we decide to go down this path with Loki. We are going to need that element of surprise"

"Loki did say, there's not that many people who can sneak up on him" said Natasha.

"Fine," said the Director, "But I want to know exactly what it is he will be doing"

"Harry and Midnight, will simply be hiding in plain sight while drawing special symbolized runes on the glass around Loki's cage"

"But Lucy- I haven't even taken Ancient Runes yet as you pointed out"

"You don't have to know what the symbols mean yet Harry. You are a fantastic Artist. Don't think for one second that I didn't fish your "prized" school drawings out of the trash after they were ripped up and thrown away by our jealous relatives. You can do this; you have a steady hand and Midnight will help you. Just copy her, if anything else."

"I will be happy to help you Harry," confirmed the older girl.

"Good, now that that part is taken care of. It's time to move on to step 2. "The Distraction/Test" if you will."

...

"Please Brother, our Father didn't mean-"

"He's Not my Father!"

Looks like I arrived just in time, thought Lucy as she re-entered the area containing Loki. "Thor," she called to him, continuing to gather her wits about her. She couldn't afford to lose it this time. Plus, the girl wanted to see if his claim that they were "family" proved true.

"Lucy," he said, now giving his niece his full attention.

"Can I talk to you? Outside? Now?"

The "God" of thunder and lighting, looked at her interested and he wasn't the only one. Only her parent didn't vocalize it before Thor replied, "Of Course, see you later Brother" Curious, the big man followed her, stopping when she decided they were far enough away.

"Thor, simply talking to him is getting us nowhere" "What would you have me do, Lady Lucy? I need to know if my brother, your Mother is still in there"

"Oh I agree, but there are different ways to go about it. Sometimes, as these Americans say "You have to play hard ball. It takes skill and strategy to get what you want. You're too emotionally invested in this Thor"

The "God" raised an eyebrow "Me? What about you?"

"That's different, while I do possess the heart of a Lion. I also have the mind of a Snake or so everyone keeps telling me. Ambition and Cunning are what's needed here. I can do it. But I need to know; How far are you willing to go to get the answer we seek? As far as it takes?"

"Yes! Of Course!" he declared, "Is there Anything I can do?"

"Yes, just don't get in my way. I'm really sorry" A confused look came over Thor's face, "Sorry? About what?"

"For this," said Lucy, pointing her wand out in front of him, "Pertificus Totalus…"

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