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Walking down to the cell I was in not that long ago, I saw Loki slumped against the side.
"Are you hungry?" I asked softly, scaring him.
"Is it poisoned?" He quipped.
"It's what everyone else has been eating, so it's safe to say no." I said, opening the door and setting it on the bench beside him.
"Why?" He asked, looking at the food in confusion.
"Because no matter what you claim to be, I'm worse." I said, sitting on the opposite side of the cell.
"And why is that?" He said taking the glass of juice and sniffing it.
"Eat slowly, you body isn't used to our food." I said, before saying, "I was in this cell about a month ago. I put myself in here to gain their trust back."
"You lost it?" He smirked.
"I lied to them about who I was. They knew me as Sera Stark, the girl who helped a soldier out of his time, and saved New York. I knew myself as the Siren, Seraphina Kalashnikov, the great-granddaughter of the man Captain America fought before he was frozen. The murderer and manipulator that broke men and tortured for information."
"I lied to them about knowing Hydra had been in SHIELD. I knew since your little act on the Helicarrier." I smirked as he slowly moved to eat the pancakes.
"What tipped you off?" He said quietly.
"You lie and kill, in the service of liars and killers." I knew something wasn't right, and even Fury was hiding his doubts from those he trusted. My cousin, he was Hydra, and turned to our side because he knew it was wrong. They manipulated and brainwashed him into compliance."
"Not unlike yourself."
"I only use that as a last resort, to bring people out of their heads. My husband Bucky, had been in Hydra's service for over 70 years, memories wiped until they could mold him into their perfect assassin."
"I bet the Captain was not happy about you falling for someone else."
"My other husband is the Captain," I smirked.
"So you are selfish?" He laughed.
"No, we all love each other. Bucky and Steve had loved each other when they were young men in the 1940's, and then were separated. I loved Bucky, or better known then as Yasha, before I helped him out of his brainwashed state. Steve I met months later, and then after New York, we got together."
"How did you find this… Bucky again?" He asked, after swallowing.
"He was sent to kill Agent Romanoff for learning to much about Hydra being inside SHIELD. Steve stopped him and tried to get Bucky to remember as they fought. It wasn't until I flew out to help Steve that I saw Bucky. He had saved Steve from drowning, and after Steve had been taken to the hospital, I helped Bucky."
"And Steve was willing to share you?" Loki asked confused.
"He was more than willing. Anything that meant he got to have Bucky and I. And now we are married and are parents to two beautiful babies."
"So this lie you revealed. You had to put yourself in here to prove yourself?"
"No exactly. I had an inkling that I was pregnant, and knew that if I ran they would hate me even more for taking their child away." I explained, "So I put myself in here, but not before Clint shot me. He was justified in his anger towards me for lying."
"That's quite a reaction," he said, looking at my stomach.
"I lost the child, but everything is better now." I smiled softly at him.
"Why are you being so nice to me? I remember I was going to force you to be my Queen."
"Because that wasn't you." I said, and he paused.
"You know?" He whispered.
"I'm the only one, other than your brother than could pick up on the clues. It was well after the fact, but I knew we couldn't have guessed it right away." I said as he nodded.
"I knew no one would listen, even if I told the truth. I am the God of Lies… Well I was a God." He said looking down at his hands.
"So, you promised to help us?" I asked, changing the subject.
"Yes. I wasn't myself, clearly, when I was portraying Odin. I was trying to get revenge, in the worst of ways." He said, finishing off the pancakes. Moving to the fresh fruit I had cut up, he paused.
"I know that look," I said, noticing his eyes shifting to blue.
"It comes and goes in flashes throughout the day." He said in defeat.
"Would you like some help?"
"I don't know how to put down the shield around my mind. It's been up for so long," He sighed, unsure of how it would help.
"Let me try," I said, grabbing my emerald, and focusing on his eyes. I felt the barrier, but pushed hard. It took a minute before I found a weak spot in his memories. Grimacing, I forced my way in, relieving the pressure of a mounting headache on my own.
"I'm in." I said, as his eyes unfocused. Flipping through his memories of the last four years I wanted to scream.
"You are no longer under his control," I whispered, over and over again and I altered each memory. I found myself crying in pain as I felt each act of torture as if I was in his place.
"You have no allegiance to him. He manipulated you, put thoughts in your head, used the Mind Stone on you to turn you against the ones who loved you." I said, as his eyes closed.
"You are Loki, son of Odin and Frigga. Once Prince of Asgard, Trickster but not a murderer." I said, before I pulled out of his mind slowly. He opened his eyes, tears shining in the bright light of the cell.
"Even if I believe all of this is true, you still have to prove yourself to the rest of them, especially your brother."
"I understand," He said wiping his eyes.
"A lot has happened since you left. We retrieved your scepter fro Hydra, only for an evil Artificial Intelligence my Dad created tried to destroy the world. Ultron was his name, and he tried to make himself another body, but we put my Dad's AI in it, and Thor tried to destroy it, as it had the Mind Stone at it's brow. His name is Vision, and he helped us defeat Ultron. I'll go through everything in detail later." I said, as he finished off the fruit.
"Thank you for freeing me." He said, gratitude in his eyes.
"Don't thank me yet. Now that your mortal, I'm sure there is a long line up of people wanting to beat you up," I joked, and he paled.
"I won't let them," I promised.
"Now, I'm gonna got set up a room for you," I said standing. His confused eyes searched mine for deceit, but I replied, "You proving yourself means more than accepting defeat and help. You show them you are not than person. I'm choosing to trust you," I said, offering my hand.
"Thank you," he said, taking mine and I helped him stand up.
"Thor," I called. Thor appeared at the door and I gave him the code to open it. As we walked out, Thor embraced his brother.
"I have faith in you brother," Thor said gruffly, as Loki embraced him back.
"I will not disappoint you again," Loki said, patting Thor's back. They released each other and I motioned with my head for Loki to follow me.
"We are basically running a hotel right now. So we have one or two more rooms available for use." I said, walking down the hallway.
"Is there a way I can be further from Agent Barton's room."
"Clint and his family are down near my room, so don't worry." I said, seeing Steve and Bucky with the twins, walking towards us.
"Captain," Loki said, nodding respectfully.
"Double cross us, and I will-" Steve started, but Loki finished, "kill me. I am well aware of how mortal I am now. I do not want or intend to betray you. I am also aware that Sif and Volstag will want me dead when we meet again."
"I have not met you before," Loki said politely offering his hand.
"Bucky, Sera and Steve's husband. The Winter Soldier," Bucky replied, using his metal arm to squeeze Loki's hand. Loki grimaced at the pain, but nodded, "Understood."
"They were just leaving," I said glaring at my husbands. They looked at me and left without another word.
"Should you need clothes, I can find something for you until I have clothes brought in. Usually the girls and I go out every few weeks to shop for things we need, but I can make an exception this week." I said as we approached the room I had in mind. Opening the door and turning on the light, he nodded at his surroundings.
"Thank you. It's lovely compared to the cell in Asgard," He smirked.
"The shower will confuse you. It's left for hot and right for cold. But to turn it on, you need to press the button outside the shower." I said, as he looked into the bathroom.
"If you need anything just say ARSENAL." I said, as the AI booted up in the room.
"Yes ma'am?" The AI in the ceiling asked.
"Curious," He said, looking up.
"Loki Odinson is now our guest." I said, and she replied, "Of course Ma'am. Shall you be needing anything Mr. Odinson?"
"Not at the moment, thank you."
"Of course sir. Please ask if you are in need of anything."
"There are clean towels in the closet and I can have Thor bring you clothes." I said, looking to Thor, who nodded.
"Again, I thank you for this chance," He said, nodding at me.
"That is what it is, a chance. If you waste it, that is it." I said, before leaving the room. Walking back up to the lounge area, I saw Clint coloring with Lila, and Cooper being shown how a processor works by my Father and Fitz. Steve and Bucky were on the floor with the twins, enjoying tummy time as they crawled around, and everyone else was kind of doing heir own thing.
"So, I'm guessing you were all listening again," I said sitting down next to Natasha, who was reading a magazine.
"Kinda hard not to when over protective husbands over their asked Arsenal to put it over loudspeaker in the kitchen," Darcy quipped. I smiled and nodded, "He's willing to earn our trust. But I don't want to find out anyone threatened him, or injured him."
"Sera, it's a little hard not to want to punch him." Dad said, raising an eyebrow.
"Just promise me, you'll try to get along," I said rolling my eyes. They all mumbled and I got up.
"I need to train. Join me?" I asked May.
"Oh hell yeah, I want to see this." Bobby said, getting up to follow us. Most of the agents got up to see why Bobby was so excited.
"People would line up to catch a glimpse of the Black Widow take someone down. They would pay to see siren and May training though."
"I never got that," Coulson said, not finding the excitement in it.
"Coulson, you never looked at it properly. Because even if it's just training, they look like they want to kill each other," Natasha smirked.
"Huh." He replied, as we all walked down to the training room. I wrapped my hands, and grabbed my training swords and ICER's. May grabbed her ICER's and shock sticks and strapped them to her thighs.
"Same rules?"
"No rules," I agreed.
"Does this sound like Fight club to anyone else?" Rhodey asked, confused. I grabbed my swords from behind my back and got into position.
"Attack," Nat said hitting the mat with her hand.
It was a flurry of black and grey as we moved. I blocked and she blocked. She tried to kick my swords away for the second time, and managed to knock one out of my hand.
"I can't look away," Jemma said, as I twirled my sword around, hitting her side. She hissed, but grabbed my wrist, punching my shoulder. I dropped it with a groan, swinging my leg underneath her. She fell and I grabbed her guns from her, throwing them away. She gritted her teeth and got back up, punching, and blocking me effectively. I got her in the chest with my elbow and she backed up.
"You're playing dirty," She said, moving to attack again.
"I had a good teacher," I yelled, right before going in for a roundhouse. She caught my foot, pushing it away, and getting me in the stomach. On the ground, I laughed.
"Okay, okay. I -" I said, before jumping up and using the Flying Scissors on her. As she went down, I pinned her.
"Okay, I give." She panted.
"Good, because I am done," I laughed, rolling off of her. Groaning as I got up, we looked to our crowd, and found all were staring in amazement.
"What are you looking at? Get back to work," May yelled, nodding to me before moving to the weights. They all dispersed, looking scared of what May would do to them.
"I knew you could fight, but I've never seen anyone last that long with May," Coulson said, confused.
"You just never paid attention," I smirked, grabbing my swords again and moving to the dummies we had in the corner.
"Okay, so Mulan is beatable, and you're a badass," My Dad said in jest.
"Don't call her that," I said, moving to strike. He shrugged and left me alone to train. After a 5mile run around the perimeter of the base, strength training and getting distracted by the sight of my muscular husbands, I wandered up to our room to freshen up.
"No, no, yes. Perfect," I said, rolling my neck around, and moving to get undressed. Hopping in the shower to wash off the sweat, I sighed, singing along.
Dance me to your beauty like a burning violin
Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in
Lift me like an olive branch, be my homeward dove
And dance me to the end of love
Please dance me to the end of love
Oh let me see your beauty when the witnesses are gone
Oh let me feel you moving like they do in Babylon
Oh show me slowly what I only know the limits of
And dance me to the end of love
Please dance me to the end of love
La la, la la la, la la, la la la, la la, la la la
Oh dance me to the wedding now, oh, dance me on and on
And dance me very tenderly and dance me very long
We're both of us beneath our love, and both of us above
And dance me to the end of love, ooh
Won't you dance me to the end of love
La la, la la la, la la, la la la, la la, la la la
"Angel," Steve said from outside the bathroom as I got out of the shower.
"Yes my love," I called sweetly.
"Sharon says she is ready to go when you are. Not sure what that means."
"Oh, I'll be right out," I said, dashing to the closet, and changing into skinny jeans, a white flowing t-shirt and my blue leather jacket. Slipping my new white bootie heels on, I fluffed out my hair and applied a little makeup. Kissing Steve's cheek in parting, I kissed the kids and said, "I'll be back in an hour or two."
"Okay," He chuckled. Walking and zipping up my jacket, I hurried down to the hangar.
"Okay, so we have to go to an abandoned airfield outside of DC. Coordinates," Sharon said, handing them to me.
"Awesome. This is exciting!" I said, sitting in my seat and firing up the engines on the Quinjet.
"I haven't seen Auntie in probably about 3 months. She'll be very excited to meet your team here."
"No, it's our team," I said as Clint and the kids walked into the Quinjet.
"You're their ride home," He chuckled as I gave him a puzzled look.
"Oh," I said, remembering they were only here a few days. As everyone got settled in, I closed the hatch and started taxiing outside. Once I was a fair ways from the base, I started our vertical take off, disengaging the landing gear.
"So you going to get the Howling Commandos after this?" Clint asked, leaning over our chairs.
"Yes. Plus a special surprise for Steve." I smiled, turning on cloaking and stealth mode.
"What's more of a surprise than seeing all his old friends and teammates?" He asked.
"Joey," Sharon smirked. Clint wasn't cluing in, and I rolled my eyes.
"You'll understand later." I said, before focusing on getting to Homestead. Cooper came up to see the controls, and I showed him what everything did. He was definitely going to try and join SHIELD when he was old enough. Clint had already been teaching him to fight and defend himself. Once we reached the Homestead, I set the Quinjet down and hugged my niece and nephew goodbye. Laura held me for a long time, saying, "Be safe. Keep me updated, and keep him away from Loki."
"Oh I plan on it." I smirked as we released each other. Clint kissed his wife and baby goodbye, and hugged the kids tightly. They waved goodbye from the porch as we took off, and I punched in coordinates for the airfield in DC. The flight was shorter going back, and I thanked the tailwind for that. We landed, and waited patiently as four government SUV's drove up the runway.
