AN: ALright, a chapter from Loki's perspective - and it's what happened during New York! I thought I'd shed a little light on exactly why he invaded - which he never actually told anyone in the movies other than 'I want to have a throne!' The way he reacted to Thor's question of who was controlling him gave me a great idea - Thanos. He gave Loki the Spear, why not a reason to just hand over the Tesseract instead of betraying him like in GotG?* Movie Spoiler, sorry!

Loki can't believe it, he's back on Midgard after so long. He's close to home, close enough at any rate.

Thanos said he'd be searching for the Infinity Stones, and destroy anyone who gets in his way of finding them. From what Loki knows of the guy, very little even after a year, the guy is ruthless, brutally efficient, and has the power to back up any threat he makes. Oh, and he's pure evil.

Loki has no idea where most of the Infinity Stones are, but some fools on Midgard activated the one Thanos calls the Space Stone - which is currently known to the Midgardians as the Tesseract.

Alright, all I have to do is ship this thing off to Thanos with his multiple-handed minion, and then he'll go off searching for the rest of his precious pebbles without me. I can rule Midgard, Thanos will search forever for the rest of these things, and…and Bloom will be safe.

That's the real reason why he agreed to help Thanos, not all the death threats to him or the idea that he could defeat Odin - an impossible feat, or at least a hard-fought battle - and raze Asgard. No, it was the thought of his younger sister, the one person who chose him over Thor consistently, going up against Thanos that broke him.

Thanos broke him during the year he was away from Asgard, he spent months getting nearly every secret Loki held dear - ripping them away like bandages over wounds closed by dried blood. Suffice it to say Thanos is very efficient at making people spill their secrets, but the one he never got out of Loki was his younger sister, Bloom. She's probably the only person who would sacrifice herself to keep him safe, to stop Thanos - and Loki knows without a doubt he can't let Thanos find out about her.

He seems to have no idea of her, and Loki has no intention of ever changing that state of things - if Bloom fell into Thanos's hands, well, he's met his 'daughters' before. Girls he took from civilizations he's razed and trained to be his personal assassins. Nebula is more machine than flesh and blood by now, and Gamora is more skilled in weapons and killing than even someone on Asgard - both a result of Thanos.

The day Loki lets something like that happen to Bloom is the day he'll have gone insane and lost every bit of his feelings. All he has to do to keep Thanos away from the Nine Realms, away from his sister who's more important to him than almost anyone else, is get him the Tesseract - she'll probably be mad at him, but he'll gladly take her being mad at him over her being enslaved like Gamora and Nebula or killed.

He'll apologize a thousand times over for leaving, all over again for giving Thanos what he wanted, so long as she doesn't go anywhere near him. Even now, he still tries to protect his favorite sister from what's out there.

Loki can't believe the turn recent events have taken. He was making a distraction for Barton to get the Iridium needed to let the Chitauri into Midgard via a portal using the Tesseract, and then Bloom showed up literally out of nowhere and then fainted.

Then, a man who was born over seventy years before but looks like he's in his thirties showed up, one Captain America, along with a man in a suit of metal and glowing lights.

Loki surrendered, seeing Bloom was starting to stir and hoping to keep her out of a fight with these two - and then she summoned the Spear he was given, despite his attempt at keeping it from her, and somehow her magic reacted really badly to it.

Now, they've got her strapped into a seat in the jet with them, he's being taken in for questioning, and Bloom is still unconscious and holding onto the glowing end of the spear in a grip that has to be magical - because Steve Rogers, as Loki heard him called, tried and failed to wrest it from her, and he's as strong as Thor comparatively.

When they all hear her voice coming from the speakers in the jet, Loki feels every drop of blood head straight to his toes in distress - though he hides it from them, the last thing he wants is to let on how important Bloom is to him.

When she starts talking to people though, he's incredibly glad she's always been so very smart - she doesn't tell them how she knows him, doesn't give away anything. She always figured out more on her own than he and Frigga could teach her, and never before has he been so grateful for this. Her casual description of him hurts, but it's nothing compared to the wave of relief he feels when she suddenly moans and the speakers cut to static once again. There's a massive storm brewing now, and Loki can guess exactly why that is: Thor is here, right now.

Allfather must have sent him using Dark Energy, which might be why Bloom moaned. If it is, it was perfect timing.

Sure enough, Thor comes through the open hatch a moment later and drags him out into the wind and rain - he doesn't even get a chance to tell Thor Bloom is in the other seat, and Thor apparently didn't notice her.

When Thor tries to interrogate him, Loki simply dodges around the questions and gives Thor info that doesn't help - but he loses his calm when Thor asks who controls him.

If he tells Thor, Bloom will undoubtedly learn as well; and given the development of her magic, sprouting wings from her back no less, she'd more than likely fly off into the portal he's having made and attempt to stop Thanos. So instead, he pretends to react to Thor's jab about him being a fake king. But the fact that Bloom hasn't been in the Nine Realms since he left is more worrying than anything else to Loki - where in all of creation did his little sister fly off to when he left?!

Loki's watching what is proving to be a spectacular beat-down between Thor and the one called Stark, until Rogers jumps in and says to stop.

Then, Bloom reappears in her outfit Fandral wouldn't be able to resist when not in a crisis and attempts to get their attention. When all else fails, she throws two balls of fire at them - when did she start generating the fire?! - and one explodes and throws them all back.

The fact that he sees her throw her arms around Thor's neck hurts him, but at least Thor has finally got his head out of his ego and started paying attention.

Loki definitely must have hit his head on a rock when Thor threw him onto that rock, or Bloom hit hers when she fainted - because he definitely doesn't remember her being this much of a talker.

She's been talking nonstop about where she's been and what she's been doing - along with stuff about Rogers, the Tesseract, and some things called ice cream, pizza, music, and dancing - but her eyes are huge and she's paler than normal and keeps glancing at him like he's going to suddenly disappear.

When they finally convince her to at least sit down for the rest of the flight, she ends up unconscious and leaning on Thor's shoulder in a matter of moments - apparently, the nonstop talking was a cover for her hysteria, not very surprising. What is surprising to him and Thor both is that she has a blood-sister, one they've never met before and who is currently a spirit living under a lake.

Loki's given up trying to comprehend the magic required to strip a person of their body, but Bloom seems determined to reverse that state of affairs.

When Bloom comes in the room Agent Fury left him alone in, inside a glass container meant to hold a creature far stronger than him, she immediately starts yelling at him for jumping off the Bifrost.

Loki didn't think it was possible for someone to go a full minute yelling at someone without taking a breath of air in, Bloom's just proven him wrong there. Her face goes through multiple shades of red as she yells, telling him in no uncertain terms she thought he was dead, he could have gotten himself killed, she tried to find him ever since she learned how to, he let her think he was dead, etc.

Loki feels a sharp stab of guilt at the thought that he let her think he was dead, but he can't argue with her perspective - or with her period, as it'll just set off another explosive tirade from her about how he's never allowed to do something so stupid and suicidal ever again.

When Romanoff comes in to get his plan out of him, Bloom has at least stopped the painful-looking practice of what she calls teleporting - which, right now, is slamming herself into the walls hard enough to dent them - and moved on to levitating objects. He can tell she's trying to tune the world out, so he tears Romanoff's plan apart ruthlessly - but Bloom apparently heard him, and he can tell he went too far for her when every object she was floating suddenly goes flying too fast to see.

Bloom and Romanoff both hit the ground, Bloom with an orange energy bubble around her, and wait for the objects to stop bouncing around the room. Romanoff leaves thinking he's planning on doing something to Bruce Banner, a man who was altered by fatal amounts of some kind of radiation - he should be dead, instead of occasionally turning into a giant green rage monster that can level an entire city without getting scratched.

Once Bloom is out for good for a while, Loki gets the job of convincing the mercenaries Barton found to not kill her - she scared quite a bit of them with her performance, defeating six of them all on her own with nothing but her magic and her wits.

She's gotten far stronger than he knew was even possible, making ropes out of fire at just a few words and using them to suspend a heavy cage in the air. Thor's look said he never once imagined magic, or Bloom, could be so dangerous; Loki's trying to think of how he could convince her to help - he knows his sister, and he knows she'll never help with the invasion of an innocent and unknowing city. She's exactly the same in that aspect, right down to her core.

All the mercenaries are still alive, they just have some very interesting stories to tell of how a sixteen-year-old girl with wings and a short, sparkly skirt beat them all without even touching them - and how she was toying with some of them, to boot.

Loki couldn't help but be proud of her at that, looks like she learned a few things aside from illusions from him after all.

But how he's going to get her to work with him without resorting to the Spear is another problem entirely - he's already loathe to use it on her, and her magic's reaction to its power simply provides the perfect reason for everyone else.

Thirty minutes later, Loki can't believe they didn't get him as soon as they even thought she might have been stirring - she escaped, likely started this monstrous storm, and now everyone is getting soaked to the bone and completely lost.

Of all the times for her to figure out something new, she had to pick now to figure out her teleporting.

Loki's equal parts proud and frustrated, but he can't really blame her for running when she woke up tied to a chair - which was the mercenaries' idea, not his.

They lost her in the jungle, unbelievable.

They had her, right until she let out some kind of creature made of fire from her body - it knocked everyone down, made Loki feel like he was being cooked, and then disappeared into the sky. And then, Bloom jumped over the waterfall and disappeared into the wind, rain, and dark.

Fantastic, now he knows where he'll see her next: New York, exactly like the device at her side said for some reason.

Loki can't believe it, he actually lost. He had an army against six people and his sister, the entire city was scared stiff, he had every advantage - numbers, time, everything - yet he somehow still lost.

What's more worrying than how he lost though, is what Bloom did to make it so he'd lose. He's never seen her so much as look twice at the ale on Asgard when she was growing up, yet now she's swaying and slurring her words like she's completely drunk.

When she collapses immediately after getting them to Asgard however, it quickly becomes clear that it's because she's used far too much magic all at once - the more magic you use, and the more complicated the spell, the more it taxes you. Loki's fairly certain she should have been asleep long before now, considering the fact that she was shaky directly after the battle.

SPOILER! GotG: Guardians of the Galaxy