Jane's POV

Ok, so King Odin told us his plan after 2 more plays when I finally realized that Loki and Darcy were gone. At first I was really worried, but when I went to point it out to Thor and Odin, Odin just hushed me till the end of the play.

It was the most beautiful play of all but I couldn't focus on it anymore. My mind was too busy wondering what might have happened to them. But, what could have happened to the God of Mischief that his father didn't even worry about it? Ugh, no answer could come to mind. So I waited very impatiently for the play to end.

When it was finally done I turned to King Odin.

"So, you seem to know what happened to Loki and Darcy," I said.

At that moment, Thor looked around and suddenly realized that they were gone. I guess he had been sleeping through the plays.

"Yes, I set this whole thing up. You see, Loki and Thor here have always disliked theater. And Darcy seemed to me like the type of person who didn't like it either. So I had it set up so that Thor had to stay here, but Loki and Darcy could sneak out," said Odin.

"Um…" I said, not believing that King Odin could be this sneaky.

"I know you think something's up between Loki and Darcy. I personally think that nothing is 'up' between them. You are just making them feel awkward by trying to find proof. I just felt that they needed some space from the two of you," he continued.

"Well, when you put it that way, it makes it sound like we are the bad guys," said Thor.

"Well, we sort of are, we have been pressuring them just with us being there, watching their every move. Trying to get proof they like each other when they probably don't," I said.

"Very right. So are you two going to stop watching them like hawks?" asked King Odin.

"Yes," Thor and I said together.

"Good, now let's enjoy the other plays I set up," King Odin said with a grin.

Thor let out a sigh at that.

We watched 3 more plays before we decided to go to the main chamber. We waited for a little bit before a carriage arrived and Loki and Darcy got out. We all started smiling thinking that King Odin's plan had worked, but we soon realized that that wasn't the case. Loki and Darcy wouldn't even look in the other's direction.

When we got back to the palace, Loki went straight to his room and Darcy headed for hers. But, I stuck my arm out and stopped her in her tracks.

"What?" she asked, the question full of irritation and a bit of an edge to it.

"Ok, what happened? And we don't have to talk about it here, but we do have to talk about it," I said.

"Fine. But not now. Ok?"

"Fine. But later we are going to talk," I said.

"Fine." And with that, she fled the room.

Loki's POV

"Ok, that didn't go as well as I would have wanted it to," I said aloud to myself. "Oh great now I'm talking to myself." I groaned inwardly. So I have absolutely no clue as to what I did wrong! Seriously, Darcy is way more trouble than I could have possibly imagined. I don't get it! She's always talking about how she loves music, so I bring her to the one music themed amusement park in Asgard and from what I can tell, Earth. I let her win in everything, well mostly… never mind that.

I even told her about how Jane and Thor are trying to get proof that we liked each other. Never said I didn't like her. And that would have been easy enough to cover up if she said she didn't like me, but no, all she cared about was not getting in trouble. I gathered any courage I had and made my decision, I was going to figure out my feelings once and for all.

I went through all the rooms to the two doors in the back. The black one and the white one. I took a deep breath and went into the white one.

I shut my eyes for a while to scared to see if there is any difference. When I finally get the courage to open my eyes, I let out a sigh of relief, until I saw the walls, music notes have been lightly etched into them. Now I let out a groan

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That night, I had nightmares about pain, love and Darcy. I was back in the other dimension, but this time I went with them and Darcy hadn't stopped me. In one dream, Darcy had been talking to the others about how stupid I had been. They had laughed and cherished in my foolishness and how great life was with me gone.

The next dream, the same thing happened but everyone but Darcy had been laughing and she looked miserable. Later in that dream Darcy had taken Jane's machine to look for me. She ended up in that dimension but got lost in the shadows, tortured by shapes that looked like me for eternity, never being able to catch the figure, continuing on her hopeless journey.

While in that dream, I was the one controlling the shadows and what they whispered and how they deceived people into walking there forever, chasing loved ones or being told that everything they wanted was just one step ahead.

I woke back in the red room. Exhausted and cranky. I stayed sitting there all day.

Jane's POV

The day that Loki spent in his rooms, I sat with Darcy, talking.

At first, we talked about Asgard, then Earth. We slowly made our way to what had happened yesterday. When we got to that topic, Darcy spent an entire hour explaining what had happened yesterday after a reluctant start.

She also told me that she was confused about her feelings about Loki and that it was great to talk to someone about this. When we were done there was a huge storm raging outside. I told Darcy that she should talk to Loki. She said alright and went off to find him

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Later that day, I found her walking along a corridor and asked, "So, how did it go?"

She looked up and replied, "I looked all over the palace for him, but couldn't find him."

"Did you look for him near his rooms?" I asked.

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"Well, I didn't really want to go near his rooms," she admitted.

"Ugh, you are going to talk to him tomorrow," I said.

"Fine," she said. And with that she sped towards her room