**Update: 25/10/14**

So I was reading back this chapter and noticed a massive boo-boo made by myself, I had somehow out the same paragraph in twice, how I did not notice it I have no idea but I have now rectified it. I am also hoping to have the next chapter up before Halloween and finally, thanks to everyone who is reading and enjoying. Let me know what you think, any suggestions or requests are welcome also.

Thanks everyone!

It had been a couple days since the dream I had woken from, it scared me a little still that I had forgotten exactly what had happened before I arrived in this dimension. Loki was being very protective, barely ever letting me out of his sight and I kind of liked that it made me feel a little safer knowing I had a God looking out for me. I chuckled a little at this thought and when I turned to see Loki he raised his eyebrow at me obviously wondering what I was thinking about. I just shook my head and kept moving.

"Is there any end to this damned forest?" Dean shouted and everyone stopped to stare at him. "I thought you liked the outdoors." I jested giggling a little at his outburst, though to be honest I was so done with the forest too. Dean just glared at me and was about to retort when Loki spoke. "I can hear cars and voices up ahead." Sam looked at him quizzically, "Yes so can I." Castiel advised, of course they had Godly, Angely powers or hearing, I sometimes envied that. "How far ahead are they?" I asked, "About 5 miles away." Castiel replied.

Just over an hour later and we had emerged from the forest. The sight before us was magnificent, or at least it was for a load of people who have been stuck in the forest for over a week. "Let's find a motel so we can all have a shower." I suggested, Loki turned to me with that mischievous grin and a raised eyebrow. I went scarlet, "Separately!" I half shouted at Loki to which he just chuckled and headed in the direction of a large motel that was right in front of us called Terry's Temptations.

When we walked through to the doors to the front desk an ancient looking lady with way too much make-up on greeted us with a raspy voice, like she had been smoking 500 cigarettes a day since she was 5. I pushed Loki forward and hissed "Put that Silver tongue of yours to work." He gave me a dirty look but turned to the old woman with a charming smile. Loki leaned on the desk, lowering himself to the woman's height and started talking to her in low whispers and a few moments later the woman said "Well we only have two rooms left but you can have them for the night if you want." Dean almost looked impressed when the woman handed him the keys to the rooms.

Dean turned to us when we arrived outside the rooms, "Okay Loki can share with me and Sam, Castiel you go with Emerald." He said and Loki looked furious. "I don't think so…" I said with my arms crossed, "I don't trust you with Loki Dean, so Loki will come with me," Dean was not happy, "Fine but Castiel is going with you too…" Dean finished, Loki still did not look happy and I rolled my eyes. "Yeah that's fine, come on." I said and dragged Loki and Castiel into one of the rooms and shut the door behind us.

"I get the shower first!" I shout and run for the shower before Castiel and Loki know what is going on. I lock the door behind me and turn the shower on, as I wait for the water to heat up I get undressed and toss my clothes into a corner of the room. As I step into the streaming water I let out a small sigh of relieve, "Damn this is good..." I mutter, I just stand there under the water for a few minutes just soaking up the heat and letting myself relax for the first time since I had arrived here in this strange dimension. When I had washed my hair and believed myself to be suitably clean I stepped out of the shower and dried off. There was a robe sitting on a rail which I threw on and wrapped my hair in a towel as I walked out of the bathroom.

When I looked up after coming back into the main room Castiel and Loki were sitting at opposite sides of the room glaring at each other. "Do I even want to know what is going on here?" I asked looking from one to the other, neither said a word. I rolled my eyes and let myself fall onto the large bed. Loki then broke the staring contest to look at me "Well if you want a shower you can get in now." I said looking up at him, my head hanging upside down at the edge of the bed. He let a little smirk show before heading to the bathroom and slamming the door. Castiel seemed to be acting strange, or at least stranger than usual, he got up from where he was sitting and sat on the bed next to me so I sat up and looked at him. He seemed to be in a state of confusion, his face never moving but his eyes betrayed everything. "What's up Cas?" I asked resting my hand on his arm; he looked down at his for a moment and then looked back into my eyes. Castiel let a small smile slip through, "You, Sam and Dean are very special to me, have helped me more than my own family and I would not want to see any of you hurt." I smiled at his as he spoke; I know the three of us felt the same way about him. "That is why I feel we should separate from Loki." He looked up at the bathroom door for a second as he said that, I was about to protest when he spoke again "I don't trust him and I don't want you to get hurt." I sighed and hugged him tightly, "Castiel I am a big girl and I can look after myself. I might not completely trust Loki myself but he is better than you give him credit for. And either way I know I have you, Sam and Dean to kick his ass if he hurts me in anyway." I pulled back and looked up at him, I knew he understood and I was happy for that. Castiel then did something he had never done before, he leaned down and kissed my forehead, this was very un-Cas like, I was not sure if I liked it or not.

Sam and Dean arrived shortly after the conversation I had with Castiel, I was lying on the bed again laughing at the unintentionally funny thing Castiel had said. The boys had went to grab some clothes for us all as we were all very dirty, smelly and the clothes we were wearing were starting to rip and tear in places. Castiel, of course, was fine as was Loki but I had decided that Loki needed a change of clothes as he stood out like a sore thumb in what he was wearing at the moment. "I hope you didn't bring anything stupid." I said as Dean came in with a very unnerving grin. "Well there was not much to choose from but trust me it's the best of the worst." Dean said throwing me a bag of clothes which I immediately opened and pulled the clothes out. They had gotten me a plain black T-shirt and pair of jeans, "Okay so that's not so bad." I said setting them down on the bed next to me. It was when I looked back in the bag and saw the bursts of bright colour that I groaned; I then pulled out the bright Hawaiian Shirt and a pair of Khaki shorts, "Really Dean?" I groaned as I held the shirt up and shook my head. Although I couldn't see him over the shirt I could hear Dean snickering, I threw it down quickly and glared at him, "The object of getting him new clothes was so that he did not stand out so much!" I half yelled, "I did say that there was not much." Dean said raising his arms defensively. I sighed and shook my head "Well you better go and have showers yourselves, you both stink." I said to Sam and Dean, the shortly left and Castiel followed them so I was alone in the room.

Soon after I heard the shower turn off and the door open, I turned to see Loki walking out of the bathroom with nothing but a towel wrapped around his waist and drying his hair with another towel. I immediately turned a dark shade of scarlet and looked away, Loki noticed this and smirked. I turned to look at Loki again, "Could you not have used the robe that is in there?" I asked him, he just smirked at me, "What… don't you like what you see?" he asked, again my face went bright red, "That is not the point… the point is that it's good manners not to walk about half naked." I retorted looking away from the God that sat across from me. In all honesty it was very hard not to look at him, even fully clothed, he just seemed to radiate something that pulled your gaze towards him and there was nothing that you could do about it. I hated that about him. "Go put the robe on…" I demanded, Loki just laughed and got up from where he was sitting, never taking his eyes from me, he took a few steps towards me and said "You dare give an order to a God?" he seemed very menacing at this point, him being quite a bit taller than me to start with and now he was towering over me while I lay on the bed. I got up and stood in front of him, "I dare…" I replied trying to be just as menacing but failing completely.

Loki just looked down at me with that infuriating smirk of his, "I hate that smirk..." I mumbled and Loki raised his eyebrow, "It really makes me want to kiss you..." I said glaring at him and then I realised what I had said, Loki seemed as surprised as I was, "Kick... I meant kick..." I said my face a deeper shade of red. After Loki got over the shock of what I had said that smirk was back, "Well you know if you want to kiss me, all you need to do is ask." He said closing the gap between us; it was getting a little too much for me now. Loki began leaning down towards me his eyes closing, he cupped my chin with his hand and made me look into his eyes, for a moment I was completely lost in his beautiful green eyes, time seemed to stand still and I completely forgot that we were sitting in some motel with Sam, Dean and Castiel next door. Loki began leaning down towards me his eyes closing, it was not until I heard someone clear their throat that I snapped out of it and pushed Loki away in surprise. I turned to see who had made the noise and there was Castiel standing in the doorway to the room, he must have just come back from next door. Castiel was hard to read, he always seemed so distant, now more than ever, he stayed completely still for a moment just staring at me. It was then that I saw it, his eyes gave it away, disappointment filled them just before he turned and headed out the door, I tried to grab his arm but he saw me reaching for him and disappeared before my eyes. "Cas..." I muttered "Good Riddance" Loki hissed and I immediately turned to face him, "Don't you dare!" I shouted, "Castiel is the single most decent man I have ever met, he is like family to me and I love him as such, he has done nothing but help me, Sam, Dean and my dad and you... you do not get to judge him." Loki seemed taken aback by my sudden mood swing but must have known better than to argue so he grabbed the clothes Sam and Dean had brought then went into the Bathroom again to change.

How had that even happened? Why did I let it happen? And why was Castiel so disappointed? My thoughts raced as I sat on the bed completely still. A few moments passed and I began to move, my body felt stiff as I got up off the bed to get the clothes that had been brought back for me. I got changed and lay on the bed again thinking of what we could do to find Castiel and how I was going to explain things to Sam and Dean. I looked up as Loki came back from the bathroom but said nothing as he sat in a chair positioned in the corner of the room.

When Sam and Dean arrived back I looked up, tears running down my face. Sam was the first to come to my side, "Emms what is it?" he asked holding me close; I couldn't even bring myself to tell them that Castiel had left, "Where is Cas?" Dean asked noticing Castiel was missing. I let out a loud sob and buried my face into Sam's shoulder, "H...he le... eft..." I choked out though it was slightly muffled by Sam's shoulder. "What do you mean he left?" Dean asked again, "She means he took off like a petty child..." Loki snapped speaking for the first time since Castiel left. I turned to glare at him, "I told you already, you do not get to judge him!" I snapped, Sam and Dean looked a little confused. "What do you mean he left Emms?" Sam asked as he looked down at my tear stained face. I looked away from him for a second completely ashamed of what had happened, "He... saw me and Loki..." I started looking back up at Sam, I didn't get to finish as Dean punched Loki in the face with no warning, though it did not seem to faze him at all.

Loki stood, towering above Dean, and glared at him he then threw him across the room and headed for the door. Sam tried to stop him but Loki threw him also. "Loki!" I yelled at him and he stopped for a moment, he turned his head slightly to look at me. "Please don't go..." I pleaded as I stood from the bed, he looked down at me for a moment and then turned away from me again. I grabbed his arm before he could move any further away from me but he pulled his arm away and walked out I couldn't go after him because I was frozen to the spot. This was not like me, why couldn't I move, why was I such a wreck?

Now we have lost our Angel and our God, what are we going to do?

With Fury:

"We have found her sir!" an Agent said as he ran into the room. Fury's head shot up and a smirk spread across his face. "Where is she?" Fury demanded, "At a motel called Terry's Temptations, they were spotted leaving the forest and heading straight for the motel, we are keeping an eye on them as we speak." The Agent replied. "I am heading out, upload the co-ordinates to my jet and get ready for company!" Fury barked as he moved off through the door and towards the hanger where his jet was ready to take off.

With the Avengers:

"Why should we hunt this girl when she has done nothing wrong?" Thor asked the other Avengers. "Because that is what we have been ordered to do..." Natasha said shrugging her shoulders. "And she did break Loki out." Clint added as he leaned against a table nearby. Thor frowned at them both disagreeing with them, "I do not take orders from anyone except the All father himself." Thor's voice rumbled as he said this, "We have just fought for the freedom of every Midguardian. Why should we keep her prisoner when all she has done is help us?" Banner was nodding, "She just wants to get back to wherever she came from and all we did was lock her up, are you telling me that is fair?" Banner said looking to each of the avengers in turn. "I think Brucey had a little crush." Tony joked, jabbing Banner in the ribs with his finger. Banner swatted him away with a slight blush on his face "It's not that..." he mumbled looking down at his feet.

"Thor is right..." Steve said finally speaking up for the first time. He moved forward so he could see everyone, "She has done nothing to us, Fury is being ridiculous we ne..." Steve was cut off when there was a lot of movement outside. There were agents running about trying to get things ready for something. Steve grabbed one and asked what was going on and the Agent advised that Emerald had been found and Fury was on his way already and he had commanded the Agents to prepare the cells so that she couldn't escape again. "We have to suit up and head out to help her." Steve said and headed to get his suit on. Just as Steve reached the door there were a few pings and screens showing DNA analysis appeared around the room. "Emerald's DNA Analysis is complete." Banner said looking at the results, his mouth hanging open after a minute or two.

"What is it Doc?" Steve asked, Banner closed his gaping mouth and looked up to Steve "And please explain it in a way we can all understand." He added as Banner opened his mouth to speak, Banner promptly closed his mouth again and looked to Tony for assistance. Tony Chuckled slightly and then moved forward. "Okay so long and short of it is that she is telling the truth." Tony said, "How do you know?" Natasha asked looking very sceptical. "Well it is believed that there are many hundreds of Millions of parallel universes out there, it is near impossible to prove and even more so to move from one of these universes to another. It is the space in between that gives us the proof we need, the void, a place where nothing exists at all, no time, no space no anything." Tony explained, Banner moved forward and continued. "When an object or person moves from one universe and into another they have to pass through the void and when they go through it they do not exist, but when they arrive in another universe they exist again and somehow some particles from the void appear around them, soaked into their very DNA." They all seemed to understand so far so Tony continued the explanation. "So these void particles are unlike anything in any universe anywhere and can be easily identified." Banner seemed really excited about it all, "So basically Emerald is covered in a whole load of voidy stuff..." Banner said, Tony turned and looked at him, "Did you really just use a line from Doctor Who?" He asked, Banner nodded proudly tony opened his arms wide "Dude... you are awesome. Bro hug!" He exclaimed and the two had a very awkward hug and fist bump before they turned to the others who were totally out of the loop and had no idea what they were talking about.

"Okay so she is telling the truth, no we need to go and find her before Fury does!" Steve said and they all left to get into their suits etc. When they were ready they headed to the Motel to find Emerald and found that Fury was already there and Emerald had already been captured.