Here is the new chapter... Hope you enjoy and don't forget to review :)

Previously

Isabella raises an eyebrow at the movement, smirking as she says, the voice having no effect on her like it had on Thor, "I'd love to see you try. Now, let's get started."

The unbridled glee in her voice causes everyone to shudder and think simultaneously,

What have we got ourselves into this time?

Chapter 18

The Avengers stand in complete shock as among them a wave of chaos floods their vision. Buildings were being destroyed left and right, civilians running for their lives to save themselves and their children, and in the middle of it all, unsurprisingly, a giant portal with Chitari warriors leaking in every minute.

"How are we supposed to close that gigantic portal in the sky?" Romanov asks in disbelief. However, no one gave her an answer, all the while more lives were being lost. Steve was the first to snap out of the trance, determination setting in.

"I don't have a clue Black Widow, but we have to help these people before more lives are lost."

"We get that much, but how? This wasn't written exactly in the plan." Stark inquired.

"I know how." Isa says, rubbing her hands together in eager anticipation. "All we have to do is use the Tessaract to close the portal. Since Loki left Selvrig under his spell, we know exactly where he is going to be and can blow up The Other."

"Oh-wise-one, may I inquire on how exactly we could do that?" Loki asks, raising an eyebrow at his fiancée, lips curling into a smirk at her glee caused by being right.

"Hm." Isabella hums, her smile widening as she flutters her eyelashes at him. "Find the Chitauri's captain of the guard and steal his hovercraft, then go to Headquarters and wait for me there."

"Aww, why does he have all the fun?" Stark whines playfully, having grown closer to the couple than the other Avengers, the three of them conveniently forgetting that destruction is happening in front of them.

Loki snorts, "Fun? You muling quims are strange."

"Well, while you three are ignoring the battle in front of us, I'll be off saving New York." Steve says with a adjustment of his gear, patting his helmet before rushing headlong into the battlefield.

Banner coughs slightly, bringing their attention to the problem at hand, "How will we know when the battle will end? And, in case you didn't notice, they have huge metal dragons."

"To answer your question Hulky, Loki will have this bracelet" she shows him a metallic bracelet with Tessaract power she had made when Stark and Banner had experimented with the Tesseract, "that he will press to alert me when he has his captain dead and gone, and as for the dragon.."

Isa smiles a mischievous smile, taking a dragon charm from her charm bracelet and throwing it into the air...

... Only for it to transform into a 60 foot long and 30 foot wide black, green, white/silver dragon with a wingspan of 40 feet.

"Does that satisfy your doubts?" Isabella asks coyly, smiling widely at her dragon, fashioned for this exact purpose from pure earth materials and a slight dose of Tesseract juice.

Banner nods, his mouth open in shock, Loki closing it with a few pats on his shoulder afterwards, Bruce nodding in thanks.

"Anyways, I've got to go stop the Chitauri while simultaneously avoiding going into a bloodlust frenzy, so.. Bye!" Isa says brightly, running after an over-eager Captain.

Swiftly dodging their attacks, Captain America turns and punches one of the Chitauri in the side sending them into a newly abandoned car. However, as Steve is busy with this particular Chitauri, another came from behind ready to shoot him into oblivion, but its head soon went rolling as another sword severed its neck.

Steve looks back to see Isabella wink at him as the dead Chitauri body falls to the ground in a dead heap, saying as she runs past him, "Don't get hurt!"

"I won't get hurt as long as you don't hog all the fun!" He screams back, as he stabs another victim straight through its metallic heart.

Isabella salutes her before flipping in the air and taking out AT LEAST 4 Chitauri in one stroke, all with the grace of a queen.

"Well, someone's a show off." Captain mutters under his breath.

While this exchange is going on, the other Avengers (and Loki) are doing what they do best. Following orders from a munchkin, only this one doesn't have an eye-patch.

A while later, when the battle is tipping in the Avengers and co.'s favor, Stark is having his own trouble all the way across town with the increasing number of Chitauri coming through the portal all the way, inconveniently up in the sky; which could only be reached by rockets on the bottom of someone's metallic boots as an example.

"Stark, we need you here." Isa says, into her watch that transmits into Stark's suit.

"Alright, just a second." He responds, killing some Chitauri before flying off to Headquarters using the Tesseract bracelet and a Chitauri hovercraft.

Once there, he discovers the Tessaract, strapped to the bomb the extremely idiotic World Security Council made, attached to the captain of the Chitauri force's flying vehicle and an extremely-injured Eta.

Stark looked at it and noticed how Loki was ever-so-slightly in a protective stance in front of Isabella, in between her and the explosive. Hm, if he secretly tries to protect her at every turn without her knowledge, Stark thinks with a slightly smirk, he's being quite obvious about it.

"Tony, how well are your boots working?" Isa asks, oblivious to Loki's protective movement as she looks at the contraption with a composed face, hardly letting her nervousness and pain show, fully into leader-mode. "It's the next step in The Plan."

"Pretty well considering that they've been mangled by our lovely friends over there." Starks says dryly, gesturing toward the portal. "Are you alright though? You look exhausted."

"Great, you're going to need them." She says smiling, pointedly ignoring his inquiry about her health, explaining her plan to him.

Stark looks between her and the portal and nods, "At least I'll die a martyr. Though if you're not careful, you might too." He grabs the bomb and flies in the direction of the portal, Isabella's dragon taking care of any of the Chitauri in his path.

As he successfully flies through the portal, space hindering and eventually stopping the fire in his boots as his system, much to his annoyance.

He sees the Mothership explode into pieces, knowing that at least he got a job well done.

When Stark wasn't coming out through the closing portal, Isabella decided to go in for him. "I'm going in."

"No, you're not." Loki protests, holding her back. "You can't and I won't let you."

"I have to make sure he's okay." Isabella says, her face calm and serious. "Give me your belt Loki. Now."

Loki looks at her slightly confused, but complies. Isabella closes her eyes and with great concentration, unravels the belt and reworks it into a almost purely magic tether that she hands an end to Loki after wrapping the other around her waist, using more of her quickly depleting magic to put an oxygen bubble on her face. "Hold this and if you have to, pull."

Isa releases her control of the Air and lets it lift her from building as she jumps up, flying with great speed toward the portal. As she enters, she looks for Stark and grabs hold of his sinking body.

"Stark, can you hear me?" She tries to call him, hearing his shallow breathing. "I'm here to bring you back."

"O-ok." He says in the smallest of whispers before going unconscious. Isa, fearing the worst, quickly flies back down, feeling herself start to weaken even more, tugging on the rope.

She feels an answering tug and pushes herself to fly through the near-closed portal, barely making it out.

There she is, Loki thinks with a relieved tug of his lips, pulling the two of them onto the street. Isa dissolves the belt and places Tony on a clear part of the street. "Tony, can you hear me? Hulk?"

Hulk roars and bangs on his chest before returning to a half-naked, (and sheepish), Banner.

"What the hell?! What just happened?" Stark says as he startling awake and leaning up, "Please tell me Loki didn't kiss me."

The group shares a look and glance over at a disgusted Loki who chokes on air at the statement and coughs up a lung.

"We won."

"Oh," he sighs in relief, reclining back, "Oh, alright guys, let's not go in tomorrow. Let's just take a day, alright? You ever tried shwarma? There's a great shwarma place a couple blocks from here. I don't know what it is, but I'd love to try it."

"We're not finished yet." Thor says, looking around at the broken buildings and barely distinguishable vehicles littering the streets of New York.

"Yes we are." Isbella says, smiling a bit weakly and getting up from her crouch, lifting her arms up as she focuses on what little magic she has left, using the earth to help give her a boost. The blocks of rubble and buildings lift and return to their original places, solidifying until everything is the way it was. Isabella looks around and upon seeing everything set to right perfectly, collapses, unconscious and hardly breathing.


Heat. There's something hot close by me, perhaps even on tope of me.

Sound. I can hear someone's breathing. It's deep and steady, so they're asleep.

Movement. I can feel the movement of that person's chest against my cheek and the feeling of a beating heart through a thin T-shirt.

Smell. I haven't smelled this scent in a very long time. At least, that's what it feels like.

Touch. The body with me is warm, but the pillow close to my ear radiates coolness. I guess now would be a good time to wake up..

Isabella opens her eyes and closes them upon seeing the too-bright lights. It takes a couple seconds before she opens them again, blinking away the spots as she recognizes the arms around her waist and her hair fluttering with someone's breath.

She shifts trying to get a better look at the person sleeping in the same bed as her, stiffening when the arms tighten as the person holding her snuffles slightly and tightens their grip before loosening and moving away as they awaken.

Isabella relaxes when she sees Loki frown sleepily and yawn, looking down at her and smiling softly before hugging her again and murmuring tiredly into her hair, "Go back to sleep, too early."

"How long was I out? All I remember was getting Tony awake and fixing New York. Fill in the blanks for me please?" Isa outs, squirming against him so he won't fall asleep again.

"You passed out, I worried and took you back here to Headquarters. I put you in the bed but you wouldn't let me go, I'm guessing it's because you wanted to leech my power so you could refill yours. Then I crawled in here with you, and we've been asleep for about 18 hours. Now let me sleep." He grumbles, snuggling back with her, still-half asleep and not completely aware of his actions at the moment.

"Loki? Dear?" Isabella asks with a small smirk, kissing his cheek before moving back into his embrace.

"Hmm?" He hums, smiling when she acquiesces as he tightens his grip and starts to fall back asleep again.

"You are a total cuddler, no matter what you say otherwise."

"Hmm, fine, just don't tell anyone, okay?"

"Your secret is safe with me."


The Avengers are watching footage of the battle on the news when Loki and Isabella walk in hand in hand.

"So you are alive, I was worried for a second there," Tony says with arms wide open, hugging Isabella tightly and nodding at Loki in acknowledgment.

"Yes, we are, thank you for worrying Tony," Isabella says, hugging him back before walking to the table and getting an apple and a slice of toast. Loki shoots her a look and they communicate silently before Loki's stare intensifies before sitting with an arm around her chair.

The rest of the group just looks from their seats awkwardly, not really having formed a bond with the couple and thus are indifferent to them.

Thor looks over at Stark, Isabella and Loki talk about the news coverage of the battle, wanting to join them and reform the bond he once had with his brother. Isabella notices and returns Thor's furtive glances with a thoughtful one of her own, then a small shrug.

The trio stays there as the other Avengers gather their belongings until only Thor is left. Loki notices and his face smoothes shut, Isabella and Stark noticing as their conversation dies off. Stark motions to Isa that he's leaving, doing so noisily.

Thor coughs slightly a couple times as he tries to figure out where to start, Loki staring the whole while indifferently. Finally, Thor clears his throat for the last time and begins, "Loki, I am very so-"

"Save it. I don't want to hear it Thor." Comes the interruption, a hand halting any more words from coming out of Thor's mouth. Loki continues, "I was disappointed that you, the one I considered my brother still in the deepest part of me, allowed Odin, with my ex-wife's help, to sell me as if I were a slave and not a member of your family for a very long time. Even so, I expect that soon I will have to pay for my "disobedience", and when that time comes, you will help to repair what you have done, understand?"

Speechless, Thor nods, his shoulders slumping as it wasn't exactly what he had wished for, but expected and deserved nonetheless.

After a long moment, Loki extends his hand out to Thor, "Do we have an understanding, Thor?"

"Yes, we do." Thor says, shaking Loki's hand quickly before shuffling out, his hands clenching together in a frustrated and disappointed gesture.

Through the whole exchange, Isabella is seated, silently supporting Loki but letting him handle this situation himself. When Thor leaves, Loki is left standing there his hand clenching as he clenches his jaw, trying not to loose his temper. Isabella murmurs, "If you are angry let it out, shout at me if you have to, destroy something you can fix, just don't keep it in."

Loki looks at her calm face and feels a wave of answering calm wash over him. Grabbing her hands and lifting from her seat, saying, "I don't need to."

Isabella squeezes his hands softly and asks in a serious but gentle tone, "Are you sure?"

Loki nods and smiles, although it's not much more than a slight lift of his lips, "Yes, now, let's go home and get married."

There is a couple of links of the new ring, if you like, on my profile since it won't let me here. They are located above my list of favorite people. Please let me now... If not, do tell me which one you will like and I'll look at it. :)

Hope you like this late chapter and I hope you stick around for the rest! Next should be the reuniting of Loki with the Winchester clan and the reveal of Loki's ex-wife and three chid-ren.

Lots of drama.