Hey guys! It's been so long, I thought I should really get to work on this fic. My second year of uni is absolutely hectic and I have assignments coming out of my ears. I do appreciate the reviews from the last chapter, it really helped me form this one. Anyway, enjoy!

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"Raegan!"

Clint grabbed the injured, completely drained teenager from behind and pulled her away from the mess of alien corpses that surrounded her in the middle of the New York streets.

"Hi Clint," she said weakly as she turned to face him before her knees buckled and she collapsed into his arms.

He surveyed, her, his face betraying his thoughts as he reached up to touch his earpiece. "Steve, you need to get to us now. It's… not great."

She groaned in pain as Clint shifted his grip.

"What were you thinking?" he snapped, lying her behind a chunk of concrete and trying to stem the blood from the stab wound to her chest that was from Loki's spear. The cowardly god had attacked her while she was distracted, then fled to the top of Stark Tower.

"Ah, I wasn't?" she chuckled weakly, aware of the blood trickling from the side of her mouth, feeling faint green sparks congregate around the area. She forced the remaining energy she had left to the area around her chest wound, meaning every other wound she had promptly begun screaming at her.

"That's for sure," Tony said, landing beside the two, flipping his visor up and seeing exactly how bad it was. "You did well, kid. And by well, I mean I'm surprised you didn't have a mortal wound sustained much earlier than you did."

"Your morbid humour offends me," she grumbled, trying to sit up. Steve- who had appeared at some point in time- pushed her back down, one hand clutched hers tightly and the other gently smoothed her blood-soaked hair back from where it was plastered to her forehead. He smiled, but it seemed more like a pained grimace.

"JARVIS, assess damage," Tony ordered his AI, visor sliding down temporarily as he scanned Raegan's body. All humour drained from him, replaced with dread as he read the trauma listings.

She was dying, her energy the only reason she wasn't dead yet- it was healing the damage to her internal organs, but with the rate it was going at, she would bleed either internally or out. He kept the visor down even though the scan was complete, trying desperately to stop the tears from streaming down his face as he watched Steve tell Raegan to relax and stop being angry at Clint for pushing on her wounds, before Steve began to talk softly to her in an effort to keep her calm.

Tony placed a hand on Clint's shoulder, causing the archer to look up and see the slightly imperceptible shake of the head Tony gave. He snapped his head back to Raegan and then back to Tony as their channel became private.

"She's drained. She'll either bleed in or out. We can't save her, it's just a matter of time," Tony choked out, bordering on a sob.

"Where is the rest of the team?" Clint asked, addressing Tony.

"We're here," he heard Nat say behind them, and he spun to see the assassin's panic-stricken face as she saw her friend lying on the ground, blood pooling around her.

Tony created a channel for everybody except for Steve and Raegan.

"She's dying," he said, but this time it was a sob. "We're limited on what we can do, he ruptured organs and cut straight through her."

"I'm going to kill him, and then give him to Sif," Thor said through gritted teeth, moving toward the two people huddled against the debris in the middle of the road.

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She still gripped the staff she had stolen from one of the alien chariots, and felt some buzzing beneath her fingertips, unknowingly feeding off its energy. Her body knew she needed something more though.

Hammer, something at the very back of her mind whispered as Thor leant over her, worry marring his features. Despite this, Thor still wore a smile.

"Lady Raegan. You look troubled," he said, eyes crinkled in concern.

"Maybe that's cos I have blood flowing from a gaping hole in my chest that your psycho brother inflicted on me?" she hissed, wincing as Clint put pressure on the wound. She pushed him away. "Can I have your hammer for a minute?"

Thor chuckled, seemingly reluctant. It was an utter lie, however. He would have done anything for her. "It is a strange last request, but I do not think you will be able to lift it."

She grinned, and Clint rolled his eyes at her expression. "Have you seen this girl? She just attacked no less than three hundred aliens and came out of it in much better circumstances than I had expected."

"Three hundred?" Steve asked, staring at her with a mixture of disbelief and pride.

Thor handed her the hammer, and she wrapped her fingers around the handle. The hammer moved, feeling surprisingly light for something that she had expected to be much heavier. She thrust it toward the sky, listening to the distant rumble of thunder over the ocean. Steve stood up, staring at Thor and then the dying girl in the street who was holding the mythical hammer above her head and toward the sky. She coughed once, blood lining her lips as she stared up at the growing storm.

"I thought that only he who was worthy could lift your hammer?" Tony asked dryly, receiving a dirty look from Thor.

Storm clouds gathered, the thunder reverberating off the buildings until it built into a deafening roar. Lightning crackled, before one long strike found its way down to the hammer, turning rainbow before touching the head and travelling down the handle. Thor instantly knew what was happening.

"That much power will kill a human!" he yelled, lunging for her, but was thrown back by the wall of energy that had formed between her and the rest of the heroes.

"WHAT THE HELL DO YOU MEAN BY THAT?" Steve shouted angrily at Thor, his face livid.

"Language," Tony chided, realising what Raegan was doing and watching in awe.

Electricity coursed through her veins as the millions upon millions of volts surged through her body, causing all her hair to stand on edge and excruciating pain to ricochet up her arms and into her head. Her senses overloaded, leaving only room to vocalise her pain. She let out a heart-wrenching, soul-shattering scream as the energy was absorbed into her body before exploding outwards, blinding the onlooking Avengers and letting out a sonic boom that travelled several blocks.

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The hammer dropped to the ground with a clang as she released the handle, breathing heavily as she stared at the awestruck people surrounding her.

"Raegan?" Steve asked, and took a step back as she turned to look at him.

"Your eyes… your hair!" he stuttered, staring at her glowing green eyes and the new blonde- almost silver- streaks that ran through her hair.

He ran forward and wrapped her tightly in his embrace. "I thought I'd lost you," he murmured as she buried her face in his chest, seeking out the comfort his soothing presence gave.

"Your complete lack of mortal wounds!" Tony exclaimed after she'd reluctantly let go of Steve, clapping her on the back. "Commiserations, kid, but it looks like you have to remain on this hellhole we call Earth for a while longer."

One of the flying creatures floated over them, Chitauri dismounting and zooming toward the group.

"I'll take care of this. You guys take a moment to regroup," Tony said, sliding his visor back down and blasting into the air, giving chase to the creature with a horde of Chitauri nipping at his heels. He needed a moment to get rid of the tears that were streaming down his face. His reputation would be ruined if the team saw him.

Raegan groaned and handed the hammer back to Thor, the demigod taking a step back in surprise at the force with which she'd handed it back to him.

"Sorry. Supercharged," she muttered, her gaze not leaving the tower in front of her.

From behind them, they heard the tinny putter of a motorbike as a familiar figure made their way toward them, weaving between the burning vehicles and debris.

Dr Bruce Banner dismounted wearing ill-fitting clothing and walked over toward them.

There was a slight pause.

"So," he said, taking in the destruction and the inexplicable amount of blood covering Raegan's body. "This all seems horrible."

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