Chapter 3 was Express - Christina Aguilera. Chapter 4 was Him - Lily Allen. (Still not sure what I think about that one? This started out as HUMOR!)
This one might be kind of obscure, but I'd love it if y'all could guess which songs I'm using! And if anyone wants to suggest songs/lyrics/scenarios I'll do my best to write it.
Darcy knew that she was a target to the bad guys of the world because of her relationship with the Avengers. And the Avengers – especially Loki – were hyper-aware of it as well. When she refused to have a security team follow her everywhere, every member of the team had offered her weapons, training, or both. She had taken Tony up on his offer of a custom-made stun gun and both training and what was slowly turning into an armory's worth of weapons from Natasha. After a brief argument when Loki insisted she still needed more protection, she conceded that sending his copies out to follow her on every errand was an acceptable alternative to bodyguards.
So when someone pulled her into the space between two buildings – not even big enough to be an alley – after a trip to the pharmacy Darcy wasn't worried. She had her stun gun pulled out in milliseconds and aimed straight at the man's chest.
He was tall, and looked like he had been living on the streets for a long time. Darcy wasn't sure if the smell permeating the narrow space came from the garbage cans sitting next to a side door or from her would-be kidnapper. Seeing his metal arm, she discretely made a signal behind her back telling the Loki-copy hovering a ways behind her, nearly invisible, to wait and stay hidden.
"Bucky Barnes?" Darcy tried to keep her posture non-threatening while still keeping her gun raised. Steve had told the team about his friend and what HYDRA had done. Everyone had read the files Natasha managed to steal from HYDRA on the Winter Soldier. The team had been trying to track him down without success since the fall of SHIELD five months ago.
"Maybe?" He looked completely lost. Darcy thought he probably hadn't planned on succeeding in pulling her off the street – maybe never even planned to make contact. What they knew of his recent actions indicated that his behavior was becoming more erratic. Bruce hypothesized that it was because of his past memories pushing through his mental conditioning and, in Tony's words, "mucking about with his brain even more."
"Yes. You're James "Bucky" Barnes. Your best friend, Steve, he's been trying to find you." Slowly she lowered her gun and holstered it.
Bucky stood silently for a moment, staring at the ground. "The man with the shield." His eyes met hers and she noded. Darcy thought he looked as lost as Loki had been when she first met him.
"Bucky, you don't have to live as a fugitive." Carefully, Darcy reached her hand out to him.
He stared at her hand. Finally, he reached out and gently put his flesh and blood hand in hers. "Show me the right way to go?"
"Don't worry," Darcy smiled with a quick glance at the real Loki she could see hiding at the entrance to the dim corridor. "I have experience with that."