I find it funny how many people thought the last chapter was the end xD! But no, you have this chapter, which is the last one for this story! Hopefully I will get to work on the prequel and post it soon, I will put up an A/N on the end of this story to let you know when it is posted :D
Jabberwocky.
"I LEAVE NEW YORK FOR ONE NIGHT AND THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS? CAN I NEVER LEAVE YOU ALONE?" Pepper yelled at Tony over the phone, she had been screaming at him for the past five minutes since he called her. "YOU COULD HAVE NEVER RETURNED! JESUS TONY YOU COULD HAVE DIED!"
"I'd rather die and know there was a New York for you to come back to, then die in a burning fireball after a nuclear explosion!" Tony snapped, before sighing and laying back in his bed, trying not to listen to his house guests.
"I'D RATHER YOU DIDN'T DIE AT ALL!" Pepper yelled, finally giving in to a small sob as her anger subsided. "You wait till I get back there, Tony! I'll strangle more then 12% of your life away!"
"You're never going to let me forget that, are you?"
"Never! I should be there in an hour."
"I'll get the kids out of the house and the to-"
"Goodbye Tony." Pepper said, before hanging up on him mid-sentence, she did not need to walk through the airport with a giant blush on her cheeks.
"What the hell were you thinking?" Bruce snapped, grunting softly as Callie slammed him in to the wall and attacked his lips with hers, before pulling away to answer his question.
"My father just lied to me, I had just watched as you plummeted from the sky, not knowing if you were alive or not! I had a few things on my mind then what he was saying!" Callie snapped back, grinning slightly as Bruce lifted her legs up to place them around his waist and bit her neck gently. They both needed this, they both needed to know that the other one still felt what they had felt before this, before Loki had come in to their lives and ripped it apart.
"That still doesn't tell me, why!"
"BECAUSE HIS WORDS WERE THE ONLY CONSTANT THING I HAD!" Callie yelled, pulling Bruce's hair as he glared at her. "You kept pushing me away, I thought... I thought your feelings had vanished... I'm not a doll to be played with and then shoved in a cupboard, if you are with me, then stay with me..." Her eyes filled with tears as Bruce gently put her down on the ground, pushing her arms from around his neck.
"I can't trust myself." He whispered, turning and walking from the room, causing Callie to fall to her knees and sob in to her hands, her heart feeling like it had just been smashed to pieces.
The meeting between Jane and Thor had been bitter sweet and to short for Thor's liking, but he knew he needed to get Loki back to Asgard before he escaped again. He had collected the child and frowned as the young girl gave him a glare so like Loki's he nearly dropped her.
"She does that a lot." Darcy said, smiling as she kissed the child on the head. "But only because she doesn't like to be carried around, she's very independent this one."
"I wish I could take you back to Asgard with me, Jane. Show you the universe." Thor said, giving Jane a hug before kissing her softly. "One day I promise that I will bring you to meet my parents and to see my world, but today is not that day. Today is the day I put my brother in prison."
"I'm sorry it had to come to this, Thor." Jane said, giving him another kiss before pulling away and trying not to cry in front of him. "I just hope you will forgive him in time..."
"I have already forgiven him, Jane. He is just lost and needs to find his way..."
"Well let's hope he does, this little one needs a daddy!" Darcy said, grinning as Hella wriggled away from her attempted kiss and gave her an incredulous look.
Thor stared at Darcy and then looked down at Hella, trying to figure out if Darcy knew something that he did not. "This is not the offspring of Loki." He said, after feeling how warm the child was. "She belongs to someone who Loki views as an equal."
"Loki views someone as an equal? That man is more self-centered then an arena packed with actors!" Darcy said, grinning sheepishly as Thor glared at her. "I did as he asked, I watched her and kept her safe. Now go before your brother tries to destroy something else."
"Darcy!" Jane hissed, elbowing her friend before reaching up to cup Thor's cheeks in her hands. "I'll miss you again." She whispered, giving him one finale kiss before backing away to let him leave.
The thing that would always shock Callie about New York was the way everyone was so wrapped up in their own world they didn't notice what happened around them. As The Avengers and herself stood around Loki and Thor, no one batted an eye at them, continuing on with what they were doing.
"So you will not stay with him?" Loki asked, staring at Callie as Thor spoke to Steve.
"No, I'll be going to Australia. S.H.I.E.L.D has very little power over where I am going, and I know a few people down there. I'll be using Tony's jet to fly to Cape Town then get a plane from there to Auckland and then fly from there to Melbourne. And after that its a few hours drive to my new home." Callie looked at Bruce for a few minutes before looking back at Loki. "How long will Hella have to stay?"
"A month at the maximum. It will take a little bit for the magic to work in order to heal her, but everything should work out. And whilst she is there I am sure that Frigga will look after her."
"And what of you, Loki? What are they going to do to you? What more can they do to you?"
"I do not know, Callie Laufeyson. I do not know."
"I want to thank you all." Thor said, smiling around at the group, his eyes lingering on Callie for a few moments longer then anyone else. "This cube will stay in the palace under constant guard..."
"Because that worked so well with the casket!" Loki thought, making Callie lose track of what Thor was saying.
"... I will take the child to be healed and then return her to Callie..." Thor reached out and gently took a sleeping Hella out of Callie's arms. "She will not be harmed whilst on my planet, let us hope that stays the same when I return her to this planet..."
"Highly unlikely..."
"And this is why he gagged you, Loki!"
"... I will keep my eyes on this planet to make sure that no aftershocks of the portal opening happen, I will also monitor Callie. If I feel she is in danger, I will step in. She is tied to my brother's life and I will not have his life threatened."
"The bond should be strong enough that the sunstones are rendered useless. You should still be able to access my magic in case of an emergency, let us hope that you do not need it."
"I hope to fight alongside you all once again." Thor said, bowing his head to each of them in a sign of respect before turning to Bruce. "And I hope to be able to spar with the other man once more."
"L-let's hope not..." Bruce mumbled, wringing his hands in nerves as Thor chuckled. In a flash of blinding light the two gods and the young mortal child vanished from the Earth, the only sign they had been there was the smoking remains of New York.
With her hand shoved in her pocket Callie watched the others leave, Clint and Natasha together, Steve on his motorbike and Tony taking Bruce away in the car. Before they had sped off, Callie caught Bruce's eyes, holding his gaze for a few seconds she bowed her head at him in a sign of goodbye.
Turning around she pulled her hood up and started to make her way towards the airport, quietly humming a tune to herself as she was taken up by the bustling crowd that was the New York side walk. Her new life had started as soon as she had bowed her head to Bruce, it was her silent way of saying 'Enough is enough, I quit.' because she knew she could never say it out loud.
Pulling out her phone she dropped it on the side walk and stomped on it watching as particles from it skidded across and in to the gutter. With a backwards glance at the park Callie continued on her way, once again humming a quiet tune to herself.
THE END!