I was debating about throwing this one up or rewriting it before, but there have been requests for more 'powerful Darcy' storyline stuff (keep in mind, she has those powers in all of the stories, its just a matter of if she's using them actively or not). I do have one more story at least that deals with her powers but it's not finished yet and might need to be split (its getting a little long), so I don't know when that will be up.

Anyway, this one is a bit weirder than the others but hopefully it's not too weird. Thanks to my beta HeroInTraining who is the one that said it's not so weird it needs scraping. Enjoy!

- Illusinia

Prompt: Pictures

From: avengers-tables .livejournal under 50-word prompt (yes, I do intent to use all 50 words)

Pairings: Clint/Darcy

Clint wanted to bang his head against the door of the limo. Repeatedly. The one time the Avengers and Darcy agreed to take one of Tony's limos, they would get stuck in traffic. As in grid lock, haven't-moved-in-30-minutes traffic. He was going to shoot someone. Or himself. Okay, not himself because Darcy would raise him from the dead just to kill him again (he wasn't sure she could actually do that, but she'd made the threat before and he really didn't want to take any risks). Tony then. No, then Pepper would kill him and he'd be back to the being-raised issue. Damn.

Sighing, he tuned back into the conversation at hand, namely the topic of Norse mythology. Darcy and Loki had been quietly listening to the stories while Tony listed off myths from Wikipedia. Most of them Thor had dismissed as being false, including several about Loki. For the past ten minutes, however, the look on Darcy's face had concerned Clint a little. When she was thinking hard about something, generally there was a look she got in her eyes that made him twitch a little.

"You know," cut in Darcy suddenly as Tony was launching into a story he'd found about Loki giving birth to a horse (seriously, what was wrong with the people who wrote these myths), "it kinda sucks how you've been demonized while Baldr was revered. He doesn't seem like he was a better person by any stretch. He actually sounds kind of dumb."

Loki nodded. "I believe the exact words of my immortal daughter's mortal friend were 'special snowflake'."

Darcy snorted as all eyes in the car turned to look at the two of them. "Seriously? He's mentally challenged?"

"After the fifth time his 'adventures' resulted in trouble, our parents opted to place him in a protective area," confirmed Loki with a bit of a smirk. "The type with padded walls. He has a rather lovely red ball that he favors though, to keep him entertained."

The snort degraded into giggles quickly. "Really? Huh, somehow I'm not surprised. Wait, back track. Immortal daughter?"

Loki nodded. "Yes, she is an immortal spirit I assisted another goddess in modifying so she was more, how should I put this, bipedal. By extension, she is my daughter because part of my magic was passed to her."

Thor's brow furrowed across the limo. "What daughter to you speak of, brother?"

"Rohana," supplied Loki. "You recall her."

"Yes, I do," sighed Thor unhappily. "Unfortunately. Is she still present here?"

"No," dismissed Loki. "My other self collected her from our realm once the threat to her person had passed. She has returned to her own realm now."

Both of Darcy's eyebrows shot up. "Own realm?"

Loki made a minor fluttering motion with his hand. "Dimension is a better word."

Clint hazarded a glance at everyone else who wasn't a god or metaphysically sensitive. They looked as stunned as he felt, so at least he wasn't the only one out of the loop. He'd have to talk with Darcy later, find out what else he might not know about that could be helpful. Like if there was the chance of random mutated lizards falling out of thin air.

"What was she doing here?" asked Darcy curiously. "I thought I felt something weird a while back."

"It might have been her coming through," confirmed Loki with a shrug. "Or her leaving. And she visited briefly because of something about her former brother the, as she put it, 'insane tree spirit with major mental issues' attempting to kill her and her friends."

Clint, who was already feeling dizzy due to the context of this particular conversation alone, felt his jaw hit the ground. Okay he knew Darcy and Loki had some pretty strange conversations, mostly because of Darcy's understanding of the metaphysical world, but this one took the cake. Dimension hopping immortal daughter of Loki? Seriously?

Tony broke in before Clint got the chance to comment. "Did you just say 'insane tree spirit with major mental issues'? 'Cause, last I checked, tree's don't have brains."

"Tree spirit," emphasized Darcy with a shrug. "Slightly different. Kinda like the idea of a spirit wolf."

Loki nodded thoughtfully. "That comparison is actually apt, given that her original form was that of a guardian wolf spirit. Well, a guardian wolf. It was never made clear to me if her form was physical or not."

"Nice," commented Darcy with a grin. "If she ever comes back, give me a heads up. I'd like to meet her. She sounds fun."

"When she is not attempting to light people on fire or threatening to bite if you do not return her to a human form I'm certain she is," confirmed Loki, a grin sliding over her face. "If she ever returns, I will be certain that you two meet."

Clint shook his head. "I think if she ever came back, Fury would shit himself."

Loki shrugged. "Entirely possible."

Darcy chuckled slightly and rubbed Clint's arm gently. "If Fury knew about half the entities that pass through our world at any given time or even a fifth of the powerful people out there, he'd shit himself."

"It can't be that bad," insisted Steve. "We don't get called out on a regular basis."

"Fury also wouldn't call you out for issues like what I'm referring to," explained Darcy. "He hasn't done anything about the power struggles in Atlanta, New Orleans, LA, or Seattle between the different energy manipulating groups in those areas. I'm not sure he actually knows about the true number of dead people still walking around on Earth and I know he doesn't have any clue how dangerous the ones that have never been alive are. And he definitely doesn't know about the two dimensional crossings that went down last year."

Loki furrowed his brow in confusion. "How could he possibly miss all of that?"

Darcy shrugged. "You've got me but I'm guessing he doesn't know jack shit about any of that otherwise he'd probably have a conniption fit."

"Or a heart attack," muttered Tony as he blinked at Darcy like she was insane. "And no more magic mumbo-jumbo talk in my limo. Its making my brain hurt."

Natasha snorted. "That could be the hang-over too."

Tony shrugged and gave her a impish smile in response. Beside him, Steve was rubbing his head like he couldn't puzzle through everything that had been said. Clint gave him props for at least trying. Personally, he'd given up with the idea of multiple dimensions actually existing came up.

"I think I'd rather just not know," sighed Steve finally. "Darcy, please do me a favor and never tell me if there's any kind of crazy metaphysical event or war or anything like that going down. Some things I just don't think I want to know about."

Darcy shook her head with a slight huff and a smile. "You sound like Clint. He keeps saying he doesn't want to know about this stuff but he's perfectly happy when I link him in so he can talk to our kid."

Clint had the balls to look a little sheepish. "That isn't really the same. I'm not fighting someone who can light me on fire when you do that. By the way, does everyone who has metaphysical powers lighting people on fire?"

"Not usually," replied Darcy, though she looked thoughtful. "Actually, out side of me and Rohana I've never heard of anyone else doing that. Loki?"

Loki shrugged. "I'm not the one to ask. Your Midgardian magic still confuses me. Perhaps Nicolas would know?"

"Maybe," shrugged Darcy. "I'll ask him later."

The limo came to a halt at that point, having arrived at their destination. No one had actually realized that they were moving again, but a glance out the window confirmed they had arrived at S.H.I.E.L.D. Darcy opened the door and climbed out carefully, using the roof and door to support her as she climbed through. Being almost 8 months pregnant meant she couldn't really bend well.

Coulson, who had been standing outside, offered her a hand then stepped back as Clint climbed out with the others, hands tucked in pockets of his pants. It wasn't normal to see the man so casual, but it probably had to do with the fact that he wasn't inside S.H.I.E.L.D proper. "Its good to see you all made it in one piece."

"Yeah, traffic sucked," explained Darcy with a shrug. "Nick inside? There's some stuff I need to ask him about."

"As always," confirmed Coulson.

Darcy gave him a grin. "Awesome. I'll meet you all in the offices once I track him down. Later!" She was gone without another word, moving surprisingly fast for a pregnant woman. Though Clint suspected she had to pee too.

"You look a little shell-shocked," commented Coulson as he took in the appearances of all the Avengers once they were out of the limo (Loki had teleported away as soon as they arrived, claiming to require entertainment now that Darcy was gone). "Interesting car ride?"

"Something like that," muttered Clint as he shook his head.

Tony snorted. "Underestimation of the year. Darce and Loki got into a discussion about dimension-crossing transformed wolves with insane trees for brothers."

"Oh," replied Coulson with a shrug as if the conversation were completely normal. "It must have been informative."

Natasha shot him a weary look. "You don't find this odd?"

Coulson gave her his 'you don't know weird but I've lived it' smile in return. "I over-heard her, Loki, and Director Fury having a debate about the probability of a war between necromancers and life readers once. Then Director Fury handed me a list of supplies I needed to acquire for the proposed institute. When you receive an order designating the need for ten pounds of desert rose quartz, seven pounds of dried whole-leaf sage, and enough glass to construct a room, you stop asking questions."

"I don't want to know," decided Steve immediately.

Tony scratched his head uncertainly. "What would you need all of that stuff for?"

"Desert rose to store energy, sage to clear the area of energy, and glass to act as a barrier to protect everyone else," replied Clint. Everyone blinked at him. "What? I live with Darcy. She's used all of that stuff before. Well, minus the glass. She told me about the glass thing at random one day. Apparently, something about the way it's made means it doesn't hold energy."

"Something along those lines," confirmed Coulson with a shrug. "Now, meeting?"

Tony nodded and headed into the building with everyone else in tow. "I never thought I'd say this, but after that conversation a meeting doesn't sound bad at all."

My Buddist friend actually did make the comment about Baldr being a special snowflake. Apparently that's how he came across in the myths to her.

Up next is 'Fairness' which will wrap up the open bits from 'Regrets' with the Avengers and Darcy's own odd family.