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Here's chapter 8, a bit of a filler, but it serves a purpose...

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Darcy took the shower she told Jane she would be having. Her spine tingling from the images Loki had spurned in his wake. Darcy knew she couldn't continue on with her day successfully if she let thoughts of Loki's body parts invade every crevice of her mind. So she decided to compartmentalize him to the back for now. She dressed in a pair of jeans and a standard solid black tee-shirt, and made her way to the kitchen to cook a piece of toast.

"So Jane, how was the trip?"

"It was amazing. You were right!'

Darcy was confused, what could she have possibly been right about this time?

"About?"

Jane popped out her seat and ran over to Darcy, who's toast was just coming out the toaster.

"Thor being my fiancé!"

Jane flashed the ring, a beautiful diamond, most likely the most beautiful Thor could procure for his Queen. Darcy jumped around with the excited scientist , she couldn't believe her friend was marrying someone, let alone a god.

"Go on tell me the dirt! How did this come about?"

Darcy grinning from ear to ear took her toast and spread Nutella across the pieces.

"We were alone, I was teaching him how to ski and before we knew it he just asked me, right there in the snow."

"Oh I'm so happy for you! Congratulations my dear!"

"Thank you maid of honor!"

Darcy looked at Jane and started doing that emotional, Girly shit she hated seeing sometimes... Crying.

"Really?"

"Of course. We wouldn't have been together if you hadn't run him over."

"Hey I thought we agreed that one was on you."

"Yes, but did you need to subsequently taser him?"

"Like I said he was freaking me out. At least at the time he did. He takes lightning much better now that he's a god again and all."

"Yes and can conjure his own electricity and all of that. His whole body is a conductor."

"So freaking awesome! So tell me more about the trip..."

Jane helped herself to some water and told Darcy about the trip. Darcy got to hear all the dirt about the retreat, including Tony's drunken table dance to impress Pepper, Steve's very loud and embarrassing loss of his v-card, and Clint and Natasha's argument that led to Clint's neck being trapped by Natasha's killer thighs, and she demanded an apology before she broke his neck. It sounded fun, but for some reason she felt better about not going on the trip. Things that she would have committed somebody for thinking about her, had happened and she was okay with it...

*Later*

Darcy made her way down to the training room at 3pm not 100% sure who would be waiting to train her. Hill was back, but she wasn't sure if she planned on working with her today, or if Loki who she enjoyed training with because she actually felt empowered and could do damage.

She started stretching when she realized there was a slight shadow in the corner.

"Did I realize you were there because you wanted me to, or am I just that good?"

Loki chuckled and separated himself from the shadow so that she could see him. Loki actually wasn't sure of the answer himself, he had cloaked himself from everybody. Was this another issue with his magic? He still played it cool so that she would never know the difference.

"Of course it was my doing. Now make sure you are limber for today's training, I plan on letting you use the actual Vanaheim training room today, and believe me you must be ready to deal with anything the room throws at you."

"Fine just give me a few more minutes."

He nodded and she stood up throwing her leg over the weight machine. Loki wanted to help her and entice her all at once, so he grabbed her leg by the ankle and began to slowly push it up, while she tried to gain her balance. Finally the leg ended up on his shoulder and Darcy was breathing heavy from the implications her leg over his shoulder had caused.

"W..what are you doing?"

"Helping you become more prepared. Breath, start bending backwards, trying to grab your ankles."

"Backwards Loki?"

"Yes. Bend as far back as you can."

Darcy huffed and began to lean backward. She stopped when she was parallel with Loki's hips.

"I can't go down any further."

"Now, you wouldn't like me so much if I had said that earlier."

Darcy looked at him and rolled her eyes.

"Relax and take a deep breathe in, when you breath out I will push you back further. Tell me when you really can't bend any further, and I will stop."

"Okay."

"Are you ready?"

She nodded and took a deep breath in. Unaware that Tony, Steve and Thor were watching from a monitor elsewhere in the building.

Loki pushed against her shoulder so she would move. Steve unsure about Loki's intentions was ready to barge in and stop him before he really hurt her, the audio in the training room was mysteriously silent. Tony and Thor held him back, wanting to see more before they jumped to conclusions about him harming the girl.

Loki was having a hard enough time not concentrating on her ample cleavage, slowly being pushed closer and closer toward him with the further to the ground she got. Being who he was (as an instructor, and as a mischievous god) he had to provide a challenge or distraction for her to try to over come. His hand journeyed further to her cleavage to help her push down. Darcy's breath hitched slightly in her chest, and Loki smirked as he could feel it.

"Do not get distracted Darcy. No matter what ever happens to you. Distraction is death at the wrong time."

Darcy tuned out the warmth of his hand so close to her breasts, by closing her eyes and imaging her body as a rubber band, when she heard...

"What the hell is going on here?"

Darcy's eyes popped open and Loki let her leg down, rather quickly. Hill hadn't snuck up on him, he just didn't register her as a threat so he ignored her energy.

"Stretching."

"THAT LOOKED LIKE A HELL OF ALOT MORE THAN STRETCHING LEWIS!"

"But it was. I swear..."

"I was simply doing an exercise with Lady Darcy to improve her flexibility."

The sound had returned so Tony, Thor and Steve could hear the conversation. Tony scoffed and grinned like a madman when he listened. If anyone thought into what he had just wait messed between Darcy and Loki and was a genius playboy like he was he could tell there was some serious sparks between those two. They constantly argued, but he had always said (mostly to Pepper) that those two just needed to bone and get it all out. Now it seemed something was stirring between the two. Judging by the look on Steve and Hill's face he decided to keep it to himself.

"Well I see your trying to help her I suppose, but now she must train."

"About that...eh...you see I've decided to have Loki continue my training."

"YOU WHAT?!"

Hill's face was priceless, Tony had Jarvis take a picture of it and save it in the encrypted Avengers blackmail file. He focused back in on the screen.

"Yes. I mean I really like the way he teaches..."

"I'm calling Fury on this. You cannot just decide to do something like this."

Tony, Steve, and Thor took Hill's subsequent call to Fury as a sign to move to the training room. They had a feeling some intervention on some bodies side would be required...

10 minutes later.

"Hill tells me you don't like the current training situation."

Nick said calmly although you could tell he was angry inside despite his cool exterior. Tony, Steve, and Thor were standing off to the side.

"It's not that I don't like your training. It just with Loki, I have learned more in a few days, than I have learned in a few months with S.H.I.E.L.D training."

"You beg to be an Agent yet you turn it down for a few silent moments with Loki?"

"I've not saying that I don't want to be an Agent. I love being an Agent, I do important work, I save lives, and the uniforms make me look great, but I see an opportunity to learn some amazing things, that I just can't learn from Hill. Loki can teach me those things."

'It's dangerous Lewis."

Loki frowned, why was it dangerous? Was it because he was directly involved?

"Explain why would that be dangerous. I had no intention of harming her no further than you would with your training sessions."

"Because we have safety approved methods of maintaining her safety, you don't you may inadvertently hurt her, because you're an Immortal and she is not. You may overestimate her abilities."

Loki could sense the lie immediately.

"If you are going to lie to me Agent Hill, you better try a better excuse."

Maria had the grace to look abashed, but quickly returned to her stern face.

"I can give you honesty if you'd like."

"Oh please by all means continue to lie to me, it will further my entertainment for the day."

"She should not be training with you. We all know you two don't get along. This could be some concocted plan to harm her."

"Excuse me, but I'm not that damn stupid Maria. I do have a brain, I knew exactly what I was doing when I began to train with Loki. Besides it's not like he decided to out of the blue helped me. We decided to spar a bit while you all enjoyed your vacations, it was during that session, I realized how horribly unprepared I was for battle with anything stronger than a punching bag. We came up with an agreement, he has agreed to train me."

Nick grimaced, but something told him it would be hard to break to two apart. He tried a bit of tough love on the girl, try to get her to see reason. Loki could not be trusted, no matter how much he "helped" the Avengers, and furthered his agenda.

"Darcy, you cannot hope to think that you will learn anything that we cannot teach you. Things cannot be rushed, you must take time for them to stick. I think you are being a child right now, getting attention from whomever, because we can't spend all day coddling you like he can. Now you will resume training with Agent Hill."

Darcy was pissed! How dare he accuse her of being an attention seeking child, because she wanted more knowledge!

"That is BS and you know it Director. I am a child because I seek knowledge? It makes me incapable of being a team member because I want to learn and know? Then again you accused Tony of being not being team ready and we'd all be a nuclear wasteland if it wasn't for him, almost killing himself. I'm sorry but I have to stand my ground. I want to train with Loki"

Nick Fury's mouth hung slightly open his grimace more prevalent than his shock. Tony sensing things were about to fly off the handle, stepped forward.

"Woah woah woah! Hold up a second. Why don't we all just chill for second. Sort this out the right way please. Now I think there is a simple way to solve this."

"How?"

"Well a bit of a spar. Why don't we look at past tapes of Darcy's training performance, then have her fight against someone of your choosing director, and see how far she has progressed. No change then she stays with you, but if she gets better, then I suggest we let her keep training with whomever she so chooses."

Nick processed the suggestion, he knew Darcy hadn't gotten any better because S.H.I.E.L.D hadn't allowed it, and he was sure the god was just playing with her, to embarrass her, or worse get her killed.

"Fine. Pull up the last two training sessions she had under S.H.I.E.L.D we will watch them, then you will battle Hill and we will decide from there."

"But Hill is one of your best Agents."

"You are so confident that my training lacks in comparison then you should be able to take on Hill in 30 minutes."

Nick turned away, the ends of his black trench coat flying behind him out the sliding door, Hill a close second.

"Tony she is going to kill me!"

Darcy screeched, as Thor and Steve walked over having stayed silent. They both knew she wasn't a strong fighter yet.

"Hill is going to kill me... I'm going to die...She going to toss me around like a dirty rag and then after I'm dead they will fire me..."

"Snap out of it Darcy. You are noting going to die. She won't even think about taking it that far. Now you have learned a lot in these last couple of days. Remember to use everything to you advantage, let her attack first and keep a calm head. The moment you lose focus in battle, is the moment you lose. Now sit on the ground, and practice meditation."

"But shouldn't I be like throwing some punches around..."

"You cannot win if you are not ready. Trust me Darcy, and have faith when something is wanted bad enough, eventually it will come to pass. You want to train with me again on Vanaheim you will do your best to prove you want it."

Thor hadn't said anything, he was slightly perplexed by his brothers actions, he had never been one to willing help someone, maybe Lady Darcy had some sort of debt owed on Loki that she was requiring to be paid in training, but Loki had said Vanaheim.

"Brother you have taken Lady Darcy to Vanaheim without their permission. You did not declare yourself on their land? You know trespassing, prince or not is highly frowned upon, on our realms."

"I have received all blessing to train her on the realms. Vanaheim is a great place to train brother, you know from experience. To be the best, you must have the best. Darcy will be one if the best."

"If you honestly believe that brother, then I will have no choice but to stand behind you."

Darcy tuned out the conversation about her, and cleared her mind of all negative thoughts. Yes Maria Hill was one of the best the agency had to offer, and Darcy knew it was highly likely she would win, but then it hit her. The way Tony had worded the agreement, she only needed to show her growth and change from working with Loki. She knew very well that she had indeed learned a few things in her new training, she had a long way to go and probably would not defeat her, but she could hope to give her a little bit more run for her money.

Nick Fury and Agent Hill came back into the room and commanded everyone to follow them to another room. It was still a training room, but this room had a couple of short bleachers for people to sit on. The walls were white, the mats on the floor black and Hill looked like she was taking no prisoners. Darcy knew she couldn't panic, not now anyways. She had to remember her goal.

Show growth.

Fury called a start to the battle, sitting on the benches with the three Avengers and the supposedly reformed villain. He was sure Agent Lewis didn't stand a chance, and only hoped Hill did damage to her ego like he had said. Take her down as quickly as possible, so that this mess would be over, there was no way that he could allow them to train together.

Darcy and Hill circled each other before Maria grew bored and began to attack the apprentice. Darcy avoided the hits and surprisingly landed a few of her own. Maria was surprised that her trainee had held her own for this long, sadly a testament on how well and how much she had been learning from Loki. Darcy who was slowly learning to trust her abilities had found a little confidence in her fighting and shocked everyone when she tackled Maria and the began to tumble around on the ground.

Natasha and Clint, who had trained down the hall had walked by the room and saw Darcy and surprisingly Hill rolling around on the padded floor. They snuck in and took a seat next to Steve who's eyebrows were furrowed in confusion. Natasha was thrown back how had she gotten that good in such a short amount of time? Hill was actually breaking a sweat, and that in itself was no small feat.

"What's going on in here?"

Natasha whispered to the four guys.

"Darcy is fighting for her right to train with Loki."

"WHAT?"

Clint whisper yelled.

"Apparently she and my brother began training together while we were on our vacation. It appears she had learned a lot from him and wishes to continue."

"Yea and Fury and Hill aren't going for it unless she can show them that what she learned in a week outweighs what she learned in months with them."

Tony said not wanting to look away.

"She does know that's impossible right."

Said Clint, watching the two girls separate for a moment.

"I'm not sure about that."

Steve said watching them as well.

Tony, who was enjoying the whole thing, leaned forward watching in earnest.

"I really don't care who wins, as long as they keep fighting. This is better than porn."

Everyone except Nick turned toward him with their "Shut Up, Tony" faces. Not that he cared about them, he was too enthralled by them.

Meanwhile Darcy knew she didn't have much left, but she was confident she had proved her point. She and Maria broke apart, and Darcy guessed Maria was about 135 to 145 pounds and she unexpectedly rushed her and lifted her up. Loki had prepared her greatly by having her lift 200lbs, and now anything less was lighter than before. She dropped Hill hard and heard the woman's yelp and then she fell hard to the floor because Maria had jutted her leg out and swiped her feet out from under her.

Nick jumped up and called the fight, everyone following him to the middle of the room to the women who were panting out of breath.

"That was... Interesting."

"Forget interesting... That was awesome! Easily one of the single hottest things I have ever seen in my life."

"Tony, if I had any energy left I'd kick you in the shin."

Said Darcy.

"And I'll help her."

Said Agent Hill. Who was slowly pulling herself up.

"It was only a joke, but in all honesty that was a great fight. Director I think it would be foolish not to let her continue learning with him."

Tony spoke trying to save himself from an ass kicking by the two women and Pepper later.

"What in the hell have you guys been doing in a week that turned her into that?"

Hill said dusting herself off.

"Loki you did not aid her at any point during the fight."

"Of course not, her actions were all her own."

Nick Fury had no choice but to concede. If he didn't none of the Avengers would trust him enough to deal with him. He needed them on his side. He just hoped that this arrangement didn't backfire at any point like he knew it could.

"Fine. Agent Lewis you may continue to train with Loki at your own cognizance and will but be warned that your are at fault for anything that happens, also I will be requiring you to train with Agent Hill and Coulson for at least once a week for a 2 hour period. You will undergo the training tests at the same schedule as was predetermined by us before your training began. If you do not reach these marks at the correct time I will yank you back into our training so fast your head will spin. Do I make myself clear Lewis?"

"Crystal sir."

Nick then turned to Loki.

"As for you Loki, you hurt her and I promise it will be hell to pay. About training, I had no idea you were interested in training new recruits, I could have you set up to train others by the end of the week."

Nick Fury also planned on planting someone in his training session to learn how he was improving Darcy so fast.

"I think not Director. I have no urge to train anyone other than Lady Darcy."

"Why is that?"

"She has untapped potential, and could be a great asset to our team. I want to insure that she does one day reach the level to join us. She has all the same assets that Lady Natasha has and I'm sure her intelligence alone makes her worthy. She's a talent and we all know how S.H.E.I.L.D likes to collect talents."

Nick said nothing and walked away, knowing he couldn't say anything back to Loki's collector jab, without revealing the truth behind that statement. He only hoped the Norse God didn't stumble upon it, before he figured out the answer to controlling it himself...

Ooooo! What is Nick Fury up to this time? Remember, " his secrets have secrets"... Lol

See you next time!