"So...aside from recruiting these people I told you about..." She emphasized the word "I", "What's your plan?"

Loki gave Janna an aggravated look. "You need not concern yourself with the details. Your duty is to stand and keep silent."

Osborn looked at Janna and Loki with his creepy smile.

"There will be others?" he asked.

"Yes." Loki moved past Norman and walked to the doors. "When the time comes, I'll retrieve you. Keep watch, for the time will be here soon."

He walked from the office and started planning to free this Doctor Doom.

"I'm sorry." Janna said loudly after being ignored earlier. "Who was it again that kept you from being captured?! And WHO is it that you still owe?"

She didn't move from her spot as Loki began to leave.

"And who is it that will retrieve your scepter?" She said this much more calmly.

Janna remained in Osborn's office. She hoped Loki would hear her and turn around. She was loud enough... and she could NOT stand being treated that way. If it weren't for her, who knows how long it would have taken him to come up with a plan. Especially from Asgardian prison...

Loki turned to Janna and frowned.

"Until I know you do not completely serve Fury and his band of fools, I will not divulge the details. You are useful, and I will be giving you a very important job, but until then you will just have to follow by faith. You're kind is known for that, am I wrong?" he asked.

"And you will give me the scepter."

"No I won't." Janna stood and crossed her arms.

She stood with her weight balanced on one foot and she tilted her head at him slightly. It was obvious she was testing him to get a reaction she wanted.

Loki smiled and walked out of the room.

She would probably follow.

Janna waved at Osborn. "Hey, crazy, can I borrow your phone?"

She didn't wait for a response. She sat down in his chair and grabbed the phone. She dialed Pepper's number.

"Hey, redirect me to Stark if you will. I'm that invisible girl, and it's important."

"Hey, I've got some good news and some very bad news." She said when Tony picked up. "Which do you want first?"

"Good news it is then." Janna said. She was planning on telling him the "good" news first anyway. Since well, the "bad" news would tell him the "good" news, and the "good" news wouldn't be a surprise.

"The good news is, I think I spotted Loki. Scratch that I DID see Loki." Janna twirled the phone cord between her fingers. She was acting. Her face and body conveyed annoyance, but her voice conveyed fear and surprise.

"The bad news. He was leaving Oscorp! You know, big, New York, weapons maker."

"How do you think I know this? I SAW him!" Janna turned in the chair to look out the window. "I saw him leaving the lobby maybe five, ten minutes ago...I had to find a phone."

"I, I don't think so." Janna acted as if she were looking around. "He was heading south I think..."

"An...and I won't." Janna pretended to be broken up about Tony's mention of Coulson making a move alone and dying. She did feel bad, she wanted to punch Loki again, but not as bad as she made it sound.

She assumed Loki had went back to her place, which was north of Oscorp. She didn't want Loki completely caught, if she did she would have told Tony exactly where he was. She just wanted Loki to know that if he didn't behave the way she wanted, things wouldn't go his way.

Janna hung up the phone and looked towards Norman.

"See yah Ozzy." She waved and laughed.

Janna walked around the corner of Oscorp and took a seat in an outdoor cafe to wait. The cafe was actually serving people, and a waitress came up to ask if Janna needed anything. She was about to tell her no thanks, when she remembered something...

"Yeah, can I borrow your phone?"

The waitress nodded and led her inside. Janna dialed her cell phone.

At home it started ringing, maybe Loki would figure it out. He wasn't stupid.

Loki was sitting near the lab top when he heard ringing. He followed the sound until he found the phone and picked it up.

Pressing the green 'talk' button, and held it to his ear like he's seen other do before.

Being the paranoid one he was, he didn't say anything.

"Hey there buddy." Janna said hearing the phone pick up. "Stark knows you were at Oscorp. He's heading there now."

How did he procure that information?" Loki asked. He was a thin line away from exploding.

"I told him." She played with her nails and held the phone with her shoulder.

Loki fisted his hands and threw the phone against a wall. The phone shattered into a thousand pieces.

"That incompetent quim." Loki whispered. He was pissed.

When she returned, he would need to talk to Janna.

"Oh come on...I liked that phone..." Janna whined as she hung up.


After meeting with the Avengers and attempting to break Osborn, Janna ran down a taxi and found a ride home. She knocked lightly on the door frame. She didn't want to barge in on Loki. He was undoubtedly pissed at her, but she kind of wanted it that way.

"Hello?" She slowly stepped inside.

Loki sat in the chair with his eye closed. He ignored Janna and hoped she would grovel in his presence.

Janna walked over to him and reached to poke his forehead.

He must be really pissed if he won't even acknowledge her. She must have made him a bit too angry...

Loki swatted her hand away and stood up.

"With whom do your loyalties lie?"

He faced her and gripped the back of the chair.

"The real question, is where do yours? If your loyalties lie with no one, why shouldn't mine?" Janna didn't smile, she managed to keep a completely straight face.

At the moment, she had no loyalty. If Loki acted the way she wished him to, without her having to go and all out say it, she might develop some loyalty to him.

Loki, being the god that he was, wasn't going to submit easily.

"Mine is to myself. I have no trust in anyone, so why should my loyalty lie with them?"

Janna started to walk around the chair around the back of the couch.

"See, the thing is, if you don't trust me I can't trust you. For all I know you could decide to kill me. So I can't get too comfortable."

As she finished her sentence she made it around the couch and sat down.

"Kill you? What wasted effort." Loki laughed.

It wasn't really a laugh, but a chuckle. He was mad, but he couldn't injure Janna yet; not until he got his scepter and Doom.

"But it's possible. And if you're as powerful as you say you are, it would be as easy as killing a gnat." Janna shrugged. She figured he didn't know what a gnat really was, and how hard it was to kill those annoying things.

"My words are true, but you have your uses. As bothersome as you are, you do have loyalties." Loki walked over and stood in front of Janna. "It's a matter of find out to whom they belong."

"If I have any, they're flimsy at best. And can change depending on what the person who has my loyalties does." Janna crossed her legs and smiled up at him.

Loki smirked at her comment. He couldn't help it, and he absolutely hated the fact it was true, but this girl was beginning to grow on him.

"I find that true with every passing moment. But what of your friend...the other girl?"

Loki moved away to walk behind her seat.

"What about her? She's my friend. I'd let her get hurt, and might even hurt her myself on occasion, but I won't let anyone kill her." Janna just sat in her seat. She didn't bother following Loki with her gaze.

Loki hummed and thought of something.

"You wouldn't let her die? How interesting..." he said.

"So in some way you do have attachments. Your methods are strange nonetheless."

"Yeah. And if someone tried to kill my friends, I would make their life a living hell before killing them in the most brutal way possible." Janna turned to look at him.

Her gaze was actually a bit scary. The way he said, "how interesting", did not sit well with her. Her gaze looked like she was conjuring up a plan of his living hell right then and there.

Loki held in a smirk. "Is that so?"

He fingered a picture sitting on a table.

"I never said I would kill her...wound or torture but not kill."

"And I never said that the person who would do anything would be you." Janna shrugged.

"But since you said something, I guess I still won't get your sorry little scepter." She yawned and stretched out her arms.

Loki turned back to Janna.

"What if I recruited her...this friend of yours. Would you get me scepter then?" he asked. He needed the scepter to get Doom from his prison.

"Not going to happen...ever." Janna laughed. "She wants in Captain America's pants too badly."

"And after you left me at Oscorp, I don't know if you'll ever get that scepter back. SHEILD has it locked up pretty tight." Janna leaned back comfortably in her seat.

Loki gave Janna a confused look; he did not know what she meant at all. "She wants his...pants?"

"Let's make a deal. Mortals like things of that nature, no?"

Loki ran his fingers along the back of Janna's seat.

"I won't harm your loved ones, and you bring me the scepter."

"Um, no. I'll get your scepter if I want to. So you should make me want to."

"Then what will make you want to?" He asked.

"That's for YOU to figure out." Janna said getting up to make herself some dinner.