Sera -

'Friends. It has been too long!'

Thor's usual beaming smile warmed up the frosty mood that had fallen over the group in the last few days. We'd all had run ins with the arrogant God this past week as Fury had put us on shifts now Matthew's was dead. He's not questioned me which was a surprise. Maybe he assumed Loki had killed him or sympathized with me for once.

'Hey. It's nice to – OOOOFFFF! – see you too, buddy. Go easy there, point break.'

I laughed as Tony was slowly put back on the ground after an enormous what can be only described as a Thor hug.

'I have missed your wit, Man of Iron.'

Bruce backed away quickly as Thor went to give him a hug, offering a quick greeting. Steve opted for a handshake which landed him off the floor with Thor's incredible strength and pure cluelessness as to how strong he was. Natasha and Clint had been called out again so they weren't here unfortunately.

'Where is my lovely black widow and birdman?'

Tony burst out laughing at this, hitting Thor repeatedly on the back.

'Birdman?! Dude, I've so missed you. Birdman! Barton's never going to live this one down.'

I was sure Tony was going to use that to annoy him later on. Good luck Clint. I couldn't help but laugh at that one too though. Thor had always been funny.

'And my Lady Sera. What a surprise!'

'Hey Thor. Long time no see.'

I gave him a quick Thor hug before turning back to the rest of the gang. We were finally all back together. (well, bar birdman and the spider but all together on earth at least – without cages I might add).

'So friends. I want to visit the King of Burgers again. You have no idea what travelling across the bifrost does to your stomach -'

One thing about Thor that never changed. His food intake. He was always and I mean always hungry.

' - And Sera you have to tell me about all that has happened since my last visit. I was told you were imprisoned…'

We walked back into SHIELD a couple of hours later (which would infuriate Fury to no end when he found out) but who cares? The avengers did as they liked and I never listened to his orders anyway so why start now? Thor was grinning happily after devouring his twenty cheeseburgers in less than ten minutes. It was something to be proud of, believe me.

'Stark. Rogers. Banner. You ready?'

They all nodded as Tony broke out into a grin. I only ever really used their last names unless it was something serious aka. A mission. God. How I missed this.

'Jail break time!'

Natasha would be pissed but we'd have to deal with that later. Clint would make her come around eventually, I was sure. Thor stood still, looking confused as we rushed into action. We needed his strength to pull this off. It had taken days to convince Fury to get Thor here under the pretence of Pepper's surprise party of course. (Not that her birthday was for another half a year and I wasn't even sure he completely fell for it but he went along with it so good enough.)

'Thor. Get ready to use Mjolnir.'

He slowly nodded in understanding but still looked clueless. He was seriously like a big teddy bear. He pulled me back as the others disappeared down opposite corridors.

'What is happening Lady Sera?' I'm here to look for my brother among other things. If this can wait I'd like to find him.'

He scrunched his eyebrows together in worry.

'Don't worry Thor. That's who we're breaking out. We're jail breaking Loki'

Nobody at SHIELD had yet caught onto the fact that we were here to jailbreak Loki. In fairness though who would? Me, maybe. I hated him but they all thought I was crazy. But the avengers? We were going to be in deep sh*t soon. Although we hadn't run into any trouble yet, I knew the real problems would start when we were trying to get out, not in.

'Monitors down.'

'Alarms taken out.'

'K. Thanks Rogers. Thanks Banner. Stark, how about the Agent's in visual?'

A loud crash sounded through the com. somebody had just been taken down. Stark's voice came through the com seconds later.

'Neutralised.'

'Right. Thanks. Time to move to phase two.'

Thor was still following me around, looking like a lost puppy. We hadn't told him until now for one reason and one reason only. You could see the anger etched on his face and I knew if we had told him earlier he would have attacked SHIELD without any forethought, getting both him and his brother locked up. Much like I had been.

'Thor, you ready?'

He nodded curtly. He was as anxious as the rest of us. This would be considered treason but we all didn't care. Thor was our brother and we would all die a thousand fiery deaths rather than see him unhappy, even if that meant freeing his deranged, idiotic, sarcastic, annoying brother.

'Thor –'

'I shall wait and guard the door Lady Sera.'

I smiled at him briefly before breaking open the door. He knew me too well. Roger's had taken out the camera's earlier and Banner the alarm's so we were in the clear. For now.

Loki was sitting in the middle of the room, facing away from the entrance. The room still smelled of burning flesh from when I had killed Matthew's. The blood had long dried and with Matthew's gone he had been given some time to heal some of the wounds he had sustained under Matthew's hands.

'Get up.'

He slowly stood, before turning around his face giving nothing away. His usual smirk gone, not plastered all over.

'I do not take orders from you Midgardian.'

And yet he had still stood up. I folded my arms across my chest, sighing in frustration. Was this guy serious? He was going to make this difficult? We were breaking him out of this hell hole for God's sake! I took a deep breath, trying to calm myself.

'Loki. Come on.'

I gestured for him to follow me but he remained still, glaring at me.

'I am not going anywhere with you Midgardian filth.'

I began to unwind my arms, clenching my fists at my sides.

'Filth?'

I could feel my skin heating up as my anger rose. Why were we rescuing this prick again? He only smirked as I got riled up. He seemed to like getting under people's skin. Why had I ever defended this twat? You're doing this for Thor. For Thor. Sh*t! not working. You're doing this for Cadence.

'Thor.'

My voice was strained and unsteady as I closed my eyes. I was keeping a lid on it for now.

'Please deal with your beloved brother before I change my mind and kill him.'

I spat the last phrase as I desperately tried to keep my anger down. Thor knew exactly what would happen in a few seconds as I had known him for years so he quickly grabbed his struggling brother and bounded out of the room. I smirked at Loki's clear annoyance at being manhandled by his brother. If it were anyone else he probably would have attacked them but he hadn't attacked Thor. He narrowed his eyes as he took in my smile.

'Slut.'

His words echoed around the chamber as my anger exploded. I could feel the fire in my veins and in my palms. I angled my palms forward as the energy ripped from my body into the wall, burning a massive hole in it. The edges simmering from the heat.

I was still furious but the release of energy had lessened my need to hurt a certain someone. The only problem was the drain that was going to kick in after such a big expulsion of energy, after not being able to use it in so long, in abo –