A/N: Hello there! I want to apologize for not updating for such a long time. I got really busy with my job since the holidays and I even made a trip out to visit my family for a while. There should be more frequent updates, I assure you. Now here comes the hard part,; portraying Loki. I haven't really had the chance to really write Loki's character so i hope I do so correctly. Please feel free to let me know what you think of Loki in these next few chapters.

Disclaimer: I do NOT own any Marvel characters, only Kaycee.

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Kaycee wanted nothing more than to run off, but instead it felt as if her feet were glued to the floor. She was trying her best not to look into Loki's eyes, afraid she would become vulnerable to whatever powers he possessed.

The god of mischief smirked at the young girl. "Dear heart, you seem a bit lost."

"I'm simply just in the wrong room is all," she said quietly and prepared to leave.

"Oh don't leave just yet," Loki drawled. "we've only just begun."

"Begun what?" she mentally slapped herself for even speaking more to him.

Loki only smirked at her before answering. "Getting to know each other, of course. You must be the daughter of the one they call 'Stark'." Kaycee was about to question how he knew that but was cut off by him holding up his hand. "I may have only been on midgard for a short time, but trust me, when I say that I am very, very observant."

"What else do you know then?" she asked while biting her lip, a nervous habit she had.

Loki gave a sad smile. "I know a broken heart when I see one." Kaycee's heart stopped. She didn't say anything as he continued. "When I first laid eyes on you, I could see it in your eyes. The one for whom you thought loved you betrayed you, did they not?"

"It's, uh not like that." Kaycee shook her head, taking a few steps back. "I shouldn't have come in here."

"Someone as lovely such as yourself should never have such an experience with pain from the heart." Loki said. "Believe me, darling when I say that the pain doesn't last too long. Eventually it fades away and leaves you with nothing but sadness and regret. But that sadness that has taken its place in your heart has helped me discover my true reason to be here."

"Um, that you're crazy and that you shouldn't be here?" she asked, slipping upon the sarcastic attitude.

Loki shook his head and sighed. " I was not only sent here to serve as ruler to this realm, but to share it and its wonders, the power and pride of ruling with its queen. you."

She couldn't find her voice but managed to squeak out "What?"

"Isn't' it obvious? A king needs a queen to rule besides him, a king is nothing without its queen." He smiled at her. "I want you to be my queen. You deem the following qualities; beauty, knowledge, innocence, loyalty to loved ones. All those qualities that makes the perfect queen.'

Kaycee slowly shook her head. "I don't want to be your queen. And in case you haven't noticed this but you're over a thousand years old and I'm only seventeen so…."

"You deny the age difference all you want but know this," he chuckled. "Whenever I see something I desire, I get it."

Once she finally found the right words to say, she was interrupted by the sound of the big, steel doors sliding open. but before she could turn to see who it was, she felt two strong hands rest on her shoulders, turning her away from Loki, followed by a familiar strong voice.

"That's enough," she looked up to see none other than Captain Rogers glaring at Loki. Loki only held up his hands up in defense with a small smile.

Steve then escorted her out of the room. Once they were both in the hallway, he turned to Kaycee. "Are you alright? He didn't say anything inappropriate to you did he?"

Kaycee shook her head. "Uh no, no." She stood there nervously, fidgeting with her hands behind her back. "Look I knowI shouldn't have been in there, i was wandering around and I guess I wasn't paying attention to where I ended up."

Steve gave her a small smile. "No need to worry, Miss Stark. I won't be telling on you."

"Oh, you don't have to call me 'Miss Stark'. Just call me Kaycee."

"Alright then, Kaycee."

Kaycee couldn't help but feel butterflies in her stomach when he had said her name. Whenever she saw his smile, she swore her heart was going to melt. He almost reminded her of a puppy. Cute and precious.

"So um, I just came from the lab and your father and Dr. Banner were wondering where you were." Steve said, gesturing back towards the hall to the lab.

"Okay, great. Thanks." she smiled kindly. "And before I go, I just want to apologize for anything my dad says that upsets you. He comes off a bit standoffish but he means well. Sometimes."

"No, its fine. I'm kind of use to it. I actually use to be friends with your grandfather, they're kinda alike… almost."

"Really?" she asked with a smile, but then became serious. "He wasn't as narcissistic as my dad is now… was he?"

Steve's smile dropped. "Uh, well he was um… I gotta go. You should probably go see your father."

"Oh, alright. It was nice to meet-" before she could finish, Steve had already walked away and was gone. "you."

Kaycee shrugged and slowly began to make her way to the lab. On the way there, she did pass by Natasha.

"Where have you been?" the redheaded assassin asked.

"I was just wandering around. You know, not trying to get in anyone's way." the teen responded, avoiding eye contact.

"Kaycee, you're not in anyone's way." Natasha said. "I know what fury said may have sounded harsh but he knows, and I knows, and I know that you're just as useful as you've always been."

Kaycee nodded. "Thanks,"

Natasha smiled. "Your welcome," then quietly added. "Just don't let anyone know I've been so kind. Don't want to ruin my rep." And with that, she winked at the younger girl and headed out towards Loki's cell.

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By the time she finally arrived at the lab, she her father and Dr. Banner continuing with their research. When the sound of the door reached their ears, both men looked up. Tony smiled and proudly announced. "There's my little prodigy. I was just telling Dr. Banner here about little adventures."

"You know I don't like that title." she said taking a seat. "And what adventures."

Tony pouted at her first comment. "The good ones. Like Monaco or-"

"Monaco?" she questioned. "Did you tell him about the part where I ad to leave that place in an ambulance?"

Bruce looked shocked but didn't say anything, he was actually beginning to look uncomfortable with the change atmosphere.

Tony opened his mouth to say something else but immediately closed it. "Yeah, I may have left that part out. But hey! You're okay now!" he noticed her raised eye brows. "I thought we put this behind us?"

Kaycee nodded. "I suppose we did."

"Ambulance huh?" Bruce asked. "Sounds a little nerve racking."

"You don't want to know." she added, slowly rubbing the thin scar running amongst her arm. Bruce noticed this but said nothing.

Before anyone could say anything, Fury rushed into the lab and faced Tony. "What are you doing, Mr. Stark?"

Tony looked up from his work. "Uh, kind of been wondering the same thing about you."

"You're suppose to be locating the tesseract."

"We are." Bruce responded. "The models are locked on and we're sweeping for the signature now. When we get a hit, we'll have the location within half a mile."

"Yeah," Tony said, moving near his daughter and placing his hands on her shoulders. "then you get your cube back. No muss, no fuss." Then a short beeping noise could be heard from a nearby monitor, which Kaycee pulled up on the screen nearest her.

"What's phase two?" she asked, looking up at Fury along with Tony, hoping for an answer.

Kaycee jumped when she heard a loud bang, a large gun being dropped onto one of the counters, followed by Steve's voice. "Phase two is S.H.I.E.L.D. uses the cub to make weapons. Sorry, computer was moving a little slow for me."

Fury sighed. "Rogers, we gathered everything related to the tesseract. this does not mean we're making-"

Tony moved the screen away from Kaycee to face it towards the director and super soldier. "I'm sorry, Nick. What were you lying?"

"I was wrong, director. The world hasn't changed a bit." Steve said bitterly.

Right then, Thor and Natasha we now in the lab, catching Bruce's attention.

"Did you know about this?" Bruce asked her.

Ignoring his question, Natasha looked at him. "You want to think about removing yourself from this environment, Dr. Banner?"

Bruce chuckled. "I was in Calcutta. I was pretty well removed."

"Loki is manipulating you," she said to him, taking a step closer.

"And you've been doing what, exactly?"

Natasha rolled her eyes. "You didn't come here because I bat my eyelashes at you-"

"Yes, and I'm not leaving because suddenly you get a little twitchy." Bruce said, now motioning to the monitor. "I'd like to know why S.H.I.E.L.D. is using the tesseract to build weapons of mass destruction."

It grew quiet until Fury pointed to Thor. "Because of him."

"Me?" Thor seemed confused.

"Last year, Earth had a visitor from another planet with a grudge match that leveled a small town. We learned that not only are we not alone but we are hopelessly, hilarious, outgunned." Fury explained.

"My people want nothing but peace with your planet." Thor said.

"But you're not the only people out there, are you?" Fury asked. "And you're not the only threat the world's filling up with people who can't be matched, that can't be controlled."

Steve spoke up. "Like you controlled the cube?"

Thor stepped up to Fury. "Your work with the tesseract is what drew Loki to it and his allies. It is a signal to all the realms that the Earth is ready for a higher form of war."

"You forced our hand." Fury said. "We had to come up with something."

"A nuclear deterrent ." Tony chimed. "Because that always calms everything right down."

Fury turned to face Tony. "Remind me again how you made your fortune, Stark?"

"I'm sure if he still made weapons, Stark would be neck deep-" Steve started to say but was cut off by Tony.

"Hold on. How is this now all about me?" he asked.

"I'm sorry, isn't everything." Steve retorted.

Thor crossed his arms. "I thought humans were more evolved than this."

"Excuse me, did we come to your planet and blow stuff up?" Fury asked sarcastically.

"You treat your champions with such mistrust."

Kaycee couldn't believe what she was seeing, the whole room, filled with adults and one demigod, all arguing. Her father was currently arguing with Captain Rogers, Agent Romanoff was going off on Dr. Banner and Fury with Thor. But then, she couldn't help but notice Steve had glanced at her in the corner of his eyes. She must've looked extremely awkward just standing there.

"You speak of control, yet you court chaos." Thor said.

"That's M.O., isn't it?" Bruce said. "I mean, what are we, a team? No, no, no we're a chemical mixture creates chaos. We're a time bomb."

"You need to step away." Fury said, pointing at Bruce.

Kaycee closed her eyes, hoping that her father would know not to say anything in that moment. Boy, was she wrong.

"Why shouldn't the guy let off a little steam?" Tony said, dropping his hand onto Steve's shoulder. Only to have it knocked back off by the Captain himself.

"You know damn well why. Back off!" Steve barked.

"Oh, I'm starting to want you to make me."

'Dad, please stop.' she thought.

"Yeah," Steve moved to face Tony. "Big man in a suit of armor. Take that off, what are you?"

At this point, Tony didn't hesitate. "Genius, Billionaire, playboy, philanthropist. And an amazing father, might I add."

"I know guys with none of that worth ten of you." Steve said, looking at Kaycee from the corner of his eyes, seeing her pinching the bridge of her nose. "I've seen the footage. The only thing you really fight for is yourself. You're not the guy to make the sacrifice play, to lay down on a wire and let the other guy crawl over you."

"I think I would just cut the wire." Tony responded.

Steve chuckled. "Always a way out. You know, you may not be a threat but you better stop pretending to be a hero."

"A hero? Like you?" Tony stood tall. "You're a laboratory experiment, Rogers. Everything special about you came out of a bottle."

Steve turned his head to fully look at Kaycee, who now looked like she was going to have a panic attack. "An amazing father huh? You brought your teenage daughter to a dangerous mission. If you so much cared for her safety, you would have left her at home where she'd be safe."

Tony looked like he was going to explode. "I don't think you're in any position to talk about parenting, Cap."

"Put on the suit," Steve said to Tony. "Let's go for a few rounds."

Kaycee couldn't take anymore. She pushed herself out of her corner and in between the two men. "Alright, that's enough both of you."

"Miss Stark, step out of the way." Steve said calmly.

"Hey," Tony glared at Steve. "don't tell my kid what to do… Kaycee, honey please step back…."

Thor's booming laughter pulled them from their argument. "You people are so pretty and tiny."

"Yeah, this is a team," Bruce said sarcastically.

Fury turned to Natasha. "Agent Romanoff, would you please escort Dr. Banner back to his-"

"Where? You rented my room." Bruce said.

"The cell was just in case-"

"In case you needed to kill me. But you can't. I know, I've tried." After that being said, the whole room was quiet. "I got low. I didn't see an end. So, I put a bullet in my mouth, and the other guy spit it out. So I moved on. I focused on helping other people. I was good. Until you dragged me back into this freak show and put everyone here at risk. You want to know my secret, Agent Romanoff? You want to know how I stay calm?"

Steve slowly began to pull Kaycee back so he was standing in front of her. "Dr. Banner, put down the scepter.

Bruce looked down at his left hand to see it holding onto Loki's scepter tightly. He slowly looked back at everyone before setting it back down gently. Soon one of the monitor started to beep, pulling hime towards the other side of the room to the main computer.

"Got it." Tony announced.

"Sorry kids, you don't get to see my party trick after all." Bruce said while walking away.

Thor looked over at Bruce. "You've located the tesseract?"

"I could get there fastest." Tony said.

"The tesseract belongs on Asgard, no human is a match for it." Thor told them.

Tony went to exit the lab but was yanked back by Steve. "You're not going alone." he told Tony.

"You're gonna stop me?" Tony shot back, smacking his hand away.

"Put the suit on, let's find out."

"I'm not afraid to hit an old man."

"Put on the suit," Steve repeated.

Kaycee went to stand between the two men once again but was knock back by explosion. The explosion cause the group to go flying in all different directions. Bruce and Natasha went flying through two lab windows, Thor and Fury were launched at the wall, and Kaycee, Steve and Tony went flying towards the door. Kaycee, being the unluckiest out of the three, hit her head in the edge of the door way. When Tony and Steve sat up, both looked down to find Kaycee still on the floor.

"Kaycee?" Tony rolled her over on her back. Her eyes slowly opened, and her hand reached up to the spot on her head where she had been hit. She nearly became sick when she saw a small amount of blood on the palm of her hand. "Shit. She hates blood." He said to Steve.

"Go put on your suit," Steve told him. "I'll get her to safety."

Tony hesitated but nodded. He looked down at Kaycee who looked like she was trying to fight off sleep. "Hey look at me. You're going to be fine, I'll come back and get you I promise." He stood up to leave. "Meet me at engine three!"

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A/N: Tada! So like I said, let me know what you think!