"Ow." She sat up and held her head, feeling the bruise forming on her head.

"Back with us I see." She looked up and saw Steve stood by the door of the unfamiliar room. She shook her head trying to rid it of the dizziness, only to make it worse.

"What happened, I know Natasha knocked me out, but after that." Kim gestured vaguely and frowned. She noticed the bruises and cuts along his arms and face, something big had happened whilst she was out.

"When he realised that you had left, he left. I don't know why." Kim pulled the duvet off of herself and stood up slowly, Steve walked towards her and offered his arm to her. She looked at it, stood up straight and took a step, then realised that she needed the help and took the proffered arm.

"Right, so I think we can guess that who ever this is wants me for something. What happened to Thor and Loki?" He walked her out of her room and she let go of his arm and walked towards the sofa that she was certain that she could reach on her own. Steve let go of her and went to a small kitchen unit that was on this floor, apparently this was the living quarters floor of the tower.

Her knees gave out the second she reached the edge sofa seat and she promptly sat down, pulling her legs up beneath her.

"Where is everyone else?" Kimberly asked as Steve walked out of the kitchen with a glass of water which he gave to her as he sat down across from her.

"Natasha and Clint are out collecting up his arrows and helping with the clean up. Thor's still unconscious I think, whereas Tony and Bruce are down a floor trying to figure out what the hell happened to you 3." She sipped the water and frowned.

"Right. What happened to Loki?" She asked as she put the cup down.

"Loki's down stairs as well, still unconscious." The ding of an elevator Kim hadn't realised existed, drew their attention. A somewhat exhausted Tony Stark appeared,a purple bruise colouring his cheek bone, and slumped down on the sofa without a second glance.

"Their awake. Loki wants to see you." He pointed at Kim who raised an eyebrow but got up, slowly making her way to the elevator.

"Is it safe?" She asked as she pressed the button to go down a floor.

"Should be, when you get out of the lift just go straight." The doors closed as she watched him get up and walked in the direction of a room.

Ding. The doors opened and she walked across the well lit hallway, pushing open the door across the way. The room was split in 2 by a glass pane with a door. Loki sat on the other side of the glass, though he got up when he heard the door close.

"You." He was wearing normal, human clothes, instead of the armour he had been wearing.

"Me. Why did you want to talk to me?" Kimberly asked as she crossed her arms over her chest.

"You changed. You're a freak of humanity, you're a mutant."

"That I am. I'm getting fed up of the spiel I keep on giving. I changed age didn't I. When you picked me up? That's my mutation, it acts unconsciously when I am in danger of dying, which I was. Thus I am well over the natural age of humans. 2 millennia to be precise. But you were more intrigued about what I said when we were fighting weren't you?" She sat down, on a chair that clearly didn't belong in the room, and looked up at him.

"You said something about knowing the pain I feel every time I use my power, how could a mortal know that pain?" He looked past her out of the glass wall, Kim turned and saw Bruce who was watching them. She sighed.

"I've already told you that I am something between mortal and immortal. Did they figure out what had happened to us?" He raised an eyebrow.

"Us? I gather Thor went under whatever had taken over me, but you as well." She nodded and gestured to the bruise on her forehead.

"Natasha had to knock me out, I was becoming like you and Thor."

"You lasted longer than Thor." He laughed.

"I can choose when I want to be, I made myself deaf. I only started to turn when whoever was controlling you showed up." He nodded and wrung his hands.

"About that, I have no idea who he was, but I remember that he sent me with a message. A message for you." Kimberly sat up straight and eyed Loki cautiously.

"What was it?" She asked as her eyes blurred suddenly, her world tipping to the side.

"I- you knocked me out, I don't remember now. It was important." The manipulating Loki was no longer there, he was genuinely worried for her. He looked up at Bruce who was no longer looking at them, instead he was looking at the end of the hallway. "Something's wrong." Kimberly turned and saw Bruce walk past the door.

Kimberly got up slowly, holding the back of the chair to help her up, and walked towards the door holding her stomach. She walked out of the door and saw what was wrong, a group of youths were stood by the lift.

"We mean no harm, we just come with a message for Kimberly." One of them spoke, he had a stretcher in his ear and red eyes. She had seen the stretcher and the red eyes before-

"What's happening? I can help." Kimberly stumbled back inside the room and felt her knees buckle, she pressed her hands against the wall to stop her from falling.

"They have a message for me. I-" Her knees gave and she fell to the floor retching. Loki took a step towards the door on his side and tried to open it. Kimberly stood up slowly and opened the door for him, there were people trying to get a message to her though they had previously tried to kill her, how much worse could letting a god out make it. She staggered and he caught her.

"Stay there." He tried to move away from her but her world turned sideways again and she grabbed his arm as a stricken Bruce walked in.

"We need to take her up to the medical room, she's been exposed to radiation. She's poisoned." Loki looked up at Bruce who only just seemed to notice him.

"We noticed." He pulled her into a standing position as she coughed up blood. She brought up a hand to cover her mouth.

"How long ago?" Bruce just stared at her as she doubled over in pain.

"How long ago, Bruce?" He looked up at Loki who was now the only thing keeping Kimberly from hitting the floor. Bruce's mind kicked into gear as he realised what was being asked of him.

"Since she was 13, they said." Her body heated up and her body shrank as she went back to that of her 12 year old self. Her legs were shaking as her clothes sagged over her smaller frame. Her hair reached halfway down her back as she stood up slowly. She brought a hand up to her mouth and wiped away the blood. She looked up at both of them only to fall unconscious, her body instantly changing back to that of a 19 year old. Her body started to spasm as it tried to rid itself of the radiation poisoning, by coughing up blood.

"Is there anything you can do?" Loki asked as he picked her up, holding her close to him, he was fascinated by her. Bruce shook his head after thinking for a second. "Great, then sorry for what I'm having to do." He placed one of his hands on her temple and her body shrank back and she stopped coughing.

"What did you do?" Loki looked up at Bruce quickly, still concentrating on what he was doing.

"I'm tricking her, she explained that her body reverts back to before it happened. I'm making her body think its in danger. Where is her room we need to lay her down." Bruce opened the door and lead Loki to the room she had woken up in.

"What happened, why is Loki carrying Kim?" Steve asked as he stood up and glared at the asgardian. Natasha looked over from the kitchen and nudged Clint who was making a coffee.

"She's been poisoned, her body is trying to change back and he's stopping it."

"How is that a good thing?" Natasha asked as Tony appeared looking shattered at a door that lead to his bedroom.

"She was poisoned when she was 13, however it seems that her body ages when she's asleep, which she is. He's keeping her at 12."

"Can someone open the door to her damn room." Loki looked up from her and glared at Steve who opened the door. He walked in behind the cap and put her down on her bed, pushing his hair out of his eyes before sitting on the bed and continuing with what he was doing. Her body grew for a second, turning 13, as it fought him. He furrowed his brows and ignored Steve as he closed the door.