Authoress Note: Welcome to Chapter 13 of God of Lies and Mischief and the Woman of Many Faces. Thank you to those who have left reviews and have followed this story to this point. It really does mean a lot to me. I had a lot of fun writing this next part and I hope that you all will enjoy it as well. I'm not about to reveal what will happen in this chapter. I think that you will like what will happen. Without further ado Chapter 13. Enjoy!

Chapter 13

Everleigh slipped on her catsuit taking a breath. She had made sure that she cleaned up out of the muck that Loki had made her put on. She now felt more like herself as she looked in the mirror in her black and purple catsuit. She turned on her heels and walked slowly towards the door. She opened it and saw Natasha waiting for her.

"You look like you're doing better." Natasha commented to the young woman.

Everleigh let out a soft laugh shaking her head lightly. "I don't have much of a choice. We have to fake it till we make it right? With Clint still out there…"

Natasha put her hand on Everleigh's shoulder squeezing it lightly. "We'll find him and bring him back."

"But at what cost?" She questioned softly looking up at Natasha. "He won't be able to break through the mind control…"

"How did you?"

Everleigh nibbled her bottom lip softly. "Honestly… I think it was my magic… that protected me." She admitted softly knowing that was something that Natasha needed to hear.

Natasha nodded her head softly.

"But I'm going to try and figure out from Loki how to get Clint out of mind control."

"Are you sure you want to do this?"

"I have to." She said softly as she took a breath knowing that she needed to figure out how to get Clint back to them safely.

Natasha nodded her head. "Alright." She said softly moving out of Everleigh's way.

AVENGERS

Loki paced around in the cell rather irritated that the woman he had taken to the galla had punched him right in the face. Didn't she enjoy her time with him or the fine gown?

Everleigh walked up behind him not making any noise.

Loki turned his head seeing her there. "Hm. There's not many people that can sneak up on me."

"But you knew I would be coming." Everleigh said looking into his blue eyes.

"After. After whatever tortures Fury can concoct, you would appear as a friend, as a balm. And I would cooperate."

"A friend? And you cooperate. I doubted that you would even think of following through with cooperation."

"You are mad that I've expanded Agent Batron's mind. Much like your own."

Everleigh crossed her arms looking at him. "And once you've won. Once you're king of the mountain. What happens to his mind?"

"Is this love, Agent Vincin?"

Everleigh scoffed. "Love is for children."

"Tell me. How do you see love is for children?"

"Children and only fools in love. But he was the only one that gave me a chance after having been experimented on."

"And what will you do if I vow to spare him?" Loki questioned looking at her, his blue eyes narrowing a little as he watched her cross her arms.

"Not let you out." Everleigh said with a shrug of her shoulders.

"Ah, no. But I like this. Your world in the balance, and you bargain for one man?"

"Regimes fall everyday. I tend not to weep over that."

"That is the basest sentimentality. This is a child, a prayer. Pathetic you lie and kill in the service

of liars and killers. You pretend to be separate, to have your own code something that makes up for the horrors. But they are a part of you, and they will never go away." Loki slammed his fist against the glass causing Everleigh to look up at him. "I won't touch Barton! Not until I make him kill you. Slowly, intimately, in every way he knows you fear. And then he'll wake just long

enough to see his good work, and when he screams I'll split his skull! This is my bargain, you mewling quim!"

Everleigh's hair and eyes changed colors as she looked at him, tears falling down her cheeks. "You're a monster!"

Loki grinned menacingly at her. "Oh, no. You brought the monster and you are the monster."

Everleigh narrowed her eyes, her hair and eyes changing back to what they were before. "So, Banner? That's your play."

"What?"

Everleigh brought her hand up to her ear. "Loki means to unleash the Hulk. Keep Banner in the lab, I'm on my way. Send Thor as well." She looked at Loki. "Thank you, for your cooperation! Perhaps next time I'll give you a bigger knock to the head." She said as she then turned to leave him simmering in anger.

AVENGERS

Everleigh came into the room where Tony and Bruce were knowing that Natasha and Fury would be there soon. She turned her head to see Director Fury enter the room.

"What are you doing, Mr. Stark?"

Tony looked over at Director Fury. "Uh- kind of been wondering the same thing about you."

Everleigh's brows furrowed in confusion. What in the world did she just walk into and why was Director Fury acting the way that he was?

"You're supposed to be locating the Tesseract."

"We are, the model's locked and we're sweeping for the signature now. When we get a hit, we'll have the location within half a mile." Bruce said, looking at Fury.

"And you'll get your cube back, no muss, no fuss. What is Phase Two?" Tony questioned looking at Fury.

Everleigh blinked a few times in concern. What on earth was Phase Two?

Steve suddenly entered the room slamming a large HYDRA gun onto the table. "Phase Two is SHIELD used the Cube to make weapons." Steve looked over at Tony. "Sorry, computer was moving a little slow for me."

"Rogers, we gathered everything related to the Tesseract. This does not mean that we're…"

"I'm sorry, Nick." Tony then turned the screen towards Nick and it showed some sort of plan for a missile.

Everleigh's eyes went wide in shock.

"What were you lying?"

"I was wrong, Director. The world hasn't changed a bit." Steve said, shaking his head, losing hope in humanity.

Thor and Natasha then entered the room.

Bruce looked at Natasha. "Did you know about this?"

Natasha squared her shoulders looking at Bruce. "You wanna think about removing yourself from this environment, doctor?"

Bruce let out a scoff that sounded like a laugh. "I was in Calcutta, I was pretty well removed."

"Loki's manipulating you."

"And you've been doing what exactly?"

"You didn't come here because I batted my eyelashes at you."

"Yes, and I'm not leaving because suddenly you get a little twitchy. I'd like to know why SHIELD is using the Tesseract to build weapons of mass destruction."

Fury then pointed to Thor. "Because of him."

"Me?" Thor said, looking at Fury.

"Last year earth had a visitor from another planet who had a grudge match that leveled a small town. We learned that not only are we not alone, but we are hopelessly, hilariously, out-gunned."

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

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

"Like you controlled the cube!" Steve snapped looking at Fury.

"Your work with the Tesseract is what drew Loki to it, and his allies. It is the signal to all the

realms that the earth is ready for A HIGHER FORM OF WAR." Thor said, looking at Fury.

"A higher form?!"

"You forced our hand! We had to come up with some…"

"Nuclear deterrent! 'Cause that always calms everything right down." Tony said, cutting off Nick.

Everleigh pinched the bridge of her nose.

"Remind me again how you made your fortune, Stark?"

"I'm sure if he still made weapons, Stark would be neck deep…" Steve said, looking at Tony.

"Wait-Wait! Hold on! How is this now about me?"

"I'm sorry, isn't everything?"

"I thought humans were more evolved than this." Thor said, shaking his head.

"Excuse me, did we come to your planet and blow stuff up?" Fury said, looking at Thor.

"Tis your champion."

"YOU'RE NOT MY CHAMPION!"

"Are you boys really that naive? S.H.I.E.L.D monitors potential threats." Natasha said, cutting off the boys.

"You furious? I'm furious." Tony said to Thor and Steve.

"And Captain America is on the threat poll?" Bruce questioned Natasha.

"We all are!"

"That's not your concern doctor!" Fury said, looking over at Bruce.

The scepter began to glow strongly.

"You're on that list? Are you above or below angry bees?" Tony said as he looked at Steve.

"I swear to God, Stark, one more crack…"

"You're a threat. VERBAL THREAT! I FEEL THREATENED!"

"SHOW SOME RESPECT."

"RESPECT WHAT!"

"YEAH MAN HANDLE ME NOW, THAT'LL BE GOOD!" Bruce shouted over Steve and Tony.

Everleigh let out a groan and looked over seeing the scepter glowing.

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

"It's his MO, isn't it? I mean, what are we, a team? No, no, no. We're a chemical mixture that makes chaos. We're- we're a time bomb."

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

"Why shouldn't they guy let off a little steam?" Tony questioned.

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

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

"Yeah, big man in a suit of armor. Take that off, what are you?"

"Genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist."

"I know guys with none of that worth ten of you. 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."

"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? You're a laboratory experiment, Rogers. Everything special about you came

out of a bottle."

Steve smirked. "Put on the suit, let's go a few rounds."

Thor let out a laugh. "You people are so petty, and tiny."

"Yeah, this is a team." Bruce said, shaking his head.

"Agent Romanoff, would you escort Dr. Banner back to his…"

"WHERE? YOU RENTED MY ROOM!" Bruce said, cutting off Fury.

"The cell was just…"

"IN CASE YOU NEEDED TO KILL ME. BUT YOU CAN'T, I KNOW, I TRIED!" Bruce stopped seeing everyone staring at him. "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 wanna know my secret, Agent Romanoff? You wanna know how I stay calm?"

Everyone watched Bruce and Nick, Natasha, and Everleigh all reached for their guns.

"Doctor Banner, put down the scepter." Steve said softly.

Bruce looked down, surprised, seeing the spear in his hand.

The monitor suddenly made a noise, signaling the Tesseract had been found.

Bruce put the scepter down on the table and walked over to the other side of the room.

"Got it!"

"Sorry, kids. You don't get to see my party trick after all." Bruce said, shaking his head.

"Located the Tesseract?" Thor questioned.

"I can get there faster." Tony said.

"Look, all of us…"

"The Tesseract belongs on Asgard, no human is a match for it." Thor said, looking at them.

Tony turned to leave and Steve held him back.

"You're not going alone!"

Tony smacked Steve's hand. "You gonna stop me?"

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

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

"Put on the suit."

Bruce's eyes went wide as he removed his glasses. "Oh-my-god."

Everleigh looked up sharply.

Suddenly a loud blast was heard and everyone went flying around in the lab in different directions.

Thor, Fury and Everleigh were thrown to the ground near the table, Tony and Steve were blown to the entryway, and Natasha and Bruce flew out of the wishbone lab and to the lower equipment room.

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This is the end of Chapter 13. I hope that you guys enjoyed this chapter. I know that there was a lot going on in it. And some Loki and Everleigh scenes. Perhaps I will get more Loki and Everleigh scenes in. I'm working slowly on getting the two of them together which is kind of fun for me. I wasn't lying about it being a slow burn. Will Everleigh be forgiving for what Loki had done? Or will she have to learn to forgive him. We'll find out soon enough as this story goes on. Please leave a review and let me know what you think. I will try to update with the next chapter soon. Until next time.