Authoress Note: Welcome to Chapter 18 of God of Lies and Mischief and the Woman of Many Faces. Thank you to all of those who have left reviews and have kept up with this story. It really does mean a lot to me that you guys are liking this and I have to admit I'm doing alright with my very first Loki fic. At least I think I am anyway. This is the final chapter for the Avengers. Then we'll probably go to a scene during Iron Man 3, perhaps. I haven't quite decided yet. But it'll be a surprise for everyone. Without further ado Chapter 18. Enjoy!

Chapter 18

Loki crawled over to a stair and turned to see the Avengers surrounding him.

Clint had an arrow aimed at his face keeping it rather steady with narrowed eyes at the god.

Natasha held his scepter.

Hulk growled, making Loki kind of shrink down.

"If it's all the same to you, I'll have that drink now." Loki said softly trying to deflect the fact that he had lost.

"All right, get him on his feet. We can all stand around posing up a storm later. By the way, feel free to clean up." Tony said, looking at the fallen god. Not caring that Loki wanted a drink. That time had come and gone and he wasn't going to honor it now.

Everleigh moved forward tiredly and pulled him up off of the ground not noticing the look that Loki had on his face seeing how tired she was and how her magic was weakly calling to him.

Thor put a set of cuffs on his brother.

Everleigh looked at Loki's eyes and saw that they were finally green. She pursed her lips knowing that it wasn't all that easy to have his own brother arrest him.

"Who gets the, uh, magic wand?" Natasha questioned holding it in her hand.

"STRIKE team's coming to secure it." Tony said, waving his hand as he moved away from the team to finish off the glass of whiskey that he had prior.

A team with Rumlow and Sitwell entered the room.

"We can take that off your hands." Sitwell said as he took it from Natasha.

"By all means. Careful with that thing." Natasha said handing it to him not wanting to be responsible for the thing any more.

"Unless you want your mind erased. And not in a fun way." Clint said, shaking his head.

"We promise to be careful." Sitwell said with a firm nod of his head.

"On my way down to coordinate search and rescue." Steve said as he headed towards the elevator.

Loki suddenly transformed into Steve. "On my way down to coordinate search and rescue!" He transformed back into his normal self. "I mean, honestly! How do you think you'll be…"

Suddenly Thor slapped a device on Loki's mouth to keep him quiet. "Shut up."

Everleigh simply shook her head. She knew that there was no way that Loki would have kept his mouth shut about what Steve had said and kind of went bantering back with his brother like it was a normal thing for him to do. "Shall we?" She slowly walked as Thor dragged his brother towards the elevator.

AVENGERS

The Avengers and Selvig all walked to the center of a footbridge.

Tony carried a briefcase, Thor had Loki in a muzzle and handcuffs, Clint, Natasha, Bruce, Everleigh, and Steve walked from the cars.

Selvig took a glass cylinder out of a truck.

Tony opened his case, which was on the ground.

Bruce held the cube with some tongs and put it into the glass cylinder Selvig had in his hands.

Thor carefully took the cylinder from Selvig before smiling and shaking hands with Selvig. "Goodbye my friend." Thor held the cylinder that had the tesseract in it. He gestured to Loki, who grabbed onto one end of the cylinder and Thor had the other. Thor nodded to the other and twisted the device which lights up and the two of them vanished into the sky.

Everyone slowly walked to their own vehicles.

In front of Tony's new car, Steve shook hands with Tony. "Bye Mr. Stark."

"See you around Captain." Tony said as he pulled his hand back going towards the door.

Natasha took a duffel bag out of the backseat of a SHIELD car. She handed it to Bruce as Clint headed to the driver's side of the car.

Bruce and Tony got into his new car and they were off.

Steve got onto his motorcycle and saluted Clint, Everleigh and Natasha before riding off on his bike.

Clint looked over at Everleigh who was on her way to her car. "Hey Leigh."

Everleigh turned her head to look at Clint? "Yes Clint?" She questioned softly, tilting her head a little bit.

"You sure you don't want Nat riding with you?"

Everleigh let out a soft chuckle. "I'll be fine Clint. I got some rest." She said, offering him a small smile. "Say hi to your family for me."

Clint nodded his head. "You got it. I'm sure they'll love to see you once you get a chance to come by."

"I'll be sure to call before I drop by. Don't want to be a burden if I do it when no one expects it."

"Kid, you're never a burden." Clint said, giving her a sour look. "We look after our own, you know that."

Everleigh smiled a small smile. "I know." She admitted softly as she went to get closer to her car. "I'll see you sometime soon, Clint." She waved her hand as she got into her car.

Natasha waves her hand at the younger agent before getting into the Shield SUV with Clint.

Everleigh waved before she slowly began to drive away. She bit her lip softly gripping the wheel. She had to admit that everything ended for the best and she kind of felt bad for Loki facing punishment for what he had done under the control of the scepter that he had. She just wondered how much of it Thor would be able to tell their father and would he be able to get Loki out of a damaging amount of time?

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This is the end of Chapter 18. I hope that you guys all enjoyed this chapter. I kind of know that it was on the short side, which I do apologize for. I hate writing short chapters, but sometimes it can't be helped when it comes to writing. I kind of have a good idea of where I am going to take this story next. I think I might do one chapter with Everleigh getting a mission, and then kind of go from there. But we'll see how I feel about it when I get started on it. Please leave a review and let me know what you think. I'll try to update with the next chapter as soon as I can. Until next time.