"Where exactly are we?" I asked Loki as we appeared on an alley connecting to a street

"London" He answered as we entered to the street and he guided me to a building "And this is a-"

"Hotel, I know" I rushed to cut him

"How do you know?" He asked as we entered

"I know a hotel when I see it, Loki" I said looking at him "Besides, I´ve been here before"

He halted and looked at me; he just needed to raised an eyebrow to let me now he demanded an explanation. I sighed and responded

"I was here, in London two years ago"

"Before or after you killed your brother?" He asked. I looked around to see if anyone had heard that, apparently not

"After. This was the first place where I hid" I lied, but this time he saw strait through me

"Right. You know Tara? Not many can lie to me and get away with it, No one to be honest; except you. Although sometimes you really forget little details in your lies, like right now; the fact that Acke died a year ago and you were here before that happened"

Damn

"Let´s just check in" I said, but he peered at me "Come on, I´ll explain later, I swear!"

I kept walking but he stopped me putting a hand across my shoulders. Please don´t make a scene I begged mentally

"I always did the talk remember? We have to pretend to have a reservation" He said, dropping Acke out of the conversation, at least for now and went to check in.

"I´ll never get how you do that" I said as I walked around the room. I t was pretty big and cozy although it only had one bed for the old times, I thought.

"Well, believe it or not magic helps" he answered giving me the key of the room "besides I always do the talking. And I never fail"

"Oh, really? Remember Chicago, 1946?" I asked giggling

"Fine, I failed once"

"And New Jersey in 1978?" I giggled, I could tell that he didn´t know whether to laugh or to get angry

After making a desperate gasp he changed the subject

"So you need to get back the portkey to meet with your father"

"Yes… so how are we going to get it?"

"First we need I need to get the Orb back to-"

"Wait a minute, why is your spear more important than my portkey?"

"Because my orb is here. You know I lied to you did you not?" I just stared at him "and you didn´t say anything"

I sighed and answered

"I knew you were lying about something but wasn´t sure if it was about the Orb or my portkey and-I cut myself and started fresh "You know what? This is actually perfect"

"It is?"

"Yes, look; Fury is expecting me to go for my portkey and you going for your orb and that´s why the council have it, because they needed to be sure it was sa-"

"Wait a minute" He cut me off "How do you know about the council?"

"Well I…" I started to stuttered until the right words came to my mouth "Look there´s something I need to tell you"

Loki sat in the edge of the bed looking intriguingly at me while I wandered around the room talking

"Two years ago, yes, I came here to London but It wasn´t because I was hiding from Acke, I wasn´t even part of the alliance yet. I was watching T.V that day; a reportage about the Stark Tower that was schedule to start running the next year when the topic of the reportage suddenly changed as the camera captivated some sort of booming attacking Manhattan. Sounds familiar?"

"The chitauri?" He suggested leaning forward

"Yes. It took me some minutes to piece everything together, but when I did I came here, to London. I didn´t know their name was S.H.I.E.L.D or their magnitude but I knew they existed because after we…you… after you leaved a couple of people showed up at my door asking me all sorts of questions about you, but under the name of Stephen Ray. We had caught their attention when they realized accidentally how long Stephen´s record was and mine too of course. One of the people that showed up was named Marissa Schafer. Who now I know is an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D and more importantly the director and represent of England"

"Go on" Loki said when I paused. This was the difficult part

"I realized there was one way to stop the chitauri so I came to England and give my suggestion to Schafer –she didn´t recognized me at first- which was; sending a missile"

I saw loki´s expression completely changing

"It was you!"

"Yes but-"

"All this time you- you were the one that provoked all this, who provoked my fall. I was so close, so close! And all this time I was vanquished by the one who swore to be always by my side!"

"Yes, but that was madness Loki!" I shouted and he stood up

"You have any idea what I had to face on Asgard? The shame, the-the opprobrium I went through? And all this time I was not even defeated, I was betrayed!"

I lowered my gaze as a tear ran through my cheekbone

"You make sound like I did it to harm you"

"We used to be in the same team"

"Same team?" I looked him directly in the eyes "you were the one who left! You were the one the one that went chasing his poisonous dream-"

"Now you sound just like Thor-"

"And YOU WERE THE ONE WHO LIED! You swore you would stay with me and you went, you left with you own army and I were left alone. I was bit and kick and torture and transform into this-this monster that I´m barely capable to look in the mirror"

I was a mess now; with tears speeding from my eyes and about to scream my lungs. Someone knocked at the door and Loki opened it, just to have an excuse to stop looking at me

"Is everything alright sir?" A man asked

"Yes, my wife and I just" I looked at his back when he said wife "were just having a disagreement. But we will cut it off"

"Please" The man said before leaving

"Wife?" I asked raising an eyebrow after he closed the door

"It was the only excuse I could find to get a one bed room"

Before I could control myself I slapped him in the face

"This is beginning to be a costume for you isn´t it?" He asked rubbing his cheek

"Yes, and so is this" I said as I grabbed his suit with a hand, firmly and pulled him toward me and kissed him quickly and then push him away. He looked me directly into my eyes and this time he was the one who pulled me and kissed me but with a wild passion.