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It had been relatively peaceful in the months sense Loki was allowed to 'recover' with the Avengers. There had been a few skirmishes, but the real surprise for most of them was that Loki hadn't already taken off or betrayed them. The only aggravating thing he did was make the occasional snide remark. But by now most of the team had felt he had overstayed his welcome.

"How the hell long are you going to stick around!?"

Clint found himself fighting next to Loki during one of the battles.

"Well I'm obviously still not fully recovered."

"Bullshit, it's been two and a half months."

"Has it? I had not realized."

Clint had to suppress the urge to fire an arrow directly into his face.

"I could just 'accidentally' hit you with an arrow right now, you know."

"That would not kill me, Barton."

"You almost died from being stabbed in the lung."

Loki shot him an indignant look.

"It was poisoned, and I was greatly weakened at the time!"

"I think you stick around because you like having friends."

"I do not need friends, I am a god!"

"You just admitted you don't have friends."

Loki gave him a nasty look and teleported away. After that Clint was extra careful not to be alone with Loki at any time.

"Has anyone seen Tony today?"

Steve walked into the main room where he saw Clint, eating a burrito and flipping channels, and Bruce looking at something on his laptop.

"I think he's down in his workshop, also I've been getting more abnormal readings."

Bruce said without looking up from what he was doing.

"Right, of course, Thanks Bruce."

Steve knocked on the workshop door, which was locked.

"Tony it's me, Steve, let me in. I have to ask you something."

After a few moments the door opened to show Loki, Steve could hear Tony working on something in the back.

"He is busy at the moment, would you like to leave a message for him?"

Steve scowled and walked past Loki.

"Well alright then, fine!"

Steve strode up to Tony, who was blasting music and welding something. He tapped Tony on his shoulder but he didn't respond. Steve rolled his eyes and went to turn off the music. Tony stopped what he was doing and looked up.

"Hey, woah, I was working! What do you want?"

"Alright, fine, shoot."

Steve stared at Loki, who scowled at him after a few moments.

"Fine, I get the message, I will leave."

Loki stormed out, closing the door behind him. Steve turned back to Tony, who was staring at him impatiently.

"What's oh-so important?"

"What were you doing in here?"

"That was your important question?"

"No, but I want to know."

"I was working, until you stopped me."

"Then what was Loki doing?"

"Just lurking, he wasn't hurting anything, or anyone. I think I'm going to teach him how to talk normally. I'm going to go crazy if I have to listen to two people who never use conjugations."

Steve rolled his eyes at Tony.

"Well anyway, what I actually came to say. Apparently, according to Bruce, there's been a small surge in the increase of…something, I can't remember exactly what he said."

"And he wants me to take a look at it?"

"Yes, exactly, can you?"

"You had to send Loki out of the room for that?"

"It might be him doing it, if it is then we can't let him know we are picking up on what he's doing."

Tony scowled, sighing, thoroughly frustrated.

"It's not Loki, stop jumping to conclusions. Will you ever trust him, even a little bit?"

"I've got no reason to."

"Fine, I'll go look at it then."

They reached the main room to find the rest of the team had come down, Thor was eating lunch at the table, Natasha was watching TV with Clint, and Loki, who was splayed out on a separate couch, immune to Clint's angry looks.

"So Bruce, what did you find?"

"Ah, good, Tony, look I've been seeing these-"

A dull boom sounded through the tower. Everyone stopped what they were doing and Loki shot up.

"That was an explosion!"

"Everyone suit up!"

A few minutes later the team re-assembled.

"It's Doombots again."

"Wasn't it them last time too?"

"Yes, now let's go."

As they reached the bots the sounds of explosions increased.

"Spread out and contain them, there doesn't seem to be too many and they seem to be focusing on only a few buildings."

The Avengers and Loki leapt to action. They found themselves fighting bots that didn't seem to be focusing on them. Soon Loki was inside one of the buildings, fighting. He turned to destroy a bot that had gotten close only to find it blasted apart. He grinned.

"Hello Tony."

"Thought you might need some help!"

Together they tore through the ranks of bots for a while more. Then a scream from the back of the building drew their attention. Loki turned to see a young woman backed into a corner, bots surrounding her. Tony turned and saw the scene as well.

"Loki magic her out of there or something!"

Loki prepared to loose a blast of energy but then the girl put her hand up.

"Enough!"

The lights burst, through the dark Loki could see a twisting, liquid like matter. He felt a strange sensation in his chest and his ears began to ring. Then the darkness lessened.

"Holy shit, was that you Loki?"

"Aah…no it was her."

They both turned to where the girl was standing, through the faint light they could see her watching them.

"Hey are you alright?"

"Umm…yeah I'm fine. Sorry."

"Oh, don't be sorry, you just saved your life, that was great. Here, let's come outside."

The three of them stepped outside. Loki turned to get a good look at the girl. She was maybe twenty or so, her blues eyes were currently looking up at the two men with intrigue. She had curly, platinum blonde, nearly white hair that fell messily around her pale face.

"So who are you?"

Tony asked her, trying to be as un-intimidating as possible. She glanced at him but then continued to stare at Loki.

"Nobody important. My name is Lilith."

"I think you could become somebody important. I'm Tony Stark by the way, if you don't know, and that's Loki."

"Right… So what are you going to do with me?"

She finally turned away from Loki to face Tony.

"If you wouldn't mind we would like you to talk to some higher ups."

She thought for a moment then nodded.

"Alright, I can do that."