"How did we not see this," Tony asked the room where all of the Avengers found themselves that morning.

As soon as Thor was able to he had told the others what he had learned from Loki.

"Is there any chance that Loki will be able to tell us anything else, like who is the one giving out information," Steve asked.

"I do not believe so," Thor said, "He had to tell me what he did through comparing your SHIELD to that of a warriors shield. The mind stone keeps a hold of everything he says, he will not be able to tell us anything out right."

"However, it appears that Loki knows how to work around it just enough to let just enough information out. He did this when he was talking to both you and your mother," Black Widow pointed out.

"That is true," Thor said.

"That doesn't mean that he knows who is behind this," Clint said. "Think about it all he did was point to something that made Thor notice some pretty obvious details. Like the fact that it was SHIELD agents who were guarding the sceptor and that all the leads we have been getting from SHIELD has been deadends. It is just as likely that Loki had noticed these issues without needing someone to point them out. If that is the case he is not likely to know is behind it anymore than we do."

"For now we should go on the belief that Loki doesn't know who is behind it. How do we find our spy," Steve said.

"If it is as simple as that," Natasha said.

When she had everyone's attention she continued.

"Think about, with an agency as large as SHIELD it would be very hard for someone to take the sceptor out all by themselves. Not to mention keep us running on all this little goose chases. If Loki is right, and using the same metaphor, if there is a splinter in our SHIELD there would have to be multiple splinters for it to have this much damage on a shield this big.

"So if SHIELD is crupted who can we truce?" Tony asked.

"At this moment the only people involved in SHIELD that I think we can truce are the people in this room and Fury," Bruce said speaking for the first time since he had got there. "Also there may be more issues than we are looking at here."

"How so," Thor asked.

"During this conversation you were having with Loki he had been talking about how this place isn't as secure as you think it is. Well, if it is true that people in SHIELD are working to undermined it and these people know about the sceptor it is likely that they know what is going on with Loki."

The room went so quiet one could hear a pen drop.

"If that is the case than it is likely that they will come here for Loki. People like that don't care who they hurt in their pursuit of power and they would have had access to the information that would have told them what Virgo wanted Loki for."

"Oh, Norms," Thor said bowing his head. "Can my brother not find santuray."

"I think we should find out if the same trick will work twice on two different groups." Tony said.

"What do you mean," Thor asked.

"You told us how you got Virgo to play his hand to early by using Loki as bait. Well I don't think that these traitors will be any smarter," Tony answered. Than added when he saw the look on Thor's face. "Now I'm not saying that we use Loki himself again as bait, I don't think anyone deserves to be used like that twice in one week. However, I just purchase this little cottage in Montana this week and no one knows about it. We move Loki there but keep up the illusion that he is here so that our traitors play their hand before they know what is going on."

"How many houses do you own?" Clint asked.

"This one, the penthouse in New York and now this cabin. I got the cabin because Pepper wants to have a vacation in the mountains and I thought this would be a nice surprise. So the house is secluded and no one knows that I have it."

"You know must people would just rent a cabin," Clint said.

"I'm not most people," Tony said.

"This might work, but we need to get Loki out of here safely and without anyone for SHIELD noticing," Steve said.

After that they made their plans and Thor went to talk with Loki. He found Loki sitting, in an armchair in his room with a book in his hand. The sight was a comfort to Thor. During their childhood Thor would often find Loki read some new book.

"May I ask what you are reading brother?"

"This wonderful Midgardian tale about an orphan boy who was raised by a terrible family, but had great power and glorious purpose. I can relate," Loki said not looking up from his book.

"Truly, brother you do not think our family was terribly," Thor said walking over to his brother.

Loki said nothing.

"We will be leave soon."

"I could have guessed that," Loki said continuing to read his book. "Could you ask Mr. Stark if he has the rest of this series. Voldemort has just made his return and I would very much like to see how this ends."

Thor sighed, "I will ask him."

"Let me know when you plan to get whatever useless idea of yours into action," Loki said turning back to his book as Thor walked out of the room.

Tony was waiting for Thor just outside of the room.

"He compared you to the Dursleys, that got to hurt," Tony said.

Thor did not know what Tony was refering to, but choose to ignore it.

"Are you sure this cabin of yours is safe and that no one else from SHIELD knows about it?"

Tony nodded.

"I really did just get it and I was trying to keep it a secret in order to surprise Pepper. I haven't been the most responsible person so Pepper feels the need to keep track of news and social media talks about me, so if anyone else learned about it Pepper would."

The plan was placed in motion. Tony kept a large number of cars in the garage below the house. One of them, his Hammer, had a large enough back that Thor could hide back there with Loki easily without being seen. The SHIELD guards had no reason to expect that they knew anything or do a detailed check of Tony's chair. Once they were an hour down the road, Thor and Loki would move out of riding and they continue the long drive to Tony's mountain cabin. And for once that was exactly how things went when they left the Malibu house.

Loki was away from Tony's house but to SHIELD's knowledge he was still sleeping in one of the guest room upstairs.

For the first few hours Loki was quiet, but around the sixth hour mark he decided to start talking.

"How long are we going to be in this vehicle of yours?"

Tony smiled, "So you do talk."

Loki only glared at him for that.

"It is actually a pretty long drive, we are not even a third of the way there."

"Surely there is a faster way to get to your destination than this."

"There is, but by going this way it is less likely that they well get to you. So just try and relax."

After that Loki didn't talk to them again for the rest of the drive. Not even when the stopped to fell up on gas and Thor had taken over driving. Thor had been fighting alongside the Avengers for so long that they had appartently found the time to teach Thor how to drive.

It was well into the night when the made it to the cabin. They lead Loki into a guest room and unpacked their belongings. The room they had lead Loki to was large with two beds in it. This cabin was not nearly as large or as secure as the house in Malibu was. As a result Thor would be sharing a room with Loki.

"Now it is only a waiting game," Tony said once they unpacked their things.

"Aye," was all Thor said.

The next week in the cabin was quiet, Loki spent most of his time looking out the window in either his and Thor's room or out the window in the large living room. Thor was worried greatly by this. Loki was not a very quiet person, always looking to out smart whoever was in the room with him. Tony did get Loki the rest of the series he was reading as well as a number of other books, which Loki would read. But for the most part Loki would do nothing. What made Thor worry the most was how little Loki appeared to be sleep. Loki would stay up to all times in the night, and only sleep when his body shut itself down.

Thor wondered if Loki had been getting so little sleep since after the Battle of New York. After that battle Thor had felt so betrayed by his brother that he had not once visited him. The first time he visited his brother was once he had learned of his innocent. Loki had lived in the dungeons of Asgard for three years and Thor had not visited him once. This lack of sleep could have been going on for even longer now that Thor thought about it. When Thanos would have taken over Loki was during a time when Thor was so full of himself that he didn't play his brother much attention. As long as Loki was fighting by his side he didn't worry to much about him. For years Thor had been so full of himself that anything could have happened and he would not have noticed it.

Something did happen.

Thor had thought that he had paid for his arigest, but he was beginning to see that he was only just beginning to pay.

It was during the second week at the cabin when they finally got news. A few SHIELD agents had broken into Tony's house and from them the others were able to learn the Hydra was involved with it.

Thor had no idea who or what this Hydra group was, but learning it was a step in the right direction. They now had a lead to where the Mind Stone was, and the faster they had that the sooner Loki would be free from its control.