A/N: Hey, it's been a while, hasn't it? Sorry about that, I've been distracted by school (I graduated, finally), Christmas and finally choosing where to apply in the spring. I mean, I know I'm applying to the University of Helsinki, but I was unsure of what I wanted to study. Fortunately I have made my decision and bought an old book for entrance exams so now I'm just going to read it and then re-read it.

Anyway, I've also been slightly distracted from the fandom (I've been introduced to The Social Network, a couple TV series and The Lizzie Bennet Diaries) and I admit I haven't even watched the new Glee episodes (shame on me), but I got the best idea ever how to continue this. It will involve The Amazing Spiderman (last year's film, I just loved Andrew Garfield) but will lack in the department of Thor. It'll mostly concentrate on Blaine and Loki's developing relationship. Hopefully Thor will return as soon as I know more about the Thor sequel. :)

This is the last of this story. Hopefully you will return for the sequel! And thank you to everyone who reviewed, favorited or put me (or the story) on alert. Each and every one of you is appreciated.

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It was already well past midnight when Kurt got home. First reporting to Director Fury and being debriefed along with the rest of the Avengers, then getting the required medical treatment (getting his rib treated and making sure his dad was okay, he made Burt promise to call in a few days when they were sure Burt was okay) and finally having celebratory shawarma (which, after seeing what it was, he did eat, if rather reluctantly, as he needed the energy and protein the thing contained. The last time he ate was Gods knew when…) with the rest of the Avengers and he knew he had been awake for… twenty one hours. He's not like Mark Zuckerberg who can go on and on for days on end without sleep (according to the dramatized The Social Network and it's fandom. Don't look at him like that; Andrew Garfield's cute, okay?). This wasn't his record, but after a second time he'd been up past the normal sixteen hours in three days he's beat and didn't even notice how Blaine's curled up on the very edge of their bed, as far away from Kurt's side as physically possible, dried tear tracks on his face. He was asleep before his head hit the pillow.

When he woke up, the apartment was empty and a note from Blaine said he'd gone to see the grocery store and would be home later. He noted the lack of the kisses after Blaine's name and the lack of pet names in the note but chose to shrug it off. He'd talk to Blaine soon.

The text from Tony (among a hundred other texts from assorted friends and relatives) turned out to be much more interesting. How Tony got his number was a mystery he was too tired to look into and therefore decided to ignore it as he answered the text with an affirmative.

He ate a late breakfast or an early lunch (it couldn't quite be considered to be brunch as he'd only had some cereal), got dressed and left to the Central Park, a small slip of paper deep in his satchel. In the subway he got a few weird looks from some of the other passengers who probably recognized him from some clip on the news or a picture on the paper. He hadn't bothered to protect his identity at all, other than not dress like he usually does. It may or may not have been a bad idea but there was nothing he could do about it anymore.

The rest of the team was there, out of their suits as well (well, Thor and Loki were in their armor but they were going home…). Kurt looked them all over. Everyone cleaned up rather nicely. Bruce had shaved and slept as long as he'd had time. There was still some tension in his behavior but much less than any other time Kurt had seen him. Tony's confident swagger was back full force, never mind that he still had to have sore muscles (Kurt himself had been tempted to stay in bed the whole day, nursing his ribs which fortunately hadn't been broken). Agent Barton was the most hostile of the Avengers and Kurt could understand why. He'd been mind whammied and his sense of self had been scrambled, like eggs. Barton would never be the same but hopefully he would pull through. Agent Romanoff, on the other hand, was the most relaxed of the group. She knew what she would do tomorrow: she would disappear and take on another mission for S.H.I.E.L.D. Her routine hadn't been disturbed by the alien attack unlike the rest of them who were completely thrown out of balance. Steve just watched the rest of them and Kurt could see he still didn't feel like he had a place in this time, with them. Kurt gave him a small smile and a nod which Steve returned, relaxing minutely at the acceptance.

Now Kurt turned his attention to Thor and Loki. Thor wasn't smiling even if his eyes softened when he looked at Kurt and Loki. He was happy he had his brother back but at the same time he didn't want to go back to Asgard just yet. He had things he wanted to ask Kurt but hadn't had the time yet, most important being: why had Kurt kissed him back if he already had a lover? Hopefully he could return soon…

Loki was different. Kurt couldn't see the madness and bloodlust in his eyes anymore. The righteous anger was there, along with shock, betrayal, bitterness, resignation and jealousy. Even a small spark of mischief had crept back in his gray-green eyes…

Wait a second…

Kurt did a double take. Gray-green eyes stared back at him. He vividly remembered Loki's eyes being blue when he talked with Loki on the Helicarrier. He looked around, wondering if anyone else had noticed the difference.

"Hey Romanoff," he said thoughtfully, turning to the other agents. "What color were Loki's eyes when you interrogated him on Helicarrier yesterday?"

"Bright blue, the same shade as Clint's eyes when he was whammied…?" said Romanoff hesitantly before her eyes widened. "Hummel, you're not suggesting he was whammied too?"

Kurt nodded. "Look at his eyes and tell me they are the eyes of someone who would kill millions."

Romanoff took a long look into Loki's eyes. This was made easy by the fact that Loki was looking at them right back with slightly tilted head. Romanoff turned back to Kurt. "His eyes are more like that of a person who would jump off a bridge!" she said in a loud whisper, her own eyes wide. "Nothing like the monster that was in the cage on Helicarrier! And they're green-gray!"

"Are you seriously suggesting Loki was controlled too?" asked Barton with a low voice full of disbelief.

"But he didn't act at all like Clint and the other brainwashed," Romanoff pointed out.

"But we don't know how long he was with the Chitauri and those who gave him the Chitauri," Kurt said. "I know time flows differently between Earth and Asgard. What's to say it wouldn't flow even faster somewhere else? They could have had Loki with them for decades, enough time for a far subtler brainwash than the things with Barton and dad and Selvig. I mean, Loki needed to make decisions, right? Barton and dad and Selvig and everyone else just took orders and completed their tasks to the bet of their abilities. The scepter didn't interfere with their intelligence, just their personality, otherwise dad wouldn't have been able to build the portal stabilizer. So it would make sense if Loki had been brainwashed, wouldn't it?"

Barton nodded reluctantly. "But we can't prove anything."

"No, I suppose we cannot," Kurt sighed and turned to gaze at Loki again. He needed Loki to be at least possibly considered innocent for his plan to work. Before this stint, Loki's crimes weren't in Earth's jurisdiction so he could hardly be tried for trying to blow up Jotunheim. Jotunheim wasn't even in the same part of the galaxy! "But we have to tell Director Fury of our suspicion because I have a feeling Loki will be on Earth sooner than anyone would like and personally I wouldn't want to be alerted in the middle of the night because Loki's trial was over and sent to Earth without his powers."

"You think he'll have the same kind of time out as Thor did?" Romanoff asked, baffled.

"Well, from a certain point of view what Loki did was legal. Not nice or good, but legal," Kurt pointed out. "He was the king of Asgard and Asgard was at war with Jotunheim. He was trying to win a war with no losses to Asgard and he had the same mentality as Tony had before he gave up weapons: "The best sort of weapon is the one you only have to fire once," or something like that. And he did legally get the throne as he was the second-in-line and Thor had been exiled. So yes, I expect him to have more or less the same punishment as Thor."

"What are you three whispering about?" Tony butted in curiously.

"Loki's possible stint under mind control and the legality of his actions," answered Kurt promptly, drawing everyone's attention. "But since we can't actually prove anything, it's just speculations. In this case it's "Guilty until proven innocent" and not "Innocent until proven guilty" like normally as we all saw what he did. If he was controlled, he wasn't responsible for his actions and therefore innocent of the crimes he's accused of at the moment. But if he wasn't, he'd be responsible for over one-hundred and fifty deaths and millions of dollars of property damage."

"What reasons do you have to think Loki is innocent?" Steve asked, his sense of justice rearing it's head, and once again Kurt repeated his observation of Loki's eye color and it's change. He also pointed out that the Loki whom they fought yesterday would have made everything that much harder just because but the Loki in front of them had barely bothered to eat and hadn't even taunted them at all.

Finally Thor spoke. "My brother was never intentionally cruel and yesterday I found his mannerism strange. It was like every even slightly questionable aspect of him had been twisted into something more, something worse. His small need of control had become greed of power. His mischief had become malice. His passion, often directed at learning new things, had turned to obtaining his goal. He was still Loki but at the same time he wasn't."

Kurt smiled. "At least there weren't two of them running around, one good, one bad. People would've gotten awfully confused and we don't have a Vulcan here to put them back together." Tony laughed, getting the reference.

"Well, you two better go where no man has gone before," Tony told Thor and Loki, chuckling.

"Live long and prosper," Bruce added with a chuckle and the classic Vulcan farewell hand sign.

"E.T. go home," laughed Barton.

"There's no place like home," Steve offered almost shyly, earning a smile from Kurt.

"To the infinity and beyond," Romanoff added as the last one.

"If we weren't in public and you could sing," Kurt began with a dry grin, "I'd make you sing "For Good" with me, but since you don't know the words and I have no idea of your vocal gifts, I just say: If you want to leave, you can. I'll remember you though. I remember everyone that leaves."

Thor looked at each one when they said their piece, cocking his head. "I know not of what you speak but I hope verily to meet each of you again someday," he said, looking at the group on whole, before turning to Kurt. "Kurt, I am sorry if my actions yesterday were too forward. I just hope that we may remain friends and that next time we meet, I may meet your lover."

Kurt almost kicked himself. He hadn't thought about how Thor would react to the kiss yesterday and his plan relayed on no one else knowing it so he couldn't explain it to him. But he put on a smile. "You never know, next time we see each other, I could be single again," he shrugged. "Human lives are much faster than those of Asgardians' after all." He rose to his toes and gave Thor a hug and a kiss on the cheek.

Hesitantly Thor returned the hug, not exactly understanding what Kurt was telling him. He couldn't understand the notion of not loving Kurt for as long as he lived but humans had always been strange. Kurt whispered in his ear: "Don't give up on your brother, he's still the same person he was before," and a new surge of hope welled inside him. If Kurt believed Loki could be saved, not all was lost.

Slowly they released each other and Kurt stepped back, smiling, before turning to Loki. He took the piece of paper from his bag and tucking it in the folds of Loki's clothes. "There's my address. If you ever find yourself stranded on Earth, you're welcome to crash. Remember to share it with your brother so that he can find you if needed."

Loki, still muzzled, stared at Kurt with fascination before giving a terse nod.

The S.H.I.E.L.D. agents and scientists came over with the Tesseract and last words of goodbye were said before the two gods disappeared in a blue light, different to the white light of Bifrost. Everyone left fairly quickly after: Romanoff and Barton disappeared with S.H.I.E.L.D., Steve took off on his motorcycle with a promise to call Kurt during his sabbatical, and Tony offered to drive Kurt back home (Bruce, it had already been decided, would be staying with Tony for the foreseeable future)(Tony insisted that Kurt comes visit them every once in a while and maybe even help redecorate the destroyed Stark Tower).

Once in front of Kurt's building, he got out of the convertible and with a backwards wave at Tony and Bruce, he entered the building, ignorant of the young man with gelled back hair, watching him from the window of their apartment.

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"Blaine?" he called and dropped his keys to the bowl by the door. "Are you home?"

"In the living room, Kurt," came the answering call. With a frown Kurt noted it was surprisingly monotony and made his way through the apartment. Blaine was sitting on the window seat overlooking the street below, a book in his lap. He turned to look at Kurt when the older boy slumped on the couch. "Tony Stark, Kurt? Why would Tony Stark drive you home?"

"Because Steve was going the other way and I lived on the way to the Stark Tower," answered Kurt with closed eyes, enjoying the coolness of the AC.

"Steve? Do you mean Captain America?"

"Uh-huh, yeah. He asked to call him Steve after we talked about how shallow Snow White is," Kurt reiterated sleepily. "Nice guy, he's even seen Wizard of Oz." He hadn't slept nearly enough last night. Maybe he could take a nap before starting an early dinner…

"Who was the other blond?"

"Thor? What about him?" hummed Kurt, breathing deeply.

"Thor? As in Norse god Thor?"

"Yeah. His brother found out he was adopted and was manipulated into attacking Earth by still an unknown entity. They left back to Asgard just now, for Loki's trial…." He yawned. "You'd like Loki. He's like me, only more in need of your seeing the best in people –thing…"

"I thought Baldur was Thor's brother?"

"I don't think the myths were correctly translated…"

"You know," Blaine began hesitantly. "I saw you."

"That's nice. What did you see?" Kurt heard Blaine say something but it didn't register. "I'm sorry? Could you say that again? My brain's still cooling."

"I said: I saw you kissing."

That woke Kurt up and he straightened in an instant. He turned to Blaine with wide eyes. "What?"

Blaine turned to look out of the window. "It had gone quiet outside and nobody knew what was going on. I decided to go see what the situation was and when I got there, I saw you, there, in the middle of those strange bodies with Captain America and Hulk and… and Th-Thor, gathered around something. Then you laughed and Th-Thor said something and you shrugged and said something and… and he picked you up and kissed you." Blaine shook his head and looked at Kurt. "It made me wonder why you were with me in the first place. Was I just entertainment while you waited your warrior lover to come back to you?"

"What?" asked Kurt in disbelief. "No! Never! I care about you, Blaine!"

"But you're in love with him," said Blaine matter-of-factly.

"No! Well, yes, but that doesn't mean I don't love you too! But I don't think Thor and I would ever really work. I mean, he's a prince of a far away planet in a galaxy far far away. And he's nearly four thousand years old, I'd be grave-robbing," Kurt exaggerated. He needed Blaine to stay here in case Loki really was sent back to Earth for his punishment and what better way to keep him here but a relationship with Kurt? Once Blaine and Loki were in love, they would undoubtedly move together when Blaine was done with high school but by then Kurt and Blaine would be back to being best friends and Thor might be back and everything could be sunshine and rainbows and dancing on rose petals. And even if he never heard from the Asgardians again, he'd still have a happy life with Blaine. It was a win-win situation. Except, of course, if Blaine left right now.

Kurt took a deep breath. "When I met you, you reminded me that I wasn't alone. I was attracted to you from the start. Actually, physically you're everything I could want in a boyfriend including but not limited to the lack of a beard. After I got to know you, it became apparent you were like a calmer Thor. I admit, I don't know Thor well, if at all, as the situation we met in was strange to both of us, but I got to know you and, well, I'm in love with you. Yes, I'm still attracted to Thor and evidentially he's also still attracted to me, but he's gonna live another twelve thousand years at least, I'm gonna be nothing more than blimp in his life, kind of like seeing someone attractive on the street and exchanging flirty looks for us, nothing more. So no, I'm not going to throw away a perfectly good relationship for a requited crush on an extraterrestrial being."

Blaine didn't look convinced, so Kurt brought out the big guns. "It wasn't Thor who went to talk with Dave after he'd kissed me. Thor didn't dance with me at my junior prom after the ignorant Neanderthals voted me for prom queen. Thor didn't hold me after making love to me." He conveniently left out that Thor couldn't be there because Bifrost had been broken. "I admit I'm still physically attracted to him but I'm also attracted to Steve and Tony… which is a scary thought as my great-grandfather served in the Second World War with Steve and Tony's twice my age. But I'm not gonna do anything about it. And that kiss you saw? It was the only one Thor has given me," during this visit. "And now he's back in Asgard where Valkyries serve his mother and goddesses walk freely among them."

Blaine sighed. "I need some time to think about this. And if, Kurt, if, we continue this relationship, it has to go slowly, build up the trust again."

Kurt smiled, relieved, and Blaine found himself smiling back, even though his smile was thinner than usually. "Take all the time in the world you need." Kurt got up and stretched his back, popping his joints. "I'm going to take a nap before dinner and leave you to your toughts."

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Kurt and Blaine looked up from their dinners as their doorbell rang. Blaine, who was in an easier position to leave the table, went to open the door. Kurt could hear some muted conversation and finally Blaine called him: "Kurt! It's for you!"

With an arched eyebrow Kurt stood up and followed Blaine to the door where he found a familiar black haired man with an equal arched eyebrow.

A triumphant grin split Kurt's face. "Loki!"

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A/N: They quoted Star Trek, E.T., The Wizard of Oz, Toy Story and Lilo and Stitch. Personally, I think every quote suits the quoter quite well… well, maybe not Natasha and Toy Story but… she must understand the pop culture to fit in during her under cover –missions… As for Thor's age… well, I did say that he was 1300 Earth years which (in this case) equals 3900 Asgardian years…