I could see Peter struggling out of the corner of my eye. I used my heels to my advantage, kicking the shit out of my assailant. The man's hand covered my mouth, muffling my cries.
"Will you stop screaming!" He yelled.
I recognized the voice and stopped struggling. He dropped his hand.
"Loki?" I exclaimed.
I turned around and hugged him.
"Oh my god, I thought you were dead!" I cried.
Thor let go of Peter.
"How did you get away from her?" Thor asked, pulling me into a hug.
"Heimdall opened the Bifrost a few seconds after you two got sucked out. Where have you been?" I demanded.
"Saakar! It this crazy fighting planet, Loki and I have been trying to get out ever since," He explained.
"What have you been doing on Earth?" Loki wondered.
I suddenly felt regretful and guilty. All this time, I'd been living well on Earth with no desire to help my people.
"Staying with Tony..." I answered.
"You're telling me you've done nothing," Thor hissed.
He pushed me against the side of a building.
"Our people are in desperate need, and your way of helping them is disabling your Astral Projection!" He yelled.
Loki yanked Thor off of me. "Hurting her will do no good," Loki warned.
"What made you guys decide to just show up?" Peter demanded.
"Time works differently on Saakar. We'd hoped to return to a peaceful Asgard, but it was the same as we left it," Thor raged.
"What do you mean "time works differently"?" I replied.
"We were on Saakar for ten centuries, and you've been kicking back on Earth," Thor seethed.
"Oh my god," I whispered. "We have to go find Tony!"
We ran back to the tower.
"Why are you so dressed up?" Loki asked.
I shot him a look.
"Not that you don't look wonderful, because you look stunning," He revised.
Peter glared at him. Loki didn't seem to notice.
"Just some dance," I sighed.
I struggled to keep up. I didn't want to show off and fly, but the price of my ego was paid by my damn ankles.
"Are you seriously running in heels?" Peter laughed.
"Don't remind me," I panted.
When it began to rain, I felt like I was in a movie. It wasn't the kind of movie where the main characters were racing for treasure, but the kind where the bad guys win. I was sprinting in a long red dress, tiara, and heels in the pouring rain with two gods and a boy bitten by a radioactive spider. And of course, there was me. A selfish goddess who only wanted to be loved. The only thing I thought about was how the movie would end. I envied the couples in the bar who watched us. They had no idea what was going on, nor would they ever. For all they knew, we were two crackheads and two people in pretty outfits.
"How far do you live, Kaity?" Thor huffed.
"Right around the corner," I breathed.
The building was the center point of the block. If you flew up high enough, you could see it from miles away. We burst through the doors.
