Loki looked into Kat's eyes, searching for her emotions. He seemed to know that she wasn't as in his control as he would have liked. The mind stone's influence just didn't take all the way. One of her eyes was the eerie blue of the mind-controlled, the same blue that Loki's was at the point. The other eye was its usual purple. Her mind and her will was still partially her own. He would have to be careful with her. She was an unpredictable, uncontrollable ally at best, and that wouldn't do for Loki's plans.

"Things will work out as they are meant to, kitten," he couldn't help the play on her name. He liked playing with words as his epithet of 'silver tongue' indicated. Playing with names and nicknames was no exception to that. Especially when he was met with a charming blush at the nickname. The younger Romanoff was easier to get a reaction out of than her older sister. Her training had been different in the Red Room, it seemed. That made sense since Natasha was more skilled in espionage and spy work, her weapons skills were legend, as was her sexual prowess. Katya, not much was known about her. Even Barton had only known so much. She seemed more innocent, but she had so much power, her magic coming from the Tesseract. Loki wanted to know more. "The team will come for you. Of that, I have no doubt," he reassured her gently. He didn't want her upset. He wanted her and her power on his side.

Kat nodded, still a bit dazed from the mind control and Loki's sleep spells. "They will," she agreed softly. She knew that Nat wouldn't leave her in the hands of an enemy, no matter what it took to get her back. She'd been willing to do anything to get Barton back and Barton wasn't even her sister. She would tear this whole goddamn building down if that's what it took to get Kat back. Kat looked up at Loki, looked into his blue eyes, hers too piercing and perceptive. "Are you prepared for that?"

"I am. The chitauri will not make things easy on them and neither will I. I have very little choice," Loki reminded her. She knew. Somehow she knew what he was going through.

Kat nodded again. "They can handle it." There wasn't much she could do with the mind stone messing with her. She was trying, but she still had to fight through sleep spells and the mind control magic. She could only do so much. She had to wait for an opportunity.

"Will you stand at my side until the avengers come?" He asked her, offering his hand to her. She would be his queen. At least for as long as this plan was in motion. She didn't have a choice, not really, not with her mind warped by the mind stone. She accepted his hand and stood carefully. He gave her a smile. "Thank you, my dear. I do appreciate you being willing to do this." She wasn't exactly willing, as he damn well knew. She just hasn't been able to break through the mind control yet. She would eventually. Loki hoped it was at the right moment. He had a feeling it would be.

It wasn't much longer before the team arrived to try to stop the invasion and Loki.

Loki opened the portal with the help of Sevig and the chitauri came through to begin to demolish the city right on time, right on schedule. The battle continued until Loki went to flee the tower, moving to bring Kat with him. He wouldn't let her leave his side.

Kat came back to herself in a moment of clarity as she saw a perfect image of the battle around them, strategies appearing and disappearing as space and magic, chitauri, avengers all flowed around them.

She saw the shot as it came, not an arrow from Clint, not a bullet, something much stronger and deadlier. Something that was capable of taking down a god. A boosted laser blast from a chitauri weapon. The Other had double-crossed Loki, hadn't trusted the god, and was trying to get him out of the way for failing before he'd even failed.

Before he'd finished his plan to draw the team together and get stopped.

Kat moved then, unable to stop the blast. It was too fast, too well-timed, too powerful. So she did the only thing she could. She shoved Loki out of the way, saving him from the blast.

He gasped and cried out as he fell, turning to her and seeing the clarity in her eyes. Her purple eyes. She'd saved him of her own free will. She shrieked as the bolt hit her straight in the back, but there was nothing Loki could do. The kitten had helped him and gotten injured herself. And there was nothing he, with all his godly powers, nothing he could do. He'd fallen to the floor below, just in time to be picked up by the ankle by the Hulk and smashed into the ground repeatedly like a rag doll.