Loki came to the headquarters of FBI and asked a consultant about agent Topaz.

"Hello. I have a meeting with agent Topaz, where can I find her?"

"She didn't show up here today, maybe she's working outside."

"But we agreed to meet here today at 9 o'clock."

"I'm sorry, I can't help you."

Suddenly a skinny tall girl walked towards them and gave Loki a suspicious glare.

"Aylin never meets here with anybody. Who are you?"

"I am Lucas Frost. We had a negotiation about being partners at work."

"Aylin's never ever in her life needed partners. She works alone. Or with me."

"Well, I'm telling you what we talked about. Not my fault she didn't share it with you.", Loki was annoyed by this woman's arrogant tone.

"What have you just said, dipshit?", she squinted, "Sorry, but I think I know my friend better than you!"

"Who're you? Her sidekick?", Loki stepped forward, so they were standing face to face.

The woman gave a slap to Loki and said, "Hazal Demir herself. I think I know who are you... Lucas... Lina said that you disgust her."

"Me?"

"Not me, definitely."

"We'll see, who was wrong... We'll see...", Loki sighed and walked away with fast gait.

"Mission completed. Good job, Hazal, darling.", Hazal whispered to herself and a half-smile appeared on her face.

***

Loki calculated Aylin's location and headed there. He stopped before a little wooden house. Firstly, he tried to call her but she didn't answer. Then he decided to enter the house.

'As far as I'm concerned, this is your house... Wait, I need to fix my hair... What is this on my shirt? Oh, just a little spot... I hope she won't notice... Shame on me, I'm a dumbass... Just use magic! Okay, that's better...'

Loki looked at himself in the mirror of his black Bentley, which Christina bought him recently, and suddenly winced yelling, "Okay, stop this, Loki!"

He was breathing heavily and angrily, leaning on the seat.

'Why would she find me disgusting? No one never did. Maybe it's because of this stupid beard? Or perfume? What, God damn it, what?! Alright, I'm gonna make this beard disappear. It annoys me for a long time.'

Loki removed his beard using magic and looked at the mirror again.

'Hello. We haven't seen each other for a while... Loki... How's it going with Thanos? Are you still the same? Same anger, same desire of ruling the world? Are you... Me? I tried to avoid you using this look but... You know, you're still haunting me... Your darkness... Maybe that's why she found me disgusting...'

Loki stared at himself for a while and cracked the mirror, punched it with the fist. Next he left the car and headed to the house. He knocked the door but there was no answer.

"Aylin? Are you there?", he knocked again.

'Of course she's there, idiot.'

"Ms. Topaz?", he knocked louder.

"Dumb me, here's an intercom.", Loki mumbled.

He called a few times but there was deathly silence.

"Okay, if you don't open, I break the door. Do you hear me?"

Still silence.

"I hope she won't tear me apart for this...", Loki mumbled before breaking the door with leg.

He entered the house and looked around but there was no one.

"Ms. Topaz?"

Loki started to view Lina's house. Little kitchen, average living room with music speakers and the bedroom.

"Impressive music speakers..."

Loki looked in every room and found Aylin in the bedroom... Sleeping...

"What?! Seriously?"

He walked to the bed and started to shake her holding her shoulders.

"Hey, why are you still sleeping, it's almost dinnertime? C'mon, wake up..."

It was useless. She was sleeping like a dead man. God of mischief bend over and squinted looking at the girl. He hold her face to turn her to himself and noticed that her face was hot.

"As I see it, it's not a normal body temperature for mortals... Is she ill?", Loki whispered.

"No, you can't be ill, you're my project...", Loki patted her shoulder, "Hey, are you dead?"

Trickster checked Lina's pulse on the neck and it was beating.

"No, you're alive."

Loki went to the kitchen to find the thermometer and instead he found a cupboard full of sweets, biscuits, cookies and other stuff.

"Wow, I thought you're leading a healthy lifestyle."

Finally he found the first aid kit and returned to the bedroom.

"Wake up, I need to measure your temperature.", he was shaking the girl.

"Okay, I'll do it myself."

He lifted Aylin from the bed and holding her back inserted a thermometer into the sleeve of her t-shirt.

"39,6? Ah, it's Celsius... Let me calculate... Oh God! Ill soldier? No, I don't want this to happen, no way!"

Loki was so emotional that Lina started to wake up.

"What... What's going on?", she mumbled with closed eyes.

"You're hot!"

"Is it a compliment?"

"Alright, you're sleepy. I told you that you'll get a cold!"

Loki laid Lina down and she continued to sleep.

"And what am I going to do?"

Trickster took a chair and sat near the bed.

'That's what happens to people, who calls me disgusting... She said that she's her own saviour but her bestie was about to kill me because I simply wanted to talk to her... What else are you hiding, lady Aylin?'

Loki put his hand on Lina's forehead and tried to look into her mind to find the thing that bothers her. He closed his eyes and the view came to his mind...

A little redhead girl was hiding in the wardrobe. Young man and woman are getting stabbed multiple times by a group of assassins. The little girl sobs quietly because she's afraid to be found. Tears are rolling making her face, hands, which hold her mouth from screaming in terror, and clothes wet. There was another woman standing near the men. She commanded them to search the room. One of them opened the wardrobe and took the girl. She was screaming, showing attempts to get rid of man's hands but it wasn't helping.

"Girl, you have a heart! Come with me!", the commander woman said.

"You killed my parents and I'll kill you!", the girl said still jerking.

"That's exactly what I wanted to hear.", woman said calmly, "Inject her."

One of the men injected the girl and another was holding her hand still. She was sobbing, growling but in vain... And then the view became dark...

Loki shrugged and saw how Aylin was gasping and frowning in sleep.

'Gannis?! You've already done what you wanted to do... What are you up to?! Why didn't you tell me about this?!', Loki thought in tense.

He couldn't sit anymore, he became too nervous and anxious. Loki stood up from the chair and started to walk from one side of the room to another.

"This is dangerous... I need to do something... I need to do something....", he was repeating again and again, like a psycho.

Loki saw with his own eyes what was going to happen and how mad and cruel it was... How much pain it will bring to people... Yes, humans aren't innocent but no one deserves to be treated like this. How many blood will spill out, how many children would be left without parents, brothers without brothers, sisters without sisters, friends without friends...

"This is madness...", Loki whispered with broken voice.

'Oh, thanks God, I wasn't that fool to tell Christina about my reunion with Thor. I'm pretty sure she would hurt him too. I need to do something. I need... No... No, no, no, I'm not going to the Avengers... I can't... Firstly, I need to cure this poor lady, then act normal and try to learn something new from Gannis... Right, I need to make a new armor from vibranium too...'

Loki's mind were full of thoughts but the first thing he did is making a chicken soup that turkish people make to cure the illness. He found the recipe in the internet. It wasn't hard for him to cook because he was cooking for himself for almost a year. When the dish was ready, he poured it in a deep plate and took it to the bedroom. He tried to wake Lina but she was too weak because of the heat. While Loki was waiting for her to wake up, he didn't notice how he fell asleep on the chair. Slowly his body turned into jelly and he put his head on Aylin's heart...

***

"See? I said that you'll regret not listening to me."

Loki opened his eyes and screamed, "Staaark?! Can you let me sleep normally for once?!"

"If not me, Thanos wouldn't let you sleep. Which means, your dream would turn into nightmare."

Loki sighed getting up from Lina's chest, "Also, I don't regret not listening to you."

"Is it your girlfriend?", Tony winked, "Did you flirt? Want me to give you «being playboy» lessons? Trial lesson is for free."

"Stark!!!"

"Okay, okay, don't be mad, reindeer games."

"King of the scrap metal... You know, I made a lot of girls fall for me before your lessons.", Loki smirked, "I'm more charismatic than you, after all."

Tony gave him a deadly glare viewing him from head to toe.

"You're young. When I was young, I had armies of fans."

"I'm thousand years old. You're like fifty."

Tony ignored his statement and started to speak after clearing his throat, "So... Did you change your mind about helping me?"

"I did. You were right. Your world needs protection."

"It's your world now too."

"I'm from Asgard, good morning, Tony."

"Oh... You don't know...", Tony said under his breath.

"What I don't know?"

"Oh, nothing..."

"Tell me! I'm done from being lied to!"

"It's just... Thor lives here and I thought you're living with him."

"Oh, I know that. I'm going to visit him soon."

"Visit the Avengers on your way to him, please."

Loki sighed again and said, "I will..."

Tony smiled to him, took another chair, sat near Loki and patted his back.

"I believe that «good Loki» is somewhere there. You're just misunderstood... We all started like you..."

"Don't lie to me. You're my number one hater."

"No, I'm not lying. Just learn to live with your demons. And getting rid of depression won't be bad too."

Tony disappeared and left Loki alone.

"Wait... What did you mean saying «We all started like you?»"

Loki woke up and realized that he was sleeping on Aylin's bed. The girl herself wasn't here. But she even cared about covering Loki with a blanket.

Loki got up and walked to the kitchen.

"Sleeping beauty finally decided to get up.", Loki chuckled leaning on the cupboard with crossed arms.

"You were sleeping for 5 hours.", Lina answered tranquilly making coffee.

"Really? Wow."

"Yeah. Thank you for the soup, by the way. It was tasty and helped me to recover. Wanna drink coffee?"

"You're welcome. I prefer tea."

"Your british part is showing."

"Well, turkish people like tea too."

"We like both."

"Oh, the door is fixed. I hope you're not mad about it."

"I fixed it. I was mad before I tasted your soup."

Loki smiled.

They sat at the table. Lina put plates with turkish sweet-stuff.

"I thought you're leading a healthy lifestyle but then I found a lot of sweets in the cupboard."

"Well, I like sweets too but they're not mine."

"Are they for your guests? I thought you're like... Sociopath."

"No... I give them to children in orphanages."

"You visit orphanages?"

"When I have time, of course, why not?"

"It's just... There are so little part of people who does it."

"You're weird."

"Why?"

"You sound like you're not from this planet."

'Because I'm pretty sure you are not.'

"Ah, no, what a bullshit. I'm just weirdo. By the way, your friend was about to kill me protecting you at the morning."

"Yeah, she told me."

"But you said you're your own savior."

"Who said that I have to tell you everything about my life?"

"Hey! I told you my story that day!"

"It was your choice."

This whole time Loki was trying to straighten every part of his suit. He was twitching all time and couldn't sit still. Aylin was looking at him oddly. Finally she decided to ask what was bothering him.

"Is it normal that you're straightening your jacket for the 10'th time?", she squinted.

"Yes, it is. I am perfectionist."

"But you wasn't acting like this last time we met... Spill out."

"You want me to spill out? Okay! Your friend said that I disgust you."

"What?", Lina chuckled, "Ah, Hazal, ah! Always in her repertoire!"

"How should I understand it?"

"I didn't say anything like that. Why would you disgust me? She had other purpose saying that."

"What purpose?"

"Who knows. Ask her yourself."

Lina and Loki were having a nice conversation till the evening. They were talking about music, films, TV shows, books... Everything... But not about themselves...