Calculated Chaos (джен)

Loki did not plan for anything after his desperate, last-ditch attempt to thwart Thanos's play for the Tesseract, more than half-convinced that it would result in his death.
Miraculously, however, he survived. Even more miraculously, he snatched not one but two Infinity Gems from the Titan's grasp. For half a moment, he contemplated returning to Asgard, allowing Thor to chain him and Odin to lock him away. The Realm Eternal was supposedly the safest place in the Nine, the one place the Titan might hesitate to seek him.
Yet Loki had spent far too long in a cage.
Loki makes a different decision after the events of The Avengers, and the ripples spread ever outwards.