Last chances

Tony hadn't left his tower sense he got the news two months ago. No one bothered him. The whole world knew the reason for his self confinement. Pepper Potts had DIED.

The private jet she had been on crashed. She had been coming home from a business trip when it happened. Tony was the first to know what happened considering it was his Jet.

Now the first person Tony stark had loved in a long time was dead. It was because of that the world would have to survive without Ironman. Tony spent most of his time doing nothing now.

Today all he had been doing was thinking. He thought about Pepper. He thought about his life. He thought about ending all the pain. He looked down at the arc reactor in his chest. It would be so easy just to take it out and die. There would be no more pain, he wouldn't have to miss Pepper anymore. It could be in blissful peace.

His train of thought was lost when there was a loud crash. He stood up and stalked towards the sound. Who would think to break into his house at a time like this? What he found Surprised him a bit. Standing in a pile of glass that had been a vase was none other then Loki, the trickster god. Loki wasn't looking very good, he was paler then normal, he had large bags under his eyes, and his normal clothes seemed to hang off him a bit.

Tony pretended he didn't notice and said, "What are you doing here reindeer games?"

But it was clear Tony was trying to sound much stronger then he was. Loki Replied, "I am here to ask you a favor."

Tony was shocked but listened to what Loki had to say. "You and I are very much alike," he said, "And that is why I am here. We have both found that we have lost what we care for most."

Loki seemed to get smaller as he spoke. "It is that, that makes me trust you. A very strong spell has been cast on me. One that I cannot counter. I will be left very weak. I am hoping that you will be able to help me. This is my last chance for a better life, as it is yours. I can only pray that I have made the right choice in trusting you."

Before Tony had any time to react there was a green puff of smoke and Loki disappeared. What was left was a pile of green and gold clothes lying on a bunch of glass.

Tony looked at the heap on the floor and saw something else writhing inside the clothes. It was a baby. I looked to be maybe a couple months old. It had blue skin with odd designs on it and bright red eyes.

Tony picked up the baby and the blue and red dissipated until all that was left was a pale infant with a tuft of black hair and green eyes. What Loki had said made sense to him now.

Someone had put a spell on him turning him back into a baby and he wanted Tony to take care of him. He wanted tony to give him a better life.

What right did Tony have to deny him that?

5 years later

Tony was sitting on the couch watching the end of a movie.

Then the move paused and Jarvis announced, "Sir, Director Fury is on the line."

Tony had jumped at the voice and said, "Jarvis turn your volume down, and tell Fury I'm busy."

"I tried that Sir," Jarvis said quieter. "But director fury replied 'If you ignore my god **** call again I swear to ******* Thor that I will sent a bomb right threw the ******* door of your building.'" it was kind of funny listening to fury's Message while all the cuss word were muted out.

Tony stood up, walked over to an empty bar and put an earpiece in before saying, "All right J, patch me in." After a second Tony said, "Hello?" Then He heard, "****! Stark I have called you five Times in the last two ******* days. Why the Hell haven't you picked up?"

Tony rolled his eyes and said, "Skip the greeting would ya, I'm very busy at the moment. So why do you keep bothering me?" His voice was very serious.

Fury yelled back, "Don't you ******* talk to me like that Stark. I am personally calling ever God **** scientist with the clearance to know about what is going on. There have been energy signals similar to the tesseract popping up all over the world for the last three days and your the only one that wouldn't pick up the ******* Phone Stark! So Get your *** down here! NOW!"

Tony replied, "I Can't do that right now Nicky You know very well I don't go anywhere."

He could almost here the smirk appear on Fury's face. "Okay Stark. If you want to play it like that then if your not here within the hour I will give every news station in the country access codes to your tower then maybe you could have some company, you must be very lonely up there all by your self."

Tony growled, "I'll be there in ninety minutes." Then hung up.

He walked over to the couch he had been sitting on earlier and sat down. He put a hand on the short black hair of the figure next to him.

The boy started to stir and Tony softly said, "You need to get up bud. Were leaving soon."

The boy stretched and asked, "Really? Where we go`in?"

Tony chuckled at the sleepy boy and said, "I have some work I need to do."

The boy smiled, "But you don't go to work. Is something wrong?" He asked his smile dropping.

"No everything is fine, it's just a favor for an old, um, acquaintance." Tony said, "Go get out of your pj's"

The boy ran off narrowly avoiding slamming into the wall from tiredness. An hour and a half later they were standing on the SHELD headquarters. They kid looked around starry eyed while Tony only looked like he didn't want to be here. They walked inside and Tony lead them around until the found a woman wearing a gray uniform that hugged her skin tightly.

Tony said, "Agent hill. Would you tell me were Fury is?"

She didn't seem to notice the kid there at first, she said, "Stark. Nice to see your out of the house. Go straight take the second right, the meeting room you were in before." Tony nodded and looked down at the boy then said, "One more thing. Watch him please."

He picked him up and handed him to Hill.

She looked confused and said, "Who is this?" tony was focusing on the kid though.

He said, "You listen to her. I'll be back soon."

Then he walked away without answering her. Agent hill set the kid down and they just looked at each other for a while.

The boy broke the silence by saying, "Who Are you?" he was looking at her oddly.

She replied, "My name is Agent Maria Hill. Who are you?" the boy Shrugged and stuck his hand towards her then said, "I'm Loki."

She tensed and stood up before tapping her ear and saying, "Sir, we have a situation."

Notes:

this story is extremely experimental and I will only update if you want me to. Tell me if you like it, or hate it, in a review. If you like it I'll try and update by the end of the week.