A/N: All recognizable characters belong to Marvel Comics, I only own the plot and the OC's. This has been bothering me for days. This is only the prelude for what is to come
Loki was bored. And to be completely honest, he was a little angry at his brother. For all his talk of eternal brotherhood and unshakable filial loyalty, Thor had forgotten his Nameday. Again.
And that was not all. He had gone on a date with that annoying mortal scientist, so Loki couldn't even drop not-so-subtle hints to remind his oaf of a brother. His former mind slave a.k.a Barton was visiting his family, resurrected Coulson was recruiting other puny humans for their infernal 'cause', Fury was probably washing his huge collection of eye patches and Romanoff (the only person he had a sliver of respect for) was away in Jamaica on a mission.
He was tempted to gatecrash Stark's presentation at Buckingham's palace but he didn't like being glared at disapprovingly by all of them (which would be the invariable result of him getting up to his old tricks), reminded him too much of Asgard and his odious 'father'.
Seeing no opportunity of causing mischief where his involvement remained undetected, after all, who would Fury suspect if Steve Roger's room was filled with women's undergarments or the Hulk woke up with his room's color scheme changed to green (which incidentally was a color he hated, Loki could understand hating the color of his own skin, he hated blue too), Loki resigned himself to spending a lonely evening in Stark Tower, causing minor disturbances like opening closet doors on amorous interns while Fury was passing by or turning Fury's eye patch to solid gold.
His pathetic plans for mischief, a result of his magic being restricted, unless he was in a 'life-or-death' situation, which Loki thought was incredibly kind of them. It could have only been worse if they had forced him to watch those incessantly stupid movies about that asinine boy wizard Potter who couldn't even go a year without almost dying and exhibiting his excessive imbecility to the entire wizarding populance. And it didn't help Potter's cause that Loki was insanely envious of the easy acceptance and admiration which Potter got in the Wizarding World. Loki had always been judged, shunted aside, ridiculed for being a magician and not a warrior like Thor. But he could actually associate with Potter's suffering at the hands of his muggle relations for his magical background for Loki had suffered the same for almost two millenia at Asgard.
But his plans for a quiet and lonely birthday quite went out of the window when the good old Captain crashed inside the very same window holding a bloodied body in his arms.
A/N: Haha, Cliffhanger. If you liked it, please review! They are the food to a writer's soul ;)