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The avengers were relaxing in SHIELD's helicarrier, they had finally captured Loki after the fight with the chitauri. Bruce and Tony were tinkering with some spare parts that Tony had found, Natasha was sharpening her knives while Clint and Steve were arm wrestling. But Thor was staring into Loki's cage with a confused look in his eye. Loki had started acting strange during the fight; in fact Thor remembered watching Loki's personality change as a bright beam of light absorbed them both.

"I need a drink" declared Tony as he went over to a cabinet to bring out his special edition Russian Vodka. "Hey, do you want one too, Nat?" She nodded as he slid a glass over to her. Loki had been oddly silent as if he was having an internal conflict with himself. "Brother are you alright?" Thor asked. Loki merely smirked and said "no offense big guy, but you are not my brother." Then his green eyes locked on the candy bar that Tony was munching on. "What you want some reindeer games?" said Tony in a voice that was practically bleeding sarcasm. Loki nodded before slamming down onto the floor and cried out "make them shut up!" "Make who shut up?" said Thor. "Agrrr, never mind I took care of it." Loki said

Steve, who had been quietly watching the entire conversation between the so called brothers, silently motioned for Clint and Natasha to let Loki out. He had a few questions for the Asgardian. Both agents took hold of one of Loki's arms and sat him in a chair. Everyone watched as Loki snapped his fingers and a lollipop appeared in his hand. He took the wrapper off, popped it in his mouth, and said "close your mouths before you catch flies." Then the lopsided grin returned to his face. "what do you mean, misgardians do not catch flies with their mouths." Thor said. Loki chuckled and Steve said, "Hey what is so funny" "Nothing" said Loki' but thanks for theat, I haven't had a proper laugh since the apocalypse started."

Thor's brow furrowed "what nonsense are you spouting brother?" "again,I am not your brother!" said Loki with a funny expression on his face. He was about to speak again when and extremely angry director Fury burst through the doors. "Who gave any of you idiots permission to let Loki out!" he roared. Just as Steve was about to answer Fury's ear piece buzzed and he said "I have a much more important manner to attend to, please keep the stupidities to a minimum" he left the room with his coat flaring dangerously behind him. Natasha got up and glare at Loki before saying" lets start the interrogation." "What fun" replied Loki with a smirk; another glare was sent his way. Overall the idea of an interrogation was very appealing to Loki, he couldn't wait to give these people their just desserts.

"What were you doing with the chitauri" Asked Tony. "Oh them, I was setting them up on blind dates with each other; man are they going to be pissed when they realize I lied" answered Loki. "Tell the truth reindeer games" Tony growled. Loki just threw back his head and laughed; then he snapped his fingers and a bowel of jelly beans appeared in his lap. "Brother you have never cared for mortal sweets." Thor said as he left the room. "Are you kidding me? Candy is one of the best things you humans have ever invented! Well that and sex." Loki said. Tony's face lit up and he grinned at Loki. "Well I certainly agree with you there." He said.

Thor was in the other room with the rest of the avengers minus Tony. He was expressing his concern for Loki because he wasn't acting like himself. Steve and Clint agreed with Thor, Bruce just shrugged because he didn't really know Loki that well, and Tasha remained stone faced. Then they heard Tony yell from the other room "hey guys I need some help in here." They all got up from their chairs and ran to the other room to help their team mate.

What they found was less exciting than what they imagined. Tony said that they needed to bring a hospital bed to the main room where Loki was situated because they had a code red coming through the doors any minute now. The avengers got into action; well it was mostly Bruce who was preparing everything that was medically related and the others were helping him. Then suddenly four SHEILD agents came through the door with director Fury trailing behind them. The agents were caring a badly injured man in a tan trench coat between them.