Fanfiction is my coping mechanism to trauma.
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Thanos had his massive hand around Loki's throat. Thanos was crushing the life out of him. Crushing his throat. Loki heard his bones give in. His neck snapped. He couldn't move. He couldn't breathe. He fell to the ground, frozen and unmoving. Then Thanos and his servants left the Statesman. Thor crawled over to Loki. Loki looked up at him, but he couldn't breathe, he couldn't move. Thor could find no life in him and Loki's body could not move. Loki could not move his eyes. He could not feel Thor holding onto him as he screamed. Loki's eyes rolled back in his head and Thor faded from his view.
Thor laid his brother down and looked around him, his ship was breaking apart. Heimdall was dead. Thor reached for the sword that could summon the Bifrost. Heimdall had managed to somehow send Banner back to Earth. Thor hoped he could send the remaining of his people there as well.
Thor held the sword in his hands, not quite sure how Heimdall managed to summon the bifrost with the sword alone. Thor closed his eye and prayed to the All Fathers and begged for help. Thor lifted the sword up and summoned lightning to the sword, filling it with as much power as he could. He focused on Earth. The rainbow light poured from the sword and enveloped the entirety of the ship. With a loud cracking and shattering of metal and glass the ship ripped apart the sword shattered and Thor was thrown into space.
Loki slowly opened his eyes. How he was still alive was a mystery to him. He couldn't move though. He couldn't feel his body. He slowly moved his eyes around. He appeared to be in an Midgard Hospital. Not good. His eyes looked down. His neck and throat had metal sticking out of it. A huge tube at the top of his chest supplied his lungs with oxygen. He was not held down. But Loki found himself unable to move, all he could move was his eyes. A human woman suddenly entered the room. Loki heard her gasp at the sight of him. She hurried out.
Why am I alive? What have they done to me? What will they do to me? Where is Thor? How did I get here? Why can't I move? The questions bombarded Loki's mind. He couldn't move his mouth. It was strange breathing but not through his mouth or nose. Is this my punishment for what I did to Earth?
The human woman returned suddenly and Loki flicked a glare towards her. Following her was a man in white. He spoke something to Loki.
"-I don't know how you managed to live through such a traumatic injury, but here you are. We didn't expect you to wake up, but your physiology is quite an amazing thing…"
Loki stared at the man, he tried to glare at him too. But the mere fact that it was these were humans keeping him alive and the fact that he could not move, his expression was more along the lines of panic.
"Now, I don't know how much of this you can understand…" the man was saying, "If you can understand, blink once for yes and twice for no."
If Loki could he would have gritted his teeth. He had no clue how to play this. All he could do was move his eyes, he could blink them but... But perhaps acting like he knew nothing was in his best interest? Perhaps the man would assume him to be dumb, perhaps they could help him heal and then leave him alone. Loki was a fool for being so hopeful. The man reached over Loki to a machine beyond his sight. Suddenly the machine stopped. Suddenly Loki felt his lungs shudder. He squeezed his eyes shut, but the oxygen was cut off.
"Doctor!" Loki heard the woman shout. Loki opened his eyes and looked up at the man.
"Can you understand me?" he repeated, "All you have to do is blink once, because if you can't understand me, you wouldn't know that 'no' is blink twice."
Loki blinked once.
"Ah, so you understand me?"
Loki blinked once.
"Do you know what planet you are on?"
Loki blinked once more and looked frantically from the man to the woman.
"Doctor, if he dies he will be useless to us and all we have done to prevent his death will be wasted," the woman told the man, her voice too was frantic.
The man smiled as Loki's eyes began to roll backwards. He flicked the switch and the machine started up again. Loki's lungs filled with oxygen. His eyes widened and relaxed. He looked back up at the man. His eyes open with fear and hate.
But the man walked away. The woman stood there though, fussing over Loki. She checked his pulse. Loki looked towards the woman's hand. He couldn't feel her touching him and slowly he remembered what was done to him. His throat and spine had been crushed. He was paralyzed and there was no way that any technology on Midgard could repair him.