A/N: I recently re-watched the events of Iron man 3 and this story is directly (well not directly) after the Avengers movies. NO IRON MAN 3! Iron Man 3 doesn't exist!

Being Tony Stark he couldn't handle house arrest without at least some publicity time so the Daily Bugle managed to get their top Reporter Mary Jane Watson (something about being used to sarcastic super heroes) and her camera man Peter Parker to get an exclusive interview at the Tower. Of course Steve, Clint and Natasha were close by watching him carefully.

"So Mr Stark can you explain what happened?" asked Ms Watson (I keep writing Lois Lane and then correcting it. She will always be THE news reporter.)

Tony flashed a smile at the camera before answering "Well Ms Watson my theory is that Loki turned himself into pure though just like the Greek Goddess Athena did in the myths and projected himself into my head via smoke." He cringed and added involuntarily "Of course I shouldn't be comparing the great race of asgardians to those weak Olympians." He blinked "Did I just say that?"

"uuuh, yes. Yes you did. Loki I assume?"

"Yeah, right. Sorry." Said Tony slightly bashful, only slightly.

"Mr Stark how does it feel to have Loki inside you?"

At that Clint snorted from the corner while Natasha glared at him and Steve whispered loudly "Get your head out of the gutter." (I got this idea from Post U Later thank you for reviewing)

Tony ignored them and said "well it's... unsettling. Especially as his master plan is to drive me insane and well that might not be too difficult if all the studies on the brain and human psychology are correct."

"Could you elaborate?"

"Well I was kidnapped and tortured for 3 months lots of stuff happened in that time, I may be Iron man but I'm still technically a civilian I wasn't prepared for that. And then there's the whole flying a nuke into a wormhole and falling back to the ground thing."

"I can see why that would be unsettling, having someone know your thoughts. How in control is Loki?"

"Well usually it's fine but sometimes he takes over my subconscious and I say some random shit about Norse gods or how amazing Loki is, you can tell when Loki's in command though 'cause I go all stiff. But don't worry the other Avengers have a 24/7 watch on me, in fact Steve Natasha and Clint are standing over in the corner right now." He pointed to the three Agents (Steve is an Agent isn't he?) Clint with his bow; Steve with his shield and Natasha with her guns. They waved at the camera.

Mary Jane turned to the other three Avengers and asked "Sp has Mr Stark been more of a handful than usual?"

Natasha answered "Well he's been easier to laugh at because of all the random things he blurts out."

Clint added "He is more or less the same except he admitted he was scared of Fury, he's never gonna live that down."

Tony gripped his chest and made a face Natasha saw this and said "Tony are you in pain?"

"I don't know."

JARVIS said from the ceiling "Sir your scans indicate that you are in pain."

While Steve asked "How can you not know if you're in pain?"

JARVIS said "your heart rate has elevated and with the arc reactor it is sure to cause pain."

"Well I can feel my heart rate elevating but I'm not in pain, at least my chest doesn't hurt, it's actually my head."

"My scans say your head is fine Sir." He paused "It is possible that under the circumstances the pain is psychological."

Steve exclaimed "You mean Loki's putting his plan into action!?"

As if to answer his question Tony collapsed on the floor holding his hands over his ears and curled up in a ball "Tony!" everyone in the room yelled

Natasha pulled out her communicator "Bruce, Thor Tony just collapsed on the floor Bruce get in here Thor hurry up we need that cure." Then she alerted Fury but told him they would handle it. She crouched next to Tony and said softly "Tony, Tony can you hear me?"

Tony's eyes were screwed shut and his hands were over his ears he was mumbling something but he didn't show any signs of registering Natasha they all looked at each other unsure what to do when Clint suggested "We could call Pepper, she'd know how to deal with Tony."

Bruce walked in and countered "But Pepper's never had to deal with that." He gesture to the crumpled bundle of sadness that was Tony

Bruce knelt next to Tony and checked his pulse "elevated pulse, brain pains for no reason, what to do."

"Come on you're a doctor do doctor stuff!" exclaimed Steve

"I'm not that kind of doctor!" Bruce repeated for the 100th time since they had met "But I think I have a short term solution, no one scream." He took a deep breath and then yelled really loudly in Tony's ear.

Tony leapt up "whaaaaaa..." he looked around "what the hell happened?"

"We're not entirely sure."

JARVIS said "I ran the symptoms and it appears you had a panic attack probably caused by Loki seeing as there was no obvious trigger. Sir could you please describe what you saw and heard."

"I was in... space, that wormhole and the nuke was on my back but instead of blacking out and falling back to Earth I was awake and the hole closed before I could reach it, I was stuck in space with everyone thinking I was dead. And then it shifted I was back in Afghanistan and they were water boarding me again and I couldn't breathe and every single criticizing voice and insult started talking at the same time and it got really loud in my own head hence why I was covering my ears and then I heard the Hulk yell and I woke up."

Bruce said "The Hulk didn't yell, it was just regular old Bruce. It's a short term solution."

"Well find a long term solution because I don't ever want that to happen again!"

A/N: Read and Review! Guys I'm planning some major meltdown in the next chapter so look out for it! Thanks to everyone who has reviewed, followed and favourited!