AUTHORS NOTE: As promised, two updates in one day. Please review, and I'm sorry if this chapter is short!
Loki wakes the next morning alone. Hearing hushed voices coming from the kitchen, he stands, stretches his cramped limbs, and walks quietly over to the kitchen, pausing in the doorway to hear what it was about.
"We can't just give him up." Steve's quiet but firm voice reaches Loki's ears first.
"If he can get into the tower last night, what's to say he won't do it again?" That was Clint.
"I think the more pressing concern is how he got into the Tower in the first place." Natasha asked.
"I don't know." Came Tony's angered voice, "But giving Loki up is not an option."
Loki, deciding he'd heard enough, walking into the light and made his presence know.
"And do I get a say in all this?"
Five pairs of eyes dart up to where he was standing.
"What's this about?" He asks.
Tony looks down and enlarges a screen on his Stark pad. Flicking his wrist towards Loki, the picture appears in the air, and begins playing.
"Hello 'heroes'. I've recently found out about a beautiful god currently in you care. I believe you'll agree when I say he would be more suited to my company. I shall give you three days before I come to collect him from your tower. Refusal to comply will result in the deaths of thousands of innocent children, and I'll still come and get him. Until then my love."
The message stops and Loki stares at it blankly.
"There's also this."
The security footage from last night begins playing.
"I thought somebody was watching me." He whispers to himself.
"Don't worry Loki," Tony begins, "He won't t-"
"No." Loki silences him, "Since he wants me, I shall make my own decision- I will go with him."
"NO!" Steve cries out in outrage, "Absolutely not!"
"Captain. You are allowing you feelings to get in the way of a mission. If I do not children shall die. I've been responsible for enough heart ache. I shan't be the cause off anymore."
He turns to leave, but Steve grabs his wrist in an iron grip.
"And what about the heart ache of the people here? The people who took you in and looked after you. We all care about you Loki, and yet you're ready to turn away from us instantly."
Loki turns his eyes to the others in the group, who all look back at him and nod in agreement to Steve's words.
"I've only just got you," Steve whispers, "I can't let you go that easily."
"What do you mean?" Loki asks quietly.
Steve stays quiet, biting his lip, afraid of what Loki will say.
"Tell me now or so help me Rogers I'll leave right now."
Steve takes a deep breath and replies quietly, "I-I think I love you Loki…"
Loki's eyes widen, Steve looks up and looks him in the eyes, "I love you. Doom loves you. Your choice."
He lets go of Loki's wrist and takes a step back.
"Well…" Loki begins, "If you put it like that then I don't need to decide. I've already chosen."
He walks towards Syeve, lifting the Captain's chin so they are looking each other in the eyes, he bends down so their lips are barley touching. "I will always choose you."
Steve closes the gap between them and catches Loki's lips in his own. The room erupts into applause as their friends cheer and whoop. When they pull apart, both are panting slightly with flushed cheeks.
"I love you too." Loki whispers.