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A New Beginning Chapter Four
Tony leads Loki through the entrance and to the elevator.
Loki nearly starts to panic. Nearly. He hadn't been around any of his former enemies since Thor had taken him back to Asguard. But shortly after, Loki was stripped of his Godly title and of his Godly powers, save for his magic that of which he was born with, and was sentenced to live among the mortals he once terrorized. He lived in a small apartment ten blocks down the street, and pretty much stayed away from everyone.
Tony taps idly on the wall of the elevator and hums tunelessly. They still have thirty floors to go. "Next time I build a tower, remind me not to make it so big." He remarks.
"That is if I'm around to remind you." Loki planned on going back to his apartment and not leaving for the next few years, decided on dying in there.
Tony furrows his brow and stops his tapping. "What do you mean by that?" He asks seriously.
He looks over at Tony and raises an eyebrow. "What? You can't expect me to live with you in the Tower. I hurt each and every one of you. Why would you want something like that living under the same roof as you?" Loki shakes his head and looks back at the elevator doors. "No. I'm going back to my lodgings when we're through here."
"Well, I figured you wouldn't be living here, it's just..." he pauses and takes a breath, "I thought we could still hang out at whatnot beyond tonight."
Loki looks over at Tony, completely surprised and taken aback at his thought. "You'd actually want to spend more time with me…?"
He nods with wide eyes. "Well, yeah. I can see you're not totally insane, and from the little time I've been spending with you, you seem like a cool guy." Tony smiles. "And everybody needs a friend." The elevator dings signifying their arrival to the fifty-fourth floor.
Loki raises a brow, "I'm not too sure if that was a compliment or not. But thank you…?" He follows Tony onto the floor that houses the Avengers and looks around, noting how clean it looked to be even though it held five men and only one woman.
Tony walks over to the kitchen and throws his keys on the counter andnhe hears Loki come in behind him. "Are you hungry?" He asks opening the fridge and looking around.
"Just a bit. But I can wait." Loki continues looking around the floor. "Where is everyone?"
He stands up with a couple apples and tosses one to Loki. "They're probably in the living room. It's movie night." He nods in the direction of the living room. "C'mon, let's see if theory is true."
He catches the apple with one hand, thankfully not losing his reflexes when banished, and follows Tony hesitantly into the living room where the rest of the Avengers are found. "Hey Tony! There you are, we couldn't wait anymore and just started the—" Clint, or Hawkeye as Loki knew him, stopped his advance on Tony when Loki came in to view.
Tony looks at Clint's bewildered face and steps in front of Loki in a protective manor. "Hey guys, so this is my good friend Loki." He looks around at his friends' faces and holds up his hands. "If you would give us a moment to explain-" There were shouts and everyone jumped up.
Loki holds up his hands, the universal "I give up" sign, before anything got out of hand. "Anthony. I think I should just go…" But before Loki can scoot away from the impending brawl, Thor comes up and hugs his little brother tightly, causing a pitiful squeak to come out of Loki's lungs. "Brother! I have missed you dearly! Why have you returned?" Loki just taps Thor's shoulder a couple times and gasps for air slightly, "Thor…can't….breathe…"
Tony sees Thor loosen his grip and he turns to the rest of his friends with a tight smile while Thor questions Loki. "Tony, what the heck are you doing?!" Steve says a little loudly and several others of his team shout agreements. "Well, I was at a bar and Loki came in, looking like he was beat to hell and we… ah, we connected. A little..."
Thor pulls Loki off to the side so he can better hear his brother. "Loki. Tell me, why have you returned?" Loki just looks up at Thor, biting his lip to stop it from quivering. "I have been banished, stripped of all my Godly titles and powers. I must live and die here, in Midguard." He looks at Thor's face, at the understanding that lies there because he had been banished before and he knows how Loki is feeling. Someone actually knows.
Clint narrows his eyes at Tony and jabs a finger at his chest. "You slept with him, didn't you Stark?" He accuses and Tony widens his eyes in anger. "The hell-?! I did not! Especially not after what just happened to him!" He yells and wants to punch Clint in the face.
Loki sees the confusion rise in Thor's face when he knows he has heard Tony. Loki sends Tony a death glare and looks back at Thor. "Brother…What happened to you..?" "I do not wish to speak of it now, Thor. It is much too soon after. And I never told Stark anything, he just guessed."
Clint unnarrows his eyes and studies Tony's, still angry, face. After a moment he nod hesitantly and turns around muttering curses. Tony looks at everyone else seeking some sort of agreement. Steve looks concerned, Clint is sill angry, Tasha looks impassive and Bruce is sitting eoth his eyes closed and mummuring one through ten. Tony shakes his head with a sigh.
"I'm just going to leave. I am obviously a disturbance to you all. I apologize." Loki slinks out of the living room quietly, being followed by Thor. "Brother. What did you say to everyone?" Loki looks back at Thor, eyebrows knotted in confusion. "I…I said I apologize. It wasn't right for me to come where I'm so obviously unwanted. I'll just be leaving."
Tony smiles slightly and raises his voice. "See?" He says happily, "AND, he apologized to me twice earlier!" "What did he apologize for earlier?" Steve asked skeptically. "For destroying the Tower and snotting on my shirt." Tony winces and knows he probably shouldn't have added the last part.
"Brother. You… snotted… On Tony's shirt?" Thor looks at Loki confused with what just happened. Loki rolls his eyes and sighs, looking very much like a teenager. He looks at all of the Avengers, paying special attention to keep his eyes on Thor. "I was attacked earlier today."
Tony shoots Loki a sympathetic glance, knowing he hadnt wanted to explain to the team what had happened. Everyone gets quiet, not quite sure what to think of Loki being attacked by a normal person.
Loki squares his shoulders and takes in a breath. "Mere moments after I left my apartment this morning, I was followed by a man. He shoved me into the alley between my building and the next, and started throwing punches and kicks to my face and chest." Thor places his hand on Loki's back, rubbing softly in soothing motions, before he continues. "Once I was down long enough…He started…He started to rape me. And when he finished with that, he kicked me in my chest a few more times before he ran off." Loki's hands are clenching into and out of fists at his sides.
Tony moves over to Loki and puts his arm around his shoulders and he fells Loki lean into him a little. He smiles at him and asks quietly, "Do you feel any better after talking about it? "
Loki shakes his head. Quite honestly? He feels naked, stripped, weak and open. Almost like when he was being raped, just minus the anger and hate and self pity and pain. He looks up at the faces of the Avengers, saving his brother's for last. Thor looks as if he's about to burst into tears upon hearing this. But he just pulls Loki into a gentle hug, the first one in a while that Loki actually accepts.
Tony stepped aside as Thor pulls Loki into a hug and puts his hands in his pockets, feeling guilty about having made Loki spill his guts to the rest of the team. He hears Thor whispering comforting things to Loki and he is pretty sure Loki is coming close to breaking down again, which makes Tony feel twice as guilty. He looks at his feet.
Loki pulls away from Thor, wiping at his face furiously. "I should go…" He moves for the door again, Thor not stopping him but following him instead. Thor walks back quickly, "I shall be back. I'm going to walk Loki back to his lodgings. Loki! Wait!" He runs back to Loki who is already in the elevator.
Tony glances up from his feet as Loki turns in the elevator and meets his eyes guiltily. "I'm sorry," he calls out, not sure if Loki heard it but hoping that he had. The elevator doors close and he sighs, running a hand through his hair.
Loki makes the short trip home in record time, even with his brother following him. Once Loki reaches the door to his apartment, he has no choice but to invite him in. "Come in, Thor. Heavens only know what you might do to the door if I deny you." Loki moves to fall upon his couch, catching himself quickly before he falls, and sets to lower himself gently.
Tony turned to face the rest of the team and sighed again. "So what movie were we watching?" He asks moving to sit on the recliner. The team slowly joins him and then Steve replies with, "We're having a Disney movie night," and the Tony just laughs.
After spending some time with his brother, Loki voices how tired he is to Thor and Thor actually gets the hint. Thor leaves Loki to shower and get ready for bed. When Thor gets back to the Tower, the whole team is on their second movie and he just slips in and sits quietly, taking in all of what Loki had told him.
After finishing Finding Nemo Tony yawns and comments that he's going to go to bed he walks down the hall to his room. He strips to his underwear and slides under the covers. "Jarvis, lights." He calls and the room turns dark. He closes his eyes and tries to sleep but all he can think of is Loki.