" Don't you find it a little odd?" Natasha asked Tony. Tony was leaning against the doorway watching Loki scrub the floor

" Find what odd?" Tony replied.

" He's oddly compliant. He's been here for two months yet he hasn't really done anything bad. He actually does the chores, I mean he complains, but he does them. He hasn't tried to destroy our stuff, he hasn't shouted about having a glorious purpose, he hasn't been violent at all. Thor said he was extremely aggressive with the guards, what exactly is he up to?" Before Tony could reply, Loki stopped what he was doing and glared at them.

" Just because you're whispering doesn't mean I can't hear you, agent Romanoff. Maybe I like doing chores, every considered that?"

"I highly doubt that." Loki pushed off the floor with his hands and walked towards her.

"Maybe I lost the will to fight." Loki hissed this, but his eyes betrayed him. He meant to convey anger, but all Natasha saw was sadness. Pain that she couldn't quite decipher. Natasha and loki stared at each other for a moment, Natasha was trying to figure him out when she heard Clint yelling.

"Back away from her now!" He ordered, closing the gap between himself and Loki.

"Comply, they have to trust you. We need their trust, betrayal will be so much sweeter if they trust us. Make them into friends, then stab them in the back!" The figment of Loki's imagination ordered with a sickening grin. Loki hated being told what to do. He did not want to hurt the Avengers, not really. So he did what he does best, piss people off.

"But Barton, I was hoping to lean in for a kiss. You're ruining our special moment."

"What are doing! They need to like us!"

"You son of a bitch!" Clint yelled getting closer to Loki, Tony protectively stepped in between them.

"Clint calm down."

"Yah clint, it's nothing to worry about. I'm just fantasizing about fucking your pretty little girl-" Before Loki could finish his sentence, Clint sidestepped Tony and lunged.

Loki's head hurt. He could hear voices but couldn't understand what they were saying. He opened his eyes to see his brother yelling at realized he was laying on the ground. Tony was holding a cloth to his head.

"How dare you maim him! I will not have you mercilessly beat him!"

"He's a goddamn sociopath! He killed hundreds of people, yet you defend him. He's a sick bastard who took control of my mind, and yet you yell at me for striking him!"

"He's suffered enough!"

The other Loki crouched next to the real one and whispered," What the hell is he talking about?"

"He's been beaten and abused, leave him alone." Thor's voice dropped, he looked guilty as Hell.

He knew! He knows what the guards did!

Loki struggled to sit up, tony tried to gently push in back down, but he pushed his arms away." What the Hell are you talking about?" Loki growled. Thor turned to him, there was sadness in Thor's eyes.

"Loki, please don't try to stand up. You're injured, please just stay down."

"Why did you say that? Answer me! What did you mean by that!" Loki shouted, the sharp pain in his head intensified.

"Loki...I overheard guards talking...about you." Thor stopped talking for a moment, took in a deep breath then continued," If I had known what they were doing, I would never have let you be imprisoned."

" And what exactly did they do?" Loki tried to stand but he collapsed. Tony rushed to his side and was yet again pushed away.

"Loki, I know… I'm sorry."

"What did you hear? Tell me!" Loki raged.

"Do you really want me to repeat it in front of them?" By this point Clint has lost some of his anger and was breathing normally again. He knew what Thor was implying. He despised Loki, but he didn't want him to punished like that, nobody deserves that.

"Why not? Are you too ashamed by me? Go on then speak what you have heard Odinson, go ahead."

"I'm not ashamed of you, Loki why must you twist my words?"

"Your body speaks of shame, your eyes give it away. You are far too easy to read. Go on then speak what is in your mind."

Please don't.

"You were...violated." Everyone stilled, they had suspected, but now it was confirmed.

Please don't think less of me.

"Does that satisfy you?" Loki looked past Thor and glared at Clint," The villain has been defiled, humiliated...is that what you wanted. It's only fair, I got what I deserved did I not? Tell me agent Barton, does this knowledge bring you pleasure? Tell me!" He roared, tears gathered in his green eyes.

"Good make them feel guilty, we can work with this." The other Loki lent a comforting hand to Loki's right shoulder. Clint stood unmoving, not sure what to say. After awhile he answered.

"No." He looked down with a sad expression.

" I doubt that." Loki winced and grabbed the back on his head. Slowly he came to a standing position

" I wouldn't wish that on anyone.'' Clint stated meeting Loki's gaze. Loki sighed rubbing his temples. He swayed trying to keep his balance.

Don't pity me. I don't deserve it. Please don't trust me, I can't control myself. I don't want you to get hurt. Hate me, continue to hate me.

"Please don't pity me, I don't deserve it. I deserve to be raped, don't think otherwise." Loki hadn't meant to say that outloud. He didn't even realize he did. A moment of silence followed then Tony spoke up. Horror and surprise lined every word.

" Loki no, you didn't deserve that. Nobody deserves to be tortured, to be hurt like that."

" What?" Loki turned around in shock. Tony shook his head.

"You didn't deserve to be violated, please believe me when I say that."

"W- Why would you think that I believe I did?

"You just said that you did,'I deserve to be raped, don't think otherwise,' you just said that."

"What-Oh...I did not realize I spoke outloud..." Loki's cheeks flushed bright red, he was even more embarrassed. Loki suddenly felt very ill and ran out of the room. He bolted up the staircase until he reached his room. He vomited all the food he had consumed earlier, which wasn't very much. Leaning against the toilet he let salty tears fall down his face. His breathing rate increased, he couldn't hold back the panic, the pain, the shame.

You have disgraced Asgard, It's only fair that we disgrace. What do you say Ergi? Let's teach him lesson. Let's make him scream. The guards grab each leg and forces him third guard mounts him. Loki screams in rage but nobody.

"Get off of me! Get of vulgar bastards! Let go! Let go!

" Let go! Let go! Keep your hands off of me! Stop touching me!" Loki is trapped inside his memories. He continues to scream. Tony, Steve, and Thor rush into his room to find him cowering in his bathroom, yelling swatting at nothing.

" Let go! Stop! Stop! You can't do this! No!" Bruce considered getting a sedative, but Tony stopped him.

" Don't, he'll trust us even less we have to ride out this episode. Let me try to get him out of it." Tony cautiously sat next to the god and spoke gently." It's okay you're safe now, it's all right no one is hurting you now, shhh, shhh" He spoke softly waiting until finally Loki began to calm down. The shaking slowly subsides and Loki looked up confused.

"What are you doing, why are you looking at me like that?"

"It's okay, you're safe now." Tony smiled sadly.

"Of course I'm fine." He growled sitting up.

"You were having a flashback, you were screaming and freaking out…" Loki stared back at him not believing him, but then he saw the other people in the room nodding. Loki saw the tears streaming down Thor's face. Loki took a deep breath in.

"Oh...I'm sorry." Loki didn't know why he was apologizing. He looked down ashamed, refusing to meet their gaze. He wanted desperately in that moment to fade away, to disappear.

"It's okay, no need to apologize you did nothing wrong." Gently Tony reached out his hand, he had to be very careful. Gently he lifted Loki's chin, forcing him to meet his gaze." Not your fault." Loki's eyes grew wide. In Stark's eyes he saw sincerity, and what looked like a hint of caring.

" Don't be fooled."Whispered the other Loki. The real Loki tried to push away the thought that maybe Stark did care ever so slightly. Loki did not know how to respond he just stared at him. Tony removed his hand and moved it to Loki's right arm, he then gently pulled him to a standing position. Tony was pleased and relieved that Loki was allowing him to touch him, right now, a rare moment. Loki quietly muttered a quick thank you. Steve left then a moment later returned with a glass filled with water. Loki quietly accepted in and took a sip and then moved to sit down on his bed.

" This works perfectly, they feel sympathy for you."

" Would you please stop!" Loki yelled at his hallucination, this earned him a strange look from everyone.

" Stop what Loki?" Steve asked. Loki now realizing how crazy he looked had to come up with a quick retort.

"Stop...being hospitable. There is no need for that."

"I disagree." Steve stepped forward and leaned against the bedpost. Thor moved forward as well, but stopped short. He knew not what to comfort his brother, he tried to say something, but he couldn't think of the appropriate thing to say, so he shut his mouth and exited the room, tears still falling down his face.

Please don't cry for me, I don't deserve it.

"Can you... please leave me alone?" Loki begged putting his head down again. They knew they weren't going to get him to talk about.

"Okay." Steve left the room first, Tony lingered.

" If you ever want to talk about it, you can talk to me." With that he left the room. Loki pondered these words for a moment trying to detect and falsehood.

"Talk to him later, share your pain. The closer you are to them the better." The hallucination smirked and sat next to Loki wrapping its arms around him. "Tony will be the easiest to win over, Clint will be the hardest, but already he feels bad for you. This will work.

" I don't want it to work. I don't want to betray anyone." Loki began to sob.

"Deep down, you know that's a lie. You'll realize how badly you want revenge soon enough. They don't really want to help you. It's all an act, you know this. You can't trust them. They will find your weaknesses and exploit it. Just like the Asgardians. You know that's true.

Loki sobbed until he fell unconscious. Nobody bothered to remind him he didn't finish his chores that day.

"Jotun scum! You are not even worthy of death! You deserve to be punished!" The Chitauri screamed surrounding the gagged and shackled Loki. They began ripping of his clothes. Loki screamed through the gag. His ear splitting screams began to annoy them, so they concluded that silencing him would be best. Loki knew he would never be free, even so he begged for Thor to come. Begged for Odin, Frigga, the warriors three and Sif. Begged for anyone to come. They never did.

" Please save me!" Loki screamed out loud tossing and turning in his bedsheets. He bellowed, cried out in anguish, until Tony and several other avengers, and of course Thor burst through the door. Tony immediately jumped onto the bed and shook Loki until Loki's eyes shot wide open. Loki panted, he was very confused.

" It's alright princess, just a nightmare. You're awake now." It took Loki a moment to process the situation, then he scowled.

"Don't call me princess." Lok pulled the sheets closer to his body.

" Whatever you say princess-oops." the billionaire smiled playfully, Loki rolled his other avengers, realizing that the situation was now under control, left the room. Natasha dragged Thor out. There was a pause.

"Can I really take you up on your offer? If I wanted to talk to you, would you listen? Not that i want to, just curious."

"If you want to I'll listen." Tony noticed how Loki hadn't indicated that he should get off the bed, so he stayed. Loki couldn't tell him what the Chitauri did, but since thor confirmed what those filthy guards did then that was a safe bet. So, in as little details as possible he gave him a synopsis of how he was treated in the dungeons. He waited patiently for Tony's response. He feared being yelled at, being called a liar. The other Loki smiled in triumph.

" Hook, line, and sinker." The hallucination laughed.