"So you've come to gloat." Those were Loki's first words to Tony when he entered the cell room. Loki was once again in a round clear container. It looked the same but It was much more capable, according to Fury. Loki sat in the middle of the cell, his back to Tony. The god's words knifed Tony in the heart. "You won me over."
"That was never my intention."
"Gaining my trust. My..." Loki seemed to be unable to say the word. It caught in his throat.
"I thought you were after something from me." Stark said leaning on the wall casually. Still Loki didn't turn around.
"I don't appreciate being a bug under a microscope. I know the others are listening. What is it your trying to get out of me?" Loki's shoulder stiffened. He was putting up his emotional shields again. Tony realized he sounded like he was trying to get Loki to confess something. He looked up at the cameras placed around the area.
"You are listening aren't you?" Tony asked who ever was on the other end. "Well we can't have that." Tony whipped out his portable device and quickly hacked SHIELD. Turning off the cameras and bugs for the cell room.
"Okay we have about 10, 20 minutes tops before some one breaks in here. We're completely alone now. Loki I'm not trying to get anything out of you."
"Then what do you want?" There was silence as Tony considered the question.
"You." Tony finally said.
"How am I suppose to believe that, again. It only works once Stark." Loki's voice spit venom. Then he softened a little. "You had me so why did you let me go if you wanted me so bad?" There was a tinge of sadness in his voice.
"As I recall the other Avengers interrupted us. I had nothing to do with that. Also it was more like you had me...strapped to a rock"
"I believed you for one second I trusted you. I thought..." Loki's voice broke laden with pain. "Never again." He said more firmly.
"I didn't..." Tony protested.
"You didn't what Stark? You didn't play games with my mind?" His voice got louder with every word. "You didn't claw your way in to my heart? You didn't gain my affections and then call in the others when I was at your mercy? You didn't make me..."
"I didn't make you do anything! I was strapped to a fucking table! I had no way to escape!"
"You never were helpless."
"Well excuse me for not acting convincing but I was helpless." Tony heard the pleading in his own voice behind the sarcasm.
"You had the others just a call away didn't you? There's no other reason you would let me keep you there for so long." Tony sighed. The god was completely blind to the facts. Now he was trying to find excuses to be blind. "When they didn't come and get you the next day I should have known. But no I was stupid! I let you make me think that you were helpless!" The venom crept back in to his voice.
"I was!"
"Then why? Why did you do those things to me? Why did you make me believe that you could ever..." Loki still couldn't say it. "Just tell me why."
"Loki. I was strapped to a table looking at no way to escape."
"So you took the only way you could think of to get out." Loki cut him off. "But why like that?" He posed a much different question. It was barely a whisper but Stark could still hear it. "Tell me if I unstrapped you would you have run?"
"Yes, at first. Then after I..."
"After you tricked me."
"After I knew that you might return my affections I would have stayed." Tony pleaded again. Something he wasn't use to having to do.
"Then why did you send for the other avengers to rescue you? Why!"
"I didn't! For the last time why won't you just believe me!" Anger was taking over the pleading. Anger that the trickster was blind to what Tony was saying.
There was a long silence before Loki said. "What do you want? Why do you say these things? What is your goal? Why?"
"Your the trickster not me! What is it you want? Why did you take me and only me!" Tony took breath to calm himself. "There must have been a reason."
"What was the reason for your tricks your lies Stark? Were you so desperate for escape, could you think of nothing else. Why did you have to do what you did to me?"
"What I did to you!" He was losing his temper fast. He was biting back when he should be trying to amend things. "What about what you did to me! You starved me! You were going to keep me there, torture me, and make me destroy the world! Wasn't that your plan!" He was roaring now.
Loki didn't reply for a while.
"I would never have hurt you after..." Loki still couldn't say it. "After what happened." Tony realized that he was clenching his fists. Slowly he released them letting the blood flow back in to his fingers. "What is it that you want." Loki said again quietly, warn out. "You've won. Claim your prize and stop toying with me." Hearing Loki's voice so defeated Stark calmed down. Part of his mind registered that he had won. But he wasn't celebrating. It was a fight he didn't want to win.
