Tony clutched at Steve and sobbed, 'Steve please you idiot, hold on' and placed his hand gently placed his hand on Steve's wound.

'Don't' Steve faintly said and pushed Tony's hand away. 'You need me or yourself to be injured for the Tesseract to lose control of you'.

'So let me be injured' Tony replied and pressed his hand firmly on Steve's wound.

'No, you've been injured too many times in the last 3 days. You may be Iron Man, but you're not indestructible'.

Tony laughed, 'you may want to reconsider that, the Tesseract doesn't allow me to die, because like my arc reactor is a self-sustaining energy source and will power the tower for a year if not more. The Tesseract is now my arc reactor, I am full energy, the tower will run for longer, but I am dangerous. I can open portals, I can wipe out oh so many things. Steve, I killed at least 30 people from SHIELD today. I don't think when I'm not myself, you have to help me, I, I, I'm starting to lose control Steve, help me,' Tony said and started to panic, his finger, none to gently digging into Steve's wound.

'ARGH!' Steve cried out and tried to roll of Tony's lap.

It brought Tony to his senses, 'Steve, I love you, and when they come for you, I need you to stab me in the shoulder or shoot me. Then order them to tie me to a chair until they have the spear, okay?'

'Tony I can't

'Please'

'Tony'

'Please Steve, otherwise I will never be able to be in control, and you don't know what it's like, being able to watch yourself do these things and not having a say or being in control of your body. It's horrible. I would rather die than comply with them, it wants me to kill you, then make Bruce, Hulk out and kill most of SHIELD before killing himself, and then I have to kill Pepper, and Happy and everyone I know before finally killing the rest of the Avengers and then helping Loki control the world. This thing is linked to Loki, which is why the spear is the only way that I can be free. So when I ask you to stab or shoot me, then you have to, not for my sake, but for everybody else's'

'Okay' Steve softly said and raised a bloodied hand to stroke Tony's face. Tony leant into the touch and sighed, 'when we've finished here, maybe we should go get something fancy to eat, I read in one of you journals about how much you loved Coney Island and thought we could go there and have something to eat as a date maybe?'

'That'd be great Tony'

'Good, pick you up at around 8 when we're all better?'

'I'll be waiting'

Tony laughed and pressed a kiss to Steve's forehead.

Behind him he heard the door smash open and a dozen officers raised their guns towards Tony's figure, now ridden of the Iron Suit it made him more vulnerable to bullets so they all had theirs cocked and ready.

'Stark, move away from Rogers' Natasha Romanoff ordered.

Tony kissed Steve on the lips, as Steve raised his hand and stabbed Tony gently in his stomach he said 'I'm doing this because I love you'. Tony smiled at Steve and whispered 'thank you' before holding onto the knife, keeping it in place.

'Stark?' Barton's voice said.

Tony turned around, tears streaming down his face and he smiled, 'he did this because he loves me' before falling to the floor. Keeping the knife in, pushing away the half of the medi cart when they came over to him. 'Tie me up, don't let the knife get out,' Tony said and watched as Steve was carried out on a stretcher. Natasha came over to him and turned him over, her boot standing on the knife.

'ARGH!' Tony cried out.

'Did you stab Steve?' she asked.

'No, No, he stabbed himself'

'Did you attack him?'

'Yes'

'Why?'

'I, I wasn't in control, look Tasha, you have to believe me, please'

'When you came back, you asked who we were, and when we told you that we we're your friends you said about how we shouldn't of let you die, is this why?'

'Yes. You are my friends, when I woke up, I wanted to kill everything in sight, I was scared, but I tried to hold on to myself, but I couldn't, I lost control and everytime I regain control, it gets stronger, you have to tie me up, please Tash- ARGH!'

'STARK!' Natasha shouted and bent down to try and pull the knife out, 'LEAVE IT' Tony shouted and flung Natasha back. She hit her head against the wall and gazed over at Tony in shock. 'I'm sorry, but I don't want to hurt you' Tony said and scrambled over to the seating area in the gym. 'Now tie me up' he ordered.

Steve was unconscious and Bruce was watching over him. Keeping an eye on Steve's vitals. They were fine at the moment, but there was nothing to suggest that nothing could go wrong. Bruce sighed.

'Jesus, these two don't do it by halves do they' before pressing a few buttons on his computer screen, scanning Tony's body in the gym. It was failing, but it was being kept alive and fully functioning. Must be the Tesseract Bruce mused and went back over to Steve. Checking his drip and injecting another pain killer into Steve's left arm.

'I hope Thor and Barton are having fun' Bruce said as he pulled the syringe out.

'Loki's spear is somewhere in the main room, Thor, I'll look for it, you go try and capture Loki. No stunts, just stay and watch him or take him to the jet'.

Thor nodded and walked towards the cell, whilst Barton looked around the room for the spear. He surveyed all of the damage done. They hadn't yet finished the repairing damage Hulk had done the other day and already the room was damaged again. From what looked like, Iron Man's blasters.

Typical Tony, gets into a hissy fit when it gets damaged yet he damages it himself. Barton smiled, and looked to his left. About 20 metres away, under some rubble, the spear lay. Running over to it Barton quickly snapped it in half and jogged towards Thor who was standing guard outside Loki's prison.

'Loki, why did you put the Tesseract into Tony?' Thor questioned.

'Because I wanted him to suffer' Loki answered honestly, before double tracking. 'why the hell did I tell you the truth?'.

Barton smirked and looked at the control panel near the cell.

'Stark gave you truth gas. Haha! Even under control he can still find a way to get through'.

'Loki, do you want to still be accepted in Asgard?' Thor asked.

'It would be nice, but I am too far gone for them' Loki answered, blushing and looking up at the ceiling.

'Brother, release Tony Stark'

'I cannot'

'Why?' Barton asked.

'He's more powerful than I imagined, he has all the power of the Iron Man and Captain America put together when the Tesseract is in control. The reason being because he is in love with that infernal Captain, even though he should not be worthy of anyone 's love'.

'And why not?' Barton and Thor shouted.

'Because he didn't want to rule the world with me' Loki roared back.

'Does stabbing him with part of your spear' Barton said and held up the two parts, making Loki ball up his fists in anger, 'make the Tesseract side die down and let Tony be in full control forever?'

'It might do, there is a slight chance that it won't work and you'll be condemming Tony to death as it cuts off the Tesseract but it doesn't cut off the amount of power and strength Tony has with the Tesseract. It will diminish his power so he would be among the level of slightly abnormal' Loki finished.

Thor rested his head against the glass, 'do you hate me brother?'

'Hate? Envy, yes. Want to kill, occasionally. But hate? Brother, I love you. I cannot hate you'

Thor smiled as did Loki.

'Thank you' Thor whispered and nodded at Barton. Who pressed the knock out gas button on the control panel. Causing Loki to be knocked out and when the gas was gone, Thor ran in and picked up his brothers form, which was covered in bruises, no doubt they were from Stark.

'Do you have the spear?' Fury asked Barton over the comms'

'Yes sir, what's Rogers and Stark's status?'

'Rogers is stable. Stark, he's fighting for control, he chucked Romanoff into a wall and she comented on his struggle'

'HE CHUCKED TASHA?' Barton shouted.

Fury winced, 'stand down agent, Romanoff is fine, but she is worried for Stark, get here as soon as you can'.

He closed off the comm system and pulled up the footage of Tony in the gym with Natasha. Natasha was sitting on the wrestling ring and Tony was hunched over and when Fury squinted he could see Tony's knuckles were white, and was occasionally flinching from an unseen force.

'I hope they get here soon' Agent Maria Hill said from behind Fury, Fury nodded and replied 'otherwise, the Avengers will cease to exist'.

Review and I may let Steve wander down to the gym and hug Tony from behind... please