"So, did Loki fall asleep safe and sound?" Tony teased the next morning. Thor ignores his jab and continues with his coffee. Steve elbows him in the side. They all understood Thor's love even if they can't see a reason for it. Steve tries to though. Thor had told him some stories that highlighted Loki's good traits and he was actually curious and wanted to hear more. He had told the others what he found out even if they didn't want to hear it just yet. Steve firmly believed no one is born evil.
"Where is friend Clint and friend Bruce?" Thor asks as he puts his mug up.
"Bruce and Clint thought it would be a good idea to know what else fell with Loki." Natasha answers. Thor nods in understanding.
"But the trail had disappeared." Steve points out. Tony nods.
"However, we think we can either find it again or that someone might have seen something."
"We are also looking at traffic cams and we found a figure leaving the alley. We lose him a few blocks away so they are tracking him." It was around ten when the two finally returned.
"You guys find anything." They looked to be wondering how to communicate what they found when Tony just told them to spit it out.
"We found the trail and followed it." Bruce says but then starts wondering what to say next.
"We were led to an insane asylum."
"What is that?" Thor asks.
"A place for crazy people." Tony says simply. He sighs. "I'll go get the car." They all get down to the lobby and pile into the car. Thor wonders what lay ahead much like everyone else. When they get there, they ask the receptionist if there are any new patients. She checks the files.
"We have one, he was wondering the streets and police tried to see what was wrong. He went into a violent rage and when he was finally subdued, he started laughing hysterically." Tony shivers a bit.
"Sounds crazy and weird. Why do we always go looking for crazy and weird?" Steve moves to the counter beside Tony.
"May we see him?" She shakes her head.
"He is in solitary. He is a danger to others and himself. He was found yesterday with slit wrists and playing with his blood." Clint scrunches his nose and Tony whines.
"Do we really have to?" Steve nods. Tony gets his phone out and grabs a card for the head doctor. He walks away for a few minutes and the Avengers stand there a little awkwardly. She was about to ask if they wanted to sit when Tony comes back.
"I am now the owner of this fine establishment and you now answer to me. Call your head doctor if you have to but we are going to see the patient." She calls the head doctor and after a few seconds of two words on her part, she took a key and called over some guards. They walk through the building, and Bruce decides he is going back to the car. Natasha decides to walk with him since he looks very on edge. Tony is about to follow but Steve grabs his wrist.
"I f we all go back then this will be for no reason." Tony grumbles and keeps going. Once they get to the room, the nurse gives them rules.
"You do not touch the patient or get within arm's length. If he approaches you, we will restrain him, do not engage him and if we say it is time to leave it is time to leave, got it." When they get in Thor chokes. By the barred window is a man with shoulder length hair that is matted and wavy. The man is pasty pale and almost anorexic looking. His fingernails are claws and dirty. His robes and shredded and he has wounds on every visible part of his body. Steve and Clint catch the god as his legs give out.
"Loki?" Everyone's mind is racing. The man slowly turns his head and his eyes are wild, his smile stretched his face in a beyond creepy manner.
"So, the great prince of Asgard comes to see me. How long has it been? For me, it has been eons of pain and darkness." His tone started light then ended in an animalistic growl.
"What is happening?" Thor says as he stands.
"I died that day, I truly did. Thantos, he found me, brought me back to life and made me beg for death until I forgot what life was without pain." He gets up from the wheel chair and stands looking as if he could fall with a good enough wind. "Where were you brother? I cried out for you, I begged for you to save me for days." His voice is now hysterical. He breathes in and out rapidly with his eyes huge. Within a split second, he changes into a picture of calm. "No matter, I realized a lot during that time." He flicks his wrist, the nurse with her guards are flung into the hall, and the door shuts. They try to get in but the door holds firm. "I was and am alone." Thor shakes his head and walks to him. Loki's eyes glow and the room changes. It is a dark and cold place with a metal table covered with blood in the middle. Chains and torture instruments are strewn about. "Don't you say a word of love and that you didn't know." He growls. Then without warning, he starts laughing.
"Loki, you died in my arms, I heard that he could not find your body. I searched for it for months. I had Heimdall search the nine realms for you but he saw noting. I mourned for you!" Loki calms from his laughing fit.
"How sweet, you mourned for me." He cooed. He snaps his fingers and the Avenger vanish, leaving Thor and Loki alone.
"Where are they?"
"At their car. Leave, I left my weakness in the dark, I no longer need anything but my pain." Loki goes over to one of the torture instruments and uses it on himself. Thor goes over and takes it from his hands.
"The child, you separated yourself?" His smile was big but held so much malice.
"It still lives? Well, I am sure you were happy to see the memory of your brother."
"He doesn't remember me." Loki shakes his head.
"I hold those memories. They bring mental pain and I love it." He moans in satisfaction. Thor lets go.
"You are lost brother."
"Ha! Lost, no, unwanted. Tell me Thor, have you not seen it? My existence is gone. No one knows Loki anymore. No one knows who I was who I could have been. I am simply a shadow in a world that rejected me." He was eerily calm now. "Don't get attached to that child. Whenever I feel like it I will kill him." Thor reaches out for him but is engulfed in darkness and let go in blinding sun light.
"Thor, are you ok?" Steve asks. He is out with his companions. Thor simply looks at them with scarred eyes. They all realized he was not going to say anything about what happened so the left him alone and drove back to the Tower. Thor is breaking from what he saw. He keeps himself together though, to keep his friends from worrying too much. When they arrive back at Avengers Tower, he goes straight to his floor. A shower sounded good to him. He goes to the outrageously large shower and strips slowly, as if his whole body has been beaten. He steps into the steaming water gently and lets it spray his body. He just stands there looking down.
"I failed." He whispers to no one. He thinks of Loki from when they were kids and how the one he met with the boy Peter reminds him so much of that memory. His legs give out under his stress, his guilt and his sorrow. He curls into a corner in the shower and cries. Why has everything I loved been taken from me? He punches the wall and leaves a crater in his wake. I never meant to forsake you brother! He cries out in his mind. He yells with all his feelings breaking out. "I still and always will love you." He looks up at the ceiling. All he wants is his brother, his friend, back. Again, he thinks of Loki, the one who is filled with life. A possessiveness fills his body like a flame. He gets up and turns off the shower. He gets dressed in black jeans and black under armor with a dark red leather jacket. "I will never leave you again Loki." He makes a solemn vow. The others ask where he is going, and he just says he is going out. They all knew what he meant; they all heard his cries. Thor uses Mjolnir to fly toward the school he had found Loki and his friend. Granted night had fallen but he would wait there until Ragnarok took place if it meant he could see Loki again.
A/N: so this one was short but made a point. I will post a new one soon, just like always and it should be longer. I hope you guys enjoyed even though I think I killed some people with the new addition. ;P please review!