When Bruce woke up, he was extremely tired and confused. His body ached all over and he found a few bandages on his left arm but besides that he seemed okay. He looked around and found himself in the room that he used when he was ever working at S.H.E.I.L.D.

Suddenly, everything came back to him, well almost everything. He remembered everything crystal clear right up until he transformed, then it got all fuzzy. However, he remembered one other thing pretty well and that was seeing Loki's body lying in a mass of rubble.

Oh, god.

Bruce jumped out of his bead and rushed to the door—

—and right into Steve.

"Whoa!" cried Steve as he took a step back. "I come to see how you're doing and you nearly knock me over."

"What happened? Where's Loki? Did I hurt anyone?" asked Bruce in one breath.

"Calm down Bruce," said Steve as he put his hands on Bruce's shoulders. "A good section of the area around the lab and the lab itself is completely trashed but no one was hurt."

"And Loki?"

When Steve remained silent Bruce of course automatically thought the worse. However, Steve quickly said, "Loki's alive and that thing is out of him. You don't have to worry about that."

"Then why didn't you answer right away?" countered Bruce.

"It's just that, well . . . it'll be easier to show you. Besides, he's wanted to see you the moment you would wake up."

"So he is awake?"

"Yes."

"That's good," said Bruce with a sigh. However, he realized exactly what Steve had said and asked, "How long have I been asleep."

"Probably about a day and a half," replied Steve. "Loki hasn't been awake much longer."

"But I can see him now."

"Yeah, come on I'll take you to him," Steve said as he guided Bruce down the hall.

They passed a small amount of people as they made their way through the hallways. However, the people that they did pass avoided eye contact with Bruce, making him remember all the other times he had changed into the 'other guy.' Those thoughts, though, quickly disappeared when he got to Loki's room.

It was extremely busy which surprised him. Natasha and Clint, who he hadn't seen in a while, were there, standing by the door. Fury was in the room as well, standing next to Coulson. Tony was by Jarvis and Thor who was currently helping Loki out of his bed. And into a wheel chair.

Bruce wanted to look away as he saw all the damage he had done. There was a bandage around Loki's head and his whole right arm was covered in white with splotches of read peaking through. Blue bruises with purple lining covered his body where it wasn't covered by clothes or bindings. His right leg looked absolutely horrid just by itself. It was stuck straight out because of two metal bars that kept it straight were on either side of the leg with metal pins stuck into the leg so to keep the metal bars in place. Every bone in that leg must have been crushed.

Loki looked up at the sound of Bruce and Steve walking in and gave a small smile.

How can he even look at me after all I did to him? thought Bruce in despair as he came to stand in front of him.

"Loki I'm . . . I'm so, so sorry—" Bruce tried to apologize but was stopped as Loki pulled him down into a kiss.

When he pulled away Loki asked, "What do you have to be sorry for?"

"I did this to you. I put you in a wheel chair and your leg . . ."

"So?"

"How can you just say 'so' like it doesn't matter?"

"Because I'm still alive aren't I?" asked Loki with a raised eyebrow. "Yeah, so what you put me in a wheel chair. The doctors say it's not permanent though it will be hard to walk around once I do get this thing out."

"You're not even a little mad at me?" asked Bruce, surprise clear in his eyes.

"Of course I'm a little mad at you. I'm mad that you didn't come to see me sooner," joked Loki with a wolfish grin.

"Now, why do I think that's the pain killers talking to me?" Bruce joked back as he began to ease up.

"Ah, pain killers, what would we do without them," replied Loki, causing everyone in the room to laugh, except for Fury.

"What happened to the single Avengers?" grumbled Fury.

"The single Avengers?" asked Bruce with a raised eyebrow.

"Yes, you all use to be single and now looking at you, a bunch of couples that are acting like teenagers on their first date. How are you ever going to manage to save the world again?" Fury said with obvious irritation in his voice. "There are you two, Romanoff and Barton are together, Thor and that scientist Jane are together, and I just found out about Stark and Rogers. I mean really, is there anyone I don't know about?"

"Agent Hill and I have been dating for some time now, sir," put in Coulson.

"What!"

"It was a joke sir."

"It better be," growled Fury as everyone in the room burst into laughter.

"Oh, come on one-eye," said Tony. "It's okay to ease up every once in a while."

"Shut up Stark."

AN: Also for those wondering, I didn't just make up the description of Loki's leg out of my head, I actually knew someone where this happened to them. When almost all the bones in someone's arm or leg is broken, they can't just put it in a cast like with a regular break. But, anyway, thanks for all the reviews, story alerts, and what not. I do hope you enjoyed this chapter and that you liked the story as a whole. There may be a sequel, it just depends.