A new chapter!
Yes I know it's quite short.. T_T. I had meant for it to be longer, but I do not have the time right now to write everything that I want to write because I am going to go away for a few days. I'm leaving in the morning actually XD.

But I at least wanted to leave you behind with a little update, to keep you busy while I'm away. ^_^
Please Read and Review. But mostly enjoy!


And a long night it is.

While Thor brings Loki back to his bed, Tony and Bruce start to explain to the rest of avengers why Loki is here.. and not gagged and cuffed somewhere in a dusty old cell in Asgard.

After a while Bruce and Tony go to Loki's temporary room to get Thor, convincing him that Loki will be fine for a while even if Thor is not by his bedside every single second.

Now that Thor is with the rest in the living room, he finally starts a proper explanation as to what has happened. Telling the avengers of what has been going on these past few weeks.

Starting at the part where they left Midgard to travel back to Asgard, how Loki had used the last bit of his energy to try and kill himself. About his sickbed and about how he wasn't even able to recover before having to face judgement. About the judgement itself.. about how his sight would be taken from him, and how his lips would be sewn shut before being banished.

At this point pretty much most of the avengers are staring at him with shock. Not just from the harsh judgement, but also from how Loki had let himself fall through Thor's hands, to try and fall to a horrible death.

Thor then moves on to tell about how he could not let that punishment happen.. He starts to speak about what happened before all of this started. How he had acted like a fool.. How he had gotten himself banished and about what Loki had found out during his banishment and how Thor had not been there to help him cope with that.. How no one had been there to save Loki from falling into grief, fear and pain and about how everything escalated completely. All the way up to the point where Loki had let go after what Odin had said, letting himself fall into the darkness of the abyss.

They all see how Thor is obviously struggling to speak about this. His own shame, grief and pain choking his words.

And then Thor admits that he could not let his beloved Loki be punished like that. Not after they had finally made amends. How he had finally gotten his brother back.. Though that brotherly love had evolved itself into something more..

Thor tells about how he had finally tried to listen to the words that Angel had spoken to him during the war with the Chitauri, and that he did find that there was more to Loki's madness than any of them first thought. Wishing he knew exactly what.. but not yet able to get Loki to talk about what happened between the time of him falling and going to Midgard to lead the army of Chitauri.

Thor then halts a bit.. taking a deep breath, before trying to explain what Loki had tried to do for him. Had tried to get Thor to turn back.. for him to take his place at Odin's side once more.. Had even taken that arrow before bringing them both to safety before collapsing.

Having finished his story he looks at his friends who all seem to have taken to silence, even Tony is silent.

A few moments pass before anyone speaks again. It is Bruce who takes up to this task.

'I for one... think..' Bruce says trying to choose his words carefully. 'That we should give Loki some sort of second chance... under strict supervision of course.. A.. chance for us to see if.. perhaps.. he wants to redeem himself.'

'Well. If he does.. he is well on his way with what he just did for us.' Tony says. 'But even though I.. would love to believe that he has suddenly turned into some sort of saint.. I don't think we can just trust him like that.. who knows he didn't just trick us with this Tylrullr whats his name leader of the whats their names...'

'Loki wouldn't do that!' Thor immediately calls out defensively.

'Relax Point break.' Tony says. 'I'm just saying.. he very easily defeated a bad guy that we had no chance of defeating without causing millions of deaths.. And he just walked up there.. and did it without a single death, he even saved birdman, spiderwoman and capsicle.. It's just.. it's almost to good to be true. That's all I'm saying.' Tony says, choosing his words a lot less carefully than Bruce had.

Steve, having been awfully quiet throughout the entire story and discussion so far finally speaks up, softly but determined. 'I don't think this was one of his tricks..' he starts.

'what do you mean?' Tony asks carefully.

'I'm just saying.. if what Thor told us is true.. than Loki would not have been able to plan this in the past couple of weeks.. he was too sick, plus he was stuck in Asgard, guarded and constantly in company by either his mother or Thor. And if he had planned this even before the Chitauri invasion.. which seems a bit silly, seeing how much effort he was already putting in that plan.. would he really go through all that effort just to have himself go back to Asgard and then back to Midgard, just so he could save us from this new invasion.. How could he have known he would end up here again. According to Thor he was more than satisfied to save Thor from a life of banishment and to sit out his punishment.. till the day he would die..' Steve says, choking a little on his own words. 'He did something like that for Thor.. he would go through something so.. cruel..' Steve finishes before nervously looking at some stares.

'What..?' Steve asks, starting to get flushed.

'No.. nothing.. it's just that what your saying makes sense.. I don't know how he would have planned this..' Tony admits. 'Or when.. or how he would have guessed everything to end up like this.. He wouldn't try to kill himself if he still had this kind of trick left up his sleeve.. that would have just been silly I suppose.' Tony sighs. 'But than why.. did he help us. And more importantly how... did he help us.. How did he get that guy to just do everything he told him to. I seriously don't get it.'

'Maybe we should just wait for him to wake up so we can ask him ourselves.' Bruce says calmly, getting a bit tired.. and more than ready to just put this weird day behind him and get some rest.

'Jarvis! How's our patient doing.' Tony starts.

'I said wait for him to wake up..' Bruce says, rubbing his temples.

'I'm an impatient guy.. if we can shake him awake to get some answers then...' but Tony stops mid sentence, seeing Thor's angry glare. '..We will wait... fine.. Don't worry big guy.' Tony says, hands apologetically in the air. 'Fine then... I will just ask Jarvis how he is doing.. Maybe we can still get some answers tonight if we're lucky.. but no shaking him awake.. Promise.'

'He seems to be awake, sir.' The butler-like voice interrupts.

Thor immediately jumps to his feet, almost scaring Steve who was sitting beside him. Bruce deciding that it is probably a good idea to at least check up on Loki before having him exposed to Tony's questions, stands to calmly follow Thor who is already halfway past the hall.

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Thor, booming through the hallway, but stopping immediately in front of Loki's temporary bedroom, collecting himself before calmly entering after a short knock. Seeing Loki on his side, with his back to the door, he calmly, for as far as he's able to, walks into the room and around the bed, softly placing himself on the side of the bed.

Loki opens his eyes tiredly before looking up at Thor. Thor just smiles and puts his hand on Loki's cheek. 'How are you feeling?' he asks.

'I am fine.' Loki lies, voice soft, but grasping the older god's wrist, to keep him from pulling away from the oh so wanted touch.

Thor sighs, knowing the smaller man is lying, but knowing he is doing so to keep Thor from worrying too much, Thor he just kisses him on his forehead. He feels that the smaller god is cold, colder than he normally is. A bit motherly he pulls the covers a bit higher over his beloved before he notices the other presence in the room who is just standing in the doorway.

'Friend Banner' Thor booms with some relieve, thinking that Bruce has obviously got more knowledge of sickness and injuries than Thor. But at the mention of the name, he sees Loki stiffen. Loki's breaths are suddenly getting uneven as his eyes are now wide open. Grasping Thor's hand he curls himself up as close to Thor as possible. Thor a bit confused by this at first, suddenly realizes what Loki is suddenly so fearful of.

'It is okay brother.. he will not hurt you.' he tries. But Loki just starts to shake as he feels Bruce his presence getting nearer.

'I am sorry Doctor Banner.' Thor says apologetically, but Bruce just shakes his head.

'That is quite alright. I understand why he is afraid of me at this point. I wasn't to gently with him the last time he was in Midgard.' Bruce says with a bit of a smile towards Thor. 'But Loki..' Bruce says now directing himself to the shivering god. 'I am not here to hurt you again. I want to do the opposite really. I got rid of the arrow for you.. though I know that is not worthy of an applause or anything.. but what I just want to say is.. I am trying to help you. And I promise that I will not hurt you.' Bruce says, calm and rational.

He then stands still, a couple of feet from the bed, giving Loki the chance to calm down. He calmly waits while Thor whispers soothing words to Loki, rubs his back smoothly and gives him a few soft kisses. After a while Loki finally stops shivering.

Bruce slowly walks closer until he is completely in Loki's sight. He just smiles calmly, holding up his hands to show that he is not going to harm him. He sees the fear in Loki's eyes, and he can't blame him. After all he did throw and stomp him through walls just a couple of weeks ago.

'Though the other guy has been anything but pleasant to you.. I am a doctor.. or.. a healer as you would call it. And I just want to see how you are doing..' Loki starts shivering again for a bit and Bruce notices his pale complexion. He admits, Loki was never really the most suntanned guy, but this is a bit too much to be healthy. Bruce just decides to crouch down beside the bed and he sticks out his hand while maintaining his smile. 'My name is Bruce Banner.' he simply states before, with all the patience in the world, he waits for Loki to shake his hand.

He sees Loki's eyes shoot back and forth between him and Thor, almost begging for Thor to do something, to save him. But Thor just smiles at him encouragingly. Through the shivers and the now raspy breathing Loki very carefully puts out his shaking hand as well before very carefully shaking Bruce's. As he notices that Bruce doesn't immediately turns into a scary green monster to pull him out of bed and throw him through another couple of walls, Loki shivering slightly eases.

Though not long before, he had walked past one of his greatest nightmares, the green beast. He had stood just a few feet in front of him while negotiating with Tylrullr. But it had felt very differently. Back then he had been driven by adrenaline.. by his need to help Thor out.. and by the sheer prospect of making a fool out of Tylrull. It kept him going at that point. But now.. feeling weak and very exposed, His fear of the beast had taken control of him before Bruce had finally calmed him down a bit, promising Loki that he would not hurt him and that he would only try to help.

Thor scootches over for a bit to help Loki sit up against the head of the bed so Bruce can get a chance to get a better look at Loki. And even though Loki has begun to shiver again, Loki knows that as long as Thor is here.. he will somehow be safe, he hopes.


And so.. there we have it.. I.. really haven't given you any of the promised answers.. Yet.. I'm sorry I'm a horrible person. T_T. But those answers will come.. You will soon know how Loki saved all of their butts. ^_^
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And for now; much Love.. Hekushko!

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