So I haven't had that much work this week so it gave me time to write. I have also watched a lot of Robert Downey Jr movies. If you haven't seen Chaplin yet... DO IT!

Chapter 14

"Tony Stark, the man behind the iron mask." A familiar annoying voice was heard in the room. The bag over his head was pulled of and the light hit his eyes like a punch in the face. He felt sour and dizzy and he wanted to puke and scream at the same time. He couldn't help but let old excruciating memories flashes in his mind, making his body shake with fear of being back in a cave, being tortured to do as he is told. "I thought you actually managed to ruin my life there at one point. But look how that has changed; now it is me who is keeping you here in room, locked away from prying eyes to see the great Tony Stark shaking with fear." Tony's eyes started to become more useful and he could see the man he probably hated the most in his life stand before him, that awful smirk in place on the ugly face.

"How long have I've been out?" Tony asked with an extremely dry throat.

"My men gave you a lot so you've been out the whole night. But don't worry; we have had a lot of fun in another room." Hammer said with a terrible grin.

All he could do was stare at him with hate, trying to hide his panic, hoping that he wouldn't get a panic attack. He was chained to a chair, a metallic chair; actually everything in this room was made of metal and eleven men stood around them, guarding. "What do you want your son of a bitch?" Tony growled.

Hammer just chuckled and came closer. "Well, first of all I want your company… second of all I want that." He poked on the arc reactor that glowed through his shirt. A slight panic went through his body again, making him close his eyes and take a deep breath before facing Hammer again.

"Bite me." He hissed at him and spit in his face. Hammer flinched by the sudden fluid that suddenly cowered his face. He backed away and made a wave at a man that came up with a tablet to him and a napkin to clean himself off. He took the tablet and turned it to Tony who stared at it confusedly.

Hammer pressed on the screen and it showed him another room and in the middle was Damien, chained up to a chair just like him but he was shirtless and he was cowered in cuts and bruises, his head hanging on the side and eyes closed, probably unconscious. "Either you give me what I want or the boy is dead and it will all be on your hands." Hammer said with his usual smirk. Oh, he was so proud of himself wasn't he, his plan actually worked for once.

"Release him; he has no part of this." Tony growled at his most pathetic enemy in the universe.

Hammer laughed and looked at the screen himself. "You know he was almost raped, I know this because you are not the only one who can hack in to Shield's data base. Let's make the almost disappear shall we." He said and pointed at a man that gave him a stone face; the man opened the door and was gone. Hammer showed him the screen again and the man was now inside the room Damien was in, taking away the chains from the limp body but kept handcuffs on him to make sure he was still unable to defend himself.

"You sick bastard, stop this." Tony yelled in panic. God dammit Damien, wake up for fuck sake, do something.

"I will only stop if you give me what I want." Hammer said with amusement.

The man started to unbuckle Damien's jeans, the boy still unconscious from the beating. He needed to do something; he couldn't let this happen to him. He mentally said good bye to the love of his life, his beautiful daughter and his unborn baby. "Fine, take it." Tony screamed hoping the man would hear him and stop what he was doing.

He thought Hammer would give him his awful grin but it never came, he watched the screen in shock. Tony managed to glans at it and saw the boy do the exact same thigh grip Natasha could do and snapped the man's neck. "Stop him from escaping." Hammer roared to his man who was quick on their feet's. The men got in to the room Damien was in and started to push him down to the floor, but he surely gave them a fair fight, even though he was exhausted but his blood was pumping enough adrenalin to keep him going and was almost done with all the men when purple smoke appeared in the corner and suddenly the men that were left screamed in agony. Tony could see his own daughter look at the men in pain with pure fury.

He was drawn from the screen when green smoke appeared behind Hammer and a hand was put on his throat. "You insignificant mortal shall not see the break of dawn again." His husband hissed in to Hammer's ear. The puny mortal actually started to cry and scream for mercy, making an evil grin Tony hadn't seen for years appear on his husband's face.

"No Lo just put him out. I want Damien to be able to take some hits." Tony said with his usual smirk. His husband looked at him with shook before nodding and pushed the man so hard in to the wall so he was knocked down and just laid on the floor like a ragdoll.

Loki made the chains go away and Tony pulled him in for a deep kiss, it was desperate and passionate. He was so close to lose everything he worked so hard for to his weakest enemy but he was now in his husband's arms, kissing him senseless. "I love you." Loki said when they had to part for air, their foreheads leaned on each other, clutching at their partner's clothing in fear that he would disappear again.

"I love you to; it was so close that I lost you." Tony said with a shaky breath against his husband's shoulder, a tear falling down his cheek. All those horrible memories had been such a shock to him, he hadn't thought about them in years but they were still there and still very detailed.

"That will never happen." Loki said and held him close. "I will always stay with you." Loki pulled up his phone which was buzzing. "We have them and you can come and pick up Hammer now." Loki said and hanged up, not giving the other one a chance to respond. Tony gave him a confused look. "Fury." Loki explained and Tony chuckled.

Joanna let the men fall unconscious on the floor and walked over to Damien, making the handcuffs disappear and looked over his wounds. "Are you my guardian angel or something?" Damien asked with a smirk while gliding down the wall to sit down and let the adrenalin fade away and to be replaced by the pain and exhaustion that was there when he came to it. Joanna bit her lip and buckled back his pants for him and then let a hand ghost over the skin making the cut wounds close so the blood would stop flowing out. "Thank you." Damien whispered and their eyes locked.

"So we both hate the Hammer's?" Joanna muttered and brushed some hair out of his face.

Damien just chuckled and nodded, feeling like he could fall asleep at any moment and even though some of the pain was gone, it still was some left. "Pleas, smile for me?" Damien said with a weak voice. Joanna looked at him confusedly but managed a warm smile to appear on her dark pink lips. "There you go, now I feel a lot better." He said and smiled back. "Are you the only one here?" Damien asked and looked around.

Joanna's warm smile disappeared and was placed with a sad smile instead. "Hammer used you to get my father to give him his company and his arc reactor." Joanna explained to him.

Damien shoots up but immediately regrets it for all the pain that shoots through his sour body and leaned against the wall again and tried to breathe through the pain. "Is he okay? Please tell me he didn't do it." He asked with a raspy voice and his eyelids were half open because of the pain.

Green smoke appeared in front of them and Loki and Tony appeared in the same room. The two men joined their daughter on the floor close to Damien. Loki let a hand glow over Damien's chest to look for deeper injuries. "You have two cracked ribs." Loki stated with a sigh, knowing healing them will be painful for Damien and exhausting for him.

"You have healed those before just fine?" Tony stated worriedly.

Loki looked at his husband with annoyance showing in his eyes. "His ribs are on the edge of punctuating his lung, which means that they will need to be put back in to place before healing." Loki said and seated himself closer to the boy to get better access.

"Loki, you don't have to." Damien stated and looked at the god worriedly.

Loki smiled at him with that warm smile. "Let someone help you for a change." He said and put a hand on the ribs that were cracked. "This will hurt though." Loki stated bitterly.

"Worse than the bullet?" Damien asked with a smirk.

"You have no idea." Loki answered and his hand started to glow green and Damien felt it immediately, the pain and the actual feeling of his ribs moving inside of him back to place. He screamed and wriggled causing Loki to stop and told Joanna to help by making his upper body numb for a bit to ease the pain. She nodded and sat next to him and let a hand lay in the middle of his chest. He felt his body become numb and it did ease his mind a bit but he still felt it when Loki started again. Out of nothing to grab; he grabbed his hero's hand and closed his eyes, feeling the hand give his a gentle squeeze.

"You did good kid." Tony said for the second time to the boy who tried to keep the scream inside. He was sweating, shaking, eyes squeezing together hoping that the pain would stop, holding his hand in hope that Tony could make it all stop. Then the hand that held Tony's hand tight went limp and Damien past out because of all the pain and no one in the room knew the feelings he kept inside. The knowing that his hero was ready to lose it all for him made him feel wanted but he was so scared to give anyone trust now. If they betrayed him like the others; he wouldn't be able to keep living, not when he finally after two years of feeling unwanted and a burden; he now felt like he belonged and he was loved.

Loki and Joanna leaned against the wall when they were done, both exhausted for all the use and length of magic. Tony crawled closer to them and gave his daughter a kiss on her forehead and a kiss on his husband's lips. "Let's go home." He whispered to Loki who nodded and took his hand, Tony still holding Damien's hand and put the other on his daughter's knee and they were suddenly in the Malibu house for some reason.

"I thought we could all need a break from everything." Loki said and yawned. "Let's go to bed my dear." Loki said and motioned for Joanna to go with him.

"But what about dad and Damien?" She asked and looked back at Tony who was carrying the boy in his arms now.

"I'll be fine sweet heart and I will watch him closely." Tony answered her and winked, watching his husband take her with him and whispered 'I love you' to him.

Tony felt his body starting to protest of the boy's weight in his arms. He moved him to a room that was not occupied by anyone and laid him down on the bed and covered him with the thin cover. The boy has been through hell and you could now see it on him; the bruises and scars, red swollen eyes from the crying and he could see his eyes move rapidly, dreaming.

He was not tired weird enough, must have been because he slept through the whole night, the whole night when the boy was being tortured. The quilt just flooded in him; didn't he have enough quilts already with Yensin and the people all around the world that had suffered because of his weapons.

He sat down on the edge of the bed, rubbing his eyes and watched the sea outside; he could see the yacht his husband had bought for him as a Christmas present. It always made him smile at first but if he dug deeper he would found remorse for the fight they had just before Christmas that almost cost his relationship. He grunted when he couldn't get the memories out of his head and felt like he needed a drink.

"Why does it feel like I'm been run over?" A raspy voice from behind him asked.

Tony turned and was met but light brown eyes, one was even covered with a black eye, and they looked so tired and sad that he moved from the edge to sit closer to the boy. "I can get you some pain killers." Tony stated with a smirk to hide his real emotions, like he always did to everyone… but not Loki.

Damien took a deep breath and shook his head. "No I'm fine… are you okay?" The boy asked with a concerned look.

Tony chuckled lightly. "Compared to you; I had a nice time." Tony said sarcastically.

"Joanna told me that Hammer used me as a bargain tool to get to your company and arc reactor." Damien told him that he knew he didn't have a nice time at all, even though he wasn't beaten.

Tony sighed and nodded. "And he was damn close of actually getting it all." He said sadly.

"You shouldn't." Damien said with a low voice.

"The man would have raped you." Tony hissed at him even though he didn't know why. But Damien didn't budge.

"So what? It is nothing compared of knowing that you gave up everything just because I wouldn't get raped." Damien growled back.

Tony didn't know how to respond to that, he just stared at the boy with wide eyes. The boy would rather be raped than walk around with quilt… yeah, he could understand that in a way. He dragged a hand through his hair and sighed. "You need to rest. I'll be in the kitchen." Tony said and stood up.

"Wait, where are we?" Damien just realized that this was not the Stark tower when he saw the ocean view.

Tony chuckled. "This is my Malibu mansion." He said and exited the room.

Now he had a new set of quilt running through his body; he almost gave Damien quilt for the rest of his life. And how could he even be sure that Hammer would have stopped the guy from raping the boy even though he agreed. He really needed a drink now.

He was surprised to find his husband on the terrace, on a sun chair and eating chocolate. He walked outside and seated himself behind him, wrapping his arms around the god's waist; his hands on his stomach and felt his husband lean against his chest. "You should be sleeping." Tony stated in to his shoulder, smelling him to make him feel safe.

"I'm good. Besides, I can't sleep without you." Loki stated and leaned his head against his shoulder and put a hand on one of the once that caressed his abdomen. "How's the boy?" Loki asked and took another piece of chocolate in to his mouth.

Tony sighed; the memories had subsided for just a minute when he held his husband in his arms but now they were back again. Loki could read him like an open book, even though he couldn't see his face. He turned around and looked in to his husband's eyes. "You did what you thought was right, don't blame yourself." Loki said and cupped Tony's cheek and stroked his cheekbone with his thumb.

"It's kind of hard when you've heard that he would rather been raped than walk around with quilt." Tony said and leaned in to the touch.

"You didn't know that then." Loki said and leaned in and planted a soft kiss on his husband's lips. Tony laid down on the sun chair, Loki next/over him, his hands stroking the god's sides while the kiss deepened, tasting chocolate in the other's mouth. Loki moaned, leaning on one elbow and the other going over his husband's chest, secretly feeling for wounds that his husband might have hid from him.

Tony pulled away and looked down at his husband's hand. "I'm not hurt so you can stop looking." He said with a soft voice and a usual smirk.

Loki smiled back and leaned in for a soft kiss. "I just wanted to make sure." He whispered against his lips.

"Why did it take so long?" Tony suddenly asked still a bit dazed from the kissing and his husband's hands on him.

Loki snorted. "Fury really wanted to test Damien, to see if he could get you out by himself." He sounded so angry and frustrated. "He shouldn't have put so much faith in a boy like that. Especially when there are people that can help him, there is a reason why he doesn't trust people." He only looked sad now, sad for the boy and the thought of being too late; to find his husband without the thing that keeps him alive.

Tony stroked his cheek and looked deep in to green beautiful eyes. "How did you know we were fine the whole night?" Loki let out a sigh and lied down on Tony's chest.

"I had a magic connection to your body and Damien's so I always knew how much pain you two were in but not what kind of injury." Loki closed his eyes, feeling his husband's hand playing with his hair, soothing him to fall asleep.

When Tony noticed that Loki had fallen asleep on top of him he didn't continue his questioning, just let him sleep, he needed it. He felt himself calm down with stroking Loki's hair and the warm from the heavy body, eventually he also find peaceful sleep.

Loki was awoken by someone poking him on his shoulder. He looked up and was met by light brown eyes that looked at the two men with a warm smile. "Hey, it's noon and the sun is too strong to be laying here sleeping." Damien said and looked at Tony who was still sleeping. Loki nodded and managed to say thanks before the boy walked inside; before he disappeared Loki could see all the bruises all over his torso and back.

He sighed and looked down at his sleeping husband. "Love, we can't sleep out here. Let's go inside and have some coffee." Loki said and planted a soft kiss on Tony's lips.

Tony opened his eyelids slowly and smiled up at Loki. "But it was so comfortable here, just 15 more minutes." He said and his arms around Loki held him tighter.

Loki chuckled and planted another kiss on his lips. "My back is burning, love." He whispered when they parted. Tony sighed and let him go, but his hand was grabbed by his husband and dragged him up and then led him inside.

Tony lied down on the couch and let the AC cool his body down; he hadn't noticed how warm he actually was until he got inside. Loki had gone over to the kitchen to get the coffee and met Damien sitting on a high chair by the counter, drinking water. "Are you okay?" Loki asked the boy with a concerned look.

Damien nodded and smiled at Loki. "Thanks, for saving me again." He said the last part with his usual cocky smirk which made Loki chuckle.

Loki turned to him when he had his two cups of coffee in his hands. "Just don't make a habit of it." He said with his wicked smirk and walked over to the couch where his husband lay. He put the coffee mugs on the table in front of the couch, moved his husband's legs down and seated himself next to him. Tony sat up and planted a small kiss on Loki's cheek as a thank you and then turned his full attention to his cup.

Sir, director fury is on the phone. The AI announced.

"Let him through Jarvis." Tony looked back and noticed the boy slowly getting out of the kitchen. "Don't you dare!" Was all he had to say to make Damien stop his escape and grunt.

"I see you are life and well Stark." Fury's face was shown on the TV screen in front of them.

"Yes I am, can't say the same for agent Carow though." Tony stated with a stern voice. Loki turned and made a notion to the boy to come over which he did reluctantly.

Fury snorted. "I had to see if agent Romanoff training paid off. All agents gets hurt sometimes, Stark." Fury growled.

"I think you forget sometimes director that Damien is still only a boy." Loki stated and let his husband put an arm around him and play with his hair.

Damien just snorted and sat down on another couch, visible to the director who looked at the boy with a stern look. "I've seen worse." He stated and shrugged his shoulder.

"When we found my husband and Damien, the boy had two cracked ribs and one of them was close to punctuating his lung, our daughter made most of the severe cut wounds close but you can still see the scars." Loki said with a growl. Damien kept his mouth shut; he hated being treated like a boy especially when he had been treated like a man for so long that now it just made him feel even weaker.

"It's like you two are his parents or something." Fury grunted and rubbed his eye. Both men just rolled their eyes and Damien looked away at the sea. "I called because I just wanted to know if agent Carow would want some personal time with Justin Hammer?" Fury said and looked at a paper that had been handed to him.

Damien looked back at the director with narrowed eyes. "No thanks; put him in a cell with a huge man instead… if you know what I mean." Damien stated with a grin. Why should he do the job when the man can suffer years with a man that will treat him like the bitch he is?

Fury chuckled. "As you wish agent Carow, you've earned some time off as well." Fury hanged up and his face disappeared.

The two men turned to the boy who was looking at the sea again. "I thought you wanted to punch him yourself?" Tony asked and drank from his coffee.

Damien turned his attention from the sea to the couple on the other couch. "I don't want to get my hands dirty for nothing." He stated and stood up and walked out of the room.

Loki sighed and leaned his head back on the arm that was holding him. "Do we really act like his parents?" He asked and turned his head so he could watch his husband.

"Maybe, but he needs real parents." Tony said and looked in to those deep green eyes.

Loki laughed at that. "We are not exactly typical parents, love." He said when he calmed down a bit.

Tony chuckled and kissed his husband softly. "No, but he is not a typical kid either so it's all good." He said when they parted.