I do not own the Avengers, Marvel or anything else in story just the plot idea. No yaoi is in this story but there might be mild swearing, pranks and murderous thoughts from everyone's favorite trickster.
"Talking"
'Thinking'
Energizer Loki
Chapter 14 – Never Again
Loki just stared down at the chipper man in his arms before remembering exactly where he was and who the man was to him. Groaning Loki pushed Tony away from him well simultaneously backing up on the bed; eventually he reached the edge of the bed and fell off with a heavy thud.
Groaning at the unexpected shift in the world Loki let out a painful moan starting to feel extremely sick as he sat up leaning against the side of the bed trying to stop his head from hurting.
"Hey Blitzen that wasn't very nice," Tony said starting at the back of Loki's head he was about to call JARVIS to ring up the Avengers and SHIELD when Loki let out his pained moan his eyes widened slightly in surprise at the unexpected noise. "Uh you ok there Loki?"
"Go away Stark I am in no mood for your prattle right now." Loki said groggily.
Moving over the bed quickly Tony crouched down next to Loki, when he saw the pain on the villain's face he started to get worried. 'Shit he looks worse than when Hulk threw him around my living room.'
Picking god up off the floor Tony put Loki back in his bed ignoring the god's weak struggles and threats. Once Loki was in his bed again Tony watched the ill looking god grabbed his cape again and dragged it over his head well his body curled up into a ball.
"JARVIS close the blinds would you and try to keep the room as dim and quiet as possible." Tony said in a hushed tone.
"Yes sir." The AI responded at his normal volume causing Loki to let out a muffled moan at the voice. Not wasting time Tony walked into his bathroom and got a cup of water before making the brave move of poking Loki. When Loki didn't respond Tony poked him again after a few more pokes the god lifted his cape just enough to show the billionaire annoyed green eyes. Holding out the cup Tony watched annoyance be replaced by confusion.
"Its water you look pretty sick." Tony said in a surprisingly worried tone. Loki just moved his eyes from the cup to Tony's eyes scanning them for any deception, seeing known in there he sat up a little at took the offered water.
"Thank you." Loki murmured taking a small sip of the water.
"What are you doing here?" Tony asked in a low voice trying not to make the god's headache worse.
"Trying to conquer your world we already discussed this Mr. Stark." Loki said snarky tone.
"Very funny smart ass I meant in my bed we all thought you'd be half way around the world by now." Tony said brushing off the trickster's irritable mood.
"It looked comfortable." Loki said honestly.
"You never left did you." Tony watched as Loki flushed at the accusation quickly handing back the empty cup and diving under his cape again trying to ignore the mortal.
"You know given everything that's happened I have technically caught you." Tony said in a teasing tone.
Loki mumbled something under his cape.
"What was that?" Tony asked.
Lowering his cape again Loki repeated himself. "Fine you caught me if I promise not to escape again will you let me sleep."
"You don't escape again, use any magic unless your life is being threatened and swear to not touch anymore coffee and you can stay here till you're feeling better or Thor takes you back to wherever it is you both came from deal." Tony said remembering that with Loki you had to be very specific when making deals.
"I have no home to go back to but you don't have to worry about your precise coffee I will never touch that poison ever again." Loki said venomously to the man.
"Are you blaming the coffee for being sick?" Tony said trying to remember how much Loki coffee had drank. 'Let's see he had cup in his cell, a large mug in my lab, one pot in the break room, one in my bar and one when we saw him in the ballroom and that's the ones we know about he might be right especially since he's never had it before.'
"It's the only feasible answer to my current ailment." Loki said bitterly that his knew found drink of choice had consequences.
"Do we have a deal or not?" Tony said suddenly reminding the trickster of his deal.
"Yes now please can I be left in peace?" Loki asked again.
"Sure but just one more question what do you mean you 'have no home' I thought you came from Asbard or whatever it's called." Tony inquired confused about the god's bitter tone at his home.
"It's Asgrad and that place is not my home it is a place of lies." Loki expressed as a vicious look came to rest on his features remembering how the golden land he had once loved so much turned out to be made up of fool's gold inhabited by liars worse than he.
"The adoption thing Thor mentioned that." Tony said casual tone.
"Did he also mention that I wasn't born their but taken from Jotunheim when I was an infant." Loki said turning angry eyes on the mortal.
"That never came up." Tony said honestly.
"Then maybe you should ask him about it sometime Stark," Loki said heatedly. "Ask him how it feels knowing that his 'brother' is one of the monsters we grew up hearing."
Tony just sat there on the edge of the bed stunned at Loki's words. Seeing some of the pain in Loki's eyes Tony knew that he shouldn't continue with the conversation no matter how much he wanted to. Loki just turned over back facing him and asked him to leave saying that he would keep their deal.
Getting up Tony from the bed he walked towards the door taking one last look at the tense curled up figure. "I'm going to ask JARVIS to lock the door so that you can sleep without having to worry about anyone barging in."
Loki didn't say anything but Tony as he closed the door as the tight bundle of fabric relaxed a bit at the creaking sound of the door closing. Quickly walking down the hall away from the room where the god laid Tony ordered JARVIS that under no circumstances anybody besides him to enter the bedroom right now and to call Fury.
*Hellicarrier*
"He's where!" Fury bellowed at the screen where Tony's face was.
"Yeah I don't think he ever really left the building but Fury he's sick so when you come over here know that he's not leaving the room." Tony said to the man ignoring the shocked faces of his teammates.
"Tony he tried to take over the world please try to see reason on this." Steve pleaded reminding the eccentric man of everything that happened. 'His eyes aren't blue so he's not being controlled by Loki.'
"I am and we made a deal that works so I'm keeping my end." Tony said having a 'this is final' tone.
"Is my brother alright Man of Iron?" Thor asked.
"He's just suffering from the side effects way to much coffee." Tony said giving the blonde god a weird look.
"Meaning?" Bruce inquired about Loki's condition.
"So far he's got one major headache, is extremely irritable and really sleepy," Tony said counting down what he had observed so far. "He might also be in a little pain kept trying to wiggle out of my arms when I put him back in my bed."
"Your bed?" Clint asked shocked.
"Why is my brother in your bed Starkson" Thor roared thinking that his brother had been defiled by the man.
"Oh didn't I mention when I woke up this morning he was just sort of there nothing happened but that's why I don't think he left caffeine crash before the game started." Tony explained quickly knowing that for the moment he was safe from the thunderer. 'This is worse than when he found us in my lab.'
"Stark will be there in half an hour just don't lose him." Fury said.
"Sure but nobody goes in unless I say so that includes you point break we have to talk about something before you go anywhere near him again." Tony said cutting off the video feed before anyone could argue.
"Who is he to say that I cannot see my brother?" Thor demanded slamming his hand into the table and leaving a large dent.
"Thor you kind of say the wrong thing when you're around Loki and if he's a sick as Tony says I do not want to see what he'd do to you if you made another stupid comment." Steve said trying to calm the god down before he cause another major thunder storm.
The Avengers plus Fury quickly made their way to one the SHIELD planes starting it up and making their way to stArk Tower hoping that Tony would be able to keep Loki there until they arrived.
*Tony's Penthouse 40 Minutes Later*
After everyone had arrived Tony sat them down in the living room not letting anyone go down the hall towards his room till everything was explained to them, when he finished Tony looked at Thor.
"What's Jotunheim Thor?" Tony asked causing the God of Thunder to go a little tense.
"The realm of the Frost Giants the place where Loki was born and what he almost destroyed." Thor explained simply not wanting to go into major detail about the incident.
"Wait he almost destroyed his home planet?" Clint asked a little shocked at what Loki had done.
"Aye that is how he fell off the Bifrost I had to destroy it to stop him from completely destroying it." Thor explained feeling uncomfortable about explain what had happened between him and his brother to his new friends
"But Loki is a Frost Giant himself." Tony inquired again.
"Our father kept his origins from him a secret for his own protection." Thor answered unsure about where the Man of Iron was going with this.
"And growing up hearing how his people are monsters was that also for his own protection?" Tony asked shocking the other people in the room.
"Stark you can't be buying whatever Loki said can you he's a would-be conqueror." Fury snarled at the billionaire.
"Not saying he shouldn't be punished Fury just I'm saying he might be lashing out." Tony said surprising everyone in the room again.
"That's one heck of lashing out Stark in case you forgot when most people find out their adopted they don't try to destroy a planet." Clint growled remembering how Loki had basically made him his own personal slave.
"No they don't but Loki's not exactly most people." Tony said brushing off the archer's anger tone even though he understood why it was there in the first place.
"What are you trying to get at with this Tony?" Steve asked wondering what Tony's motives were saying this.
"Loki's been hurt by everything that happened and if he ever escapes he'll try to take over Earth again I'll fight to stop him every time he tries something. But honestly I get why he did it if I hadn't had someone with me when in Afghanistan I might have become like him." Tony said remembering how much Yinsen had helped him change when he had been captured.
"You're not saying you and Loki are alike Stark?" Tasha questioned in a suspicious tone.
"I was able to rise above my pain and become a better person, Loki I think he drowned in it making him who he is now." Tony said sadly. 'If things had been different we probably could have been friends'
"So what are we going to do?" Bruce asked.
"Nothing Loki will stay here and when he gets better he goes back to Asgard." Fury stated in a 'this is final' tone. Even though Tony didn't fully agree with the Director's decision he knew that right now it was too dangerous to have Loki stay on Earth.
"Fine but he stays in my room and no one goes in without my say so and JARVIS will watch him to make sure he doesn't do anything." Tony told the Director.
"Then you give him nothing and I mean nothing Stark that could send him off like that magical energizer bunny from hell again." Fury stated back to the billionaire not wanting another escape to happen on his watch.
"Fine." Tony agreed. 'Looks like water and plain food for Loki then maybe I can sneak another shawarma in for him later?'
"You all will remain here and babysit Loki well I go back to the Hellicarrier if something happens again take it out of Stark's ass." Fury said to everyone else.
*Tony's Bedroom 20 Minutes Later*
Bruce was walking down the hall with Tony going to visit Loki. After Tony had gotten everyone settled on 89 they decided that it would be safest if Bruce checked the god out. Clint and Tasha would most likely have shot the trickster, Steve wouldn't know what to do having no background in medicine and Thor would have pissed Loki off with his worrying. It was a miracle they were able to stop him from following in the first place.
"JARVIS unlock the door please." Tony said to the AI.
Hearing a sharp click Tony opened the door and walked into the room, seeing Loki laying curled up on the bed like a cat. Bruce watched Tony walk over to the bed and poke the god in his side trying to get him to wake up Bruce thought to himself.
'This is going to be a long assignment.'
I wanted to bring in a little Loki drama in this chapter since Loki is so sick I thought it would work well. Loki's symptoms are actual side effects of drinking too much coffee. I don't personally drink the stuff I find it gross and am in no way trying in influence my readers into doing the same you want to drink coffee it's your choice as far as I'm concerned.
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