It had taken some time to get everyone aware of Loki's condition, more importantly the fact he wasn't dead. The agent had survived but she was being placed in one of Shields mental programs and it was rather unlikely that she would be walking any time soon.

Loki was completely healed by the Tesseract's energy. The doctors had never seen anything like it. He was up not three hours after the healing, he didn't move from his place in the bed for five, so the nurse didn't notice it until then. When he did it was only a little movement, Loki moved his hand from where it was hanging off of the bed. Quickly the nurse watching over him moved to check on him, the first thing she noticed was his eyes, they were almost completely blank. The nurse had chalked it up to a side effect of the energy overload, but to be honest she wasn't so sure. So putting the official transcript aside, she went to talk to Coulson.

It took two knocks for her to be admitted into the room that Coulson was staying in along with the other avengers, all eyes in the room were fixed on her. It was slightly unsettling, but she spoke to them all the same. Really, it wasn't the worst she had be forced to deal with, there had been the time with the bloody walruses.

"The doctors did a full exam of Loki and he checked out just fine, no damage of any kind. He woke up about two hours ago according to our sensors. There wasn't any movement until half an hour ago so we didn't notice until then. The movement was rather slight and we think that the energy from the Tesseract has taken a toll on him. I would also like to speak to agent Coulson off the record about this matter."

The flood of relaxation that had been engulfing the room was quickly dammed, everyone seemed to tense up on her last words. Coulson took a moment before nodding. Having assurance that he would follow, the nurse turned and walked from the room, trying to stay as professional as she could, at least until she was out of the sight of everyone else. Once having moved to an empty hallway, she turned to face Coulson who was wearing a questioning look, he tried to speak but she cut him off.

"I'm concerned about Loki's mental health. I reviewed what could be recovered of the security tape and what that women said was not only horrible, terrible things, but she also stated a few times that both you and the avengers were involved in this as some sort of plot. I can't tell how much he had heard, but when he woke up, his eyes were in this weird almost blank state, and the only reason he moved was to pull his hand back onto the bed. I understand that the report may say one thing, but I don't think that he's alright."

"I figured as much, she was still shouting those sorts of things when we got there. I have no idea where it came from, she's always been such a nice person. To be honest, I have no idea how we're going to fix this. The only thing I think of is to do our best and maybe time will be able to start fixing this. I don't know if even that could work at this point."

A grim nod from the nurse confirmed this. She turned over her memories before she remember something from Loki's file, an important something.

"Loki's a frost giant, right?"

"From what Thor's told us, yes."

"Well then, wouldn't snow and ice be good for him? I doubt they get much in Asgard and at this point anything could help. It might have a mental healing effect on him."

For a few seconds Coulson ran the thought around in his mind, and the more he did so, the more it was starting to sound like a good idea. It would need to be run past the others, but being in a more comfortable environment might help Loki recover. There were plenty of cases of changing the location positively effecting people's mental health, and anything was worth a shot at this point. Coulson turned his thoughts back to the nurse standing in front of him, and answered her.

"I think that might actually be good for him. I'll need to check in with the other avengers, but it may work."

- With Loki -

It had taken him all of twenty minutes to figure out that he was not, in fact, dead. It took him an hour and forty minutes to muster up the strength to move his arm, just back onto the bed. Another ten minutes passed before he remember why he was here.

The Lady, the knife, the words.

He gave it some thought, the lady had put the knife into his stomach, so why was there no pain there? A little movement of his pinkie against the sheets confirmed that he was still feeling things, so it couldn't be that he had been given a potion, and now that he thought about it a bit more, he couldn't feel anything wet on his stomach.

It was then he noticed another lady dressed in a different outfit. She spoke to him for a bit, he didn't answer, he wanted to but he couldn't find the energy too. So he let her talk, she had a very pretty voice, even if he could really understand what she was saying, it was nothing like the other Lady. No, the other Lady did not have a pretty voice, she had a mean voice that Loki didn't like very much. Looking around with his eyes, Loki couldn't see the other Lady.

That was when he figured it out, he must have gotten into an accident and used an energy zapping substance on himself, and it had all been one nasty nightmare. The book he had found on the subject had said that it was a common side effect. He would have breathed a sigh of relief, but breathing was already hard enough. Nothing but a really nasty nightmare. This meant that Thor and the others didn't hate him.

With that thought in mind, Loki drifted back into a gentle sleep.

He began to dream again, but this dream was different. It wasn't scary per say, just strange. There was a warm blue light, the light was moving all around him, but it wasn't leaving, instead it was forming some sort of protective layer around him. To be honest, it didn't feel bad, if anything it felt quite nice and safe. Loki had no idea where the energy had come from, but he was glad it was there. A gentle hum filled the… now that he thought about it, he didn't know where he was. Black was all he could see beyond the blue light. That should probably worry him, but with the light around him, he felt very safe, as if nothing could hurt him.

Slowly Loki closed his eyes and simply enjoyed the warmth of the light cascading around him.

A/N:

You thought that energy was gone, didn't you?

Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it always goes somewhere. The energy is still with Loki.

Sings out: *Plot twist*