Thor/Avengers AU: While out for his daily run, Steve Rogers stumbles across Loki. There's only one glaring difference to how the Captain remembers the god of Mischief and how he appears now. Loki doesn't look like he can be older than six or seven years of age, nor can Steve ignore the utter terror he sees in the boys eyes.

Loki is banished from Asgard almost immediately upon his return. Abandoned and alone, he sinks from anger to depression and self-harm as he loses all hope of love or redemption. When all hope seems lost, however, and Loki is nothing but a broken, defeated shell of his former self, help comes from the most unlikely source. Canon pairings; warnings inside.

Every once in a while, the Arc Reactor becomes too unbearable for Tony to even haul himself out of bed, and he takes a day. Because he deserves that much at least, right? Unfortunately, the team doesn't quite understand. Prompt fill for the illustrious kinkmeme. Rated for language, violence, and distressing visuals. Tony whump.

A broken god crashes onto the roof of Stark Tower, and Tony and Steve are horrified by what they find. As Loki's story unfolds, the Avengers discover what really happened when Loki was taken back to Asgard, and what he has endured for the past year. A powerful enemy emerges to threaten Asgard as Loki struggles to recover in the care of those who were once his bitterest foes.