"Come on Doctor Tall and Gloomy it's time for you to get out of your room and talk with people other than the current present genius in the room."

Loki placed his tea on the table beside him. He rummaged around for his bookmark and secured it in his book before answering Tony. "I'm certain Jarvis hasn't grown bored of me quite yet. Besides, I left my room just yesterday. In case you forgot I still do run Tea and Potions. Business is booming as they say."

Tony walked around the couch and thought about sitting on the arm of the chair Loki was sitting on. Just before he made that probably fatal move he thought better of it and stood in front of Loki instead. "I meant get you into a different room of the tower."

"Is this your rather inadequate way of asking for a coffee?"

Rolling his eyes Tony said, "Come upstairs. We're having a family movie marathon in the media center-"

"No thank you," Loki cut him off before Tony could start talking about the pros and cons of watching certain movies in an audience or something else equally insignificant. He opened his book, carefully plucked his bookmark from between its pages, and continued to read.

Now Tony decided to sit down. Though he made the better decision to sit on the couch instead of making any attempt to invade Loki's personal space. "Come on it'll be fun. We'll have popcorn, candy, soda, whatever food thing you could need to watch some movies. Though I should warn you it's Steve's night to pick movies. I mean he's okay at picking but sometimes his choices are questionable. Not like I have any room to complain. If he asks I wasn't complaining. I'm just putting-"

Loki sighed as he looked up, "Tony. I'm not saying no because a lack of food."

"I know. You're worried about the company. But you have to talk with them eventually. And if you talk with them now they'll be in a good mood.

"They won't be in a good mood once they see me. Besides I wouldn't wish to invade a sacred place of team bonding." Loki reached over and nearly knocked over his mug before he could take a sip.

"I want you there. And I know Thor would like to see you. And the others probably want to see the supposed big bad we have in the tower. Come on. You don't even need to stay. Just pop out from behind me, say boo, and come back up here. If you stay I might even be able to let you pick the second movie we watch." Tony moved his eyebrows up and down as if to emphasis his point. Then he started to fight his way out of the couch. When he finally managed to free himself he mumbled, "This couch it the real enemy."

"Hey, don't make fun of my couch. It's very comfortable. And it's only difficult to get out of if you struggle. Like any true villain the harder you fight the harder it will fight back." Loki looks Tony straight in the eyes as his smiles the smile he likes to save for situations of war and villainy. It's one that shows off his teeth and stretches across his whole face. Fandral had once told him that smile made him look like an animal. Loki had decided to take that as a compliment despite Fandral's clear intention of the opposite.

Standing up much easier than Tony had, Loki leaned down to pick up his half empty mug. After walking to the kitchen with his mug in one hand and his book held in the other with index and middle fingers holding his place. Loki emptied his almost cold tea down the sink. He returned to his chair to rebookmark his book before carefully pushing it back onto its place on the bookshelf. With a final tap it was perfectly in line with all of the other books "I believe it's time for us to go up a couple of floors so I can say boo and you can leave me alone."

By the time the elevator reached floor eighty five all the other Avengers had reached the floor. Steve had mostly figured out what they were going to watch. Clint was gathering snacks though most of them would be strategically placed so all his favorites would be in easy reach once he sat down. Natasha was gathering the was already sitting down on a couch. And Bruce was trying to decide if he would need a cup of tea to help get through family movie night. As his back was turned something smashed. He sighed and put the kettle on.

Tony got out of the elevator first. He was already talking as the elevator doors opened, "Okay, so everybody don't freak out all at once but I brought a plus one to movie time." As the sentence ended Loki stepped out of the elevator and stayed slightly behind Tony.

Clint turned and dropped the entire bowl of chips he had been carrying. He reached up for an arrow before he realized he didn't have any. He had to left his hand fall back down to his side. Instead of fighting or doing anything else he just stood there.

Thor was off the couch a mere second before Clint's bowl smashed against the floor. "Brother! It's so good to see you."

Loki nearly flinched as Thor stood and started to make his way toward him. All he could hear was 'I know you seek vengeance as much as I do. You help me escape Asgard, and I will grant it to you. Vengeance. And afterward, this cell.' The word cell kept ringing through his head. He knew Thor had said other things both on that day and after. Yet all Loki could think about was how close Thor was getting. Thor was going to grab him and take him back. Loki had been gone for so long and they still thought him dead. He had lied. He had cheated. He would burn. He-

Seeing that Loki's breathing was beginning to become unstable Jarvis spoke up, "Boo." He said it with the same intonation Loki had when it had been said earlier. This worked on two levels, it forced Loki out of his own thoughts and Thor stopped walking closer to his brother.

With a snap of his fingers the fragments of the bowl and all the chips rose up from the floor. "I assume you won't want these particular chips anymore. Would you like me to dispose of them?"

"NO, I DON'T WANT THEM," Clint shouted. He glared at Tony. He glowered at Loki. He practically slightly pleaded for someone to take his side. "I don't want him here. I get that he lives here. That's...fine. It's fine. He can live on his floor. I can live on mine. But I just want to sit and watch a movie and not feel like someone is going to cut my throat in the middle of it. I don't think that's asking for too much. Nat, is that asking for too much? It's hard enough to live here when he's on a different floor. But I can handle it now. I don't need him invading places I live in. That is not what I agreed to."

Making sure to not take his eyes off Clint, Loki waved his hand. All the chips and bits of ceramic bowl flew out of the room and into the kitchen where they landed in the sink with a quiets little chiming sound. "As I said when we were downstairs, Tony, they won't be happy once I show up. I was right. Now if you don't mind I'll leave you all to your movie. I'll be on my floor." Loki started to back his way to the elevator which thankfully was only a handful of steps away so it didn't look as awkward when he didn't turn around. His gaze darted across the room as he worked to keep himself in the present. He tried and mostly failed to not envision everyone in this room torturing him as Asgard had. "A thousand pardons." With that final sentence said Loki pressed the elevator button.