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Thanks so much to my beta Krystal Lazuli

Thanks so much everyone who reads and reviews these it a large part of why I keep making them. That and Dragon!Loki has for the moment taken over my mind.

Thor was lounging in the common room of the tower with the other Avengers when he heard over the intercom:

"Thor, Steve, I think you're going want to see this." It was Stark's voice rather than the AI's Jarvis. There was something about it that gave him pause; the blonde exchanged a puzzled look with Steve. The two of them stood up and made their way to the lift.

"What do you think this is about?" Steve asked, and Thor shook his head having no idea. The doors to the lift opened a moment later and the two of them shuffled inside. The doors closed silently and the lift was quiet as it rose up through the levels of the tower. The doors opened and they saw that they were on one of the laboratory levels.

Thor frowned wondering why Tony had called them there when Jarvis's voice said.

"Sir requests that you go to the security room." Thor's frown deepened as he knew that was the video room that contained the security tapes of what happened in the tower. The thunderer had only been in there once before when Tony had originally given him the tour of the tower. Thor picked up his pace as the curiosity built within and noted that Steve was keeping up with him. The two of them arrived at the door at the same time and the door opened before either could try themselves. Thor went in first, followed by Steve and Thor's jaw dropped.

"I think it's getting worse," Tony said somewhat bemused. Loki was outside of the tower on the little bit of lawn that they had around the tower. He wasn't alone though. There were what appeared to be all the shiny pots that they had in the tower, as well as the pens, a variety of other shiny objects like cufflinks and a large quantity of jewelry. But there were two items of particular interest - Thor's armor and Steve's shield.

"Yeah, I thought you guys might want to know. Oh, and guess what?" Tony said sounding casual. "Loki stole nearly 4 million dollars worth of jewelry!" he yelled at Thor like it was his fault that his brother had stolen the jewelry.

"He has my shield?" Steve asked sounding concerned.

"He will not harm it," Thor said as Loki heavily protected what he took, and he had never harmed a single piece.

"When do you think that Loki will...you know give it back?" Steve asked as even as a supersoldier he knew that he wasn't a match for Loki in his dragon form. Thor was also sure he knew how protective Loki was of his hoard. Loki had taken a pen of Steve's once, when Steve had tried to retrieve it without Loki's permission he had gotten a burn that had only healed so quickly as it had because of his improved healing ability compared to other Midgardians. Thor was about to answer when a familiar alarm sounded. The thunderer shook his head as this was the worst possible time for an attack. Steve looked at him and Thor shook his head again this time with determination.

"I will get it back," Thor swore "Then you and I will go into battle,"

The two of them made their way down as the other Avengers made their way up to the roof.

"Do you really think you can get them back without getting hurt yourself?" Steve asked a little nervously on the way down. Thor was warmed by his friends concern but dismissed it.

"I am his treasure," Thor said a little awkwardly as it sounded strange but at the same time pompous but he knew that how Loki saw him "even more so than the hoard he has out there. He won't hurt me," Thor said with a shake of his head.

"Unless he's more dragon now than himself. Or he's more himself than dragon," Steve added after a moment. Thor frowned as he pondered Steve's comment, Thor supposed that he was correct. When Loki had been wholly himself he had tried to harm him many times. If he was more dragon than it was possible that he might lose his status as treasure as only his hair was golden. It was only because of the strange combination of how much he was dragon and himself that they were able to be close. If it shifted too much in either direction that could easily end.

His thoughts on the matter were interrupted when the lift doors slid open. The two of them ran through the lobby and blinked as they saw the large crowd surrounding Loki that hadn't been there on the security footage. Apparently, they were all fascinated with his brother and his large pile of shiny objects. He just hoped that none of them were stupid enough to try to steal from a dragon. Most of the time if you tried to steal from a dragon it was the last thing you ever did, Steve had been lucky that Loki had just burned him.

"Loki!" Thor called and the large dragon head whipped to see him. He stood up showing off his massive frame that was more intimidating now that he wasn't hampered by the ceiling.

"Loki, you need to give me my armor and Steve's shield," Thor pleaded and tried not show any fear as Loki blew smoke from his nostrils into the blonde's face which he knew was a warning. Loki's tail curled possessively over the treasure. Perhaps Steve was right, perhaps Loki was more dragon than himself right now, and could actually hurt him if he tried to take away his hoard.

"Loki," he tried again only for Loki to blow a bigger cloud of smoke at him. His brother didn't seem to be listening to him, and they had to go help their friends. He had to find some way to get through to his brother so that he could go help the people who were in need. He didn't want to, but it was the only thing he had come up with when he had thought of how to get Loki back if the dragon part ever became too large. He was worried about his plan though.

"Loki, you are not a dragon," Thor tried and Loki looked at him without a hint of anything other than possessiveness for his treasure.

"You are like me," Thor said not sure what else to say as his brother wasn't human, or Aesir which he was what he had wanted to say and he wasn't sure that Loki would want anyone to know about the fact that he was Jotun. "This is not your true form," Thor said hoping to get through to him, but at the same time fearing that if he did then Loki could change back into his real form, then they might be right back to where they had been before Loki had turned into a dragon. Thor removed the belt from his pants and opened part of the large belt buckle taking a small box from within. He had been keeping this in case of such a situation, though he had honestly hoped that he would never need to use it. Thor pressed the button and suddenly there was a hologram of Loki from his time in the glass cage, he was smiling broadly. Loki looked at the picture at first not seeming to understand what it was, then seemed puzzled.

"This is who you are," Thor said, "not this," he said gesturing to his brother "you're my brother," Thor shook his head "not a dragon. Please let me get our stuff so we can save the city?" Thor pleaded. Loki after a few moments started moving off from his pile until he was next to the nearest building where he sat facing away from him. Thor took advantage of the situation and as quickly as he could retrieved both his armor and Steve's shield, which he tossed to Steve. Steve nodded his thanks and left. Thor turned to look at his brother even though he knew he should go. Loki still wasn't facing him and he knew that his brother was probably in a bad place after having the dragon so thoroughly had taken hold of him. He wished he could stay, but he doubted his brother wanted him to, not until he could build himself back up. Besides he had to help The Avengers fight. He didn't leave right away though.

"Loki, do you wish me to stay?" he asked him brother just in case he was wrong. Loki didn't turn around or give any indication that he had even heard him. "Loki, I will stay if you want me to," Thor promised after a long moment even though he knew he shouldn't have. Loki shook his large dragon head and then lifted up into the sky. Thor sighed then called Mjolnir to him and lifted himself up into the sky. Thor went in the opposite direction of his brother, in the direction of the fight. He would try to help his brother out afterward...if Loki allowed him to.

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