Thor walked calmly down the halls of the castle, trying his best to smile at the guards and seem as normal as possible. The dull ache in his spine the only trace of the "chat" he had had with his brother last night. He smiled at his father and sat down by him at their breakfast table, reminding himself to at least try to pretend that things were okay. "Where's Loki?" he asked quietly and Odin sighed.

"Seems he caught some kind of virus." Odin grumbled, as if it was a nuisance that his son was sick rather than it being something to worry about. "He's staying in his room at least until tonight. Both princes can't look weak in front of the men." Thor flinched at the implication and sighed.

"Father, if I could only see Steve and make sure he was alright-" his mouth snapped closed as Odin leveled him with a stern glare.

"Enough, Thor!" He snapped and hit the table with his fist. "You can never go back! You are to be king! You have a duty to me and your people. I have been tolerant of you acting like a child until now but this has got to stop." He hissed at him. "No matter how you look at it your friends will die. It is the nature of humanity. They are dispensable and you cannot waste any more time caring for them." His eyes were cold and distant and Thor gave a small nod.

"You will keep him busy." Loki said as he paced across the room in front of him. "Father won't go out of his way to see me anyway, but he needs to be sure that you are the priority."

"I understand, father." He said softly. "I will… take over Loki's training of the guards today" he breathed "and any other duty that he has… I will make it up to you father, for getting me and Loki out of that situation." Odin gave a small curt nod.

"I'll be watching you, Thor." He said. "Do not disappoint me." He warned him.

Loki stopped his pacing and glared at him. He crouched down in front of where Thor sat on the ground, his eyes crazed and dangerous. "Thor, do I have to continue explaining everything to you?" He asked coldly. "Let me make this simple." His face was cruel and unforgiving. "How is it that a group of Midgardians could trap a pair of gods, strip them of their powers, and erase my memories without any repercussions from Asgard?" He shoved Thor hard, his lips set in a firm line, and if Thor hadn't already been on the ground he would have fallen down. "There was foul play involved." He said every word clearly "They, the humans and father, took you for a fool and you fell for it!" He hissed, not believing Thor could be such an idiot.

"Yes, father." Thor said quietly and hoped that Loki could do whatever it was that he was planning on doing.

After everything that Thor had told him, it wasn't that hard to figure out what Odin wanted. As always, Loki was just a small game piece in Odin's quest to make the best heir possible. Loki shouldn't have been so surprised by now, after dealing with Odin's shit for so many centuries. He left a copy of himself in his room to continue acting sick and made his way to the bifrost. Despite everything, riding Slepnir calmed him and he felt his head clear up as they rode silently, the sun still rising and erasing the stars. As he got closer he made his clone disappear and smirked as Heimdell turned to him, his hand moving to the golden sword on his hip. "You make it difficult to watch over you, your highness." Heimdell said and gave a small bow, never taking his eyes off of him.

Loki jumped off Slepnir and looked at him with a small smirk. "Yes, well I've found that the less that you and my father know, the better." He walked towards him carefully. "Then again..." he looked at him thoughtfully "perhaps it's a family trait." He was gone in a second and he reappeared behind Heimdell, a long dagger pressed to the larger man's neck, already drawing some blood as he pierced the skin. "Where is my Anthony?" he demanded of him. "Tell me, or I'll kill you right here."

Heimdell swallowed slowly and then smirked. "You and I both know that is not in the prophecy." he said. "Otherwise I would have killed you myself long ago, your highness." he said with a mocking voice. "And as for the Midgardian, I'm under strict orders not to tell you... all you can know is that he is suffering and will be suffering until the end of his miserable lif-" Heimdell's eyes widened as the words caught in his throat and blood seeped down under his armor.

"I warned you." Loki said quietly into his ear and with a hard shove the guardian of the bifrost fell with a loud thud. Loki leaned down and took the sword from where it was on his hip and walked up the center of the room where the opening was.

"When the bifrost opens, you have to make your way there." Loki said sternly. "Give me one day and then open the bifrost again." He grabbed Thor's chin and forced him to look at him, the idiot still moping. "You will kill anyone that stands in your way, including Odin."

Thor's eyes widened. "Loki, I don't-" he bit his lip. "I can't."

Loki pushed the sword into it's place and when the portal opened he ran through it. He didn't expect much of Thor, not when the idiot couldn't promise him that he would kill the person who had made the two of them suffer as much as they had, but he could trust him to try and protect him at least.

Loki looked up as he landed, feeling his stomach turn as the building he had lived in had turned into a disgusting looking hovel. The hundreds of people who walked around the area every day were gone and only a few dozen remained, a few standing close to each other, and stopped their conversations to look at Loki. "Yo!" One yelled at him. "This is our territory, get out!" He snapped and the others behind him puffed up as well, glaring at Loki.

Loki ignored him and looked up at the building again. During his best moments, he had hoped to bring Tony here someday, where the both of them could live in the modest little home he had made for them. It was silly now that he thought of it, a god and a human living together in a 2 bedroom apartment. He had stayed up nights wondering what it would be like to wake up next to him, to see him milling around the apartment at night, but now he wondered if Tony would even want that. After all, he'd been himself for less than a day and he had already murdered a man. Even if Tony did want that, how long would it last? He would get at most 50 years with the mortal, less probably, with Tony's tendency to put himself in danger.

"Hey man, what the fuck!" The man from before ripped him out of his thoughts again. "You ignoring us?" he demanded and walked towards Loki. Loki ground his teeth and raised his hand to him, letting his magic wrap around the man and raised him up into the air. As annoying as he was, he could serve for information.

"What happened here?" Loki said loudly, trying not to squeeze the man to death as he struggled in the grip of his magic and screamed.

The man kicked and his friends behind him were paralyzed with fear. "W-what do you mean, man?" he asked, panicking more as his efforts seemed to have no effect.

"This area, what happened to it? Where is everyone?" he asked him and gave a slightly harder squeeze so the man would talk faster.

"I-I don't know!" he screamed. "This area has been closed for months, wire fences, guards, dogs, the whole thing, yeah? No one was allowed in" he said "Then out of no where they were all gone, it's a ghost town, people are only now starting to move into this area again. The cops don't even know anything about it. We were just here cuz it's a good place to sell!" he grunted as Loki dropped him and ran after his friends, who had finally been scared out of their shock and began to run away.

Tony stared at his food with little interest. "I don't want it." he said as the guard shoved the tray at him and closed the slot again. He grumbled and just left it in front of him, glaring at the food.

'How many times have I told you that you need to eat?' The voice startled him and his foot knocked over the bottle of water on the tray. There was a fond laugh and Tony smiled despite his shock, leaning back and letting the sound of the soft laugh surround him. "Eat, love." The voice said softly when the laughter died down. "You feel weak."

Tony huffed and looked around, figuring Loki was far if no one else seemed startled by the voice and how the SHIELD agents still milled around without a care. 'Well, I don't feel great." He said reluctantly. 'Where are you? I don't want you to get caught just for trying to get to me.' There was no reply and Tony began to worry that he had said something to make Loki mad, or that the other had already gotten caught during their brief exchange.

'Anthony...' Tony shuddered at the soft way the man said his name. 'You're locked up in a god damn tube, hours away from passing out if you don't eat and you still worry about me?' His voice was filled with shock and a bit of disbelief but Tony smiled softly. 'You stupid man...' He heard him breathe, his tone almost loving, but Tony refused to give himself that much hope. 'Why?'

Tony wanted to laugh but just smiled and leaned his head back on the glass to look up, figuring it was better than just staring at the ground. '"Why"?' He asked back. 'I told you, Lokes.' He grabbed a piece of bread and he began to eat a bit of the corner of it. 'You're all I have left...I love you.' he said fondly.

There was no reply and Tony nibbled at his bread, just waiting for him, a bit used to Loki just thinking. He wondered if wherever Loki was he was biting at his lip like he usually did. 'I'm going to get you out of this fucking place.' He said softly.

Tony smiled up at the ceiling fondly. 'Oh! Language your highness. I'm definitely a bad influence on you." he smirked."But yeah?' he asked. 'Are we supposed to live happily ever after or something?' he asked him, feeling like it wasn't possible, not believing that they could ever get to that point.

There was more silence before he felt his body fill with a comforting warmth and wondered if this was what Loki's magic felt like when he wasn't being attacked. 'Yes, love.' he said softly. 'We will... I promise.'

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