littlerainbowhappy asked: #35 (with Loki getting Jane off the drugs)
200 word drabble courtesy of the tumbler numbered AU prompt list. Post-TDW. Embrace ALL the tropes!
Loki considers Jane with a cool, academic disinterest that makes Thor want to knock his teeth in with Mjolnir. "Lock her in an empty cell for a few years," he suggests. "It proved solvent in my case."
"You didn't suffer these ill effects."
"No?"
"No. Even your tricks could not have concealed such misery."
"Again you underestimate me, brother." Loki waves his hand — there is Jane, asleep on Vanaheim silk sheets, smiling contentedly.
Another gesture. The real Jane pants, sweats, trembles; the guards tied her hands to control the flailing. Her eyes are open and unseeing.
"Mortals and Infinity Stones make a poor combination," his brother remarks. "How fares Selvig?"
"Can you help or not?"
"I can." And he smiles. Waiting.
Forgive me. "House arrest until Father wakes."
"Done." Loki goes at once Jane's side and kneels next to the bed. (His brother, kneeling.) "It hurts, I know," he murmurs. "You held the power of the universe; now you're so unbearably empty."
Jane turns her head slightly, like she's listening.
"There are other ways. Trust me. I will give you what you need."
As the woman he loves calms under Loki's gentle, poisoned comfort, Thor suspects he'll live to regret this.