You guys are probably thinking, 'You just typed three chapters in two days, you must not have a life.' Well, I do, but I was free this weekend. Chapter production will slow slightly during the week but it'll likely pick up on the weekends. Just giving you a fair warning.

Just because I said no pairing, didn't mean there wouldn't be some flirting. I mean we about are talking about a genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist and the God of Mischief.

I do not own any characters.

Enjoy!

A knock sounded on the door and Frigga looked up from the book she had been reading. "Come in," she said.

One of the servants opened her door and immediately bowed in respect before relaying his message. "Heimdall wishes to speak with you alone, my queen."

Frigga nodded. "Thank you. I shall be on my way now."

The servant bowed his head and left.

Frigga sat for a moment pondering what Heimdall would wish to see her for before heading outside to the stables. She saddled her horse, a beautiful white stallion with a golden mane and tail, and proceeded to where Heimdall stood, at the edge of the newly re-formed Bifrost. Thanks to the Tesseract, it had quickly been rebuilt.

She unmounted her horse a few feet from Heimdall. He bowed his head in respect. "My Queen," he said.

Frigga also bowed her head. "Good Heimdall. What is it you wished to speak with me about?"

Heimdall seemed to take a deep breath, his golden gaze resting on the queen. "It is about Loki."

Frigga gulped, expecting the worst but nodded her head as an order for him to continue.

"I won't go into detail about what was done to him but his punishment was far worse than he deserved. He is currently on Midgard and he is safe."

Frigga smiled. "Did you send him there Heimdall?"

Heimdall cracked a small smile. "Of course not my Queen, that would be against the All-Father's orders." But Frigga caught the slightest hint of sarcasm in his voice and laughed lightly.

"Would it be fine for me to visit him?"

"I would allow him a bit longer to rest my lady. He's still slightly traumatized but he is in the hands of people that can and are caring for him," Heimdall said.

Frigga nodded. "I will wait for a few more days before I see to him." She turned to leave, mounting her horse. "Thank you."

"My pleasure my lady," he said and watched as she galloped back to the palace.

Loki sat in his cell, his recently broken leg throbbing. The cold and darkness crept in on him and chilled him to the bone. He sobbed at the hopelessness of his situation. He would forever be alone. A worthless runt. He didn't deserve the family or friends he had betrayed.

At least, that was what Thanos had told him. In some part of him, hidden behind the walls, he felt that none of that was true but if that was true, if somebody cared about him, how had they allowed him to be dragged back here.

Loki was ripped from his thoughts as he heard footsteps trudging down the hall to his cell. His eyes widened in fear and his breathing quickened. His muzzle had been left off. After a few seconds a large Chitauri soldier walked into his cell and grabbed the chain connecting his wrists and hooked them to the wall. Loki whimpered as the Chitauri soldier drew a large knife from his belt. The blade was covered in a dark purple liquid that Loki knew well.

Before he could make any move to resist, the soldier drove the blade deep into his left arm, just below his wrist. Loki yelped in pain and the Chitauri laughed, twisting it before yanking it out and unhooking Loki's wrist before leaving the room. It took only a few second for the pain to register in his mind. His arm felting like it was being burned from the inside out and he whimpered, knowing the Chitauri were watching. Within seconds it reached his heart and when it did he let out a horrible scream as his body convulsed in agony.

"Loki?"

His brain was too clouded with pain for him to register anything other than the sound of his name.

"Loki!"

His whole body was burning now as the amount of pain doubled and he screamed again.

"Loki! Wake up!"

Loki gasped and shot into an upright position. He was trembling again and his throat was sore. He realised he was still on Midgard and he looked over to his right to see who had called his name.

Bruce stood beside him, looking really worried. "Hey Loki, you okay? I think you had a nightmare."

Loki leaned back against the pillows and nodded slightly.

"Want some water?"

Loki looked at Bruce again before nodding and taking the glass, taking a small sip from it. "Whenever I had nightmares," Loki looked at him, with confusion in his eyes. "Yes, I often had them, they've been gone for a while now though. Anyway, talking or writing about them always made me feel better."

Loki seemed to take that in for a moment before speaking in a low voice. "I've always had night terrors, even when I was a small child. They faded away when I got older but within the past few years or so they've come back worse than before." He shifted in his bed, sitting cross-legged on the bed. "They're not always the same but they...They all center around my torture." Loki said, staring down at the blankets. He felt a hand on his shoulder and smiled slightly at gesture.

After a few minutes of silence, Bruce stood up straight and stretched. "Well, it's morning time anyway so we might as well get on with the day." Loki nodded. "We'll start with checking your bandages and then I'll show you around the tower."

Bruce went about checking Loki's bandages. A few of them he had to change and the others already showed some progress in healing. "Well, at least the bleeding has slowed right? Mind if I ask how your wounds heal so fast?"

"My magic allows my wounds to heal faster than both mortals and most of the Aesir. Broken bones heal the fastest," Loki didn't know why but he felt as though he could trust Dr. Banner and he almost felt safe around him which was a ridiculous thought as he knew the seemingly shy man could turn into a large, green beast.

"Really?" Loki nodded and smiled at the sound of amazement in his voice.

"In fact..." Loki slowly pushed himself off the bed, testing his broken leg. It only felt sore but he was capable of walking on it and thankfully he still had on his black pants though his shirt was in pieces.

"Well, I guess we won't have to bother with the wheel chair after all," Bruce said. "Jarvis, who all is currently in the upper part of the tower?"

"Only Mr. Rogers and Master Stark, sir," Jarvis replied, causing Loki to flinch. Bruce noticed this and chuckled.

"Don't worry Loki, that's just the tower's AI. He monitors everything that goes on. Come on, we'll go up to the Family Floor."

Loki followed Bruce out of the door and into the elevator. It opened up on a large open floor. To the right was a hallway that had five doors, two on each side and one at the end. Directly infront of him was a pair of large beige couches and a recliner all facing a flat screen TV. The wall across from him consisted only of windows with a large balcony outside of them. To his left, through a doorway was a large dining area with a huge table and through another doorway there was a large kitchen with an island and a few stools. Sitting at one of the stools was Tony who appeared to be eating some form of food.

Bruce got a great idea as to how to cheer up Loki and looked at him and held his finger to his lips and snuck up behind Tony. He leaned down beside his head. "Tony!" He shouted and Tony jumped, dropping his food and spilling his coffee on his pants.

"Damn it Bruce! I expect this from Loki, not you!" He punched Bruce on his shoulder. "You even made me drop my omelet!" Loki burst out laughing causing them both to smile.

"Sorry," Bruce said, even though he was chuckling.

Tony sighed. "Well, make some more coffee while I change." He turned to Loki. "Come on with me, we'll get you some more clothes." Loki nodded and followed Tony back to the elevator. "So, feeling better?"

"Slightly," Loki said.

"That's good," Tony said and pushed the up button. "Anyway, you can borrow some of my clothes for now and we can go shopping for some clothes for you later." The elevator doors opened and the pair stepped out and walked down the hall to a door.

Tony opened it to reveal a large bedroom and he walked over to a large dresser and opened a few drawers, pulling out some clothes and handing them to Loki. He then pointed to a door on the opposite side of the room. "That's the bathroom, you can change in there."

Loki nodded and walked into the bathroom as Tony changed in his room. After a few seconds, he walked back out in a long-sleeved black shirt, a pair of long dark jeans, and his signature leather boots that had somehow remained intact. The pants were a few inches too short but the boots covered that so it wasn't obvious.

"Ooh," Tony looked Loki up and down. "You can actually keep those, they look good on you."

Loki snorted before following Tony back to the kitchen. Bruce stood by the coffee maker, pouring two cups of the dark liquid and Steve sat reading a newspaper on one of the stools.

"Hey Cap, anything interesting in the news?" Tony asked.

Steve shook his head. "Nothing unusual." He turned around and saw Loki. "Hey, you feeling better?"

Loki nodded slightly before quietly taking a seat at the other end of the island. At that moment, the elevator doors opened and Loki tensed up. Everyones' heads snapped around to find Pepper walking out of the elevator looking in a bag.

"Tony I have been trying to-", she lifted her head and her words died in her mouth. "Is...Tony, is that Loki?!"

Tony quickly walked over to her and brought her to another room to explain everything. They walked back in after about five minutes and Pepper walked over to Loki and stood beside him. Loki flinched back slightly but looked up at her.

"Well, I guess I'm going shopping for you since it would be rather unwise to let the public know you are being sheltered by the Avengers. What are some things you like?"

Loki thought for a second before quietly speaking. "I don't really care but I wear a lot of dark green, gold and black and I never wear shorts."

Pepper nodded. "Mmkay. That's pretty easy and since you are wearing Tony's clothes I'm guessing your around the same shirt and pants size so..." She trailed off. "Anyway, I'll be back later." She quickly turned and left the room.

"Well, that was easy," Steve commented. "I thought she'd be more...I dunno, freaked out of something.

Tony shook his head and pulled an apple out of the fruit bowl. "She took everything in stride once I explained why he was here and everything. " He tossed an apple at Loki, a green one. Loki took a bite of it and smiled. "See, I figured you would have liked it because it was green." Loki and Bruce chuckled. "Hey Loki, have you ever heard about Harry Potter?"

Loki shook his head and Steve looked up from his newspaper. "Who's Harry Potter?"

Bruce and Tony looked shocked for a second. "That's it, movie marathon now. Jarvis start the first one, Bruce popcorn?"

"Done sir."

Loki looked at Bruce. "Who?"

Bruce pulled out a bag of popcorn and put it in the microwave. "He's a fictional character that is a wizard and he goes on adventures but you have to watch it." Bruce poured the popcorn in a bowl and popped another bag before walking into the living room.

Bruce and Loki said on one couch and Tony and Steve sat on the other as the movie started. Pepper walked in a few hours later to find them on the third movie in the series and set her bags down before popping some more popcorn and sitting beside Tony.

Loki was curious as to what she had bought him but he was too involved in the movie at this point to care.

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