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p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"Tony steps into the apartment and looks around. Every object brings back painfully happy memories of his time here with Loki. Looking at the still unwashed, empty wine glasses, Tony sees the memory like it happened yesterday./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"em"Why me? Tom asks suddenly. They were sat on the couch in each other's arms, watching some cartoon called 'Spongebob Squarepants.'/em/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"em"What?" Tony replies sleepily./em/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"em"Your Tony Stark, you could have anybody you wanted, and yet here you are on a Saturday night, drinking cheap wine with me. Why? I'm not significant in any way, shape or form."/em/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"emTony looks down at him for a moment before answering. "Your right about the first part. But not about the second. You are significant. You're significant to me." Tony takes Tom's hand in his own looking him in the eyes. "Why are you with me?"/em/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"emThis catches Tom off guard. "What? What do you mean?"/em/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"em"Your right. I'm Tony Stark. A notorious playboy and alcoholic. And yet I have the most amazing, smart and beautiful man lying on my chest."/em/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"emTom smiles softly, a sudden sadness in his eyes. "If only you know who I was underneath. I bet you would leave without a second glance."/em/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"em"What did you do?" Tony asks tenderly./em/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"em"If I told you you'd hate me, and I couldn't live with myself if you hated me…" Tears spill and run down his cheeks. The sudden show of emotion catches Tony off guard, so not knowing what to say, holds Tom closer. Whispering in his ear softly./em/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"em"I promise I would never do that. No matter what you did, I will always be by your side."/em/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"Tony suddenly grabs one of the glasses, and throws it into the far wall. Crying out in pure heart break, realising he'd done exactly what Loki predicted… And worst of all, he had broken his promise. He sinks to the floor and rests his head in his hands, crying softly./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"A soft clicking comes slowly towards him. Tony almost hopes he'll see Loki, but he only sees Pepper, who was bending down, worry all over her face./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;""Tony?" She says softly, placing her hand on his arm, "Oh Tony I'm so sorry. Natasha told me what happened. JARVIS told me you were here…"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"Tony smiles half-heartedly, more tears running down his face. Pepper pulls him in and hugs him tightly./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;""What happened?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;""I was the one person he didn't want to hate him! I promised I wouldn't abandon him no matter what he'd done in the past!..."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;""Oh Tony… You really do like him don't you?" She asks./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;""I don't like him Pepper… I love him."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"Her eyes widen slightly, looking into Tony's eyes she instantly knows he speaks the truth./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;""I've never seen that look in your eyes." She whispers./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;""What if he doesn't feel the same way about me anymore?" Tony asks, struggling to breath as panic bubbles up inside him, "What if Fury kills him?! What if he kill himself?! It's all my fault!"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;""Shhhhh," Pepper coos softly, "When you're truly in love with somebody, they can never truly hate you. I saw his conversation with Thor, Tony he does truly love you. Now, are you just going to sit here and feel sorry for yourself, or are you going to help me come up with a plan to get him out of there?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"Tony looks up at her and wipes away his tears, standing he has his trade mark Stark grin in place./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;""Lead the way Miss. Potts." Tony says./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"Pepper smiles, and together they leave the apartment and head back to Stark tower./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"When they get there, Tony instantly pulls up the cells security footage. All Tony could see of his god was his now extremely pale back. Tony himself turns pale as Natasha walks into the cell. Loki stiffens and slowly turns around to see who would hurt him this time. Upon seeing Natasha he cowers in the corner, knowing she would hurt him the most for what he did to Barton. Tony's jaw drops as he sees the full extent of SHIELDs 'necessary procedures.' Loki's body was covered in dried blood. His lips and eyes were swollen, and thousands of scars covered him head to foot./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;""Oh my God…" Tony whispers, "No fucking wonder he's so jumpy… It makes you wonder who's worse. The good or bad guys."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;""It's ok. We'll get him out of there."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"Tony stiffens as Natasha unlocks, and walks into Loki's cell./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"emLoki's eyes dart up as he hears his cell door open, trying to make himself as small as possible./em/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"em"Это нормально Loki. Вам не нужно бояться меня ... Пока вы ведете себя." (It's ok Loki. You don't need to be afraid of me... As long as you behave.) Natasha says in Russian, knowing the god will understand her. "Я только хочу, чтобы задать несколько вопросов о моей собственной. Они не будут, как и другие вопросы, хотя." (I only want to ask a few questions of my own. They won't be like the other questions though.)/em/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"emLoki nods silently, looking at her with wide eyes./em/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"em"Когда вы впервые начинаете с чувства к Тони?" (When did you first start having feelings for Tony?)/em/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"em"Вскоре после того как я бросил его из окна своей башни." (Shortly after I threw him out the window of his tower.) He replies in perfect Russian./em/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"em"Я могу сказать ваши чувства истинны. Я также считаю, что вы сказали Thor, когда ты сказал, что под контролем. Я не прощая вам. Вы по-прежнему были убиты сотни людей, я просто говорю, я не ненавижу тебя. Но если вы больно Stark, я убью тебя." (I can tell your feelings are true. I also believe what you told Thor when you said you were being controlled. I'm not forgiving you. You still killed hundreds of people, I'm merely saying I don't hate you. But if you hurt Stark, I will kill you.)/em/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"emLoki nods silently and watches as Natasha stands and leaves his cell, locking it behind her. He runs a hair through his greasy black hair and sighs. Hugging himself he closes his eyes, hoping he won't be disturbed./em/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"em'I wish you were here Tony… I told you you would hate me though…"/em/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"The heart break in Loki's voice shatters a Loki sized hole in Tony's heart./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;""Don't worry Loki," Tony says watching the screen as the god sleeps. "I'll be there soon."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"He turns to Pepper and says quietly, "I'm in love with a criminal Pep. And I mean the whole 'his smile is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen, his laughter is music to my ears' crap." He smiles softly as he recalls a memory, "There was this one time, we were lying on his couch and he'd fallen asleep. He looked so peaceful and haunted at the same time. I find it hard to believe he's truly evil. He's just got a tainted heart that needs repairing. And too be fair, after reading the mythology, you can hardly blame the guy for not loving his life in Asgard."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"Pepper nods, smiling sadly. After that they lapse back in to near total silence until the plan is finished./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"After days of carefully formulating a plan, Pepper and Tony finally finished and looked up at each other with a smile./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;""Make the call." Pepper says softly./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"Tony nods and pulls out his phone. Scrolling through his contacts until he's found the number he's looking for./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"It gets picked up after two rings./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;""Stark what do you want?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;""How is my favourite Director of SHIELD this fine morning?" Tony replies cheerfully./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;""Cut the crap Stark and get to the point."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;""Ok, ok Mr Grumpy pants," Tony mutters. "I just wanted to let you know I believe I have a plan on how to get Loki to give you the information you want."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"There was a short pause before Fury answered. "I'm listening."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"ENJOY!/p
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p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"Tony steps into the apartment and looks around. Every object brings back painfully happy memories of his time here with Loki. Looking at the still unwashed, empty wine glasses, Tony sees the memory like it happened yesterday./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"em"Why me? Tom asks suddenly. They were sat on the couch in each other's arms, watching some cartoon called 'Spongebob Squarepants.'/em/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"em"What?" Tony replies sleepily./em/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"em"Your Tony Stark, you could have anybody you wanted, and yet here you are on a Saturday night, drinking cheap wine with me. Why? I'm not significant in any way, shape or form."/em/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"emTony looks down at him for a moment before answering. "Your right about the first part. But not about the second. You are significant. You're significant to me." Tony takes Tom's hand in his own looking him in the eyes. "Why are you with me?"/em/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"emThis catches Tom off guard. "What? What do you mean?"/em/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"em"Your right. I'm Tony Stark. A notorious playboy and alcoholic. And yet I have the most amazing, smart and beautiful man lying on my chest."/em/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"emTom smiles softly, a sudden sadness in his eyes. "If only you know who I was underneath. I bet you would leave without a second glance."/em/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"em"What did you do?" Tony asks tenderly./em/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"em"If I told you you'd hate me, and I couldn't live with myself if you hated me…" Tears spill and run down his cheeks. The sudden show of emotion catches Tony off guard, so not knowing what to say, holds Tom closer. Whispering in his ear softly./em/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"em"I promise I would never do that. No matter what you did, I will always be by your side."/em/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"Tony suddenly grabs one of the glasses, and throws it into the far wall. Crying out in pure heart break, realising he'd done exactly what Loki predicted… And worst of all, he had broken his promise. He sinks to the floor and rests his head in his hands, crying softly./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"A soft clicking comes slowly towards him. Tony almost hopes he'll see Loki, but he only sees Pepper, who was bending down, worry all over her face./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;""Tony?" She says softly, placing her hand on his arm, "Oh Tony I'm so sorry. Natasha told me what happened. JARVIS told me you were here…"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"Tony smiles half-heartedly, more tears running down his face. Pepper pulls him in and hugs him tightly./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;""What happened?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;""I was the one person he didn't want to hate him! I promised I wouldn't abandon him no matter what he'd done in the past!..."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;""Oh Tony… You really do like him don't you?" She asks./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;""I don't like him Pepper… I love him."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"Her eyes widen slightly, looking into Tony's eyes she instantly knows he speaks the truth./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;""I've never seen that look in your eyes." She whispers./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;""What if he doesn't feel the same way about me anymore?" Tony asks, struggling to breath as panic bubbles up inside him, "What if Fury kills him?! What if he kill himself?! It's all my fault!"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;""Shhhhh," Pepper coos softly, "When you're truly in love with somebody, they can never truly hate you. I saw his conversation with Thor, Tony he does truly love you. Now, are you just going to sit here and feel sorry for yourself, or are you going to help me come up with a plan to get him out of there?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"Tony looks up at her and wipes away his tears, standing he has his trade mark Stark grin in place./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;""Lead the way Miss. Potts." Tony says./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"Pepper smiles, and together they leave the apartment and head back to Stark tower./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"When they get there, Tony instantly pulls up the cells security footage. All Tony could see of his god was his now extremely pale back. Tony himself turns pale as Natasha walks into the cell. Loki stiffens and slowly turns around to see who would hurt him this time. Upon seeing Natasha he cowers in the corner, knowing she would hurt him the most for what he did to Barton. Tony's jaw drops as he sees the full extent of SHIELDs 'necessary procedures.' Loki's body was covered in dried blood. His lips and eyes were swollen, and thousands of scars covered him head to foot./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;""Oh my God…" Tony whispers, "No fucking wonder he's so jumpy… It makes you wonder who's worse. The good or bad guys."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;""It's ok. We'll get him out of there."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"Tony stiffens as Natasha unlocks, and walks into Loki's cell./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"emLoki's eyes dart up as he hears his cell door open, trying to make himself as small as possible./em/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"em"Это нормально Loki. Вам не нужно бояться меня ... Пока вы ведете себя." (It's ok Loki. You don't need to be afraid of me... As long as you behave.) Natasha says in Russian, knowing the god will understand her. "Я только хочу, чтобы задать несколько вопросов о моей собственной. Они не будут, как и другие вопросы, хотя." (I only want to ask a few questions of my own. They won't be like the other questions though.)/em/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"emLoki nods silently, looking at her with wide eyes./em/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"em"Когда вы впервые начинаете с чувства к Тони?" (When did you first start having feelings for Tony?)/em/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"em"Вскоре после того как я бросил его из окна своей башни." (Shortly after I threw him out the window of his tower.) He replies in perfect Russian./em/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"em"Я могу сказать ваши чувства истинны. Я также считаю, что вы сказали Thor, когда ты сказал, что под контролем. Я не прощая вам. Вы по-прежнему были убиты сотни людей, я просто говорю, я не ненавижу тебя. Но если вы больно Stark, я убью тебя." (I can tell your feelings are true. I also believe what you told Thor when you said you were being controlled. I'm not forgiving you. You still killed hundreds of people, I'm merely saying I don't hate you. But if you hurt Stark, I will kill you.)/em/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"emLoki nods silently and watches as Natasha stands and leaves his cell, locking it behind her. He runs a hair through his greasy black hair and sighs. Hugging himself he closes his eyes, hoping he won't be disturbed./em/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"em'I wish you were here Tony… I told you you would hate me though…"/em/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"The heart break in Loki's voice shatters a Loki sized hole in Tony's heart./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;""Don't worry Loki," Tony says watching the screen as the god sleeps. "I'll be there soon."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"He turns to Pepper and says quietly, "I'm in love with a criminal Pep. And I mean the whole 'his smile is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen, his laughter is music to my ears' crap." He smiles softly as he recalls a memory, "There was this one time, we were lying on his couch and he'd fallen asleep. He looked so peaceful and haunted at the same time. I find it hard to believe he's truly evil. He's just got a tainted heart that needs repairing. And too be fair, after reading the mythology, you can hardly blame the guy for not loving his life in Asgard."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"Pepper nods, smiling sadly. After that they lapse back in to near total silence until the plan is finished./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"After days of carefully formulating a plan, Pepper and Tony finally finished and looked up at each other with a smile./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;""Make the call." Pepper says softly./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"Tony nods and pulls out his phone. Scrolling through his contacts until he's found the number he's looking for./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"It gets picked up after two rings./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;""Stark what do you want?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;""How is my favourite Director of SHIELD this fine morning?" Tony replies cheerfully./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;""Cut the crap Stark and get to the point."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;""Ok, ok Mr Grumpy pants," Tony mutters. "I just wanted to let you know I believe I have a plan on how to get Loki to give you the information you want."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"There was a short pause before Fury answered. "I'm listening."/p