ARTHORS NOTE: First off, I just want to thank people for their amazing and supporting reviews. And a special thanks to
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I also just want to say that there is torture in this chapter, and Loki mentions that he wants to die, so yea...
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The next day when Tony went to the Helicarrier, he was instantly told by Fury to go to the cells and interrogate Loki. Tony nodded numbly and made his way to the cells. When he stepped inside, the first thing he noticed was the God's bare back, the second was the deep lashes covering his back, some still bleeding. The god was shaking violently, his breath ragged and desperate. Tony's eyes soften for a moment, before he says sharply to hide his emotion.
"Fury says you'll only speak to me…"
Loki nods once, staying silent.
"Why were you on Earth?"
Loki forced his voice not to shake and replied in pained whisper, "Asgard was no longer my home. I hoped that I might be able to start a new life for myself here. A peaceful life, one where I would be able to forget all my failures."
"How long have you been here?"
"Roughly nine months."
"You know, you may be a 'god' or a 'prince', but you're our prisoner, and when somebodies talking to you, you usually look at them." Tony snaps angrily.
"I'd rather you didn't see me like this…" Loki replies softly.
"What do you mean?" Tony asks softly.
"These whip lashes didn't get on my back by themselves Stark," Loki spits back, "Just watch the security footage, I'm sure you'll love the show."
"They didn't… did they?"
"Your SHEILD claim to be the good guys, but your methods for extracting information is barbaric. Even I'm not this vicious…." Loki laughs at himself bitterly and slightly breathlessly, "I honestly thought you would be the one to finally except me, even with all my… flaws. I guess that's a wish that will never come true no matter how hard I try to make it come true."
He curled into a ball and refused to say anymore, so Tony left. He left his heart inside Loki's cell. His mind was torn, this couldn't be the same man who tried to conquer the world, could it? They call Loki liesmith, so what's to say he's not lying to Tony? There was only one way to find out, so Tony rushed back to his lab and easily hacked into SHEILD's private footage. He found a file named LOKI, so he started playing from when he left.
Fury walks into Loki's cell, his one eyes running the god up and down. Loki stares at him, his eyes widen when he realises Fury is about to rush him. He spins to his left and deflects Fury's attempt to grab his neck. He crashes into the bars of the cell, and Fury wastes no time in pinning him to the bars.
"Get off me director!" Loki yells furiously, unable to move under Fury's weight.
Nick merely grabs his hair, yanks his head back and pushes him to a steel chains that were strapped to the ceiling of the cell. He roughly puts the deity's hands in the handcuffs attached to the chains. Taking a big pair of scissors he cuts all the leather off Loki's top half, leaving him only in his black leather trousers.
"Your gonna answer my questions," Fury says calmly as he brings forward a tray with various instruments on, out from the darkness. He picks up a small leather whip, with a steel point, "Or I'm going to be forced to use this."
Loki's eyes widen slightly but he stays quiet, almost like he's daring Fury to do it. Fury's eye narrows, and he pulls back his arm, only to bring it forward with more power. The metal tip if the whip makes a long, bloody trail down Loki's back. Despite the pain he was feeling, Loki stayed silent.
"And that was only a warning lash. Imagine how it will feel for real." Fury says, "Now, why were you on Earth?"
Silence is broken by the crack of the lash on the gods back.
"Why were you on earth?!"
Again and again the god's defiant silence is broken by the crack of the lash on his back, until it becomes too much for him to bear anymore, and he screams out Tony's name, in the hopes the Ironman will take pity on him and stop the pain.
"Why Stark?!" Fury shouts. Loki closes his eyes and presses his lips firmly together. Fury sighs softly and puts the bloodied whip down. He picks up a scalpel and a blow torch. Lighting the blow tourch, he holds the knifes edge over the flame until it becomes white hot.
"Why Tony Stark?"
Silence.
Fury takes a deep breath and drags the white hot knife across Loki's stomach, causing the god to scream in pain.
"Vinsamlegast! Vinsamlegast gera sársauka hætta! Tony gera það að hætta ... bara enda líf mitt nú þegar og gera það að hætta vinsamlegast!" (Please! Please make the pain stop! Tony make it stop... just end my life already and make it stop please!) Loki cries out in desperation as Fury does it over and over again on his chest and stomach.
"WHY STARK?!"
"HE FOLLOWED ME!" Loki screams, straining against the metal keeping him captive.
"What do you mean?"
"Ask him yourself." Loki spits.
The torture continues until Loki is barely conscious, when at last Fury releases his hands and lets him fall in a crumpled and bloody heap on the floor.
Tony stops the footage there. Unnoticed tears fall down his cheeks as he stares wide eyes at the monitor.
"Stark." Fury says quietly from the door way.
Tony spins round quickly and looks at him.
"Why? We're supposed to be the good guys!" He yells.
"He endangers everybody on this planet Stark, necessary procedures had to be-"
"NECESSARY?!" Tony roars, "He may have tried to take over the world, but he doesn't deserve this! YOU COLD BLOODED SONE OF A BITCH!"
Fury's eye snaps up to Tony, the heat pouring out of them, "Tony, he is the enemy!"
Unable to help himself Tony screams back in Fury's face, "NO HE'S NOT! NOT ANYMORE! HE'S MINE AND I KNOW HE DOESN'T DESERVE THIS!"
Before Fury can reply, Tony storms out of the room and hastily leaves the Helicarrier. He needs to clear his head, so he goes to the one place he can thinks will help him to achieve this. Tom-no- Loki's apartment.