This story takes place in three different storylines, set in the past, the present, and the future.
I do not own the Avengers films. This is still technically a pompt story, only I have to prompt myself. Which is surprisingly interesting... but sadly doesn't produce especially long chapters. I will work on that.
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Present
Strangely, life under Loki's rule settled into a rutine. A rutine which had strangely many things in common to life before Loki, except he was lounging around the Tower, flirting with Pepper, disrupting Tony's science and generally agonising the rest of the avengers.
Having bound everyone by magic not to fight him, the norse god/frost giant seemed disinclined to do much else to disrupt the usual rutine, letting Pepper go back to running Stark Industries as soon as the morning following the battle, even letting Tony work on his projects, though restraining the Iron man suits.
Spending the mornings reading, the Trickster then spent his afternoons being a general - but strangely harmless - menace around the tower, and the evenings without fail with Pepper. While she relaxed some with time, upon realising it was not his intention to harm her, Loki was never convinced she kept him company out of more than a desire to keep her friends from being harmed, so he kept his distance, but he could not help but want her company, painful as this strange non-relationship was for his long-shuttered-up heart.