The Consultant (Loki x Male Reader)

part: 26

song: crawling - linkin park

3rd pov

it had been a week since y/n went missing. loki couldn't sleep. he worked all night and day to help the avengers find y/n, no matter how much he hated them.

they had found out who had shut down jarvis and was spying on them from inside the tower, but the imposter had committed suicide, whispering, "hail hydra" as they died. loki had never felt such rage up until that moment.

he felt exhausted in every way possible. tony had created limiters for him to wear so that he couldn't do anything "evil". not having magic drained him a lot more than he would like to admit.

thor had urged him to rest, along with the rest of the avengers, but he refused. he wasn't about to lose the one person he felt truly accepted and cared for him. he could see the pity in all of their eyes. he hated it.

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three weeks since y/n went missing. the avengers and nick fury were all in different countries and cities, searching hydra bases for any traces of y/n. the list they had compiled had exactly 136 bases that could possibly have y/n within it's walls. they had searched 17 bases and it had been a week.

there was no sign of y/n anywhere.

loki was losing himself. he had passed out from exhaustion numerous times, and that was the only time he ever got sleep.

thor was begging at loki's feet for him to take a break and rest. but loki still refused.

the avengers didn't allow loki out of the tower to help search for y/n, so he stayed with thor and tried with all of his might to use what little magic he had to look for y/n that way. but he wasn't strong enough.

his hatred for himself and his weakness grew each day that y/n wasn't back in avengers tower and safe.

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7 weeks had passed since y/n went missing.

loki had lashed out at everyone, attacking thor and earning himself a spot in one of the cells in the small underground prison tony had in the avengers tower.

thor came to him every day to report on the continued search for y/n. the avengers were beginning to lose hope.

they were on base 53 and still no trace of y/n was found. there was no information on him at all in other bases.

loki spent his days in his cell pacing the small room until his feet were sore. he lashed out in rage and punched the wall until his fists bled, and the he'd collapse on the small twin sized bed in the cell and sleep. he'd wake to do the same thing the next day.

thor brought him books, but he couldn't bring himself to spend time reading while y/n was somewhere probably being tortured in horrible ways.

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11 weeks since y/n had gone missing. loki awoke to thor beating on the glass of his cell.

he sat up and glared darkly at thor, but stopped when he saw the frantic but excited expression on thor's face.

"loki. they found him," thor said, and loki stood up, basically running to glass of his cell.

"say it again," loki said.

"they found him, loki. they found him," thor said, putting his hand on the glass. "i've been called to leave immediately for germany."

"i'm not coming?" loki asked, his voice raising with every word. thor looked at him sadly.