Give me Love

29. Meetings and Misgivings

Thor led Loki to a seat, and intended to take you to another one on the other side of the table, but before he could, Loki pulled you down onto his lap. Both of you received looks from The Avengers, and though they were mainly aimed at Loki, they still hurt...

"Okay. So where do we start?" Loki asked with a smirk, running his lips across your neck.

"Where is the Tesseract?" Tony asked. Loki chuckled with a sigh,

"Back on this old subject are we? Do you ever tire of whining for the same thing?" Thor slammed his hand on the table,

"This is not a time to be playing games." He growled. Loki eyed him for a moment,

"He came and claimed it several months ago." The raven haired man laughed softly, "He wasn't too happy when I told him you had broken the sceptre, Thor."

"Who?" Tony asked.

"Thanos." Everyone in the room looked thoroughly confused – except for Thor, who looked very nearly terrified.

"Tell me this is a joke... Tell me you did not give The Tesseract to Him." Thor almost pleaded.

"Okay, pause, rewind - - who is Thanos?" Tony asked. Thor sighed,

"He is of a race known as the Titan Eternals. He is on a quest to find Infinity Gems... Up until now he has been unsuccessful..."

"Wait... you've known this the entire time, and you didn't tell anyone?" Steve asked.

"He has been attempting to find them for many years... I was not certain that he was the one pulling the strings - - it was merely speculation... and because we did not see him come to claim The Tesseract, I thought I was wrong."

"Gems... You said Gems. That would mean there's more than just the cube." Bruce said more to himself than Thor, but it didn't stop Thor from answering.

"There are six gems in total... Created several millennia ago at the creation of the universe... They each hold immense power and cannot be held or used by mortal beings..."

"Great... and how many does Thongos have?" Tony asked.

"Thanos." Thor corrected, causing the billionaire to roll his eyes. "I don't know..." Tony sighed irritably,

"How many?" he asked Loki,

"I do not know." He said. More arguing ensued, but you were too out of it to pay any real attention. Your mind was thoroughly blown and spinning at the same time. Six all-powerful 'gems' were just floating around space?! What kind of idiot would willingly house one of them on their planet?!

"What does he plan to do once he has them all?"

"I don't know..." Thor replied.

"What does he plan to do once he has them all?" Tony repeated, only this time he was looking at Loki.

"How would I know?" he growled. Again, more arguments broke out... You sighed softly. It was a vicious circle that just didn't seem to want to end...

Between all the questions to both Thor and Loki, and giving them enough time to explain, several hours had passed, and you could tell Loki was growing more and more irritated...

"Maybe because you were working for him?" the billionaire replied. Loki rolled his eyes,

"I have answered your questions, now I will return to the medical bay with (Name)."

"You're nowhere near finished answering our questions." Nat said. Loki's jaw clenched; and you could tell he was ready to completely snap.

"Loki..." you said softly while gently running your hand over his chest. His eyes turned to you, burning with fire at first, but the longer he looked into your eyes, the calmer he became. He wrapped an arm around your shoulders and pulled you closer.

"What else?" he growled at The Avengers. Nat nodded at Auden, who pressed play on a remote control. A snippet from the cameras in the prison cells began to play, and to say it was familiar would be a complete understatement. It was you, and Loki. You were sitting beside him on the floor, Loki laying in the familiar, old, rickety bed.

"Just be patient, I will talk them into letting me out of this place." The Loki on the screen said.

"You don't have any leverage..."

"I do."

The television was shut off a moment later.

"So, Loki. What is this leverage?" Nat asked.

"Nothing, I assure you," he said with a shrug. Suddenly the doors slammed open, and a tall, bald, dark skinned man with an eye patch walked through the doors. Everyone looked confused or uncertain, but that all changed when he walked up to Loki and tore you from Loki's hold. He held a gun to your head.

"Fury, what are you doing?" Steve asked, stepping forwards to stop him, however unknown men blocked his way and created a wall of bodies to block their path to you.

"Tell me where they are." The man, Fury, asked Loki.

"Where are what?" he snarled, fire and hatred burning in his eyes.

"The missiles, the nuclear weapons, the chemical warfare research and samples!" He replied, pressing the gun hard to your temple.

"I don't know what you're talking about." Loki replied smoothly. Fury roughly passed you to one of the other unknown men and removed all but one bullet from a revolver. He spun the barrel and clicked it in, before pointing it right at your head.

"Let's play a game." He pulled the trigger, making you jump and sob all at once - - though no bullet came out. "Tell me what I want to know, otherwise she will die." He said,

"You wouldn't dare." Loki snarled. Again Fury shot the gun, and again it didn't go off... Though that didn't make the fear in your stomach and tears running down your cheeks stop,

"Please, stop, I-," The man holding you still covered your mouth.

"Where are they?"

"I don't know!" Loki growled as he tried to stand; however the guards stopped him. The other Avengers tried to fight their way towards you, but the guards were keeping them in place. Fury pulled the trigger again, and you flinched. More tears spilled from your eyes. You were going to die... You were really going to die... Loki would never tell him what he had planned... and you were going to die because of it... You didn't even notice the other two trigger pulls, until Fury spoke.

"Last one. This time I know I won't miss. Tell me. Where are they?" He said in an eerily calm voice. Loki didn't respond. Fury started to squeeze the trigger, and you tightly closed your eyes.

"Stop, stop, stop!" Loki yelled. "They're all around the world... with different enemies of SHIELD... They've taken them to keep them safe." He said.

"Names." Fury growled. "I need names."

"Ivankov, Belova, Gorman, Forson..."

"Is that all?"

"Yes..." Fury gave the man holding you a signal, and the next thing you knew, you were on your knees, sobbing softly. You'd seen death... You'd touched its icy hand before and come back just fine... but this time... this time it was different... A warm hand settled on your shoulder.

"She has been traumatised enough for one day, don't you think?" Loki growled before lifting you into his arms.

"Loki, we are not done here."

"I am. I have told him the only piece of information I had withheld. There is nothing else I can tell you." He barked before turning around and heading out the doors.