Pretty When You Cry

Chapter 31

Loki had ended up staying with Steve until the new Avengers HQ had been completed. Steve was very easy to get along with, and the arrangement allowed Thor to travel to and from New Mexico to visit Jane without worrying about leaving Loki alone.

Even though Loki was fully physically healed and immortal once again, Thor was still protective of him. The others were, too. The problem was that Loki was still psychologically scarred by all that had happened. Several times each week, Steve would wake up to the sound of Loki screaming and would have to come in, wake him up from the nightmare that he was having, and hold him until he was calm.

For Loki, the incidents were always humiliating. Sometimes he would cry, not because of the dreams that he had, but because of how embarrassing it was for Steve to have heard him and to have to come in. Of course, crying just made him feel worse. It was a strange, horrible cycle.

Steve was good about it, at least. He never complained, not even when there were several nightmares and he barely got any sleep.

During the times when he was in New York, Thor would stay at Steve's apartment as well and would sleep in the same room as Loki. Loki would never admit it, but it helped having his brother there to protect him. When Thor was there he slept better, felt safer.

Everyone else was supportive, too. Even Clint.

Once the HQ building had opened, the group had made themselves at home, each taking a floor for their own use. Clint and Natasha soon found themselves essentially living together, and something about that seemed to make Clint calmer.

Even though Loki was officially "good", getting along with everyone and living at HQ, he did not consider himself part of the Avengers team. When they would go out to fight an enemy, he would stay behind at the building. Occasionally, though, things would happen. Some type of magic would destroy the enemy's main mode of transportion, or enemy foot soldiers would disappear, as if magically teleported away. Loki would never confirm nor deny that he had intervened but everyone knew that he likely had.

So, time went on. As the months passed, Loki's issues slowly began to subside. Other heroes joined the team. One was a man who went by the moniker 'Falcon'. He hadn't been pleased to hear that Loki was alive and living with the Avengers, but after hearing the whole story and actually meeting Loki, he changed his mind.

All in all, things were okay. As okay as they could be, at least. The others knew that it might take many more months, even years for Loki to fully heal. They'd all be there to help him get through it for however long it took.

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