A Heart None the Less

Words without meaning

     1 year, it had been one year sense the whole Loki acciddent and yet the infamous Tony Stark, who was well known for forgetting people who he ever been romantic with or involved with could not for the life of him ever forget the man who was Loki Laufeyson.

Acutally it was more like the fact that he couldn't get what the god had said to him during the whole entire attempt to take over the planet, Tony was aware the god had mainly said what he did in an attempt to put him under his little mind control spell but Tony felt as though some of the words had meaning to them. 

The words he felt had to have some meaning behind them was when the god had claimed that Tony 'had heart', what in the actual fuck is that supposed to mean? Last time Tony checked most people though that he lacked a heart, in fact the few people who knew about the Arc reactor sometimes joked that the piece of metal in his chest had replaced any heart he might of had in him. 

Tony paced through his section of the Avengers towers, formally known as Stark Tower, and downed some Jack as he try to think of a meaning to the gods words, someone out there still believed that Tony had a heart and that person was one mister Loki Laufeyson and Tony was determined to know why Loki had thought this and if he still thought this! 

As Tony paced through his tower JARVIS interrupted Tony's train of thought "Sir.." the AI said actually sounding a bit concerned.

"What is is now JARVIS?" Tony asked sick of all the previous snarky comments JARVIS had thrown his way when he was working with Dummy and talking to the robotic arm like it was a child "I've detected that Loki is in the area sir" this froze Tony in his tracks, he lowered the drink from his lips slowly 

"What?" he asked genuinely confused. 

Tony had been confused by what JARVIS had said because of the way Thor talked about 'Asgardain justice' it seem there was no way out from the rather treacherous imprisonment, especially if Odin had stripped Loki of his powers like Thor said he would be and yet JARVIS was picking up on Loki which meant he must still have some of his powers left, Tony knew this because he had personally programmed JARVIS to pick up on both Loki's and Thor's presents after the New York accident so he  knew JARVIS wasn't messing with him, which the AI did allot but it was more like he sassed Tony rather then tricking him "Mister Lafueyson is here sir and he seems injured."

Loki injured?  This had been a sight Tony had seen before but the avengers were the one who caused the god harm and it was due to the fact everyone was convinced that Loki was evil, Tony had a few theories of his own. Meaning that Tony wasn't totally convinced that Loki was completely evil, mischievous yes, evil no. Tony sighed, Loki had to have a reason for coming  to what was previously the Stark towers knowing that there was a possibility of being captured by S.H.E.I.L.D, Tony was completely aware that the agents of S.H.E.I.L.D were always watching him "Jarv shut everything thing  down, we have to keep to keep this hidden from S.H.E.I.L.D as long as possible!" 

"Yes sir." Everything in the in the tower flicked off and then the lights flickered back on and that's when Tony rushed down to the ground floor of the tower and when he exited he found Loki laying against the tower, his head tilted back, he was breathing but he sounded ill and he looked even worse, he was sickly thin, he was paler then usual, and looked as if it had taken some serious burn damage. 

Tony hissed at the sight of Loki's dismantled body and even though he knew that Loki could be a serious threat risk there was something in Tony  that told him that he couldn't just leave Loki out here, not in the shape he was in because he would definitely grow ill most likely die.  So Tony did what his gut told him to do, he gingerly picked Loki up and carried him inside and put him in the room that was empty.  He laid the god down gently and Loki made this noise that made Tony cringe from the pain Loki was feeling from even the slightest movement. 

Tony sighed as he walked out of the room and shut the door behind him "Jarvis keep this room under constant surveillance, we don't know if we can completely trust mister mischievous in there yet." As Tony began to walk off his Al responded with a clear 

"Yes sir." Tony knew someone who could help, someone he could trust but he just hoped that it wouldn't make him angry because no one likes an angry Bruce.