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"Well shit."
Of all the ways Tony thought this week would go an alien invasion lead by a norse god in the middle of the week was not one of them, and having stopped said god he figured the hard work was done, because really, having already almost died once today should've been enough, but alas the universe said no when he had a heart attack while keeping the tesseract away from shield and having said tesseract find its way to Loki so he can make a perfect escape.
"Of course he gets away. We spend the past two days looking for the guy and his glowy cube and when we finally find him and stop a damn alien army he gets away. Perfect just what we needed." Tony says standing up after Thors on the spot heart surgery.
"He couldn't have gone far. And he's still in chains surely you can get him back to shield." Mr secretary "I have more authority then you" replies helpfully.
"You're wrong on two accounts. When we get my brother back he will not be going to shield to experiment with, and sadly for all we know Loki may not even be on earth."
Thor looks at the ground when he's done, poor guy probably thinks his brother is half a galaxy away.
"What point break said, we get Loki back to Asgard when we find him, along with the tesseract. We don't need shield experimenting with more alien stuff seeing how well this turned out, and yeah, obviously we'll try to find him but something tells me if Loki doesn't want to be found we're not finding him, especially if he's on another planet."
"Just find him. We'll see who gets custody once he's locked up."
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We spent the next week doing search and rescue, clean up of property damage, and most importantly, trying to find Loki.
Bruce spent the majority of the time in a lab trying to find and track the gamma radiation the cube lets out with no luck.
Thor talked to Heimdall, some guy on Asgard that can apparently see everything, in hopes of finding Lokis location, but again no luck, so I guess he can't really see everything.
Tony had spent most of that time getting Jarvis to scan the city and the planet to try to find Loki, but again nothing came up. While scanning the area he also handled the storage of the alien tech and helping Steve, Natasha and Clint with search and rescue.
Which is why when Tony sat down on a couch in his flat of the now named Avengers Tower to have a drink of scotch and unwind for the first time in over a week, he was utterly surprised to see familiar green and black leather, long raven hair, and a seemingly permanent smirk suddenly appear in front of the tv.
"What the hell!" Tony says almost falling of the couch, almost.
"Before you call your mighty avengers, know I mean you know harm." Loki replies smoothly even moving his hands up in surrender.
Now even with that very convincing promise of peace Tony really should call the team, but they worked so hard to find him and he's right here so why not keep him here awhile longer.
"You know a promise from the god of lies isn't the most convincing."
"You've been doing research on me? I'm flattered."
"Well you've kept us pretty busy these past few days, figured I should learn some more about who we're up against."
"Quite practical." Loki says just before pointing at his cup of scotch. "A few days ago you offered me a drink, can I assume the offer still stands?"
Now Tony really shouldn't get a drink with Loki, no fraternizing with the enemy and all that but he might be able to get some information if he keeps him talking, so what's the harm?"
"Go for it, get whatever you want out of that cabinet." Tony replies while nodding in the direction of the liqueur cabinet.
Without a word Loki walks over to the cabinet and gets himself a drink, when he comes back Tony almost grins to see it's scotch. That grin doesn't come out however when Tony sees Loki take a seat on the couch next to him.
"Look, not that I don't love the company of the guy that tried to take over my planet and threw me out a window, a window in my own home might I add, but why exactly are you here. Don't you have some evil super villain things to plan?"
Loki rolls his bright green eyes at that, and wait weren't his eyes blue? He's gonna have to ask Thor about that.
"While I'm sure planning something to annoy your band of heroes would be amusing, I fear it would become quite tiresome in the long run, additionally there's always the chance you'll somehow manage to capture me and I'll be sent to Asgard to live out my days in a cell, and that would simply be to boring to fathom."
Loki drinks what's left of his scotch before continuing.
"The reason I'm here Stark, is to make a bargain."
"And what, might I ask are we bargaining Loki?"
"I remain here, on earth, free to do as I wish in exchange for this." Loki flicks his wrist and empty glass in his right hand is replaced with the tesseract.
"Why don't I just call my suit now and spare us all the trouble?"
"I would be gone before you could finish calling for it. And as I'm sure you've noticed, you won't find me unless I want to be found. I'll be back here tomorrow around this time to hear your answer Stark, I expect a drink then too." With that Loki just smirks and fades away until he's gone.
"Jarvis?"
"Yes sir?"
"Tell the Avengers to get over here. We have a bargain to discuss."