I rush to the window and see the Avengers on the road, Iron Man flying and carrying an unconscious Natalie. Damn Stark. I assumed they were going to their headquarters, so I just had to beat them to it.

I quickly get to Stark Tower and get past security, mostly by disabling them. I take the elevator up to the Avengers' floor and wait.

They arrive soon after and I find a hiding spot. Tony sets Natalie down on a couch and the heroes stand in a circle to talk. "So what do we do with her?" Natasha asks, referring to Natalie. "We wait for Loki, of course. He'll come, no doubt." Thor responds.

"Nat, check the tracker." Steve demands. Tracker? How did they manage to get a tracker on me? "He's not in the apartment complex anymore," Natasha says looking at Steve.

She taps a few things on the tracker and her eyebrows crease together. "Nat, what is it?" Steve asks her. "He's in the tower!" Natasha says urgently. Tony curses under his breath. "That explains the guards," Steve comments.

"Do we know where in the tower?" Tony asks her. "It doesn't show the floor but if he was on our floor he would be..." Nat walks over to where my hiding spot was. "Here," she says looking down to see no one. Like I'd let myself, the God of Mischief, get caught.

I climb down a flight of stairs and get in an elevator back up to the floor the heroes were on and disguised myself as Tony's head of security, Happy Hogan.

The elevator doors open and I act panicked. "Sir, the systems indicated that Loki was in the tower!" Tony looks over at me. "Yeah, we figured that out Happy,"

"Nat, check where he is." Tony ordered. Nat looks down at the tracker and taps on it multiple times.
"Nat! Where's Loki?" Tony repeated. Natasha looked up. "He's not on here. He must've taken the tracker out."

Indeed I did, Natasha. If they got a tracker signal from "Happy", things wouldn't have been going as smoothly as they are now.

"What do you want me to do with her sir?" I ask, pointing to Natalie. "Take her to the...uh...the place where we heal people. Fix her up." I nod and grab a wheelchair I had brought up, and gently put her on it.

I wheel her to the elevator and get in and press 1 for the first floor. Like I knew where the "place where we heal people was". Real specific, Tony.

I waited about two seconds before pressing the emergency stop. The lights in the elevator went dim and the elevator stopped.

I shook Natalie. "Natalie. Wake up." She groaned and moved her head around. Right. I still sounded like Happy. I changed back into myself. "Natalie, it's Loki. I need you to get up."

Finally, Natalie's eyes fluttered open. "Mmn, where am I?" She said sleepily. Then the realization hit her. "WAIT. WHERE AM I? WHAT IS THI-" I quickly cover her mouth.

"Quiet!" I said through gritted teeth. "Do you want to get us caught?" She shook her head with my hand still over her mouth. "Then be quiet." I said pressing the emergency stop button again.

The elevator hummed to life. The lights became brighter and it continued its descent to the first floor. The elevator dings and I rush out dragging Natalie with me.

"Loki, what the hell is happening? Where are we?" Oh no. How am I going to explain this to her? How am I going to explain that I'm the bad guy, the villain? I'm the one who started the attack?

How am I going to tell her that they tracked me and took her as bait? That the tower belongs to the good guys and I just took her from them? Hell, things just got a lot more complicated.

"You go first. What do you remember?" I ask her. "I remember getting the first aid kit...and then I was getting the bandages, but then I went unconscious. I don't remember anything else."

Okay, let's give this one a try. "Basically some people took you to their secret base and I saved you before they did anything, you're welcome."

"Oh. Thanks." She says. "You should go back to the apartment," I suggest. "What about you?" She asks as we walk back towards the apartment complex. "I have some...errands to run." I answer.

"At least take your suit," Natalie says with a laugh. "I can't keep it forever, you know." I laugh with her. "Of course. I'll come with you to get my suit, then I'll run my errands."

Natalie gives me a look as we walk. "What?" I ask. "I never got to fix those cuts," she chimes as she pokes my cheek. "Ah, right. Those." I said, forgetting about my injuries.

A little while later we arrive at her apartment and she rushes back to her room and brings out the first aid kit. "I'll do it out here this time." She says jokingly as I take a seat on the couch.

She applies medicine to each of my cuts and leaves it. I suddenly wince in pain. Ah, the rod from earlier. I clutch the side of my stomach as Natalie holds me still. "Loki! What happened?" She asks in a panicked tone.

"I...might have left out a tiny detail." I said sheepishly. Natalie raises an eyebrow. "And what tiny detail is that?" She says with her hands on her hips. "A metal rod stabbed my side." I blurt out quickly. "WHAT?!" I give her a nervous laugh.

"Loki, why the hell would you leave that out?! You could've died!" She exclaims as she digs around in the first aid kit. "Take off your shirt so I can apply some of this." She orders, holding up a medication ointment as she digs with the other hand.

"Are you asking me to strip, Natalie?" I teased, a smile playing on my lips. She snaps her head around to look at me. "Just. Do it." She says, sounding a bit aggravated. "All you had to do was ask," I say jokingly as I take off my top.

She turns around and takes the seat next to me. She stays silent as she applies the ointment to my wound. "You could've died, Loki." She says solemnly. I simply purse my lips and nod.

She reaches over and grabs the bandage roll and gently wraps it around my waist. Her fingertips barely graze my skin, her touch igniting a spark inside I never knew existed. I look over at her as she continues to wrap the bandage.

As soon as she finishes, she looks up and her eyes meet mine. "Natalie I-" I start but she puts a finger over my lips. "You need to rest," She says gently. I nod and lie down on her couch.

She lays a hand on my shoulder and then gets up as I close my eyes.

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~♡ Miki