Closed RP w/ Bruce

[you_have_heart]

Pain. Pain and loss, these were the only thing Loki was registering. The All-Father had thought he was taking pity on his adopted son when he stripped him of his magic and cast him here, many Aesir agreed. Many agreed and thought it was to lenient of the All-Father. So to appease them he had ordered his mouth sewn shut. Only an act of pure mercy and compassion could remove them. He had not been stripped of his voice, but any vocalization vibrated the strings and caused him more pain.

Some thought it was still to merciful, even as he lay on the floor of the grand hall, humiliated and bleeding, but the All-Father did no more before casting him back down to Earth.

So there he lay, in a dark, dirty alley somewhere in a large city, still in pain and bleeding, wondering when a mortal would come by, realize who he was, and kill him on the spot. The All-Father thought to teach his younger son the same lesson his older had learned among the mortals but he knew different. He would either be killed on sight or found by SHIELD.

At this point he didn't know which he preferred.

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[you_have_heart]

"What else am I to do? You will not allow me to leave the room." At least he was distracted by the show or a sense of claustrophobia might have started to set in.

[aggravated]

"The point is that you're supposed to be healing up, not running around. Then... I'll need to figure out what I want to do with you." He couldn't forgive what Loki had done, killing those innocent people, any more than he could forgive himself for having done the same.

[you_have_heart]

"Yes, what are you going to 'do with me'? I know you will not turn me loose." Loki knew that Bruce would not let him go out on his own. For all his talk of how he could disappear in a world this large, start a new life, he knew the other would never let him out of his sight.

And he really couldn't blame him.

[aggravated]

"I don't know, yet. When I decide, I'll let you know." Bruce slid a hand back through his hair, knowing it was admitting he had no idea what to do with Loki. In reality, he was torn between telling Tony that Loki was here and letting the decision pass to someone else or just calling SHIELD himself and telling them he would let the Other Guy out if they decided to hand Loki back to Asgard.

[you_have_heart]

"I suggest you act quickly. I grow bored quiet easily." The entire time he never took his eyes off of the television partially because he was very interested in this show, partially because he did not want to look at the other. He did not want to see what was going on behind the man's eyes.

[aggravated]

"So does the Other Guy," Bruce said quietly, a threat returned with a threat.

[you_have_heart]

"By all means, release the beast."

"Then this little farce could be done with." The second sentence was a low mutter. Loki was not even sure Bruce could hear him.

[aggravated]

"How about 'no'?" Bruce rolled his eyes yet again, even as he felt the Other Guy flare up just for a moment at the idea. He wanted to turn Loki back into a badly used doggie play toy and possibly finish the job he started.

But even as Bruce started to get up as he heard a knock, all hell broke loose. The glass that made up the windows that took up most of one wall shattered inward at incredible force, slicing material and skin and embedding where it would. Bruce caught more of it in the back than anywhere else from his timing, falling forward onto the other bed and thus Loki even as dark figures swarmed in through the shattered windows.

[you_have_heart]

Loki saw the figures just before they burst through the window. He was able to shield his face from much of the blast, but as the expense of his arms. Blinded with pain from the shards of glass embedded in them, he looked up just in time to see the Chitauri fire something at both him and Bruce.

The world went black.

[aggravated]

When Bruce woke, it was far from a good waking. Instead it was more like waking from the dead and his body was rejecting every second of it. He convulsed on the floor of the room he was in, dry heaving painfully. When he tried to look around he saw only darkness, even as tears built in his eyes as a side effect of his body's distress.

Whatever was in his system was not meant to be there.

[you_have_heart]

It must have been a very strong sedative to knock him out, Loki mused as he groggily came around. Even after his eyes were open, he could not see anything; the room was pitch black. His abdomine began cramping up as he stood. He was chained to the wall he used to support himself. Noises of someone heaving reached his ears.

"Hello?" It was a trick. A trap. They said they would come for him and they had.

[aggravated]

Bruce jerked as he heard a voice, lifting his head for a moment before the world swam violently. He couldn't think straight, as if all of his thoughts were wrapped in wads of cotton and very far away. The voice sounded familiar, so he made a little sound in return.

[you_have_heart]

It sounded like Bruce, but Loki would not be surprised if that was a trick as well. He moved as best he could towards the sound. The darkness and loneliness weighed heavy on him and he felt that all he needed was contact, even if it was from a supposed enemy.

An enemy who had taken him in, healed his wounds, and then showed genuine concern in him of course. But an enemy nonetheless.

"Doctor?"

[aggravated]

Loki would all but trip over Bruce where he lay. Bruce jerked at the pain that flared from the contact and he curled up further as his stomach heaved all over again. Finally the voice triggered a proper memory. "...Loki?" he whispered in a ragged voice.

[you_have_heart]

"Banner, why-" He was about to ask why the monster had not made an apperance. Then it hit him. "The sedative. It is preventing your transformation."

[aggravated]

"...can't... can't focus." Bruce choked on his own words as the world turned upside in his mind even if he couldn't see it. Sedative... the doctor in him wanted to cry out that something was very wrong with that sedative but he couldn't keep focused on the thought long enough.

[you_have_heart]

"It would have to be stronger to affect me. They were not expecting you, so they must not have prepared." He sat down next to the man, reaching out to touch his shoulder, trying to gauge the other's temperature.

[aggravated]

Bruce was naturally warmer than most people, running about three to four degrees hotter from the radiation lingering in his body and the way his body changed to handle it. Still, right then, he was incredibly hot under Loki's hand. "They?" Who was they?

[you_have_heart]

"The Chitauri. It seems they have made good on their promise to find me after I failed them." Loki's own hand was colder than usual, due to his Jotun heritage. He did his best to find Bruce's forehead and lay his hand on it.

Both of them did not have to suffer.

[aggravated]

The cold felt incredible right then, giving him something to focus on. Bruce unconsciously leaned into the chill, eyes falling back shut because the darkness gave him nothing to see anyway. "...Chitauri?" Normally two and two would have made four, but right then? Pie and an octopus could have made four for all his brain wanted to function.

[you_have_heart]

"The aliens that I lead against you." Thought looking back he supposed it might have been more apt to say that they lead him.

[aggravated]

The aliens. The aliens had him and Loki somewhere and he felt like death warmed over. "...why... why capture...?" Either of them. He had no idea about the agreement between Loki and the aliens. Tony had destroyed them, their ship, nearly died doing it...

[you_have_heart]

"I failed my end of the bargain, I did not provide them the cube, so they are here to exact their revenge."

They were still on earth, he could tell that much. The strange noises that accompanies their ships was distinctly absent, and he had no idea how they might have mustered the energy to get to earth, much less take the both of them back.

If whatever the drug was would just wear off enough for Bruce to change they might have a chance. Of course that would probably only help if it happened before whatever punishment they had in store started.

[aggravated]

The cube? ...The Tesseract. He was supposed to give them the Tesseract? With that kind of power, there would have been no stopping the aliens.

He swallowed the taste of bile and tried to sit up despite the surge of dizziness and nausea. He felt the chains that pulled at him though when he did. "We have... to get out..."

[you_have_heart]

"I couldn't agree more, however-" He stopped talking abruptly when he heard the sound of a door opening and closing. Soft chattering and hissing of Chitauri could be heard in the room, though Loki could still not see anything.