Voice - Private to Tony Stark
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lacksconviction[When Pepper posts, Loki uses his brain and figures out that THE JIG IS KIND OF UP. Unfortunately for one and all, he is a little shit. His voice is delicate, and deliberately blank, when he sends this message. It's possessed of a kind of tension, like he's honestly not certain how this conversation will end.]
Mr. Stark... I have something to tell you. A truth, to replace a lie which I have told.
Mr. Stark... I have something to tell you. A truth, to replace a lie which I have told.
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Date: 2012-07-10 10:21 pm (UTC)What Pepper'd told him had left him bitter and, more than that, annoyed. Pissed off. And unfortunately, hearing this from Loki is just... not making it better]
Seems to be a lot of those going around.
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Date: 2012-07-10 10:44 pm (UTC)[Pause.]
Come to my cabin. This is not a discussion to be had over distance.
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Date: 2012-07-10 10:48 pm (UTC)[He's no doubt leaving Pepper in the bed, after she'd nodded off on him earlier, but they're here. On the ship. She should know he'd be coming back.
Which is why, pretty instantly, there's the sound of movement on Tony's end of things]
Gotta say, you're the first to own up to it.
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Date: 2012-07-10 11:00 pm (UTC)My guilt weighs the heaviest. In truth, I know not what possible cause your comrades would have to deceive you.
You all seemed rather fond of one another as I recall.
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Date: 2012-07-10 11:06 pm (UTC)I don't know why they're being Sally Secrets, either.
[He should have known there would be more that Steve wasn't telling him. Natasha- she was a given. She was from Tony's time, number one. And number two, she was a spy.
He can't help the nagging feeling of betrayal, though. The sense that Steve might have told Natasha what Tony had just been told by Pepper. What he's about to be told by Loki, now.]
I'm an asshole. [Good, he can still say that with an easy cheer. A bit of smugness] I guess that keeps me out of their teammate trust circle.
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Date: 2012-07-10 11:37 pm (UTC)[He doesn't say any more though. Not yet. Instead he waits for Tony to arrive.]
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Date: 2012-07-10 11:45 pm (UTC)[But within another minute he's pushing open Loki's door, rapping his knuckles twice against it as he does.]
So. What's this lie about?
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Date: 2012-07-10 11:53 pm (UTC)It's not a lie exactly. More... a collection of omissions which I made, in the interests of obscuring the nature of our acquaintance.
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Date: 2012-07-11 12:02 am (UTC)Maybe.
It still really looks like a downgrade to him.]
Right. So... there's some super important secret about how you and I know each other that, for some reason, everyone's decided I'm better off not knowing?
[He's leaning back against the wall, arms crossed over his chest]
Let's hear it.
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Date: 2012-07-11 12:31 am (UTC)And if he hits Loki, Loki can make a point of not hitting him back. A first gesture of reconciliation, perhaps.
Yes, it would be very convenient indeed for Tony to hit him.]
Actually, I was better off with you not knowing. I haven't lied to you, about how I knew you. We met in your tower, and I stole from Nick Fury, and you bade me drink with you.
I am not your Comrade though, and I was not your friend then. It was to be a last drink before battle, for I came to your world meaning to rule it.
[His words speed up slightly towards the end, as if he's afraid he'll lose his nerve and stop.]
That's why I was shocked to find you here an inmate. Because I came to do harm to your world, and you stood with them, and stopped me.
action! - AAAAHHH SORRY MY COMPUTER DECIDED TO DIE
Date: 2012-07-11 03:57 am (UTC)As if he didn't deserve to know his friend was dead.
Or that Loki, apparently, was one of the guys they'd been fighting. Vaguely, he wonders if Captain America was brain damaged after spending so much time in the ice. Tony hadn't made it a secret that he and Loki were getting along. They'd tag teamed Steve's post that one time, making passing judgement, laughing at the idiot right then and there.
So why the hell hadn't he been told as a teammate about this? Was Natasha similarly in the dark?]
So what, you led the alien invasion? [He tilts his head back a little, narrowing his eyes at Loki, suddenly tense] Did you have anything to do with Coulson?
[Surprising, how cold Tony gets when it comes to people hurting the few people he cares about.
And until that is answered, nothing else really matters.]
action! NO WORRIES! It was v. late for me anyhow ;-;
Date: 2012-07-11 09:37 am (UTC)[It takes him a moment to connect the name to anyone of import, but... ah yes. There is it.]
He shot me with an experimental weapon, and I stabbed him. Should I presume from your tone that he died once I was gone?
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Date: 2012-07-11 01:58 pm (UTC)Actually? He's regretting it midway through the action. As he takes that step forward, as he makes a grab for the fabric on Loki's shoulder, as his fist clenches tight and his arm curls through in a boxer's punch, aiming right for Loki's face.
He's regretting it in an instant, because hey. If it was as simple as punching Loki out, then he wouldn't have been a pretty good villain.
So he's pretty sure his fist is gonna break on impact.
Goddamnit.]
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Date: 2012-07-11 04:46 pm (UTC)Normally it would be nothing, barely worth his notice, but the Barge had drained his strength and Tony... has a decent right hook.
The blow connects, and his head snaps to the side. Blood wells in his mouth, and at some point his hand has moved up to grip hold of Tony's wrist, on the hand that's knotted in the fabric of his clothes. It takes him a moment to shut down the instinct to retaliate, but he does it. The hand drops back down to his side, and he turns to look back at Tony, wordlessly.
His expression is pained, but resolute. He's not here to make any excuses or ask for forgiveness, and if Tony needs to hit him again, then it's not as if he's going to stop him.]
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Date: 2012-07-13 08:38 am (UTC)But at the end of it, as Loki jerks back a little but doesn't do anything else, doesn't strike back or lash out with words, start in on some stupid spell, Tony's left... kind of unsatisfied, actually.
Unsatisfied and in pain, because no matter who you were, if you weren't backed by radiation or super soldier genes, a punch hurt both parties involved. So, shaking out his hand, rubbing over the knuckles as soon as Loki drops back and stares he's taking a step back as well, and then another.
He's not an idiot. He's not stupid enough to think himself a full threat without his suit, and he's also not stupid enough to drop his guard despite the lack of retaliation.]
So what's the gain for you, huh? Avengers not working together anymore? Because if you hadn't noticed, we're kind of sucking on the unified front of things even without your help.
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Date: 2012-07-13 11:43 am (UTC)The gain for me, was that you were not my enemy. To find the three of you here, three of those who saw me dead in my own life awaiting me also in the next? Where I am drained of my strength and my freedom? It was... a concern for me.
T'was clear enough from the first that your Captain remembered and hated me. With The Black Widow... perhaps she does not recall, but he's told her enough that I can't speak without her accosting me in private to interrogate my motives.
But you... you didn't remember me. And for whatever reason they did not tell you to remember me, and perhaps I did not want to immediately be set against all three of you again.
[He looks... almost sheepish. Not embarrassed, exactly, but awkward in a way that's out of character for him.]
You knew nothing of me, and I no hatred of you, despite what's happened. So why would I choose to be your enemy?