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    "Well, Justice? What do you hope to gain?"

    Apollo sighed, closing his eyes. "Your trust, sir. I'd just like you to trust me."
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    After news of Kristoph's escape from prison, Apollo finds himself afraid of what's to come. Fear turns to terror when Kristoph holds him hostage in his own home. Forced to deal with his ex-mentor's manipulative nature, Apollo finds himself fighting, scheming, and...gaining an understanding.

    Sometimes, it feels like looking in a mirror.

    A shattered one, in any case.

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    “Mr. Wright,” Klavier says. He makes a concerted effort to sniffle in however much he can to minimize his nose dripping. His red eyes and his general disheveled-ness can’t be helped. “Don’t tell me someone’s sent you looking for me. I told everyone I didn’t feel like coming to the party.”

    Phoenix chuckles and shakes his head. He reaches into his pocket and digs out a keychain with half a dozen keys in it. He inserts one into the garden gate and lets himself in. He sits next to Klavier and produces a bottle of gin from his rucksack.

    “Don’t flatter yourself, kid,” he says as playfully as he can manage, considering the way his hands shake as he attempts to unscrew the bottle, the way his voice quavers. “I have my own reasons for being here. Remember - weak men, drinking alone, something along those lines. But here you are, ruining my plans.”

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    Phoenix and Klavier grieve over Kristoph together the night after his execution.

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    The asset is programmed not to strike a handler. Not to struggle no matter who is doing what to it. And it complies. The asset is programmed not to shy away when technicians approach torch-first to take it apart and put it back together in the name of science, research, progress. And it complies. The asset is programmed not to object to the mouth guard, the restraints, the chair. Not to beg or plead when it is left empty and hungry in its cryo tube. And it complies. The asset is programmed not to so much as consider harming an operator, the highest of all members of the organization. And...

    And if the silent, liquid fury in the asset’s eyes is any indicator, the asset does not comply.

    (Or: The one where the asset is thawed out during the Chitauri attack on New York, escapes, and goes hunting for revenge with the Avengers hot on the trail.)

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    “Iron Man,” Loki stated—questioned, more like, by the tone—turning around to face him, although his gaze was oddly a few degrees off of Tony, his hands raised in a defensive gesture. “Anthony Stark,” he stated, and this time Tony noticed that his voice sounded suspiciously more like a dry rasp, as if he hadn’t used it in months.

    Except for screaming, probably, that is, the part of his brain still recovering from The Cave supplied merrily.

    “In the flesh,” Tony replied, trying to keep himself unfazed. The whole starved look was probably an illusion anyway, he told himself.
     
    Tony was pretty sure he heard Loki mutter a resigned “So this is how I die, then,” to himself.

    All right, this was giving off some solid horrible vibes, and not in the A Feral Demigod of Evil and Trickery is Going To Kill Me sense, either.


    Or: A broken "hero", a shattered "villain", and the pain, hope and parallels in between.

     

    Written for Whumptober 2020 prompts No. 7 (I've Got You | Enemy to Caretaker) and No. 26 (If You Thought the Head Trauma Was Bad... | Blindness).

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    The trip to Jotunheim after Thor's failed coronation was not the first time Loki discovered he was Jotun. Only the last.

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