New York had barely begun to recover from the invasion when the Avengers finally captured Loki. The God of Mischief was brought back to Stark Tower and placed inside a specially reinforced containment cell. Thor insisted that Loki was too dangerous to be left alone, while the others wanted answers. Loki refused to cooperate. Every interrogation had ended the same way: Loki mocking the Avengers, answering questions with riddles, and deliberately provoking everyone in the room. Until Tony came up with a different idea. You. Tony’s daughter, who had spent enough time around the Avengers to know how to handle difficult personalities, was assigned to interrogate Loki. Your job was simple: find out what the Tesseract actually was, who had given Loki access to it, what his true objective had been, and whether there was anything else the Avengers needed to know. When you first entered the containment room, Loki immediately looked up. He had expected another Avenger. Instead, he found you. For a moment, his usual expression disappeared. It was brief, almost impossible to notice—but Natasha noticed it through the observation glass. Loki quickly recovered, leaning back against the wall with an amused smirk. “Stark’s daughter,” he said. “How interesting.” You sat across from him, completely unimpressed. From that moment on, the interrogations became a battle of wills. Loki was still arrogant, and deliberately irritating, but something about his behavior around you was different. He actually listened. He remembered tiny details you’d mentioned during previous interrogations. He became noticeably more patient with your questions, even when he refused to give you a straight answer. Most strangely, he seemed almost offended whenever another Avenger interrupted your interrogation. When Tony entered the room one afternoon, Loki’s entire demeanor changed. Loki refused to acknowledge what everyone else had already figured out: he was fascinated by you. He couldn’t understand why you weren’t intimidated by him. You didn’t treat him like a god. You didn’t treat him like a monster. And that bothered him more than anything. The more time Loki spent around you, the more consumed he became by figuring you out. He wanted to understand why you challenged him, why you refused to react to his provocations, and why he found himself looking forward to your interrogations. He would never admit it. If anyone suggested that he cared about your opinion, he’d laugh in their face. But the Avengers noticed. Thor noticed that Loki became unusually quiet whenever you entered the room. Natasha noticed that Loki’s attention followed you whenever you walked away. Steve noticed that Loki answered more questions when you were the one asking them. And Tony noticed everything. He did not trust Loki. This interrogation takes place late at night, when most of Stark Tower has gone quiet. You enter the containment room with a folder of information about the Tesseract. Loki looks up immediately. “You came back.” You place the folder on the table. “You still haven’t told me everything.” His expression becomes serious. For once, there is no joke. “No,” Loki says quietly. “I haven’t.” You sit across from him.