Choose your poison

[redledgerdays]

01. I DON'T LOVE YOU ANYMORE Unfortunately, you can't keep lying to your partner/friend/family anymore. You just don't feel the same for them anymore.
02. I WOULD KILL YOU The person who means so much to you has done something completely unforgivable and now it's time to make sure they know where they stand. You would kill them if you ever got the chance.
03. I LOVE YOU, BUT... A bittersweet love confession. You know you love this person more than anything, but you're not sure you can give them what they need.
04. I DON'T TRUST YOU No matter how you feel about this person, you really can't trust them anymore.
05. SACRIFICE You're going to sacrifice yourself, for the person you're talking with or for the good of all humanity. You want them to know the reasons and that there's no stopping you.
06. TROUBLE You're in trouble and you might not make it through. You need to let at least one person know how you feel before it's too late though.
07. BETRAYAL You've betrayed this person and you have to tell them the truth, no more running from it
08. CHEATED You've been unfaithful and it's time to tell your lover.
09. BROKEN That's it. You've had it. You are entirely broken and tired of everything.
10. AFRAID Something has you deathly afraid and you need to talk about it.
11. HELP ME You need someone to help you, bad. You can't do it alone anymore, you've tried.
12. I'M SORRY You said something or did something horrible and now it's time to ask for forgiveness.
13. YOU WERE A MISTAKE Sorry, but whoever you're talking to was the biggest mistake of your life or maybe it was just something you did together.
14. LET'S RUN AWAY You want to just get out, leave everything behind and be with this one person for the rest of your life.
15. ASHAMED Either you're ashamed of something they have done or something you did, either way you need to bring it up.
16. CAN'T REMEMBER The person standing in front of you looks so happy to see you, so relieved, but how do you tell them you can't remember a thing about them?
17. YOUR CHOICE Either choose an option from above, mix and match, or make up your own idea.

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[redledgerdays]

Defiant to the last, Natasha just stares him down, remaining firmly in place. Stalling tactics are all she has at the moment while she tries to get her arm to listen to her.

"We both know I'll never cooperate with you, Loki. Not willingly."

[poisonousdream]

Loki flashes her an indulgent grin. "Of course you won't. Otherwise, where would the fun be?"

Before this, before his ignominious defeat, it's true he was content with mere servility from his conscripted allies. But now...

Now he wants to make them suffer. To make them see what they've done.

"Grab your injured shoulder," he murmurs, watching her with bright, avid eyes.

[redledgerdays]

She hates him. She hates him more than she can remember hating anyone in recent memory. Her hand digs into her shoulder and she can't help but grimace, breathing heavily through her nose. "Is this all you've got?"

[poisonousdream]

He raises one eyebrow. Is that all he's got? Hardly.

"Use your nails. Do some real damage." The injured arm is fairly useless at this point anyway.

"And keep in mind that if you still refuse to cooperate, I'll next have you cut out your own tongue."

[redledgerdays]

Her arm is useless, but the pain from her nails biting into the flesh still radiates through her body. Natasha chokes on a groan, slamming back against the door to keep from curling up in pain. Her eyes meet Loki's, hard and angry and defiant, before she slowly, so slowly, stands.

The god towers over her, but she doesn't back down.

"Happy?"

[poisonousdream]

"It's a start," Loki admits through a shark's grin. But they still have much work to do.

"Now. It's time we contacted the rest of your little team, don't you think?"

[redledgerdays]

She glares. "They're gone." It's a lie, or at least a half-truth. The rest of her team on the ground should have pulled out by now, regrouped. They'll be waiting for her orders. She just doesn't want to give them. "What's your game, Loki?"

[poisonousdream]

"Gone?" Loki's eyebrows shoot to the ceiling. "How can the self-proclaimed avengers of Earth be gone?" For it isn't Romanov's fellow S.H.I.E.L.D. drones that he's after, oh no. Loki's game is much more satisfying than that.

He wants the ones who stopped him.

"Perhaps we'll just have to call them back."

[redledgerdays]

Natasha grits her teeth. She knows he wants the Avengers, but she isn't about to hand them over. Not voluntarily. "It's not happening."