Never-ending Punishment? (Loki x Avengers) (1)

Looking up from his book when he heard guards approach, Loki was surprised when they stopped at his cell, lowering the barrier and placing the all too familiar shackles on his arms. Loki was then escorted to the throne room, where Odin sat with Director Fury and Thor on his right side, prompting his curiosity. He was left in the middle of the room when the guards were waved away, and Odin frowned as he gazed upon his adopted son with disappointment.

"Loki...you know me to be a righteous man, and a righteous man would have you executed for what you have done to Asgard and Midgard. But...your mother was of a different thought, and even in death I will always listen to what she has told me. So, I have come to a decision not to end your life. Instead, you will go to Midgard, and live with the very team you sought to destroy. Perhaps their ways will influence your own, and one day I shall welcome you back with open arms. But until that day has come, you will not be allowed to return to Asgard nor any other realm, and Thor will be my eyes and ears." Raising his staff, Odin had a thin golden headband with a violet stone on the middle appear around Loki's forehead, cutting off the use of his magic. "You will not be able to use your magic until Thor has deemed you trustworthy enough. Now go, leave this realm at once."

Loki was silent as he was lead away by a squad of SHIELD agents, eyes focused on his restraints as he thought over his punishment. He was supposed to live with the very people he tried to murder, one of which he knew would try to kill him, and for what? He clenched his hands into fists when his mothers face swam into the forefront of his mind, realizing he would be dead if it was not for her intervention. Lost in thought, he wasn't aware they had reached the christened Avengers Tower until he was lead to a sparsely decorated room and his restraints removed. He merely sat down on the single chair and looked down at his hands, flexing them as his mind was pulled in several different directions. This was going to be a sentence that would never end.