You want to WHAT
"You want to do WHAT?!"
The duo knew the team wouldn’t respond too well to Tony and Thor's plans for the prisoner. The conference room had been thrown into chaos as soon as the plan had been laid out. Steve and Clint were by far the most vocally against the idea, although Tony could pick up how Natasha tensed up and how Bruce had the ghost of a frown on his face. Someone needed to step in, the way things were going undoubtedly would lead to disaster and no progress.
"I know you're upset, but this is our only option", Tony took a deep breath as his words fell on deaf ears, "not to mention, we are not asking you for permission" Oh that got their attention. All eyes were on Tony now as the shouting abruptly stopped, "Loki is going to be coming here, he is going to live in the tower, and he is going to help us regarding the girl's magic. He is the only one qualified to do this and his help could be vital to us finally being able to get some goddamn answers here", By the end of his short speech, Tony was frustrated.
"We are not allowing a known criminal who took over MY MIND anywhere near the prisoner. Are you trying to get us all killed? If it does have magic, what's to stop those two from finding a way to team up, kill us, and escape. Hell, what's to stop them if Loki decides he wants to try his takeover again and use the prisoner to succeed?!", Clint was not having any of this, his time under the control of the mind-stone still in the forefront of his mind.
Tony could sympathize, if anyone knew how it felt to have PTSD it was Tony. Unfortunately, this was the only option.
Thor stepped up, "Loki will be wearing magic suppressing bracelets, as will the girl if she should come out of her cell. Not to mention, besides the bracelets they will both be under the watchful eye of both myself and Stark. We will not allow another incident like the last one, and should my brother become a threat to anyone in the tower's wellbeing he will be punished accordingly. He is still a prisoner in Asgard, think of this as his community service"
As Thor spoke, Tony had projected the blueprints for the bracelets that he had drawn up specifically for this meeting. He'd finished making the bracelets yesterday, but he knew the rest of the team would need to see more than just "some jewelry". After the Battle of New York, Tony had begun researching and learning about magic suppression incase they ever found themselves in a situation like this, with a magical prisoner and psudo-prisoner. Loki isn't really a prisoner prisoner, but he's still going to kind of be a prisoner. He can't leave the floor, will have limited access to rooms, and be accompanied by either Thor or himself any time he went down to see the girl.
To Tony's surprise, Clint seemed placated by the precautions they would be taking but Steve was the one who just wouldn't accept it. He had thought Clint would be the hardest one to convince, with his and Loki's history that is, but Steve is still ranting and Tony was growing quite tired of this.
"IF YOU HAVe accepted our plan, please, feel free to leave" Tony had to raise his voice quite a bit a the beginning in order to be heard over Steve. Bruce jumped at the chance to get out of there and was out of his seat before Tony had finished his sentence. Natasha and Clint followed, though much less rushed.
As soon as the door had closed behind them, Steve continued his rant on irresponsibility and selfishness without missing a beat. When he stopped to take a breath however, he looked up and saw that his words weren't reaching Thor or Tony, so he started over. Tony was not about to sit through the holy-er than thou speech again, he'd already heard 45 minutes of it and that was 45 minutes too many. Luckly, Thor seemed to be on the same page as Tony.
"QUIET!", Thor bellowed, fed up with Steve at this point, "Loki is coming and nothing you say can change that. I do not understand why you are so against this, how is it any different from your Winter Soldier coming to live here?"
Steve looked bewildered and at the mention of his old friend he became very defensive, "His name is Bucky and don't you dare compare him to that mass murdering son of a bitch you call a brother"
"Woah, Captain, please. Language!" Tony knew this wouldn't help the situation any but it was just too good of an opportunity to pass up.
If looks could kill, Tony would be dead on the ground from the way Steve glared at him, all while continuing his defense, "Bucky was brainwashed, he wasn't doing any of that of his own volition. Loki chose to kill people, he chose to come down here and try to take over. Bucky was used as a puppet, Loki is just pure evil"
It seems that Steve hit a nerve as Thor stood stiffly and coldly said, "Loki will be arriving in three days. Prepare yourself" before leaving the room, slamming the door so hard the whole room rattled.
Having lost his main target, Steve turned to Tony, "Tony, how could you do this? Did you even stop to think about how this would mentally affect any of us after New York, especially Clint? Or were you too busy wrapped up in your own inventions and "genius" to care about how anyone else would feel"
That was not the right thing to say.
Tony was mad now, whereas earlier he was just frustrated but now he's mad, "You're one to talk about bringing someone who could mentally affect the team. Did you stop to think about how any of us would feel before bringing Bucky back? How I would feel? He killed my parents! But no, all you cared about was bringing back the man that you once knew. Well let me tell you something Captain", Tony addressed Steve with such anger and disgust that it caused Steve to try and lean farther away from the man with no luck as Tony stalked towards him like a lion about to pounce on it's prey, "The man you used to know, back when you were just some scrawny kid in New York, HE'S GONE. Hydra DESTROYED any part of that man who may have been left. Did you even bring him to help him? Or did you bring him here in an attempt to cling on to the past? He will never be that person again", Tony was nearly in Steve's face at this point. He stepped back and walked towards the door. Just as he was partially out the door he turned back, needing to say one last thing, "Loki didn't do it of his own volition either, but he's not your childhood boytoy so I guess that doesn't matter"
The door shut behind Tony as he left Steve shocked. He almost resembled a high society woman being horrified by something "lower class", he might as well have his hand on his chest while saying something like, "Why I never", or, "Oh goodness me" . His shock was quickly replaced with anger though.
Afterwards, no one mentioned the fist sized hole in the conference room wall.