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Tony slowly rose to wakefulness, feeling refreshed and rested for once in his life. The hand on his arm gently waking him was both familiar and not. Sleepily he looked up the arm to meet the concerned eyes of his nephew which turned amused as Loki watched him wake up slowly for once. Tony mentally shrugged and did his best to reboot his brain without coffee, stretching and sitting up in the blankets he had been practically swaddled in.
"Huh, who thought I should be a baby burrito?" Tony muttered sleepily.
Stephen's laughter and Loki's chuckle drew Tony's attention to their surroundings. They were in a well appointed room with overstuffed couches and blanket as well as heavy tapestries covering the carved stone walls. From how he had been wrapped in blankets and been sleeping propped up on one of the couches Tony assumed they had slept off the magic here. The prisoners were no where to be seen but they had been a gift for Dormammu anyway so it was completely possible the Dark Lord had already collected his gift.
"Dormammu caught Loki but let him stay awake," Stephen explained once Tony was more aware about twenty minutes later. "Loki over saw the collection of the others and aside from an attached bathroom this is the only room we were given. Which is a step up if only because I expected him to place at least me in a cell of some sort even if I didn't expect him to immediately ambush us on arrival. I should have but I didn't."
"We all should have been expecting loads but it clearly wouldn't have mattered," Tony snorted. "He blindsided us and we couldn't react in time."
"The attendants, I am not certain what species they were, that came later insisted on a wash and a change into clean clothes," Loki informed them. "I insisted on being present instead of being sent off like they tried to do. None of you were mishandled and I attended to your more... private areas in my capacity as a trained healer. I didn't think any of us were willing to let unknowns deal with it and they were heavily insistent to the point of threatening to restrain me and drag me off if I kept interfering. They refused to wake any of you to let you deal with it yourself. I do not know if they were actually instructed to see us cleaned in that manner as they backed off when I demanded they fetch Dormammu to clarify. It was not the same group that captured us at least."
"Well, that's awkward but yeah I would rather you did it then let some random whatever or whoever do it," Tony agreed wholeheartedly. He shuddered at the thought of a slimy tentacle monster giving him a very thorough wash and putting him in new clothes while he was essentially unable to wake up. That sort of thing would be extremely creepy. Even being treated as an invalid by Loki and basically handled the same way but with Loki in a nurse outfit was far less creepy.
"At least we were given something familiar," Wong grumbled, readjusting his new robes in shades of green verses his normal dark red-violet ones with yellow accents and navy under robes.
"Huh, hadn't noticed that yet. Which is weird since I really should have," Tony grimaced as he looked down at his own robes in his signature red with gold accents held in place by a grass green sash. Stephen was obviously in his signature blue robes but Levi was missing. Loki was in his own clothes which probably meant that he had pulled them out of his pocket dimension and put away his often present leather armor.
"Stephen? Where did Levi get to?" Tony asked curiously.
"He was collected as well," Loki answered for the doctor. "It became necessary that we argued your star heart not be taken and the cloak offered to leave with them without a fuss if your star heart was left alone. Dormammu was consulted and allowed it with the condition that we allow his healers access to us after the audience. I do not believe he plans to let us go easily if at all. The doorway is secured with a layered barrier that would take me time and effort to take down. The physical door is unsecured."
"That tracks," Tony sighed. "Thanks for the thought, Loki, but if he's going to kill us there wasn't any point. They'll take it anyway and at least now my life isn't literally tied to it the way it used to be. It's back in place after the damage from Rogers but the first one, when you threw me out that window, was holding back shrapnel from shredding my heart."
"What?!" Loki and Stephen demanded in shock and complete offense at the medical travesty. Tony waved away their concern and turned to examining the room for various things he had used in previous kidnappings. He didn't get very far as they made him sit down and argued for at least a brief check up. Wong was absolutely no help as he stayed out of the way and out of easy reach of the two healers.
Three hours later they were fetched from their room.