Heart To Heart.
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teofseAuthor: Teofse
Fandom: MCU
Pairing: Loki/Tony
Characters: Loki, Tony Stark
Rating: G.
Word count: 565
Disclaimer: These characters belong to Marvel (both comics and movies). No money is being made out of this work.
A/N: Unbetaed. Post Avengers AU, disregards Iron Man 3 and Thor: TDW. This is the next installment of my adventdrabbles 2014 series No Time For Sentiment. Prompt 8: Red and/or Green.
Summary: Loki sighed. Inwardly regretting his stupid decision to follow Stark here. He hadn't been awake more than five minutes and was already frustrated beyond patience with the company.
Heart To Heart.
Loki woke up slowly, feeling both stiff and way too warm for his liking. He'd surrendered to Stark's demand that he come back to the Tower, but had dug his heels in when the man had attempted to show him to 'his floor'.
“I don't have a floor here. That arrangement is only for the Avengers and I'm not one of them.” He'd gritted out, refusing to move a step further no matter how much -or how imaginatively- Stark had attempted to cajole him into doing so.
In the end he'd forced his host to set him up on the living room couch, thus inflicting the stiffness he could feel setting at the base of his neck upon himself. He remembered very clearly having refused all bedding, though, so he couldn't immediately figure out where the stifling heat surrounding him could possibly be coming from.
Long-lashed green eyes fluttered in the quiet room, recoiling instinctively under the onslaught of the weak morning sunlight. It took him a second or two to focus properly on his surroundings and he groaned aloud when he'd finally managed it only to discover that his oaf of a br—that Thor had apparently found him in the middle of the night and decided to cover him up with his bloody red cape.
“Good morning, brother. It gladdens my heart to see you here.”
“Do you have any idea of how creepy it is to spy on someone while they are asleep?” He questioned crossly, throwing the dammed cape away and conjuring himself a silky green blanket, just to spite the annoying brute.
“I was guarding your rest, just as I've done a thousand times before in our lifetime, Loki.”
“We're not camping out in a wild forest. We are both safe and sound inside the Avengers' Tower. Surely you can see the difference.”
“Difference... That's all you care to talk about nowadays. 'It's different now', 'We're not the same anymore', 'Things can't go back to the way they were...' I grow tired of the theme, brother.”
Loki sighed. Inwardly regretting his stupid decision to follow Stark here. He hadn't been awake more than five minutes and was already frustrated beyond patience with the company.
“You should let me wake before you harass me at the very least, Thor. I had a very long night.”
The oaf brightened at that, bouncing forwards until he'd perched himself on the edge of the chair he must have dragged closer to the couch and boomed practically in his ear:
“I know! Stark has regaled us all with the tale of your selfless bravery, brother.”
Loki blinked, taken absolutely aback.
“Stark told you about last night? Why would he bother to do that? It's not as if I slayed a dragon or anything. I just conjured some warm clothes and called for help.”
“Don't devalue your own actions in such manner. You saved a man's life while we all slept. Everyone is mightily impressed, I swear. Stark is ecstatic and I—I couldn't be prouder of you, Loki. You've just proved beyond all shadow of doubt that nothing has really changed within you. You're still the sibling I love dearly. The childhood companion my heart remembers. I don't care how long or how loudly you plan to carry on talking about our differences, lil'lo. As far as I'm concerned, you've finally returned to me, brother.”
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on 2014-12-14 04:52 pm (UTC)You actually made me tear up here. *sniffs*
Just lovely. :)
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on 2014-12-16 03:58 am (UTC)I'm thrilled that you found this chapter so lovely. Thanks so much for your lovely comment. :)