Meeting 'Santa'.
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teofseTitle: Meeting 'Santa'.
Author: Teofse
Fandom: MCU
Pairing: Loki/Tony
Characters: Loki, Tony Stark
Rating: G.
Word count: 583
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 16: Santa's lap.
Summary: He hadn't understood what Rogers meant when he'd said he was going to play 'Santa' for the day and the round of raucous laughter the announcement gathered from the rest of the team hadn't clued him, either.
Meeting 'Santa'.
The idea of sitting on anyone's lap was utterly foreign to Loki. But the thought of all these mortal children queuing for ages, just to sit on Santa's lap was even more disconcerting. He hadn't understood what Rogers meant when he'd said he was going to play 'Santa' for the day and the round of raucous laughter the announcement gathered from the rest of the team hadn't clued him, either.
Tony had noticed his curiosity and convinced all the Avengers to accompany Rogers because “We really should take a picture of that, folks.” So that's how they'd ended up here, scattered by ones and twos around a huge shopping center and trying to be as inconspicuous as the entire Avenger team suddenly arriving together at any given location could possibly be, while laughing at the captain's bearded costume whenever they passed Santa's grotto.
Loki loved the lights that were strung everywhere. He loved the bustling crowds and the strange and jingly music they kept repeating in a never-ending loop over the speaker system. Tony had called them Christmas Carols, smiling tenderly at his question and grabbing his hand to guide him towards a store that sold them in little boxes. Loki had enthusiastically grabbed a few slim squares before he'd thought his actions through and halted his hoarding mid-motion, suddenly uncertain.
“What's the matter, snowflake? I thought you liked this music.”
“Will the rest of the team object to the idea of listening to it? I never hear any sound coming from the speaker system at the tower, unless its either J.A.R.V.I.S' voice or I've been sent to retrieve you from your lab.”
“That's because every floor has it's own unique 'sound zone'. That way you can hear your stuff down at your place without bothering anyone else. I'll even play a few CDs in my private living-room if you promise to come hear them with me. We could snuggle on the couch together, drink hot cocoa and stare dreamily at the fireplace. That's a very couple-y thing to do for Christmas.”
Loki's breath hitched and he studied Tony's hopeful features with hopefulness of his own.
“You mean it'll be just the two of us, like a real midgardian date?”
Tony's smile grew delighted and he moved even closer to Loki's still frame, pushing himself up on his tiptoes to whisper enticingly into a slowly reddening ear:
“You've been consistently calling me Anthony for a couple of days now, gorgeous. I know it's not exactly the great T-word itself, but since you consider it a reasonable enough substitute, I'll go ahead and call the terms of that promise I made you officially fulfilled. I owe you a kiss that will blow your socks off, snowflake. And I'm dying to plant it on your lips.”
Loki laughed, turning his head ever so slightly downwards to catch the brush of his mortal's mouth against the shell of his ear.
“I'll have to wear socks then, wouldn't want to miss the moment when they fall off my feet for all the gold in Asgard.”
Callused fingertips settled on the underside of his jaw, turning his head around just enough to bring his gaze into full on collision with the engineer's amused one, thus making it impossible for him to miss the underlying seriousness that hid like the purest of white pearls in the teasing cocoon of words Anthony purred:
“You do that, snowflake. I wouldn't want you to miss the moment, either.”
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on 2014-12-16 08:16 pm (UTC)That was lovely. :)
All this UST is killing me. Unf.
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on 2014-12-17 01:18 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2014-12-18 02:38 am (UTC)Thanks so much for keeping up with this fic. Your lovely comments are greatly appreciated. :)
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on 2014-12-18 02:40 am (UTC)I'm so glad you enjoyed Loki's enthusiasm for the Carols. Thanks, as always, for taking the time to both read and review. :)