Anthony
Tony woke up alone, just as he thought he would. It was no surprise but yet he missed the mornings when he opened his eyes to Loki spread naked on his sheets. Those mornings happened rarely now, but Tony doubted there was anything personal in it. On the nights he shared his bed with the god he usually overslept, making it too easy to sneak out for him.
The good side of it was that he had no reason to stay in the bed any longer and he felt energized enough to jump straight into work. He didn´t meet anyone in the kitchen, but coffee was there, so he grabbed what was left and barricaded himself in his workshop.
“JARVIS, play me some music.”
One of his rock playlists was what he just needed. As the sound of Guns n´ Roses filled the air, Tony walked to his suit. He decided that such a piece of art needed a name and “Sorcerer” sounded perfect in his head. All the engravings were glowing with steady green light meaning that Loki probably had to set his magic in it before he disappeared. Tony recalled that he´d mentioned something like that yesterday.
The engineer was eager to test it, but he knew the magic had to settle down first and in reaction all of those beautiful engravings would disappear under an illusion. Tony knew it had to be this way. He couldn´t possibly imagine how he would explain to his team the reason he had magical runes all over his suit.
“JARVIS, we´re going to have so much fun with this one.” He was excited like a child before Christmas and his AI didn´t have the heart to ruin it for him despite his worries about his beloved creator.
“Yes, sir. I´m looking forward on initial tests.” And didn´t that sound like an irony.
After that Tony lost himself in his work as usual, opening more projects just because he felt like he could do that today. When the distress signal came few hours later, okay maybe more hours than few, he found himself standing in the room frozen, slightly lightheaded from lack of water and too much caffeine. Cap´s voice was echoing between the walls and giving him chills.
“Avengers, we have a thing near the Central Park.” Tony started to move, mumbling orders to JARVIS along the way. Steve continued with an update.
“There is Loki fighting with another woman sorcerer.” Tony´s breath got stuck in his throat and he came to an abrupt stop. “Thor is saying that her name is Amora. We don´t know what she wants, but we can´t let them go on like this. We´re meeting in 5 minutes on the roof.”
Tony remembered the talk in the bed he had with the god yesterday. Someone was actively looking for Loki and was a threat enough for him to be worried. Another magic-user. Fuck.
Tony´s eyes darted towards the suit on the worktable.
“JARVIS, tell cap I´m on my way.”
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„This feels weird. Doesn´t it feel weird, J?” Tony hero-landed in front of the small fountain, causing few running people to stop and look up at him.
“Don´t slow down on my behalf please.” He pointed behind his back and hoped they got the message, his attention already elsewhere.
“It feels alright to me, sir. I warned you the new design could be rather too tight.”
Tony smirked, eyeing the fight near the trees in front of him. Cap and team were on their way, he was supposed to analyze the situation and step in if it was necessary or otherwise wait for the cavalry. Yeah, sure. It looked like an emergency to him, sort of. Loki was handling himself okay, but on the other side the fight was going on for some time. The scales were balanced for now, but Tony wasn´t about to risk that Loki will run out of options or stamina before his opponent. And if he was already here with the smoking hot suit, he needed to at least cause some problems.
“Cap, Loki is in trouble,” he lied without a shame, “I need to get between them before they´ll kill someone.”
“Positive. We´ll be there in a sec. Just be careful.”
Tony smiled behind his faceplate. The moment Loki´s eyes found him, the slip of attention earned him one good blast of magic right to his shoulder. Tony hissed before he called out for the bitch, distracting her just the same way and buying time for Loki to get up from the ground.
Both mages looked exhausted, but on top Loki was holding his side. The stains of blood on his armor were more visible when Tony came closer.
“This has nothing to do with you, Midgardian. It is between me and him.”
“I don´t think so, blondie. Just as you mentioned, you are on Midgard. So right now I´m giving you an option to surrender until my team arrives and maybe you will get out of this in one piece.” The woman was otherwise beautiful, but the sneering made her look like a devil on the high heels. Loki was standing with emotionless expression taking in the new situation around him.
“You haven´t crushed the phone,” Tony accused him, his eyes fixed on Amora – not like any of them could tell.
“I have everything under control.”
Tony wanted to roll his eyes, but he realized it was pointless if no one could see him.
“Sure thing, Reindeer Games. Now let’s get back to our problem here.”
Just in time, Avengers were making their landing behind Tony´s back when Amora had to recall what he´d said about the team on his tail and turned on Loki with a hostile smile.
“It seems we will meet again, godling.”
Something in Loki’s composed form cracked with the nickname, but Tony had no time to wonder what it was when two balls of energy hit him in the face faster than he could comprehend. He landed on his back with a groan, but knew that the suit took the magic in just as Loki had said it would. He wondered if any of his bullets hit the sorceress before she teleported.
Tony sat up, finding the god’s face in front of his and his heart jumped happily when he glimpsed a concern on his face changing into recognition just before he disappeared as well. He heard voices approaching and got on his feet in the time to see cap and others look him over with interest.
“New suit, Stark?” Clint asked and Tony went perfectly still.
When he´d left home the engravings weren´t visible anymore or at least not from some distance, but he didn´t count with what would happen if any magic actually hit him. And he remembered seeing some green energy emerging in front of his eyes right in the moment when Amora made a strike. He tilted his head to see his hands, but there was nothing there, thank God. He made the gesture look like he was introducing his new toy to his team, lifting up his faceplate to grin at them and pull their attention elsewhere. His eyes then darted to Thor and a doubt made its way into Tony´s head when he saw Thunderer´s cryptic expression.
“What happened here, Tony?”
He was glad for a question.
Tony explained what he saw thinking about Loki and blood and Loki until he didn´t make sense even to himself. Fortunately, they had no means to track neither Loki or Amora, so there was nothing they could do until one of them decided to reappear. Not likely to happen when Avengers are around. That was the reason why Tony was so eager to get back to his workshop and flew with some insane speed back home only to find that the god of mischief was already waiting for him.
Sitting on the same couch as always Loki was holding a hand over his injured side obviously healing himself. Tony walked in casually, but he could sense he was in trouble. He got rid of the suit on his way to the god.
“You shouldn´t have interfered,” Loki stated coldly.
“Because you had it under control,” Tony mocked him, eyeing his side. Loki pursed his lips, but spat a short yes.
“I must interfere every time you or anyone else with supernatural powers is fighting around civilians. Be glad I was the first one there and you had time to disappear.” Tony fell into his chair in front of the irritated god.
“What was it about anyway? Did she find you? Started a fight?”
“No,” Loki pierced him with a glare, “I started it, but she indeed found me first. When she already knew I was here, it made sense I would find her before she finds me.”
“And?” Tony was curious.
“She is stronger than I remember and I think it´s not her power she uses so carelessly.” Loki looked suddenly very uncomfortable. “The Mad Titan is in her head. When I was on his ship, he called me the way she did today.”
“Godling?” Tony asked suspecting the answer will be yes. Despite all of his masks Loki suddenly looked so fragile that Tony had to force his legs not to carry him straight to him. Whatever he´d experienced on that ship it was still very alive.
“He probably had his attention elsewhere because I surprised her. I won´t be so lucky next time.”
Tony felt a bit guilty for ruining Loki´s chance to gain information or whatever he wanted to gain from that fight.
“Do you want to kill her?”
“Preferably, but it would be more beneficial if we could find a way how to free her mind first maybe then I can see into the Mad Titan´s plans. I can´t do that while he is still there.” Tony unconsciously smiled on the used pronoun.
Loki was now looking at him and there was clearly something he wasn´t sharing with him.
“What else is in that?”
There was a pause, which Tony interpreted as a time needed for Loki to form the answer or to lie. At the end Tony had a feeling he decided for the first option.
“My own mind is not as strong as it used to be. I don´t know if I can block him out for the time necessary to secure Amora. Not now when he is aware of me and will be ready.”
Tony empty-swallowed before he decided to act on his instinct and sit next to the god.
“You should engage me into your plans so I won´t ruin them for you next time.”
Loki let him brush their shoulders together. They both clearly welcomed the contact.
“I may indeed need your help in this, so I will.”
Tony nodded, his eyes captured by Loki´s own in the familiar game. He planted a kiss on god´s lips a second later and it was the most relaxing thing he knew about except maybe going to fly in the New York´s sky.
“You brought the suit,” Loki stated, when they finally parted and Tony went to change his clothes for something more comfortable.
“Yes. The engravings weren´t really visible when I left.”
“It worked well.” There was a hint of satisfaction and relief in Loki´s voice and that made Tony return all the way from his closet just to see if anything he heard was by any chance mirroring on that beautiful face. It wasn´t, but the fact didn´t make it any less true.
“I think you did an amazing job and maybe you should be rewarded.” Tony enjoyed Loki´s surprised and delighted expression when he fell on his knees before his legs and spread them slowly with a promising smile. The god let out a shuddering breath.
“You know, for being an atheist, I quite like getting on my knees for a certain god.”
He watched Loki slightly open his mouth. His eyes sliding along Tony´s fingers when he pulled the leather of him, leaving it tangled around his ankles.
Tony leaned in over Loki´s lap, taking his erection into his palm, stroking lightly while returning back to Loki face. The god arched his back into the couch as Tony took him into his mouth without any more words, licking and sucking on the spot he knew was driving him crazy. Soon Loki´s fingers slid into engineer´s raven hair, encouraging him with a rhythm and speed. He was moaning Tony´s name whole time and only when it was all over and Loki screamed it once more as he emptied into Tony´s mouth, the genius realized what happened.
“Anthony,” Loki growled with hunger and kissed Tony who was still kneeling on the ground. It was Anthony. Not Stark.
“Say it again,” Tony whispered between the passionate kisses instead of breathing.
“What?”
“My name.”
Loki finally understood what was going on and he leaned back to look at him properly. His predatory smile was both scaring and abnormally arousing.
“Anthony. I should have called you that sooner. It´s a fitting name.” Whatever that meant. Tony didn´t try to correct him. He liked the thought it was only Loki calling him his full name.
“So can we have Anthony now all the time and Stark when I do something bad?” he asked hopefully with big puppy eyes earning a laugh back and a nice gentle stroke over his cheek.
“With a frequency of you doing something bad, you will be Stark again most of the time.”
Loki pulled Tony up on the couch over his lap and that position didn´t quite help with Tony´s pumped cock now rubbing against Loki´s tights. His pants vanishing.
“Maybe we could reward you too for the unrequired rescue?” Loki purred making Tony hold his breath after he intentionally started to move, otherwise he would probably frown over the word “unrequired”.
Loki buried his face into Tony´s neck, forcing him to tilt his head while holding him close so he wouldn´t fall over, one hand dangerously close to his swollen cock.
“Shit, JARVIS, I hope you are recording this.” Loki chuckled, but didn´t comment on it. Unfortunately, Tony´s AI did.
“I apologize, sir, but it looks like Mr. Odinson wants to talk to you. He is in front of the doors. I tried to explain that you are busy, but he insists.”
Tony groaned partly with frustration about the news, partly with Loki starting to touch him undisturbed with said news.
“Jesus, send him away.”
“I already tried few times, sir.”
“Okay, so tell him to wait.”
Tony kept thrusting into Loki´s hand while being kissed senseless and he loved every part of it. His ragged breath was taken away by the pair of skillful lips and all he could do was moan Loki´s name in return whenever he got a chance. He tortured Tony for much longer than he usually did. It maybe had something to do with his brother waiting outside. Still a better choice than perhaps drag Tony in front of the glass, pin him against it and pound into him until Thor would run away screaming.
“Fuck. Don´t stop.”
They were both moving against each other, Loki´s hand pumping him with a force he liked and needed.
The orgasms swept him like a rag doll, leaving him boneless in Loki´s arms and that was nice.
“I don´t want to go,” he hummed into god´s skin. He heard Loki making agreeing noise.
“I´ll wait for you in bed.”
“You know how to motivate me,” Tony grinned enthusiastically, “now I need my pants back if you don´t want me to walk all the way to the wardrobe and say hi to Thor via glass.”
Tony had a feeling that what just had ran through Loki´s face briefly might have been jealousy. His pants then reappeared on the table and Tony took them with a wink.
“Thank you, oh great mage, now get out.”
He didn´t stay long enough to see if Loki really did what he was told, but Tony trusted his unwillingness to meet his brother above everything.
“Let Point Break in, J.”
There was a sound of doors opening and heavy footsteps approaching. Tony made a show of going through some papers before he looked up on Thor.
“Tony. I must speak to you.”
“We are speaking, Sparkle. Come on, spill it, what do you need?” Tony pointed at one of the chairs and waited till the god dropped on his eye level.
“I must return to Asgard very soon, but first I need to ask you one thing. It is about today and about your time traveling.”
Tony tried not to let out the tension running through his body.
“What about it?”
Thor looked away for a brief second, but his eyes returned with determination.
“I was sensing some familiar energy since you have returned. I didn´t know what it was as I´m not so skilled in the magic as Loki is.” He knew that Thor was waiting for his reaction when he threw out Loki´s name and Tony was ready.
“I sensed it also today in the park. It was stronger. And then I looked closer…” Tony held his breath. “I saw the runes before they disappeared, Tony.” Thor was watching him closely. “Even if I can´t recognize a magic signature, I can still say who made those runes.”
The god´s of thunder face softened a bit. “He did those for me too a long time ago.”
Tony considered the situation and all his options in less than 5 seconds, his brain running full speed and deciding that it´s too late for denial anyway.
“What do you want me to say, Thor?” No need to tell more than was necessary.
Thor gave him a surprised look. He probably expected to drag the truth out of him and not have it handed on a silver plate.
“I want to know if you have made any deal with Loki. You have to understand that my brother doesn´t do things like that for free and his price is usually high. I do not wish for you to get burn on his trickery.”
He knew exactly what was going on. Thor had him for a naïve fool or at least a crazy scientist who had no limits… and well, considering that god of mischief was waiting in his bed that was not entirely incorrect.
“I think you got me here wrong, Thor. It is true that I have a deal with Loki…” Like he gives me sex for shelter, but that kind of sounds like prostitution and is the last thing he would say to Loki´s face, “but I know what I´m doing. Really. Don´t look at me this skeptically. I do. The question is what do you want to do with this information now you know I´m in contact with him.”
Thor thought about it a bit. “I want to meet with him,” he said, taken aback by Tony´s honest laugh.
“I don´t think so, Thor. It´s not like I can make him do things he doesn´t want.”
“I think he will accept my proposition,” Thor seemed to be sure, “Heimdall doesn´t know he is here and I would prefer it to stay that way as well.”
“Why so?” Tony raised his eyebrow.
The other avenger made a noise like he was not happy about what he was going to say and his look went straight through Tony for several seconds.
“I think Loki did some horrible things. He wronged a lot of people, but he was also wronged. We all are to blame for what happened in the past.”
Tony was surprised how mature Thor sounded.
“After your return when you told us about him being controlled by the one who sent him, I recalled our battle. He told me it was too late to stop it, but he wanted to. Now I know he wanted to.”
“But you know he made a deal back then. The scepter encouraged hatred which was already there.”
“I know,” Thor nodded, “I´m not claiming that we should forget about his sins. I just do not think he should be brought to Asgard. I recall you know the truth about his heritage…” Now it was time for Tony to nod. He did know about Loki´s heritage – seen it very closely. “Our society is not very… fond of frost giants…” Jotuns – Tony wanted to correct, but bit his tongue. Loki didn´t like the term frost giant.
“So basically what you´re saying is that the trial wouldn´t be fair, not even when your father would hold it?”
Thor´s expression was puzzled. “I am not sure. Loki is not causing any troubles since you have returned, except today, and still it wasn´t fight with us,” he said it with a certain undertone like he suspected Tony had something to do with it. The engineer himself would like to think Loki was trying to withhold from running into Avengers for his sake.
“I need to talk to him because I have to make sure that by my decision to leave him here I would not cause any further damage to your world or any other.”
Tony hummed thoughtfully, bringing his hands together over his lap.
“So you talk to him and then you´ll decide whether you will inform your father.”
“Yes.”
That was not the worst outcome of this conversation Tony had imagined. But forcing Loki into talking with his adoptive brother and hoping for him not to kill him while being on it was a tricky part. The funny part was that Thor really thought he could tell if Loki was trying to play him.
“Okay, Thor. So let´s do this now and have it over with.” Tony looked up to the ceiling folding his hands loosely behind his head.
“You heard him, Reindeer Games. I know you were listening.”
Thor´s eyes widened with realization. He maybe wanted to yell at Tony a little bit, but was stunned enough when green energy buzzed in front of him and Loki walked out of the thin air with eyes like daggers pinned on Tony. Okay, so maybe he´s just got himself into very dangerous and highly risky situation without thinking twice, but what he really regretted was that he had no popcorn in his workshop.