Chapter 4
They hear the splintering of glass, another window breaking, and Tony groans more like a whine really, and Steve digs his toes into the brunette's thigh; earning himself a glare.
"Money or no, that's pushing it, and I refuse to pay for any other thing broken by that goddamn hammer," they all stare at the engineer , forcing him to try and reinforce his statement, "see if I repair those windows, let them freeze"
" Tony," Steve was pulling that 'I'm disappointed in you, Anthony Edward Stark, go to your room' look
Tony flaps his hand in Steve's direction, "Can't hear you"
"Hey tin man," Clint calls without apology, "Could you ask JARVIS to hook us up to the floor they're at?"
Right, Tony thinks, JARVIS wouldn't answer to anyone that wasn't him. Because he'd reprogrammed the A.I that way, just to spite them. Though he'd given Steve access to the override codes(favourites? no, of course not) just for safety purposes, naturally, the guy was captain of the team.
"Malec floor, Jarv "
Je - Jace looks at Tony incredulously, his golden bangs flopping into his eyes, "You did not!"
"Bite me" Tony says without thinking
"Does that offer extend to me?" Simon asks, his head in Clary's lap, nonchalantly braving Jace's glare
Tony sighs, he lives with a vampire now, a clumsy band t-shirt wearing nerdy, apparently, fledgling vampire, because this is his fucking life now.
"Fuck off, vampire"
"Fucking off now"
"More like mundane," Jace
"Be nice, Jace, " Clary
"Original, " Izzy
"What's mundane?" Clint
"Human? I guess..." Steve
"No, not just human, simple ordinary nondescript peop-"
"Shut the hell up" Tall dark and metal growls
Their mouths snap shut.
"Terminator, you are a gift from the gods," Tony sighs
Bucky stares, Tony clutches Steve's feet closer to himself
"Shutting up now"
The projection lights up.
A door crashes open, literally, broken wood and all, and Thor and Alec spill into the room.
Someone clears their throat.
"Door's open," Tony says, eyes not quite leaving the projection.
Nobody leaves.
The blond presses Alec to the wall, there is not much of a height difference between them, Thor probably has an inch or two on Alec, so the shadow hunter is easily trapped by the bulk of the god's body.
Even as Thor continues to kiss the daylights out of Alec, the shadow hunter still has the presence of mind to activate various runes on his torso.
Izzy sees Speed, Agility, Strength.
Alec tucks his stele into his pocket, and says something into Thor's ear, biting on his earlobe. Thor shifts a little and takes off his painted on t-shirt, revealing golden skin and ridiculously sculptured muscles.
Someone coughs. No one says anything.
Thor turns back to Alec, but the paler man has already danced away to the other side of the room. Alec says something, and Thor's brows rise comically before he nods and pulls his hair into a band. Alec smiles, and lifts his shirt up to trace through the Strength rune again.
Izzy frowns. Jace grunts in slight discomfort. Then it clicks "backup" of course. She hits herself on the forehead for not catching up sooner.
Izzy rushes to the refrigerator, and comes back with an energy drink. She throws it at Jace without warning and he catches it purely by reflex and muscle memory.
"Impressive," Clint says, because its the truth and he's secure enough in his skill set to admit it.
"What for?" Jace queries
"He'll drain you," Izzy says simply and goes back to bro-watching .
"Shit!" Jace swears as the can hisses open.
Thor and Alec dance around each other searching for openings, weaknesses. Alec still has every stitch of clothing on, but Thor's down a shirt, Tony senses power play. Thor's getting restless, vibrating with energy, just wanting to get it going.
Steve can't help the respectful smile blooming on his face. Because that right there was a master tactician and strategist; get Thor careless, make him slip, use the bigger man's weight against himself, then force him down. Steve chuckles as Thor and Alec face off again before jumping apart.
"I always knew I wasn't the only one who thought that violence was the best kind of foreplay," Rhodey says still within the elevator, eyes on the projection on the wall.
"Buddy, we all know for a fact that you've known no man nor woman," Tony mutters and, Rhodey laughs at a, seemingly, inside joke.
The engineer has been puttering around Jace, ever since he heard that Alec was siphoning energy off of his brother, because parabatai(as if it explained everything), keeping him energized and caffeinated.
"What are they doing anyway?" Rhodey asks replacing Tony on the couch, Steve scowls.
"Fighting for top," Izzy says as if it should be obvious.
"Isn't that your brother?" Rhodey squints at the projection, because he's a moron, and doesn't know when to shut up
"He's not fucking me, is he?"
She snaps sharply.
Rhodey raises his hands in mock-surrender, "Peace,"
When they turn to the wall, Steve smiles, because Alec finally gets the opening he's been waiting for. He traces over Flexibility, Speed, Agility and Strength, and tucks the stele into his pocket.
Jace huffs in displeasure
"He's taking too much"
"Oh hush, that's your leader, brother, parabatai, and best friend you are talking about, bad Jace" Izzy admonishes.
And Tony is only slightly worried at the interest she has in her brother's sex life.
Alec rushes at Thor, and Steve has a moment to be disappointed that Alec hadn't thought as the super soldier had, before Thor darts forward and traps Alec in his large arms. Steve smiles, for he can see it now. Alec uses Thor's momentum to flip them around and dump them on the bed.
Thunder crackles.
Alec straddles Thor's hips and locks his ankles around the larger man's legs. Thor bucks, trying to throw Alec off, and the air around the tower sizzles with electricity.
Alec captures the god's failing arms easily. He puts Thor's hands through the spaces of the headboard, and leans down putting his weight on the hand holding down Thor's wrists and reaches into his pocket with the other. All the while without yielding to Thor's violent thrashing and bucking.
Steve is impressed, and by the looks on the other's faces, they are too. Except for Isabelle, she looks oddly proud. A kind of maternal pride, the sort a mother would get when her baby finally stands up for themselves and slaps another kid at the playground.
Alec brings his stele to the headboard and draws a rune on it. He waits patiently as it fizzles and crackles, as the metal groans as it distorts and moulds around Thor's hands. Thor's thrashes double in intensity as the metal settles and when Alec tests the bonds and finds them firm enough, Thor howls, loud enough to reach them five floors down.
Thunder rolls, lightning bolts from the sky at irregular intervals, and black ominous clouds touch the top of the tower. Like a particularly bad horror flick.
Magnus and Loki arrive together, not from the elevator like normal people, or the stairs like super soldiers, they just pop into existence from a fucking portal; a swirling mass of nothingness, bordered by blue-purple, as if they needed reminding that warlocks and gods of mischief were real.
"What's going on?" Magnus asks the room playing idly with the necklaces on his neck as he hadn't just been fucked by a god of Asgard.
"Alec's returning the favour," Clint says
Loki and Magnus look at each then at the projection with huge eyes and giddy expressions like crazed coke users. They don't give the slightest indication that they are bothered that they were spied on during their...ahem...alone time. And Rhodey wonders just what exactly amounted to 'private' to the occupants of the Avenger's Tower.
Alec leans into Thor's still moving form
"I'm in control, god of Thunder, in charge and I'm gonna...-" the rest of Alec's words are hidden by Thor's golden mane so Clint can't read his lips anymore, he isn't so happy about that. Natasha laughs at him. Whatever Alec says has Thor nodding so hard, his hair is allover his face when he's done.
Alec leans away, apparently, satisfied by Thor's submission? and lifts his shirt. Uncovering his left flank, drawing over a rune on his hip, a smile on his face; dark and mischievous, probably a little evil.
Magnus squeals and throws himself on a couch, face down, as if he suddenly didn't quite know what to do with himself.
Jace turns over in his could with a groan that sounds like a suppressed scream and begs for an IV.
Clary giggles and shoves glucose into Jace's mouth.
Izzy is smirking, dark, dangerous and a little tempting. An expression so like her brother's, Tony wonders if they'd practised to mach.
Tony's eyes wonder over his teammates, silently asking for answers, since those with said answers seem less inclined to speak.
They don't know, and Tony knows Natasha doesn't, since her eyes haven't left the projection yet to gloat over his ignorance.
Their attention is dragged back to the projection when Alec turns to face the camera they are using to watch.
"You should try this, Loki," Alec smiles, "he's a natural."
Tony sweeps his eyes over them again, hoping. Loki's eyes have a glassy slightly glowy look to them, Tony counts that as Alost cause.
Bucky turns to face them, and now that Tony thinks about it, he thinks that Bucky might know. Bucky smirks, and of course, he's already memorized all the shadow hunter runes and their uses.
He waits till all their attention is on him, then stage whispers,
"Stamina rune"