Helllooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooo! It is a dark and snowy 4 AM. And so I decided to add yet another fanfiction to my already huge collection! This is actually a Song-Fic based on the song Quiet by LIGHTS. Go listen to it because it is just so amazing! Anyways… Enjoy. ^-^ Reviews make me smile! :D
~I'm not yours, and you're not mine,
But we can sit and pass the time,
No fighting wars, no ringing chimes,
We're just feeling fine. ~
Loki sat silently in a tree with only a little bit of leaves left. It was surprisingly warm for an autumn night and the rest of the golden leaves on the tree he sat in rustled softly in the breeze. The trickster sighed and rested his head back on the trunk of the tree smiling lightly in spite of everything. It had been 7 months from New York and he was on the run still. Although he had been extra careful and had not been sighted in at least 3 months, which had mad things had been worse for him.
He had taken to sleeping in caves on the side of beaches on the coast of Washington State. Which mostly just resulted in being dirty all the time, being almost constantly damp and never really getting a good night's rest. However tonight he sat in Central Park after a quick shower that he had snuck in to from a nearby gym in a disguise. So over all he was content. After a few moments of looking at a particular leaf on a dying branch he closed his eyes and started dozing. However he was roused rather suddenly by someone kicking a stone against the trunk of his tree and plopping down with a huff under it.
Loki tensed eyes widening lightly, had he been spotted? Looking down carefully he slowly realized that he knew who the seemingly angry person was underneath "his" tree. A certain "We Have a Hulk" Tony Stark, who was looking up at the sky practically glaring at the moon.
He had just gotten away from another combined lecture from Rhodey and Pepper about "growing up" and "being more responsible." And he was just about fed up with all of it. Tony looked up at the leaves in the trees almost instantly detecting that there was a person up there. He did not move and pretended that he had not seen the person who obviously wanted to be left alone as well. However after about 3 minutes of sitting there staring at the grass Tony became curious and looked up again.
This time the two people made eye contact underneath the moonlight. Loki felt a rush of panic but Tony felt completely calm as chocolate brown eyes met glittering green. Neither moved until Tony just sighed and looked back at the moon. They were silent for a good half an hour until Tony finally spoke. "Haven't seen you in a while..." Loki swallowed and stayed silent. Tony just continued after another long moment of silence. "I won't turn you in you know. Not tonight at least." Surprised Loki forced out a shocked and yet quiet, "Why?" Tony sighed taking his time to think of a good answer. "I'm not sure. You're not doing any harm... Are you?" Loki shook his head until he remembered that Tony was not looking his way. "No. I am just resting."
Again silence. But this time they had both relaxed a bit more and it was not awkward or tense. Just silence. Loki spoke first after maybe an hour of watching the stars. "Your stars look so different..." Tony waited a bit thinking. "You sound almost homesick reindeer games." Loki gritted his teeth at the nick name but ignored it. "I suppose I am." Tony faltered and looked up at the God perched up just 5 feet above him in the tree. He was staring at the moon but clearly not really seeing anything to far deep in thoughts. He looked almost sad.
Looking down at the still green grass, Tony sighed, "Me too..." At this Loki looked down at Tony. Who was sitting with his knees up and spread looking in between them at an ant crawling across the grass. Loki thought he looked sad and broken. Frowning lightly he looked back up at the moon with a sigh. The atmosphere had dramatically changed now. Both of them had completely relaxed with new understandings of each other.
Loki's leg fell as he started to doze off to hang off the branch. Smirking Tony shifted so that the leg was a bit in front of him and slowly carefully batted at it settling in to a swinging rhythm pushing it so that it bent and swung back slowly and lazily. Loki cracked an eye open to look down at Tony who had a small smile slowly forming on his face. The God sighed lightly and settled down more smirking and closing his eyes again. They stayed quietly like that, Tony letting Loki fall asleep and rest deeply until the sun started to rise.
Giving a light tug on his leg so that he would wake up Tony stood up and dug around in his pocket. He found a note pad and jotted something down before he folded it tossing it on the ground by the end of the trunk then left back to face the wrath of Pepper feeling incredibly light and relaxed for being sober. Loki woke a moment or two after he left. Seeing the sun he got down. Looking down he found the note and blinking stooped to pick it up.
"Hey. Thanks a lot for, I don't know actually what you did.
Thanks for sitting there. I meant what I said about not telling anyone.
Just get out of here alright? Here's 200 bucks. Buy some real food
and get a cheap hotel room for a few nights. Take care of
Yourself Magic Hands.
-Tony."
Loki smiled and folded the money and the note in to his pocket and set off slowly letting a disguise cloak him to go and make Tony good on his word.