AN: I own nothing but this story!

Was he really doing this? Tony was driving Loki, his lover, his life, back to SHIELD headquarters. Over another stupid fight. Loki was deathly silent, not even looking at Tony. Just staring straight ahead at the road. How did it come to this? One too many fights? Tony couldn't even believe himself. They had both just snapped. Tony refused to cry. Refused to show any emotion whatsoever. He thought he had seen a sparkling tear fall down Loki's face, but that was impossible. Loki never cried, or at least never that Tony could see. They stayed that way, silent. He could feel both of their hearts shattering. He looked back on their fight to see how it got to this point.

"You never listen to me! You only ever care about yourself, you selfish bastard!" Loki screamed at Tony. Tony tried to ignore him. "Listen to me! Hear me, Tony so help me.." Tony kept his eyes trained on the metal suit he was working on. "I hate you!" Loki screamed at him. "I hate you!" The words made Tony freeze. They felt like knives being shoved into his chest. They echoed painfully in his head. He turned to face Loki. "Then why the hell are you still here? What's keeping you?" Tony spat. Loki stared at him for a long time. "You always talk about him." Loki muttered. "You talk about how your own father never cared. Never listened. Never tried. You never even knew what your own father thought of you." said Loki. "You're him, Tony." said Loki bitingly. "You're Howard." Tony's face went white with rage. "And you are an evil, sick, twisted psychopath. You know nothing." he said, standing up. "I'm taking you to SHIELD. I'm turning you in. I can't take this anymore." he said.

And so here they were, only blocks away from SHIELD. "Loki.." said Tony. "Don't." Loki snapped, staring straight ahead. "Don't even speak to me." he said. Was it really ending just like this? Tomy couldn't help but think back to everything between them. How they had met on a lonely park bench at about one in the morning. Before Tony was The Iron Man, and before he knew who Loki really was.

Loki sat alone on the park bench, somewhere on Midgard. Not that it really mattered. He was stuck here thanks to one of Thor's stupid ideas. It appeared that he and the warriors three had abandoned him. He put his head in his hands, just thinking. "You too, eh?" said a voice and Loki spun around. "I'm sorry?" said Loki, glancing up at the man. The man held out his hand, a cocky grin on his lips. "I'm Tony. Stark." said Tony. Loki warily took the hand and shook it. "Loki Odinson." he said. Tony was pretty taken aback because Loki was.. Well.. Stunning. Tony rarely found guys attractive, sometimes going in that direction. "So Loki Odinson, fancy a drink on me?" said Tony, causing Loki to laugh. "Already just met me and trying to get me drunk?" Loki said. "Are you refusing?" Tony asked. "Absolutely not." Loki grinned, getting up and walking with Tony.

Loki turned to stare at Tony, through poison green eyes, shining with tears. "Was it a lie?" he asked Tony. Tony's eyebrows knit together. "Was what a lie?" "When you told me you loved me." he said. "Because I didn't lie to you about that. Not once." said Loki. Tony closed his eyes for a moment. How could Loki ask him something like that? That wasn't fair.

"Loki, please, just come out here and talk to me." said Tony, leaning against Loki's bedroom door, where he was staying in the Stark Tower. "No." said Loki. "Then I'm coming in." said Tony, opening the door and sitting beside Loki on the floor. "Loki.. Come on, I was just joking around." said Tony, as close to an apology as he usually got. "Making fun of my relationship with that idiot Thor, isn't a joke to me." Loki snapped. "Loki... I'm sorry, okay? You just.. You mean a lot to me... And I.." Tony carded his hands through his hair. He was going to say it. Now or never. If he didn't show he cared, he might end up losing Loki. "I love you."

"No. No it wasn't a lie." said Tony. "And now?" asked Loki, no emotion in his voice. Just cold and expressionless like he was with everyone else. "Doesn't matter." Tony muttered. "When did you stop?" Loki asked, trying to provoke Tony into answering him. Tony sucked in a deep breath. He didn't stop. He didn't even want to be doing this. Loki had trusted him. Tony quietly prayed to whatever force in the universe that he hadn't become Howard. Cold and calculated. The next thing they both heard was the screech of metal and the sound of breaking glass. And then nothing.

Tony woke in the hospital. His first words upon waking up were "Where's Loki?" he said, immediately sitting up, and immediately regretting that decision. Pain shot through him, coming mostly from his chest and ribcage. Fury walked into Tony's hospital room. "Harboring a wanted fugitive, Stark? Now that is a new low even for you. Do you know how much SHIELD is going to have to do to keep this under wraps?" said Fury, shaking his head. "Where's. Loki." said Tony through gritted teeth. "He's in no condition to be seen, either way, we don't want you seeing him any more. Once he's recovered, we're taking him to headquarters. If he recovers." Fury said, pinching the bridge of his nose. "IF he recovers?" said Tony, getting up and ignoring the pain. Before Fury could protest, he was down the hallway headed to Loki's hospital room.

Tony ran to Loki's bedside. The man was even paler than usual if that was even possible. His breathing was steady, which calmed Tony down. "Loki?" he asked softly, taking the limp hand in his. "Loki please I.." The doctor walked in. "Mr. Stark, good to see you're awake." he said. "How long was I out?" asked Tony. "About three days." said the doctor. "Had a few visitors too." He told him. "How's Loki?" Tony asked, still holding he cold hand. The doctor looked down at him. "Mr. Laufeyson received some very bad head trauma, his head having collided with the dashboard. He also had an adverse reaction to the anesthesia. But as you know, he is not human. Mr. Stark, we're basically just working in the dark here. But as we understand it, Loki currently comatose." said the doctor.

"Comatose." Tony echoed. He felt sick. "But he'll be fine, right? Right?!" Said Tony frantically. "His brain activity is currently promising, but we don't know for sure. Remember, he's not human, Mr. Stark." said the doctor, exiting the room. As soon as Tony was alone, tears began to stream down his face. "I'm so sorry Loki.. I did this.. I did this." he sobbed into Loki's chest. "Come on.. just.. just wake up Loki. I love you.. god knows I still love you." Tony wept. "I love you, I love you, I love you." he whispered, not noticing the transparent, almost shadow-like figure behind him. Dark and barely visible. The only recognizable thing were two poison green eyes, but it quickly faded away.

AN: To be continued.. I hope you like it. Please feel free to suggest and prompt me! I love hearing opinions! Mwah! Mwah!