Of all things that happened to Tony in his life; from being kidnapped by Afghans to having his childhood hero crush any foolish dreams he had left, he never thought he would be in this situation. Afraid of someone, a man, that he was suppose to be in love with and if he were to be truthful with himself, he'd probably still say he was.

The hero stood up from his bed and walked over to his en suite to see the damage. A black eye and a split lip. Not as bad as usual he thought knowing he'd be able to lie to the team and claim he'd sustained his injuries in their latest battle. While cleaning the blood out of his goatee he heard the elevator to his floor open and his mind went into panic, he quickly ran to his bed and lay in the position he was in previously, hoping Loki wouldn't notice. Of course he did.

"You moved!" The deity roared making Tony wince. "I'm sorry! I'm sorry Lo- my God!" the billionaire screamed but his pleas fell on deaf ears. Loki rapidly pinned him to the red and gold wall, "what were you about to call me?" the trickster whispered menacingly. "My god" Tony barely choked out because the Asgardian continued to tighten his grip on his wind pipe.

"Do. Not. Lie. To. Me!" The God screamed as he threw the brunette across the room, landing with a satisfying crack. "L-Loki" Tony murmured knowing that he would still get hurt no matter what he said. "Exactly!" is all Tony heard before the blows started falling. "You are the most disgusting thing in the nine realms! What are you?!" The raven haired immortal shrieked as battered his lover's body. "The m-most disgusting thing in the nine realms..."

Once Tony was beaten black and blue, Loki stepped back to look at the man in front of him. His frame was shaking from his frantic sobbing, his once silky, brown hair was now caked with his own blood and he was convinced his nose was broken. The deity gave him three solid kicks before kneeling down next to him and stroking his hair.

Slowly, his sobbing turned to crying and that's when Loki chose to speak "darling, if you didn't misbehave I wouldn't have to punish you. Sometimes you are just so ignorant that someone needs to punch it out of you. I love you so, so, so much Tony." He whispered much less threateningly than minutes before then walked out of the room to teleport.

"I'm sorry... I love you too"