Word count: 157
Genre: Angst
Rating: worksafe
Prompt: Loki/Tony, jealousy
They weren't that dissimilar - both having grown up with a father who expected more of them; always straining themselves to become what he wanted them to be, turning bitter when it was never enough - and yet, Tony Stark attracted people to his side like it was no feat at all. Loki did not know how to be that effortlessly likeable.
Truth be told, he wasn't certain he wanted to. Having people who cared about him only meant you'd end up losing them in the end. Like he's lost his brother. His friends. His home.
And yet, in the end, he thought that perhaps, if things has been different, he might have been able to gain a place in the motley family Tony Stark had created out of the group they called the Avengers. He did not yearn for it. He wouldn't allow himself. But the "if", once thought, would not be silenced within his mind.
