Wie, here you go :P

Also I want to tell you that next week I will start working for two weeks and then I start University, so my writing will probably be slow. And my beta reader warned me that she will start school on Monday as well, so she will also be a bit slow. Just so you know and don't abandon me or anything :P


Chapter 3

Tony stood by the small café that Loki had, in the end, decided on. It was in the lower Manhattan and secluded from the main street, the once that lived there probably knew about it. Tony had to agree, it was nice this way, to be alone with Loki and not be afraid of getting recognized by paparazzi. He didn't quite know why he dressed nicely for this, but in the end he had taken a new pair of jeans and under his black leather jacket he had a new nice light blue shirt on. This wasn't a date, but why was he so nervous. When the tall man, that he would recognize anywhere, turned around the corner and walked up to him with a small smile, wearing what looked like new jeans as well and that trench coat he had yesterday.

"I thought you would bale on me." Tony joked when the man stood in front of him.

"I apologize that I'm late, but it was hard to find a parking spot." Loki said with a silken voice.

Tony motioned for them to walk inside and opened the door for the man. When they had ordered coffee, they sat down in a corner deep into the café so they could be alone. The café itself was decorated like a grandmother's home. Instead of chairs there were armchairs and couches, not modern but quite comfy.

"So, what kind of books do you write?" Tony asked to get a conversation going.

"I write romance novels." Loki said and took of his jacket, revealing a nice green shirt.

Tony couldn't help the silly grin that appeared on his lips. "So you know romance?" He asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Apparently, I do. Since my first book is a best seller." Loki said with a cocky smirk.

"Is it about your girlfriend?" Tony asked and his smile disappeared, he tried to hide his sad face by drinking his coffee.

"No, the first one was about a girl that is in love with a guy that her parents don't approve of." Loki said and drank his latte. What could he say? His friends love story was like taken out of a book.

"Okay, got any new ideas?" The genius asked him and took another sip from his coffee.

Loki sighed and looked down at his coffee. "I don't know yet." He answered. Before he had left the apartment he had thrown away the napkin with idea on it, thinking that it was stupid.

"Don't you writers have some kind of notebook where you write down your ideas on?" Tony asked him, genuinely curious because he had never met a writer before.

"I'm not a part of a pack, Mr. Stark." Loki said with a raised eyebrow. "And no, I don't have one." He then answered the question.

"Alright, please call me Tony." He said with his usual smile. "Tell me about your family?" He immediately regretted the question when he saw the man tense. "A sour subject, huh?" He said and nervously slid a finger around the edge of his cup.

"Kind of." Loki answered and made himself relax.

"Well, I know what that is like." Tony said and sighed.

Loki looked at the genius with interest. Could this man actually relate to him? Of course, there is a billion different ways to have family problems and some are tougher than others. His gaze slid over the broad chest of the billionaire and stopped at a weird light. "What is that?" He asked carefully.

Tony looked down and chuckled when he realized what it was that Loki was asking about. So he told him about the guy that shot him and why he did it. He told him everything and found it quiet soothing to talk to Loki. It was something with his eyes that made him feel calm and safe.

"I remember reading headlines about it." Loki suddenly stated and leaned back in the armchair.

Tony chuckled and looked down at his empty cup. He hadn't realized that they had been sitting there for almost an hour now and he had been talking most of the time. "Want some more coffee?" He asked the man, who was looking at his watch. "Or maybe you have somewhere to be?"

Loki smiled at him. "I'm surprised that you don't have somewhere to be, having your own company and all." He said and leaned his head on his arm.

"I have a CEO, my best friend to be exact." Tony told him and shrugged his shoulders. The genius's eyes fell on the exposed neck that stretched as Loki rested his head on his arm. His mouth was suddenly dry and memories of an experienced tongue working his erection. But his thoughts were interrupted by vibrations in his pocket. He sighed and took up his phone, seeing Pepper's face appear on the screen. "Excuse me." Tony said and stood up to speak more privately. He walked to the other end of the café and answered the phone. "You're interrupting something." Tony murmured.

"Don't give me that! I need you to come in a sign some papers right now." Pepper demanded with her stern voice.

"But I'm having company." Tony wined.

"You can have sex some other time." Pepper growled and then hanged up on him. She was really stressed. She never hanged up on him like that.

He walked back with a sour look on his face. "Apparently it doesn't matter if I have a CEO. I have work to do anyway." Tony said and ran a hand through his hair.

"It's okay. I better head home anyway and continue brain storming." Loki said and stood up with his coat in his hand.

"Maybe we could have dinner sometime?" Tony asked him hopefully.

"Yeah, just call me when you have time." Loki said with a warm smile and puts on his coat.

Tony nodded and did the same with his jacket and they walked out together. "Until next time then." The genius said and reached out his hand for the handsome man. Loki nodded and gave his hand a firm hand shake, but Tony could help but noticed the way the long fingers slid over his skin slowly. Loki backed away two steps before turning and walked around the corner.


Tony sat in his lab, for once not working on something. He just sat there, music blaring through the speakers and in his mind he thought of marble skin and smooth lips over his. It had been four days since he met Loki at the café and he still couldn't stop thinking about the man. Tony felt like a high school girl that has her first crush. He felt so intrigued with Loki, like a puzzle he needed to solve. Why was his family a touchy subject? Why was he in a relationship with a woman when he clearly was into men? Why did Loki never talk about his girlfriend? He wanted to see Loki again. He wanted to talk to him… to touch him. Was it just because he couldn't have him that made the urge stronger? Tony reached for his phone and looked at the text messages they had shared the day the genius had asked him to meet him. Should he text him? Just ask what he was doing? Ask if he wanted to meet him again?

How's the book going?

-Tony

He looked at the send button for probably 30 seconds before his thumb pressed on the screen and the message was sent. He placed the phone down on the work table again and waited. While he was waiting, he pulled up a screen and started to look through various stuff and weirdly ended up looking at notebooks. The phone vibrated and he pretty much launched himself to the phone, like it was a matter of seconds before the text would disappear.

Not well. A lot of ideas, but no one catches my interest.

-Mind blowing Loki

Tony can't help but let a smile appear on his lips. The man was sharing something important with him and he didn't want to be a dick like he usually was and joke about it. No, he wanted to help. So he tapped in an answer and went back to look at notebooks.


Loki lied on his bed and different romance novels were scattered around him. He was trying to get inspiration, but all he could come up with was that every story was pretty much the same. He was on the verge of falling asleep when he gotten the first text from the billionaire. He didn't know why he shared his troubles with the man, but it was relaxing to have someone else to talk to then just Natasha. Speaking of the devil, the red head walked in and looked at all the books around him. "I think you need to start dating." She pointed out and crawled over to him and leaned on the head board, grabbing a book in the process. Loki only snorted and saw his phone shine on the besides table. He reached over and grabbed the phone.

Maybe you need some romance yourself. ;)

-Stark

Loki smiled at the text and a chuckled by the obvious flirting. Natasha looked at him curiously. "Who are you texting with?" She asked and tried to look at the text, but Loki turned the phone away from her as a sign that she was not allowed to look. "I haven't seen you smile like that since…" She stopped when she almost said the name that usually made Loki moody. Loki only ignored her, knowing who she meant without saying his name.

I can't picture you being the romantic type.

-Loki

Loki placed his phone on his stomach and looked at Natasha who was waiting for him to tell her. "It's Stark." He tells her and picks up another book to have something else to look at then her curious eyes.

"Are you two dating?" She asked with the little excitement she could give him. She was excited for him, but she just wasn't the type that started to jump on the bed.

"No, I sort of told him that I have a girlfriend." Loki said and read the back of the book to see if it was worth to read or just throw away.

"Well, then tell him the truth. Tell him about Odin." She tried and took the book away from her friend to get him to focus.

"Then he will probably just find me troublesome and ignore me." Loki said and felt his phone vibrate on his stomach.

"Then he is not worthy of you." Natasha said and watched her friend as he read the message.

I can be very romantic if I choose to be.

-Stark

"How do I even break it to him? I lied to him." Loki said and the smile that had appeared from reading the text faded away.

Natasha snorted. "You, Mr. Silvertongue, know exactly how to make someone still want you after you telling them something horrible. You would be excellent in a hospital, telling relatives that their loved ones had died." Natasha said sarcastically. Loki chuckled at that and looked at the text again. "Go on, date him." His friend told him and nudged him in his side.

I'm finding that hard to believe.

-Loki

Natasha sees how he is thinking about this way too much. She is the only one that can. "Does it feel like when you were dating Fandral?" She asked bluntly, knowing that he doesn't like it when old memories come back.

But Loki had a weird smile on his face, a smile Natasha hadn't seen before. "Better than Fandral. This time I know what I am doing." Loki said, but that smile faded away again. "I just don't want to start something that I will be forced to end again." He said and started to fiddle with the hem of his t-shirt.

"That happened once and it was in college. This time it might go better." Natasha said and gave him a warm smile, something only he gets. Loki smiles back at her, but his attention was drawn back to his phone that vibrated again.

I'll show you then! Dinner at my place on Friday at seven?

-Stark.

Loki shows Natasha the messages to prove her that at least the genius wanted something to happen. "If it doesn't go well, you can just say that he sucks at romance and then never speak to him again." Natasha said and shrugged her shoulders.

"I guess it wouldn't hurt to see what would happen." Loki said and texted Stark back.

Don't disappoint me!

-Loki.


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