Neither of them is sure how it happened but they had fallen asleep on the couch, Loki lying on Tony's chest, Tony with one arm slung across Loki's waist, the light from the glowing arc reactor was hidden between the two bodies.

And that was how they found themselves when they were woken up the next morning. Well, afternoon actually.

Loki heard the door click open, and, still a little paranoid from his recent horror movie experience, drew in a panicked breath and woke up in a flash, propping himself up with his hands on Tony's chest. This woke Tony up, who also panicked because of the weight of another person holding him down, and immediately grabbed Loki, who pulled away, causing them both to roll off the couch and land on the floor between the foot of the couch and the coffee table.

"Tony?!" Loki looked up at the man straddling him on the floor.

"Loki?! What…?" Tony was just as confused as Loki.

A low chuckle was heard from the doorway, reminding Loki of the initial reason he'd woken up. Both heads swivelled around, "Thor?!" they both said at the same time.

"I've had clearer mornings after house parties," Tony grumbled before standing and helping Loki to his feet.

"'Morning Stark? It is 2 in the afternoon," Thor said, greatly amused by the situation, "and I must ask, do you two often sleep this way?"

It took a few seconds for the drowsy god and mortal to comprehend what Thor was saying, after which Loki promptly ignored his brother completely and Tony responded with some witty quip that Loki also ignored. He wasn't a morning person. Or god. Or whatever. He needed coffee.

Thor and Tony stayed in the room talking while Loki was quick to take the elevator down to the ground floor. He entered the kitchen and headed to the coffee machine. He made a rich-extra-caffeinated-mocha-something, he didn't really know or care, he just pressed buttons and impatiently waited for the drink to be ready. As long as it woke him up enough to be able to string words together into to legible sentences and properly kick-start his magic into functioning, he didn't mind what it was.

He gulped down a mouthful of the strong drink. The elevator 'dinged.' Loki flicked his wrist and disabled the internal mechanism that produced the awfully cheerful sound. Ahh...magic was amazing. There was muffled talking as Tony and Thor approached, before they stopped in front of Loki.

"Aww Loki you're so cute!" Thor exclaimed.

"What?" Loki said, looking up from his coffee.

"You're so little!" Thor cooed, "and do you have puppy ears?"

"Uhh Thor, don't go there," Tony warned, smiling though.

"Huh?" Loki was confused; the caffeine hadn't taken effect yet.

"Aww you've got puppy ears! And you're shorter," he clarified. There was a huge grin plastered on his face.

"No I'm not Thor, don't be stupid," Loki replied. By now he knew he was in fact shorter and puppy-like, but there's nothing wrong with playing around with his dear brother now is there?

Tony looked at him for a few seconds, before quickly catching on. He knew that mischievous glint in Loki's eyes. "Thor, are you ok? He's taller than you."

They both hid their smirks, as Tony brushed past to make a coffee, Thor stood there a little stunned.

Loki headed to the table and Thor followed mentally measuring himself against his brother. Loki made an effort to appear to be climbing onto his chair, even magically switching mugs so he held the biggest one Tony owned, so he looked smaller.

"Do you both not see this?" Thor asked incredulously.

Loki rolled his eyes. Tony sat down and held the back of his hand to Thor's forehead.

"Are you okay brother?" Loki asked, expertly faking concern.

"You do seem to have a bit of a temperature there, Thor," Tony added, not quite as good at acting as Loki, but Thor didn't notice.

"Yes I am fine. Look at him!" he said pointing to Loki.

"Oh! Well Thor nobody looks perfect in the mornings, no need to be rude!" Loki said, feigning offence now.

Tony sipped his coffee, hiding his smile behind his mug. Loki held down a laugh and sipped his own.

Thor's eye flicked between the two innocent-looking faces.

"Hey buddy, I think you should lie down," Tony suggested.

"Yes, you must rest Thor, you appear to be delirious from your travels," Loki said.

"I…but…" Thor seemed about to argue, "I suppose you are right," he conceded, "I'm sorry Stark I did not come here with the intentions of ruining your afternoon," he then took his leave, taking one last look at Loki, and retreated to the lift without another word.


Tony and Loki sniggered quietly until the doors of the lift closed, at which point they burst out laughing uncontrollably until they had tears rolling downs their cheeks.

"Should we tell him?" Tony asked.

"Hmm…" Loki said thoughtfully, "nah, fuck it, make him suffer."

Loki; always the one for mischief.

They laughed some more until a thought hit Tony.

"Hey why did we sleep so long? We didn't stay up that late did we?"

Loki shrugged, "I guess the malfunctioned magic drained our energy."

"You guess? So you don't know?" Tony said, then nervously added "wait you don't know all the side effects?"

"Not really, but don't worry most of it went into me remember," Loki said pointing to his ears, "and anything that happened to you would have shown up a lot earlier anyway."

Yes, coffee made him a cheerier person.

Thor returned, interrupting the others' conversation about how often Loki threw things around the tower. He looked at the two strangely, before sitting down heavily on a chair opposite them.

"Tony, Loki, I know you're playing a trick on me," he said.

Tony began to talk, but Loki cut him off, "Thor, we know not of any tricks."

Thor looked sternly at his brother, his eyes moving up to his ears a few times before he looked over to Tony. "Stark, please do not lie to me my friend, is this an illusion?"

"No, it's not an illusion," Tony said sincerely.

Thor groaned, "but Loki is shorter I swear it! And has ears!"

"I've always had ears Thor," Loki said, having a strange sense of déjà vu settle over him, didn't Tony say the same thing at first?

Tony sighed, "Loki… I think we should tell him."

Loki sighed, annoyed his prank was over, "fine, tell him then."

"Loki screwed up his magic, and turned himself into a midget-puppy-god," Tony stated.

"Tony! It did not happen like that!" Loki said, annoyed at how it made him sound like he was incapable of using his own magic.

"It did happen like that, you screwed it up," Tony said.

"Wait? What happened?!" Thor raising his voice over their squabbling.

"I was conjuring a very difficult spell, and I told Tony to stay out of it, but nooo he came barging in and it malfunctioned and I was turned into this," he gestured to himself, "and Tony was turned into an ass."

"Hey I was not!" Tony yelled at him.

"Oh, I'm sorry, you were always an ass!" Loki yelled back.

"Silence!" Thor boomed. "You two fight like an old married couple!"

"Do not," Loki grumbled.

"Only one of us is old," Tony said to Loki.

Loki glared at him, "and only one of us looks old," Loki retorted.

"I assure you, I've retained my good looks!"

"You need to have them in the first place before you retain them!"

"Are you jealous Loki? That I'm just better than you in every way?"

"I most certainly am not-"

"SILENCE!" Thor shouted, standing up and interrupting them again.

Loki huffed. Tony tapped his fingers on the table. They must both be really tired to start arguing without good reason.

They glared at each other, until they were distracted by Thor's low laugh.

"You're so adorable Loki!" Thor said.

Adorable? Adorable?!

"Uh ohh…" Tony said, grinning at what was to come.

Loki growled and stood, grabbing his empty mug. Thor got up and ran towards the door but not fast enough. Loki threw the mug at Thor hitting his cape and breaking against the armour on his arm.

"Loki!" Thor yelled and turned to scold his younger brother, but Loki raised Tony's mug above his head ready to throw it. Thor took the hint and escaped into the lift.

"You were right," Tony said thoughtfully.

"About what?" Loki asked, sitting down.

"Thor does have crap reflexes."


A/N: Thank you for the feedback! I was going to stop this story, but then a lovely person made a comment about Thor's reaction, (you know who you are, I hope this is good enough for you) and other lovely people also sent some feedback, so, that is the power of reviews at work everyone. If anyone has some suggestions, criticism, appraisals, something you want added, please feel free to tell me, I'll take them all into consideration.