Another chapter for you :P
A apologies for the shortness of this chapter though :/
Chapter 7
Loki can feel his body go numb from what he just heard from his lover's lips. He managed to get out of Tony's arms and steps away from him. "Why? Have I done something wrong?"He can't help hide his shaking voice.
Tony shakes his head. "No it's nothing you've done. I just want to protect you, if we keep seeing each other like this Fury will find us and he will take you away from me." Tony said and reached out an arm to Loki but the god turned away and tries to get the tears that threatened to show to go away.
"Why does everyone I trust leave me?" Loki can't stop them, the tears starts falling down his cheeks, his legs give in and he falls to his knees on the cold marble floor.
Tony can't just watch his lover cry without feeling himself almost break down. He walks over to Loki and embraces him, he feels the god tense but the melts into his arms. "I promise that we will see each other again, when Fury has calmed down. I am only doing this for you." Tony whispered into his hair, feeling a tear slid down his cheek. Why was he crying? Wasn't he stronger than this?
"There must be another way?" Loki said with a low and shaky voice, pressing himself closer to Tony and wrapped his arms around him.
"I wish there was but I can't come up with anything that will make it impossible for Fury to track me." He answered and his arms around the god tightened, wishing that he wouldn't have to let go.
"How long?" Loki asked and pulled away to look into warm brown eyes.
Tony stroked away some tears from his lover's cheeks and managed to give him a small smile. "I don't know, maybe a week, maybe a month." It hurt saying how long it could take. He couldn't even stand being away from his lover for four days without contact. How would he manage weeks?
Loki closed his eyes and leaned closer to the hand that were caressing his cheeks. "It's too long." He whispered to Tony.
"I know, but we don't have another choice. But I couldn't live with myself if they found you and put you in a cell, because of me." Tony said and rested his forehead on the god's.
"I better go then." Loki whispered sadly and got out of Tony's arms to stand up and walk inside to get his clothes.
Tony followed him inside and sat down on the couch, leaning forward, and elbows on his knees and his face covered by his hands. When Loki had changed into his clothes, he walked over to Tony and crouched down in front of him, taking away Tony's hands from his face. Tony looked tired and almost heart broken when he looked at his lover. "Can I help you with anything, money or a place to live?" Tony asked and stroked Loki's hair.
"No you don't have to." Loki said and gave him a small smile.
Tony stood up and walked over to get his wallet and took out his credit card. "Take this; no one will check what I'll buy because this is my private card." Tony said and handed it to Loki who looked at it with wide eyes. "This way, I will know if you are fine." Tony said and smiled at him.
Loki nodded and put the card in his back pocket and looked up at his lover just in time when Tony's lips crashed on his. The kiss was passionate, loving and filled with agony of not seeing each other for a long time. Hands going everywhere to memorize everything about the other and taking in the others scent. One last kiss before being apart for an unknown amount of days, to try to keep each other satisfied, but they both knew that it wouldn't last a week.
In the end they had to part from each other, panting and shaking, looking into each other's eyes, memories the other's eye color. They both wanted to say it, the words that would make the other know that this meant more to them than just sex and comfort. But what if they never could see each other again, the words would have been for nothing, they would have given themselves to someone they could never have. So the word weren't said, maybe they would never would be said.
"Goodbye." Loki said and planted another soft kiss on Tony's lips before he disappeared.
Tony went back to New York; Pepper met him in the living room and saw immediately that something wasn't right. "Hey, what's wrong?" She asked him when he walked over to the bar and poured himself a glass with scotch. She had noticed that he hadn't been drinking as much as he used to and to see him going straight to the bar felt like it was like old times and she didn't like that.
"I can't see my lover for a while because he will be busy for a while." Tony said and swallowed the scotch.
"And you are upset? It's like you two aren't lovers, more like a real couple." She said with a warm smile.
"It isn't funny Pep." Tony growled causing his best friend to flinch. He took a deep breath and rubbed his eyes before looking back to Pepper who was watching him closely. "I'm sorry, didn't mean to take it out on you." He said and leaned on the bar.
"It's okay." She said and smiled again. She hasn't seen him like this ever, not even when they were together.
"You haven't told anyone about him right?" Tony asked her, trying not to look panicked. If someone knew he was dating someone that suddenly disappeared after Fury had called him, it would seem really suspicious.
"No, it is your business to tell." She answered with a frown.
"Good, don't tell anyone if they ask if I'm seeing anyone." He said with a stern voice. "I'm going down to the lab now." He grabbed the bottle of scotch and went down to the only place where he could be in misery alone.
Loki teleported back to Norway, he had rented a motel room in the middle of nowhere for a while now and was ready to move again, maybe to Russia or Denmark. He gathered his clothes into the big backpack that he had got from Thor with the clothes. There was a heavy knock on the door and he sighed in annoyance, he wanted to be alone right now.
"Brother, open the door." Thor's voice boomed on the other side of the door.
Loki growled and walked over to the door. "I'm not your brother." He hissed and opened the door.
"How many times do I have to tell you that I don't care if we are blood related or not, we grew up together and that is all that counts." Thor said and walked into Loki's room. "How was the talk with father?" Thor asked and sat down in an armchair that was placed by the window. It wasn't a fancy motel, just by a big highway and a McDonalds to be correct. His room's view wasn't like the one Tony had in Australia, his view showed the parking lot and after that was just a forest. The room itself had a single bed, a workable bathroom, an old TV and a desk, just like a motel usually is.
"It was as it usually is; I tell him what I've done and he listens even though he already knows what I've done here on Midgard." Loki told him tiredly, he felt so lost and alone, a feeling he was familiar with but now it felt worse. Now he really knew what it felt like to be happy, to be with someone and he didn't know if he would feel it again.
"You seem troubled, brother." Thor mentioned and looked worried as Loki lazily started to pack his stuff into the bag again. He had noticed that the last few time he had met Loki he had been quite happy and didn't fight him when he came to check up on him. But today it looked like he had lost something, something precious.
"I'm fine." Loki responded and lifted out a blue shirt from the drawer and it took all his willpower not to take in Tony's scent in front of Thor. He put the shirt into the bag and closed it. He turned to Thor who was watching him, still concerned. "Was there something you wanted Thor?" Loki spat.
Thor sighed and got to his feet's and walked over to the door. "Where are you going next?" He asked before settling his hand on to the door handle.
Loki thought about it for a second, had thought about going to Russia but now he realized that if he went to Denmark he would be in some way closer to his lover. No, he couldn't call Tony a lover, not now at least for the time being. But he wanted to be close, he didn't know why but he did. "Denmark." He said simply.
Thor nodded and opened the door. "I'll go back to New York then. Is there anything I can get for you?" He asked with a small smile.
Loki shook his head; he didn't need him now after all. He had Tony's credit card and he wanted to use it in Denmark so Tony knew that he was close.
"Well then I'll see you soon, brother." Thor said and left the room before Loki would argue with him again about heritage.
Thor landed on the helipad of the Stark tower late that night, looking around at the city around him before walking towards the door into Tony's penthouse. He didn't know why, but he felt like he wanted to talk to someone, not about his brother but just to talk to someone who at least appreciates him a little. He couldn't find the Man of Iron in his bedroom so he figured that he was still in his lab. It wasn't a rare that the billionaire would lock himself up for too long in his projects and forget the time, needing someone to remind him. So Thor went down to the lab, seeing the lights were on and he could hear the loud music through the glass walls. "Ghost, open up and silence the music." Thor demanded the AI he had grown accustomed to now.
My master doesn't want to be disturbed. The Ai answered him which annoyed him a bit.
"I just want to make sure that he is okay." Thor told the ghost and looked through the glass wall into the room.
Very well Mr. Odinson. The AI answered, sounding a bit concerned.
The door opened and the thunder god walked into the lab, looking around again and found the Man of Iron on the floor by one of his cars, an empty bottle beside his hand. Thor sighed, wondering if everyone was having a bad day or something. He walked over to the sleeping man and lifted him up over his shoulder.
"What… Thor? When did you get home buddy?" Tony slurred behind him.
Thor chuckled at the man and walked to the elevator and told the ghost to take him to the penthouse. He laid the drunken billionaire on the bed and took off his shoes. "I thought you were on the clean path, Man of Iron." Thor mumbled mostly to himself.
Tony laughed and turned to his side. "Tell your brother I miss him already." Tony mumbled into the pillow.
Thor stopped in his tracks out of the bedroom. "What do you mean, Tony?" he asked and walked back to the bed, only to discover that the man had fallen asleep. He must have heard wrong, besides, the man was drunk and probably had no idea of what he was saying. But why would he talk about his brother? Why was the man drunk in the first place? Could this explain his brother's foul mood he had today after weeks of being some kind of happy?
It wasn't new that his brother courted men but why the Man of Iron? And why would the man even want to court his brother, after all that he had done? Maybe, he should just wait and see?
