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Tony refused to let go of Loki for the remainder of the day. Only doing so when the trickster threatened to immobilize him and leave him comatose, if they didn't stop at the next clearing to make camp. And although having the demi-gods' flushed face pressed close to his open visor was extremely pleasant to say the least, Tony didn't feel like having another fight so soon after their reconciliation. So when next they came across a reasonably spaced alcove he reluctantly set his pissed-off cargo gently on the ground.

"Oh great pins and needles. Thank you mighty Iron Man for sparing my feet from hardship."

Tony rolled his eyes, letting his suit fold out all around him before it compressed itself into a briefcase.

"I hope you know I'm sleeping with her tonight. Just in case you had any ideas."

"I would have thought you'd rather sleep with me." Loki drawled as he stretched furs around a crackling fire.

"Awwwh can't I have both," the darker man whined. "I want both. Pleeeese!"

"Mm I don't know if you deserve both. Nope definitely one. Just one tonight. Take your pick. Me or the suit."

Tony let himself drop onto the makeshift bed as he watched his partner draw out ingredients from the little food sac in preparation for cooking.

"Hard to say you're both cold, sleek and sexy, both give me a hard time and both make me feel cocky."

Loki smirked but otherwise remained stoic, placing bite size pieces of meat and potatoes into a boiling pot.

"I feel like you're indistinguishable."

"Really?"

"Mhhhm"

"You seem to be forgetting who saved your human behind when that shinny suit of yours was out of commission."

Tony smirked and rolled on to his back so he was now facing the trickster upside down, bottom lip stuck out in a pout. He pretended to contemplate that a moment.

"My, my I believe someone is jealous of an inanimate object. How inappropriate sir that you would think me an objectophile when I recall that you yourself hold an ardent fascination with your ah "staff".

"Objecto…what?"

"Objectophile, some one who holds sexual desire for…"

"Ok I don't want to know. Here stick this spoon in your mouth while you wait for the soup to cool." Loki passed the wooden cutlery without looking as he proceeded to divide the soup between two bowls. "And I would think you would hold as much passion for my staff as I do since her magic is the reason you're able to breath on this planet and your reactor can function properly."

Tony replied by attempting to orally molest the wooded appendage with accompanying lustful moans.

"No Tony. Just suck on it quietly like a good boy or by all means continue but first let me unite you and the spoon in matrimony. And you can have your honeymoon with her tonight in that corner. Alone."

Tony quit his sinful display only in order to clear a dreadful misconception.

"Her. Can't you see it's a spoon, its obviously male."

Loki frowned.

"How do you figure…wait do I even want to know?"

Tony opened his mouth to reply and Loki cut him short.

"That would be a no. Eat your soup Stark its cool enough."

As if to emphasize the point to a five-year-old child, Loki blew on his own spoon, before bringing it to his lips. Eyes crinkling in amusement as Tony mimicked him. The philanthropist gave the trickster a playful wink as he commenced with noisy slurping. The rest of the meal was spent in companionable silence. Loki was cleaning the pot and putting things away when Tony once more warranted his attention.

"What in Odin's name are you doing?"

"What? I'm just getting her ready for bed. If she must sleep alone tonight then the least I can do is wrap her up nice and tight and keep her from freezing to death."

Loki sighed putting away the last dish, and walked over to observe the scene in mild amusement.

"You realize it's a machine right?"

"It's my baby and she will be taken care of. Lord only knows what hardships she had to endure inside your pocket. Oh the misery. If only I could have taken her place…yes" he smirked and stood up giving his wrapped up suit a once over before turning to look Loki in the eyes," if only," he leaned forward to brush their noses together, "I could have taken her place mhhm?"

Loki let the tip on his nose gently glide along Tony's. Then stepping aside he turned to walk back to the makeshift bed. Tony followed him in a daze.

"Wow best Eskimo kiss, ever." He whispered under his breath but Loki heard him regardless.

"Eskimo kiss?" he asked removing the tunic with his back turned towards Tony, before quickly slipping in under the furs.

"Yes," Tony proceeded to do the same, only stripping slower as if for show and attempting to flex while oh so inconspicuously scratching his happy trail. "That's what people in the Arctic do instead of mouth to mouth kissing. I guess it makes sense, would be kinda awkward if your lips froze together and you had to crab walk for the rest of your life."

"Aha." Loki watched the tanned body with interest; all wiry muscles and protruding ribs. Black curly hair covered his arms and chest, thinning out into what mortals' referred to as a happy trail (gods only know why). The reactor glowed eerily making the chest look sickly. A prominent six-pack molded under firm tanned flash, overwhelming the malnourished frame. Loki wondered how a man who seemed to have so much could still appear so underfed and decremented.

"Like what you see?"

Loki chose to use his silver tongue wisely.

"Yes," and what if he was exaggerating, it wasn't like he was repulsed by the other man's physic. It was just human, the body of a mortal man. Certainly he yearned to inquire as to the cause of Starks diminished physical state, (if only with the sole purpose of tearing apart the ones responsible) but it could wait. In all honesty he craved the human heat tonight far more then any night before it. Tony obviously pleased with that answer slid under the furs and immediately reached for the god of mischief. Though instead of simply spooning against him as the other anticipated, Stark unexpectedly rolled them over so that he was now hovering slightly above the paler man, supporting himself on his forearms.

"How about we practice some…ah regular kissing, mmh green-eyes?"

Loki blanched and blushing furiously turned his head to one side.

"Tony about that kiss. I…I mean it…it was a…lack of judgment on my part. I didn't think for a moment and forgot that Midgardian's are a lot more 'reserved' in displaying physical contact outside of intimate relationships. I simply showed my gratitude in Asgardian fashion and didn't…"

Tony smirked.

"You can deny it," one hand grasped the semi-hardness through the leather britches, "but he can't."

Loki bit through his lip in order to stifle a moan, and Tony eagerly dived down to lap at the trail of blood. It tasted different but not unpleasant. Loki grabbed both skinny shoulders and gave a hard push; powerful enough to overbalance Tony and roll them back on to one side. Loki fisted one hand in Stark's short, matted curls.

"I can't."

"But you're…"

"Yes I want to…but I can't." Loki sighed and loosened his grip to gently sift his fingers through the knots.

Tony groaned, "for the love of mosses, why not!"

"Asgardians only give themselves away to their intended; blessed by Frigga in eternal union."

"So…"

"And I have an intended."

Tony shot back as if burned, eyes narrowed in anger.

"What? Who?"

Loki worried his bottom lip before he replied.

"Sigyn."