A/N: Chapter 3 is here. In this chapter Loki comes to Tony to see why there was a paper about his 'heart'. We will see what happens. Also look at the pole on my page. It asks about a pairing for this.

This chapter is BETA'd by Daiya Amaya

Metallic Heart 03

Why No Heart Headline?

Many people believed Tony Stark not to have a heart. Slowly, he himself began to believe it when he found himself pushing away the other Avengers...just as his father did to him. But is there one man out there that can change his mind? FrosIron.

Loki managed to somehow get to the home in which Tony was staying in after getting lost in a few other homes around the USA that he had. He really hoped that the man was there, and not off somewhere else. He blinked as he saw Steve Rogers leave the household, holding a new shield. He took mind to stay out of sight until the man was well out of sight himself. He walked out of his hiding spot and glanced to where Rogers had come from. Tony must be there. He took a breath before he slipped into the home easily. He glanced around before he spotted Tony working on something, a gun for Natasha. Loki watched him for a moment.

"Stark." Loki spoke and he watched the man stop, freeze, and then slowly turns around to see him. Tony swallowed and took a breath. "You seemed shocked that I happen to be in your home." He shrugged some. "I do not see what happens to be wrong with it when you bring unknown woman to your home moreoften than not." He commented. Tony paused, opened his mouth, then his mouth closed. He sighed some, and ran a hand through his hair.

"Loki...why the hell are you in my home?" Tony asked bluntly. He blinked some as Loki came over. He tilted his head, finding Loki's hands on either side of his head. He blinked again and then sighed. "Seriously, what are you doing Loki?" He asked.

"I saw the paper Stark." Loki said softly. "I want to know why it was there, the headline about you having no heart." A wince. "Tell me, why would someone say such a thing about a hero?" He asked plainly. Tony took a breath, Loki had only seen his Arc reactor that one time, when he had tried to make him turn on his friends, and his scepter had touched the reactor instead of what Loki was really after. Slowly, he moved his hand a bit. He moved his shirt down a bit from where it as by his neck. The tip of his reactor shown then and Loki's gaze went to it. He paused as he looked at it, watching Stark put his shirt back to normal.

"That's what it is, Loki...the whole thing about this my heart." Tony said slowly. "Now will you get out of here, this is none of your fuckin business!" He snapped at Loki, pushing him away then. Loki used this against him, grabbing onto Tony's arms and looking at him eye to eye. "Loki...leave...me...alone..." Tony said slowly, he was not in the mood to argue with someone else after Rogers had been there. "Loki...go...leave..."

"Now, now, Stark." Loki chuckled and smirked some as well. "I still have some questions for you...such as what was inside the words on that article. I want to know what they happened to mean." He said softly. "So you are going to answer these questions..." He trailed a hand down Tony's chest, making him shudder under the god. "To start, what was that about your father?" Blue eyes darkened slowly.

Tony took a deep breath and then looked at Loki. "Not your firkin business!" He snapped at him. "It doesn't matter what my father did, what happened in my past, why does anyone firkin ask me about that!" He stopped. His eyes darkened for a moment again. "...I don't want to think back, not back to the painful memories that lie in that time, in my past. Not to someone like you at all, one person knowing, three people, that is enough. You our enemy doesn't need to know it at all! That wasn't even in the article so how..."

"I can see your lies Stark, all you stand for is nothing but a lie to yourself...you push away people because you fear what happened in your past. You are right, I didn't find it in that article...but I have noticed something by coming in here...the photo's turned over in here, they are all of your father...why? What did he do-"

"My father never told me he loved me…he never even told me he liked me. He was an alcoholic...he made my mother cry, he made her weep, he never looked happy, he looked down on me all of the time, stories of Captain America were the one thing he was even with me on!" Tony spat, past anger coming back from his talk with Rogers. Loki gazed at the other and took a breath.

"We are...a lot alike." Loki murmured then and Tony blinked, some kind of...emotion lay dormant in the god's eyes."...hiding in the shadow of someone that looks down on you..." His voice cracked. Now this was odd, Tony thought, after all the god of lies and well the one that threatened the world on a daily basis, was acting like this.

"Thor." Tony said then softly. "You were always in the shadow of your brother..." Loki swallowed, but he nodded some. He felt...venerable like this. He had no idea why he was even talking with Stark about this... Why did he even come here? That pain in his chest when he saw the paper headline that was why, yes...but...why? He didn't understand that, and that was what he wanted to understand.

"...I don't even know why this concerns me, Stark." Loki replied then. "I don't know why seeing the headline hurt me, or why it would happen to affect you in such a way. Do people not believe you have a he-"

"Many don't Loki, because I made many mistakes in my life..." Tony sighed softly, Loki backing up a bit to lean on the workbench. He leaned back in his chair. "I was called 'The Merchant of Death' because I dealt weapons to S.H.I.E.L.D, I fought with my best friend that was also wearing armor, Was Machine...I pushed many people away to get to where I wanted to be..." His voice cracked for a moment. "I did many things in my life so far that I can't be proud of Loki...being Iron Man has been about the best thing I could have ever done in my life...even yet that caused people to really believe I had no...no heart. A metallic heart is what I have Loki...what keeps me alive...not the heart that people want me to have..."

"Stark." Loki murmured softly. He didn't know what to say; maybe it would be better if he happened to leave... He didn't know. "Alright, I'll admit it Stark, that must be hard...but why do you believe it?" He asked then.

"All I do is push people away...I really do have a cold, metallic heart." Tony murmured, he hated himself for not seeing it before, for not seeing the effects of his actions...not seeing if he had a real heart, that people would remain by him...and not leave him behind. Loki paused, and opened his mouth to reply, but he could not find words.

Finally, he said. "But you have not pushed your team away."

"I have, I do it daily...I just didn't notice it. I was pushing them away as they were pushing me away. I don't know if I want to be an Avenger anymore honestly..." Tony closed his eyes. "Not when being Iron Man isn't enough for people to believe I have a heart...save the world and you're on the headline of the New York Times for having no heart...how unruly is that?" He muttered.

"...A hero being blamed for having no heart, an Avenger being told he has no heart..." Loki said slowly, and Tony nodded, sighing some. How did it come to him talking to Loki about this? Talking to his enemy about having no heart...? What has the world come to...? Loki moved over then, hands going to Tony's cheek. He blinked some.

"Anthony Edward Stark...has a heart..." Loki murmured, how he knew that name, Tony had no idea. He didn't really care either; he was more so wondering why Loki was so close to him like this. Something was going to happen, but what it was, he had no idea. "Without a heart, you cannot feel, yet you feel pain Anthony." Finally Tony spoke before the god.

"Don't call me Anthony...its Tony not Anthony." Tony said softly, he was registering how close Loki just happened to be, and that was much too close for him to agree with. He lightly pushed the other back, but Loki just leaned in and kept where he was.

"Stark then," Loki said. This was all so trivial, he had started this with just a fact of a headline, and now it was leading to this talk. How odd, but how...wanted? He didn't know. He just oddly felt comfortable here, like this, near Stark. He leaned in slowly and put his head on Tony's shoulder. He was warm against his cold frame. Tony had to blink, wondering what the hell Loki was doing. "You're...oddly warm Stark."

"No, you're just rather cold Loki." Tony replied and sighed some, moving his arms around Loki. Maybe this was all he wanted? He didn't know really, but maybe it was comfort. Oddly, he didn't know why Loki had come to him for this... Loki closed his eyes and sighed some, for being who he was, yeah of course he was cold. Not like Stark knew about whom he happened to be exactly. He thought he was Thor's brother, not even Thor was to know what he really happened to be, well he hoped he didn't.

"I know, I'm not surprised that I happen to be cold..." Loki murmured before he stilled. "Ah." He jerked away from Tony as the door opened. His eyes darkened some; he had to find a way out of here. He looked around. Tony knew this would be bad, for both of them. He took Loki's hand and directed him in the way of the door leading into the house. Loki quickly used it to vanish out of the room right before Steve Rogers walked back in.

Rogers sighed some and looked up at the sky. He clenched his new shield in his hand tightly and thought back some. He wondered about something, but no, that was not going to happen. He sighed and closed his eyes for a moment, about to put his mask back on before he remembered something. He paused and wondered again before reaching into his hood, finding what he looked for. He never would have dreamed it was still there. He pulled it out and looked at it, a photo. The same one that Tony happened to have in his workshop. He took a breath and looked at the back. To my dearest and best friend -Howard Stark, Bucky B. He closed his eyes and smiled weakly. He still had it, still even after being frozen in ice.

"Tony, I wonder if he has cheered up anymore after our talk...I'll check on him one more time before heading back to the mansion. Just to be safe and to reassure Mrs. Potts..." He nodded to himself and turned around, heading back to the workshop. He got there in record time, and opened the door, finding it open this time. He blinked and walked in, glancing around before spying Tony. He seemed breathless and out of place, like something had happened. Rogers frowned.

"Anthony, what in the world happened in the twenty minutes I was gone?" Rogers asked; he was re-thinking leaving now, finding Tony like this. Tony ran a hand through his hair, praying Rogers didn't ask to go inside, where Loki was.

"Ah, nothing, just a small little nap Rogers." Tony laughed nervously, yes something was up. Rogers sighed and leaned against the now closed door, arms crossed.

"Uh-huh. Lies, Anthony, lies." Rogers said and sighed. "So, tell me what really happened?" He asked once again. Tell Rogers about Loki coming to his home, them talking like they weren't enemies, and him holding Loki for a few moments? No, that would result in his head hanging.

"It's nothing Rogers. Now I have work to get back to if you don't mind-"

Rogers walked over and slammed his fists onto the table in front of Tony. "Lies once again Anthony. Will you tell me what is wrong with you already? I can see through what you are trying to hide, and I don't know what it is…but I do need to know before I leave this place today."

"…It's really nothing Rogers." Tony replied, not looking the man in his eyes. Crap, now he was cornered, not good. If only he had his armor on…

"Anthony, why do you never tell your teammates things they should know?" Rogers sighed softly and Tony glanced at him for a moment and then closed his eyes.

"I've had one argument with you in this day, I do not choose to do it again, leave Rogers." Tony said slowly so the captain could let those words sink in. The living legend sighed and shook his head some.

"Do you not trust your teammates enough to tell them what is going on? I was here, we had a discussion of why we had fought, and now we are going to have one again if you do not tell me what happened." Rogers said slowly, now letting his words sink in.

"Shut up." Tony said softly, and got up. "Just shut up already!" He turned, yelling at the other. Rogers stopped, and watched Tony storm inside the house, slamming the door behind him.

"What in the world…" Rogers muttered, wondering why the man suddenly snapped at him…

Tony slammed the door shut and then leaned against it. He closed his eyes until he felt a hand touching his own. He glanced over to see Loki. He sighed softly and shook his head some, he had screwed up again...but for some reason, Loki's touch was calming enough. Without saying anything, he pulled Loki close, holding him against him. Fire and Ice that was what it felt like to him. He sighed softly and closed his eyes slowly. To his surprise, Loki hadn't move or left yet...

Loki closed his eyes and laid his head on Stark's shoulder. He sighed as well, right after the other man. He didn't know why he hadn't left yet, why he was still here, or why he was finding himself comforted by the iron man's arms. The sense...it actually made him fear what would happen when he would let go. He didn't understand it, and honestly, for now, he didn't want to. He just wanted to stay here for now, like this. A hero and a villain, how wrong was that? Standing here, holding one another…it was wrong on so many levels for both of them. One that had a cold heart and another that had a metallic heart… Maybe that was why this was working so well right now.

A/n: So now Loki and Tony are closer, feeling about the same, maybe which is why this works so well. Rogers is once again on bad terms with Tony of course, and he will push away the Avengers again and again. Who will break first though? Tony, or the other Avengers?

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