I didn't plan on doing a second chapter to this story, but I had a few people request another and I've been ill for a few days, stuck in bed so I thought I may as well.
I was worried it would be a little different from the previous chapter. And maybe not what people wanted but please leave a review and let me know what you think

Nicotine-Part 2

Loki was incredibly furious with himself. He shouldn't be throwing himself at any Midgardian that showed him the slightest bit of attention. STARK! This was his fault really, those eyes of his that looked at him like he was some glorious creature and not the failure and monster that he was. They had connected on a mental and physical level but Loki didn't want to admit that. No, he used Stark to satisfy his basic animalistic needs; he was a monster after all.

And so this is what he told himself every time he went to Stark but it turned out that maybe the inventor was getting a little too attached, he was only human after all; they live such short lives that they feel the need to attach themselves to someone so they won't fear dying alone. Loki on the other hand had no such fears; he had had many flings with women and men from Midgard over the decades but had never taken a mate for life. He wasn't like Thor who fell for someone after only knowing them for a few days. What was that in their life span? Only a few fleeting minutes? Thor was weak and his love had made him soft. That would not happen to Loki.

He walked the streets of New York, cloak blowing in the wind and staff in hand. He created illusions of prehistoric animals running down the roads and between buildings, he sighed at the sound of chaos and screaming; it relaxed him as he watched people running for their lives. He stopped at a building and looked up at the billboard, a poster advertising START industries 'the leader in self-sustained clean energy' Tony Stark, such a martyr. Loki thought to himself. It seemed he couldn't go anywhere without seeing those stupidly brown eyes looking at him. He held his staff up towards the poster, gave the inventor a monobrow and made a few teeth disappear for good measure.

"Now that wasn't very nice." Came an all too familiar robotic voice from behind him. Loki glanced over his shoulder with a stern look at the Iron Man hovering a few feet above him.

"I believe it is quite the improvement." Loki retorted and started to walk away as a T-Rex galloped off down an alleyway.

"Haven't seen you in a while, Reindeer Games." Tony continued and followed Loki while blasting a dinosaur with his hand canon; it seemed to go right through it and caused a hole in the sidewalk "Hm, illusions, interesting." Tony noted.

Loki kept walking, he reached his staff towards the poster as he walked and the whole thing began to catch a light and burn. "I've been busy."

"Yeah, I guess plotting and scheming takes up a lot of ya." Tony nodded as he swooped down and followed the god. "Are you not going to ask what I've been up to since you threatened my life that one lovely night after I saved yours?"

Loki rolled his eyes and turned to face Stark "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."

Tony laughed at the little quote "Gone with the wind, huh? Never would have picked you for one of those boring romance films types."

"I read it in a magazine actually." Loki turned on his heels and carried on his path of destruction. He really didn't need Stark distracting him but he could sense him following him still. "I didn't think stalking was in your job description, Stark."

"Not stalking. I'm keeping an eye on you, can you stop with the illusions already? Then I could probably get back to the lab." Tony whined behind him. He was getting on Loki's last nerve.

"Are you sure their illusions?" Loki smirked as he cast a spell and summoned one of the dinosaurs, which shoot fire in to a nearby building.

"What? Dinosaurs didn't shoot fire!" Tony yelled and aimed for a fire hydrant and hit it, water spewed out over the building but Loki had already summoned more. Tony swooped over to tackle the animal away; it fell to the floor with a loud thump. Loki sniggered from the street corner.

"You didn't ask me what I've been doing with my time." Tony yelled once he flew back in to the air, he quickly took aim and hit Loki with a blast of his shoulder missiles, taking the god by surprise.
Loki hissed then started coughing as a thick black smoke gathered around him; he felt a sharp pain in his neck before he could even think of teleporting away. He brought a hand up to find a large dark stuck in the side of his neck, there was a hiss as liquid was released and sent directly into his vain.

"Stark?" he yelled and held up his staff to attack but nothing happened. When the smoke cleared he realised his illusions were gone. He looked about with wide eyes "Stark? What have you done to me?" he practically screeched.

"It actually worked?" Tony asked as he landed and lifted his faceplate to get a better look at Loki. "What the hell? Is this a side effect?" Loki hears the inventor yell in surprise.

Loki felt cold, terribly cold. He glanced down at his hands and gasped as the pale tone leaked from his skin into a royal blue, white lines appeared on his skin and he quickly places his hands under his armpits in an attempt to conceal them. This move was useless and purely in self-defence, he could see from a reflection that his eye's where a bright red and his face matching his brilliant blue hands. "Stark! You tell me what you have done to me right now!" he hissed.

"Well if you had asked me what I'd been doing since the last time I saw you then I would have informed you that I've been messing around with a few serums to disable your magic. Looks like it worked too, well except for the whole smurf look you've got going on."

"You-you disabled my magic?" Loki asked, although it was obvious, he could feel his magic itching to get out from under his skin but it felt blocked. Obvious this glamour was a part of the magic attached to him. "How long will it last?"

"I dunno, I haven't really tested it properly." Tony admitted.

"What? But you could have killed me!" Loki yelled at him again.

"Well you threatened to kill me first! This is self-defence. But really, why are you blue? JARVIS is this a side effect? I didn't see this in your calculations."

"I'm afraid I'm not much help sir, but Mr Laufysons temperature readings are dangerously low"

Loki tensed when he heard the AI speak, he walked up to Stark and grabbed his arm "I'm Jotun you fool," he hissed "This is my natural form, your ridiculous serum has disabled my glamour. Now you better take responsibility for this and fly me back to your tower!"

"And why should I take you back to my tower?" Tony asked, he looked at Loki with a raised eyebrow and a sceptical look.

"So I can hide with protection from your all seeing computer program."

"Who's to say I wasn't going to turn you in to SHIELD? That is my job after all." Tony smirked, he seemed rather pleased with himself. Loki soon whipped the smirk of this face by placing a finger on the inventors exposed cheek, Tony pulled away and yelped in surprise at how cold it felt.

"You would have turned me in a long time ago if that was your plan, No you wanted to find away to keep me for yourself didn't you? Stark. Now do as I say and fly me back to your tower or suffer a greater burn than that."

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Tony had no choice but to fly Loki back, he had to admit that this plan wasn't working out so great but at least he put an end to Loki's chaos. He hadn't properly tested the serum yet in large amounts, he had tested a small amount on Thor, resulting in him not being able to lift his hammer for a good half hour after that. He hadn't expected Loki to turn blue, he just wanted to scare him a little and to show him that he wasn't weak with Love. Or whatever Loki had told him.

Things weren't going so well for Loki either, Tony offered him a drink only for the glass and the liquid inside to freeze as soon as he touched it. Even standing close to the god was hard; it was like standing next to an open freezer.
At this moment in time Loki was pacing about his favourite pacing spot near the bar. he was angry as hell and Tony thought maybe he best stay out the gods way but he never really listened to himself, instead he sat down at the bar and asked "So what's the deal with the Jotun then?" the look on Loki's face was enough for him to regret not listening to himself.

"The Jotun are a race of frost giants from Jotunheim." Was all Loki offered.

"So Thor wasn't joking when he said you were adopted. To be honest I don't know how you didn't notice. I haven't seen your adopted parents are anything but going off goldilocks, I can't see a single resemblance." Tony ignored the eye daggers that Loki was sending his way. "So the blue...have you always been able to turn blue?"

Loki let out an annoyed groan "No Stark I have not! I was not aware of my Jotun history until recently, the blue was as much as a surprise to me as it is to you." Loki paced over to the large windows and looked out across New York before continuing, "some Jotun are blessed with magic, they have the power to shape-shift, my glamour is a part of my shape shifting abilities that I was able to do naturally since birth. But I was too young to be aware of what I was doing, so I simply just stayed in my Æsir form until such skills were needed."

"The horse?" Tony grinned and Loki just made a small-annoyed groan sound in the back of his throat and rolled his eyes.

"How long until my powers will return?"

"As I said before, I dunno. I give you quite a high dosage, Huckleberry," Tony shrugged "it could be anything from a few hours, days or even permanent."

"Mark my words, Stark. If this is permanent don't think I won't hesitate to kill you." Loki hissed from across the room.

"Ha, I'd like to see you try. You might have a hard time without your little glowstick of destiny." Tony scoffed, Loki turned on his heels again in the direction of Tony, he stalked over towards him and placed his hand around the neck of the Iron Man suit that Stark had choose to keep on.

"You are very much mistaken if you think I will not be able to kill you without my powers. I still have my strength and I could freeze the very heart out of you if I so wished. You think your suit can protect you from my touch?" He moved his hand down to Tony's chest, a thin layer of ice formed over it.

"Hmm. Not gonna work." Tony sighed as if he was disappointed, "see I solved my little icing problem a few years back, Sully." He grabbed Loki's wrist and twisted his arm around behind his back until the god let a pained hiss escape past his lips.

"You can't stay in that suit forever." Loki taunted him. Tony thought it would probably be best to move him somewhere a little safer, he picked Loki up and flew out of his tower and back in through some doors a few floors down. There he'd set up a cell he'd made at Banners request. He shoved Loki through the doors and locked them. The god quickly placed his hands on the glass and looked about as the frost blurred out Tony on the other side, he then proceeded to hit the glass as if he might have weakened it but to no such luck. He growled and resembled a feral animal for a few moments, a red and blue blur from Tony's side.

"Calm down." Stark laughed, he had to admit he was having fun with this, he didn't feel the slightest bit guilty. Loki had stomped all over Tony's heart and messed with his head. Now it was his turn.

"I'll kill you!" Loki snared over and over.

"No, you won't. You like me too much to kill me."Tony cooed.

"I hate you!"

"Obviously that's why you slept with me so much. Admit you like me and I might let you out of there." Tony tapped on the glass, his suit dismantling and flying around towards a storage facility behind him. Loki stepped back from the glass, he waited for the frost to disappear before he spat on the glass directly where Stark's face was. "Oh now that just turned me on." Tony grinned.

Loki took a few deep breaths to calm him down. Tony could see his muscles unclench, "I'm surprised this disgusting form would get you so excited." He breathed.

"Oh yeah, well blue has always been a favourite colour of mine, well apart from red, red is better of course. But I always had a thing for hot alien chicks in all those sci-fi movies. Have you heard of this one evil babe called Mystique? She's got the whole blue thing going on. Love it."

"Do not mock me, Stark." Loki warns.

"Wouldn't dream of it." Tony decides to be bold and presses a hand up against the glass, he can feel the cold left from Loki's print. "would I get a really bad case of frostbite if I touched you?"

"Possibly." Loki walked to the glass and placed his fingers where Tony's where and scratched his black nails down the glass, "I've actually never touched anyone in this form, I've only ever warn it twice. I am smaller than most frost giants are, so I do not know if I would have the same effect as they do. I have seen men's limbs turn to black from just a simple touch from an actual Jotun.

"If you want to find out though, I would happily let you be my test subject, just come inside, little Stark."

Tony tapped the glass, "Hmm, I don't think I should. You'd probably kill me."

"But I won't kill you remember. I like you too much." Loki grins, his teeth seemed pointier in his Jotun form and Tony didn't want to risk any limb being bitten off. "I bet you want to see what these lines mean." Loki continues, he places a hand against the glass "I bet you want to see where else they lead." Tony watched as Loki took a step back from the glass. he unfastens one of the buckles on his coat and slowly moves to the next one. "does the scientist in you want to research me fully? Stark." Loki slides the coat off his long arms and lets it drop to the floor, he reaches for his arm guards and unties them so his arms are exposed.
Tony gulps as he watches the display. Loki lifts up his armour from his shoulders and places them with the rest of the pile; he pulled his tunic over his head and let it fall. His chest matches the same blue and the raised white lines swirl in patterns down Loki's chest and stomach before disappearing down into his covered hips. He walks back towards the glass and presses himself against it right before Tony.
"Come Stark. Don't tell me you haven't longed for this? For the chance to touch me, mark me, to make me yours."

Tony could feel his breathe hitch. Loki's hot, even if he is blue, it just makes him more exotic. He wasn't joking when he said he had a thing for alien chicks. He rubbed his fingers over the glass where Loki's pink nipples pressed against it.

"What are you waiting for? Stark." Loki whispered against the now frosted glass.

"I'm not going to fall for that." Tony groaned although he really wanted to.

"Please. Anthony." Loki pouted. He stepped back and began to unfasten the lace of his trousers and slipped them down along with his boots so he was completely nude. Tony felt his cock stand to attention and strain against his own trousers. "touch me Anthony." The god whispered as he stepped back to the glass once more.

"Fuck." Tony groaned, he moved his hands down the glass as if he could caress Loki's thighs. He pondered the idea of maybe wearing thermal gloves so he could touch the amazing creature in the cell but he wanted to feel those raised lines, he wanted to glide his tongue over them and taste him. "These lines are beautiful." He sighed and slid to his knees so he could inspect the patterns through the glass. "Turn around."

Loki did what he was told, he turned and pressed his back against the glass, the markings ran down his spine and over his perfect buttocks. Tony stood back up and used a finger to trace over the lines of Loki's shoulders. "Lift your hair out the way." Tony ordered and sighed as he saw Loki reach up and behind to grab his hair in a loose ponytail. The lines travelled up Loki's slim neck and curved behind his ears. "God, I've never seen anything like it." He spoke in hushed tones.

"They are marks of my heritage; my biological father probably had the same." Loki spoke, temporarily knocking Tony out of his mesmerised state.

"Am I the first person to see these up close?" Tony asked, he saw the faint nod that Loki give him, Tony sensed that what started off as a bid to get Tony in to the cage with him so he could kill him had now turned in to a quest for expectance as Loki seemed to shy away now. "So has Tho-"

"No." Loki cut in, "Now. Are you going to come in here with me or not?"

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Loki watched as the doors to the cell slid open. Tony had decided to wear the iron man armour just to be on the safe side. He walked towards Loki and raised his gauntlet-clad hand to cup Loki's face, "This is not what I had in mind." Loki admitted as the hard metal slid across his cheek. Tony hesitated and lifted his hand away, his clove shifted back to release his bare hand. He hesitated before placing it gingerly on Loki's cheek then quickly snatched his hand away. "did I burn you?" Loki asked, his eyes going wide as he glanced down at Starks hand. He admitted to himself that what started of as a plan to kill Stark had now turned in to curiosity.

"No. Well it was cold. More of a shock." Tony admitted and reached a hand up again, he placed it on Loki's cheek again and left it there. "It's like touching a block of ice but...soft."

"You feel like the surface of the sun." Loki winced at the unexpected heat against his skin.

"I think you're exaggerating." Tony chuckled under his breath, he slid his hand down to Loki's neck, over his collarbone then down his arm. He lifted the faceplate up and smirked at Loki. Loki felt a pleasant chill run through his spin. His eye's followed Tony's lips and he leant in close to kiss him. The iron man armour give Tony just the right amount of height for them to be nose to nose. When Stark kissed him he could taste whiskey and a hint of coffee. His tongue felt like liquid fire in his mouth and he moaned despite himself.

"God, I'd love to take you like this." Tony breathed against his lips, his hot breath tingled against Loki's cold lips. It was an intense feeling. "But I'd be afraid I'd get frostbite on my dick. Brings a whole new meaning to the term blue balls." And with that the moment was ruined.

"Take the suit off and touch me." Loki ordered, his hands travelled up to tug at the helmet. Tony laughed as parts of the suit flew off at his command.

Loki watched until Tony was standing in nothing but his under suit, he walked up to him and ran a cold hand over his chest and noticed the shiver this sent through Tony. Loki encouraged Tony back towards the makeshift cot bed at the back of the cell and climbed over him, he leaned up on his hands and knees so their bodies didn't touch but close enough so Tony could still feel the chill from his skin. He leaned down and pressed their lips together once again and savoured the taste of Tony's lips. He then slowly moved his mouth to Tony's ear.

"You are so naive, Anthony." He purred as he ran his fingers down Tony's neck and over his chest. He circled the arch reactor in his chest before pressing his fingers against the sides and gripping the edge.
Tony tensed and made a move to grab at Loki's hand but the god had a tight grip and with a twist of his wrist and a pull he dislodged the glowing light in Tony's chest. "You're weak." He hissed and yanked hard so the whole reactor came out in his hand. Tony gasped and the colour drained from his skin. "hmm, look's like I'm not the only one who can change his skin tone." Loki yanked Tony up by his hair and dragged him to the door of the cell. "Open it." He hissed the order in his ear.

Tony lifted his hand to the keypad and slowly typed in a number. The door slid open giving Loki a way out. He dropped Tony to the floor next to his reactor and placed a kiss on the now slightly cold lips. "Goodbye, poor naive Antony." Loki reached over, took his clothes in hand and walked to the cell door, he watched as Tony crawled across to reach for the reactor. The inventor quickly placed it back into his chest and twisted it to lock in place. It wasn't until he made eye contact with him that Loki spoke again.

"You were right though" he smirked. "I like you." Loki walked away towards the doors, pulling on his clothes as he did, he took the stairwells back down to the entrance of Stark Towers and lowered his head so his black hair hid most of his face and left the building.

It took 3 day's for Loki's magic to recover, after that, he made sure to take a secret trip to Stark's lab when he wasn't there and destroy any traces of the serum.

He wouldn't be taken off guard again.

0o0o0o0o0o0

Tony lay on top of his bed, it had taken him a few days to fully recover from having the reactor yanked out of his chest like that. He should really be worried about Loki coming back for revenge but right now, all he could think about was how Loki said he liked him. Seriously, he was acting like a silly teenager. The man had tried to kill him...or had he? He had taken his reactor out of his chest but if he had wanted to kill him then surely he could have taken it with him and locked Tony in the sell to die. But he hadn't done that; he left the reactor at arms length and left the cage door open. He'd even confessed to liking Tony; which made him think that his statement about liking Tony too much to kill him was right.

He rolled over on to his back and glanced up at the ceiling. he closed his eyes and could see those intense red eye's looking down at him, he knew now he'd have to be very careful going to the freezer next in case it triggers any sexy memories, yes said memories were ruined by having his lifeline ripped from his chest and he knows he should be a lot more freaked out by that. but Tony did like to dance with death. Even if death was a sociopathic Norse demi-god.
He moved his hand over his chest, wishing that his fingers felt as cold at Loki's. For a moment, he contemplated on running to the freezer and sticking his hand in for a few minutes but that would be ridiculously stupid and maybe a bit sad.
He trailed his hand down more, brushing at the hair above his groin; he was just about to slip his hands past the waste line of his sweatpants when an alarm sounds over his head.

"Sorry to disturb, Sir. But it appears that Mr Laufeyson has broken in to your lab and seems to be smashing quite a lot of equipment." J.A.R.V.I.S warned. Tony was already on his feet and half way to the lab already.
And just like what J.A.R.V.I.S said, there was Loki in his lab having a complete melt down. Tony pressed in his code to open the door but nothing happened.

"Sir, I'm terribly sorry but I can't let you inside." J.A.R.V.I.S informed him, "Mr Laufyeson seems to have smashed a number of highly toxic chemicals, my readings show a high toxicity level in the air which may be hazardous to your health."

"What about Loki?" Tony asked as he watched the god.

"So far he seem to be unaffected. Sir."

"Can you crack a window open in there JARVIS, i need to get in before he-" Loki quickly turned to face the glass wall blocking the two men. The rage on his face stopped Tony in mid sentence.

"Stark." He greeted, "So sorry for the mess but I can't have you making anymore of this little poison." He waved a hand over to some equipment. "But I'm glad you're here. I thought it would be nice to repay the favour." Loki turned towards a glass cabinet that held a few of the Iron Man suits that Tony kept in New York. He lifted his staff and one by one, they exploded. The blast sent glass and cement shattering across the room as Tony looked on with horror. "You took something away from me, I take from you." Loki laughed, "It's only fair."

Tony was about to retort when Loki was suddenly there in front of him, he pressed him back against the wall and stepped into Tony's space. He sighed, placed his hands on either side of Tony's head and looked down at him. "I did plan to kill you fair and square in glorious battle but-" he took in another long bout of air and exhaled; Tony could feel the cold peppermint breath against his cheek. "But you played dirty when you took away my magic."

"You got it back, Tinkerbelle." Tony barked. "You destroyed my suits!"

"And you can rebuild. So once again we are game, set and match." Loki leaned in closer until his lips brushed against Tony's "hmm, I do love to play with you." He pressed his lips harder against Tony's pulling his hair as he did.

Tony battled with himself, he was royally pissed at Loki for destroying his suits but fuck, it was hard to stop an addiction. He reached up and pulled at Loki's hair too, with a tight grip, he yanked the taller man's head away, exposing his long pale neck, he bit and sucked at the perfect skin. Hearing Loki groan in response only spurred him on.
Without even thinking, he was pushing Loki back against the marble steps and knelt over above him. The god looked up at him with a mix of lust and hate before they were attached at the mouth again, Tongues cashing and fighting for dominance.

"Clothes, off, Now" Tony ordered as he breathed in Loki's scent. It was a mix of ice and spice. He could also smell some of the chemicals on his skin, which give him pause.

"What is it?" Loki asked as he vanished their clothing.

"Nothing...just you've been exposed to highly dangerous chemicals in my lab."

"hm, none of them can affect me unless injected." Loki reassured but Tony still backed off.

"Yeah, wasn't thinking about you. I was thinking about myself."

"Well I should have known." Loki teased, "Perhaps a shower?" Tony didn't have time to reply as they were soon teleported into his master bathroom with his large walk in shower. Loki stepped in under the large showerhead and turned it on.

"This is fucked up. You just destroyed my suits and wrecked my lab and now you want me to shower with you?" Tony asked.

"Yes." Was all Loki deemed him with in a form of a reply, to which Tony thought about it then shrugged and made his way over. Loki grabbed him again and pushed him against the wall. They kissed and explored each other's bodies, legs weaved together and hands stroking over sensitive skin. Tony slipped his hands down to Loki's hips and across to the small of his back before he dipped them lower and cupped his backside in his hand. He pressed the god against the wall and Loki's legs immediately curled around him. Tony pressed closer so Loki was sandwiched between his body and the wall and kissed him again. The demi-god ran his fingers through Tony's damp hair.

"Hmm, Fuck me. Stark." He sighed into Tony's ear, "I won't be so benevolent next time, so do not squander this opportunity."

"As if I would?" Tony replied and rubbed a digit against Loki's perineum which made the god shudder. He reached over for some of his expensive body oil on a nearby shelf and used it to gently prepare the taller man, Loki moaned and arched and demanded he was ready only after a few minutes. Tony was sceptical but this was Loki; the guy probably liked a bit of pain.
Tony carefully hooked one of Loki's legs over his arm for support then glided himself fully inside. They both groaned and panted against each other's lips. Tony had to tell himself that this was purely fucking and not at all like making love, even if it felt more intimate then previous sessions.

Loki didn't seem to care, he just hooked his arms over Tony's shoulders and moaned and gasped when Tony began to move. His movement's were deep and slow at first but as the pleasure built up he found himself thrusting harder and harder, relishing in the sounds that were coming from the other man.

"Change." Tony groaned into Loki's ear, "change into your other form for me."

"Fuck you!" Loki hissed out as he tried to control himself.

"Come on, I want to see you in that form when you come." Tony pressed closer and pulled Loki's legs feather apart causing him to slide deeper and making the god through his head back and moan. "Come on, I bet you look so beautiful." Tony panted against his neck.

Loki tried to steady his breathing, it seemed like he was about to say no when Tony noticed the white of his eyes bleed to a ruby red and his skin to a gorgeous blue. He didn't feel as cold as last time which made Tony wonder if this was just another form of Loki's glamour; either way it was beautiful and spurred him on.

Soon Tony was moaning Loki's name as he released, his hand on Loki's cock, stroking him to completion. "Beautiful." Tony breathed at the look on Loki's face as he climaxed. It took them a while to come down from their high.

Tony paced Loki back on his feet, the god once again towering over him and back to his usual complexion. They stood there under the spray for a few moments, still wrapped in each other's arms.

"Come with me." Loki breathed finally, his hands stroking Tony's damp hair.

"I just did." Tony chuckled.

"You know what I meant." Loki snapped lightly, "I grow tired of this realm,"

Tony backed off so he could get a look at the god, wondering if this was some weird trick.

"But-"Tony started but Loki quickly interrupted.

"This realm is too small for the likes of Tony Stark, come with me and together we would be great, no one could stop us, we could rule our own world."

"Where is this coming from? You hated me just the other day."

"Please Tony, I have Lo- been fond of you since you first approached me in your tower." Loki grabbed Tony's shoulders, "come with me Stark, I will only ask you this once."

"I don't want to rule over any worlds, and I'm Iron man for god sake, my team needs me. Can't you stay here with me? give up this chaos and destruction and be with me?"

"What? And live life like a house cat in your tower? Stark I am chaos. It runs through my blood. Do not say that is not what drew you to me in the first place. I know you crave it too, we are alike, Anthony. If you do not wish to rule beside me then be beside me as my thral, I would see that you are looked after very well." Loki cooed in Tony's ear.

"Then I'd be the house cat! You know it's never good to keep me locked up, things have a tendency to get set on fire." Tony placed his hands on Loki's hips. "I can't Loki and you know that."

"Very well then." Loki sighed and stepped out the shower, with a wave of his hand he was dried and dressed. "You've made your point."

"Can't you stay here?" Tony asked again, "Not just in the tower, I mean on earth?"

"If I were to stay here then it would be to rule over this word, which would mean having to kill you. But if you came with me I could offer you the life of a god, you would not need your suits, or this." He placed a hand on the centre of Tony's chest. "I could show you such worlds that your mind and all of your Sci-Fi films cannot even dream of. Worlds that your Science could not even begin to explain."

"Hmm. Now you're tempting me." Tony half joked "If only to prove that sentence wrong."

"I will let you think about it." Loki stroked his arms down Tony's arms. "I need to go in search for something, by the time I return a year or so would have passed here. I want you to think about it while I am gone."

"A years a long time, a lot can change in a year." Tony noted.

"Yes, but a year on this world is only a heartbeat to another world." Loki stepped away then. "I shall see you in a heartbeat" he smiled and it may have been the first genuine smile Tony had ever seen on the god's face. And with that he vanished as always.