Loki woke up about 2 hours later completely pressed against the wall; Thor had taken up the whole bed and was snoring loudly, his mouth open and a line of drool running down his chin. The younger teen smirked and rested his head on his hand, gazing at the older brother with soft, unguarded eyes. He didn't even mind that the older brother had taken his blankets and most of the bed. He curled his skinny body around Thor's comforting warmth and sighed happily. If only he could stay in this moment forever, surrounded by heat and Thor's gentle breath stirring his hair then he would be completely content.

But his life was much more complicated than that (although come on Loki, wanting to sleep with your brother is a bit complicated isn't it?) so he wasn't at all surprised when his phone buzzed, waking up Thor.

Loki snatched it up from the bedside table before his brother could and glanced at the screen, Tony.

"Who's that?" Thor asked, his eyes concerned, Loki held up a finger as he sat up in bed and flipped his phone open.

"Yes Tony?" he purred, unable to help it, even with Thor there he couldn't help but want to make Tony uncomfortable. The blonde reddened and he sat up in bed, glaring at the phone. Tony laughed the tone of it just as flirtatious as Loki's voice had been.

"Oh damn and here I was hoping I would catch you off guard…..you haven't been staring at your phone all day praying I would call have you Lo-ki?" the two syllables of his names were drawn out and so savored over. Loki blushed and couldn't help the silly grin that crossed his face, not even caring that Thor was watching him closely.

"Your ego is staggering Mr. Stark. For all I know you've been gazing at your own phone working up the courage to call me since yesterday."

Tony snickered "I can't keep up with your witty retorts for long Loki, how about lunch at 1? I'll pick you up."

Loki pulled his legs up and rested his chin on them "Should give you enough time to come up with some fairly decent comebacks. See you at soon."

He could hear the grin in Tony's voice "sounds good"

"Oh and Tony dear?" his voice was achingly innocent and Thor raised his brows at him. Wow was he angry; the bliss that had surrounded them just a few minutes ago was completely gone.

"Hmm?" Tony said, obviously trying to seem as if he wasn't paying attention but Loki knew that that dear had just about driven him insane.

"I like Thai food" he stayed on the line just long enough to hear Tony start to laugh and then he hung up.

Thor crossed his muscular arms and stared hard at Loki until the smaller boy couldn't stand it anymore.

"What?"

"Who's Tony?" he mimicked Loki's voice, making it high and fluttery and the darker boy reddened, surely he hadn't sounded that feminine?

"nobody" he muttered, crawling around Thor and getting out of bed, his feet hit the ice cold floor and he shivered, suddenly the room that had been so heated before was freezing.

"Didn't sound like nobody" God did he hate the disgust in Thor's voice, why was it that he never gave any of Loki's friends a chance? "In fact he sounded like somebody" Loki ignored him, rummaging through his drawers and pulling out his favorite band shirt, the arcade fire and looking it over with a considering glance. Then he shook his head and threw it over the shoulder, pulling out a grey v-necked sweater instead and tugging off his tank top.

"Honestly Loki I don't understand you, people are going to start talking." Loki pulled on the sweater and spun around to face Thor "Do I look like I give a fuck?"

Thor's face sagged with surprise; he almost never heard such words leave Loki's normally eloquent mouth. "Brother I just want you to be safe. I….I know your sad but that's no reason to mess around with anyone who wants you. It won't make what happened go away."

Loki stared at him amazed, that had to be the most intelligent thing he had ever heard Thor say. 'But brother….' He thought 'It will drown out these feelings, don't you understand, being desired by someone makes me forget how much I want you. Maybe….if Tony distracts me enough I'll be able to forget you completely. And then we can be true brothers again.'

"It's my life Thor" he grabbed his phone and book bag and headed into the bathroom to go brush his teeth. The larger man followed him out of the room, running his hands through his hair in exasperation.

"Loki you're not a slut so stop acting like one for god's sake" he hissed and Loki could practically see the steam coming out of his ears.

"Shove off" he muttered, quickly splashing water on his face and brushing his teeth quickly. "And how would you know what I am anyways?"

"Shit, Loki just talk to me!" Oh Thor had better be careful….he was getting loud now. Any moment his mother could walk in to their wing of the house.

The smaller teen glanced down at the screen of his phone and saw that it was 12:54 "Sorry but I can't, Tony will be here any minute." he shouldered his book bag and moved for the main room but Thor was right beside him. "What Thor?" he asked, completely annoyed with him now, but that was his brother for you. He could be wonderful and maddening at the same time.

"I want to meet him at least, and let me tell you if he's anything like that Logan character I'm not letting you go."

Loki sighed heavily, but….it was just a bit sweet that Thor was being so protective. "When did you become so much like mother?" he smiled slightly up at Thor as he said it, taking some of the bit out of his words.

"Better her then father, am I right?" a laugh burst out of Loki, he did adore how rude they secretly always were to their father.

They reached the kitchen to see their mother at the stove, cooking away like the perfect housewife, and their father slumped at the table, a glass of amber liquid in his hand. "Father….?" Oh Thor, his voice was still so innocent and beautiful; Loki knew that he just wanted their father to be that golden being to look up to again. Just like how he used to be when they were children. But what they were looking at now was not golden, he was a broken copy of what he used to be, angry, drunk, and a horrible father.

"Where are you going?" his voice sounded wretched, as if torn out of his throat. He glared at Loki through blood shot eyes (oh and did we mention that he is terrible to Loki?)

"Out" the younger son glared back at his father, not willing to put up with his bullshit today, not when his own emotions were so out of whack.

"And with whom? Another one of those godless criminals?" Ah, and there he was talking about Logan. They had only met once, when Logan had stood up for Loki as Odin screamed at him. "Maybe you should stop whoring around and actually spend time with your family." Loki almost gasped at how hypocritical that was, as if Odin spent time with his family, as if he did anything except eat their food and drink their alcohol while he berated his sons.

Frigga spun around and threw her spatula down onto the floor "Alright that's enough! Odin please just finish your drink and go into the TV room. Loki don't antagonize your father." She gave him a pleading look and he knew that she had almost reached her breaking point for the night. All she wanted was for them to be as happy as they used to be, and god was it hard. He nodded slowly, because as much as it hurt him, he knew that any more disagreement would kill his poor, overworked mother.

"I'm sorry father" he whispered, not even sure if Odin heard him and walked out of the room, Thor following closely behind.

When he got outside Tony was waiting, leaning against a red vintage Volvo, his dark hair was as crazy as ever, sticking up around his head and his grin was ridiculous and huge. "Hey there" he called raising his brows at the huge, blonde guy that was following Loki like a shadow.

"Hi" Loki smiled softly as he met Tony at the car, stepping aside before the boy could hug him, that would just push Thor off the deep end. He trailed his fingers lightly along the side of the car amazed; the thing had to be expensive. He had gotten the impression that Tony was just a typical kid with crap parents, how could he have afforded this?

Thor cleared his throat behind him and Loki rolled his eyes, did his brother really expect to be introduced?

"Tony this is my brother Thor, Thor this is Tony Stark" he doesn't say what Tony is because at the moment he has no idea. They can't possibly be friends yet, they barely know each other, and yet…..already they are so much more then friends. Not dating, not friends, but certainly not oblivious to each other, they care too much for that.

"Hey-o" Tony called, smiling uneasily at Thor and opening the car door for Loki "You guys look seriously different." He said pointing out the obvious, Loki felt bad for him, Thor's silent glare had to be freaking the poor guy out. Loki slid in the car, his gaze lingering on his brother as Tony shut the door.

Thor's face was creased and he was obviously concerned and thinking hard. Loki knew that he didn't want him to leave; he just wanted things to be easy again. Loki didn't blame him, more than anything he wanted things to go back to the way things used to be. When they were small and pure, uncorrupted by the rest of the world, uncorrupted by the people around them, before their father drank and their mother became over worked and brittle. Before Loki was scared to touch her, afraid that she would break.

But their life pretty much sucked, and he couldn't stand to be in his own house right now, not with all of this lust that he was feeling towards his brother and anger towards his father and despair towards his mother. And Tony was this wonderful way out, this gorgeous, easy, uncomplicated way out of all the frustration. So who could blame him for waving to Thor and turning to Tony with a flirty smile?

Who could blame him for running his fingers through his hair and rolling his shoulders, drawing Tony's gaze away from the road? Hell anyone in his situation would have done the same, Tony was hot.

"So how did you afford this?" he asked looking around at the posh interior of the car, Tony laughed bitterly.

"I can't, it's my dad's but he's out of town this week so I can do whatever I want with his stuff." Loki nodded, watching the older teen's profile as he drives, the tightening of his jaw and the way his brown hair fell across his forehead and into his dark eyes. Well that was certainly telling, so Tony was a rich boy with daddy issues, obviously no mom in the picture. That explained the rebel without a cause thing he had going on.

"Well it fits you" he said, turning completely in his seat to face Tony and pulling his legs up to his chest. Tony glanced over at him and laughed at how curled up in a ball the tiny teenager was. Loki glared at him "What? I'm comfy like this" Tony snickered at him "weirdo"

When they got to the restaurant Loki almost had a panic attack. This place was way too nice for the likes of him. Minimalistic with bright red walls and delicate looking tables scattered around the room. The bright walls had modern art painted right on them, Asian looking trees and birds flying about the room. All the wait staff was these adorable little Thai 20-somethings that all shouted out greetings when Loki and Tony walked in.

"Tony" Loki whispered, tugging at his jacket sleeve "This….place is so nice" the older boy turned to him with a smile but when he saw the scared look on Loki's face the happy look slid away. "Loki what's wrong?" The boy shook his head and in a second his expression was flawless again, cold as ice.

"Nothing, it's just….I didn't expect to go somewhere this classy." And right now he's really terrified because honestly he expected to go to some little hole in a wall place and then Tony would drive him to his house and show him around then they would collapse on Tony's bed and the rest of the night would be a blur. But this…Loki glanced over at Tony as he charmed the waitress into giving them the best table, he was wearing a navy button up shirt and black tailored pants, definite date clothes. And like serious, we are going to become a thing date clothes. Why did that scare him so bad?

Tony could feel Loki's insecurity like a knife in his chest, why was he holding back so much? Tony could tell that the younger boy could be so much more. Every once and a while he would catch something hidden deep down in him that was amazing to see, a spark in his eyes, a snide edge to his smile that was so mischievous it made Tony's stomach knot up. Loki could be the greatest person in the world but for some reason this scared, angry person was in front of him instead and shit he just wanted to know why. But he was a man with issues of his own and he knew how much it sucked to have someone asking you question after question when all you wanted to do was curl up and sleep for days. He knew what it was like to feel like you're being kicked down by everyone around you. And it was horrible to look into Loki's bright, gorgeous eyes and know for sure that was what he was feeling and not know why.

But he was Tony Stark goddamnit and he could lie with the best of them, and oh was Loki the best of them. So he smiled gently at the younger boy and took his hand, masking his confusion with charm and a laugh as Loki blushed. Tony worsened the teen's embarrassment by bending down to kiss his check and snaking an arm around Loki's slender waist. Their waitress's eyes got huge and her cheeks turned brighter red then Loki's had been.

"Your table is this way sirs" she piped up in an adorable Asian accent but no matter how cute she was Tony couldn't help but notice that the older man that ran the store was staring at them through the kitchen door and his eyes were angry little slits as they took in the arm around Loki's waist and how close the two boys walked together. Tony pulled Loki even closer to him and whispered something meaningless and sweet in his ear to distract him. He would die if Loki found out how much people hated him around here.

Loki sat down at the table and ordered a green tea from the adorable little waitress and Tony grinned into his menu as the words left the younger teen's mouth.

"What's wrong with green tea?" Loki asked once the girl had left, slightly defensive over his favorite drink.

Tony glanced up at him and that open, perfect look in his eyes was justknocking down all of Loki's defenses and leaving him raw and open. A smile was twisting that face and his eyes crinkled at the corners, because Tony just found himself so funny. "You're just such a hipster."

"Am not!" Loki cried, outraged at such an accusation and Tony grabbed his hand and kissed his knuckles, effectively shutting him up.

"Please Loki you probably have a tumblr" Loki stayed quiet, because well….yes he did. "And you listen to the arcade fire and mgmt while eating vegan food, huh?"

Loki scowled at him "What's your point?" and Tony burst out laughing.

"Hun you're like the least annoying of all the hipsters I know, does that make it any better?" Loki smiled and allowed Tony to keep holding his hand. And god was his hand so warm, so wonderful, Tony was so secure that all he wanted was to stay here forever, never going back home to were confusion and unnatural lust awaited him.

'Shit I may just really like him.' he thought to himself.

Hello lovely, wonderful readers I'm sorry this took so long but I'm back to school and crazy amounts of homework so if this is a bit choppy then blame my stupid teachers assigning too much crap. Also more about Tony's past next chapter and Logan may just have to have a faceoff with our Tony sometime soon. Please review! I do hope you liked it!