Chapter 15 – Snow Day
Note: This chapter was NOT written by me. It was submitted by a friend who's been reading this story from the beginning and so I included it for a slight change of the drama and beginning of smut in the previous chapters. Hope you enjoy. Next chapter will be written by me again!
Loki stood by the large window, watching the flurries of snow fall from the pitch-black sky. It had finally really snowed as New York City experienced their first blizzard of the year. Loki and Tony had decided to stay cuddled up inside all day, but now that the snow slowed, Loki was getting restless. The snow mesmerized him; the white flakes were so stark in comparison with the dark sky. He stood there, just watching the snow fall, until he felt Tony lean across his shoulders and kiss him on the cheek.
"What are you up to, Loki, you've been standing there for twenty minutes!" Tony grinned at him as he took a step back.
"The snow. It's so pretty." Loki turned to face Tony, his eyes lighting up. "Hey! I've got an idea!"
"What?" Tony laughed, but asked suspiciously.
"Can we go out and make a snowman?" Loki asked excitedly, looking at Tony with big eyes.
"You want to go outside and play in the snow?" Tony was taken aback, but couldn't help smiling at Loki's innocent face.
"That is exactly what I want to do." He looked at Tony, his face hopeful.
"Well how can I say no to that face?" Tony leaned in and kissed him before wandering off to the closet, grabbing scarves and hats. "You better put these on though. It's pretty cold out there today."
"How would you know?" Loki sauntered over to where Tony was, taking the winter wear from him. "I believe you were curled up in my arms by the fire all day." Loki grabs the second scarf and wraps it around Tony's neck, pulling him in for a kiss before letting go.
"Oh very funny." Tony smiles as Loki pulls away. "But I have lived here for a long time, and I know the winters can be pretty bad."
"You lived most of your life in Malibu." Loki teased, zipping up his coat.
"Okay, okay." Tony rolled his eyes at him but smiled. "Just trust me, it's cold."
"Okay Tony." Loki grinned as they shuffled out of Stark Tower and into the garden in the back. The snow was dazzling in the artificial light, and Loki's face broke into a childish smile.
"Have you never seen snow before?" Tony couldn't help but grin at Loki's awed face.
"Not like this." He answered, taking a few steps forward. Loki reached down and took a handful of snow, rolling it around in his hand until it became a little more solid. He looked at the little ball in his hand and suddenly had an idea. He spun around, tossing the snowball at Tony, who was unprepared. The snowball landed right in his face, causing him to stumble a few steps back.
"Oops." Loki covered his mouth, watching Tony's cheek turn bright red from the snow. "Sorry love."
"It's all good." Tony weakly smiled at him, his cheek stinging and eye watering. He shook it off as he walked further away from Loki, and into a clearing of snow.
"Can we build a snowman now?" Loki cautiously took a step towards him.
"Not yet." Tony turned to face Loki, stretching his arms out wide.
"Why not?" His smile faded.
"I'm going to show you something first." Tony looked at Loki, his arms still spread out. Without another word, he let himself fall backwards, the snow cushioning his fall.
"Tony!" Loki ran over, alarmed. He grimaced as he got nearer, but his frown disappeared as he saw Tony giggling on the ground.
"What?" He laughed as Loki shook his head. "I'm going to show you how to make a snow angel."
"A snow angel?" Loki wrinkled his nose as Tony began to move his arms and legs.
"Yes, a snow angel!" Tony smiled as he flapped his arms and legs along the snow. "Now, help me up?"
"Sure thing." Loki stuck his hand out, letting Tony grab it and pull himself up.
"Now look." Tony turned around to face his creation. "A snow angel."
"Looks just like you." Loki teased.
"Your turn." Tony rolled his eyes, grinning.
"My turn?" He stepped beside Tony's angel, kneeling in the snow and eventually lying on his back. He started to move like Tony did, but he stopped.
"What's wrong?" Tony crossed his arms.
"I don't like you watching me." Loki replied bitterly. "It's embarrassing."
"Embarrassing?" Tony started to argue.
"Just, turn around." Loki pleaded.
"Okay fine." Tony obliged, turning his back to Loki.
"There, done." Tony twisted around to see Loki standing beside his angel, which looked much more elegant than his. Upon closer inspection, Tony noticed the angel had a lot of detail drawn in. Tony looked up at Loki, who was looking very pleased with himself.
"Loki!" Tony said, exasperated. "That is not fair. You can't just use magic to make a better angel than me!"
"And why not?" He said happily as Tony just shook his head.
"I won't teach you to make a snowman if you're going to use magic." Tony answered.
"Fine, I won't use magic to make a snowman." Loki sunk down to his knees.
"Okay good." Toy followed suit, sitting in the soft snow. "Now, the first thing you need to do is make a snowball." Tony gathered some snow and packed it into small ball. "I would tell you how to do that, but I know you already know."
"Sorry." Loki smiled sheepishly.
"Next," Tony waved it off. "Roll the ball. We want to gather snow, we want to make a big base for the snowman."
"Like this?" Loki followed Tony's example.
"Perfect." Tony nodded. They continued to roll along in silence until both their snowballs reached a decent size; Tony's slightly larger than Loki's.
"Good, now we want to make another one, this one slightly smaller than the last." Tony gathered up more snow. Loki frowned at the size discrepancy between their last two snowballs, and furiously began work on his next one. After another couple of minutes, the two of them stopped. Loki smirked as he saw his snowball was larger than Tony's this time, but Tony just laughed at him.
"Loki, your snowball is the same size as your last one!" Tony stood up and placed his second snowball on top of his first one.
"Oh." Loki looked at his snowballs, dejected.
"No worries." Tony put one of Loki's snowballs on top of the other. "It will just look a little strange. But that's fine. It's unique."
"But it looks weird now." Loki said in a disappointed tone.
"It's fine." Tony laughed, leaning down to plant a kiss on Loki's forehead. "But we can trade snowmen if you want."
"No, no." Loki smiled Tony's lips touched him. "It's fine."
"Okay good." Tony fell back down into the snow. Let's make the heads then."
"This is the last piece?" Loki asked as they rolled along.
"Yeah, snowmen only have 3 pieces." Tony chuckled. "How tall did you want it to be?"
"Well I don't know." Loki's cheeks flushed as they both stopped rolling. "Is this good?"
"Perfect." Tony lifted his snow-head to complete his snowman. He watched as Loki did the same, and they both stepped back to admire their work.
"Now we decorate them, right?" Loki asked, tilting his head towards Tony.
"Yup." Tony turned away and disappeared into the darkness for a moment before reappearing with stones and branches in his arms. "Here we go. Decorations."
"Perfect." Loki said, gathering a few of the pebbles and making a frown on the snowman. He looked over and saw Tony had a smiley-face on his.
"Why the sad face, Loki?" Tony asked, placing two larger stones as eyes.
"Because he has two of the same size snowballs." Loki replied, doing the same as Tony.
"Oh, it's fine." Tony laughed softly, sticking two branches in the snowman's side for arms.
"What about the nose?" Loki asked, aligning one of his snowman's arms so the two snowmen were holding hands.
"Well, traditionally, we'd use carrots." Tony said, reaching out to take Loki's hand in reflection of the snowmen. "But we don't have any."
"Are you sure about that?" Loki held out his other hand, where two carrots appeared.
"Loki, what did I say earlier?" Tony asked, releasing his grip on Loki's hand.
"Come on, Tony." Loki held on tight, not allowing Tony's fingers to slip away. "We needed noses, so I got us noses!" Loki stuck one on his own snowman and offered the other to Tony.
Tony stared at him blankly for a minute before reaching out and taking the carrot from him. "You never listen, do you?" Tony said seriously, but he couldn't stop himself from smiling as he stuck the carrot on his snowman.
"Nope." Loki grinned widely, his eyes focused on Tony who seemed to be studying the two snowmen.
"Well?" Tony asked, turning towards Loki. "What did you think of building snowmen?"
"I think it was a lot of fun." He answered, squeezing Tony's hand. "You know what else is fun?"
"What?" Tony asked.
"Having a cup of hot chocolate and curling up by the fire again." He answered matter-of-factly.
"You're cold, aren't you?" Tony smiled slyly.
"Of course not." Loki said haughtily. "I just think that would be fun."
"Well I think I'd rather stay out here…" Tony said thoughtfully. "We could build igloos next. Those are fun."
"Okay, okay, I am cold." Loki grumbled as Tony laughed at him. "Can we go inside now?"
"Of course." Tony stepped in, kissing Loki's numb lips. "Hot chocolate?"
"Yes please." Loki said happily.
"Coming right up." Tony said as he led Loki back inside Stark Tower.