Hey guys! I know its not a particularly long update but it was kinda a filler to get where i want to be so...not too many chapters left of this fic now! i just still dont know eactly how many.

Loki's eyes narrowed into vindictive looking slits. Thor shrunk back into his seat. He knew that face. That was the same face Loki wore when their father first fell into the Odin-sleep, which he was to do many times again. That was the look Loki had when his children were taken from him, the look he had every time Thor had gotten injured as a child and disobeyed the healers. It was a face Loki only wore when he was incredibly worried...and trying desperately not to show that vulnerability. Instead he showed it as anger.

Violent anger.

"YOU are supposed to be IN BED!" Loki shrieked, near flying at Tony, pinning him against the wall, one hand either side of his head.

"I told you yesterday, you are NOT to leave your bed, you are ILL. Do you not understand simple instruction, Stark? Are you incapable of adhering to the request of another? Or is it merely that you won't adhere to a request of mine? He who has taken care of you for the duragtion of your ailment. After all, Why should I matter? SAY SOMETHING, STARK!"

Tony looked paler than even before, eyes wide, pressed as far into the wall as his back would go. As Loki screamed, the other avengers had left the room, fleeing for their own lives, all but Thor, who felt he should stay in case he needed to restrain his brother (or clean Tony up off the floor when Loki killed him)

"I-i was lonely and bored and wanted to find you...and then I heard your voice...I'm sorry, i'll get back in bed" Tony stammered quietly, humbled that Loki had been worrying about him so. It wasn't so much Loki's words that had gotten to him, but with the trickster stood so close, the concern in his eyes was almost overwhelming. It made his arc reactor hum happily to think that Loki cared for him so much. Tony's goofy smile returned.

Only to be wiped off of his face when he heard Loki growling at him.

"Do you think this funny, Stark?"

Tony felt a spark of something akin to electricity build in the air, the sparks lifting the hairs on the back of his neck. He felt a cool breeze on his fevered brow, and while it was pleasant, it was also slightly frightening to him. Loki's hair whipped around his face, the generated wind brushing it across his ivory skin, although the green of his eyes burned through. Loki seemed to be unaware that he was doing anything, if Tony were being truthful. He was breaving heavily, just staring deep into Tony's eyes, anger radiating from him.

"Loki..."

Thor spoke up then, cautiously, as though approaching a frightened animal. Tony was shocked to see genuine terror and concern on Thors face as well. Surely the Thunder god was used to this sort of thing, having grown up with Loki? Was this not normal?

And like that, Loki's trance was broken, his eyes dimmed, and he slumped slightly, breathing even heavier than before, but now it seemed far more laboured.

"W-what...what happen-"

Thor darted forward as Loki's eyes rolled back into his head, and he fell to the floor, his brother unconscious in his arms.

As he barked instructions to JARVIS, intermittantly yelling for the other avengers to help him, Tony knew he should have just stayed in bed that morning. He crouched down, next to Thor, gently pushing strands of hair out of Loki's face, not showing his alarm at how terrible Loki's breathing sounded. Why didn't he just stay in bed? What was wrong with Loki? It was his fault he knew it...

Tony was pulled out of his self-berating thoughts as he heard a strangled gasp from Thor. A green glittering aura had surrounded Loki.

"Magic. He illusioned himself" Thor whispered, face crumpling. "Oh Loki, you fool"

Tony frowned, wondering what Loki had possibly wanted to hide from him, beside his Jotun form.

The green aura dissipated, and Tony had to fight down the lump in his throat.

Oh Loki.

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