Here you go, it's the preparation for the wedding :P

Chapter 16

"Come on honey, we need to go now." Loki yelled from the living room. For ones it was Tony who was taking all the time in the world. He himself was standing there with their hand luggage and the dogs in their leashes, eager to get going.

They were going to Sweden; yeah can you believe it, Sweden. Tony wanted to have a grand and out of the ordinary wedding. So he had managed to book Stockholm's City hall, the Blue hall where they have the Nobel fest. No one has gotten married in that hall, not even the Swedish royalty which pleased Tony greatly. Of course he had to fight for it, but after some amount of money and promises not to crash the Nobel fest next time; they were allowed to have their ceremony there. Loki was quit stunned by his fiancé's eagerness and determination for that big magnificent hall. Plus; Stockholm during spring is extremely beautiful and gay marriage is not a big thing in this country so Loki was really happy by this.

Tony had taken Loki to the Nobel fest last year and Loki just loved how big and royal the Blue hall was and that made Tony determined to get it for his love. He was stunned by how big it was, the red brick walls, the grey marbled floor, the giant stares that led to a balcony on the one side of the long wall. It was a banquet hall fit for royalty; which they were in Tony's opinion. Besides, they needed the space because they were having 1200 guests coming for the ceremony, which was the limit of the hall.

"I'm coming." Tony said and walked out of the room with his portable Iron Man suit in his hand. He grabbed his and Loki's bag and they were on their way. Of course they took their private jet because they didn't want the dogs to be locked in a cage through the whole trip; it was a long trip after all.

Loki was sitting on the couch with his laptop in his lap and Lola lying beside him. "I've got a mail from Pepper." He said bitterly to Tony who was sitting in one of the armchairs with Tyra on his lap sleeping, she might be big but she loved being in Tony's lap still. Tony was going through some papers from Pepper when Loki broke the silence and he looked up at his lover. "Apparently some of your coworkers aren't so happy to be sitting in the back." Loki said and sighed.

Tony raised an eyebrow and stroked Tyra's head. "Either they sit there or not come at all." Tony said with a stern voice. He didn't even want his coworkers there but according to Pepper; it would be a good way of saying how much he appreciated his workers so he just had to agree.

Loki typed in the answer to Pepper, closed the laptop and put it away and leaned back and gave out long sigh. "Hey, are you okay?" Tony asked his fiancé.

Loki just nodded and let his head fall back on the sofa. Tony poked Tyra gently on her side; she took the hint and got off his lap and walked over to the other armchair to lie down on. Tony got up and walked over to Loki and seated himself next to him, leaned back and put and arm around Loki, making him lean on him, head against his shoulder. "What are you thinking?" Tony whispered and dug his nose in to Loki's blond curls that smelled like expensive shampoo. His hand that held Loki over his stomach stroked up and down knowing that Loki always calmed down by this.

"I'm just a bit tired." Loki said truthfully. He hadn't slept well that night; he didn't know if it was because he was nervous or just stressed by all the things they needed to do when they landed. Check in at the hotel, go to the city hall and watch how the preparations were going, talk with the reverent about what they wanted him to say and going through the papers that were needed for it to be official. Yeah it was a lot because the time was now 8.00 a.m. and they just started their journey over to Sweden so they wouldn't be landing until 13.00.

"I noticed you had trouble sleeping last night." Tony stated and planted a small kiss on his lover's cheek. "Try sleep now, it's a long ride and its nothing you need to do until we land." Tony said and moved himself so that Loki could lie down, head on his lap and his legs needed to stay on the floor because of Lola still sleeping next to him. He fell asleep pretty quickly when Tony started to stroke his hair.

He woke up again when he felt a pair of lips touch his forehead. "We are landing soon." He heard the voice of his fiancé. Loki opened his eyes slowly and was greeted with a pair of warm chocolate brown eyes. "You slept the whole trip." Tony said with a warm smile, happy that his lover got some sleep before landing.

Loki smiled up at him and sat up from his lover's lap. "Girls get in your rooms now." Loki said with a warm but still a quit demanding voice so they knew that now wasn't the time to be naughty. The dogs got down from their places and walked quietly in to their cages. Loki calls it rooms because he doesn't like the fact of putting his baby's in cages. He always made sure that there were blankets in there for them so it was more like cozy caves. Tony closed their caves and made sure that it was secure before seating himself in an armchair and buckled up. Loki was already done and was reading a newspaper. "They probably need to do their business before we get in to the car." Tony stated and looked at his fiancé. Loki nodded and gave his lover a smile. Tony looked out the window and was greeted by Sweden's green thick forest. From above it looked like green moss and you think that it's all cozy but in reality; most of the trees had green needles instead of leafs.

They landed safely and Loki was first of with the dogs and quickly walked over to the closest lawn where the dogs could pee. Tony put their bags in the black limousine and then waited for them to come back. They all got in to the car and they drove off. "Do you know a place where we could let them run free before getting to Stockholm?" Loki asked Tony and stroked Tyra's head that were in his lap.

Tony moved up to the driver and knocked on the close window. The window was pulled down and the man looked in to his mirror and smiled at Tony. "Do you know a place where we can let our dogs run loose for like 20 minutes before we get to the city?" Tony asked with a smile.

"Of course sir there is a farm about ten minutes from here that we could ask if your dogs can run in one of theirs pastures." The driver said with a smile and drove off the highway.

"Thank you." Tony said and seated himself down.

They drove up to the main house and were greeted by a confused woman. When she saw that it was Tony Stark himself she got extremely star struck. "How can I help you Mr. Stark." The woman asked with a big smile.

"Can our dogs use their legs for a bit in one of your pastures?" Tony asked with his trademark smile.

Loki got out of the car with Tyra and Lola in their leashes. The dogs looked around very curiously, they have never been to a farm before and the smell was extremely interesting. The woman motioned for them to follow her. They walked over to a very big pasture that was empty and let them in and closed it for them. "They as much time as you need." The woman said and walked away.

The dogs ran like never before, loving the soft grass under their paws. Loki looked around and saw a big black horse with long mane and thick tail and on his hooves cowered with thick hair. "He's beautiful." Loki said mostly to himself but Tony heard him and looked away from their dogs and over to the black horse who was grazed at the pasture next to them.

Tony took Loki's hand and entwined their fingers. "Does he remind you of somebody maybe?" He asked Loki who was staring at the horse with sad eyes.

Loki nodded and ran his free hand through his hair. He had told Tony about his children, how much he missed them. Tony had been very understanding even though he found it kind of weird with the horse thing.

"Maybe we can ask Odin if you can go and see Sleipner at least." Tony said with a small smile. When he saw tears linger in Loki's eyes; he embraced his fiancé and held him tight. The dogs saw them and ran over to them panting, they stroked against them trying to sooth them as best as they could. The men smiled down at them and Loki dried away the tears that had fell down his cheek.

Tony put the leash on the dogs and they walked out of the pasture, they tanked the woman who was quite surprise to see Loki's slightly red eyes but she didn't ask, and they were on their way to the city again.

They got to the Clarion hotel that lied on the other side of the bridge to the city hall. Their view was of the big famous building and of Stockholm and the water that separated them from the city hall. Usually they are not supposed to share a room the day before the wedding but they knew that they would have a really hard time sleeping without each other and they couldn't separate the dogs either so they broke that tradition and decided that in the early morning Tony would leave their room and occupy a smaller room the next day to get ready.

They didn't have that much time to relax in the room before they had to get down to the limo again and let it take them to the city hall just across the building. They got in after Tony having an argument about letting the dogs go with them in to the building. They were going to be in the wedding tomorrow so why couldn't they walk in now? After giving the guy some cash they were allowed in with the dogs.

They walked in to the Blue hall and were amazed by the decoration that was set up for them. All the 1200 chairs were covered in white silk, the aisle was marked with a long red carpet that reached up to the big staircase and on top of the first staircase was a big arch made of flowers and on the side where the rest of the stairs were where you can go to the balcony where was the chorus was going to stand. The balcony and the stairs were cowered with flowers and small lights that made it look like it was raining flowers. The light that was pointing at the ceiling was blue like the night sky and the small lights that were on the ceiling shined like stars.

"Is it like you wanted?" Tony asked his fiancé with a big smile.

Loki nodded and gave his lover a kiss on the lips and smiled at him. "I love it." He said. Loki had planned most of the wedding but the venue was all Tony's and Pepper's work and he was not regretting it at all.

A very happy red head walked up to them and gave them hugs. "I can see it on your face that you like it." She said to Loki with an even bigger smile. Loki nodded and walked in on the aisle with the girls, looking around the whole venue with wide eyes. It was even more beautiful than the Nobel fest.

Pepper turned to Tony who was looking at Loki with a warm smile; damn he was proud of himself right now. "When everyone walks in here there is going to be lists at every line with the people's names so that those people that you two don't find so important sits in the back." She said and looked all projective like usual.

"Awesome, so you have everything under control?" Tony asked her even though he knew that she of course had everything under control. She gave him that look that said 'really' and that made him laugh.

"So later on you're having the reception in the golden hall with the people you and Loki invited." Pepper said and looked through her tablet. The golden hall is the venue in the same building were the important people from the Nobel fest have their gathering and they dance and talk and no cameras are allowed in their after the dinner. But they were going to have their reception there with the people who mattered. The hall could take 600 people but they were only going to have 50 people there.

Tony nodded and looked over at Loki again who was now up the first staircase and looking at the flowers from the vault.

"Go to your future husband, I'll come and get you when the reverent is here." Pepper said with a smile.

"Thanks Pep." Tony said and watched her walk away. He turned back and walked down the aisle, eyes on Loki. It felt so right to see him stand there and to walk on this aisle towards the love of his life. Loki saw him coming and gave him a radiant smile. When Tony was in front of him he wrapped his arms around his shoulder and gave him a deep kiss. Tony moaned in to the kiss and his hands landed on his lover's hips and pulled him closer to him. When they parted, their foreheads rested on each other and they looked in to each other's eyes.

"You have outdone yourself Tony Stark." Loki said with a big smile letting his arms fall and his hands rest on Tony's hips.

Tony's smile got bigger, to the point he was showing teeth. "Thanks babe." He said and kissed Loki's nose.

"Guy's" They looked over at Pepper and saw her standing with an old man. "This is your reverent Carl Johansson." Pepper motioned to the man who gave them a big smile. The old man looked cool with long white hair that was put up in a ponytail and since he wasn't having a ceremony today; he was dressed in normal blue jeans, a white t-shirt and a leather jacket. Not very reverent like but that just made Tony like him more. Tony let Loki go and walked down to the man and shook his hand and Loki followed him and gave the man a smile.

"I must say it will be an honor to wed you two." The man said in perfect English and with a very warm smile. "And even more special to do it here, you have done a marvelous job." He said and looked around in the venue.

"Thank you and I must say your English is flawless." Tony said with his big smile, he took Loki's hand and entwined their fingers. "Shall we sit down and discuss the ceremony?" Tony said and motioned and the front row. Carl nodded and seated himself down and was immediately greeted by Tyra and Lola.

"You got really beautiful dogs." He said and patted Tyra on the head. Tony seated himself next to Carl and Loki next to him, both turned to Carl.

"Thanks." Tony said and patted Tyra on the back. "So what do you want to ask us?" Tony asked and laid his hand on Loki's knee.

Carl took out a small notebook and a tiny pen and then he took out a pair of glasses that he put on. "Well the first question is; have you decided on one surname or are you putting yours together?" He asked with a smile.

"Ehm yeah, it will just be Stark." Tony answered. They had discussed it a few weeks ago. Well you couldn't call it a discussion either.

"Will you change your surname to Stark?"

"Just Stark will be fine."

"Not Stark Odinson?"

"Just Stark."

He wrote Stark as a title in his notebook. "Okay, do you want me to say something from the bible?" He then asked them.

Loki put his hand in his pocket and pulled out a folded paper. "Actually, we want you read out this song." Loki said and handed it over to the reverent. He took it and read it in silence.

"It's a very beautiful song and it will be perfect. I always prefer to make weddings more personal even though I'm a reverent." He said with that warm smile and scrabbled down something in the notebook. "But then you want the usual stuff like you telling each other I do and the rings?" He asked and looked up at them. They only nodded this time. "Do you want to take vows to each other?"

"Yeah." Tony said and felt a smooth hand being place over his that were on Loki's knee.

"Then I don't have any more questions for you." He said with and put the notebook and the pen away. Tony gave him the papers so he could take a look at them. "Everything seems to be fine and you can get married tomorrow." He said and gave the papers back to Tony. "I'll see you tomorrow." He said and stood up. They shake hands one last time before he left.

"He was awesome." Tony said and turned to Loki when the reverent where out the door. Loki nodded and smiled, he looked down at the girls that were lying down. "What do we need to do now?" He asked and squeezed Loki's knee.

"I can't come up with anything special." Loki said with a sigh and leaned back in the chair. Tony leaned in and gave him a soft kiss on the lips.

"This will be perfect." He whispered against those soft thin lips. Loki smiled and nodded; cupping his lover's face with one hand and gave him another kiss. "Are you hungry?" Tony asked after they parted again getting another nod from his love. "Let's see if the others have arrived?" He said and got up, reaching out his hand which Loki took and they walked out of the venue after taking another look at it.

They met the avengers, Jane, Darcy (Jane's plus one) and Pepper at a restaurant after leaving the girls at the hotel. Even Fury and Coulson had flown over to attend the wedding. Tony bragged about their venue and how everyone will be stunned when they see it, Loki just rolled his eyes but gave his future husband a smile.

"I still can't believe that you managed to get that venue." Bruce said and took a sip from his wine.

"When you have cash, everything is possible." Tony said and winked, Loki just shook his head at that.

"I just realized that it was like one and a half year ago you two met." Clint said with a grin.

"How did you meet?" Darcy asked and everyone realized that it was only the avengers that knew how they met.

"I had to walk in to a store to by white shirts; I saw a very sexy man and asked him for help." Tony said and smiled at Loki who just got a slight shade of pink on his cheeks.

"But when did you ask him out on a date?" Darcy continued asking questions.

Tony chuckled. "Well I think it was almost 2 weeks after our first encounter." Loki answered for his fiancé. "But it wasn't really a date either, more like a showing me New York." He then said and chuckled.

"Okay now for the dirt, when was your first kiss and when did you first have sex?" Darcy said and smirked.

"Darcy." Jane sighed like it was her awkward sister who asked awkward questions. Darcy gave Jane a wicked grin which made her role her eyes.

Both Tony and Loki chuckled. "The same night we had our first date thing." Tony said and remembered their first mind blowing sex. Like Loki could read his thoughts he got a squeeze on the knee under the table making Tony look over to his lover with a wicked smile.

"How did your bachelor party's go then?" Darcy asked another question that made Jane sigh.

"Well let's say that there was a lot of booze." Tony snickered. There had also been a strip joint with both men and girls. It was all Clint's idea of course. Steve was forced to come even though he was very uncomfortable, Bruce stayed home because he didn't trust the other guy and Rhodey loved it. Tony was surprisingly not so interested in having any man or women on him but he had fun watching the others so he did have fun.

Loki was forced to go to Las Vegas with Pepper, Jane and Natasha and they went to the Chippendales show, they even dragged Loki up on stage when it was the competition on who could give the best lap dance. Loki won of course and the muscled man he had given the lap dance to told him that Tony Stark was a lucky man.

"Loki won the lap dance competition." Natasha stated with a grin and the other girls gave out a smirk.

Loki looked over at Tony and hoped that he wouldn't be met by angry or sad eyes. No, he was surprise to see a very smiling man beside him. "You're not angry?" Loki said with a low voice so the others wouldn't hear him.

"No, I know you can give a very good lap dance and now you can even say that you have won a competition." He said and leaned in to kiss Loki on the cheek. "Besides, it was bachelor party." He said and kissed him softly on the lips. Loki didn't know if he should be happy or angry because Tony didn't care that he gave a lap dance to a stranger. But now was not the time to think about it. It was as Tony said a bachelor party and a competition so it doesn't count. But what did he do on his then?

"I didn't do anything on mine if you are thinking about that." His lover said with a smile.

"His right… he only watched us have fun… well, he and Steve at least." Clint said with a bored expression.

Loki nodded and turned back to his fiancé. "Our love will remain." Tony whispered and that made Loki actually calm down.