Loki rubbed his hand across his face. Well, he was experienced, that wasn't a problem, but it also says not to mix it with other spells. He was going over different scenarios of how to fix this in his head as he slowly fell asleep, unable to keep his eyes open anymore.

Loki woke up to someone shaking him lightly and calling his name. He opened his eyes and saw Bruce stood over him, looking concerned with a hand on his shoulder.

"Loki? Are you okay?" He asked keeping his voice down in case Loki was sensitive to volume in whatever health state he was in.

Loki rubbed his eyes and looked around realizing he was still in the library and Bruce was holding his spell book in his other hand. He must have fell asleep with in on him.

"Loki?" Bruce spoke again.

"Oh, yes, I'm fine. Thank you," He lied, sitting up and wincing at the stiffness in his joints from sleeping in such an uncomfortable position.

Bruce looked down at the book in his hand, his glasses slipping down his nose slightly.

"Were you trying to figure out what's wrong with Tony?" He asked quietly.

Loki nodded, looking down at his clasped hands, deciding not to mention that he knows until he works out a way to reverse it.

"I want to help. Please," Bruce looked up a little again so he was looking at Loki and pushed his glasses back up his nose. "Any way I can,"

"I would appreciate the help…" He muttered in thought, more to himself than Bruce, weighing up his options. It would help to have a human's perspective and Bruce had a very logical mind, which would definitely be useful right now.

"Alright, but that means I'll have to tell you what happened last night," He mumbled again.

Bruce watched him for a minute before removing his glasses, slipping them in his top pocket and pulling a plush armchair closer so he could sit opposite the god, waiting. He placed the book carefully on the little table beside Loki.

Loki looked back at him and sighed before going over everything that happened the night before and showing him the bite.

Bruce stared at the bite and put him glasses back on, leaning forward to see it better. He moved to kneel in front of Loki and traced the skin around the redness lightly although Loki still hissed slightly, more because Bruce's hands were really cold than because it hurt though it did a little.

Bruce squinted his eyes in thought. "Does it hurt?"

"Not unless there is pressure on it,"

Bruce nodded and placed his palm over it gently, "Tell me when it starts to hurt,"

Loki nodded, still holding his shirt up to his chest.

The doctor then began slowly pressing it harder. After a few seconds Loki said stop through clenched teeth and Bruce pulled his hand away instantly, not wanting to hurt him more than necessary. He nodded to himself then went back to sit down and Loki dropping his shirt again.

"So, you did half a resurrection spell and half... a demon summoning spell?"

Loki nodded, looking down.

"Right, how do we fix it?" He asked.

"I'm not sure. It said it's dangerous to mix spells and because it was only half a resurrection spell… I'm not sure what'll happen to Tony – the real Tony – if we reverse it,"

"What if you finished the rest of the resurrection spell?"

"It wont have to right effect because the sequence of words have already been broken,"

"What if you reverse the demon one?"

"I'm not sure what'll happen as it was only half summoned,"

The continued to brainstorm ideas until they'd both ran out and decided to get some breakfast, Loki quickly using magic to clean his clothes.

They walked into the kitchen and saw Natasha, Clint, Steve and Thor sat around the table having what sounded like a pretty average conversation. No Tony.

Bruce went over to the stove and offered to make everyone omelets while Loki went to sit next to his brother, who was patting the seat next to him – which he'd obviously saved for Loki – enthusiastically. Clint was on his other side then Natasha. Steve was sat in between her and two spare seats then it was Thor as the table was a big round one. Loki sipped the coffee Thor had pushed towards him gratefully and rested his elbows on the table. Bruce sat down next to Steve while the omelets cooked.

"Brother," Thor whispered.

"Yes?" Loki spoke at a normal volume back.

Thor shushed him and scooted his chair closer. "Are you alright?"

Loki saw the genuine concern in his features so he decided not to be too cold towards him, especially after he helped him last night.

"I'm fine, just a little tired," He smiled gently at him over the brim of his mug.

Thor smiled back, seemingly unsure, and nodded. The unspoken 'if you're not, you have to tell me' was clear and Loki nodded back in reassurance.

"Hey, care to share with the group?" Clint asked, elbowing him in the side. Loki winced as Clint's elbow hit the bite but mentally shook it off.

"Just talking about poptarts," He shrugged. "Thor hid some and I found them so he wanted to make sure I wouldn't tell you… oops," He smirked at the end and drank his coffee as the others started interrogating Thor.

Honestly, it wasn't a complete lie. Thor really did have hidden poptarts he didn't want the others knowing about.

Thor was, not for the first time, shocked at how quickly and easily Loki could come up with a convincing lie. This shock quickly turned to minor betrayal when he realized what exactly he'd said.

"Traitor!" He exclaimed then sulked.

"Who's a traitor?" They all turned to see Tony Stark stood in the doorway wearing a faded Black Sabbath t-shirt and jeans. His hair was messy and his eyes were blearing, showing he'd just woken up.

Everyone stared at him in silence, except Bruce whose focus alternated between the billionaire and the youngest god.

"What?" Tony smiled nervously and glanced at everyone in turn. His smiled disappeared when he got to Loki and his eyes glazed over slightly, like he was daydreaming, before coming back into focus and widening.

"Loki, could I talk to you alone a sec?" He asked hurriedly.

Thor scooted closer to Loki again and growled.

"Um, okay," Loki nodded, standing. Thor's arm shot out to catch his and he stood too, leaning closer and ducking slightly so he could whisper in Loki's ear.

Loki nodded and Thor hesitantly released his wrist and stepped back, still glaring at Tony who looked extremely confused.

Loki walked over to Stark, smiling tensely. Tony smiled back and gestured for Loki to go first into the living room.

When they got there Loki waited until Tony sat on one side of the couch and purposely sat as far away as he could while still being on the same couch.

Tony watched this, confused, but shrugged.

"Um, this may sound really weird but… well, you've probably heard weirder," Tony laughed awkwardly and Loki watched him. He seemed to be like his old self. He threw his arm over the back of the couch and folded his knee up so he could face Loki.

"I, well, when I saw you… I got, like, a vision kind of thing…"

Loki tilted his head to the side. "Of what?" He asked curiously.

"Of me… um… can you not look at me when I say this?" He requested.

Loki nodded slowly and turned to face the blank TV screen, listening intently.

"It was of me… sort of… biting you… and drinking your blood… How weird it that?" He laughed tightly again.

Loki froze. A vision? What?

He turned to face Tony.

"It's just… I'm telling you this because…" Tony started, staring at his hands and picking at the calluses on his fingertips. "It felt really… real,"

"Tony? What's the last thing you remember before waking up this morning?"

Tony's brow drew together in thought.

"Actually, now you mention it… I don't remember anything past… Oh! You had a nosebleed and was holding your head after knocking over that huge dragony thing. Are you okay by the way?" He looked Loki over slightly and saw him rubbing his side absent-mindedly and deep in thought.

"That's where I bit you… in my vision thingy," Tony stopped and his eyes widened. He jumped closer to Loki and yanked his shirt up before the other noticed he'd even moved and gasped when he saw the bite.

"Loki… what happened?" Tony stared at him, worried. Loki pulled his shirt down and explained to Tony what had happened after the fight and with the spells and last night, leaving out the part where he told Thor so that Tony wouldn't be scared of the other Asgardian. Tony stared at him throughout his explanation, eyes wide.

"I- I have a demon in me?"

Loki nodded.

"Oh…is it bad I find that kind of cool?" Tony smirked, trying to lighten the mood. Loki glared.

"Okay, sorry. So, how come I'm me now and not the demon?" Tony asked.

"I don't know! I don't know the details, I don't know the mechanics of it, I don't know what the demon is, I don't know what it wants and I don't know how to fix it!" Loki threw his arms up in frustration and tugged at the hair.

"Hey, hey," Tony moved closer and wrapped his arm around Loki's shoulder and uncurled his fingers from his hair with his over hand, pulling him closer. Loki tensed slightly but then relaxed against Tony's side. Tony held onto his hand and brushed his hair back with the hand of the arm around his shoulder. He shushed him softly and Loki felt like crying.

"Technically, not pointing fingers or anything but this is kind of Rogers's fault. If he hadn't barged in you wouldn't have dropped the book,"

Loki smiles slightly, his head resting against Tony's shoulder. "He was worried about you,"

Tony barked out a laugh, "Yeah, sure,"

"He was." Loki looked up at him, "We all were,"

Tony stared back at him and licked his lips, his eyes flickering down to Loki's mouth. Loki stared back, unmoving.

The sort-of-human leant down slowly so Loki could pull away if he wanted but he remained still. He pressed his lips gently against Loki's and gripped his hand happily when the god kissed back.

Tony flicked his tongue out and Loki parted his lips to allow him access to his mouth. Tony moved so Loki wasn't straining his neck and he clasped his face in both his hands as Loki's arms snaked around his neck.

He pushed Loki so he was lying on the couch and straddled his hips so he was lying on top of him, the kiss turning more heated. Tony slipped his arms down Loki's side – careful of the bite – and to his hips, gripping them loosely.

Loki's hand went to Tony's hair and his other went to his chest, his thumb stroking over Tony's arc reactor through his shirt. Tony moved to kiss Loki's neck and the latter gasped lightly, clenching his hand in Tony's hair.

There was a not so subtle sound of someone clearing their throat and they looked up to see Clint watching them, his arms crossed and one eyebrow raised.

"Geez, Barton, you're such a cock-blocker. Why are you watching anyway, perv," Tony shook his head as he moved off Loki and helped him sit up.

"Back to your old self, I see," Clint smirked, shaking his head.

Loki looked down and bit his lip.

"What can I say? How would you guys live without me?"

Clint laughed. "So, are you two…?" He left the question open.

Tony looked at Loki, who was still studying the carpet like it was about to turn to lava.

"I'll get back to you on that one," He muttered to Clint, still watching Loki.

He heard Clint leave and took Loki's hand again.

"Hey, come on," He tugged him up.

"Where are we going?" Loki asked, following behind him, their hands still clasped.

"Somewhere private,"

Tony took Loki down to his workshop, which had a separate pass code to the rest of the building that the others didn't know.

He keyed in the code and the door slid opened. Tony pushed Loki gently inside and stepped in himself, closing and locking it behind him.

It was very rare Tony let anyone in his workshop.

Loki looked around at all the loose pieces of old Iron Man suits and other robots. He walked over to the big metal table in the middle of the room and let his fingers ghost over an old helmet with half the visor melted off.

Tony came up behind in and wrapped his arms around his waist, kissing his shoulder lightly. Loki smiled and turned so he was facing him.

"I have an idea," Tony smiled. "Maybe I'm all… well, me again because since the summoning spell was only half done the demon wasn't tethered to my body properly and got dragged back to whatever circle of hell it originated from,"

Loki thought about this and smiled. "It could be possible, but what about the fact I only did half the resurrection spell? Why do you seem fine?"

Tony hummed in thought. "Maybe its because I'm just that awesome," He smirked.

Loki shook his head but smiled and Tony kissed him again.

Tony pushed Loki against the table while they made out and slipped him hand under Loki's shirt to stroke over his flat stomach. He eventually pulled away and yawned, resting his head against Loki's shoulder.

"How could you possibly be tired?" Loki smirked.

"Maybe being a demon condom is draining," He shrugged. Loki cringed at the analogy and laughed.

"We don't have any duties today. Why don't you go back to bed?" Loki suggested.

Tony looked at him and smiled. "Only if you join me," He winked.

Loki stuttered and Tony laughed. "Don't worry, we don't have to do anything,"

Loki nodded and they went up to his room, managing to avoid the other Avengers.

Tony locked the door behind them just in case and took off his jeans so he was wearing his Black Sabbath t-shirt and his boxers. He climbed under the covers and motioned for Loki to do the same. He took his jeans off and climbed in next to Tony, who was holding the quilt up so he could get under. Tony tucked the quilt around Loki's side and dragged him closer so Loki's head was on his chest.

Loki stiffened but eventually relaxed and draped his arm over Tony's stomach, who sighed happily and nuzzled Loki's hair.

After five minutes Loki heard soft snores from Tony. He'd planned on slipping out when he fell asleep but couldn't bring himself to untangle Tony's legs from his own or Tony's arms from Loki's waist.

He decided to just stay.

After fifteen minutes the soft snoring cut off abruptly.

Loki stilled in slight confusion then he felt Tony stir and realized he was just waking up. Tony's arm tightened round his waist and he heard a low chuckle from the genius.

He looked up puzzled and froze in fear. Tony's eyes were red and yellow again. He quickly recovered and tried to scramble away but Tony grabbed his arm in an iron grip.

He winced and bit his lip so he didn't whimper. They were both stood up and, for some odd reason, Loki magically put his and Tony's jeans back on.

Tony looked down and shrugged, pulling Loki closer and wrapping one arm around his waist and the other holding his hands tight. Loki kept struggling as Tony's eyes glazed over but his grip around his waist tightened to a bruising intensity.

Tony blinked and his eyes came back into focus.

"So," He started casually. "You and Tony?" He laughed as the colour drained from Loki's face.

Loki tried to get away but Tony threw him against the wall, pressing him against it with his own body and pinning his arms above his head.

"You know, now that Tony knows I'm here I can access most of his brain. He's liked you for a while. I know all his secrets, all his thoughts. And how to work that suit of his,"

Loki froze.

"Thor!" He shouted

Tony clasped a hand over Loki's mouth and slammed his back against the wall, getting close to Loki's face to intimidate him.

"Who do you thing Thor will believe? His mischievous God of Lies brother or me, the innocent human," He smirked.

They heard banging on the stairs and Tony stilled, staring at Loki who relaxed slightly.

"Loki?" They heard Thor shout and Tony raised his other hand, which was pinning him to the wall, up to his lip motioning for Loki to be quiet. Loki obeyed.

Tony was staring at the wall by Loki's head and they could hear Thor walking across the landing outside the rooms so Loki, as quietly as possible, summoned a small bit of blue energy and shot it through the crack under the door, hoping Thor was facing in the right direction to see it. The footsteps stopped.

Loki held his breath and waited. The footsteps started again slightly quicker, getting closer to the door. Loki felt hope bubble in his chest but tried not to show it so Tony didn't get suspicious.

The footsteps stopped just outside the door and both Loki and Tony stopped breathing in anticipation.

"Loki?" Thor called out.

"Hey Point Break, go ask Clint about us, he'll tell you. Trust me, you don't want to come in," Tony laughed at the end glaring at Loki. Thor didn't move.

"Alright…" He still sounded guarded.

Loki swore in his head and closed his eyes. He tried to concentrate on a spell he'd read last week to speak into people's minds and hear their thoughts as long as he'd sustained physical contact from them within the last twenty-four hours. He was even more glad that he'd let Thor clean the bite the night before as it was obviously less than twenty-four hours ago.

Thor? He focused as hard as he could.

"Loki?" He said out loud and Loki almost wanted to bash his brains in.

Tony leant forward to whisper in Loki's ear. "Say these exact words or I'll kill everyone in this goddamn tower in a heartbeat. Hello brother, I'm fine just go downstairs, I'll explain later,"

Loki wasn't sure the demon could do that but he decided he didn't want to take the risk and nodded. Tony moved his hand away from his mouth cautiously.

"Hello brother, I'm fine, go downstairs, I'll explain later," He realized he'd missed out a word but hoped Tony wouldn't make a big deal about it. He didn't seem to notice, just clasped his hand back over his mouth.

"Um, alright," Loki could almost see his confused puppy eyes.

He closed his eyes and tried frantically to refocus on his brother.

Thor, don't answer out loud, I found a spell to talk in your head, to reply just think what you want to say.

He waited and heard Thor shift slightly.

Loki? He asked timidly.

Loki resisted the urge to grin happily. Yes, it's working. Listen, Tony is a demon.

He heard Thor move again.

Are you in danger? Loki could hear the worry even in Thor's inner voice and felt dirty when he felt his chest warm at the raw concern he showed him.

Yes.

The second he thought it the door was knocked open and Thor burst in, holding Mjolnir and looking murderous.

Tony jumped away from Loki in surprise, looking questioningly towards him before turning to the older Asgardian.

"Thor! I told you to go find Clint, me and Lokes are busy," He stepped back to Loki and ran a hand down his side.

Thor's knuckles whitened on the handle of Mjolnir as he raised it to point it at Tony.

"Step away from my brother,"

Tony laughed and stepped closer to Loki. "Come on, learn to share," He smirked.

Thor walked up to them and stood beside his brother. "If you come any closer to him I will forget you're inside a good friend,"

"Inside?" Tony turned to Loki, staring at him but talking to Thor. "What makes you think there's anything inside me?"

"You are not Tony!" Thor announced, holding up Mjolnir.

"What are you talking about, Thor? Of course I am,"

"Tony would not be capable of leaving that mark on my brother's body!"

"Ah. You told him?" He asked Loki, who nodded, more confident with his brother beside him.

"Well, he likes it kinky so…" Tony held his hands up then let out a startled 'umf' as Mjolnir collided with his stomach. Thor stopped the hammer just before Tony hit the wall so it would not harm his mortal body too much.

Tony stood and brushed himself off.

"Ouch," He rolled his eyes.

Thor narrowed his eyes. Tony should be in agony.

Loki shot a blue energy at Tony and it circled round him making a blue cage.

"Hm, interesting," Tony muttered.

"Release Stark," Thor ordered.

Tony just stared at Loki, who stared back uncomfortably.

His eyes went red and yellow like they had just after he'd drunk Loki's blood and his skin paled, the areas around his eyes showing dark veins, which almost looked like cracks. Thor stared in shock.

Tony smirked and closed his eyes; Loki felt an uncomfortable tingle around the bite on his side and rubbed it lightly through his shirt. The tingle grew to a dull pain and he pulled his hand away hissing in discomfort. Thor ripped his gaze from Tony and watched his brother.

"Loki, are you alright?" He asked, stepping closer.

"Yes I'm fine," He felt the pain rise around his stomach and up his back and shoulders before coming round to his chest and stopping. He raised a hand to rub his chest and stopped when it got worse, gritting his teeth together. Loki could feel Thor's eyes on him so he tried to cover up the pain so he didn't worry about him.

Thor turned to glare at Tony who was staring at Loki.

"What are you doing to him?!" Thor shouted but before Tony could reply Loki screamed in agony and collapsed. Thor dropped Mjolnir and knelt next to him, turning him onto his back and shaking him lightly, stopping when Loki let out a whimper, still unconscious.

Thor stood and turned to Tony, ready to question him when he noticed the cage Loki had put up had vanished. It probably went out when Loki lost consciousness.

Tony smirked and flicked his wrist, sending the desk beside Thor crashing into him, making him fall over Loki. He quickly got up so he didn't hurt him and checked to see if Loki is okay, not being able to stop Tony fleeing from the room.

"AI!" Thor shouted before realizing it wouldn't answer to that and racking his brain trying to remember the artificial intelligence's name. "JARVIS!" He shouted.

"Hey Mr. Odinson?" The voice asked politely.

"Do not let Stark leave the tower!" He ordered, slipping his arm under Loki's knees and around his shoulder and lifting him easily, carrying him to his room and laying him on his bed cautiously.

"I'm afraid he's already left, Sir. And he took his suit,"