(Loki & Reader 12)

AN: I've really been working on the Characters in this. I know Tony seems a little off, as well as Loki. However I'm trying to fix it the best I can. I do appreciate the wonderful and helpful comments though and that's what keeps me going! So thank you!

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Your eyes fluttered open at the sound of an opening door. Your door to be exact. You yawned and covered yourself with a blanket, you were to exhausted to think at the moment.

"Dinner's ready!" Pepper's voice sang happily.

Quickly your eyes shot open. Shit she didn't know about Loki yet, did she? You quickly turned over and tried to act casual by smiling back at her.

"Hello Ms. Potts. I assume Tony sent for us?" You grinned shyly.

Pepper frowned nervously. It looked like she was confused. You didn't know why until you felt an ice cold body behind you.

"Who's that?" She asked hesitantly.

Quickly you sat up and looked beside you to find Loki wasn't in his human form. Instead he was in his Frostgiant form. You slowly bit back a smile and turned to Pepper who was looking a bit frightened.

Loki groaned and wrapped an arm around your legs, his eyes opening to see Pepper staring at you both. He quietly smiled and shut his eyes again. He wasn't wanting to deal with this right now.

"I can completely explain Pepper, trust me." You said shyly and took a quick glance at Loki who was purring happily beside you.

"I'd like that..." Pepper smiled shyly and walked in.

Tony sat at the table, picking at his food with a bored expression. He stabbed a little mushroom and let it fall back onto his plate after hovering over the plate on his fork. He repeated this action until you, Pepper, and Loki arrived down stairs.

"Hey!" Tony shouted brightly at the sight of you. "Hope you like it, I put a bit to much pepper on the sirloins. Oh and the mushrooms are a bit under cooked as well..." He added while looking at his plate.

You smiled and ran to the table, taking a seat quickly next to Tony and looking at the food with a 'Oh my god it looks good!' Look on your face. You smiled at Tony and he gave you an approving nod. Without a word you took a fork and tried some off his plate then squealed with delight.

Loki growled and sat himself on the other side of you, watching as you and Tony interacted so nicely. It was like you two were a couple... Loki sighed inwardly and looked at his food.

Pepper quietly sat herself next to Tony and touched his arm gaining his attention. You smiled at the two of them, cute you thought. Pepper deserved a good man.

Quietly you took Loki's hand and smiled. This was a family, you grinned. Wasn't this how it was supposed to be?

After dinner you decided to go down to the lab and see if the ring was able to be removed yet. It was starting to hurt your finger really bad. Or at least see if Tony could readjust it...

You left Loki upstairs with Pepper to do the dishes and learn some stuff about the Midgaurdian world, girls mostly. Besides, you had asked Pepper earlier to teach Loki about how to treat a girl without resorting to such force. Maybe he'd then actually ask you on a date!

"Tony?" You called out softly into the lab.

"Yeah I'm here, geez." He growled over at his computer desk. "God it's not like one of those horror film." He added as you walk up behind where he sat. You frowned and looked at his exhausted face.

"What the heck are you talking about?" You asked in a bit of a worried tone.

Tony spun around in his chair smiling a bit. "You know in a horror film when someone walks into a room and calls out for the killer. It's not like the killers gunna be like, "Yeah I'm in the kitchen making a sandwich, want one?". So I'm saying its reminds me of a horror film when someone walks into the Lab and yells, "Hello?" and stuff." He explained and watched as your face became a bit distorted.

You were suppressing a laugh, which really was hard at the thought of what Tony had just said. The image of that happening was just to much! Soon you found yourself laughing so hard that tears began to fall. Tony just watched as you stumbled away laughing, clutching your stomach as you scrambled over to the near by cot to sit down.

"Am I that funny? Pepper usually would have said that I'm to immature. Well she always says I'm childish, I drink to much, I need to eat more and stay healthy." Tony rambled and smiled to himself.

"Your all of those things!" You chuckled, positioning yourself on the middle of the cot an pulling your legs into a cross-cross, gripping them lightly, while you continued to stare at his unfazed expression.

Tony just stared at you for a moment before spinning back around and pushing on the desk with his feet sending the chair rolling over next to you. You blinked at the man who was now next to you an frowning slightly. You could never really read what his intentions were, you hated it! Apparently he loved it though because he was now smiling at you.

"What?" You asked, folding your arms a little under your chest. Tony smiled bigger.

Quietly he leaned in close so you were almost kissing, intimidating you a bit, but you didn't break eye contact and back down.

"You're loud." He stated bluntly then pulled away.

You blinked a bit. What the hell was he talking about, you frowned. You tried to think back on when your had ever been loud in front of Tony, but, nothing clicked. You frowned deeper.

"What do you mean?" You asked nervously. What did Tony know that you didn't?

Suddenly you heard him moan. But it wasn't a guy moan, no. He was impersonating someone. That someone was you. You blushed hard and covered your mouth. How did he know, you asked yourself.

Tony let out a loud laugh at your priceless expression. Tony never thought that this would be such good payback! He laughed harder.

"Jerk!" You shouted taking a swipe at him, but missed.

Tony smirked at you and got up from the chair stretching. "Well," he said. "I'll keep quiet on one condition."

You snarled and made a fist. "What, what's the fucking condition?" You asked and watched him walk to the middle of the room.

"You drink with me." He said with a grin and winked at you from over his shoulder.

You blinked, dumbstruck by this stupid request. Finally you sighed and nodded. Lets hope I can hold my liquor, you flinched a bit at the thought.

"Okay then, deal!" He cheered.

"But, I came down here for a different reason, it wasn't to be harassed though." You interrupted his cheer.

Tony, still smiling looked back at you. "Yes?" He asked casually.

You sighed and held out your hand. "The ring. Off. Now. Or you can readjust it. You pick." You demand with a pissed face.

Tony frowned and looked at the Life Ring. The chance of that spell lingering on you still could be in affect. It could kill you. Well, the thing that triggered the seizures could anyway. He eyed you hard.

"Okay, take it off. But, I'm warning you that if those seizures come back I won't hesitate to put it back on and glue it to your damn hand." Tony said sternly and you nodded.

"Will you promise to keep me safe, and not tell Loki how I'm still alive if I survive?" You asked calmly, reaching up an gripping the ring.

Tony nodded. "Yes..."

"And Tony," You paused for a moment. "If I do have a level 10 seizure, and die. I want what you have as well." You spoke in a hollow whisper.

Tony froze. If he didn't know any better he would've though you were talking about the Arc Reactor. But he didn't know if that would work on you...

Quietly you got up and walked over to him. Tony watched you cautiously as you approached him in an odd way.

"I want you to know... I thank you for everything. Oh, keep Loki safe and out of trouble..." You said in a low and barely audible whisper.

Tony watched as you removed the ring with a smile. You let out an odd little giggle before falling to the ground and shaking violently.

Pepper sat across from Loki on the couch. He was silent and calm. He was unreadable. Pepper tried many times to strike a conversation but to no avail...

"I dislike you." He said finally.

Pepper looked shocked. After all this time of acting so nice he can speak so evilly. Loki smirked a bit.

"I'm bored with you and I honestly don't see why I shouldn't kill you." He continued. "I'm only here to claim what is to soon become mine..."

Pepper was taken back by this. She quickly looked at how his fingertip began to swirl around in the air. At how his eyes darkened, turning ice cold. The crazy tempter drop sent shivers up Peppers spine. But, she had talked to you after dinner about Loki so she didn't run.

"She's not yours... She's no ones. And, she trusts you to not harm a hair on any of us. So, that's why I'm still here. I'm not scared of you." Pepper said in a slightly shaky voice. Her body trembled.

"I know..." Loki sighed, a frown now appearing.

Pepper felt the cold air leave and she smiled slightly.

"She hit Tony for kissing her, just thought you should know." Pepper giggled.

Loki shot her interested glance then looked away once more. Pepper chuckled and opened her mouth to say something when her Emergency pager beeped.

"What was that noise?" Loki asked with much interest, sitting up a bit straighter in his seat.

"Something has gone wrong in the lab. It's probably Tony working on his Iron-Man suit again." She said quickly and got of from the white couch.

"I'll be right back Loki, promise." She shouted as she walked down a hall an rounded a corner.

"JARVIS keep her heart rate on the screen at all times. We need to find what's causing her seizure, quickly. Oh, and change the Lab access codes. As well as sound proof the windows. Message Pepper "Code Red" and tell her to keep Loki busy for about 3hrs." Tony demanded left and right, walking around the metal table the Iron-Man suit and you were on.

You had passed out and gone unconscious. Tony had a certain period of time to get the scans so he couldn't be disturbed. He needed to fin the cause of these seizures. There had to be a logical explanation for them to happen every time the Life Ring was off.

"Maybe, maybe she'll live longer with one as well..." Tony murmured and picked up a small tablet which was laying next to you.

Quickly he let go of it and it began to float in mid air before expanding into a flash of many transparent screens. Tony instantly began rearranging them like a coded message. Finally he paused.

"JARVIS," Tony said lowly.

"Yes sir?" A robotic voice answered.

"You never told me she had cancer in her medical records..."

-End of chapter 12-