Can someone kill me? ^-^" It's been more than a month sense I last updated! I hope you guys have not forgotten about me yet! DX Well! Yah. So! I suppose this little kind of like random joke is kind of like a running gag in our cosplay group. O.o Kind of cool. So! Hope you enjoy this little chapter. I finally have a plan for this story! I tried to make up for my lateness with a bit of a longer chapter! I will try to update ASAP PROMISE! O.O Reviews make me dance the chick dance upside down on the ceiling while screaming. ^-^ Just saying!
Tony slowly came in to consciousness. His head throbbed and he felt like he was burning up even though his skin was made of a sheet of ice. He groaned lightly and again thanked, whatever the hell he was supposed to thank when he was dating a god, that his boyfriend WAS a god and could fix hangovers like he was Clint fixing a sandwich for the Hulk, quickly with lots of muttering. What had woken him anyway? He defiantly was not hungry. Didn't need to go to the bathroom… Loki wasn't moving around.
Then he heard the smallest whimper. Blinking his eyes open slowly and carefully before letting them slide all the way open seeing that JARVIS had noticed how intoxicated he must have been and shut out all light from the outside world. He turned on his side to look over at Loki. There it was again… Something pleading and miserable. Tony frowned and propped himself up on his shoulder expecting to be faced with a depressed sobbing Loki after having a nightmare.
"Hey. Lokes?" A gentle disruptive touch to his shoulder had him stirring. "Hm?" Came the stubborn and angry grunt at being woken up. "Is everything okay?" His God stirried and looked over at him through sleepy eyes and in the graded safe early mornings tucked away in his room he could smile like an idiot despite his head ache.
"Is your headache that bad…?" Loki slurred sleepily tugging his hand up from his side to rest on Tony's forehead. A cold gentle stream of magic made him shiver and press closer to him. No. That is not what he meant but, yah thank you. Loki's hand slowly slid off of his forehead to rest by his head on the pillow, eyes closing to fall back asleep. The relief made Tony forget all about the strange noise and he pulled Loki closer to warm him up as he slowly started to doze.
He had just barely started to fall back asleep when he heard it again. A small whimper. He up in bed legs flailing as he stumbled up catching himself on the wall. Loki yelped in shock propping himself up on his elbows to look up at him with wide shocked eyes. "Anthony?"
Tony shook his hand at him for him to be quiet and quickly and as quietly as he could having just jumped out of bed, snuck in to the hallway fallowing the sound. The whimpering got louder and when he approached the door he heard a bark. A….bark…. He throw the door open and staggered back as a sudden flood of excited yelping golden retriever puppies ran out over his ankles.
The billionaire stumbled back and leaned against the wall as half the puppies crowded him begging for attention and the other half ran down the halls yelping excitedly. He looked up at the room eyes wide in shock and he shut his eyes pushing the puppies away to stumble down the halls with them nipping his heels. Starting to run, which only made the dogs bark in excitement and run after him, he burst in to the room again.
"Loki! What the Hell is this!" The god lazily lifted his head to peer over his shoulder at him and the swarm of exciting barking puppies.
"It appears to be a hoard of baby dogs, Anthony." With that he turned back over and yanked the covers back over his head intent on sleeping. Loki knew that Tony was pissed. He could practically hear the steam come out of his ears as he stomped over and yanked the blanket off of Loki's head.
"I know. What they are. Loki." Tony snapped clearly trying to maintain his anger because when he raised his voice the dogs barked louder. Loki smiled charmingly and turned over to look up at him.
"Then why did you ask?" Tony gritted his teeth. "Loki. I want you to tell me where you got these dogs." God dating the God of Mischief was like dating a 5 year old …Ew Tony don't think like that…. "You bought them last night from a pet store two blocks away." Loki yawned lightly and leaned up to give him a kiss on the cheek. "Return 9 of them and I'll be grateful." With that he laid down and shut his eyes.
Tony sighed and took a step back. He looked down at the puppies and just quietly went to go and put them back in the room and told Jarvis to call the store and tell them to expect their dogs back by that evening. After pour and drinking 2 tall drinks he went back to bed and grudgingly woke Loki up to have him curl close to him. He fell asleep seconds later.
Five hours later they were walking to the pet store, 10 puppies excitedly pulling at the leashes that the two of them struggled to keep a hold of.
"Never let me do something so stupid again." Tony said grumpily. Loki just smiled cheekily, "This is my fault now?" "Dear. If you have not noticed everything is always your fault." He snapped back. Still the god chuckled, "That one was a bit mean."
"Oh?" Tony looked over sharply. "Whose fault was it that I had pink hair for 3 weeks?" "Well you just did not want to re-dye it again so soon." The Trickster smirked, "It's not my fault that you care to much for your hair."
"And whose fault was it that we were stuck on the roof of the Empire State Building for 5 hours?" Loki smirked. "That was actually yours. My magic ran down in a fight and your suit powered down. It was your idea to "rest" there." Tony rolled his eyes, "Not my point…" Still he was silent the way there. Loki looked down and watched the pups scramble over themselves; he personally thought there could be no other creature in the worlds cuter then this. Did they really have to give all of them away…? Anthony would never let him even mention one again.
Loki blinked looking up as Tony had stopped in front of the door instead of going in staring at the small scribbled note on the door.
Family Emergency! Our services will be closed until next Monday!
Please excuse the inconvenience! Have a PURRfect day! :D
"Whose fault is this now?" Tony snapped out and sighed peering in the window. Loki blinked and reread the sign. "We have to keep them." He said stubbornly looking over at Tony. "What? No you cannot be serious." Tony looked up at him. "No. I refuse. We will have Jarvis call a pet sitter and give them some money and a note saying to drop them off here. That's it. End of story." Tony nodded to the store window as he finished speaking as if to show the store that he did not have to take care of these little mistakes.
That is he thought he didn't have to until he turned around and was faced with a full on pout from Loki. "Anthony you are so cruel. It's only for a week." Tony sighed heavily. "No Lokes." He began walking back to the tower and heard Loki fallow a step behind him. "Think, what the Press would say if they got ahold of the Famous Man of Iron not being able to handle a few puppies for a week."
Tony sighed and shook his head. They were in silence the whole way home. But the tension that Loki forcefully shoved in to the atmosphere made him so uncomfortable that he looked at the sidewalk the whole way back. The two of them plus the 10 golden puppies stood in the lobby for a moment, Tony addressing Jarvis to hurry and find someone. He had given all of the leashes to Loki thinking that maybe he would just see how hard it was to handle the 10 of them and get him to stop his moping as he moved away from the noise to call the sitter.
She a professional dog trainer, and she was thrilled to be assigned a job from the ever famous Tony Stark. He had allowed her to gush for a few moments before giving her a time and making sure Jarvis would send the money to her account. Turning back to Loki he felt actually pretty satisfied in himself for fixing the problem. But at the sight of the God he stopped and frowned.
Each and every puppy was silent. Sitting, laying and rolling in an adorable lump of golden fur and different colored sets of eyes staring up at Loki who was sitting patiently in an office chair just looking at them, mouth moving slowly to show that he was whispering to them. For a moment Tony thought that he had bewitched the dogs and he started to hurry over. But when he got closer he could see Loki just talking to them. Asking them different questions and saying various random things to see what kind of reaction they could get out of them.
All in all it was a rather amusing sight. Tony stepped back out of the room and flipped his phone shut loudly to attract Loki's attention. "Did you find someone?" Loki asked quietly looking up at him.
"I did." He nodded and walked over to sit by Loki. "She will be over here in the next hour or so." Loki just nodded quietly and looked back down at the dogs that had been starting to get riled back up without someone to listen too. Tony was quiet for a moment as they watched them dart around the room and wrestle with each other. If a few got too loud or too mean Loki would just whistle and they would look over and continue quietly.
"We should get you a job in dog training." Tony smirked and looked over to him. "Because I have no idea how you are doing that with no magic." Loki shrugged and smirked, "I think you'll come to find that dogs are just like children with fur." Tony smirked and looked back out silently to ponder over that. He was taking this rather well considering; Loki had fully dropped the pout and the sad air. He seemed calm and just over all quiet and thoughtful.
About 45 minutes later the silence was broken by Loki standing and calling them over to put their leashes back on. Each one he would stop look at their eyes for a minute, mutter something to calm them down, scratch their ears then put on the leash and move down the line. There was something about it that made Tony suddenly uncomfortable, he swallowed hard.
By the end of the line Tony was about ready to either get up stairs burst out crying for unknown reasons and stay in bed with multiple bottles of whiskey… Or call off the dog trainer… No. He thought to himself. No do not buy in to this, it's what he wants. Loki went over and smiled at the dogs please at how quiet and still they were being, obviously worn out by the playing. The God stepped over to sit by Tony again and smile lightly at him before the dog trainer came in.
She was tall, blonde and wore a very nicely pressed suit. Her name was Claire and she walked in texting busily on one phone and speaking in to her Bluetooth, how she did not trip and fall off of those 6 inch high heels Tony had no idea. Loki flashed him a questioning look at her appearance and stood up to go and greet her.
Tony thought she looked like those kind of business people who stayed inside all the time always swamped with people calling and paging trying to get her attention. Personally he had expected more of like; A 23 year old peppy and young looking brunette that had a huge sun tan and wore skinny jeans, worn out soccer shoes and a tank top, the kind of girl that just wants to babysit and train animals to earn side money for her college classes and on the side sports. Not that he wanted to be too picky… Still this was a bit much.
Loki shook her hand and welcomed her to the mansion and she just nodded stiffly at him before turning a bright smile on Tony and advancing towards him arms out stretched and pulled him in to a hug.
"Great to meet you Mr. Stark! My name is Clare Ordain and I'm the trainer you called for!" Tony blinked and forced a smile, "I figured you were. Well. Here they are then?" He nodded to the dogs that were now darting across the room excitedly and yelping at the appearance of a new person. One darted over and reared up at her with an excited bark leaning on her leg to lick her hand.
Claire's smile turned in to somewhat of a disgusted grimace and she flicked the dogs nose hard until it back down with a depressed whimper to go and sulk under one of the small tables on the side by the wall. Loki looked bewildered at Tony and shook his head. Tony sighed and just smiled lightly. "You've worked with dogs before I see?" Claire nodded stiffly her hair bouncing to show that he did in fact have a few silver hairs hidden in the blonde.
"I have. Sense I was little actually. My mother would always teach me that dogs are animals that have to be taught manners. And I am sure that I will be able to shut them up enough for the pet store owners. Give them a break." With that she smiled warmly as if she totally did not just sound like a psycho murderer.
Tony's turn to have a smile grimace, "I'm sure they will like that." Loki turned obviously disgusted by Tony's will to go along with this woman, "I'll be upstairs." With that he turned and disappeared in to the elevator. When he looked back over Claire was grabbing leashes jerking the puppies along to her side chocking up on the leashes so that they were tripping over themselves and getting stepped on by her wicked heels. Tony just felt sick about all of this. Still he forced himself to bite his tongue.
Claire bent over and fished out the dogs leash from under the table and pulled it out though it looked terrified. "Come along now." She stood up and walked towards the door. "It was a pleasure to meet you Mr. Stark!" He couldn't do this. -.- Not like he wanted to keep the terrible things but he was kind of Iron Man. So he should save these puppies from a week of hell. He walked over and stopped her taking the leashes back.
"Actually I change my mind." He snapped back taking the last one away from her hand looking up at her shocked and bewildered face, she resembled a bird like creature. It was just all over creepy. "Jarvis will make sure you are paid for your time but I'll take these guys actually." He ushered her out and waved a curt goodbye before locking the door and sighing heavily.
He turned back up to the elevator and got all of the dogs on. What was he doing? Still he walked out head high and walked over to where Loki sat on his normal chair in the corner and let go of all the leashes letting the dogs practically attack him. He sat up quickly shocked. After a while both of them managed to calm down the mass of dogs and got them back in to their old room.
"I thought she was going to take them today?" Loki asked confused looking over at Tony. He just sighed, "Yah well. Merry Christmas or whatever, you get 10 fuzzy rats for a week." He turned away to start walking towards the bar when he was turned around and kissed suddenly. Backing up surprised, Tony smirked lightly at how excited Loki suddenly looked. "Well your welcome."
"That wasn't all of my thank you Anthony." Loki smirked and just turned to stalk down the hall. Tony just smirked and fallowed after him eagerly. Maybe this would not be so bad after all.