it's spinning back around now On this road I'm crawlin'

"Why?" Tony asked softly. It had been a weak sense the injury. Tony was completely healed but Loki insisted he remain in bed. Tony had contacted the others and told them he was going to be gone for the next few weeks. The reason he was even alive to say that was perched on the edge of his bed shifting uncomfortably at the question. "Why did you heal me?" Loki had visited him often but this was the first time Tony had got him to stay long enough to talk.

"You would be dead if not." Loki's expression was unreadable.

"Then why not let me die? Why do you come back? Why did you heal me?"

"I have my reasons."

"Tell me!"

"One day..."

"But not today." Tony finished. "I need to know."

"Why?"

"Yes I need to know why!" Tony snapped.

"Why do you ask?"

"I want to know what I mean to you! Why you come back after all this time! All this trouble! Why didn't you just let me die if I'm nothing to you! I'm sure there are a thousand mortals that you could seduce! Why me!?" Tony sat up shouting now. Still the god's expression didn't change. He wouldn't look at Tony.

"If you do not wish me I will go." Loki stood up quietly.

"No...!" Tony realized to late he had once again driven the god off. Loki disappeared. "That's not what I meant you bastard!"