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Chapter 16
All Loki's stuff was transported to the tower and it filled bookshelves and cabinets. There were a lot of books that came with him, but Tony didn't mind, he wasn't big on reading, but there was something with having books around that made it more homely in the tower. All his hair products filled the cabinets in the bathroom and his expensive shampoo, that Tony loves the smell of stood in the shower. The walking closet had been reorganized for Loki's clothes that fit in nicely with the other expensive clothes. It had been two weeks since he moved in and he wasn't regretting anything yet. He loved those mornings he woke up beside Tony and they shared a couple of minutes just waking up together by touching and kissing, acting like love struck teens. But there were those mornings when Tony had to get up early for work, but before he left he always gave Loki a soft kiss.
Today was a day when Tony had been working a lot and Loki decided to be a good boyfriend and ordered sushi for them and then asked Jarvis to download Lord of the rings for them to watch during dinner. He was quiet proud of himself when he had the sushi on the coffee table, two glass of water and the movie ready to go as soon as they wanted to see it. The elevator doors opened and a tired genius walked in, taking of his tie and rubbing his eyes.
Tony stopped when he saw his boyfriend sitting on the couch, the food and the movie. A warm feeling spread through his body and a huge smile appeared on his face. "God, I love you." The genius said and walked over to Loki, who stood up and got a deep, loving kiss from the billionaire. Loki smiled and pulled the man down on the couch and handed him the chopsticks for him to eat with.
"Jarvis, start the movie." Loki said and took poured them both some soya. The movie started and they ate their sushi in comfortable silence.
Tony couldn't believe he was so lucky to have such a wonderful boyfriend that did this for him on a day he felt utter exhaustion. When they were done, Tony leaned back in the corner of the couch and pulled Loki to lie almost on top of him, his head resting on his chest as his fingers carded through the silken, black hair. They were watching the part with the meeting in Rivendell, when Loki noticed the fingers in his hair stopped moving and he could hear the peaceful breaths from the genius sleeping.
Loki felt so happy and free for once in his life. Living a lie for five years has almost gotten him into depression and then he met this genius and thought it was only going to be that one time and then continue for years to come. But then he met him in the park and seeing him in the sun, looking so handsome and that cockiness in his eyes made him want to know him more, to know how cocky he really was. Now he knew that the man he loved was the most trustful, truthful and loveable man in the universe and he was all his. It even said so on the genius shoulder blade. But of course there were still some things that he didn't know about his boyfriend and that was almost everything about his past. He did know how he got the arc reactor, but not much about his parents, about that Obadiah guy and how he met all his friends. Okay there was a lot about Tony's past he didn't know about, at least everything that wasn't in the news and he always tried to ignore that.
Loki looked over at the watch and noticed it was almost 23.30 pm. He got up from the extremely comfortable place beside Tony and stroked his cheek gently. "Love, let's go to bed." He whispered and got up from the couch. Tony grunted, but complied. They walked hand in hand to the bedroom, leaving Jarvis to turn off the movie and kill all the lights. Loki managed to get the genius to brush his teeth before slumping into bed with only boxers on. Loki smiled and took a bit longer in the bathroom, brushing teeth, flossing and changing into silken pyjama pants before lying down close to the genius, feeling him wrap his arm around him and he placed his head on his usual spot on the billionaire's chest. "Goodnight." Loki whispered and heard his lover mumble a responds that only made him smile.
Loki woke up alone that morning, looking around for any sign of his boyfriend and got a bit sad that he didn't even remember getting that kiss he usually got when Tony left him to sleep. "Jarvis, has Tony gone to work?" Loki asked and sat up, rubbed his eyes and pulled his hair back.
'No, sir, he is in his workshop.' The AI informed him.
Loki felt a bit hurt that Tony didn't wake up with him this morning. He always did when he didn't have work he had to do. "Jarvis, did he kiss me before leaving me?" Loki asked and a small shade of pink appeared on his face. He couldn't believe he was asking this.
'No, sir, he did not do that this morning.' Loki felt a deep sorrow in his heart. Why didn't he kiss him? Did he do something wrong last night? Should he have left him on the couch?
Loki got up from bed and got into the shower, blow-dried his hair and dressed himself in jeans and a t-shirt before leaving to see if Tony was okay. The elevator doors opened and he looked around the workshop that was dark for once, finding the genius looking at an old projector video. He walked over to him silently, watching the video, noticing how similar the man on the screen was to Tony and realized that it must be his father. When Loki looked at Tony, he saw sadness and anger in his eyes and wondered if he wanted to be alone. "Hey." He whispered, feeling very insecure all of a sudden. Tony looked up at him, but didn't say anything. "Are you alright?" Loki then asked carefully.
Tony dragged a hand over his face. "Yeah, I'm just…" He sighed and turned the projector off and let Jarvis turn on the lights. "I'm sorry. I shouldn't have disappeared like that." The genius then said and reached out a hand for Loki, who took it and let himself be pulled down on the genius lap and leaned onto his chest as he wrapped an arm around the genius shoulders.
"Was that your father?" Loki asked carefully as he looked at his hand that Tony was holding, massaging out of nothing else to do. Tony nodded and looked sad again as he leaned his head onto Loki's chest. "Tell me about him." Loki whispered and planted a soft kiss on the genius head.
"There's nothing to tell, really." Tony muttered and closed his eyes, relishing the smell of coconut from Loki. "He was a dick. He was never there and he never praised me, only pointing out my flaws." He said and felt the long fingers of Loki's hand go through his hair slowly.
"How about your mother?" Loki asked and kept his finger in the thick, brown hair.
Tony sighed and shook his head. "She didn't deserve any of it." He mumbled and tried to press closer to Loki as possible.
"What do you mean?" Loki asked and wrapped his arms around Tony.
"She was the sweetest woman there ever was, yet she settled with Howard, being used as nothing more but a baby carrier. I was so spoiled and wanted Howard's attention so much that I forgot about her. She was always there for me and I never thanked her." Tony was crying now, making Loki's t-shirt wet, but neither of them cared. Loki held Tony close and made soothing circles on his back, feeling awful for making the genius tell him this. "It is 17 years ago today that they died." Tony continued and clutched to his boyfriend's t-shirt.
Now Loki understood why Tony had just left him in bed. "Do you want to be alone today?" Loki asked and gathered himself to be sent away, so his boyfriend could sob in peace.
"No, don't ever leave me." Tony murmured into his t-shirt. Loki nodded and stayed right where they were.
They stayed like that for an hour, just holding each other and Tony cried when he remembered something from his past. All these years, being alone on this day had left the genius numb and after a while passing out by all the alcohol that he could lay his hand on. But this was different, now he had someone that could hold him and comfort him, making him forget about alcohol and just let him remember what he feared to think about. But now he let himself remember and told Loki about the police, who came to his house and told him that his parents had died. He remembered having a hangover and not really realizing what the man had told him until after a few minutes. The policeman had to take him to the hospital because he feared that the boy had alcohol poisoning. When Tony had woken up in the hospital bed a doctor had to tell him the news again because he thought it all was a bad dream. The hospital held him for a few days after the boy tried to kill himself with a scalpel he had managed to find. When the worst sorrow was gone, they send him to his mother's sister house, who was in the same sorrow. Tony didn't made it easy for them, always sneaking out to meet friends he shouldn't hang out with, but the police never caught him and his aunt decided to never let that happen, so they moved to DC. Tony met Bruce there and finally had a friend that wasn't likely to end up in jail.
Loki listened quietly to everything, never interrupting the genius with questions. Finally, he was really getting to know this man he had been together with for two months.
Tony continued with when he turned 18 and was allowed to take over his father's company, taking it away from Obadiah Stane, who was a close friend to his dad and helped him with how the company worked and was always at his side. Tony started to create weapons just like his father, but better and the industry took off like a rocket. He became a billionaire and used the money for fun, meaning girls and alcohol. And that's how it was until he got shot, which Loki already knew the story about. Tony stopped talking and pulled away slightly to look into emerald eyes that looked at him with warmth and love. "I'm glad you shared this with me." Loki whispered and stroked the genius goatee. "Have you've heard from Obadiah since you fired him?" He asked carefully.
Tony shook his head. "I hope he is stuck in a small apartment somewhere." Tony muttered and leaned into the touch. Then he suddenly felt how hungry he was. "Let's go up and eat something." He said and let his boyfriend get off his lap.
Two days later, Tony stood in the elevator on his way up to their penthouse after being at an extremely boring meeting and now he just wanted to hold his Loki close. He didn't think that they could get any closer than before, but after that day of crying and pretty much telling his life story, he felt almost like one with Loki. He wanted to do something for him after sitting there and listening to him cry like a little boy, so he had planned a date for them going to the Central Park Zoo and after that dinner at the Loeb Boathouse. The elevator door opened and what he saw made his heart stop for a second. Loki was on his knees, hands up in the air and behind him stood the one and only Obadiah Stane, holding a knife against the writer's throat. Loki showed no fear, but in his eyes Tony could see that he was panicking.
"It's been a while, Tony Stark." Obi said with a smug look.
Tony walked a bit closer, but stopped when he noticed the blade pressed a bit more on Loki's throat. "What do you want?" Tony growled, ready to give the maniac anything to see him free Loki.
"You ruined my life when you fired me, now I just want to ruin yours because it has been going so well lately." Obi growled and moved the blade lightly, causing a small amount of blood to appear and Loki whimpered slightly.
"Please, let him go! He has nothing to do with any of this." Tony actually begged, feeling adrenalin flow through his body.
"I will let him go if you take out your arc reactor." Obi ordered. Tony eyed the man to see if he was serious. When he didn't blink, Tony started to unbutton his shirt.
"No! Tony, don't!" Loki begged, trying to get out of the hold the man behind him had on him.
Obi laughed. "Oh, but don't you see? He would do anything for you, even die for you, apparently." He whispered into Loki's ear.
The arc reactor's glow was released from the entrapment of the shirt and Tony stroke a finger over it. "Promise you will let him go." Tony said with a stern voice.
"He will watch you die when I leave." Obi said with a grin.
Tony nodded and looked at Loki with sadness before gripping the arc reactor, twisted it and then pulled it out and dropped it to the floor. The pain came immediately, causing him to fall onto the floor, breathing heavily as he went into cardiac arrest.
"Goodbye, Tony." Obi said and released Loki from his hold and walked over to the elevator, stepping on the reactor so it was just a pile of scrap, hearing Loki scream and disappeared.
Loki ran over to Tony, tears streaming down his cheeks as he stroked Tony's cheek. "No, no, no, please, don't die on me." He cried out and leaned down to rest his forehead on the billionaire's.
"Babe… there is… a spare… in the… bureau next to the gun." Tony managed to tell him before feeling himself slip into darkness.
Loki ran over and opened the drawer with the gun inside and beside it was a wooden box. He opened it and in there was a whole reactor. He grabbed it and ran back to his boyfriend, who still lay on the floor. He saw what was supposed to connect with the arc easily, because there wasn't much, and then put it in and twisted it like a lock. Loki grabbed Tony and pulled him up slightly, hearing Tony take a sharp intake and then panted. Loki held him close as the genius started to breathe more normally. They both were crying from the fear of being so close to losing one another and just held each other close. "I'm so sorry." Tony breathed out, feeling so much guilt. It was his entire fault once again. Loki was hurt, small crimson drops slid down his smooth neck and soaked into his shirt.
Loki only leaned down and kissed him lovingly. "I love you… and don't ever do that again." He said a bit angrily.
"Do what?" Tony asked a bit breathless from the kiss.
"Take your life for me." Loki answered and stroked his cheek.
Tony managed a chuckle and leaned into the touch. "I would do anything for you." He admitted and leaned up for another deep kiss.
