Tony's blog:
God damn it.
Why do I always wake up so early?
Loki:
I do not know darling but you have been waking up earlier than before. Speaking of which, do we not have something with S.H.I.E.L.D later today? Darling I do not wish to whine but Thor seemed insistent on this. I even was asked by your darling Captain.
Tony:
Must be your snoring. And yes, we do, don't we? I still don't approve of this, it's ridiculous. Can't we just stay home? It's a bloody Sunday…
Loki:
Well I do not know darling you should have asked before storming out.
And I do not snore, you snore.
Tony:
I hate S.H.I.E.L.D so much. I think I might go blow the place up, or you could do that for me. Or with me.
And shhh, no one needs to know that.
Loki:
Asking me to blow up S.H.I.E.L.D with you, darling? I am making every effort right now not to ravish you with love and adoration.
But all jokes aside, should we not be off now?
Tony:
I don't want to. Argh.
But yes, we should. Let's go…
Urgh.
Loki:
[Battery Life]
Both Tony and Loki rolled into S.H.I.E.L.D Headquarters in a bit of a foul mood. Loki was dressed in black sweats and one of Tony's shirts because S.H.I.E.L.D told him to dress down. Loki already did not like this. That meant he would be taking off his own clothes for, what, experiments? How annoying. The trickster leaned on Tony as they were brought up to the main science bay. He took Tony's hand and followed the other in. Thor quickly walked over and embraced his brother tightly. Loki squirmed and heard bones crack.
"All right everyone settle down." Started Nick Fury. The director of S.H.I.E.L.D went on to explain how they needed to test Loki's magical powers. They had already tested Thor's hammer with positive results and were now going to test Loki by…
"YOU WANT ME TO WHAT?" It was the first time Loki raised his voice towards to director. He was on pins and needles when Fury mentioned using Loki to power Tony's heart.
"I will not participate in some…some experiment that may endanger Tony! What if my magic does not satisfy your needs and he…" Loki looked back to Tony with a frown, he did not want to say the word and mumbled it angrily under his breath.
Tony:
Before Tony had the chance to stand up and retort at Fury, Tony only had the chance to raise to his feet and glare angrily at the director while Loki shouted at him. He was outraged himself, and instead of worrying about himself, he worried for Loki. He didn't want to endanger Loki, too, not knowing what exactly S.H.I.E.L.D would be putting Loki through.
"I don't approve of this, Fury. I won't allow you to treat Loki like he's some lab rat!" Tony had shouted afterwards, curling an arm over Loki protectively as he continued trying to stare down at Fury.
"We're not hearing it, you promised that you would send reports every day for us to keep track on Loki after you had dismantled the collar we put on him."
"The hell? I do send you reports every day!"
"'We fucked all day' isn't a proper report, Stark."
A snicker from Clint, that right bastard.
"But that's what we did!" Tony yelled, and it really was true.
"Enough. We're doing this whether you like it or not."
Loki:
Scientists came up behind Loki and he flinched, almost slicing one of them in half with a throwing knife. He tensed as a form fitting metal collar was latched onto his neck and when they cut the back of his shirt open so they could take it off. He felt needle like pricks embed themselves deep into the back of his neck.
"Hands. Off. Now!" The god barked at them angrily but he was held back by the feeling of needles penetrating into his spine, a wave of hot pain shooting up and down his back. Metal scale-like plating in a single column went down the back of Loki's spine. It looked like a thin metal spine with needles that held it in place by sticking its victim in the back. The largest needles were at the neck and the lower back by the tail bone. Loki's knees almost gave way when they shoved said needles into his lower back. He closed his eyes and grabbed for Tony but the scientists dragged the trickster to a metal observation table and made him lay down on his side. The inserted the cable link into the neck brace and outfitted them to some kind of pseudo-arc reactor that they placed in Tony's chest with a secondary power source until they could use Loki's magic. Tony sat down and Loki squeezed his hand. A nurse handed Loki a pillow and the god immediately rested his head down on it.
"All right, start her up." A scientist flipped a switch to disengage the secondary power. Tony's vitals suddenly went off the charts as he felt enormous chest pain. Another switch was flipped and Loki let out a choked gasp for air as his magic drained and the pseudo-arc reactor lit up. Tony's chest pain stopped but Loki was shivering.
Tony:
Tony watched painfully, feeling completely useless again for not being able to protect Loki. He hated this. He was strapped to another metal observation table himself, unable to do anything except watch from the corner of his eyes as the scientists pierced needles into Loki as they took out fixed cables into his arc reactor before they allowed him up to sit next to Loki. He fought back the sting of tears in his heart, wanting to beat himself up for being unable to do anything for his beloved. He was angry at SHIELD for wanting to experiment on both of them but not even bothering to create proper tools so that no one would be caused any pain through it. He held on tightly to Loki's hand murmuring apologies for having to put him through this because of his stupid job.
If it wasn't for him wanting to defend his people so badly, he would have long quit his work just so nothing like this would ever happen again. Tony then decided that he was going to make SHIELD give him a long vacation so that he could take Loki to Paris like in his dreams.
As the scientist flipped the switch, a pain like a pillar of swirling fire erupted in his chest and he fell from where he was seated onto the floor on his knees, still clasping tightly Loki's hand and not wanting to let go. After the other switch was flipped, the pain gradually faded away and Tony was able to go back up to his feet, but something was wrong. Terribly wrong.
"Stop, stop! Stop whatever you're doing now. Fuck, you're hurting him!" He cried out at the scientists, throwing his other arm up in the air. Tony turned back quickly to Loki, rubbing the god's hand to his own face. "Loki, love. Talk to me, are you okay?"
Loki:
Loki's eyes glowed green and he sighed. His vitals stabilized and he smiled up at Tony, cupping his loves face and kissing him.
"I am fine darling. Just a little unexpected how much this..thing needed to power your little reactor. I am just fine." Thor walked over and patted his brother on the shoulder and told him no to scare people like that. Loki just looked away and stuck his tongue out like a child.
They ran diagnostics, vital and body scans and took some blood samples from Loki who was now kind of bored with the whole thing. This felt like child's play. After an hour of monitoring they stopped and put Tony's arc reactor back into his chest and started hooking Loki up to something else. The god sat up quickly to protest.
"What is the meaning of this? I was only told I was to power Tony's reactor, nothing else." Thor agreed with his brother but both gods gave wide eyes when they wheeled in one of Tony's suits and started to hook Loki up to it.
"Now see here Fury," started Thor "I do not think it wise to do that. Even Stark runs out of energy to power that on occasion." There was a scoff from Tony as he put his shirt back on.
"We want to see how much power Loki can generate."
"Loki is not a battery."
"He sure has the power to be one with so much magic."
Thor and Fury had a stare down as Loki tried to edge away to Tony but was told to lay down. The god closed his eyes as they flipped switches and hooked up more cables to his neck. Then one final switch was flipped and Loki felt chills.
He immediately turned blue from head to toe, much to many of the Avengers surprise, and he shook. His entire body shivered. He tried to counter the feeling of his magic being drained but the suit took what Loki could dish out. That wasn't right, why was it taking so much energy? Surely this did not happen to Tony. Loki tried to fight back, his skin patching pale Aseir to Jotun blue as he fought an internal battle with his body. With eyes glowing green, the god of mischief unleashed as much power as he could manage. His grip on Tony's hand loosened and he choked on his own words.
"T-To….ny….!"
Tony:
While the scientists ran the diagnostics, Tony started to calm down, seeing Loki's vitals stabilize. He continued sitting by Loki, still holding his hand, as the hour passed. Finally, they fixed back the arc reactor into his chest. He heaved a sigh, glad that it was over before he saw that they were hooking Loki onto something else.
"What the fuck are you doing?" he started, but was ignored by the scientists as they continued with the process. He was once again glaring at Fury, angry to the point that he was shaking in his spot as they brought in one of his Iron Man suits.
"And how did you get that?" growled Tony, anger boiling in his veins. He was ignored as Thor confronted their director, and he knew he was being ignored because Fury knew that he was upsetting Tony and he didn't want to deal with it. Steve had tried to pat his shoulder and shake his head, telling him to not pick a fight, but Tony could see that Steve, Bruce, and even Clint and Natasha were somewhat angry at this. The little camping trip did warm them up somewhat to Loki after all. Tony was glad that he had such friends, and they were one of the few reasons he put up with SHIELD.
When the switches were all flipped, Tony panicked as he held on tighter to Loki who was shaking visibly until he started to change to his Jotun nature and his grip started to slip. Before Tony could rationalize his thoughts, he had ran up to one of the machines and switched all of them off quickly before he pounded his fist into one of the scientists repeatedly who was screaming apologies that it was not his fault and he was just following orders.
Steve and Clint had pulled him back as he continued fuming, now swearing loudly at Fury that this is too fucking much and I will get you for this!
Loki:
As soon as Tony flipped all the switches Loki immediately got off the table and stumbled to the ground. He reached back and ripped off the collar and his skin slowly turned back to a normal pale hue. Loki looked up at Fury with angry ears but Thor stood in front of the director and looked down at his brother, Mjolnir in hand and waiting.
"Calm down brother. Vent your anger by comforting Stark."
Loki slowly got onto his feet and called out to Tony. He cupped his face and made him look at his eyes.
"Calm down Tony. I am fine. Everything is all right. I am all right, please darling. See? I am back to normal. I am fine. I am still here."
Tony:
Even with deep breaths, Tony was struggling against Steve and Clint's grip, he really wanted to beat the crap out of Fury for having done such a thing to Loki.
"He could have died!" A yell ripping straight out of Tony's throat. Fury was now looking away, feeling bad. He had really stepped out of line and even the other Avengers were angry at him.
When Loki held his face and looked into his eyes, wet almost flooded into Tony's vision as he cupped Loki's face too but with shaky hands. He still felt useless, unable to stop SHIELD from doing such things to his lover time and time again.
Finally, he properly calmed down and turned around, his hand down holding Loki's. Without even so much as a glance at Fury, he walked out, pulling Loki along with him. "I'm not coming to work anymore."
Loki:
"But Tony…" Loki looked at Tony confused and surprised, "Darling, at least think it over…please I do not mind. I can handle your puny Midgardian technology…"
But before anyone else could get a word in Tony and Loki had gone home. The car ride back was silent as Tony held onto Loki's hand the whole way only parting briefly to get out of the car. Loki immediately headed for the bedroom where he gently tugged for Tony to lay next to him. Loki stroked Tony's face, from the man's temple to the bottom of his chin. Tony was wrapped around Loki, his face buried in the others chest.
"Please Tony, reconsider…"
Tony:
Once they were in bed, Tony wrapped his arms tightly around Loki, face pressed against the god's chest. He had calmed down, yes, but he was still upset at SHIELD for doing such a thing. He shook his head into Loki's chest in reply, not wanting to go back to his work. He was tired of them always taking advantage of Loki just because Loki was his lover. It wasn't fair, and Tony was starting to blame himself because of it.
"Let's go away," he mumbled, arms tightening further around Loki's waist. "Far away. I don't want to be here. Pep can handle Stark Industries. Maybe we can go to Paris, like in your dreams?"
Loki:
Loki gave a sad smile and kissed the top of Tony's head, nuzzled close and ran a hand up and down Tony's back.
"I will go where ever you go. We can do whatever you would like to do my love. Whatever you want."
The tired god looked down at Tony and smiles warmly, leaning down to kiss him properly. Loki managed to magic the covers over them. Just a blanket of fabric over them, separating them from the world. Loki scooted down to Tony's eye level and kissed him again, wrapping his arms around the other gently.