TITLE: a study in idiot {act xiv;tell it from the beginning, idiot}
AUTHOR: Pepperrrr
RATING: PG
PAIRING: Tony Stark & Loki Laufeyson
WARNINGS: drinking, a back-in-time chapter!, vowen17 will recognize this, hooray
P.O.V: Third person.
DATE WRITTEN: i don't know but it was after writing the first few chapters kdfjksdlj
SUMMARY: He was even starting to like the way Loki called him 'idiot'.
AUTHOR NOTES: this chapter is before all the other chapters. it's their beginning and such.
INTRODUCTION: Idiot. The word idiot is used to imply that one is stupid, daft or dumb. Some people use it as a term of endearment. Loki is one of those people. He uses the word idiot as freely as Tony drinks.

This is a collection of times Loki called Tony 'Idiot'.

Tony woke all of a sudden. Why ugh it's too late or early for this shit lucidity just go away ugh. He opened his eyes and rubbed them, groggily sitting up. And then he noticed a darkness in the corner of his eye. He woke up real good then and he looked straight on at the figure.

"Mister Loki Laufeyson is here sir." JARVIS alerted, and Tony almost threw something. Well fucking duh JARVIS wow what an observation you think you could have done it any later sheesh.
"Gee yeah thanks JARVIS." He scoffed, and locked eyes with the god of mischief who simply stood illuminated by the bedroom window.

"I mean no harm, Stark." Loki said and Tony had every right to be skeptical.
"Yeah that sure is a nice window that you'd probably like to throw me out of huh." The inventor laughed mirthlessly, though he was a bit amused by the way Loki just threw him out of a window. It was unexpected and terrifying but really kind of hilarious once looked back upon.

And it made one hell of a joke starter.
"Actually not. I came to you tonight to tell you i've surrendered." What no fucking way yeah right. Tony blinked and went to say something but- "Only to you. And I would like that drink now."

...Yeah Tony could have a drink right now too. Like.. five hundred. He looked up at Loki's green eyes
(which needed to make up their minds if eyes have minds of course because weren't they blue last time?)

and thought no five hundred drinks were not enough for this shit. But anyway Tony surrendered a little too. He'd get the evil bastard a drink whatever fine.
"Could you let me get dressed and out of bed real quick and not kill me you know..?" Tony said rather mushed-up and Loki grinned.

The god bowed slightly. "Of course. I shall be waiting." And then he disappeared. And Tony could have punched himself through a wall. He just let the evil god of mischief go free.

He got dressed and he walked into the living room, and turned his head to see if- yUP Loki was right there leaning against the bar. And the god of lies actually told the truth. What. This had to be a dream.

And so he ended up having a drink with the god of lies, chaos, mischief, and god knows what else the man controlled. And Loki would come to him many nights, randomly. He shared drinks with the god each time and they talked. After a year of drinking and confessing and narrowly-escaping, Tony was hiding Loki in the tower. After a few more months, Loki was almost a completely permanent resident of any of Tony's homes.

Any and all of them, even. All across America and anywhere Tony bought himself a fucking house because he felt like having lots of houses. That's how Tony Stark rolls. Fer realz. And he did this because he really did like Loki, even if it was just a little bitty bit when he first found out that hey, Loki is real, and he's trying to subjugate the planet have fun.

But now he liked Loki a lot. Like, a lot a lot. Especially that stupid laugh. I mean, what the fuck even is that laugh anyway? Who laughs like that?

He was even starting to like the way Loki called him 'idiot'. It was rude, but Tony didn't care, because he had learned to tell a real insult from ..well, what that was. But you could say Tony Stark and Loki Laufeyson were dating. But if you did, they would deny it adamantly. Because a hero doesn't date a villain.

But he does offer his houses and all his belongings to the villain.

this should have been first, i know i'm sorryyyyy but i got asked how they got together and this happened