"You don't have to leave at all. You can live here with me, you know."
"I can't stay forever, Tony. If I did, one day I'd wake up, come to my senses, and realize you're gone." A faraway look came to Loki's eyes, a sadness crossing his face. For a moment he looked many centuries older and much wiser. He bore the face of one who'd seen a thousand battles and millions of stars. "If I stayed here forever, I'm sure this building would turn to dust before I could."
"No way. All we have to do is zap over to Mordor, get your magic mojo back, zip back here, and just live."
"Just live. Surely we have a greater purpose than to just breathe, Tony?"
"We'll figure it out on the way." Tony shrugged. "Point is, why not Loki? Though you're old as dirt, one day I'll be dirt, yadda yadda, at least you could spend a small segment of your life without too much worry? I mean, you could just sit back, live with me and have fun. And maybe in a hundred years you can look back and just smile. It's better to have had something than nothing at all."
"You're so strange, Stark." Loki couldn't help but give him a small smile. "So weird."
"Psh, I'm not a goat who wears my mother's drapes."
Loki took one of Tony's pawns with his black queen, smiling smugly to himself. Tony had been getting harder to beat, but now the frost giant was starting to reclaim the winner spot. He stretched his legs out some more on the bedroom floor and pulled his iron man bed sheet closer around his body.
"Baaa," he said in response. "Though I'm pretty sure these would be referred to as your drapes."
"What?" Tony squawked at the other side of the board. The hypocrite was also wrapped in a bed sheet, this one a different version of Loki's. "They came from your bed. They are yours."
"Your house, your property. Your drapes."
"I do agree with your guest, sir." JARVIS chirped in for good measure. Tony made his move his move in a huff, which opened him up for Loki to call check on him.
"Check. Do you have a more solid plan for Banner?"
"It's been three days. I have a plan." Tony grumbled, moving his king over just for Loki to call check again. "We start out with me personally picking him up from the airport. We exchange small talk, he strokes my ego, we bro-fist and move on."
"And then?"
"We go to a cafe and I talk. I give him a run-down on what's going on and give him a chance to calm down. Bruce is a pretty calm guy, there's a huge chance he won't call SHIELD, especially if they have been on his trail for a while. And he'll have a cup of tea which will keep him from hulking out."
"Wait, Tony." Loki twirled his queen in his hands, delaying his turn. "You say SHIELD has been closely monitoring him for a while? Wouldn't having him here lead them to me?"
"I was thinking about that," Tony admitted. "But I think it should be fine. If Bruce was able to call me earlier on, my guess is they let up some. He wouldn't try to contact anyone, he's that paranoid. Plus I have the highest security in the world. Better than SHIELD, cause' I work so damn hard on it. We should be fine."
"Mhmm." Loki mumbled, still not entirely convinced.
"If Fury gets too close to my system, I'll just have JARVIS send him a nasty little virus. Their system will be shut down in five minutes tops and some pretty embarrassing videos of some agents will spread through the organization. I got some pretty good dirt on them thanks to JARV."
"Fine. But why is SHIELD tracking him in the first place? What exactly happened?"
"They try to keep tabs on me too, you know." Tony couldn't escape Loki's queen. He paused for a moment to see if he could worm his way out of it. "Not only does Bruce have The Other Guy but he also is a pretty smart guy. The try to make sure he doesn't turn green and level out a city. But they also try to make sure his experiments aren't too big. They poke their noses in too far though and try to steal his stuff. Same thing with my technology. It gets so annoying. We value our privacy, thank you."
"So is that why you need special clearance to visit your lab?"
"Wait," Tony made his move and frowned. "You...tried to go into my lab?"
"Only once, I'm sorry for trying to intrude," Loki shrugged. "I thought you were aware? JARVIS told me he informed you. It frightened me so I went back to my room."
"JARVIS, you're an ass." Tony yelled towards the ceiling before letting out a light chuckle. "You're fine Loki. JARV was just being an ass and pranking you. Not a big deal, but yeah...my lab is kind of my personal space. But you do have clearance to go in there. He just has to tell me when you're near it."
"I see. Anyway, what was the rest of your plan?"
"When that's all covered and dandy, you two will talk like grown men, sort out whatever past beef you got, then we give each other a friendship bracelet and go on with our mediocre lives."
A/N: Sorry for the late! Here, have some OOC goodness, "fluff", some calm before the storm, or whatever you kids are calling it nowadays. Thank you~