Fifty

I awoke as sunlight streamed through the window. Loki still lay on my chest. I pulled the few strands of hair away from his face. I ran circles along his back with my fingertips. He moaned softly in his sleep. My phone buzzed and lit up. I answered it without looking at the caller ID.

"Stark? Good you're awake." It was the fucking super solider. "Avengers meeting in two hours. We need to know where we stand about this threat Loki mentioned. And the fact no ones had contact with him since. Be on time." He hung up. I rolled my eyes and looked at the time. Two hours…how could I spend that time.

I kissed Loki's forehead. He fluttered his green eyes open and smiled. He leaned up and kissed me.

"Morning, love bug." I smiled at him. "Sleep better?"

"Hmm..yes. Why are you up so early?"

"Watching you sleep. I ever tell you how beautiful you are when you're asleep?" He gave me a look.

"Really?"

"No, Captain stupid pants wants a meeting in two hours regarding the threat to earth, and your failure in communication with the Avengers." I rolled my eyes again.

"I should correct that. You want me to make a huge surprise entrance? Smash through a window?" He offered.

"No, then Hulk may have to smash you into the floor again. I just had that floor fixed." I teased. He hit me with a pillow.

"I am not looking forward to seeing the people who tried to kill me."

"I know. I'm not looking forward to having to pretend I hate you." I sighed. He snuggled into me more. "I had a bunch of questions I wanted to ask you."

"Hmmm?" He questioned into my stomach.

"I wanted to wait until we had more time. Then I was locking us in here until I know everything, and there will be no more arguments."

"If that's the case I ask for a similar arrangement. I want to know everything about you." Loki looked up, his chin in my chest.

"I won't hold back if you don't." I smirked.

"Why don't we do this now, we have some time."

"Because I'm afraid it'll either turn into a fight where we try to kill each other or into some incredible sex." He laughed at me.

"Now, that's not a bad idea." Loki said kissing my abs, moving to straddling me.

I walked with a slight limp into my meeting fifteen minutes late. I didn't care if I got screamed at, it was worth it.

"Stark!" Steve screamed…I just smiled slyly at him and took a seat next to Bruce who gave me a slight punch in the arm.

"I'm glad you and Lana made up." He leaned over and whispered to me while Steve droned on about training sessions.

"So am I." I beamed. I really didn't care if I had an after sex glow. I wanted the world to know I had just made love to the most wonderful person in the world. Rhodey eyed me suspiciously.

"As I was saying, S.H.I.E.L.D. is no longer. Anything we do it's to protect the Earth. We do have some help from what remains of S.H.I.E.L.D. Ladies and gentlemen may I reintroduce Agent Phil Coulson." Steve announced. I sat up shocked to see my old friend alive. Loki had killed him while trying to escape the hellicarrier during the attack on New York. I had seen his body. The reaction around the room was generally the same. I added this to my list of things to ask Loki.

"Son of Coul! You live, mine brother did not slay you!" Thor pulled him into a bear hug. Coulson looked very uncomfortable.

I felt a hand along my back. Lana leaned in.

"You forgot your coffee, darling." She cooed. I thought I saw the hint of shock at Coulson's being alive. "Just focus on me for the next part." She whispered to me as she withdrew. I smiled, thinking of this morning.

The room filled with a black mist. I coughed and grabbed for Lana to protect her. The room erupted into a lot of coughing. The mist cleared and Loki stood at the end of the table in full battle gear and his horned helmet. I tried not to let confusion cross my face as I held a visibly shaken Lana. I added this as another thing to ask him. This list was getting long.

"Mortals," he addressed us. "Thor." He sneered.

"Brother." Thor set agent Coulson down and stood in front of him. "What news have you?"

"As I have stated to the man of iron, Thanos believes there to be an infinity stone here on Midgard. I offer an alliance to help defeat my former…master." Loki spoke firmly and eloquently.

"I believe you, brother. I am familiar with Thanos and his quest for the stones. The Allfather has hidden the Tesseract well. The Aether was taken off Asgard to safe holding. There are no stones on Midgard." Thor explained.

"Do not call me brother. I am not your brother." Loki sneered at Thor.

"Okay, if we call a truce, don't kill each other! It sounds like we'll need both of you to save the planet this time." I spoke. Lana shot me a glare.

"If you want to defeat your former master, why did you attack earth a year and a half ago?" Natasha spoke carefully.

"I was forced. As payment for Thanos saving me from the void. I had no choice."

"There is always a choice, brother." Thor tried.

"Which is why I didn't kill you then and why I'm helping now. I only wanted escape, now I want revenge." Loki growled. He was suddenly hot, I felt the tight restriction in my pants suddenly. Lana felt it too and pinched me hard.

"What happened to you?" Thor murmured.

"And what do you suggest we do, in preparation?" Natasha again.

"Train." Steve interjected. "We need to work together as a team. You included Loki." Steve ground out the last words.

"And why would we want him here?" Hawkeye eyed Loki with discern.

"We need to know his abilities, his powers. Like it or not Clint, he's part of our team now. And I think we need to extend an invitation to allow him to stay here." Steve tried to reason. Lana pinched me again causing me to stand. She caught her self and stood behind me.

"What!" I covered. "We can't let reindeer games stay here! What if this is just a plot to kill us all?"

"If I wanted you dead, you'd be dead already!" He screamed in my general direction. He couldn't seem to bring his eyes to meet mine. Lana was running a hand up my bare back underneath my shirt.

"Jane and I will allow him to share our floor." Thor announced.

"I will come and go as I please. I do not need any one of you trying to kill me as I sleep." Loki settled. He disappeared into the mist again.

"Well," Steve spoke. "Everyone finish settling in, we'll begin training on Monday, nine in the morning sharp. Stark, you're late again, you're running laps." I sulked. I hated mornings. The meeting broke and Steve disappeared out the door followed by Natasha looking to see if anyone noticed. Lana followed them quietly.

"Is that you and Lana waking us up last night? I think we're a floor below you." Rhodey approached me.

"That's you and Pepper down there? I thought we were keeping Clint awake." I smiled and made a mental note to install sound proofing as soon as possible.

"I don't know what kind of kinky shit you're into with her, but keep it down." He said walking off.

"Tony."

"Bruce." I pulled him into an embrace. I missed my science buddy.

"Is there a lab here?" He questioned

"Is there a lab here? You're hilarious. Follow." I grabbed his arm and led him to the elevator. "Jarvis, lab."

"So…"

"So?"

"Lana can't seem to keep her hands off you."

"I know." I smiled. "If I didn't have to be down here for meetings, we'd never leave the bedroom."

"That's a bit too much information." Bruce flushed red. "Are you continuing working on the drone project?"

"I haven't decided."

"I'll help if you start it back up."

"Thanks." We arrived in the gigantic lab. Dum-E perked up and wheeled over to us. "Yes Dum-E, I missed you too." I petted the mechanical arm affectionately. Bruce walked around in awe.

"This is wonderful! This is beyond wonderful!"

"And you have access to it at all times." I shoved my hands in my jeans pockets looking smug.

"You know I'm never going to leave. You should have shown me this yesterday."

"I've got one more thing to show you." I said. Bruce raised an eyebrow at me. We returned to the elevator. "Jarvis, basement."

"You've only been gone a few weeks, where did you find time to do all this?"

"When you have money, people do amazing things for you." I shrugged.

"Like Lana?"

"No! She's not with me for my money. She's a kindred spirit. We're a lot alike." I sighed.

"You love her don't you?"

"Yes. We're here." The elevator opened on a large empty room. Bruce looked confused. "The entire room is Hulk proof. While we're training, you have someplace to be until you return to yourself."