Prompt Post No. 2
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"When the sun rose we would have to run back to our beds so that the maid would not find us missing, but not before we'd gotten all the hay from our hair. We'd run our fingers through each others hair, half asleep, combing it loose. I never said how much I liked it." His thick fingers slide through his brother's dark hair easily and Loki made that purring noise again.
"When will it wear off?" Steve asks.
Tony purses his lips, it's a good question. He tips his head from side to side like he's doing complex calculations. It goes on long enough that it becomes absurd, and then a little longer. "I don't know," he says finally. "See that's the thing about an experiment."
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The writers of Norse mythology believed that earthquakes were caused when Loki, bound to the earth by the entrails of his children, writhed in anguish as the poisonous venom of a snake dripped onto his bared flesh.
And really they were kind of right. If you stick only to the bits about Loki, bound, writhing and bared flesh. And added an enthusiastic Thor.
Tony Stark is amazed his house is still standing and is not too surprised to discover the Governor of California would like to have a word about the very mild, but hour long earthquake felt by seventy percent of the greater Los Angeles area.
"My scientists tell me that your house happened to be the exact epicenter of the quake."
Tony takes a second to mull over how to reply before deciding to play dumb. "Did they?"
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When he gets home, Tony changes out of his suit into a t-shirt and jeans, steps out onto his patio and pops the cap off a beer. With all the time he spent yesterday answering questions and not being congratulated on saving the world he forgotten to congratulate himself on a job well done. He reclines back in one of his deck chairs and stretches his legs out in front of him.
Nearby Loki stands in the middle of the neat strip of grass between Tony's pool and the edge of the cliff his property is built on. Behind him, Thor drops to a crouch and launches himself at his brother's back. He doesn't seem at all surprised that instead of tackling Loki to ground he flies straight through him. Loki's double disappears, but Thor has gotten hold of the real Loki's ankle and is dragging him out from under the giant fern he'd been hiding behind. Thor laughs in triumph while Loki scrabbles frantically at the grass.
"Behold Loki!! God of chaos, the terror of Asgard."
Steve stands rigid as a sentry beside him, looking concerned. "I'd like to think that even you can't be so unflappable. This isn't even a little bit strange to you?"
Loki, nearly pinned, wraps his legs around Thor's waist and tries to kick him off. He doesn't succeed at much beyond rubbing himself against his brother a bit lewdly against his brother but neither of them seems much bothered by that fact.
"Strange?" Tony takes a thoughtful sip of his beer. "You know, I'd say it's strange but I'd be saying it to a previously frozen super soldier. I'm not sure we get to call people strange."
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