Prompt Post No. 2
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He decides to be completely honest with Loki, because hey, that's what spouses are supposed to do, right?
Loki looks at him with half-lidded green eyes, the look of cold, defensive puzzlement.
"Divorce? Breaking the tie of marriage? I… thought I was doing well, as your spouse.", he says, and Tony sees him grip at the edge of their sofa in fear and pain. He sighs, pinching the bridge of his nose - he had not done well, explaining what he meant at all. So he gets on his knees in front of Loki (his god, he would laugh if his heart wasn't tearing apart from the sheer torture this was) and holds his hands in his.
"Yes, you were. You are amazing, both as a person and as a spouse, but… I can't possibly be who you want for yourself. Loki, I die before you've huffed twice. And I know it hurts you that they don't know, don't -" he says as that silvertongue flicks to answer, " - try to deny it, please. It shouldn't be that big of a thing, since we were not married asgardian style, right?"
He sees him bite a thin lip, looking away.
"… I'll think about it."
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this story is so simple and yet has nearly brought me to tears to many times already, i love you
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"Tony," says Steve one morning, and he looks up to see the rest of the Avengers gathered - including Thor - looking at him sitting at his bar in yesterday's suit, one hand still around the bottle of vodka though he fell asleep, "What's wrong with you? You've been… so down for days now."
Ironman really wishes he could say 'I'm divorcing Loki and it's killing me', but he can't, and decides to drop his head back without an answer onto his arm, turning away. He forgets he placed the ring on the bar last night, and is too late turning around when Natasha picks it up and says:
"Martial problems, if I were to guess.", in that cold manner of hers, handing the ring to Steve, the others craning their necks in disbelief.
"Give that back.", he says, maybe a bit too defensively, but Thor fixes him to his chair with a single icy look. He tries to tell himself that Thor can't read minds, that he does not know anything about Loki… unless his spouse decided to tell how badly he was being treated, in which case, he is a dead man.
"Is this really yours? But, who is she? And why didn't you say anything?" Steve says in wonder, perhaps a bit of hurt.
"Come on guys, it is not our business who he marries. We might be comrades, but that's really a private thing." (Thank the lord of engineering for Bruce, and Natasha who nods - she probably couldn't care less.)
"Tony Stark, this is most offensive of you, my friend; I would have thought that our comradeship and friendship warranted at least the good news, if not the celebrities."
"He has told you nothing, for I asked him to, brother." says Loki in his quiet, gentle voice, standing a bit back from the group of heros.
And now he is a dead man. (Though he must admit the look on his friends' faces as they turn around is rather priceless, and would he be fearing less for his physical well-being and not feeling like something nasty on the bottom of a shoe, he'd laugh at the sight.)
"What?!", Thor says, whirling back and forth between the two of them, "What?! You married… when? And why did you not inform me?!"
"Oh please, just because you are a crown-prince, not everything is your business, Thor. I am more than of legal age to marry." Loki says with a roll of his eyes and crosses his arms, and Ironman can see a brotherly yelling match coming which is really, really not helping the situation. He decides to try and explain the whole story instead, and moves to stand.
Suddenly, Tony has a scary looking asgardian big brother looming over him.
"Did you elope with my brother and soil his honor, Stark?"
Where he not kidnapped, car-batteried and faced numerous threats before, he just might have soiled himself (instead of Loki's honor).
"That's… not exactly what happened. I mean, it was legal and everything, it just so happened that… it was improvised and… without much ado."
"Improvised?", Thor grits between his teeth, and the running-on-the-bifrost-bridge scenario is crystal clear before his eyes, "Are you implying he isn't worthy of a royal bride price?"
"What…? Bride price?"
Thor grabs his hammer.
The yells of 'Of course he is worthy of a bride price!', 'Don't you dare, brother!' and a couple of 'Stop, Thor!'-s make so much noise, that Pepper actually runs in from the front door.
"What's going on?"
"He hath eloped with my little sibling, the dog, and without bride price, and morning-gift too, surely!"
"Well, he had not received any dowry from me either!" Loki snaps at him, and this at least makes the blond put down his weapon, which in turn lets Steve move away from covering his millionaire friend (which in turn grants Tony some air to breathe). " And I have a splendid morning gift, if you must know. Not that there is any reason for you to care; I am but a Jotunn."
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Loki seems to think about this, eyes shifting sideways to the ground. Quiet settles in the room until he speaks again in that quiet, gentle voice of his that Tony loves.
"It was my fault, and I had asked to keep it a secret, especially from you, brother. He's been most kind to me, and complied with my wishes, even when it hurt him to remain silent; really, he has pampered me these last six months."
"SIX months?!"
Oh boy. He needs another shot of vodka.
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"I want you to know that I forgive you, Tony Stark." Thor says a week or so later, after a bizarre case of evil has been defeated and Ironman is making coffee so that he can stay awake at his board meeting. "You are a good husband to my brother, and sought only to make him happy."
"Yes. That's why he should be leaving me."
"What? What nonsense is that, my friend?"
Tony stops in his search for sugar - it's his kitchen dammit, why do his stuff keep reorganizing themselves - and clears his throat so his voice won't shake. (Because this is manly man Thor after all, and at the moment, still his brother-in-law.)
"You live so much longer; it seems pointless hurt for him."
Thor gives him a sort of patronizing look, putting a hand on his shoulder as he lifts the sugar from a place Tony would have never thought to look.
"Marriage is gift between two kindred souls, eternal in that time, place and age do not matter to it; it is a fated connection."
(le fin)
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If two stand shoulder to shoulder against the gods,
Happy together, the gods themselves are helpless
Against them while they stand so. ~Maxwell Anderson
Tony hears the clang of his suit and the beating of his heart in his ears as he runs across the damn rainbow bridge; Loki keeps whirling around on his back to look for signs of Thor.
"I think that trap of yours worked." he says to him in a still sort of panicky voice, hands tightening their hold.
"Let's hope he falls for your clones too. Where do you think…. where will we land?"
"New Mexico."
Tony supresses a scream of rage.
"Why is my house in Malibu?!"
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Best. Marriage fill. EVER. So clever, so adorable, and so heart-wrenchingly sweet. I feel like proposing marriage to this fill myself!
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(You shall have to battle for the fill's hand with Thor, so be careful! >D)
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i love this fic, i love this fic so damn fucking much
i also feel guilty because i CRAAAVE for more
damn you author, damn you for your amazingness!
love,
me
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I am most humbled by your high opinion of me, but truly, I am undeserving of such love. It is my happiness that my writing should bring enjoyment to your life, perhaps I shall try this feat again sometime later. Till then, let us spread the love that is the ship of Tony/Loki.
Love,
The Author
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