Falling bored only moments after Tony had slipped away to his lab Loki contemplated snatching up his husbands attention back to himself, the work was important even the prince could agree, but wasn’t he more important than all of it? Taking a timid step towards the stairs an annoying jingle erupted from his pocket. Loki grimaced at the noise, a noise Tony forced him to carry with him at all times. After a moment or two of starring at the glass screen Loki pushed to answer and heard the sultry voice on the other end, Louise had heard the couple were back in town and wanted her dear friends to tell her all about it. Loki explained Tony was engulfed in something incredibly dull as he described it. He could practically hear her smile on the other end
“I’ll grab the other’s and see you in twenty”
Shoving the phone back into his pocket Loki blew a kiss towards the direction of the lab and jogged for the stairs to their bedroom grabbing his leather jacket, and stealing a glance of himself in the mirror as he walked past. He noticed is hair was getting much longer than he remembered, and slicked the unruly ebony wires back into place. He heard the incessant knocking on the front door as Loki rummaged the kitchen for a snack. What he found was practically a meal meant for two. Stuffing the remainder of his sandwich in his mouth, and a chocolate bar in his jacket pocket Loki went to the door. Natasha leaned against the door frame, her sunglasses hanging off the end of her nose when she tilted her head down to look the god in the eyes without obstruction. Behind her he could see Louise in the driver seat of her Porsche and Betty behind her hanging out the window with a grin on her face
“Get in loser, we’re going shopping”
Betty giggled and earned a smirk from Louise. Loki slipped his hand around Natasha’s waste and tugged her toward the car with him. Slipping into the back next to Betty, Natasha pulled the seat back for Loki
“where to girls? I slipped this from Anthony”
holding up between his fingers was a platinum credit card, the girls hooted and howled at the sight
“Screw shopping lets go buy an island!”
Natasha said. Loki’s brow knotted in confusion as he looked back at the red head
“but we’ve already got two”
the agent shook her head starring back at the god
Louise shifted and set the car into a squealing motion out the driveway and onto the street, cutting off another car that honked and swerved to avoid hitting them. A short but dangerous car ride later they arrived at their destination, Rodeo drive. Loki had been once when Tony bought him his first wardrobe, Loki had contended it wasn’t necessary and that he could still have the use of his magic for clothing, but Tony insisted. Loki realized it was Tony’s way of showing the prince he could provide and protect in way’s Loki hadn’t thought about. Snapped out of his trip down memory lane, Natasha shook the seat
Loki visibly shook at the sound of his alter name used in such a way
“Yeah Nat it’s bash for short”
“Why do we need to call you Sebastian? It’s not as if hearing your name will set off some alarm. My friends dog is named Loki for god’s sake”
Loki’s head snapped in Natasha’s direction, his entire body turned around in the seat
“you people have named animals after me?”
the prince was genuinely insulted at the notion. A dog? Bearing his name?
“relax, it’s not like they named their horse after you”
Natasha stuck her tongue out at the god and dodged a swift swipe of Loki’s hand by crawling out on Betty’s side. Hearing the women laugh and tease made the god actually crack a smile himself
“Uh oh someone has a sense of humor hiding in there”
Betty jabbed as she peeked at Loki through the open door. The god bit his lip to hide the smile and slipped out the car, any hint of his smile gone as he adjusted his jacket. On the sidewalk Louise looped her arm with Loki’s
“so… Tell us, what’s new?”
Loki glanced at her from the corner of his eye, he could feel Betty and Natasha close behind him. He wondered what harm would really come of telling them exactly what had happened, surely Betty and Natasha were no strangers to the type of information he could share, minus of course the dragons. Especially Natasha had more secrets than one person should have in a single lifetime. Loki decided what they wanted to hear and what they should were two different things.
“well Anthony and I decided a second honeymoon was in order. We even invited a friend… or two”
he spoke smirking at the memory, of Tony’s forceful words in a distant tongue, how possessive he’d seen him act, and Loki loved it. Betty was quick at his side, holding onto his arm for eagerness and Loki sensed partially for balance. The prince spared no detail, Betty listened intently, Natasha zoned in and out but the flush on her cheeks told the prince she was very much present for the story than she allowed to let on, and Louise just smiled
Louise finally said through her scarlet lips that stayed up turned in her amusement
“I’m thoroughly jealous of your perfect marriage and now perfect sex life”
Loki shrugged, he knew what he had was anything but perfect, but there were times even he could be fooled into thinking it was. From store to store the foursome strolled, walking out with a bag or two, or in Natasha’s case one or six bags. When they passed a lingerie store Loki stopped and stared at the mannequin, her plastic figure showing the physique of the perfect body. The three stopped with him and admired the undergarments as well
“Yes. What is the reasoning behind this sort of garments? Tony stopped buying.. what are they called? Underwear, yes. He stopped buying those for me some time ago because I never wore them, I never saw the purpose. Your clothes hide anything that would be called publicly indecent, so what is the point?”
The girls glanced at each other and laughed
“Oh darling this sort of clothing holds many purposes. The most important of them all is that they don’t stay on very long”
“You think we we this for comfort?”
“It makes men go from intellectuals to down right primitive man”
Loki cocked his head interested
“and men likes this on women?”
Louise said bumping her hip giants Loki’s side, her eyebrow cocked up
Loki shook his head, his hands out
“I would look utterly ridiculous”
The three girls grabbed Loki by the arms and drug the god inside the shop. Pushing him into a dressing room the girls grabbed items off the rack and threw them over the door. Sitting on the plush couches outside the dressing room the girls waiting patiently. One by one Loki reluctantly walked out in each outfit, the girls would critic and change outfits around to match with a favorite item. At last the prince walked out confidently, a black leather waist cincher with emerald green front fastener’s that pulled the princes lithe form into a more accented structure. Black Satin underwear hung low, his pelvic bone showing just enough, and his garter belt fastened to black nylon thigh high’s.
“I shouldn’t be this attracted to a man in lingerie”
Natasha confessed, and Betty sat quiet.
Louise said standing up to examine to god closer
Betty finally spoke. The women looked at Loki’s feet that were obviously too large for any the store had available. Holding his finger to his lips Loki motioned for them to keep quiet, a mischievous smirk flashing across his lips as he bent over and waived his hand over his feet, the small build up of smoke clouding around his ankles then dissipating as quickly as it had arrived, revealing a pair of black stiletto pumps, with a green soul and a golden snake that wrapped around the heel. Natasha practically shoved Louise to the side
the women admired the footwear for a moment before Loki retreated to the dressing room to redress. With his outfit purchased and the women chatting about the different shoes Loki could potentially make for them they made a wrong turn some time ago and were no longer on rodeo drive. Louise sighed
“That’s LA for you, take a wrong turn from posh to poverty. We should go back”
Betty cling onto Natasha’s arm as they made the trek back. The agent looked down at the women annoyed
“really? You’re with a Legitimate Norse god and a world famous assassin, and you’re worried you’re gonna get mugged?”
she stated matter of factly. Walking past a tattoo parlor a man stepped out, leaning against the shop door. His head had been shaved, and face was the only visible part of his body that hadn’t been covered in ink. The man’s appearance instantly intrigued the prince
“You look like the type to get a rose, just above the ankle”
the man spoke in a harsh raspy tone towards Louise as she lead the group
“I’m more of the sailor anchor type honey, but I get paid to make sure I don’t”
The man chuckled, hacking up something and spat it out on the sidewalk
As the girls started to walk on Loki stood starring into the shop. There was a man on his stomach on a bed like surface, and another man sat beside him hunched over his back, and a buzzing was coming from inside. Without speaking another word Loki pushed himself inside the shop and stared at all the art work on the walls.
“What is it you do here?”
the rough looking man that had spoken to Louise sat down behind the counter
“tattoos, can’t you see that?”
Loki repeated the word, it felt and sounded strange which only invoked his curiosity further. The girls came rushing in not long after the prince, the girls huddling around him. Louise explained what a tattoo was and how it worked, it sounded vaguely familiar to a ritual for warriors but not to the extent that the art would last forever.
“What would you even get?”
Natasha pointed out a second time
“I am aware Natasha, and there is something that will be a part of me forever. It’s almost a poetic symbolism to express the one thing that will forever have an effect on my past, present, and future”
Betty covered her mouth to keep from squealing, Louise held her hand over her heart and sigh with a smile, Natasha rolled her eyes
Loki tried explaining to the artist exactly how he wanted his tattoo to look, when the artist explain he didn’t know ancient norse writing and that he would have to provide a photo. Loki irritably snatched a piece of paper from the desk and drew a series of the most elegant letters. The old letters spelt out Anthony’s name, he wanted it to be a part of him. Pointing to his left shoulder Loki laid face down, and waited. The prince knew he wouldn’t feel a thing, but pretended to hiss uncomfortably every so often when the needle hit his ivory skin. Finished Loki looked in the mirror, the black bold letters printed proudly on his shoulder, the prince caressed his fingers over the lettering and smiled fondly.
As the girls dropped Loki off first the girls hooted and whistled, making crude jokes of his obvious night with Tony that was to commence. Before the car pulled away Betty stated loudly
Natasha said. then the car peeled away. Into the home Loki tip toed to the stairs and listened, he could her music emanating up the stairs, and the sound of power tools drowning out the words but not the beat of the music. Shaking his head Loki looked in the kitchen, Tony had clearly not eaten the entire day. Fixing up dinner Loki placed the food, water, an a fresh cup of coffee to keep Tony awake on a tray and placed the tray at the bottom of the stairs. The prince watched his husband work, his beautiful hands covered in grease and muck of a long day’s work. The back of his shirt soaked through, and forehead marked with black from his hands wiping away the sweat. His engineer in his element, building and creating, his brilliant mind working. Loki kissed his fingers and pressed them to the glass before he retreated back up the stairs.
The second day Loki kept himself busy throughout the morning, making sure Tony was fed, as well as himself and Eponine, who curled herself around his ankle with every chance she had. She missed him as much as he missed her darling little face. Plucking the growing kitten Loki place her over his shoulder, her paws used to only touch the either side of his shoulder, but now dangled down his back.
Once night fell Loki grew impatient, Tony hadn’t even come up for bed. The prince did not agree to that, work yes fine, please spend your days mulling around in your confines, but the nights belonged to him. Heading up to the bedroom Loki took the bag filled with his prior day shopping spree into the bathroom. In the bedroom the prince neatly displayed four ropes on the bed, then left to deal with his handy work of luring the engineer out of his lab and up the stairs.
Not much to Loki’s surprise his husband needed little inspiration to throw down his tools. Rushing into the bathroom the prince made a quick wardrobe change, he could hear Tony’s footsteps into the room. Making final adjustments in the mirror the prince slicked his hair back and smiled back at himself. Stepping out of the bathroom the effects were instant, the engineer could barely utter a single word. Strutting to the end of the bed where Tony sat, Loki curled his long fingers around the neck of his husbands shirt and gently pulled him to his feet. Leaning down the prince left a soft kiss on the engineers lips, Tony instinctively closed to eyes, expecting more than the brush of a rose pedal on his mouth, but the prince pulled away, admiring Tony’s face at such proximity. Shifting back Loki knelt before his husband, Tony opened his eyes and looked down at the prince bewildered
Loki hushed the man with a low ‘shhh’
“I am selfish for your touch, I need your hands on me as you do when you work. You examine every detail”
Loki took his husbands hand into his, resting his cheek against his palm, and nuzzling like a touch deprived animal
“I want you to look at me with such exquisite detail, and don’t stop until you’ve memorized every last inch”
The panther looked up with burning green eyes, with a plea behind them that begged Tony to do what he willed. Loki hopped Tony could read his message clearly.
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