Spooky Action at a Distance | Frostiron

Things Are Looking Up

A.N- just wanted to pop here and say thank you to everyone who's reading and interacting with this. I don't know how it's just suddenly gotten so much attention but it means the absolute world, thank you so much!! I hope you enjoy!

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Tony could see his lover deteriorate with each passing minute. He felt awful, why, he didn't know, but he felt guilty. Maybe it was because he ignored all of the warning signs. Maybe it was because instead of talking about it, he just yelled. Loki had said that it was okay, but Tony disagreed. He thought he should've been nicer. Then again, Steve was right. Emotions came into it. Tony wanted nothing more than to come up with some miracle cure to end the god's suffering, but he knew that that was unlikely to happen, no matter how smart he was. So he was just going to support his soulmate endlessly, no matter what.

"Favourite colour?" Tony asked the god.

They were both sat at the island in the kitchen, eating the ramen they'd made. Loki was string better at cooking, the mechanic noticed. He found it stupidly adorable. Loki was picking at his food, but Tony assumed that that was down to nausea. Hopefully, anyway. He didn't want to blatantly ask, but he was worried.

"Gold," Loki replied with a smile. "And yours?"

"Green," Tony answered with no hesitation.

They both smiled at each other, both wondering when they became so romantic. Loki loved gold, yes, but he loved it even more because he associated it with Tony. Sure, there was red, but red was too close to Thor. Tony loved green, but he especially loved it because it reminded him of Loki. Neither thought that they'd ever become that infatuated with anyone, but there they were.

"What is your favourite food?" Loki asked.

They were playing what Tony had called 'twenty one questions'. Loki understood the purpose, but thinking of relevant questions was confusing. What counted as a personal question? Was there anything that was too personal? He game confused the god.

"Ooooh... Probably pizza. Pepperoni, maybe. All pizza is good pizza," Tony replied. "Yours?"

"Possibly tomato pasta." Loki shrugged, making Tony smile. Loki was much more romantic than the god wanted to admit.

"How did you get your powers?" Tony asked, taking Loki by surprise.

"Frigga gave me some of her seidr as a base and that allowed me to expand it, making it into my own," Loki explained. "She taught me a lot of what I know. She's incredibly gifted, perhaps the strongest magic wielder's on Asgard. I truly learnt from the best."

Tony took some time to think over what Loki said. He didn't understand magic at all. When he asked Stephen, he just had a sharp 'it's science that you don't understand' in reply. Stephen wasn't much help. Loki seemed like he had enough of an understanding Enough to be able to work science with magic, anyway.

Tony couldn't help but think about what they could do if they mixed science with magic, or if Tony could comprehend the mechanics of magic enough for it to become science. If Ultron would have been better with magic involved. What their new workings would be like with magic. Stephen said he could put defences around them to keep them safe and Loki said he could hide them, make them invisible to everything. That was perfect for what they wanted. But what if it didn't work?

"What's seidr?" Tony asked curiously. "And how does it work? How do you grow it?"

"Seidr is a form of magic, one drawn from Yggdrasil," Loki replied. "It's grown by learning more about it, learning spells. Anyone can wield it, so long as they can harness the power of Yggdrasil. Though harnessing too much of its energy can cause madness. It's a powerful energy, it's important to know one's limits when wielding it."