A life together

A New Enemy

Since that night full of revelations, Loki clung to Tony as much as he could. He went everywhere with him, always disguised as someone else. This time, he was a tan-skinned woman with dark curly hair.

"You're ogling him," Pepper said.

"Can you blame me? Look at him"

Tony was boxing with Happy in the ring and Loki couldn't take his eyes off him. Partly because he was afraid that he would collapse on the spot and partly because he looked damn hot.

"Ew, no thanks. Now Happy... that sounds more likely."

"Now I am the one who has to say ew. Wait, Happy? Really?", Pepper blushed slightly. "What am I saying? Of course you like Happy. How did I not notice before?"

Her friend's laugh was interrupted by a red-haired woman entering the training room.

"The notary's here! Tony, can you please come sign the transfer paperwork?"

"I'm on Happy time," he replied. He then elbowed his bodyguard in the face and Loki had to suppress a laugh.

"What the hell was that?"

"It's called mixed martial arts. It's been around for three weeks."

"It's called dirty boxing, there's nothing new about it"

"As there is nothing new in him playing dirty", added the god.

"Hey! None of that. You are supposed to be on my team", Loki shrugged. "Honestly, no one is ever on my side in these kinds of discussions. All right, put them up. Come on."

The notary, who until now had been subtly observing everything, approached Pepper to make her sign some papers about the change of command in the company.

In the ring, Tony had been distracted looking at him, and he knew it, so he looked back with intensity and sent him a wink. This made Happy smack him on the head to get him out of his trance.

"That's it. I'm done. What's your name, lady?"

"Rushman. Natalie Rushman"

"Huh, okay come here. Happy is gonna teach you some moves"

Thus, Tony left the ring and Natalie came in to replace him. Pepper was muttering something between the lines of 'I can't believe you just did that' and Loki just frowned and focused on their new guest. There was something about that woman that he didn't like.

"Pep, Who is she?" He said sitting between his friend and his boyfriend.

"She is from legal. And she is potentially the reason Loki is gonna kick your ass if you keep looking at her like that"

Tony looked at him seriously, "I don't like her babe, I'm just curious because I've never seen her before"

"I know that, Anthony. If I thought you were ogling her we would not be talking right now," he laughed. "But there is something off about that woman."

"Let's see. How do I spell your name, Natalie?"

"R-U-S-H-M-A-N.", She then, in a single movement, left Happy lying on the ground.

"What, are you gonna google her now?"

"I thought I was ogling her. Wow. Very, very impressive individual", he says looking at the information displayed on the computerized table. "She's fluent in French, Italian, Russian, Latin. Who speaks Latin?"

"No one speaks Latin. It's a dead language. You can read Latin or you can write Latin, but you can't speak Latin."

"I can speak Latin"