Behind The Mischief

chapter 14

when bruce went to go find tony, he was mumbling things that made no sense which only further worried them all, Natasha, bucky, and peter all came in sweaty. probably morning training "Mr. Stark?" peter called out softly, voice filled with worry, and rushed to his father figure's side

"What happened?" he demanded rhodey yet again, to which he just sighed in return "kid.." he really didn't know how to explain it to him and peter understood and didn't question any further seeing how distressed he was as well

instead, he focused on tony "Mr stark? hey hey hey Mr stark...it's ok..what happened?" he asked him gently, holding his hands in his and squeezing them slightly which brought him out of his panicked state. and when his eyes fell on peter he immediately nuzzled his face into his neck, and Peter knew what was happening, he's known tony for long enough to what this meant

"shhhh...its not your fault...it's not...do you hear me? not your fault tony" he only calls him tony in situations like this, he started threading his fingers through his hair. calming him greatly "it's my fault..I should have noticed" he sobbed into his shirt but peter took no notice. solely focused on his father

everyone just watched at how well peter could take care of tony "it's not your fault, you didn't notice...none of us did... it's going to be ok tony...I promise"

there was a moment of silence before "you called me tony" he said in a small voice and peter could only chuckle along with steve and bucky cause of super hearing "yeah..yeah I did Mr stark" Peter said with a breathy chuckle

tony slowly got out if peter's warm soft embrace and stared at him with a playful glare "what?....Mr stark" peter feigned innocence at stared back at tony "kid~" tony practically whined and pouted like a kid peter just continued to chuckle "thanks Pete" he said softly with a small smile "no problem.....Mr stark"

tony just grumbled before looking back at the rest of the people in the room and noticed bruce "how is he?" his voice so small and fragile, but bruce sighed softly 

"h....he's lost a lot of blood tones, but he's fine now. cleaned the cuts on his wrist, upper arm, and thigh so he's fine now. had to stitch some....he uhm...he probably won't wake up for a while" he explained as gently as possible so that tony would understand in his current state of mind

a few more tears slipped out of his eyes "oh tony.." peter softly muttered so no one could hear, except the 2 soldiers and hugged him again before pulling back to wipe his tears away

he took a deep breath, holding it in for 3 seconds before letting go "I..ill go and check on him" "but tony--" steve was cut off from peter when he saw him shaking his head. slowly tony stood up and left, leaving the rest in the room. "he needs this" peter said softly "they both need this, especially Mr stark" they all just nodded, understanding

slowly peter left to his room so that it'll be easier if any of them need help since his room is close to the med bay, he didn't need more information to understand what was happening. after hearing bruce say that he knew and conformed it was bout Loki

tony got into the med bay and gently kissed Loki's forehead, sitting down on a chair next to his bed. he gently cradled his hurt hand in his and kissed it. tears slowly making their way down onto his cheeks, so lost in thoughts he hadn't realized that he was slowly falling asleep, his emotional breakdown taking a toll on his sleep-deprived mind that he just wants to fall asleep but too afraid to at the same time

Loki's hand still in his, he felt someone draping a warm fuzzy blanket on him but far too gone in sleep to notice "its ok Mr stark,  sleep" and with that, he was out like a light

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the moment he opened his eyes, bright lights blinded his eyesight giving him a slight headache. he winced slightly when he tried opening them again "oops sorry" he heard someone whisper before feeling the brightness change, having it easier to open his eyes again when he attempted the third time

he looked around to find bucky sitting on one of the stools in the med bay with him "hey Loki" he whispered loud enough for him to hear "h-hello" he then glanced at his arm, then only noticing someone holding his hand making his vision go a bit blurry with tears

he looked at his wrist, arm, and upper arm bandaged up along with his thigh that he felt when moving, he looked back at bucky "what happened?" he asked in a small voice, not used to talking to the supper soldier "I don't know...what happened..steve said you passed out while talking earlier in the kitchen. bled a lot, but....but tony took it worst, got worried about you and..never left your side since" he sighed and explained gently and leaned back in his chair 

loki nodded and looked back up at the ceiling "how....how long?" bucky stared at loki for a few minutes, noticing the broken look on the gods face "about two days, cause of the amount of blood you lost" he whispered

"l-loki.." the god turned his head to have a better look at the soldier "if you...look if you need someone..anyone to talk to when you're scared to with tony...you can come to me..I'd be glad to help"

"I mean if you feel comfortable..with me that is, I've been where you are...well something close to that" he added as an afterthought

Loki was grateful for the kindness shown towards him on Midgard, he doesn't believe anyone in Asgard would even care if he was hurt physically, well except thor that is "thank you, I truly appreciate this"

he felt someone shift beside him and turned to see tony waking up from his nap, he squeezed the hand in his and watched as tony froze midway of scratching his eye to get rid of the sleep

"I'm sorry" by then bucky left silently, in order to give those two some privacy. by now half of the team has already known the affection those two share, they can tell by the way they look at each other when they think no one is looking

or that one time Natasha caught them kissing in the lab with bucky but never let that get out until they were ready to tell the team and silently left

tony's head immediately shot up and he cradled Loki's head in his hands "Loki, baby, sweetheart...please don't apologize. I should have noticed that you weren't ok... I--I should have done something when you--when you looked different today--I should--" tears already made their way down his cheeks as he talked to Loki, blaming himself every second, which was the exact same thing Loki was doing

he placed his hand over tony's, stroking it softly with his thumb "shhhh love. please tony..darling...please don't blame yourself, I was weak--and...and I understand if--if you want to l-leave me--" 

"god Loki no, sweetheart I would never...never do that. I don't think I can live without you.." he whispered painfully 

"loki...no matter what happens, I will always be by your side. no matter what--I don't care if your broken right now--ok? i-i don't care if you think your weak cause we are all weak in some way, we were all broken at some point--and I am not gonna let you drown like that. i...I will never let you lose yourself...I'm here loke's...forever....and always. and that is a promise..I will never break.."

Loki buried his face into tony's neck, sobbing his heart out while tony just held him giving him any amount of comfort he could. he kissed the crown of his head and held him a little tighter, letting Loki let all his pain out, and hopefully. just hopefully, things will be better for both of them

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