Working Title : Loki & Annie

83 A Little Invasion of Privacy

Bruce lay sleeping on Tony's couch, both hands tucked flat between his knees. His mouth hung open slightly as he took in soft breaths before jolting awake at the voice shouting from somewhere above him.

"Wakey Wakey! Hands off the snakey!" Tony grinned as he watched Bruce jerk awake and fall off the couch then somehow get awkwardly tangled in the metal coffee table. Hearing the thunk of a head hitting something hard Tony gave a happy wince, "Ow. I bet that hurt. Well, you know what they say." He slurped from one of the coffee mugs he held, smacked his lips together then gave a dramatic sigh as the coffee burned down his throat.

Bruce rose slowly into view, rubbing at the corner of his forehead with a pained expression. He squinted up at Tony with an annoyed scowl, growing even more annoyed when Tony just grinned down at him before sipping from the second coffee mug. "Tony, one day you're really going to regret doing that to me."

"And yet you never Hulk out. I'm starting to think you're just a tease, my sometimes green friend." Tony raised a mug and drained it, one swallow after the other. Once he was finished he squinted one eye, "Whooo! That's good." He walked into the kitchen and rinsed out the mug after setting the other in front of the coffee machine. Turning to watch Bruce stand up still scowling at him Tony grinned again, "Come on, don't be cranky." He picked up the second mug and leaned against the counter, "What've you been up to? Besides sleeping on my couch. Which is kinda creepy considering I woke up with no clothes on." He turned enough to waggle his eyebrows at Bruce. "Is Pepper going to be disappointed in me for making another Youtube video?"

Bruce recognized that Tony had changed his clothes and that his hair was still damp so he knew the man had showered. He looked like he had even shaved. At Tony's rude suggestiveness Bruce ignored him while he headed over to the machine Tony had built that did nothing more than heat water, really, really fast. Sliding a mug under it he looked at various tea bags Pepper kept in a basket near the machine. Choosing one he cringed as Tony loudly slurped his coffee.

Bruce rubbed at the fading pain on his head, he couldn't bruise but it would take a moment for the smack to heal and fade. He was dreading the day that Tony succeeded in bringing out the Hulk, it wouldn't be pretty. He filled his oversized mug with hot water.

"Okay fine, talk to me, Brucie." There was an aggravating whine in his tone, "Whatcha been doing? Have our guests left yet? Tell me they've left."

Bruce dunked his teabag several times, "No, Tony. They have not left yet. They actually haven't returned from visiting Doctor Foster."

"What? Damn. I was hoping I had slept longer than that." Grabbing his next cup of coffee he took a sip of the scalding beverage then asked, "J? Where are our unwelcome guests right now?"

"The Asgardian emissaries are forty-eight minutes from arrival. They insisted on making another stop to search for Prince Thor."

"Huh." Tony took another sip of his rather tasty beverage, long accustomed to the burn as he swallowed. The pain was a good way of staying in the moment rather than mentally drifting off to somewhere he would rather not visit. "Okay, so we still need to figure out a way to get them to leave." He looked to Bruce with a slightly mean-spirited twist to his lips, "What do you think? Frogs in the bed? Making a dragon? Hiding their swords in the -"

"Sir. I do hate to interrupt however I must reluctantly advise that the program you wrote without my assistance and have been running covertly, and illegally may I add, through social media has been successful."

Tony frowned. He played back all that J.A.R.V.I.S. had said in order to get to the point then grinned when he understood the message. "Ha! I told you it would work." He gave a triumphant nod to Bruce while saying, "Bring up my victory. Let's find out where the dynamic duo is hiding."