It was the perfect atmosphere for it. A quiet room out of sight of the grand party that had been arranged to show off Earth's Mightest Heroes & Pals, a dimly lit place where Loki had secreted himself in the hope the fires caused by wine consumption would die down enough for him to be fit for company. There were sofas and bookshelves here, clearly a drawing room belonging to whoever owned this grand building, who for once was not Stark.

Tony's arrival was not so much a surprise as the fact that he had not immediately left on seeing who was within. They made small talk, then dry remarks on the event. Light jokes turned to murmurings on the almost serious, and they felt it. This something. The energy of two attention seekers who were desperately lonely.

For a moment there were no words, just their closeness, and then Tony's request.

Loki did not give himself time to talk his way out of it, to come up with something cruel to do or say. A fleeting imagined victory was not worth another night of solitude. He burned for this, even if it was just this.

Wine glass vanished, Loki snagged the lapels of Tony's dinner suit and yanked him into a kiss.

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