Loki laughed softly. "If it is good for your health, you ought to do it more often..."

His eyes widened, something contracting painfully in his chest at the look in her eyes. "Rogue..." He untangled his fingers from her hair, caressed her cheek like he'd never done it before.

He kissed her, wanting and offering and more, trying to make it an expression of how he had missed her.