This is my FIRST fic for Thor (based on Marvel movies) It's a little something to give back to all of you writing the awesome tear jerking stuff. A little dust bunny I couldn't get out of my head.
Here's some basic notes
Takes place: POST AVENGERS
BIFROST is REPAIRED
FRIGGA IS ALIVE.
TDW has NOT happened.
Enjoy.
Chapter 1: Midgard Malls
Thor walks with Jane through the mall. It is not unlike the markets back in Asgard. A little ways ahead of them stands a skinny man with slicked back hair and he has his eye like a predator on Thor as he walks by. The man notices something about Thor immediately. Unlike everyone else walking by at the Mall this Saturday morning, Thor does not carry a cell phone.
"Good morning, good sir!"
"Good morning, son of Jacob" Thor says reading the sales man's badge.
"It's just Henry good sir, and boy, have I got a deal for you!" He says, pulling Thor to his stall. Thor looked alarmed and tried to reach for Jane, but she had already gone ahead into a store called Victoria's Secret. Perhaps Victoria is a fortune teller, Thor thinks as he furious searches for Jane's bobbing dark curls, now lost in a sea of Midgardian women clamoring about the shop.
Son of Jacob spoke to him again, "Now, do you have a cell phone?"
"I do not. Nor do I-"
"Excellent! We can set you up with a plan today! And it your lucky day, buy one plan and you can add another for free!" Henry says with a spark in his eye.
"I do not know what this cell phone is you speak of, and I do not wish to procure any sort of 'plans'" Thor said cautiously.
"You don't? Don't they have cells phones from where you're from? Let me guess Great Britain? Didn't know they were that backwards!"
Thor bristled, if the man was referring to Asgard as backwards he would show him backwards with quick work by mjolnir. The man seemed to pick on his facial expressions, "Oh, no, I don't mean to be offensive! Here let me show you the wonders of the cell phone. You can use it to communicate with you loved ones no matter how far they might be."
Not much later Thor stood in front of Jane, and tall as he might be compared the shorter woman, her glare easily made him feel much smaller. "You bought two cell phones?" Jane giving him her surprised look when he did something she did not expect like smash mugs or make her pancakes, he couldn't be sure if she was upset or not. Jane seemed to pick up on his apprehension. "Look, I can understand why you would want one…but two? What are you going to with the other one?" she says, hands on her hips.
Yet it was quite obvious to Thor, "Give one to Loki, of course"
Jane's eyes got bigger-if that was possible, "Loki? Loki-who tried to destroy New York? Loki who-"
"Yes, my mischievous brother Loki, this way I can keep tabs on him, no matter where he might be"
"Hmm…" Jane said thoughtfully, "You know, that's actually not a bad idea!"
Thor smiles widely at Jane's approval, "It is, is it not?"
With the Bifrost fully repaired, Thor arrived in Asgard by nightfall. He felt strange creeping around the palace but he wanted to avoid any questioning and surely if his friends knew of his return they would not let him see Loki, at least not without sitting many a feasts with them. He entered the prison, the guards looked alarmed to see him but nonetheless let him pass without a word after all, he was still prince and heir to the throne. He walked past the many cells without even a second glance until he got to the far end a familiar figure stood regally with his back to the front of the cell.
"Brother…I need your help" Thor said from behind the barrier.
The one he called brother did not move for a moment and then, his silky voice came, "You must be really desperate…to come to me for help, Thor"
Thor frowned at the seemingly disembodied voice, "Enough with the illusions Loki!"
Suddenly the regal standing prince disappeared with the wave a hand and Loki sat on the floor of his room. Thor tried not to let the shock of his brother's appearance show on his face. Loki's clothing was disheveled, his hair in completely disarray and his knuckles bruised.
Loki looked up at him, "Stop giving me that look" he snapped, "I can tell what you're thinking it's written all over your face, you fool no one but yourself!"
Thor shifted on his foot, "How goes your sentence?"
Loki shrugged, "What do you care."
Thor frowned, swiftly pressing a hand to the glass, "Of course I care, I am your brother!"
"As you claim, and yet you had not come once!" Thor thought he heard Loki's voice waver but it could have been his imagination.
He clears his throat, "I am here now, am I not?" he says attempting to clear his own conscious.
Loki barely restrains rolling his eyes, "Yes, and only for my help?"
Thor nods, "I met a vendor in the Midgardian markets"
Loki looks up suddenly, "You visited their malls?"
Thor smiles now, "Yes, and I acquired a great thing."
Loki tries not to show interest when he says, and busies himself inspecting his nails when he says, "And what would that be?"
Thor grins, "A mobile device"
Loki looks up, surprise if not curiosity apparent on his face. The barrier holding Thor outside the cell drops only for a moment and Thor quickly walks toward Loki, "I only require your assistance in learning to use it"
Loki's surprise is wiped away along with his curiosity, and his voice is cutting when he asks, "Why not ask your Midgardian woman you are so fond of? Or is she dead?"
Thor is taken aback, "She is not." he frowns. Loki is trying to get under his skin, he knows that but he took the risk anyway.
Then slowly it dawns on Loki, "Of course… you don't want to look a fool in front of her, at least no more than you already do, I suppose"
Thor frowns, "No. I do not. Now will you help me or shall I leave?"
Loki eyes quickly look up, desperately thorn between telling his brother off and craving any sort of company.
"I will help. I don't want you breaking it with your big bear claws," he snaps. Thor hides his smile and merely raises a brow. "You might not be so off put, I have brought one for you too." He says at this Loki looks up his green eyes scanning Thor's face abruptly, with utter disbelief as Thor takes the devices out from within in cloak.
For the briefest of moments, Thor notes, his brother looks at him with something other than contempt. Loki accepts the gift, his voice light, "I- thank you brother…." Then it is quickly gone as Loki's voice edges upon ice, "though this will have no use to me in the confines of this cell. As usual your gifts to me are simply an afterthought to providing for yourself."
It is no less of a thank you than what he has come to expect from his brother. He sits down on the cot hands on his knees, "I would hope to keep contact with you through this device while I am on Midgard and you are in this cell"
Loki has taken one of the devices and runs his hands over it, "You are ever a fool, brother," He says without looking up fingers rapidly tapping the device as it comes to life. Thor smiles openly, Loki has called him brother, perhaps there is hope his little brother, yet.
**Chapter Two: Thor is in a meeting with the Avengers. Loki is bored. And that damned Midgard device keeps beeping! Suggestions for future chapters are welcomed and maybe taken into consideration. :)
