AN: Here's the continuation. Also, I've decided to make Jane and Darcy sisters. Do read and leave me some comments! See you in the next chapter.

Chapter 2: Happiness

A trip to Midgard, to Earth…it didn't sound quite so bad now.

Loki let the appearance of Odin fall once he was back in his room. Thor had left about four days ago. And he hadn't heard from him since. Loki was beginning to think that maybe he should have joined Thor after all. There was a single word that kept buzzing around in his head as he took the throne each day. Regret.

His pride and his conviction to keep the throne and the title of 'king' even under the guise of Odin had kept him from going after Thor. But it was nights like these, nights when it was cold and Loki lay looking at the ceiling of his room, that he began to think. To think of all the times that he and Thor had spent together when they were younger. Fighting and playing, running and chasing each other as Frigga watched over them.

Frigga…he hadn't even gotten to say goodbye to her. He was still locked up in his cell when she was sent off to Valhalla. She was the only one who truly cared about him…apart from Thor. Great. His mind always seemed to go back to Thor no matter what. Loki turned on his side, looking towards the open balcony. The sky at night was beautiful and vast, shining with stars. It was magical. Loki could still remember when he and Thor were young there were times they would run out into the palace garden's and spend the night looking up at the stars until they both fell asleep there. Then the guards would panic thinking the two princes were lost before finding them together in the gardens and bring them back to their rooms. Thor would always accompany him to bed on those nights.

Loki sighed. Damn. This isn't helping. He gets out of bed. Loki finds himself standing in front of the mirror, changing into Midgardian garb. Jeans, a deep green sleeveless shirt, a jacket and leather fingerless gloves, with that done, Loki runs a hand through his hair and slips out of the room. He knows how to get to Midgard from here without passing by Heimdall. But first he had to free Odin.

The trickster found himself on Midgard alone. It's raining wherever he is. London, he notices as he sees the sign for the Underground. He pulls on the hood, covering himself from the rain. So he's in London. London that he's read about in books and all, he's on Midgard but he doesn't even know where to begin to look for Thor.

He watches as people hurriedly move across the streets, opening their umbrellas. Some are couples walking together, others are alone, just like him. The orange lamps make the street shine as the rain continues on. Loki hadn't come here with anything else but the clothes on his back. Now he needed to find Thor. He didn't have to look far though because he felt the thunderer's familiar aura from across the street and when he scanned the sidewalk he saw Thor coming out of a cafe with Jane and her sister Darcy.

It reminded Loki of his younger self. He always had a problem approaching the other kids to play with them back in Asgard. He was always too shy to interrupt them so he stood off to the side on his own watching them play in the palace gardens. And right now instead of walking over, Loki stood where he was, on the other side of the road watching Thor.

He shouldn't even be afraid of Jane or Darcy. The two Midgardian women were beneath him. With that in mind, Loki followed after them, his footsteps determined as he catches up with them. He keeps a distance, keeping to the shadows. And Darcy keeps looking behind them now and again. She seems to know that he's following. Each time she looks Loki stops, easily morphing into something to blend in with the scenery. He manages to spook the two women, making Darcy jump and then Jane when he taps them on the shoulder and then shrouds himself, making himself invisible.

"Jane, did you feel that?" Darcy's asking as she stops now.

"Someone tapping you?" Jane asked and Darcy nodded, "Yeah. Felt it."

"Do you think there's ghosts out here?" Darcy asked looking around and Loki laughs at her statement from where he stands in the shadows.

"Thor did you hear that?" Jane asked her hand on Thor's arm as she stops the thunderer.

He'd heard the laughter all right. And for a moment it sounded familiar. It sounded like someone he knew.

"Who's there?" This time it's Thor's deep voice that asks. And Loki smirks from where he stands in the darkness, oh how he's missed hearing Thor speak. He strides confidently out of the shadows, hands in his pockets, his hood pulled over. Loki's sure he looks like some kind of sinister drug peddler. He stops right before Thor and then raising his eyes, he looks right at Thor as he smoothly pulls off the hoodie and grins.

"Loki!" his brother breaths, blinking and then staring at him as though he cannot believe that he's here. Which he can't. He doesn't know why Loki is here and dressed in Midgardian garb. He looks really good in it.

Loki grins, liking the fact that Thor is surprised by his visit, he gives a small wave, "Brother," then he nods to the two women in greeting, "Jane. Darcy. Hello."

"Loki what are you doing here?" Thor asks as he moves forward, steering his brother away from the two, arm around Loki's shoulder and pulling the younger close to him as he heads down the street in the other direction.

"Aren't you going to say goodbye to your lady friends?" Loki asks turning behind and catching Jane and Darcy standing there watching them.

Thor gives them a casual wave of his hand and Jane waves back, "Text me when you get back Thor," then she and Darcy walk off.

Loki raises a brow, "You don't live with her?" he asks it's a surprise to him because he thought that the two of them would be living together amongst other things.

"No. I have my own apartment."

At that Loki shakes his head, "All settled in then? How long has it been?

"Two weeks here," Thor said as he watches Loki walking on ahead.

"And how do you find it?" Loki asks

"Fine I guess. Midgardians pace their lives nice and slow. You? Why are you here?" Thor asks as he holds the door open for his younger brother, they enter the café that he had been just moments before with the two Foster sisters just now.

Loki shrugs it off like it's not big deal, "Thought I might pay my dear bother a visit."

"That's unlike you," Thor said as he ordered two Vienna coffees. Loki following close behind him as he takes the two cups and leads them over to a booth in the corner.

"I have changed," Loki muttered as he takes his seat opposite Thor. The beverage that Thor has ordered looks really good. It's rich brown coloured coffee with a ton of whipped cream. "Vienna coffee?" Loki asks, looking from the drink then back to Thor and raising a brow at his brother's choice.

"Thought you might like something sweet. You always liked sweets," Thor said watching as Loki swiped his finger across the peak of the whipped cream and licked the pale blob of cream off his finger.

Loki likes the taste of it and he takes another swipe at the whipped cream. Then he grabs a stirrer from the container and stirs the whipped cream into the coffee. He can feel Thor's eyes watching him as he does this. "You have a burning question?" Loki muttered as he avoids eye contact with Thor, watching as the brown of the coffee lightens as the whipped cream is stirred in.

"Yes. You still haven't told me why you're here," Thor said, stirring his own drink.

Loki shrugs, "It got boring on Asgard," he said. That was the half-truth. It was boring, being a king, and having a status as well as Odin's face to deal with. "You know, keeping up appearances and all gets really tiring," he says as he takes a sip of the coffee. The warmth flooding his body as he drinks the beverage.

Thor can tell that Loki isn't giving him the whole truth and the thunderer doesn't want to push it. He decides to leave it alone. Instead he asks, "How long are you going to be here?"

"Awhile." Loki pauses then adds, "I don't actually know."

"You left Asgard without a ruler?"

Loki made a show of rolling his eyes, "Am I that stupid?"

"You know you're anything but that," Thor added. He's actually glad the Loki is here with him on Midgard now. Two weeks was long enough going about with the two Foster sisters, finding an apartment and all that. They were nice company yes, but sometimes they reminded him of Loki. And Thor, having already witnessed Loki's death once knew just how precious his little brother was to him. He doesn't want to loose Loki again.

It's also because of that one incident on Svartalfheim that he's told Jane that he would like to take things slow. Jane understood where he was coming from and she'd agreed to it but Thor knows that one can only wait so long.

"Earth to Thor!" Loki was waving a hand in front of his face. He catches his brother's hand by the wrist, stopping the trickster mid wave. "I was saying, should we go now?"

Loki quickly shook Thor's grip off him as the thunderer finished up his drink, "Let's go. Back to my apartment then."

The trickster follows after his brother. The rain's subsided now and there's no need for the hood. He walks with his hands in his jacket pockets beside Thor, their arms bumping every once in awhile as they walk close together. Loki smiles and out of the corner of his eye, Thor catches him in the midst of it, purposely bumping into him now as he walks.

"What's with the smile?"

"Nothing," Loki says as he bumps Thor back equally hard, sending Thor careening into a lamppost which the thunderer quickly avoids and rights himself, catching up to him.

"I don't think so. There's something you're not telling me," Thor says as they round the corner of the building, his apartment.

"I'm happy," Loki said, softly.

Thor didn't hear him and he prompted him, "Well?" he asked as the lift came.

"It's nothing. Really." Loki said as he stood in the corner opposite Thor in the lift, watching his brother, shaking his head as he tried to stop smiling.

'I'm just happy that I'm here.'