Thor stood outside outside Loki's room when the healers were working their hardest on the injuries the mad titan gave him, and they needed Thor to stay out of their way. He had guards, Heimdall, and at this point, Lady Sif and his warriors, three, standing around him.

He listened to their story as intently as he could, but more of his mind was in the room behind him worrying about Loki's injuries than what had happened. Apparently, Thanos's plan had been well thought out. To the point where Sif and the warriors were sent out to quell an uprising that in hindsight was an apparent smokescreen.

He quietly made notes of the most important things, because a veteran warrior knows what to remember, what can be forgotten as just information, and what is not knowledge. At the end, he nodded and began to give orders like a general, because he knew they would need someone to hold things together during the first few hours after the destruction wrecked by Thanos.

"Heimdall, I need you back at your post as soon as you are able. If we suffer another attack right now it might be the end for all of us."

"Yes, Prince Thor. My injuries are minor. I wouldn't have been knocked out to begin with if I hadn't been caught by surprise."

Thor nodded. "Sif, I need you to go through the guards and servants that Thanos attacked. If any are alive no matter how dire their injuries; bring them here to be healed. It is our duty to look after them if we can."

"Yes, Thor." Sif turned and departed glad to have an important role to play.

"Fandral, Marshall all the strength from the guards remaining who are uninjured or who have only minor injuries. Set guard duty rosters in all the integral parts of the palace. Try not to overwork anyone. We need everyone alert."

"I'll start right away Thor." Fandral said leaving quickly.

"Get all the cooks you can find to reopen the kitchen as well. We'll need food for the injured and the guards to keep their strength up." Thor stated after him.

Thor looked to Volstagg and put an arm on his shoulder. "My friend this job is not a fitting one, but, until things get in order, I'll need to count on you for this. The dead aren't going to move themselves, and we will need them to be put out of the way so no one will fall over them.

Volstagg stuck his gut out proudly. "Do not worry, Tho,r it is a job needed to be done, so I will do it."

"Thank you, my friend." Thor stated back.

"What would you have me do," Hogun asked.

"You will be my lieutenant. I want to be here for Loki, but the others will need to check in. I'll need you to stand guard here ,and be my eyes and ears to the rest of the palace. And if anything arises that you find distressing, then you bring it to me so that everyone isn't in the healing chambers interrupting the rest of the injured."

"I see, Prince Thor. I will be here."

Thor moved to go back inside, and Hogun grabbed him by the shoulder. "You have changed, Thor, I can sense it."

Thor simply nodded and went back into the room where the healers had been working on Loki.

The healers looked momentarily up at Thor before going back to their work. Thor moved as close to him as he could, and, in a whisper, he asked one of the people working on him "Please tell me how he is. . ."

"We've done a lot, but he's still in critical condition." stated the healer next to him flatly.

"Do you think he'll live and be his normal self."

"We're doing our best to make it possible. There are a lot of internal injuries. Not just fresh ones, but there are some older ones. He has been abused before, but whomever healed the older ones only did so well enough to continue torturing Prince Loki."

Thor began to shake. The strength left his body, and he sat down in a chair only a couple of feet from where Loki laid. He put his hands over his face to hide the fact that emotionally he was beginning to crumble from that news.

"Do whatever it takes. Loki has to live."

The healers nodded and went back to putting their absolute full attention towards Loki. Thor watched them work for hours on Loki through his fingers. They were still working on Loki's injuries when Thor slipped into an uneasy sleep sitting there patiently, while they moved about trying to heal Loki's various injuries both old and new.