Happy Thorsday! This chapter ended up being a lot longer than expected (especially since it was written five days ahead of schedule), but there's a lot less dialogue and a lot more description. Writing dialogue for Thor is becoming daunting, as is figuring out what he'd understand and what he wouldn't, so that'll take trial and error (please be patient as I figure it out). I went a little wild with a running joke, but it was making me giggle picturing it, so that was for purely selfish reasons. I hope you all like this chapter as much as you've liked the others, considering this one is 90% strictly Jane and Thor (I tried to keep the humor there).
Funny side note I wrote this during a thunderstorm.
As always; Read, enjoy, and review!
Darcy and Jane were familiar with the city streets, having lived there for some months now. The couple along with Thor had walked the distance to the University dorms from the point where they said goodbye to the rest of the group. Darcy hadn't stopped talking, every so often she'd glance back to Thor to ask him a question about Bruce; most of the time he didn't have an answer for her. The entire time Jane's hand never pulled from Thor's, and the God of Thunder was content with keeping his around hers as well. They finally, after some time reached the courtyard on campus where Darcy would split off to go to her dorm.
"Don't have too much fun, you too." She teased with a wink before turning and heading down the walking path towards her residence hall.
"We're this way." Jane told Thor, her footsteps turning to walk down another sidewalk path.
"This country is very beautiful." Thor noted after a pause of silence, his head tilted back so he could look around.
"Yeah, the further from the city you get the more beautiful it is, why I like the observatory. It's not down town." Jane explained.
"You do not like city." Thor noted, it wasn't a question, but an observation he was taking to be true.
"Not really, no." Jane shrugged.
"You will not like living at Stark Tower." Thor replied.
"Oh, no I'm sure it'll be great. And I won't really be living there; I just…won't have to buy a hotel room the next time I'm in New York." Jane reasoned with a small smile, Thor seemed a bit confused but shrugged without question. The two continued to walk in silence, once getting passed by a group of drunken college students who all shouted at Thor; who promptly returned with a loud roar of a shout to their amusement.
Jane laughed lightly, wrapping her free arm around his and tugging him a bit, "Come on, this way." She insisted, continuing towards the smaller residence hall where her room was. They were almost to the door before someone shouted out Thor's name.
The Asgardian stopped so suddenly Jane almost fell down. He turned, eyes scanning the area before Tony Stark, in his Iron Man suit dropped into eye line. "Hey, Goldilocks."
"Tony Stark, why have you returned?" Thor asked. Tony tossed down the brown duffle bag that had been strapped on his shoulder, Thor catching it easily.
"Pepper made a big deal over it, wouldn't want you walking around Norway in the nude...don't think Fury would like the press, although it would keep him off my back." Tony explained, "Oh, and we stopped by the pharmacy." He added tossing a small box down the few feet from where he was hovering. Thor caught the box, staring at it curiously, "Always use protection." Tony added with a salute.
Jane suddenly caught on to what the box was and promptly grabbed it from Thor, "Tony Stark gave that to me." He said simply, with the look he was giving her Jane thought he looked like a five year old who got his toy taken from him. She simply sighed and looked up in time to see burn off from Tony's suit shooting up into the sky.
"How is a box to protect me? And what do I need protection from; if there was danger Tony Stark would have been more specific." Thor reasoned as he walked after Jane who had already started walking again, their hands now separated.
"That's not what he meant, Thor." Jane laughed lightly looking back at him.
"Then what was the purpose of the warning for protection?" Thor questioned, moving the strap of his duffle bag over his chest.
"He meant….uh…" Jane sighed as she stopped walking; Thor's strides were larger than hers so he ended up taking another step past her before realizing he had gone too far and turned around to face her. Jane let out a breath and looked up at him, "He meant sexual protection. I don't really know Asgardian customs but on earth you use these when you have intercourse so you don't reproduce, basically." Jane explained holding the box up. Thor grabbed the box from her looking at it curiously.
"How does the box work?" Thor asked, studying it.
"No…the protection is in the box…read the side." Jane sighed, her face flushing as she turned back around, taking her room key out of her purse. She unlocked the main door, holding it open for Thor who was no longer looking where he was going, but attempting to make out the directions on the box.
Her room was on the second floor; Thor tripped over three stairs in total on the walk up. She led him down the hall and then stopped outside her door, "Uh…stay here, until I come get you, okay?" She asked, Thor finally looked up and simply gave a nod and went back to looking down at the box. Jane sighed and then unlocked her door, going inside her room to attempt to make it look as if she put an effort into organization and cleaning.
Thor was musing over the box still. He had gotten bored with attempting to make out the midgardian language on the side of the box, and the pictures were no aid. He opened it, peering inside to see the small stack of wrappers. He curiously reached in, picking one out and holding it up.
"How can such a thing provide adequate protection?" He questioned to himself, holding the wrapper closer to his face. He was proceeding to attempt to open the wrapper when the door opened and Jane appeared.
"Thor." She laughed reaching up and grabbing the condom from him, as well as the box. "We'll…possibly worry about it later, okay." She told him and then opened the door wider to lead him inside the room.
It was a small single bed room, a double window on the far wall with a bathroom in the far-left back corner. Her bed was against one wall, her desk that she hadn't even attempted to try and organize was against the other. There were no decorations, but there was newspaper clippings taped to the wall by her desk, along with photos of the night's sky and various constellations of particular interest to her.
"You can put your bag on the dresser." Jane told him, messing with the box to put the condom back in it and close it. Thor looked about the room, shutting the door behind him and then walked over to drop his bag on the dresser.
The two stood in silence for a few moments. Jane crossed her arms over her stomach, every once in a while brushing her hair behind her ear. Thor crossed his arms over his chest, his eyes continuing to roam about the room. It was as if both had come to the realization that they had put so much effort into reuniting after only spending three days together, and out of all that time this was almost the longest that they had spent alone together.
Jane cleared her throat, looking over to him, Thor returning the gaze as she caught his attention. "I'm…I'm gonna go take a shower, you can…get settled in." Jane said with a nod, moving to walk past him to the bathroom. She shut the door behind her, taking a moment to lean against the door behind her and calm down from the sudden wave of awkwardness.
Thor watched her, his eyes staying on the door for some time after it was shut before he started to walk about the room. He first inspected the newspaper clippings on the wall; they were all of the battle of New York. Most of which the main photo was of himself, or at least he was in the foreground of the group. He smiled slightly to himself, he looked very king like in those photos.
He moved on next to the books that lined the wall above her desk. There were many he could not understand the titles; he assumed they were about stars. He continued down the line until he recognized a few words in a title "Asgard Stories: Tales from Norse Mythology" from that book on the titles all contained either the word "Asgard" or "Norse".
Thor's smile turned into a grin as he proceeded to pull the books off the shelf. The pages were all lined with multi-colored post-it note flags. Thor was not aware of the system to which the post-it notes were placed; he simply began to flip through the books. Eventually he came to a red post-it flag marking a page that began a new chapter: "Thor: God of Thunder."
He chuckled to himself and sat down on her bed that creaked under his weight. He placed the rest of the books on the floor and looked back at the one in his hands. He turned the pages over, eventually stopping on one that was a full page portrait of himself; fully dressed in battle armor, standing on a rock with Mjolnir raised to the heavens as a bolt of lightning struck down. "The chin is never satisfactory." Thor said to himself, continuing to flip through the pages as his hand reached up to touch his own chin.
The Asgardian became fully engrossed in the pictures of the books, eventually having gone through two more before he felt the temperature rise in the room and heard the door open. He looked up, smile on his face fading as his jaw dropped slightly. Jane was making her way from the bathroom to her dresser in nothing but a towel wrapped around her. Thor quickly rose to his feet, which caused Jane to stop walking. He cleared his throat and promptly turned around so his back was to her, his head tilted so he was looking up at the ceiling.
"Sorry, I forgot to grab clothes." Jane noted, glancing over to him; her face flushed again although he couldn't see it. She quickly reached in her drawers, grabbing enough clothes so she would be covered up and made her way back to the bathroom. A few moments later the door opened again, this time she was dressed in pajama pants and a tank top.
Noticing the stack of books at Thor's feet a small smile spread over Jane's lips, "Light reading?" She questioned walking towards where he had resumed his place on the bed.
"You have done much research on my people." Thor noted looking up at her, "And yet I still know so little of your own." He added looking back down at the book.
"Yeah, but you've been around my people, I've never been to Asgard. They say experience is better learning anyways." Jane reasoned sitting down beside him on the bed.
"I feel as if I am lost here, yet when I am with you I feel as though I should be here." Thor explained looking down at her, Jane replied with a small smile.
"How can you tell?" She asked curiously.
"You mean very much to me, Jane Foster." Thor said simply, "You treat me as an equal, I am not a weapon of war or a God of Asgard in your presence and I hold that feeling dear." Thor explained, "A part of me wishes you had not looked up my people's history, for now I fear you will not see me the same as you once did."
"I still see you the same, Thor. I just understand your…quirks more." Jane said simply with a smile, "You don't have to worry, I care about you too much to see you as a weapon and…okay I kinda think of you as a God of Asgard but I just really like the outfit." She added with a laugh, causing Thor to join in the laughter.
"I wish to learn more about you, and more of Earth." Thor declared, his hand finding hers to grasp.
"I can handle that." Jane told him with a nod. "Anything specific you want to know?" Jane asked curiously with a smile. Thor looked thoughtful for a moment before rising and pacing the floor in front of her.
"Why is there a horse on this box?" Thor questioned, reaching out to grab the condom box again, showing her. Jane sighed and moved to stand up, reaching to take the box from him again. Thor had grown wise since she had done so twice now and raised the box above his head, well out of her reach.
"Thor." Jane laughed lightly, attempting to jump to grab it.
"Just explain it to me and the box will be yours." Thor said simply, an amused smile on his lips.
"It's the brand logo!" Jane laughed.
"Why are horses on so many…what are they, logos?" Thor questioned.
"I don't know." Jane laughed, going flat footed as she stopped attempting to get the box. "They're called Trojans, it's a Greek myth having to do with the Greek Gods, they're kinda like the Asgardians I guess, except…pretty sure the Greek ones aren't real…although now with my experience..." Jane attempted to explain, but then shook her head realizing she had gone too far off topic. "There was a war where a city, Troy, was surrounded by a giant wall and in order to get into the city the Greeks built a giant wooden horse, got inside and presented it as a gift. The Trojans accepted the horse into the city and in the middle of the night the Greek army jumped out of the horse and conquered the city." Jane explained, taking a deep breath.
"That was a very wise battle choice, I like these Greeks." Thor grinned, "I still do not understand the concept of what is in this box though." He explained looking at the box.
"Another story for another time." Jane said simply, taking advantage of his distraction to grab the box. "You should get ready for bed." She told him with a smile, moving past him to walk back to her bed.
Thor made a face, conflicted between pride and confusion that Jane was able to get the box from him yet again, but made his way to his bag on the dresser. Jane opened her nightstand drawer, tossing the box inside and then shutting the drawer quickly. Thor opened his bag, digging through it until he found a pair of jeans. He looked at them curiously before unfolding them.
"What are you doing?" Jane asked with a laugh.
"Getting ready for bed, as you instructed." Thor explained with a nod. Jane simply laughed again, standing up and walking over to him.
"You don't wear jeans to sleep." She explained, taking them from him and putting them back in his bag. She opened the bag wide, searching until she found a pair of dark red cotton pajama pants. "Oh, here." She said handing them to him, "There's a shirt too.' She laughed handing him the long-sleeved button up pajama shirt.
Thor looked at both pieces of clothing in his hands before tossing the shirt back into the bag. He pulled the shirt he was wearing off over his head, tossing it to the floor. Jane went wide eyed, realizing he was stripping there and quickly took a few steps back to give him room. He undid the jeans he was wearing and then bent down, untying his boots and pulling them off. He hopped slightly, bumping into dresser before getting both off and then pulling his jeans off. Jane had a moment of panic where she was debating on if Thor would actually be wearing underwear before she glanced over to see the dark blue fabric covering him, Thank Odin's beard on whoever convinced him into them.
She attempted to keep her eyes elsewhere, giving him privacy. "Where am I to sleep?" Thor questioned, catching Jane's attention. He was standing barefoot and shirtless in the red pajama pants, hands on his hips like it was his natural stance; which it probably was.
"Uh…well you can sleep on the bed, I can take the floor." Jane reasoned.
"Nonsense, that would be disrespectful, this is your home. You will sleep on the bed, I will sleep on the floor." Thor replied.
"I'm not going to make you sleep on the floor, that's ridiculous…not to mention I don't even have an extra blanket and stuff. Plus, you've been on a plane for hours." Jane countered. "We…we can just share the bed." Jane shrugged, inwardly smirking to herself on how that worked out. Thor seemed to be going over every possible outcome by how hard it looked like he was thinking before he too shrugged.
"I do not wish to be inappropriate." He said simply.
"It won't be inappropriate, I swear." Jane told him with a nod.
"You will sleep closer to the wall." Thor added after a pause, motioning to the bed.
"What? Why?" Jane laughed lightly, not really minding it, but wondering why he made a point to request it. She looked over to him as she reached out, flipping the light switch off; even with the lights off the light from the window was enough she could at least make out where he was.
"I will be between you, and the door, and the window." Thor said simply, a smile spreading over Jane's lips at his explanation.
"Alright." She said, brushing her hair behind her ear again as she reached over, pulling the blanket back and moving into the bed. She sat up, taking her spot closest to the wall as he had instructed. Thor walked over, looking down at the bed before sitting down beside her. He kept one foot off the bed with his weight on the floor, testing the strength of the bed before moving it off the floor and on the bed with them.
Jane watched him before lying down, with Thor on the bed she didn't have much room and had suddenly became hyperaware of just how little she had to move before her body brushed against his. Thor was struggling with how to lay comfortably, not to mention even with just the pants on he was becoming uncomfortably warm. Eventually, he couldn't stand it.
"Jane." He said simply, turning his head to look over to her, the closer distance between them made it easier to see one another.
"What?" She asked curiously.
"The temperature is very high." He explained.
"It's cold to every once else, they turned the heater on…I don't think I could get them to turn it down." Jane explained, "I don't know how to make it less hot." She added to clarify.
"Would it be inappropriate if I were to take the sleeping trousers off?" Thor questioned.
"I…I don't suppose so, if you'd be more comfortable, it's fine." Jane replied with a nod that Thor returned before standing up. He pulled the pants off, stepping out of them and then walking back to place them folded up in his bag. He then made his way back to the bed and laid down. Jane had pulled most of the blanket to her side by then so he wouldn't have to mess with it. "Goodnight, Thor." Jane said softly, "I'm really glad you came back." She added, leaning over to kiss his cheek.
Thor looked down at her for a moment, "Goodnight, Jane." He replied and then leaned down, his lips pressing to hers for a moment.
This was the moment that Jane had been in anticipation and dreading since she spotted him in the hallway. The only kiss shared between them had been in a moment of desperation and rashness. She hadn't thought about it, she just did it. She knew there was a possibility of not receiving the same chance again and within those few hours they had been through enough she thought they warranted it. Yet, the possibility that that kiss could be followed by another, and that she could feel the same rush of adrenaline and passion behind it was inconceivable at times to her.
Yet, he had done it. He had followed the kiss with another, completely different kiss. It was soft, and almost casual. Little to no thought behind it, but not fueled by a feeling of last chances, but of the start of many more to come. She could feel him pulling away and instinctively reached up to cup his cheek and keep his face close to hers as she returned the kiss.
He did not resist, he moved his arm over her to rest his hand on the bed beside her as he leaned over her, continuing the kiss. He wanted to run his hand through her hair, touch her in another way, but he was too self-conscious of his size to trust his weight on anything else but himself. Jane however had free range to do what she wished, her hand moved from his cheek and into his hair, bushing it back as her fingers ran through it. Her other hand hesitantly at first reached up, fingers brushing over his chest that she had been tempted to feel since she first saw it.
The kiss deepened, to the point it surpassed their first kiss. Thor shifted even more, his leg moving to cross over hers and rest on his knee between her legs on the bed. Jane pulled back slowly, her lips lingering on his, but to her surprise he responded much as she had before and leaned down further; not allowing her out so quickly. She took a deep breath, arm wrapping over his shoulder. She wanted him closer, but Thor was still hesitant to allow his weight to be held up by anything but himself.
Minutes passed without either being aware of time. Thor had become confident enough in Jane to allow himself to be lowered onto his elbows, which allowed for more contact than before when he was hovering above her. Her hair was just long enough that as it spread on the pillow Thor's fingers could brush through it gently, the contact he had been craving before finally satisfied. He could feel himself becoming more excited as they continued, but thought nothing of it. Jane kept a hand on his chest, her other hand had moved down to hold onto his bicep, or at least the side of it she could get her hand partly around.
It was not a few minutes more before Thor realized he was in trouble. Jane had arched her back in an attempt to become closer to him, inadvertently rolling her hips up against his. The effect of which was a steady change in the direction of Thor's blood flow. He continued the kiss until he felt he could not any longer without succumbing to desire he was not yet ready to unleash on Jane, and he pulled out of the kiss. Jane attempted to hold it longer but he easily raised his head above hers.
"I am sorry, we need to stop." Thor explained softly, tilting his head as his eyes glanced down between them.
"We need to…" Jane repeated, her words fading as she tilted her head to follow his gaze, "Oh, yeah we probably should." She said softly as Thor shifted off of her, moving to lay on his back. He ran a hand through his hair to move it from his forehead, looking up at the ceiling. Jane sat up, messing with the sheets from where they had been tangled.
"I am fearful of what would happen." Thor spoke up, Jane glanced back over her shoulder to him curiously, "I am of Asgard, you are a mere mortal. How am I to be certain I will not injure you in some way? The thought ails me."
"Don't worry about it, Thor." Jane told him with a small smile, turning to look back at the sheet. Thor groaned, moving to sit up beside her, "What's wrong?" She asked looking over to him.
"I am bothered." He said looking down at his lap, Jane followed his gaze cautiously and then sighed.
"Come with me." She said, climbing over him to stand up beside the bed and grabbed his hand. Thor willingly stood up with her, following her as she led him to the bathroom. "Take the shorts off." Jane told him.
"Jane, I explained I did not wish…" Thor began, but Jane cut him off.
"We're not doing that, we're helping you so you'll be able to sleep. Take your shorts off, we're taking care of the problem." Jane laughed and then turned her back to him. Thor looked at her cautiously before pulling the boxers down and stepping out of them.
"Done," He told her.
"Step in the shower." Jane said, keeping her back to him but pointing to her side to the curtain. Thor glanced at the curtain before pushing it aside and stepping in, pulling the curtain closed behind him. "Okay, I want you to think of the most horrific, vile thing you can." Jane told him, staying outside of the shower but reaching her hand in through the break between the curtain and the wall.
"Do you know of how my father got his horse?" Thor questioned.
"Yes, but you don't need to talk about it, just think. Got it?" Jane asked and then promptly turned on the shower, turning the handle until it was completely in the blue.
"OH." Thor gasped loudly, making another rather ungodly like sound of shock.
"You can come out when the problem's gone." Jane called, laughing slightly to herself and then leaving the bathroom, going back to lay back down in the bed to wait on him. It wasn't much longer before the God of Thunder was stomping his way back to the bed, battling the shower until he had managed to cease the ice shower.
"Problem gone?" Jane asked curiously as she smiled up at him. He did not reply, simply shook his head like a dog as to fling cold water droplets on her from the ends of his hair. Jane laughed, pulling the blanket up to cover her head. Thor laughed as well, laying back down on the bed on top of the sheet, this time without thought wrapping his arm under Jane's shoulders. She continued to laugh, it fading as she pulled the sheet down to her shoulders and turned on her side to face him. There was a pause of silence that followed that Thor apparently did not approve of.
"Did the Trojans wear condoms in battle to protect them?" Thor questioned.
"Thor…go to sleep, you can ask Darcy tomorrow." Jane said simply, tucking her head down, and pulling the blanket tighter around her as she shut her eyes.
"Should I tell the other Avengers of them?" Thor asked in a whisper.
"Sleep." Jane replied. Thor smiled slightly and then leaned down, kissing Jane's forehead before shifting how he was lying to become more comfortable, this included wrapping his other arm over her waist to rest his hand on the small of her back. Eventually he shut his eyes as well, both drifting off to sleep.