Note: Fill for the marriage!meme prompt at tumblr: who fixes the plumbing (or calls the plumber).
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Do-it-yourself
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"Wouldn't it be better to call an expert?"
This is what Loki asks every time a pipe of the plumbing system bursts. It happens both in their Midgardian apartment and their private villa on Asgard, and it has obviously all to do with Thor's electric excesses and nothing with his own seiðr experiments.
Every time the answers he gets are a grunt and the clang of an uprooted pipe. Thor squats either under a sink or next to a radiator, or in another nook and unbolts straightens tears off. With his bulk it is no small feat. The muscles of his back and arms bulge, while the comfortable pants he wears slip down until they're showing half of his magnificent ass.
Sometimes Loki wonders why they haven't programmed everything with enchantments, like in the Válaskjálf; like civilized people. But he's got to admit that the current view is worth enduring a few inconveniences.
"Do you think you'll be much longer in here?" he enquires.
Thor smirks above a shoulder.
"Oh, I've just started."
He's full of child-like glee. Loki has always thought that a hammer was more suited to a carpenter than a soldier, but he wouldn't have imagined he'd be proven right this way. Inner jokes and sarcasm mix with a good helping of exasperation.
"Well, let me know if you want a real plumber. You know, someone actually capable of doing this job, once in a while."
Thor grunts again, hidden by the sink's cabinet. "Trifles. It will be as good as new."
He emerges just in time for his eyes to catch Loki on the threshold, and he's sweaty, dishevelled and inviting.
"Shower together, when I'm done?"
"It depends on how dirty you'll be."
"Hmm, you like it when I'm dirty..."
Loki chucks a roll of toilet paper at his head.
Thor laughs, then grasps Mjölnir and goes under again, beginning to weld with a miniature lightning. Such prince(s) Asgard has received.
Shaking his head, Loki goes to read a book in the peace of the living room.
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