A/N: Sorry this is quite short, it's kind of a filler since I haven't uploaded a lot lately.


"Thor, stop!"

Thor vaguely heard his teacher, Mrs Carter, yell at him while grabbing his arm and he shook his head, easily pushing the middle-aged woman away and continued laying punch after punch down on the jaw of the boy beneath him. Well, it was a boy. Then he morphed into something not even human and went to attack Sif. That's why Thor was hitting him. He was protecting his friend! Right…?

Then he heard Sif. "Oh my God, Thor stop it now!" Her voice was shrill and filled with panic, which made Thor freeze instantly. Why wasn't she thankful?

The thing underneath Thor pushed him off when he paused and scrambled from under him, cupping his face and seemingly trying to catch the streams of blood flowing off his chin.

"I… I was helping…" Thor looked around, confused at everyone's expression. When he looked at the thing he realised why. It wasn't a thing. It was a boy about his age and Sif was cupping his face in concern.

"What the hell Thor?!" She screamed at him. "This is Jeremy! My boyfriend!"

Oh, that's why they were inside instead of on the courtyard instead like every other day, they were coming to meet Jeremy.

Thor looked down at the Principal stormed down the corridor. He took one look at Jeremy before glaring at Thor.

"Sif, take Jeremy to the nurse's station and tell her I'll be there to explain soon," Sif nodded and supported Jeremy away to the nurse's station, not even glanced at Thor.

"Thor. My office. Now!"

Thor kept his eyes to his feet at he walked to the Principal's office.

"Your Father's money won't keep this one quiet, Odinson,"

Thor nodded in acknowledgement.

That night, after being sent to bed at 4:30pm, was the first time Thor could remember hearing his mother cry.


Thor woke up and sighed, reaching up to wipe the tears from his cheek but another hand beat him to it. He jumped a little as he felt Loki's cool fingers against his skin as he'd forgotten he was there. After a moment's hesitation he leant into Loki's touch, letting him wipe the tears away with his thumb.

"Bad dream?" Loki whispered like the room was full of sleeping people.

"Sort of… More like emotional,"

Loki hesitated before speaking. "Do you want to tell me about it?"

"I had a hallucination… I attacked my friend's boyfriend. It made my mother cry…"

Loki kept his hand on Thor's cheek the whole time and rubbed his thumb across his cheekbone absentmindedly, clearly not used to comforting people.

Thor smiled and kissed Loki's forehead suddenly. Loki tensed but didn't say anything. When Thor pulled away he smiled wider before it faltered.

"Loki…"

"Yes?"

"Are you sure there is no way you can get out of here?"

Loki shook his head. "Even if I could get Merrick to say I was cured I still wouldn't be able to leave without parental permission and my Father won't exactly let me out,"

"What if someone could get in contact with him? Get him to see you've changed?"

Loki cocked his head to the side as best he could, while laying down. "But I haven't, you just want to believe I have,"

Thor couldn't think of a comeback for that so he just sighed and pressed his forehead against Loki's, pleasantly surprised when he didn't pull away.

"But I can help you…" Thor muttered.

Loki didn't reply.


After breakfast Thor persuaded Loki to come to the rec room with him to see Romey and Oliver, which much to his surprise didn't take too long. Oliver asked Loki to explain the plot to a book to him because he didn't understand it. While they were away Thor explained how he'd taken sheets from Loki's file and Loki had found out but didn't tell him what he had said, thinking that would be a violation of Loki's privacy.

"Hey, you know what I've always wondered?" Romey smiled brightly from her place on the carpet opposite Thor.

"Hm?"

"Well, Loki has been here for three years and I've never once heard mention of his birthday…"

"I don't think he really cares," Thor shrugged sadly, remembering how excited he used to get – still does – weeks before his birthday.

"Well, you read his file, right? You know when it is?"

Thor nodded and Romey rolled her eyes. "This is the part where you're supposed to tell me when Loki's birthday is…"

"Oh," Thor looked at Loki, who was getting a little frustrated with Oliver because of his short attention span and saw Loki hit the other boy over the head with the book to get his attention. "I don't know if I should tell you…"

"Come on, please, I won't tell him you told me!" She pouted and Thor sighed.

"Its March 29th,"

Romey smiled and thanked him then her and Oliver left them both alone while Thor tried to stop Loki knocking his head against the wall in irritation. Luckily, no guards saw and assumed Loki was having some form of mental breakdown.


At dinner Romey came over and stole Thor away to talk to him.

"Hi!" She smiled at him while Oliver distracted Loki, which basically entailed sitting opposite him where Thor was sat and resisting the urge to run far away from his glare.

"Um, hello Romey," Thor smiled back, a little confused.

"Do you know what the date is today?"

Thor shook his head. "Without school I don't really have to keep track…"

"It's the 28th…"

Thor shrugged. "So?"

"Of March," Romey rolled her eyes.

"So? Oh…" Thor realized what she was getting at. It's Loki's birthday tomorrow.

"So what do you want to do for him? I think we should have a little party for him; just you, me and Oliver,"

Thor bit his lip in thought. "Well, you're not supposed to know it's his birthday…"

Romey sighed. "Oh yeah… We could always say one of the guards told us…"

"Should we risk it? I mean, he hasn't told anyone for three years, it might really upset him…"

"We'll keep it small, I swear,"

Thor gave in and nodded to which Romey jumped up and down inn excitement, clapping. Thor grabbed her hands to stop her clapping and she froze.

They both looked over to Loki and Oliver and sighed in relief when they saw Loki hadn't noticed Romey's outburst.


The rest of the day was pretty dull, all the same stuff. They went to their sessions and Thor talked about his nightmares in a little more detail and got prescribed some pills to take before falling asleep. They'll stop him from dreaming until they can figure out the psychological reason and begin to mentally cure him.

At bed time Thor stood awkwardly beside his bed while Loki straightened his own sheets out and fluffed his pillow, aligning it with the duvet perfectly. They didn't say anything as Loki stared at his bed and then, still in silence, walked across the room and climbed into the blonde's bed.

Thor smiled at the dark haired boy, who was facing the wall, and climbed in next to him, draping one arm round Loki's waist. Loki stiffened a little then slowly relaxed as Thor snuggled against his back.


The next morning Thor woke up feeling a lot more relaxed than he had done since he'd moved to the institute. And he hadn't dreamt of anything that night. And Loki was still in front of him, still sleeping. Thor smiled and buried his face in Loki's hair.

Loki groaned in his sleep and started fidgeting a little, indicating he was waking up, so Thor backed off a little so he wasn't crowding him as much but his arm was still round his waist.

Loki rubbed his eyes and turned round in Thor's arms.

"Morning," Thor smiled at him and Loki looked up a little and grunted in response.

Thor leant forward and whispered in his ear. "Happy Birthday…"

Loki froze and stared at Thor as he pulled back again. "Don't,"

Thor's brow furrowed and he was about to ask Loki what he meant but he interrupted him. "Just don't. Just forget what day it is, I don't care, okay?"

"But, Loki, when was the last time you celebrated your birthday?"

"It's not something to be celebrated," Loki looked down, making his hair fall in front of his face.

"Loki, please, let me show you that it can be fun,"

"In here?" Loki raised an eyebrow sceptically.

Thor nodded and grabbed Loki's hand, dragging him up. "Get dressed,"

Thor poked his head out the door as the night guard dozed off in his chair and pulled Loki out behind him, taking him to the kitchen.

"Why are we in here?" Loki whispered. "And why wasn't it locked?"

"I heard the guard say they didn't bother locking it because no patients got past the night guards,"

"And how did you know we'd get past the night guard?" Loki smirked.

"I heard him talk about having an important meeting with the bank today so he wouldn't get much sleep after last night's shift so he'd be tired today,"

Loki looked up at the clock and saw that it was 4am. "Why are we here?" He repeated his first question and Thor went through cupboards to get out flour, cocoa powder, butter and caster sugar then got milk and eggs from the fridge while Loki watched in confusion.

Thor got out some weighing scales and a bowl and measured out the flour, butter, cocoa, milk and caster sugar and mixed it all with a few eggs using a whisk.

He walked up to Loki and pushed him over to a stool to sit down. Loki pouted but did as instructed, still confused.

Thor turned on the oven and Loki smirked again. "We shouldn't even be in here, much less using the oven. I'm a bad influence on you,"

Thor chuckles and poured the mixture into a deep tray and slipped it into the oven then sat next to Loki.

"Are you going to tell me what you're doing yet,"

Thor smiled but didn't reply and they waited in silence until Thor jumped up and opened the oven, taking out a chocolate sponge cake. Loki raised at eyebrow.

"Seriously, what is happening?"

Thor still didn't answer, just placed the cake on the counted and dug around for something else but couldn't find it so he huffed and took out some icing sugar and the butter.

"Do you prefer vanilla or banana?"

"Um, vanilla?" Loki stared between Thor and the cake in confusion.

Thor nodded and got out vanilla essence and added it to the sugar and butter, mixing it together and getting out grease paper and rolling it into a cone, using some sellotape from the drawer to hold it together and scooped the mixture into the cone and squeezing it onto the cake, standing so Loki can't see what he's doing.

He stepped back to reveal the words "Happy Birthday Loki" written in very sloppy letters across the cake. Loki stared at the cake and Thor shifted nervously.

"Why are you doing this?" Loki asked, not looking up.

"You're too skinny?" Thor joked then turned serious. "Everyone should have a birthday cake…"

Loki smiled at him and stood up to hug him, much to Thor's shock. But he hugged back anyway.

They cut the cake into four pieces and ate a piece each. Thor looked over Loki's shoulder and saw Romey and Oliver gesturing to him, she was holding a piece of paper saying "Oli's room. Mini party. Now" and Thor bit his lip and nodded.

"Loki? Please don't be mad…"

Loki looked up from his cake. "About what?"

"I um… I told Romey and Oliver when your birthday was…"

Loki blinked.

"Ad they kind of want to have a little party for you in Oliver's room…"

Loki sighed. "Well, they already know…" Thor's eyes widened as Loki continued. "We can give them their pieces of cake,"

Loki smiled a little at Thor's reaction and Thor beamed and jumped up, picking up the tray to take with them.

"Thank you, Loki,"

Loki shrugged. "I should be thanking you…"

Thor smiled even wider and Loki absently thought his face might split in half as they snuck to Oliver's room.