PART 2
Chapter 2x10: I Can't Move On / 1 Year Later
"Ok so far, we have manage to finally move the remaining people to the capital and the states surrounding the capital, that's an advance" - stated Arash
"Production stills a bit of an issue...but let me say this and I hope you don't take it the wrong way my King" - said the head of Persia's economy - "but we don't even need to produce that much thanks to The Snap" - he explained
"Well...it's been a year since that, something good have to came out of it" - stated Arash giving the man a nod
"Maybe we need to bring some people around to work on the production of the country, giving that we have lost a lot of people on that sector" - explained another man
"Bring people? You know that every other country is just as affected as we are on this, right?" - explained a woman
"You know...there might be a country or town that can help as we help them as well" - said Arash looking thoughtful at the table
"What do you mean my King?" - asked another woman in the room
"I think I know what we can do, but I need to talk to someone first about it, but until that I think we can dismiss this reunion for now" - said Arash before standing up - "thank you all for coming, keep informing me about anything and we see each other on the next meeting" - he finished as everybody started to make their way out of the office
"Mr. Mohammadi" - called out a girl entering the room, she had long to the shoulder wavy black hair, a septum piercing, you could see tattoos on her neck, hands and arms, she was older than Arash but still young in her early 20's
"Farah, I have tell you many times, you can just call me Arash" - said Arash as he walked with her on his side
"I know, but with all the people around I thought it would be a little disrespectful on their eyes" - said Farah
"I am not traditional and you know that, I'm guessing you have some messages for me?" - Asked Arash turning to her as she nodded - "ok, shoot" - he said
"Your aunt called to confirm that she could diverge the press attention that your great uncle tried to bring on the new orphan place that you made for the kids that lost their parents during The Snap" - asked Farah
"Well, she's awesome, I bet she do some hacking or something to make that happening, I should call and thank her myself" - said Arash
"I did it for you, but it will not be a bad idea as she is staying there tonight to finish things up, I already told her you would" - said Farah
"You know me so well, if I were straight-" - started Arash
"You would marry me, I know" - finished Farah rolling her eyes as the King just smirked - "I got a message from Tamina about your great uncle, but since we didn't answer him fast enough he called, it was something about a press tour on the states around the capital with the people left from The Snap" - she explained
"Of course he wants that, he still thinks I want the glory" - said Arash rolling his eyes
"Well I shut down the idea, telling him you have something important to do already on the corner and doing that press tour will take away your time" - said Farah
"Good thinking, did he ask you what were those important things?" - asked Arash
"I hang up the phone faking a bad connection before he could ask" - said Farah
"That's a good one" - said Arash laughing a little before turning serious - "have Thor leave the building today?" - He asked concerned
Since Thor have been staying with him he hasn't even bother to move around much, he was either on the gym floor, Arash's floor or his own guest floor, he have manage to get him on the dining room for some "family" diners sometimes but that's all, he don't even likes people going to his floor, if the King ever sends someone to leave food or arrange things is when he was busy in the gym.
The Persian boy was afraid of his friend mental health, one time Thor sneak into the teen while he was relaxing in the Jacuzzi on his floor and got in with him, the Asgardian didn't say a word and just pulled the boy into his arms, it was weird for Arash because it was a very personal territory that he have never been with another man, even if Thor was completely dressed which made the things a thousand times more weirder, he was scare that confronting God of Thunder would be bad and he didn't know how to set boundaries with his friend still grieving, but the King didn't need to anyway since nothing ever escalated between them.
"I'm sorry Arash, but we had to cancel his day out, he made very clear he didn't wanted to go out...kinda scary, his eyes sparkled with electricity and all" - explained Farah gulping at the memory of the God of Thunder growling at her
"He have a nice heart, I'm so sorry you have to deal with him like that, I'm just trying to see how to get him out of this funk" - said Arash about to walk into the elevator
"There is something else..." - trailed Farah making the teen stop and turn to look at her and she bit her bottom lip
"Something wrong?" Asked Arash worried
"No...but Ms. Romanoff called again, she leave a message and-" - started to say Farah
"No" - said Arash coldly
"Arash, I think you should call her, she have insisted on talking with you just like Mr. Banner, they are just trying to-" - tried to explain Farah
"I said no!" - Growled Arash with his eyes glowing golden making his secretary flinch a little backing away from him, he sighed looking down before looking at her - "I'm sorry Farah...is just..." - he trailed sounding regretful for his reaction.
"It's fine" - assured Farah - "you know...you had to push your issues aside to do all of this, but if you ever want to talk, you know I can listen" - she said
"I know...thanks Farah, I'm going to see Thor, see you in a bit" - said Arash before stepping inside the elevator and going to the Asgardian floor
The Persian boy didn't wanted to snap at his secretary like that, mostly because his powers have been on the edge because his emotions are all over the place, but he didn't leave in a good spot with Natasha and Bruce, he knows that it might be a stupid reason that he was mad because he felt lied about everything with Peter being alright, but it hurt him, because he was feeling close to them and now he feels like he can't face them without remembering Tony's face while he said that he couldn't save the Queens boy.
"I said I don't want to go out" - said Thor as he heard the door of the elevator opening
Arash is the only one with access to go inside any floor if he wants to while the others have to buzz and wait for the other person to answer, just the cleaning people has access to the rooms as well but only if the room is empty thanks to a very high tech security system installed on the building by his aunt.
"It's me Thor" - said Arash entering the huge living room of the floor
"Oh...I'm sorry" - said Thor sounding regretful
"As you should" - complained Arash - "I don't appreciate that you mistreat the staff in here big guy, specially Farah, she's been pretty good" - he said crossing his arms
No response came from the Asgardian, the King sighed and took off his dress jacket to put it on the back of a chair and also stepped out his shoes walking to the couch where his friend was and sit next to him, the God of Thunder move an arm around the boy as he cuddle up to him, he moved his legs up in the couch crossing them.
"Thor...I have an idea, you don't need to be part of it if you don't want too...but I wanna know if you approve me doing it" - said Arash
"What is it?" - asked Thor
"You told me about the Agardians having a hard time on where they landed and all..." - started Arash - "...so I was thinking...what if...we bring them all here?" - He asked
"Why?" - asked Thor, he didn't sound mad but he did sounded nervous
"Well...we need people to work on the production part of the country, because we lost many people in there, you know people that can work in like farm, fishing and things like that, we have like this island that is not quiet Persia but it is, just that it doesn't have a name, we can arrange everything and make it like the "New Asgard" or something, I will make sure they live and get paid well" - explained Arash - "but like I said, I don't wanna do it if you don't want to" - he added
"Do they have to see me?" - asked Thor
"No if you don't want to, I will not let anybody bother you" - explained Arash
"Can I have friends here?" - asked Thor
"Yeah of course you can, anything to make you feel better big guy" - said Arash
"Are you gonna leave?" - asked Thor
"No, I will not leave, I will still be here" - said Arash
"No...I mean here...our floor" - said Thor
"Thor...we have talk about this, this is yours, I live just 4 floors up" - said Arash
"I don't want you to leave...I want you to stay here" - said Thor
"I can't stay all the time, I have to work Thor, I have to rule my country keep them moving and I gotta..." - trailed Arash feeling tears coming but he took a deep breath to calm down - "I gotta keep moving too" - he said turning to look at his friend who wasn't watching the TV anymore he looked at some void on the floor - "hey, look at me" - he said grabbing the blond man's face - "I'm still here, I'm not leaving you" - he added caressing his friend's face with his thumbs
The God of Thunder looked at the teen's eyes making Arash look down taking a deep breath before looking up again and smiled sadly at him.
"I care about you Thor...a lot...but I...I can't move on from what happened...not yet...so I need to move in other direction" - said Arash as he felt the tears falling from his eyes - "I'm sorry...I can't move on" - he cried
Thor pulled the boy to his lap holding him as he cried with his head hidden on the man's shoulder, he felt the God of Thunder kiss the top of his head as he cried, he have been containing his tears ever since taking back the throne so have a lot to let out now.
A/N: Let's go 1 year later, pain still there of course, I mean if a normal grieve is hard to get over imagine grieving half of the universe when yo try to stop it? Takes time people and I'm not telling you just as a psychologist, but because I'm still grieving someone close to me that died like 3 months ago and I can't still feel pain when I heard that person's name, so I'm guessing this goes longer than mine, still our King still doing his best to rule his country pushing through his pain, gotta give it him.
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