Hey all you lovely people,

Sorry I was lazy yesterday and the day before that. I blame the fact that I was watching Dollhouse. Joss Whedon is my god. Anyways, Here is chapter four and five. I believe there will be a total of seven chapters. That's of course if i counted correctly, and since I'm an english major and not a math major there is a large chance of that.

So, let me be the first to say i have nothing against Odin, I just needed a bad guy, and well he was constantly (probably not on purpose) making Loki feel inadequate. I wanted to play off those themes because I think that why Loki does have the things he does. He wants to be noticed. I swear someone just needed to give the poor guy a hug in Thor, and tell him he was perfect just the way he was. But no one did and that's how badass Loki from the avengers came to be. hmmm.

I'm going to stop rambling now, so you can please read, review, and whatever else you want to do. Fave? Alert?

Kai

The Breakup Breakdown

Chapter Four

Present

Loki tugged absently on the sleeve of his jacket as he half listened to the overly friendly guy, who was somehow an acquaintance of Tony's. The guy might have told him his name, but Loki didn't remember.

"So, how do you know about the Avengers project?" The man asked, with a cheesy grin spread across his face.

Loki shrugged; he hadn't really been a part of the actual project, like Thor had been. He really only remembered the obscure things Thor had told him, and at that moment, most of them were fleeting.

"You don't even remember? Yeah, I don't really either. I just remember, Tony coming in to my lab and demanding I do something for him." He said with a light chuckle that Loki pretended to be amused by.

"My ex was part of the project, actually."Loki abruptly interjected, then flinched as he watched the guy's eyes widen in surprise.

"Really?" The guy stammered in disbelief

"Yeah," Loki muttered in return, suddenly feeling more uncomfortable than he thought he should, hadn't he been trying to convince himself that he was over Thor? Apparently not.

"Who?" The guy asked and Loki frowned in response. Why had he brought up Thor if he hadn't wanted to talk about him?

"Thor…" Loki said in a soft voice and the man's eyes got even wider, if that was at all possible.

"No way, he's your ex? Did you know he just got engaged to that fancy scientist Jane Foster, the discoveries she made have brought on a whole new way of how man looks at space." The man said and Loki felt the color drain from his face.

"It was nice to meet you, but I have to go." Loki mumbled abruptly as he began to turn away, only to have the man catch him by the wrist and pull him back around towards him.

"Wait, we weren't done talking!"

Loki suddenly felt panic bubble up within him, which was quickly replaced by rage as he yanked his wrist away from the man.

"Yes, I think we are!" He growled and turned around storming through the crowd of party guests, straight for Tony Stark, who had an arm draped around a busty brunette, whose rack was obviously fake.

Loki stamped up to him and pushed her aside, earning him a loud yelp, and a 'hey!' as she trudged away from them grumbling angrily as she went.

"You knew! You knew he got engaged and that was why you kept insisting that I come. You wanted to distract me, so I wouldn't find out." Loki hissed in a low voice as Tony just shrugged his shoulders in response.

"Well, can you blame me? You were becoming a recluse and I just figured that news would completely break you. I was trying to loosen you up, so you would hopefully move on. I thought you were doing really well with…Tad…Todd? J.A.R.V.I.S?" Tony finished with a confused expression.

"Todd Sir." J. A.R. V. I. S. supplied and Tony nodded his thank you.

"He was a D-bag."Loki said bitterly and Tony rolled his eyes.

"And so are you. So, what's the problem?" Tony sighed sound completely put out.

Loki's eyes narrowed upon Tony, before he swiftly turned and marched out of the mansion.

He heard Tony calling after him, "Loki! Loki, wait!" But Loki didn't look back he was going home. He had had enough fun for one day. He fought the tears that started to form in the corner of his eyes.

Loki felt the tears he had been fighting against; since he had heard the news about Thor; slip from the corner of his eyes. He was no longer trying to stop them. Was this going to happen every time he thought of Thor? He tried to brush them away with the back of his hand, but a few slipped through and down his cheeks. A hard lumped lodged in his throat as he wrapped his arms around himself, giving up on finding a cab to take him home, and deciding that it would be faster to just walk home.

As he walked home, he heard his phone ring, but he ignored it. He didn't care who it was because he didn't want to talk to anyone. He just wanted to be left alone.

Loki sighed, he should have known that Thor would have moved on, but it didn't really stop it from hurting any less.

Past

Loki pulled his suit jacket over his shoulders and stared back at his reflection. He was about to meet Thor's parents, and he was desperate to make a good impression. He blinked at his reflection a couple more times feeling unsatisfied with how he looked.

"Do I look okay?" Loki muttered, and Thor's head poked out from behind the bathroom door.

"You look great; trust me, there is no need to be so nervous. My parents are going to love you." Thor said brightly before his head vanished back behind the door.

Loki sighed, because he wanted to believe that, but he didn't. For some reason, deep in his gut, he knew that this night was going to end in disaster.

"I don't know…I just don't think." Loki sighed, and frowned at his reflection, before turning away from it and heading towards the bathroom.

Thor stuck his head out again and smiled warmly at him. "I love you. That's all you need. That's all we need…Okay?" Thor said trying desperately to reassure Loki, and knowing he was failing at it.

"Okay, I'm just worrying over nothing." Loki said trying to convince himself more than anyone that things were going to turn out all right.

Loki spread a wide smile across his face as Thor opened their front door and ushered his parents in. His mother, had a wide smile spread on her face, that held up her chestnut-brown hair in a tight bun, with a couple of rouge curls attempting to escape their confinement. Behind her was Thor's father, who held a sour expression on his face as he looked over at Loki. His brows narrowed on him, and he pursed his lips and looked back over towards his son.

"Is this your place son?" He asked and Loki looked away from them, and over at Thor, who had taken up the rear, closing the door behind them.

"Actually, it's Loki's but he lets he me live here rent free." Thor chuckled, and the frown on his father's face deepened. Loki felt his heart stop.

"What was wrong with your old place?" Thor's father inquired and Thor's shrugged his shoulders.

"Nothing, I just wanted to spend more time with Loki, and he agreed. So, we started living together. We even got a cat?" Thor chimed happily as he began searching for were Mjolnir who had found a place to hide from the company. Loki had never envied the cat more.

"So, sweetie, whatever you're cooking smells so delicious. Please show me." Thor's mother chimed in and Thor nodded his head as he guided her towards the kitchen, leaving Loki and Thor's father standing in the living room, feeling very uncomfortable.

"It's nice to meet you." Loki mumbled looking over at Thor's father, who just gave him a look of great distain.

"You aren't going to hold Thor back. I won't let you." He said sharply and Loki's eyes grew wide.

"It was never my intention to hold Thor back." Loki stammered and Thor's father rolled his eyes.

"You must realize you are only a phase and that sooner or later my son will grow out of it, and when he does I don't want to see you or your cat ever again." Thor's father said in an even voice, but Loki began to feel his blood begin to boil.

"Excuse me? What makes you think that? I'm deeply in love with your son, and I'm not going anywhere." Loki growled back in a low voice.

"I never said you weren't in love with my son, but when he does dump like all the others that had come before; I don't want to see you in his life again." The older man said with a tight smile as he slunk off towards the kitchen before Loki had time to retort.

Dinner, if anything was even more awkward as Loki tried to avoid conversation at all cost by keeping his eyes locked on his plate of food that with each bite he took shrunk.

"So, Loki, Thor was telling me that you played a part in bring the Avengers project together." Frigga, Thor's mother said brightly as she gave Loki a look of expectance, which made Loki blush.

"I didn't do that much, but it was my initial idea that they used. In the end though, they were the ones who figured it all out, and because of me they discovered they made a really great team." Loki stated proudly, and he watched Thor's father just rolled his eyes.

"Come on Loki, I really think your being modest." Thor chimed in and Loki looked over at him and shook his head. Loki shook his head again.

"No, can we just drop it." Loki then added abruptly and Thor gave him a puzzled look.

"Loki, honey, you haven't told us anything about your own parents. When will we have the pleasure of meeting them?" Frigga interjected and Loki flinched.

"You probably will never meet them. My mother died when I was very young, and I haven't seen my father in years. We had a falling out of shorts." Loki mumbled his attention back on his food. Thinking about his father made Loki uncomfortable, but his discomfort was short-lived when he felt Thor's hand rest reassuringly on his knee in support.

Despite the support from Thor, Loki was sure at that moment things couldn't have gotten worse. Too bad he was wrong.