Question? Is Mjolnir being a fluffy cat cool different? Maybe I don't read enough fics but I haven't seen it too much. Do you like it? Because I might roll with this idea again.

The Breakup Breakdown

Chapter Five

Present

The way back to his apartment was a blur to Loki as he stumbled up the stairs to his floor. He sighed, and continued to ignore his phone that still hadn't stopped ring since he had left Tony's. He stumbled into his hall and he felt all the air leave his body, while his eyes suddenly go wide as he Thor leaning up against his apartment door, his hair tangled and disheveled from the rain that had only begun to let up as soon as Loki had walked through the door of his apartment complex.

When Thor heard someone approaching he looked up and Loki's slowed his pace down, as if that would avoid having to talk to Thor.

"What are you doing here?" Loki mumbled avoiding eye contact with Thor at all cost. He had finally stopped himself from crying, but seeing Thor right in front of him was making that much harder.

"I have been trying to call you, but you never picked up. I guess, honestly I deserved that, but I swear I would not have called you if it was not important." Thor said in a rush of words that Loki had a hard time understanding.

"What's wrong and so urgent that you needed to call me?" Loki said sounding as puzzled as he felt.

"Have you seen him?" Thor then said sounding suddenly panicked and Loki's eyebrows arched further in his growing confusion.

"Have I seen who? Tony? Yeah, I saw the rat bastard tried to set me up." Loki muttered, his rage towards Tony, suddenly refueling its self.

"No! Wait, Tony did what?" Thor added abruptly, and then shook his head, realizing that wasn't the issue he wanted to discuss. "No, Mjolnir. He got out of my apartment somehow, and he seems to have run away. I have been searching for him all day. I thought that maybe he had come back to you." Thor said sounding desperate and Loki, felt his rage for Tony shift over to Thor.

"You lost him! How could you lose him?! I bet it was your father. He never liked me, and I'm sure he wanted to get rid of any remnants of me. So, you could live your wonderful little life with your new fiancée Jane." Loki spat at Thor angrily, making the taller man flinch.

"Loki, what are you talking about? I am not engaged to Jane. Sure we had a thing once, and it had been heading in that direction, but then I met you." Thor stammered as Loki felt his cheeks grow hot, and he quickly looked away.

"Well someone started the rumor that you were." Loki muttered in a soft voice, and he heard Thor snort.

"Well then who ever started it was foolish because it will take me a long while to get over you. Now, please tell me, Loki, have you seen him?" Thor inquired and Loki shook his head.

"I haven't been home all day. I had to go out and get a suit for Tony's party, which I didn't even stay for." Loki sighed and Thor nodded.

"Well, will you at least help me look?" Thor asked.

Loki nodded his head up and down in response, "Of course, I want to find him just as much as you do."

They came up with a plan and decided that splitting up would be the most effective way of searching for him, and just as they went in their separate directions, to search, the rain began to fall from the sky once more.

Past

Loki quickly escaped to the kitchen after he felt completely suffocated in the small dining room that Thor's parents were still eating in, and chatting with their son. He had answered all their questions and he now felt the burning desire to throw himself off his balcony.

He exhaled a long-held breath as he closed his eyes, desperately trying to steady himself for round number two. The only problem was that round two started before he had time to prepare himself.

"I think it would be best if you left, Thor. Already I can tell you are holding him back." Thor's father's voice sounded from behind Loki, and he spun around in alarm.

"I…" Loki stuttered, unable to find the right words.

"The best way for this to happen is for you to break his heart. Snap it in two if you must." Thor's father then continued and Loki, felt his fists clench and unclench as the anger grew within him.

"I'm not going to do that. I love Thor." Loki growled and watched the older man's nostrils flare in anger.

"I know what's best for my son. So, you are going to do what I say or I'll tell your father exactly where you are."

Loki suddenly felt his blood run cold.

"You know my father?" Loki whispered, his hands beginning to shake.

"Yes, and I know the exact reason why you had a fallout with him. Now, I want you to break Thor's heart because you will never be good enough for him." Thor's father finished, in a low voice as he turned and headed back into the dining room.

Loki swallowed a large lump that had abruptly formed in his throat. There was no one who frightened Loki more than his father. He had run away for a reason and that reason was be as far away from his father as he could get.

Tears prickled the corner of his eyes. He didn't really know what to do. He could stay with Thor, but live looking over his shoulder to see if father was lurking there. Or he could hurt Thor in the worst possible way, but be free of the fear.

"Loki, what's taking so long with desert?" Thor called, and Loki quickly tried to brush the tears away with the back of his hand, along with exhaling a long breath to steady himself.

"I'm coming." Loki called back. He wasn't anywhere near figuring out how to solve his problem. He did know, though, that he wanted to do what was best for Thor. This thought led him to a question he unexpectedly felt he could not answer.

Was he actually holding Thor back? Did Thor's father have a point? Was it naïve of him to believe that he and Thor were meant to be with one another?

He closed his eyes again, in a desperate attempt to find even just a shed of clarity, and when he opened them again. He still hadn't found any.