Beep. Beep. Beep. Loki slammed his fist down on the bedside table, wincing as his hand collided with a clipboard. His eyes shot open as a delighted cry of "Loki!" rang out through the room.
"Mother? What are you doing here?" Loki asked groggily. Frigga sighed.
"Your brother. The car crash. What do you remember?" She replied wearily.
Loki sat up quickly and winced as his head throbbed. After it had subsided, he hesitantly glanced around the room, bracing for any pain that might accompany it. The room was all white, with one green chair aside from the bed. Frigga was perched on the chair in a black pantsuit. Various medical monitors lined the room's walls, with a single full size mirror on the far wall beyond a incessant beeping was coming from a heart monitor attached to the side of the bed.
"I'm in the hospital because Thor was an idiot and crashed the car. What else?" Loki sighed.
"You've had a severe concussion. You have been out for three days, your scalp is scarring on the left side, and you have minor internal brain damage. Your shoulder was dislocated when you first got here, but they popped it back into place. Thor is still in the hospital with a broken arm." Frigga said quietly. Loki immediately put his hand up to his head and was relieved when he found that he still had hair, though his head was still covered in bandages. Loki examined his arms and legs. Minor scratches and small scars lined them, but most of those had been there before. Loki got out of the bed and sat on the side.
"Do you have any clothes, Mother?" He asked. Instead of replying, Frigga took out a pair of black skinny jeans and a black tshirt. She knew him too well. Loki walked behind the screen and stripped off the hospital gown. He turned to look in the mirror and winced at how bad he looked.
The side of his face had scratches from broken glass on it, and his hair looked greasy and lank. His ice blue eyes looked glassy, and his head was wrapped in a bandage. Loki quickly grabbed his clothes and put them on. He walked out and nodded to Frigga. He walked out of the room to go ask about a shower.
After some classic Loki charm and puppy dog eyes, Loki managed to wheedle himself a bath from a nurse. The woman-her name was Sarah-showed him to the bathroom, Loki quickly began stripping out of his shirt. It was then that Frigga walked in.
"Loki, I-what did you DO?" Frigga ended in a yelp. Her eyes were tracing the endless pink lines that snaked across his chest, every one representing something he hated about himself. Loki's face curled into a grimace. Six years of keeping it a secret, and she found out because of a car crash? Frigga was still looking at his chest, eyes brimming with tears as she read the single word that covered him. MONSTER.
"Don't you know, Mother? I'm a monster. You shouldn't want me around. You're not even my blood." Loki finished, taking off his pants and stepping into the shower. He heard Frigga's soft sob and the sound of her footsteps as she left the room.
Loki ran his fingers through his hair as the water ran. He quickly stepped out and toweled down. He once again donned his clothes and set off for the reception desk.
"Excuse me, miss, I was wondering if you could tell me the room number for Thor Odinson." Loki said, flashing a blinding smile that felt like a mask to the pretty receptionist. She giggled at the tall man, then looked through the database. She wrote down the number on a slip of paper and handed it to him.
"I'm Laurel, by the way." She said. Loki smiled once again and set off for the elevators. He glanced at the paper and sighed at her phone number. It did have Thor's room number too, so that was good enough. Loki pressed the button for floor number three, and as soon as the lift stopped, he walked swiftly to room 305. Loki didn't bother knocking and stepped inside.
"Hello, brother." He said in a silky voice. Everyone in the room (Bruce, Tony, Natasha, Clint, Jane, Steve, and Pepper) looked at him. With dead silent footsteps he strided up to Thor's bedside and punched his nose. Everyone heard a cracking noise as Thor's nose broke.