Author's Note: In answer to a question from the review from bluecake, this story was never really about Loki and Thor. It was more like Loki and the Avengers. Also Loki in the story has been avoiding Thor (it is weird to be called brother by someone you have never met before), sorry if I did not make that clear in the beginning. Still I do admit that they need to talk things out before Loki leaves, so I wrote this chapter just for all the people who want to see Loki and Thor interact with one another. There will be a sequel to this story with a bit more interaction between the two of them if the readers wish for it. Chapter 16 was supposed to be the last one but since I added this chapter to tie things up and add a little of Loki's background in the mix, there will be one more left before this story is finished.

Disclaimers: I do not own any of Marvel's characters. I do own my Loki, a few others, the plot and the some of the backstory, including my Loki's past.

Chapter 16 Standing on the Rooftop

Thor watched Loki from the corner of his eye as they piled into one of Shield's vans. Tony was taking them to a Garden of Olives for dinner and he wanted to spend more time with his brother. He shook his head and averted his gaze out the window as the street laps flickered to life, Earth magic he supposed. It was hard to know that Loki wanted nothing to do with him. In his heart he knew Loki was dead, that the person sitting behind him was not the brother he had lost. They were not the same person, they were two different.

"Thor we're here," Clint said nudging his arm. He looked up sharply when he realized the vehicle was no longer in motion. "You need to get out of the van so the others can get out as well."

"Sorry I was lost in thought," he muttered as he got out of the van. Everybody climbed out and headed for the building. Thor lingered a little bit behind the others and fell into step with Loki.

"Brother you had us worried when you disappeared like that," he said conversationally.

"I did not mean to have you worried Thor, and I'm not your brother."

The tone was gentle but Thor flushed anyways, "I know you are not. You have my apologies bro…Loki. You look a lot like my brother though."

"It must have been hard losing him," Loki replied gently patting him on the arm. They followed Tony deeper into the building and to three large tables pushed together so they could all sit together.

"It was hard. We used to sit together at feasts like this one, together. Once he made the ale turn colors in the middle of a drinking contest. The contestants thought they were seeing things."

"He was a trickster then," Loki asked as they took seats next to each other. He picked up his menu and squinted at the words.

"What's wrong bro…Loki," he asked watching with concern.

"Nothing, I just have no idea what this stuff is. I still do not have a grasp of the English language and I have no idea about food." He closed the menu and placed his napkin on his lap.

"Thor, Loki would you like some breadsticks," Bruce asked handing over a basket filled with long ropes of bread. "If you don't eat them now you never will get one. Tony will eat them all."

"I will not," Tony protested, after swallowing a mouthful of breadstick, "Besides these breadsticks are good.

Loki took a stick looked at it critically and took a bit. His eyes widened just a bit, "These really are good." He handed the basket to Thor who took one then handed it to Natasha who was sitting next to him. "So since I have no idea what is good here can you make a suggestion Bruce?" He looked across the table at the man, who looked at the menu and nodded.

"Both of you might like the spaghetti, or perhaps the Ravioli?"

Loki shared a look with Thor, "How about we try them both. We can split the meal in half so we both try something new."

"I would like that."

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One meal later and Loki was full and tired. It felt nice to sit here listening to Tony cracking bad jokes and Fury threading him with solitary confinement if he said another word. Apparently the threat was not real because Tony kept talking as he drained another glass of wine. Bruce switched the cup of wine for his own glass of water, while Fury confiscated the wine bottle. Natasha and Clint was arm wrestling each other, neither of them willing to be the loser.

Thor turned to Loki, "You have not mentioned your family before. Can I inquire about them," he asked almost shyly.

"I didn't have family," Loki replied. "I was found drifting through space by Heimdell; he did a lot of delivers to other planets at the time." Thor flinched a bit, "What is it?"

"Nothing, continue your tale."

"Well Heimdell found me drifting in a pile of wreckage in a life capsule so he took me home. The police never found who I was so the community named me and raised me as they saw fit. I spent most of my nights with Odin he had a son also called Thor. We shared a room till I became Weyland's apprentice and dropped out of school. Weyland taught me a lot about fixing things and building. I guess he was my parent at the trade post, till he left."

"He just left you," Thor asked shocked.

"He was a brilliant inventor. He got a better job on another planet and moved. He left the shop and some money to me so it was no big deal. I was twelve, old enough to take care of myself."

"It must have been lonely. "

"It was for a bit but I love building things," Loki said following him outside. Instead of getting into the van they both started walking towards the tower on foot. "There is nothing better in the world then fixing things that have been broken."

Thor nodded as they reached the tower and got into the elevator. He pushed the button for the roof. When they reached the roof they bypassed the hanger and went to the landing platform. Loki looked up at the stars and smiled a bit.

"I never had a brother before," he said hesitantly.

"Would you like one," Thor asked his heart beating faster in his chest.

"Yes," Loki said turning to look at him.

"I'll be your brother," Thor said seizing him around the middle and lifting him up of the ground in his joy.

"Can you put me down," Loki inquired, Thor did so still grinning.

"Do you want to know where I'm going when I leave tomorrow?"

"Yes though I wish you could stay."

"I'm going to Radion, first." He looked up at the sky and pointed at a star. "I believe it is right about there, in this sky. I've got to deliver a couple crates of cloth to a merchant there. Then I have nowhere else I have to be at the moment."

"Will you come back?"

"I'll try," Loki said. "I do not have a permit to land on this planet once I leave it."

"Then you can visit me at my home in Asgard," Thor said. "I'm sure my father will be aright with you visiting me."

"We will see," Loki said with a laugh. "We will see." They sat there for a while in silence watching the stars make their slow way across the sky before going in and to bed.