Hey guys! Sorry for the delay. I just found out that my big brother isn't coming down for my graduation after all. Sure he can get a weekend off for a bike rally with no notice, but one day for a graduation he's known about since January? There's no way. *rolls eyes* So it kinda came out into my writing. Sorry! I just needed to vent and as a result, Jane now has a brother. Anyway, read on!
Thor was concerned. He and Jane had been having a lovely day until just a few minutes ago. In that space of time, her phone had rung and seemed to replace his Jane with a fire breathing monster. He watched confused from the couch as she paced back and forth.
"I don't believe you! No, you know what? I do believe it!"
She paused, still fuming, listening to whoever it was on the other side of the phone. The hand that was not holding it was running through her hair repeatedly as resumed pacing.
"You do this all the time! I'm only important to you if you get something out of it in return!"
She paused again and he moved to her side. He cautiously placed a hand on her shoulder. He wouldn't admit it, but he did not want to feel her wrath upon him. Her eyes darted up to his and he gave her a small smile. She tried to return it but ended up with more of a grimace. He heard a muffled voice and her attention snapped back to the phone. What was going on?
"Just stop okay? Just stop. I'm through. You always do this. You make excuses and you say you're sorry and I always believe you! Then you make another promise, and I believe you again and I'm sick of it."
The muffled voice made another response and Jane seemed to deflate before his eyes. She moved the couch and sat down. "It's not the same. I wanted you there. I don't ask you for a lot. I just wanted you to be there. But it doesn't even matter now. Just forget about it. Sorry I asked. Should've known you wouldn't come."
She pulled the phone away from her ear and hit the end call button on the screen. Thor quickly sat down beside her and pulled her into his lap when he saw the tears welling up in the corners of her eyes. "Jane, what was that?"
She buried her head into his chest and held up her phone. "This is a phone. It lets you talk to other people far away."
Thor smoothed her hair as he felt the first tears began to hit his shirt. "No, love, Tony explained that device to me some time ago. I meant what is it that has troubled you so?" He tilted her head up and wiped away the tears with his thumbs. He wanted to kill whoever had troubled her, but she needed him now.
She rolled her eyes. "That would be my idiot half-brother."
He gave her a confused look. "I do not understand. How is it that someone can be half a person? Was he injured?"
She chuckled and gave him a teary smile. "No, he's a whole person. He's my half-brother because we have the same dad but different moms. See, my dad was married to his mom first and they had him. Then they separated and dad married my mom and they had me."
Thor thought this over a moment. "What was it that he said to you?"
She sighed and laid back against him. "You know that award I'm getting next week? I found out about it like 2 months ago. I called him and asked if he would come down for the ceremony. I haven't seen him in forever and I thought it would be nice for him to be there. He said he would and just then, he was calling to let me know that he was, in fact, not coming."
"I take it from your responses that he has done this before?"
She nodded. "He never comes to anything important to me. He only comes around when he wants something. If I don't have anything for him, I don't see him or hear from him. I don't know why I thought this time would be different."
She snorted. "Apparently he saw some magazine with a picture of you me and the others in it and he tried to tell me that I wouldn't need him there because I'd have you guys. Don't get me wrong, I love that you're coming with me and I'm happy the others are coming, but I wanted him there. Is that so wrong?"
He squeezed her a little tighter to him. "No, there's nothing wrong with that. If he cannot see what a wonderful woman you are, then that is his loss. However, if you want, I could go and force him to come?"
She laughed. "No but thanks for the offer. If he doesn't want to be here, then I don't want him here. Now, we were having a nice day before he called and I'd like to get back to that." She said as she reached up to kiss him.
"As you wish. What would you like to do?"
"I think it's high time you learned about the wonderful world of video games." She said with a grin as she picked up an oddly shaped gadget and pressed a button on it. She turned the TV on to a channel and made a selection from a screen with many different icons.
"What form of sorcery is this?" He asked amazed as the screen changed to show a man waking up in a train that was dangling off of a cliff.
"Not sorcery. This is Nathan Drake. He is quite possibly the unluckiest guy in the world. This is what I play whenever I need a laugh or a reminder that things could be worse. Now pay attention to what I do because when I die it's your turn."
I couldn't resist, I love Nate! I'm mostly a Nintendo girl but I adore the Uncharted series. And he really does have bad luck and he is funny. I used the beginning of the second one, but I will admit, my fav is the 3rd one. Anyway, sorry again that my problems spilled into the story. Thanks for all the reviews, alerts and favs and remember if there's anything you want to see, I'll try to write it.