[AN: This is a little different. I don't know if Jane and Thor saw each other before he left but I don't think he'd leave (Loki or no) without seeing her at least once. Thanks to all the lovely people who reviewed, favorited, or story alerted this. You make my day! There will be a happy ending for Nat and Clint just wait a little longer.]
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THOR
Jane was brought through layers of sleep and dream by an echoing absence, like the noise after an air conditioner goes off.
"Hm?" She tried to roll over but as her sense returned through the fog of sleep she found that she was comfortably nestled beside a large warm body. Her eyes opened more quickly as memories rushed back, pleasure and longing coming together in one night. She could feel heat rushing violently to her cheeks at the thought.
"Good morning," Thor's deep voice greeted her into wakefulness and his warm lips caressed her temple briefly. "Did I wake you?"
"No, no," She mumbled and didn't even try to keep the glowing smile off her face.
"Good," He murmured and they lapsed into a comfortable silence as light seeped into the room. But his question stirred later, more subdued memories of the previous night which prompted Jane to break the silence with a question.
"Thor?"
"Yes, my love," He replied and the blush that had faded from Jane's face returned in full force.
"Do… do Agardians dream?" She questioned hesitantly. Thor seemed a little surprised by her question then his face softened into sorrow and something more powerful like anguish. "I'm sorry," she said immediately, feeling terrible for ruining the little time they had together before Thor would take his brother back to Asgard for trail.
"I assure you it is alright," he said with the utmost sincerity, "Our dreams are much like human dreams that I have heard of, but more vivid. I'm sorry if I woke you in the night as I dreamed."
"It seemed… " Jane drifted off as she remembered a similar look that had twisted his face as he tossed that night.
"I dreamed about Loki, my brother," Thor explained.
"How can you still call him that?" Jane asked without anger only sadness for what she knew her lover was feeling.
"Because I still remember him that way. When I think of Loki I do not think of him as a traitor, I can only see the happy memories of our childhood but… it seems he remembers them differently."
Jane wrapped her arms further around his bare chest and reached up to kiss his cheek.
"You are a better brother than he deserves."
"Perhaps it is his fate that is lacking and not his character though I cannot speak for either, he has changed since he fell from Asgard and I do not know what he would have become had he been raised in Jotunheim."
"What will they do to him in Asguard?" Jane dared to ask. She wasn't afraid for the trickster's sake, but for what his fate might mean for Thor.
"That is for the council to decide," Thor replied, his voice unreadable and his expression distant.
"They won't… kill him will they?"
"No," Thor answered quickly, a hint of relief in his voice, "that is not our way," His face was still troubled so Jane changed the subject.
"You'll be leaving soon so let's enjoy the time we have. Breakfast?" She pulled on a smile and weather it fooled Thor or not he grinned and went along.
"Only if there is coffee. I have missed it since leaving."
"Careful or you won't be able to live without it," Jane laughed and they got up to face the day whatever it might bring them.
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