They stared at one another, both afraid to make the first move.

The fire in Loki's eyes was gone, now that he saw Jane in front of him, slightly shaken up, he felt responsible. He had never intended to hurt her, not before, not now. He looked into her eyes and saw himself, looking a bit scary. So he toned down the passion and turned it into what he had been feeling all along: love.

"Jane," he murmured, pulling her into a hug, afraid to let her go.

Squished into his chest, Jane stood there, too warm to object. They were standing in the cold outside so Loki's heat was more than welcome. For a sometimes-frost giant, he was pretty warm.

"Um…yeah?" Jane asked, not knowing what else to say.

He stepped back to look at her, really look at her. Her face, her hair, everything stood out to him. He ran his fingers through her hair, sighing at the softness. "You're beautiful," he whispered.

Jane just blushed, trying to keep her heart in check. He doesn't actually mean it, she convinced herself.

It was like Loki could read her mind and indeed he saw the stubborn disagreement on Jane's face.

"But," Loki contined, still playing with a lock of Jane's hair, "I'm afraid you're not as educated as I thought you were."

Jane blanched at that comment. "What are you talking about?"

He hugged her again so she couldn't see the amusement in his face. "You're not very intelligent, my dear."

Jane's turned pink for a reason other than embarrassment. She tried to push him away, but Loki held on tightly.

"Let go! I have a PhD! And I know Krav Maga! I'm not afraid to hurt you Loki!"

Loki laughed quietly and Jane gave up.

"Loki," she whined, "What do you want?"

Finally Loki let go a bit, just so he could see her face. He tilted her face towards him with one hand. The last time he had done that, he had kissed her. Pain covered Jane's face at that memory. Loki stroked her cheek again.

"You," he replied.

"Me?"

"Yes. You."

Jane let that sink in.

Loki tried again since Jane wasn't responding. "Is that so hard to believe?"

Jane just nodded, looking everywhere but at Loki. He dropped his hand, which made her finally look at him.

"And why is that?" he demanded, his anger coming back.

"Because."

"Jane, tell me."

"Because…because you are you and I'm…"

"What?"

Jane looked down again, her face sad. "I'm just me. Just a mortal," she whispered the last part, quoting Loki.

Her sadness stabbed Loki's heart. But he couldn't give into his own sadness now, he needed Jane to understand and for once, he wasn't going to let his self-pity stop him from expressing his true love.

"Why is that a bad thing, Jane?"

Now Jane was angry. "Because! You're a freakin' god and all I'm actually good at is fixing broken things."

"You are good at fixing broken things. You think that's less than divine capability?"

Jane shrugged. Loki put his finger under her chin, forcing her to meet his eyes once more.

"Jane Foster, the first time we met, I was sure you were a Healer. You had magic within you from the start, the amount of compassion that could stop war and cause an epidemic of love. You may not be a leader by trade but, my love; every realm could use a leader like you."

Jane tried not to focus on how he said "my love" so easily.

"You're just saying all that because Thor probably told you that…," she stopped.

"What did Thor tell me?"

She looked down again, pursing her lips and refused to say anything else. If Thor had told him how she felt then, well, her embarrassment for today was enough. She didn't need to admit it again.

There was silence until Loki finally spoke. "Do you know what I told my brother?"

Jane shook her head, still not looking at him. She was still encompassed in his arms, but it felt less like a trap.

"I told him that he was a fool. But now I see that I'm the real fool."

Jane glanced up at him, through her long eyelashes.

Loki grabbed Jane's face in his hands, unable to stop himself.

"I undoubtedly believed that people always knew how I felt and that they were treated me in an ill manner on purpose. I never spoke about my feelings. Then again, I didn't have anyone to share them with. But here in Midgard, I found someone. I told her everything, things that were the darkest part of me. And can you imagine that she didn't even care? Not even when I unintentionally showed her the side of me that was a true monster, just this morning when I turned into something I never intended her to see. But she didn't run away screaming. She came back."

The love in his gaze kept Jane locked in, hungry for his passionate words.

"Jane, I'm not good at speaking about my heart and what it feels. I don't like to listen to it either. But with you, it goes crazy and I can't help but submit to its crazy confessions and suggestions. Holding you is magic, kissing you is heaven. I can't imagine any other feeling that is better than knowing that you're near me, somewhere on your devices, in a world far away from me, but you're presence keeps me awake, it keeps me alive."

Jane couldn't breathe.

"You think you're not my equivalent because of your mortality? Because all you can do is fix things?" he chuckled, talking lowly. "Then you must also believe that I am worthless also, fore you did in fact fix me."

He smiled at her and finally she smiled back.

"Jane, you took my heart and you mended it and you sealed it all together with your love. You are the only reason I choose to live, the only reason I'm still here."

Finally, Jane found her voice. "Oh yeah? Then what was that talk before, when you were begging Thor to kill you?"

Loki scoffed, "I never beg."

"Loki, be serious, tell me why you would say that? Why do you want to leave me?"

"I don't want to Jane. I don't ever want to. But before I was being a selfish chump. A thought that keeps me up at night is the thought of losing you. I will live on and you will die. And that alone hurts the most. I don't want to experience your death Jane. No matter how well you've mended my heart, I don't think it could handle that much pain. After all, how many times can a heart break?"

Jane's vision blurred with tears. "But what about me? You think I'd want to live without you?"

"Jane, I said earlier, I was a fool. To repel my brother, I uttered nonsense that I deeply regret now. But I know that your love for me is no less that my love for you. I believe that now. But the question is, do you believe that too? Because you told my brother something that made a tad bit furious, if I were to be honest."

"What did I say?"

"You told him you love me more than I love you."

Jane shifted uncomfortably. "Well cause that's true."

"If you were someone else, I would have you beheaded on the spot for having such an absurd thought. Even when my brother told me that he believed your love for me exceeded my love for you, I wanted to slit his throat for such an absurd thought."

"…Well that's violent."

Loki shook his head. "No, it's not. No man, or woman, out there can believe that. Jane, how can you be so blind?"

"Um excuse me? You never told me before so, how was I supposed to know?" Jane glared at him. "And what about you, huh? You thought you could get away from me so easily? Shame on you, you suicidal jerk," she scolded him.

Loki squirmed under her glare, not used to this angry side of Jane.

Gaining power from his fear, she straightened up but pushed herself closer to Loki, stabbing his chest with her index finger, yelling, "You selfish moron, I give you every reason not to kill yourself and you just go ahead and say whatever you want. Do I look like some kind of idiot who lies to people? You're always trying to tell me how I'm not worthless, then how the hell should I feel after you verbally let go of me, and so casually might I add? 'Just a mortal', I mean, fine, that's what I am, but you? Aren't you just a god? I mean how different are we? We're alive, why can't that be enough for you? You know what, that was enough for me, I ignored our damned future cause I was too busy enjoying my present, and then you just so easily try to take that away from me, give me one good reason about why I should forgive you, you spoiled, egocentric brat?" Her fingers closed into a fist and she punched Loki's chest, not hard enough to do damage, but forceful enough to make a point.

Her own chest heaved from her outburst and Loki stood very still.

"Jane that was…," he tried to pull out words, but he was genuinely stunned. This was a side to Jane that no one had ever witnessed. Some would call it her angry side. No, this wasn't her being angry. This was her being desperate, trying to prove her love for Loki.

Yet her desperation did have a glint of pure womanly rage that stunned demi-gods apparently.

But Jane being Jane apologized. "Look, that was out of line, and I'm sorry for being so mean. I don't know what got into me, but I meant what I said, just not like that. I'm sorry, seriously, and why are you laughing at me?" she demanded.

Loki's eyes were dancing with laughter, just a little.

"I'm trying not to, but you're too adorable for your own good," he said, pulling her into a mutual hug, unlike the one from before.

Jane laughed along with him a bit, the situation well defused. Instead of pulling her chin towards him, he bent at his knees until he was eye-level with her. And this time, she didn't look away.

"Jane, I should be the one apologizing. And I am deeply sorry for my stupidity. I may be a god but I'm still a man. Us men are all fools, it seems." Jane nodded in agreement, giggling at his serious expression which broke when he heard her cute laugh.

"I – I should have admitted this before but I suppose that I was afraid. But now I'm not. So Jane Foster, what I'm about to say, I mean very much from the bottom of heart, in the very being of my spirit and soul."

He held her hands in his.

"I love you."

He waited for her reaction, watching her eyes tear up. It wasn't new information. Loki had shown her his love many times before, through every little thing that he did. Even his eyes told him that.

But in terms of words, this was the very first time anyone, apart from Darcy, had ever said this to her and truly meant it.

"Jane?" Loki asked, after a while of Jane just standing still. She choked out a sob and flung herself at him, wrapping her arms around his neck and kissing him profusely. He kissed her back with pure passion and love, and they continued kissing like there was no tomorrow.

Until they heard the cheering. Or well, Jane did, Loki's attention was too occupied.

Jane pulled back from him, only for Loki to follow her, refusing to stop. She just giggled into the kiss at his eagerness.

But the cheering wasn't going away. Finally, using both hands, Jane pushed Loki back a bit, trying to ignore the hunger in his eyes.

Both stared at each other, chests panting.

"Do you hear that?"

Loki heard the cheering too. "I figured it was my heart."

Jane melted and smiled at his words. The trickster was really good at making her own heart beat faster than it could possibly be healthy.

They just smiled at one another in a content but lustful gaze until someone yelled, "Geez get a room, this is strictly a PG-13 zone."

Jane gasped at looked over towards the main door, as did Loki.

Darcy was on Thor's back, piggy back style. She grinned cheekily at Jane. Thor was beaming too.

"Girla, I'm glad you're finally getting some, but c'mon, we have gods present," she pointed at Thor, playfully scowling at Jane in disapproval.

Jane detached herself from Loki and blushed.

"It is alright Jane Foster, I do not mind you, as Darcy said, 'getting some'. Although, Darcy, what exactly is Jane getting?" Thor asked, the Midgardian slang throwing him off.

Darcy wiggled her eyebrows at him, and just said, "Wouldn't you like to know?"

Jane cleared her throat, her blush traveling down her neck. Loki and Darcy laughed at her embarrassment and Loki pulled her into his arms. Jane turned sideways in his hold to find Darcy leaning around Thor to show him her phone in which she was recording Loki and Jane.

"Darcy, what are you doing?"

"Well, we got bored inside so we came out to find you two love birds fighting and I thought if I recorded it, we would have proof that Jane Foster should not be messed with cause she's secretly a hardcore bitch inside. By the way, I'm proud of you Janie for standing up and you too Loki. You gotta tell a girl how you feel, right Thor?" she asked a blushing Thor. She leaned in and pecked his cheek and the ginormous god turned a red that matched his cape.

Loki's eyes narrowed and Jane looked surprised. "Are you two…?"

"Oh my god, Janie, I forgot to tell you! He proposed!"

Loki gasped, "Brother?"

Thor didn't say anything.

Darcy continued, "And I shot him down like an angry bird. He's such a loser, thinks he can get all this just cause he saved my life and is totally handsome."

"I was rejected Brother," Thor simplified for Loki.

"Hey now, I'm not the bad guy, tell them what I told you," Darcy defended herself.

Thor's eyes lit up. "Darcy told me of the Midgardian mating–"

"Not mating you idiot, it's called dating," Darcy whispered into his ear.

"Oh yes, I apologize, the Midgardian dating tradition in which the man courts the woman by taking her out to feasts and buying her trinkets and they sometime live together before they wed to get to know one another. Isn't that fascinating Brother?"

Loki looked down at Jane. "Were you aware of this?"

Jane rolled her eyes at him, smiling, "Yes, I knew what dating was."

"Then are we dating?"

"Uh, well, I did take you out to Lola's and you already live with me, so in conclusion, yes. I guess we are," Jane admitted.

Loki beamed happily.

Jane turned to Thor. "I'm happy for you Thor, but do you know what you're getting yourself into?" she asked, smiling.

"Yes," Thor answered, confidently.

"No," Darcy cackled, answering for him.

Thor pouted until Darcy kissed him on the cheek again and the Thunder god's smile radiated happiness.

As they walked inside, with Darcy still on Thor's back ordering him around like a war horse, Loki shook his head at his brother who was playing along to get Darcy to laugh.

Jane just smiled reassuringly at him, knowing that this was in fact a perfect match.

"Just like us," Jane said out loud, but only so Loki could here.

He leaned in and whispered, "We are not anything like those two."

She smiled again and then just as they were about to go inside, Jane jerked them into a stop. Loki looked at her worriedly.

"Oh! I almost forgot to tell you!" Jane exclaimed.

"Tell me what?"

"That…that I totally, irrevocably, crazily, passionately, and completely love you, Loki. So much."

A/N: Sigh, don't you just love love? I hope this chapter was acceptable, this is what I had in mind for the "I love you"s that I kept delaying. I wanted Loki to admit to his mistakes and promise Jane his love and this gave me a nice opportunity to show how he had changed into a better, less suicidal man. Darcy and Thor are just children in the body of adults.

Thanks Desconocidafor the support. And my lovely reviewers, thank you as well. JPElles, those are some rad ideas I might exploit if that's cool with you…odinsdatter9, thank you and I agree, Darcy is something strange, but a good kind of strange, and JigokuShoujosRevenge, my dear observant friend, I hope you got my PM, but if not, and if other people were wondering the same thing, that nurse was NOT a drug dealer, but she'll be back. She's not a good person, but she isn't there to kill Darcy per se...(cue suspense-themed music) And as for Darcy's behavior, that's just the way she is.

Thank you everyone, including the guest readers on the sight, thanks for reading my story! Have an awesome day/night and stay tuned!