My excuse is in the previous chapter
Bruce's POV
Bruce shifted, he really was not all that comfortable sitting in a room with Loki. Whenever he was anywhere near the man the 'other guy' had an uncomfortable urge to smash everything. Really, Bruce didn't even get why he was being involved in this meeting, he was only a scientist and it wasn't like the 'other guy' actually had any thought process which led to him helping the Avengers. It had been more like, the other team were more annoying and more fun to smash.
He had been a little surprised when Thor had run from the room the moment Loki had told him that they had captured – Jokul. Maybe the kid was more of a threat than they had realised? No. That was not the way in which Thor had been acting. It was more like he had been worried for the sake of Jokul.
Bruce waited anxiously for the return of Thor, feeling slightly thankful that Tony had run after him, as much as the man seemed determined to bring out the 'other guy' he was better for dragging Thor back than he was.
When Tony walked back into the room he seemed tense. He was also shivering. Bruce frowned, what was that about? Then he heard Thor's laughter, loud and raucous, he winced in sympathy, no wonder Tony seemed so tense.
Then Thor walked in, a smirking white HAIRED boy by his side.
Bruce raised an eyebrow. "I'm guessing that's Jokul." He said softly. No one noticed. Bruce sighed, if the Avengers were going to insist he attend their meetings they could at least let them know who their prisoners were, or not – prisoners in this case.
The white haired boy flashed him again and walked over to stand by Loki, Bruce frowned. The boy had tapped Loki's handcuffs gently with one finger, and now they were frozen. What was going on?
"Hey father." The boy said happily, so the kid was Jokul.
Loki glanced at Jokul. Was that a smile tugging at the man's lips?
Fury glared at the three Asgardians. "What is going on here?" he snarled.
Thor smiled and Bruce winced, the man seemed to be oblivious to the director's irritation. "We were sent by our father –"
"Your father." Loki corrected dryly.
Thor waved him off. "Our father in order to find Jokul. He had disappeared and Heimdallr could not locate him."
Bruce sighed. The reason they had needed Thor had turned out to be the very reason that the man had not been able to help them. That was just annoying.
Fury was not deterred. "We locked 'Jokul' away because he was attacking New York."
Thor looked horrified. Loki looked vaguely proud. "He did what?" Thor spluttered.
"Attacked New York." Fury repeated, his eye narrowing.
"I did not!" Jokul protested, waving his staff at Fury. "That idiot doesn't understand anything!"
Bruce held his mirth in check as he saw Fury flinch away from the tip of the staff which was now pointed in his face.
Fury pushed the staff away from him and spoke again. "If you weren't attacking New York then what were you doing? You can't honestly expect us to believe you were trying to help."
Jokul stared at him for a moment, he looked like he probably wanted to strange the director, or freeze him considering his abilities seemed to be all things cold.
"I am Jokul Frosti." Jokul said slowly. "The God of Winter." He looked around and Bruce was pleased to see the he was not the only one with a blank expression. Jokul sighed. "It's my job to bring winter to Midgard, I've been avoiding New York recently so you got good winters. But because of that when I came back I had to give you a harsh one. Hence the blizzard."
Steve spoke up at that. "You said you had nothing to do with the blizzard."
Jokul glared at him. "I said I had nothing to do with attacking New York, I never said anything about the blizzard."