Written to: Lisztomania - Phoenix, crosspost from AO3.
Gökotta: Dawn picnic to hear the first birdsong; the act of rising in the early morning to watch the birds or to go outside to appreciate nature.
It's well known that Loki isn't a morning person; unfortunately for him, Thor and Modi both take great delight in waking up at the very crack of dawn, something that Loki will never understand.
The morning (well, it's more still night, really, the sun hasn't even broken over the horizon and the sky is all grey still) that Thor takes him by the hand and drags him out of the comfort of their warm bed, Loki sleepily tries to bat him away, but Thor's grip is too firm. When Loki tries to ground his heels into the soft rug, tries to pull away, Thor just cheerfully smiles at him, golden, and swings him up into his arms, cradling him like he does Modi. Modi, for his part, is carefully ensconced in one of those baby carrier things, and still dozing, his cheek smushed up against Thor's chest and his small tufts of hair wild, uncombed.
Loki curls into himself, into the protective shelter of Thor's arms as the other god gracelessly kicks open the door and the early morning chill drapes over him with cold and wet and the smell of dew. He lets Thor cover him and Modi with his red cape, cradles Modi close against his chest, and listens to Thor's footsteps crunching over slightly frosty grass with closed eyes.
"Loki, fairest," Thor says after a few minutes of walking, in which Loki is well on the way to being lulled into sleep again and Modi has drooled quite a copious amount all over Thor's chest, "open your eyes."
Loki pouts, but follows Thor's wishes, turns his head away from the crook of Thor's shoulder. He watches the sky light up, streaks of orange and pink and gold reaching up from the horizon to paint the underbellies of the clouds with fire. Watches the sun drag itself up over the distant mountain ranges, its light racing across the ground.
He watches the sunrise paint Thor's face with gold, and thinks that perhaps he could try to be a morning person more often, too.