A Day Back In Time

6. Present Time

So this is kinda weird, where it's both the day after the last present time chapter and the day after Thor's 1980 day. Present time for them is 2018. I love this chapter so much. I get to write my dreams coming true. It's long, but it's worth it. And. So. Much. Fluff. So, without further ado...Enjoy! :)

Thor wakes up to the sun in his eyes. He blinks his eyes wearily, but closes them again, not wanting to fully commit yet to waking up.

He feels warmth of a body next to him.

That gets his eyes to open. He sits up fast and breathes hard while getting reoriented and that's when he sees his boyfriend--his beautiful, smart, modest, beloved Bruce, next to him, still asleep.

Thor smiles, and feels so much affection. His sudden movement wakes up Bruce, but Thor is too relieved that he is home to really think on it.

"Thor? What's going on?" Bruce asks sleepily, a little concerned about Thor's quick motion which woke him up.

"Was it lasts night when you were reading a book here way after dark, and I came in from outside?" Thor asks, hoping that the answer is yes, hoping he didn't miss a day in the present, and that he didn't have to explain anything.

"Um, yes?" Bruce answers, not entirely sure how to treat the question. "Why, did something happen?"

"No." Thor settles back down and turns to face Bruce. He smiles. "These days have just been so perfect, and some more or less alike, and I just wanted to make sure that I wasn't forgetting a day or anything."

Bruce smiles with him. "Well, that was last night, so you're good."

Maybe it was just a dream. A really, really vivid dream.

Thor keeps on smiling.

"What?" Bruce asks him.

"What what?"

"You're staring and smiling."

"No I'm not."

"Yes you are."

"No."

"Yes."

"Okay," Thor gives him. He kisses Bruce on the lips gently. "Want to know why?"

"Try me."

"It's just that I love you and adore you and think you are the most wonderful person on the planet--any planet, for that matter."

Bruce averts his eyes and grins, blushing. "You say the sweetest things. A lot."

"It's because they're true."

"Well, I don't state everything I know about gamma rays again and again, just because it's true," Bruce returns affectionately.

"Well, you know those," Thor responds, "but I need to repeat these things, because although they are true, you need some convincing that they're true."

"'Kay, I'll give you that," Bruce says, and they linger in a moment of blissful silence.

Thor missed Bruce, even though he only saw him yesterday--whichever version of yesterday he may be talking about. Yes, he enjoyed spending time with a younger Bruce, learning about the man who let no one in first hand, learning what he never could if he had asked (If, in fact, it actually happened.). But he also needed his Bruce, the one who struggles with the Hulk, who went to Sakaar, who is an Avenger, who Thor has fallen deeply in love with.

There has got to be a way that I can show him I love him, Thor thinks. Then, he has an idea. Actually, there might be a way. He knows what he has to do.