Loki Misses the Asgardian Prison System

Chapter 195

"FRIDAY, where is my brother?" Thor asks.

"Loki is in Dr. Banner's room," FRIDAY answers.

Thor nods once. "Thank you, FRIDAY." It's a little weird, he'll admit. He's not sure he's ever seen Loki in Bruce's room before – certainly not since they moved to the compound. But he's glad to know that his brother is in good company. From Heimdall's and Frigga's brief explanations of what's transpired since he left, it sounds like this was very much needed.

Thor goes to his own room first, only because it's right there and he might as well get changed before he checks in on Loki. He doesn't even care that he just took a shower and he just put these clothes on. He's on Midgard, and he plans to stay on Midgard for at least a few days, and he wants to dress the part.

Jeans.

Sneakers.

Officially licensed t-shirt with a drawing of his own face on it.

Perfect.

He puts Mjolnir down by his door in case he needs to grab it in a rush without breaking too many things in the process, and then he's off to Bruce's room, conveniently no more than a 30-second walk from his own. He knocks on the door.

"Yeah?" Bruce says.

"Is Loki in there?"

"No," Loki's voice answers.

Thor furrows his brows. But he thought Loki wanted to talk to him. Wasn't that the whole point? He would have gone to visit Jane first if he didn't think he was wanted here.

But then the door opens, and Loki's standing on the other side of it, a friendly smile on his face that assures him it was all in jest. Thor gives his brother a smile in return. It's nice to see that he's in good spirits. He wasn't expecting that.

"I hope I'm not intruding?" Thor says. He assumes he's not. It doesn't feel like he is. But they're both hiding out in Bruce's bedroom, so he supposes there's always the possibility that they wanted to be alone.

"You are, but that's alright," Loki says teasingly. "We expect that from you."

Thor makes a show of rolling his eyes. His brother can be such a pain in the ass – and, he has to admit, sometimes, it's kind of funny.

"You wanna come in?" Bruce asks. "I was just about to call Peter Parker – Spider-Man; I don't know if you remember watching those videos of him."

"I do," Thor says slowly. "You're going to call him? I thought we were going to ignore him until he grew up." Isn't that what they decided? That he was too young to be involved in this?

"I suspect they were," Loki says. "Until Banner decided to ask him to beat up Barton and Romanoff instead."

Thor nods slowly. "I see." He was told briefly about their infighting when he was in Asgard. He hadn't realized they brought anyone else into it. "Well, don't let me stop you from talking to him."

"You can join us, I'm sure," Loki tells him. "We're going to speak to him together."

"Oh, wonderful," Thor says with teasing sarcasm. "I'm sure that will go very well." Still, he's interested. He'd like to talk to this kid if he can – especially if he's going to be involved in their Avenging in the future.

So Thor joins them in Bruce's room, closing the door behind himself, and Bruce calls the young spider up, holding his phone out in front of him so they can all hear the ringing while they wait.

It takes a few rings, until finally, a young man's voice answers, "Dr. Banner?"

"Hey, kid," Bruce says. "Just wanted to check in on you – and, uh, you're on speaker. Thor and Loki wanted to say 'hi.'"