Dog Days

Chapter 122

Loki was right. I mainly slept over the weekend. We ate leftovers, and laid around all weekend.

I currently sit in the waiting room of Banners office as Loki taps his foot, softly. He holds his coffee in hand and his cane leans against his lap. After a moment, I ask "What the hell did you order?"

He gives me a soft smile "Four shots of espresso, iced, with seven stevia, topped off with almond milk."

I nod, before taking the cup from him, as he sighs in disappointment "You could power the building if we could convert your caffeine ticks into electricity."

He uncrosses his legs and puts his feet flat on the floor as I take a drink of his coffee. It's actually really good.

The door opens as I hand the coffee back to him. I look up to find Banner leading out his last patient "Remember, Cynthia. You are not your mother. You are your own person."

When she leaves, he looks to me with a wide smile "Hello, Thor! Good to see you, again!"

I stand and look towards "Hello, Banner."

He steps towards me as Loki looks up and pulls out a book "If you need me, I'll be right here."

Banner looks towards him and states "We'll be doing a double session, today, so I'll be back to get you in about an hour."

He grabs his bag and stands up "Alright, then, I'm going to run to the store, then. I'll be back in a few minutes."

He steps up to me as I ask "You're going to the store?"

He gives me a soft smile "I'm going to a jewelry store. I'm trying to find something for you, that won't take two months to be shipped to us. If I don't find something that reminds me of you, then we'll just have to wait."

I give him a soft smile "Alright, stay safe."

He reaches forward and pulls me closer to give him a soft kiss, before he smiles "Even if I'm not, nothing is keeping me from you."

He walks out the door and Banner remarks "So that we him?"

I hum as we start back towards the door "That was him. Still trying to get used to it. Kinda hard to be this happy."

As we step down the hall, he asks "What's happening tomorrow?"

I chuckle, before declaring "We're getting married."

He steps into his office and smiles at me, happily "Fantastic! Congratulations!"

I smile at him "Yeah, it's just going to be a small ceremony at the commune."

He nods, before asking "Do you want a drink before we get started?"

I step over to the mini fridge and grab a water out of the case. When I take a seat, he smiles "So, let's start with everything that's happening since I met you up in Manhattan."

I take a deep breath and declare "Well, if we start back that far, the pharmacy gave me the wrong prescription."

He gives me a concerned look and I declare "They gave me the wrong dosage of sleep meds, and I had a dream that I was rewatching the third video. Heimdall was trying to calm me down, and I think I threw him off of me..."

I lead off as I remember the look on his face when I finally allowed myself to look at him. I remember the shame I felt.

He asks "It wasn't Heimdall, was it?"

I shake my head and look at him in a disappointed way "I was talking about wanting to kill the guy, and how Loki was probably dead, and that prick was raping him and we had the indecency to watch. I was hurling my guts out, crouched around the toilet, sobbing." Tears come to my eye as I hold my composure "And then I realized where I was, and I remember wondering why Heimdall had such white arms, before I allowed myself to process that I was saying all of it to Loki."